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i hate this show i want it off the air and never return
i hate it so much

Never jumped, of course not all of the episodes are 5 star but each season has some great shows; one of my personal favorites is the selling of the house to the Japanese

Sanford and Son is really a great, existential tragic comedy disguised as a raunchy 70s sitcom. It's really an absurdist play along the lines of Samuel Beckett or Ionesco. If you take it down to its essence, it's about two men whose lives go nowhere and they cope with it through absurd premises, crude jokes and funny one-liners. This is especially true the first few years of the sitcom. The last couple of years the series degenerated and it became like any other sitcom with dull and sometimes sappy or nostalgic story lines. But at its core it really is a show about two men who merely exist. They barely get by, their house is a bland mess, their lives are not improving or getting worse. It just is.

Redd Foxx he had great delivery, the way he said his lines, and good timing to wait so those of us at home laughed before resuming the dialog.

When he held out and Grady took over, then he returned but the happy chemistry seemed gone.

Sanford and Son is the funniest TV show ever produced in America. By far. It is quality humor, not like the crap people think is funny today. They worst Sanford and Son episode is 1000X better than the best modern TV show episode.

Still a big fan of the show. I try to seperate the characters from the actor as I just loved the characters. But, things did change after Fred got back from "St. Louis" and the show was never the same. (Kinda like when Fred was given poetic liscence on the "Stienberg & Son" episode.) I still watch but only on DVD, that way I am the one in control!

Horrible, horrible show.
It's hard to believe this junk passed for comedy. Redd Foxx on every episode used the same jokes over and over. There was the Aunt Esther jokes about being ugly as
Godzilla. The fake heart attack "comin' to see ya Elizabeth" bit. The "Fred G Sanford Period joke. The add a bunch of words and come up with a new funny word joke. If the bits were funny in the first place OK but it wasn't. The only one that was good was Aunt Esther and she had the same lines over and over too. "YOU fish eyed old heathen" etc. If he loved his wife so much why is he so cruel to his sister??

Funny show from beginning to end. Lamont got softer because he matured as a person and got more confidence in himself. As for the perm comment, this was the seventies; the era of black pride, remember? Lamont's 'fro was tight! I think a small jump was any episode that didn't have Fred in it. I loved Grady, but not as the focus of the show.

I hate this show. Sadly, my favorite TV station - TV Land - has dropped many of its classics and is afflicting us with shows like this. Seriously, crusty old smelly men, an adult son who constantly disrespects his father (and needs a perm - relaxer- big time), a cluttered should-be-condemned junk house, etc. The only character I found amusing at all in this whole thing was Aunt Esther.

The "tower from junk" is believable because and Watts--where their junkyard is--there are towers made of old steel, bottle caps, and pieces of glass that were built by a recovering alcoholic. They're called the Watts Towers, and they're pretty amazing.

Girl speaking to Fred about Lamont's clothes:"It's that wild,rumpled look that spells s-e-x."...Fred's response:"In my day,that wild,rumpled look spelled b-u-m."....One of my favorite scenes-when Fred and Lamont were on a plane to St.Louis-very funny-especially Fred with his greasy bagged chicken that he brought on board

Loved the show!!

Wish there were more. I wasn't born until 1979. I watched it some growing up. And recently watched the re-runs on DVD. Even now over 30 years ago its still funny and relevant.

My favorite line was in one of the Episodes Lamont asked Fred how he would feel if someone discriminated against people from Africa.

Fred's response was, I don't care as long as they don't discriminate against people from St. Louis!!

Best line ever in S&S: when the mailman delivered a package to Fred, and stood there waiting for a tip. Fred told him he better get back to his appointed rounds and "if you're expecting a tip, you better get back to your disappointed rounds."

One of my favorite shows ever! Unlike alot of people here I thought the shows in which Grady replaced Fred were some of the best. I loved the entire series run, although the last couple of seasons were not as good as the previous ones and they seemed to be going through the motions a bit. The only episode I actively disliked was the one about Julio's nephew . In it they complained that the school wasn't able to teach him properly, because he didn't speak english and that the school should have provided Spanish speaking classes to help teach him. That always annoyed me to no end. If I went to another country where english was not the major language, then I would be expected to adapt to that country's main speaking language and not the other way around. Schools are not properly funded enough as it is and certainly could not afford to be teaching different types of classes in different languages just because some people refused to try to learn the native language. Man that episode really bugged me, but aside from that one I liked every other story from the show's 6 seasons. Now of they would only release Sanford on dvd as well.(it's not as good as Sanford and Son, but it was pretty good I thought)

Stick your face in some dough and make gorilla cookies. Maybe the funniest line ever uttered on TV.