Good Times

:For the Chic song "Good Times," see Good Times (song). For the virus hoax, see Goodtimes virus.

Trivia

• The cover art for the Good Times DVD releases do not correspond with the season in which it aired. For example, the second season box set photograph (seen above) was actually taken in the fall of 1976, the show's fourth season. Another photograph from the same photo shoot can be seen on the Good Times fourth season box set. To differentiate, the characters' clothes were given different colors, and the character of Nathan Bookman was photoshopped out, replaced by James Evans, who was still on the show in the second season.
• Good Times was parodied on Family Guy and was called "the show that's funnier when you watch it really loud" by lead character Peter Griffin. In the scene, J.J. comes back from a date with a girl, and Florida has a nervous breakdown because her name is the same as a U.S. state.
• Though Good Times was set Chicago, the character of Florida had started out as Maude Findlay's housekeeper on Maude, which was set in Tuckahoe, New York. No attempt was ever made to explain this inconsistency, and Florida's previous life as the Findlay housekeeper was never referred to on Good Times.
• Comedian Chris Rock has based the father character in his new TV series Everybody Hates Chris, on John Amos' portrayal of James Evans. "I kind of wanted to give him that James Evans nobility," Rock told TV critics in the summer of 2005. http://www.freep.com/entertainment/tvandradio/duffy22e_20050922.htm