James is offered a high-paying job in Alaska.James is offered a high-paying job in Alaska.James is offered a high-paying job in Alaska.
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Ja'net DuBois
- Willona Woods
- (as Ja'net du Bois)
BernNadette Stanis
- Thelma Evans
- (as Bern Nadette Stanis)
Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
- James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.
- (as Jimmie Walker)
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- TriviaThe $500 per week job offer that James Sr. receives is the equivalent of $2,338 per week in 2018 dollars.
- Crazy creditsRalph Carter courtesy of the Broadway musical "Raisin". (Closing credits. This original Broadway production ran from October 1973 to December 1975.)
- ConnectionsFeatured in Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)
- SoundtracksGood Times
Music by Dave Grusin
Lyrics by Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman
Performed by James Gilstrap and Blinky (as Blinky Williams)
Featured review
Third season opener
"A Real Cool Job" kicked off the third season, the first to give Jimmie Walker special billing as JJ, kept for the rest of the show's run. The Evans family is preparing to celebrate James' graduation from trade school, hoping to move into a foreman's job with his diploma. A salesman (David Moses) tries to take advantage of James' newfound wealth by offering cemetery plots: "the economy done killed me, now this dude wants to bury me!" "it's your funeral!" The diploma promises everything but employment, nothing in construction available, but there is for fry cook and topless waitress: "wait a minute, they both for the same job!" James receives a phone call from his union, offering $500 a week for one year out of town... working the pipeline in Alaska! The prospect of financial success without her husband for 12 months doesn't suit Florida: "I don't want to live good, I want to live with you!"
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- kevinolzak
- Jan 7, 2017
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