Criminalizing black babies? Everyone associated with this project should be ashamed of themselves.

This is the type of show the evil BET executives from The Boondocks would have made.

On one hand I want to sympathize with Black entertainers as I know getting jobs can be harder for them but I cannot believe they read the script and didn't find any issue with it.

I watched the first episode I knew I personally had to leave it alone when the opening scene was the dad in the shower singing the original Good Times theme song with a roach. I’m definitely not this show’s target audience

Dang that’s crazy . Instead of giving good quality black new fresh stories they want to give a new take on a old story but make it ghetto

Glad you reviewed it because I don’t want to see it now

Not the original batch of COVID?! 🤣

I really like how you try to pull positivity from this ridiculous show. Kudos to you!

It’s bad enough that this ish will be streamed in America but this will be streamed internationally. People across the globe who have never interacted with black Americans will see this and the negative stereotypes of us will be further reinforced. Smdh! Edited to add: So I went to IMDB and this cartoon will be streamed on the Netflix platform in these other countries: Australia
Brazil
Canada
Germany
Ecuador
Spain
France
United Kingdom
India
Italy
Japan
Mexico

And that is just for this “opening weekend”. Netflix could add more countries later on. They spoil the well before foreigners even personally interact with African Americans.

The trailer told me issa hell naw!!!

The trailer alone told me enough lol 🙅🏽‍♀️🙅🏽‍♀️

Yo, even as a pasty white dude, I hate this remake, or whatever you want to call it, with a passion. I would almost say- offended. I grew up watching the original "Good Times" with my father, we ourselves lived in a housing project. It was so refreshing as a kid to see honest, hard-working poor folk just trying to survive and deal with the same issues so many people we knew around us (and we) had. It was a show I could really connect with and who's characters pain and happiness I could feel when i watched. This show is a disgrace to all of that, and IMO anyone involved should feel ashamed. This looks like a tacky cartoon some edgy middle schoolers threw together. Just absolutely spits on everything the old show accomplished and stood for. I legitimately think what happened is some out of touch rich people saw the concept and went "Hahaha poor people stuff. Thats funny. I used to be poor." and agreed to be on/make this show. Even the celebs who grew up poor haven't struggled in over 20 years. They're sell outs. They should stick to garden parties and cucumber sandwiches and other privilege people things. I dont think Wanda Sykes has ever struggled in her life- i pretty sure she grew up well off to begin with. She just panders.

I really want to like J B Smoove. But whenever I see his name, I pretty much know what to expect.

Yes! I’m glad you reviewed this. Based on what I’ve seen and heard, it is a hard pass. Shameful this project was released. The original series was already filled with struggle, so why add more trauma with a distasteful remake. Boondocks fan for life 😊

Maybe if they would've called it "HOOD TIMES" you would probably look at it differently 😂😂 The Vince Staples Show is 🔥

It’s getting more painful by the minute… Thank you for watching so I can skip it. You the MVP, Tait! (Always, but for this: 🏆)

Netflix could have skipped this series and given Astronomy Club a second season instead 😢

I’ve been waiting for you so review this show because I REFUSE to watch it. Another great job, on the review. Keep up the good work

Thank you for watching so I didn't have to be further disappointed 😂I hope this cast gets another show

I wasn't old enough to watch when it originally aired, but I watched Good Times as reruns when I was a teenager. It is one of my favorite black sitcoms. I'm glad you reviewed it because I would have been highly disappointed if I was expecting it to be similar to the real show. That's disappointing, but thanks for saving my time!

Spiderverse from Temu 😂😂😂

It's almost like Hollywood doesn't care about black people and profits from perpetuating stereotypes

Tait THIS WAS THE WORST THING EVER. I hate watched the first episode because of the trailer. DON’T WATCH THIS BS

Can we just face the fact that none of us were in the room when this was created. And, it’s not for us?

I can’t believe they actually made this show! Nasty work right there!

i just wanna know who the target audience is supposed to be😭😭

LOOOL please that intro alone has taken me out 🤣🤣🤣

I love how you opened. 😂 the small details

What in the stereotype is happening on that trailer?! I’m glad you watched it so I won’t have to

They could have named this show anything....what an insult. 😢😢 Yes, I watched the original and Ester Rolle a staunch supporter of Black excellence is crying in heaven. "LENGEND HAD IT...." ..... Tait you wrong for that 😊 Forgive us Lord 🙏🙏 "

You should review the original Good Times. My daughter (29) and i tried watching an episode and it was difficult to do so.

Well, grab your popcorn and settle in for the new animated series of the Evans family, where character growth takes a vacation and stereotypes take center stage! Because who needs character development when you can just press the reset button and watch them struggle like it's Groundhog Day? I can imagine the creators saying, "Why let them live happily ever after when we can keep them in a perpetual loop of chaos and calamity? It's like a sitcom version of the movie 'Groundhog Day,' but with fewer laughs and more facepalms." And why not sprinkle in some classic stereotypes while we're at it? Because nothing says "entertainment" like reducing rich, diverse characters to tired old clichés. It's like a buffet of bad decisions served with a side of disappointment. Ah, the sweet smell of missed opportunities and dashed hopes. Who needs fresh ideas and genuine storytelling when you can just recycle the same old tired tropes? It's like watching a comedy of errors, except the only joke is on us, the audience. Hats off to the creators for turning a potential masterpiece into a dumpster fire of disappointment!

