Good Times (TV Series)

The I.Q. Test (1974)

Esther Rolle: Florida Evans

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Quotes 

• Florida Evans : [J.J. painted a picture of Michael]  Why'd you paint him in a nightgown?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : That's no nightgown, that's a Supreme Court judge's robe.

  Florida Evans : Why's it purple?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : That purple symbolizes something.

  James Evans, Sr. : What's it symbolize?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : It symbolizes that I ran out of black paint.

• Michael Evans : One question asked "a mother, father and two children live in a residence with 5 bedrooms. The mother and father sleep in one bed and the two children each have their own bedroom. How many guest bedrooms are there?" How many kids in the ghetto are going to know what a guest bedroom is?

  James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr. : Yeah, the only time we get a guest room around here is when somebody puts a sleeping bag in the bathtub.

  Florida Evans : And a lot of kids in the ghetto don't have their own bedrooms either.

• Michael Evans : [On why he failed the I.Q. test]  I thought the test was unfair to blacks, so I walked out.

  James Evans, Sr. : You didn't like the test, eh?

  [Starts to take his belt off] 

  James Evans, Sr. : Well, I'm about to give you something else you...

  Florida Evans : [Stops him]  James? Please!

  [to Michael] 

  Florida Evans : What was wrong with the test?

  Michael Evans : I don't wanna talk about it.

  James Evans, Sr. : Oh really? Well, until you talk about it, there's going to be no party! No cake! No gifts! No nothing!

  [Everyone breaks out in arguments]