Good Times And Maude
Good Times Is Not A Spin Off Of Maude. click the link
http://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2009/05/12/tv-legends-reveale d-5/
This is nitpicking. Of course it's a spin-off: The character Florida started on Maude and later got her own show. Doesn't matter if Good Times was written beforehand or not -- it became a spin-off when Florida Evans jumped ship.
shareIf Norman Lear had complete control over the show it would of been more of a spin off, but Eric Monte and Micheal Evans was really in charge. There is little to no relation to Maude and Good Times being a spin off because:
1. Good Times took place in Chicago. Maude took place in Tuckaho, NY. No reference of them moving there in 1974.
2. James was Henry Evans on Maude, and I believe was a firefighter.
There was also little reference to Florida cleaning house on Good Times, and you would think how can someone forget working for Maude Findlay?
No one ever said a spin-off couldn't be altered during the course of its development. Doesn't make it any less of a spin off. "THe ANdy Griffith SHow" was a spin off of "The Danny Thomas Show," even if Barney and Aunt Bee hadn't been invented yet. "Maude" was a spin off of All in the Family, even though Lear changed Maude's backstory considerably (on AITF, Maude was a three-time widow; on "Maude," she was a divorcee, etc.)
shareA spin off can be altered, but there was reference on AITF of Maude being a widow once.
I mean let's get real, how naive did they think people were. I would of understood it more if they had The Evans family live in Harlem or The Bronx it would of made more sense to be a spin off. The reason it was probably set in Chicago was because the real creator of the show was from those projects in Chicago.
The shows will go down in TV history as spin offs, just seem like it should of been more reference.
On AITH, Maude was a three-time widow. Archie made a joke about how he saw all three of her husbands laid out at the funeral home with big smiles on their faces.
On Maude, all her marriages ended in divorce.
It's not that the creators thought people were naive or stupid. Just the opposite -- they assumed we were smart enough to understand that a series needs to be more fully developed when it goes out on its own, and that it will change along the way. No big deal.
On AITH, Maude was a three-time widow. Archie made a joke about how he saw all three of her husbands laid out at the funeral home with big smiles on their faces.
On Maude, all her marriages ended in divorce.
Just getting around to reading the "Maude" threads as I've been watching a lot of episodes recently on youtube, so sorry for the delayed response.
For the record:
On Maude's first appearance on AITH, Maude says:
"Oh, Edith, Edith." then, looking Archie in the eye: "I'd kill for that girl."
Archie: Gee, Maude, ya already buried two husbands. Ain't that enough killing for ya?
On the series "Maude", Maude is once widowed and twice divorced.
Though at times Carol is mentioned as her daughter from her second husband, and in others from her first.
Inconsistencies abound!
Hair today. Goon tomorrow.
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