“Mother clock***joke was the one time I laughed😂😂😂

"It's ya teeth Reggie. I don't know whether to smile at ya or kick a field goal"

Always sooo happy to see your videos pop up. Gonna check out Vince staples.

Do NOT hate watch folks. Just let the show die!

Bro you’re freaking hilarious. Subbed!

You didn’t watch reruns of GOOD TIMES GROWING UP?!! No excuse that it’s 50 years old…my 24 year old daughter knows every episode and my 15, 17, and 18 year old nieces used to DVR it in grade school 😭😭 not judging but just because somethings are vintage doesn’t mean you shouldn’t know them ESPECIALLY if they’re cultural classics and that goes for music, art, movies, television shows, books etc etc. That’s like saying I know nothing about The Autobiography of Malcom X, Stevie Wonder or Jean-Michel Basquit’s work because they’re old….no sir 🥴

Have you seen the movie American Fiction? The reason why this show got more episodes than the Vince Staples show is the whole plot of the movie. 🙃🙃🙃🙃

Good job, Chris. Bless you for your combination of patience and dedication in watching all 10 episodes, to present your informed opinion. I did watch the OG show, back in the day. I only made it through a few minutes of this atrocious, "remake"...nuff said....save for the perspective that a few stolen ideas do not comprise a remake. Thank you for recommending The Vince Staples Show; looking that up right now. Wishing you unlimited, joyous abundance. BAM!!! (Blessed and Multiplied)

Hey Chris, good news first, got my Oh-My-Golly-Wally hoodie today and I LOVE it!!! It finally made its way to South Africa, just in time for winter here (shipping took a month but it’s all good). Fit, fabric, artwork. Definitely rocking it everywhere💯💯💯

I had no interest in watching the show from seeing the trailer and this review lets me know I was right on the money, lbs! I really liked the PJs growing up and of course the boondocks, Bebe’s kids was alright.

Thanks for putting me on to the Vince Staples show.

You know I didn't prefer good times because I don't like continuing to watch "US" struggle, however I understand the symbolism behind everything they did...in keeping the black family together, striving for better in a society that constantly wouldn't allow us to be great...however, this new one...as an entertainer and writer I want to watch it simply for pov BUT I don't want to continue to add more toxicity than what I've already seen throughout my 38 years of life already. And I saw someone comment "this is how they see us" and that is my exact sentiment. I stopped watching love n hip-hop years ago because of this very reason. I didn't want to keep supporting ignorance. It's one thing to tell a story but where is the positivity... its almost as if the story being told is "you will NEVER rise as a community as long as this exists" and that isn't encouraging at all. It's frustrating man smh. We gotta do better for US

Im dissapointed in the level of talent that thought this project was a good idea

Thanks for the review and saving my time!

Glad you did this so I don’t have to

So if James is the grand dad than who is the actual dad or mom is it jj is it the other kids

Granted, I haven’t seen this show in many years but I feel like The PJ’s was a good animated Black series about life in the hood. Again, as I remember it, might be terrible via a 2024 POV.

I was waitin on this one lolol good shit as usual

I used to watch Good Times with my parents. They used to put on Good Times and The Jeffersons when I was little and I have warm memories of those episodes. I’m sad to see that family sitcom turn into what ever the heck you just described. I still am curious so because I like to torture myself, I’ve downloaded the first episode. I have also downloaded the Vince Staples Show at your suggestion. Wish me luck ! 😅

Happy I came to your review first, waste of time, thanks for highlighting the positive but its definitely buried by the negatives. We dont need no more of that, its not comedy anymore fr it never was

Very impressed you watched the whole thing. I didn’t get past episode one. I watched the original show after it was in syndication. So they decided to recreate the children from the original show: They kept the oldest the same. No surprise there. The youngest boy was actually the militant of the family. He wrote the housing department when the building was falling apart. He was very studious, always reading and studying Black history when it was sorely lacking in his school. He protested an intelligence test, because it was racist. He got suspended from school for challenging the curriculum. He asked two FBI agents if they were looking for the man who killed Medgar Evers. His signature line was “Boy is a White racist word.” The reboot took THAT character, and made him a drug dealer. And decided instead to give all those attributes to the middle child and only girl. 🤔

Two stars seems extremely generous

Tait would you be down to review Genius Mlk/ X story it’s pretty good - And did you review the other black girl Both are shows on Hulu

someone had to step on the grenade, damn bro.

Speaking of Cabrini-Green, will you be reviewing We Grown Now?

Eric Monte The Black Man that originally came up with the show - Good times was paid a million dollar and then properly. Black balled Justice for him

TLDR: I'm curious to see what the uproar is about and I'm hoping it's not as trash as everyone says. I haven't watched the show, so I'm not speaking on that. I did watch the trailer and it seems like a lot of the disappointment comes from the fact that this iteration isn't aspirational. The OG version was a family living in the projects, but who somehow had hopes of getting out. This iteration SEEMS to be about a family that's been in the projects for YEARS and can't really imagine another way of being. The OG version could be aspirational because they were the first generation out of Jim Crowe and fully bought into the American Dream. This version has to grapple with horrible things they've normalized because they've known no other way. Life for most Black folks in the US is hard and it's getting harder and harder with each generation. I don't think TV should or can always be aspirational.

I was so excited for a black animation… but I guess ill still have to wait lol

I'm still trying to find 'The Lion King 3 1/2' on 4K UHD! LMAO. You handled this waaaaaay more polite than I would IF I were to even bother wasting time posting my own review.

It's definitely Lebron's fault...😂

Not the Norman Lear joke 😂😂😂

I saw that it’s #6 in shows. I wonder if it’s bc people are enjoying it, or watching to see why people are saying it’s bad.

I was hoping for the original characters. Thought they might update Florida and call her Flo-rida.

Could be worse they could announce A season 2 after this like Velma.😂

Watch the original 70's show. Great stuff!

I didn’t get pass the first two minutes when I saw the father in the shower with a roach 🤦🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️

Have you ever reviewed the circle?

I'm new. Love the intro.

This video made me laugh too many times. Gotta subscribe

You forgot to mention the episode about the girl having a period, that’s something that’s never been done before normally they only make jokes about males growing up woman normally never get jokes about the time of the month, and yeah I watched the original, the original is timeless even though it was made so long ago it’s subject matter is still relevant today

I am just watching this review just to support you.i am not the target audience for that mess. I watched Good Times in the 1980s in 🇳🇬 Nigeria. I couldn't stand Jay Jay back then.

All in the Family was an adaptation of a British comedy, Till Death Us Do Part. Creation credit, much like production credit in Hollywood, is just an extra percentage of royalties.

Lion king 3 1/2 hollering it was so ghetto and a mess 😂

Steph Curry, what were you thinking!?!?

Thanks for taking one for the team, Tait! Won't be watching.

Love you boo for taking one for the oh my golly wally team❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤...cuz baby I refuse

It’s amazing how they keep trying to say biracial people are black but ironically, all we see in the cartoon of negative black stereotypes are dark skinned black people. I know biracial people can be dark as well, but amazing how Steph who could pass for biracial, knew not to allow people that look like himself or his kids in the horrible show! Further harming black people

Man as a South African, me & my little brother were initially stoked when we stumbled upon this show on Netflix. I mean a comedy animation based on black folks that was refreshing. But by the time we got to episode 3 we were soo exhausted by the political Agenda they trying to sell. Plus we don't even understand that shit. The American culture war makes little sense from an African perspective.

So who is Reggies granpapi James Evan snr or Jnr

by the way, the father is whose son JJ or Michael ????

I don't wanna kill any brain cells watching it. But I'm curious to know who is the father's parent I know James Evans Sr is the granddad. But who is the parent of this new character? Probably J.J.?😕

But young Janet Jackson is in Good Times...so maybe you should take a watch😊 And yeah, i dont believe they really put some of those things are in there that you mentioned🫣, so ill have to watch a bit. Not sounding like ill make it through a full episode though.

Also another thing the thing is literally like Proud Family if you see their personalities

You should spend an hour or so watching the OG Good Times. Janet Jackson, ok??? Also, well written and well acted. Great review (and I need to scrub my brain of the image of Driving With Lactation) but you should've given just 1 star for the Titanic at the bottom of the bin... 🥴

Grew up watching Good Times, went to school in Cabrini Green and at that time, we didn't know anything else. Now that many have made a way out, NOONE wants to see the terrible living conditions, crime, and poverty mindset. I assumed they'd make it as a reboot of positivity and how they progressed, I WAS WRONG!! ITS A HARD NO, for me 😢!!

I really enjoyed the animation style and it's more insightful than it seems. Watched all 10 episodes. It's like Big Mouth of black ppl. Not holding my breath but i wouldn't be mad at a season 2.

i couldn’t even finish the first episode. i then looked up the executive producer and he was of course a white men

I grew up watching Goodtimes, What's Happenin, the Jeffersons, even Fat Albert. They didn't seem so different from me and my family because they all were about family and respect and life lessons. The best show I've seen pull off a decent equal to those shows was "Everybody Hates Chris" The rest have just gone off the rails somewhere.

Can you please discuss baby raindeer

When it dropped, i went straight to Netflix and gave a thumbs down. But I am interested in quality opinions/reviews about it. Thx for taking the hit! lol

Not into this whatsoever, but I AM into supporting your content 😊

They let Stewie do everything under the sun with little of others awareness. They tell all this babies business in the first 5 minutes

Please please please review ultimatum: South Africa!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾

That was painful. It felt like a blow by blow replay of a boxing match. OUCH.

Yup.. I couldn’t even finish the first episode.

Good Video bro! I used a short clip including your thumbnail in my new Review of Good Times. Hope it's okay?

PeeWee from Bebe's Kids (voiced by rapper Tone Loc) is the original adult baby

2 stars? You gave this show 2 stars rather than 0??