Sanford and Son

[F250 28,788]

I recently watched some episodes of Sanford and Son after never really watched the show other than a few reruns as a kid. LOL This show is hilarious. Redd Foxx kills it was his expressions.

There was an episode where Lamont was rehearsing a scene from Othello and he was pretending to strangle a white actress and without context Fred sees what's happening. His reaction was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene.

A lot of content probably wouldn't fly today like the Puerto Rican neighbor with a goat or the gay jokes. What was surprising was Lamont's friend talking about going to the movies to watch Skin Flicks. That was a little weird but probably not unusual for that time.

I'll probably start working my way through the series.

 

 

[DougO 5,251]

Never gets old. Even the Fred-less Grady era was awesome.

 

Lamonte: "Karate is one of the oldest forms of self-defense."

Grady: "It ain't older than runnin'..."

[Sbbruin 21,863]

Sanford and Son is genius.  Fred is fantastic, and his tit-for-tat with Aunt Esther is finominle.

 

[VirginiaLonghorn 4,777]

15 minutes ago, F250 said:

I recently watched some episodes of Sanford and Son after never really watched the show other than a few reruns as a kid. LOL This show is hilarious. Redd Foxx kills it was his expressions.

There was an episode where Lamont was rehearsing a scene from Othello and he was pretending to strangle a white actress and without context Fred sees what's happening. His reaction was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene.

A lot of content probably wouldn't fly today like the Puerto Rican neighbor with a goat or the gay jokes. What was surprising was Lamont's friend talking about going to the movies to watch Skin Flicks. That was a little weird but probably not unusual for that time.

I'll probably start working my way through the series.

Gregory Sierra .. also had a role on Barney Miller .. died earlier this year.

[Underdog 28,731]

Loved it as a kid, couldn’t sit through an episode today.  

[Wade 464]

I was a kid when series first ran and didn't get into it much, but one episode stayed with me for over 40 years.  Lamont brings a latchkey kid home that Fred wants nothing to do with.  What struck me that I recalled over decades was their chicken dinner was made up of backs and necks.  I think the scene before the below Fred says they have three backs and four necks to split for dinner.

 

[Vic Mackey 47,089]

Classic! I ran through the series in order a few years ago. The show took a huge dip for me when Grady was the lead role. Did not care for those episodes. Fred and Esther's banter was hilarious. It is pretty much what Martin and Pam did on Martin. 

[mr. sunshine 2,827]

This show was on my regular rotation as a kid. One of my buddy’s parents had 8 tracks of Redd Foxx’s stand up routines so we figured that was probably him just being Fred Sanford 

Spoiler

It wasn’t 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

You can’t laugh at Sanford and son or all in the family 

[Underdog 28,731]

csb/ saw Redd staggering around The Mirage gaming floor many years back /end of csb. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,515]

The series ran when I was between 3 and 8 so I'm sure some of the humor was above my head. But as a kid it was great watching Fred and Esther fight, and Fred always having the big heart attack. Loved the theme song as well.

What's tough to accept now is that I'm older (52) than Redd Foxx was at the start of Sanford and Son.

[Jive Turkey 12,622]

i used to watch this with my dad.  damn we used to laugh so hard.  the cops - Smitty and Hoppy - were hysterical.  Rollo cracked me up.  Shady Grady, Bubba Bexley, Leroy, Skilley.  what a great cast.  and Fred had no problem dropping n-bombs.

 

[mininghorn88 2,294]

Love me some Sanford and Son. Watched it as a kid growing up and still catch the occasional episode today. Funny is funny.

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

One of the best theme songs out there.

[DougO 5,251]

I wish I could find a clip to post, but one of the funniest side characters was Melvin, played by Slappy White. He was only in a couple of episodes, but Melvin was hilarious. The bit about why he wondered there weren't black people in Godzilla movies. "They could send Sammy Davis Jr. over there to make one." "Yeah, it could be Godzilla vs. Sammy Davis Jr!" But it was all in the delivery and that whole conversation, just side splitting stuff.

[DougO 5,251]

 

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[F250 28,788]

4 hours ago, DougO said:

 

That was one of the episodes I recently watched. That gorilla cookie line was hilarious.

 

 

[RPM 26,326]

Loved Sanford & Son. Always wanted to try Holey Moley. But as great as it was, apparently they tried a Fred only sequel just called Sanford. Stumbled across it on Amazon the other night. Good God it was bad. Couldn't make it through the first 1/2 of the 1st episode.

[Catpfish 618]

Aunt Esther in the opening scene of Friday almost caused me to rupture a spleen from laughing so hard

 

 

[Noah Fence 480]

The episode where Grady finds Rollo's "wild parsley" and puts it in a salad for the two cops is an all-time great.

[Wally Pryor 5,261]

20 hours ago, Jive Turkey said:

 Shady Grady, Bubba Bexley, Leroy, Skilley.  what a great cast.  

 

Yeah, when they were all together in a scene it was typically comedic gold.

[Hermanator 7,119]

This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant. 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9,083]

43 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant. 

 

Ahhh sangria.....

[Ben Tobin 374]

‘You big dummy’ is in regular rotation 

[dcbc 14,492]

Watched the shit out of reruns as a kid in the early 80s.  Genius. 

[dcbc 14,492]

Also, to note a great TV moment: the culmination of Conan O'Brien's search for Grady in the 90s with Whitman Mayo's coming on stage and dancing under a huge, lighted sign that read "Grady."

[Longboard Horn 40,381]

On 12/21/2021 at 4:48 PM, F250 said:

I recently watched some episodes of Sanford and Son after never really watched the show other than a few reruns as a kid. LOL This show is hilarious. Redd Foxx kills it was his expressions.

There was an episode where Lamont was rehearsing a scene from Othello and he was pretending to strangle a white actress and without context Fred sees what's happening. His reaction was hilarious. I couldn't stop laughing at that scene.

A lot of content probably wouldn't fly today like the Puerto Rican neighbor with a goat or the gay jokes. What was surprising was Lamont's friend talking about going to the movies to watch Skin Flicks. That was a little weird but probably not unusual for that time.

I'll probably start working my way through the series.

 

 

How did you not watch that show before now you big dummy?!

[Longboard Horn 40,381]

What I love about this show is that my god father does a lot of things that remind me of Fred. After years of calling him that, he's finally accepted and embraced it. 

[Longboard Horn 40,381]

 

[PittsburghTiger 6,192]

Without a doubt one of the greatest TV shows of all time. It was cutting edge before cutting edge was a thing.

The characters were fantastic and Redd Foxx was a damned treasure.

[Francisco 2.0 32,395]

Just a PSA. If you are into torrenting, and would like to obtain/acquire every episode, it's available.  All 6 seasons, 136 episodes.  Around 50GB.

 

 

 

 

[Deej 76,842]

On 12/22/2021 at 3:33 PM, Hermanator said:

This was one of my favorite episodes as a kid. When Julio takes Fred and Lamont to a Puerto Rican restaurant. 

 

The waiter drank most of that pitcher before it got to the table.

[Hermanator 7,119]

19 hours ago, Deej said:

The waiter drank most of that pitcher before it got to the table.

Guess that's the only way they could empty it fast enough for Red to throw out that "hey negro come here" joke. 

If nobody has heard this yet it's an interview with Lamont from a decade ago on Dallas radio. Gone down in history as one of the wild interviews from that time on the station.

https://www.theunticket.com/bad-radio-demond-wilson-aka-lamont-sanford-gbl/

[mdleast 8,295]

to get you in the Christmas spirit, how about the Ebenezer Sanford episode featuring him singing at the end:

 

 

[Gil Bang 25,980]

5 hours ago, Hermanator said:

Guess that's the only way they could empty it fast enough for Red to throw out that "hey negro come here" joke. 

If nobody has heard this yet it's an interview with Lamont from a decade ago on Dallas radio. Gone down in history as one of the wild interviews from that time on the station.

https://www.theunticket.com/bad-radio-demond-wilson-aka-lamont-sanford-gbl/

fuck that motherfucker.  I didn't listen, but I hate that prick.

Redd Foxx had a salary dispute with NBC when this show was hot.  They were paying him something like $20,000/week, he wanted twice that.  Fucking "LaMont" did this whole bullshit thing about how "the studio is acting like the master and they think that Redd is the slave". 

I mean, fuck that motherfucker.   How dare he compare somebody making a shit-ton of cash to a fucking SLAVE?   Fuck that motherfucker. 

[Gil Bang 25,980]

https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1482012629791084544

[Gil Bang 25,980]

 

[mdleast 8,295]

And Redd Foxx was only 49 when the show started!

[DougO 5,251]

Fred: "...and take this faggoty jacket with you!"

Damn, I forgot about that one. LOL