George Jefferson attends a Klan seminar Part 1

[@marmik961]

"It's his heart, he's got a bad heart." We already knew that.

[@SinfulScents]

Wow that’s brilliant!!

[@ryandiggs750]

Yeah a dark heart

[@DanielSiciliano-uw3zr]

You're soooooooopo right!

[@kenan511]

This show aged perfectly!

[@shayknight9252]

Absolutely loved when Tom proudly stated that the woman he loved was black

[@Yayashi_nv]

I love how willis and bentley stood up for george in this. 🥰

[@THOMASINTHE1980S]

I Like how the other tenants who have known George for years are just as shocked at what they're attending.

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

This is what I said. When George walks in, everyone is happy to see him except the guys at the podium. Did the extras miss their cue or did EVERYONE not know this was a KKK meeting?

[@THOMASINTHE1980S]

@@ReflectionOfPerfectionDwayne was initially shocked to see George, but eventually was grateful to him for saving his father’s life, even if Herb wasn’t.

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

@THOMASINTHE1980S I agree, but go back to when George walks in. Everyone's happy to see him except the dudes at the podium. Either the extras screwed up or nobody knew it was a KKK meeting 🤣

[@Ladybhive71]

​@@ReflectionOfPerfection😂

[@Juliaflo]

This episode simply HAD to be made.

[@Lurkartiist]

Only George Jefferson would try to attack the leader at a KKK meeting 😂

[@KingKidGoku32794]

James Evans would've too

[@Melissa-ek3ce]

@@KingKidGoku32794 Oh you know it! And James could take that trash out!!!!

[@Melissa-ek3ce]

@@Jacksons595 He sure would!!!!

[@victorantoniollanosllanos9500]

That's why he's my hero.

[@douglaspaterson5269]

And so would Fred Sanford ​@@Melissa-ek3ce

[@TheSimmy77]

This episode always makes me emotional. Hating sometime PURELY based on their skin color is despicable!

[@THOMASINTHE1980S]

Religon, country, orientation, etc.

[@yvetteihemesinwa2981]

Preach.

[@shayknight9252]

Absolutely loved when Tom proudly stated that the woman he loved was black

[@user-ul3lx2sl1q]

Well, I have no color-based prejudices; but I DO subscribe to the more-complimentary stereotypes; like blacks being better dancers, and mammies flipping DEE-LICIOUS pancakes!

[@finster1968]

Wow!!! I totally forgot that James Karen did this episode! I met him at a convention about ten years ago when he appeared with his cast from the cult movie Return of the Living Dead. He was a super nice and classy guy. I got to chat with him for a few minutes. He had a decent amount of movie credits over the years and I’m so glad I got to meet him before he passed. RIP James.

[@Juliaflo]

He was best remembered as the commercial spokesperson for Pathmark--and he was JEWISH.

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

I knew him from Any Given Sunday, Congo, Revenge of The Nerds 4 and an episode of MASH lol

[@Honestwrestlingfan92-yg4cf]

​@@ReflectionOfPerfectionwhich episode? I don't remember him being on MASH.

[@kellymcfalls1458]

@@ReflectionOfPerfection He was on the last episode of Little house on the Prairie!

[@bacardilvr]

Remember, Bentley worked at the UN, I’m sure he knew how to break up a brawl

[@jamessimmons7480]

IT'S BEYOND RIDICULOUS TO DISLIKE SOMEBODY FOR AN UNFAIR REASON!!!! I ONCE HAD A GIRLFRIEND OF A DIFFERENT RACE FROM MINE AND I KNOW THAT IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE TO DISLIKE A PERSON FOR AN UNFAIR REASON!!

[@baltimoretre658]

Don't fill your heart with hate (Message)

[@shayknight9252]

Absolutely loved when Tom proudly stated that the woman he loved was black

[@Melissa-ek3ce]

This show was such a powerful landmark showing the truth; the idiocy of racism from any side!!!!!!!! It still is!

[@blakemrolfsensanchez547]

So true

[@Ladybhive71]

It was and when you get Tom roused up too!

[@meg-k-waldren]

It truly demonstrates the pointlessness of it all. Life is too short to go about hating people you don't even know.

