Good Times (1974–1979)

BernNadette Stanis: Thelma Evans, Thelma Evans Anderson

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• J.J. : Around here, we've got something more powerful than Drano. See, all we do is hang a picture of Thelma's face over the drain, and the clog goes away. We call it: Thelmo.

  Thelma : Yes, and when it's really clogged, we have to use the snake, so we send J.J. down there personally.

• Thelma : Mama might be in a tv commercial!

  JJ : Hey! That'd be groovy, bein' the son of a famous movie star, I'd have my own Cadillac to drive down and get my food stamps!

• Thelma : J.J where'd you get stamps to mail a letter?

  JJ : I don't need no money for stamps! The last six letters I painted em on!

• J.J. : Thelma, I think I got VD!

  Thelma : VD! The only way you can get that is by... JJ!... well who is it?

  [JJ looks at her] 

  Thelma : ... Mariaane Thomas? Sweet little Marianne Thomas? ooooooWOOO!

  Michael : [Michael comes out of the room with his text book]  JJ what you say you got?

  J.J. : VD

  Michael : [looking up VD]  It says here you can only get VD by... ooooooWooo!

• Michael : Hey, Thelma. You about ready for that kissing booth?

  Thelma : Yep, I've got my lips, and my lip gloss, and... Oh, Michael, you didn't tell me how much to sell my kisses for.

  J.J. : Thelma, be ready to make change of a dime.

  Thelma : You know something, if you were in there, it wouldn't be a kissing booth... it would be a house of horrors, you ugly monster.

• Thelma : Don't worry, daddy. I've got eyes like an eagle.

  J.J. : And a face like a beagle.

• [Thelma's listening to some classical music] 

  J.J : What is that music?

  Thelma : That's Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake.

  JJ : Well tell the swans to get out - the lake's polluted!

• Thelma : Hey, that's weird. It's gone. Now I know that cake was in here this morning.

• JJ : And now to open Thelma's present - the wonderful cap!

  Thelma : How'd you know that?

  JJ : I did a little search and seizure in your room the other day... Ah! The color I wanted!

  Thelma : That's not the one I bought!

  JJ : I know, I already exchanged it! - when the chicks see this hat, I'm gonna have wall to wall hickeys!

• Thelma : Has anybody seen my hair-spray?

  JJ : Yeah! it's under the sink. I used it last night to wipe-out some bugs!

  Thelma : You used my hair-spray on bugs?

  JJ : Yeah, but it didn't do nothin for em. They was all bald!