John Amos is the actor who portrayed James Evans on "Good Times."
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Sounds like folks are conflating John Amos's name with his character's name James Evans.
Anyway here's the time when The Wayans Bros TV show paid tribute to Good Times.
The James character died. I can't remember the reason they gave for Florida moving away. But after a season they lured Ester Rolle back with the promise of better scripts.
But yeah, the original idea of the show was dealing with serious issues within the context of this particular family and JJ was supposed to be the most out there member. But it quickly turned into The JJ Says Dynamite Show featuring Hack Sitcom Writing.
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Florida married an atheist (played by Moses Gunn) and moved. Rolle was tired of JJ being written badly and that is why she left.
That is why you saw a change in how JJ was written and that got her to come back.
Funny thing is one of the guys behind the show was a black man-who was Lionel on the Jeffersons-I think the second one.As a freshman at Bowling Green State University in 1977, I was in the room of one of my dorm along with a few other guys. I was the only white guy; the other four were black. "Good Times" was on the small TV in the room, and everyone was talking about the show.
Then one of the guys said something I still remember 43 years later. The character of JJ, he said, as "an insult to all black men."
It opened my eyes.
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Well...the in-story reason she and Carl (Gunn) moved to Arizona was because Carl had lung cancer, and the Arizona air was supposed to be good for him. When she came back without him we can infer that he eventually succumbed to it while they were there.
Its a weird situation where sure I guess they could have mentioned it or said outright Carl was dead, but given why she went in the first place, and that she came back without him...2+2 and all. Plus maybe she didn't want to talk about being a widow now two times over.
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