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TVFactFan
12-27-2002, 05:15 PM
I watched the episode "Rich is Better than Poor" and J.J hit the lottery for $2500. Then they were all jumping around, Florida said she wanted 3 mink coats, Michael wanted new shoes, and then J.J said he will send Thelma to Spain. Then florida said the money will go in the bank for the children's future, $2500? I can see $25,000 but not $2500. So florida was going to put the money in the bank for J.J's career, Thelma to go to college and Michael to go to law school, $2500?-LOL I think the writers should have used a different amount instead of &2500 if the characters were going to jump up and down and say-"we are rich"!!!
TJL
12-27-2002, 06:04 PM
When I think about my current financial situation, if I won 2500 bucks, I'd be screaming "I'm rich!" too.

;)
Brian Damage
12-27-2002, 06:31 PM
I guess money stretched a lot further back then. Plus, the Evans were always poor. So $2500 WAS probably a lot of money to them.
TVFactFan
12-27-2002, 06:35 PM
Originally posted by Brian Damage
I guess money stretched a lot further back then. Plus, the Evans were always poor. So $2500 WAS probably a lot of money to them.


Not a lot of money for all of their plans. Spain, coats, and law school.
Moonlight Lady
12-27-2002, 06:43 PM
No, but it is enough money to pay rent and other bills and keeping the clothes on their backs and healthier food in their stomachs. Besides, all that talk about spain was just talk. They were excited about the money and let their imaginations run wild with all this cool stuff they wanted to do.
Brian Damage
12-27-2002, 06:44 PM
Originally posted by SOLOMON



Not a lot of money for all of their plans. Spain, coats, and law school.

Well JJ was never accused of being bright.
Moonlight Lady
12-27-2002, 06:56 PM
That's for sure Brian :lol:
W.J. Griffin
01-02-2003, 12:32 AM
Folks, $2500.00 is a lot of moola any way you slice it. And if you're living in the projects like the Evans family, it might as well have been $25 MILLON! (Plus, in the mid 1970s $2500 was worth a whole lot more then than it is now!!)
Nanny Fine
02-24-2003, 08:42 AM
Originally posted by W.J. Griffin
Folks, $2500.00 is a lot of moola any way you slice it. And if you're living in the projects like the Evans family, it might as well have been $25 MILLON! (Plus, in the mid 1970s $2500 was worth a whole lot more then than it is now!!)

Exactly. I live in low income housing and if I came across $2500 I'd feel like I won the lotto.
Pitooey
02-24-2003, 08:51 AM
I agree...... That kind of money was like winning a lotto... Back then you could buy alot of groceries and pay rent for a year or two. When I see that episode it brings a smile to my face to see the Evans family so happy... :)
AtlantaBravesFan29
02-24-2003, 10:08 AM
I wish that James in the episode "The Windfall" would have kept the money he put in his pocket,that was $3000,instead of that gift certificate the grocery store gave him.
TVFactFan
02-24-2003, 06:20 PM
Originally posted by Will and Grace Rox


Exactly. I live in low income housing and if I came across $2500 I'd feel like I won the lotto.

But the things that J.J was saying he was going to do with the money was much more than $2500.
Nanny Fine
02-24-2003, 07:13 PM
hey us 'po folk like to dream big.

I have all kinds of things I'd do with $2500 but in reality I'd pay bills. Doesn't stop me from thinking and dreaming about it.
TVJunkie22
04-14-2003, 07:38 AM
I guess you'd have to understand the mentality of the neighboorhood in which they were raised. I guess you'd have to know what the projects really are, and what the ghetto really is.

To the Evans, who lived in the Cabrini Greene projects of Chicago, $2500 was a lot of money. To anyone living in this apartments $100 was a lot of money.

Think on that. These are people who are struggling to NOT make it everyday. This is America's poor. This is the face of poverty. Sad to say, some of us are to ignorant to realize it.
TVFactFan
04-14-2003, 07:27 PM
Originally posted by TVJunkie22
I guess you'd have to understand the mentality of the neighboorhood in which they were raised. I guess you'd have to know what the projects really are, and what the ghetto really is.

To the Evans, who lived in the Cabrini Greene projects of Chicago, $2500 was a lot of money. To anyone living in this apartments $100 was a lot of money.

Think on that. These are people who are struggling to NOT make it everyday. This is America's poor. This is the face of poverty. Sad to say, some of us are to ignorant to realize it.


But all the things they were saying they were going to do with the money did not make sense. They went a little over board.
laneyday
09-15-2003, 06:34 PM
I agree, Sitty. They did go overboard on all they said they wanted to do. After those three mink(fur) coats of Florida's, they might have been able to get jj some art supplies, Thelma a new outfit, Michael new Black History books, new shoes for James and the rest for groceries and maybe a couple months of rent. Back in '74 you could have gotten a new car for $3000. It was a little too much I do agree, but I think they were just over excited not really understanding how far the money could go because they never really had that much to begin with.:wave: