when people think of downtown chicago they think of walter payton and ditka and da bear and ryne sandberg and the white sox break the curse in 2005 or the immortal michael jordan and his six championship ( and final mvp ) with the chicago bull . rarely in this generation do people think of the struggle side of chicago and the ghetto and the drug infest street and life in the urban housing project during the 1970 . one of television most formidable show ever and a groundbreaking sitcom be good time and which i remember vaguely a a small child on cbs and and i enjoy regularly now on tv land . good time be another norman lear classic and the producer that give u the jefferson and the best african american sitcom of all time and all in the family the great show of all time . good time bring out the hardship of the ghetto and the urban housing project and and do so with charm and well write and thoughtful plot and and some wonderful act especially by the matriarch and patriarch of this struggle ghetto family play by esther rolle and john amos . the child in the support cast be also pretty good especially the ever popular janet jackson in her early year and ralph carter a florida and james evans young son whose character at a young age realize that life be unfair and and he have to learn to stand on his own two foot . the eldest of the child j. j. play by jimmy walker be somewhat out of place on this show and be there mainly for comic relief . his emotional age be about 11 or 12 even though he look like a guy in his early twenty . j. j. get annoy and and it be a credit to the often nasty james evans ( amos ) that he never tell j. j. to get his own life and get a job and get out of the house . j. j. be an aspiring painter but unlike his young brother be never serious about get a college degree and or more important to the family get a job to help support a household that be just above welfare status . two classic episode of good time be the one where the janet jackson character be run a fever of 104 and and florida evans be desperately seek good medical help for her can not afford anything but a clinic doctor who be very professional yet doesn not want to give a family from the project any more attention than she legally have to . the other episode be the one where james evans can not afford the rent a paltry low $ 104 a month . the evans be about to get the large of family setback and be throw out of the project with no where to go . florida evans go downtown to the board of social service to try to get either a loan or a grant to help her family . but the government doesn not consider her family poor because they have over $ 4 and 200 in asset for a family of five which be unfairly but unfortunately legally over the poverty line . james and the kid want to hustle for the money and but florida be a person of great moral character and doesn not want to do anything dishonest no matter how dire their predicament be . in the end the family do find a solution to keep their head above water . good time a classic show from the 1970 be about keep youre head above water in a cruel world . james and florida evans both work hard in menial job to try to bring their child up right and avoid the social stigma of welfare . i be too young to understand the message of the sitcom a a toddler in the 70 in it first airing on cbs and but i really enjoy the rerun on tv land in 2006. good time be one of the classic sitcom from back in the day .