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I'm going with Cosby, although I agree Good Times was more believable in many ways and Good Times gets points for covering a few issues not usually covered back in those days.
Reasons I ultimately went for Cosby:
1. Good Times spent too much time having JJ repeat his catch phrase. Annoying, a waste of script time, and there was also a sense that a lot of the episodes were too similar because they had to work in that catch phrase.
2. Cosby gets extra points for featuring performances by some interesting artists and playing pieces of music you don't usually hear on television. Of course, they lose half a point for the dopey way they worked some of these artists into the plot, but I enjoyed the performances enough that I gave them a pass on that.
3. Cosby has held up better as a re-run, IMO. And Cosby's jokes are mostly still funny, whereas some of the Good Times jokes now seem dated. I think Cosby had a better team of writers, too. Good Times wasn't as big of a hit show and so didn't have the money for writing that Cosby did.
Good Times.
I like the grit and reality of the times it represented.
Watching this show gives me great memories of my childhood and parents.
I DVr all the shows now.
I watch Good Times when everyone is out of the house, I have the recliner to myself, a bowl of potato chips, and ginger ale, and relish in the time warp of my youth.
Cosby show I think it was too contrived and too leave it to beaver like.
I didn't watch it in it's heyday and I don't watch it now.
I was never a Bill COSBY FAN.
But I loved me some Fat Albert on Saturday mornings!!!!!
Good Times would have been the greatest show of all time if the father remained on the show
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Haha Well yeah, I can't argue with that.
I do agree when John Amos left the show it wasn't as good.
I don't know about greatest of all time, but it certainly took a nose-dive when John Amos left the show and the whole thing started to center around "Dyn-o-mite!"
I liked the original Bill Cosby Show where his character was a gym teacher (a guy I worked with had Cosby as an actual gym teacher in his pre-comedy days), but didn't care for the later Cosby show.
I'd watch "Good Times" until John Amos leaves, then turn off the TV.
I like both shows but would probably go with Good Times because it can make you laugh and cry in one episode. The characters on the show made you care more about them rather than The Cosby Show which just seemed so cheesy (like Full House).
The Cosby spinoff, "A Different World" was good TV though.
That was a great show.
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