[@martinhernandeziv9376]

Mr Bentley already knew what George was gonna do

[@jrewing1512]

George was about to open a can of whoop.

[@MarshallRedmon01]

@$$

[@j.campbell8491]

George was bout to whoop his bigot ass

[@yoyoyiggityyo17]

ie

[@SinfulScents]

lol I love him!!!

[@Melissa-ek3ce]

Tom wasn't afraid also let them know that he was married to a beautiful black woman, Helen!!!!! That was much more personal to talk to him because that's also his family they were talking about!!!!!!!

[@MrMSpike]

Gargbage stinks no matter how fresh it is... absolute truth

[@MarkOliver-f1e]

So do the KKK Democrats

[@BoricuaPopa38]

I LOVED HOW BENTLEY GOT UP BEFORE EVERYONE TO CATCH GEORGE AFTER HE HEARD “BOY”😬

[@kdizzle79]

1:01-1:05 The look on Franklin Cover's (Tom Willis) face says it all. He realizes that not only was he suckered into coming to a KKK meeting, but he just brought his best friend/brother-in-law George, who is black, to this meeting. Compounded also by the fact that Tom is married to Helen, a black woman. This was a triple whammy for Tom. Also, let's note the fact that after seven years (at that point how long "The Jeffersons" was on), he knew George pretty well and knew that this would not end well for the bigot. 1:11 Bentley, like Tom, is also one of George's dear friends and knew how south that situation was about to go. He knew George was gonna take that bigot apart. So when George moved as fast as he did, Bentley moved faster and was on his ass, not wanting to see his friend catch a case. And George's reaction is the best. Looking at it as a man who's dealt with racism his whole life and who's lost family members to bigotrym this was too much for a man to have to deal with that in his own apartment building. He was NOT having it. I think this was around the time of the show when George stopped using racial slurs towards white people as well.

[@kellymcfalls1458]

K.J.Norman I agree with everything you said but George was not Toms brother in law

[@BadTV1993]

@@kellymcfalls1458 right..they were co grandparents, with Jessica being the common denominator..

[@THOMASINTHE1980S]

All the other older white men in attendance knew George too and were shocked as well.

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

​@@THOMASINTHE1980SThat's what I'm asking. The whole crowd was happy to see him, did EVERYONE not know it was a KKK meeting? Lol

[@krisvseverybody]

“I don’t know, we left early” is wild 😂

[@Shaundre-s1c]

Hella wild

[@thescatman5029]

Didn't they get kicked out of an earlier CPR meeting because they refused to have Louise and Florence administer CPR to them? Florence was gonna whoop his ... , then!

[@christopherstein106]

When push came to shove, Tom and Bentley always had George's back and Vice versa. Here you see a different side to mr. Bentley because after all the put downs from George, he always loved George and would do anything for him including stopping him from going to jail.

[@henrycoffey1207]

This is a pretty perfect episode. Its got high stakes but is still nearly-entirely character driven. Its the classic Jeffersons misunderstanding episode laced with serious, still relevant commentary.

[@Twizzler101]

I remember watching this episode when I was 7, hearing the N-Word on this show really shocked me as a kid.

[@jessmyapinyon1287]

Watching it for the first time just now, the N word is still shocking

[@xochigonzalez8501]

I wonder where that kid is now LOL. Telling people he had one line in a famous TV sitcom and the one line was a slur LOL

[@Juliaflo]

Ike Eisenmann did some behind-the-scenes work at Disney.

[@kellymcfalls1458]

Xochi Gonzalez he was also in a episode of Tj Hooker

[@mrg8581]

He thanked Mr Jefferson for saving his dad's life.

[@StephenKershaw1]

that kid was a pretty big star in the 70's.... he was much bigger than a little episode on a dying sitcom in the early 80s

[@rcmorales9014]

His more famous line he was known for was as Engineering Cadet Peter Preston with his dying last words, " Admiral, is the word given?" From Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan.

[@SBarsinister]

I remember this episode.

[@joetosteLCSW]

love george;s dance

[@JohnWest-zq5gs]

Talking that way to Louise and Florence what a prick Louise was a very kind person so was Florence the guy was a real a-hole and George was a very hard-working guy he earned everything he got

[@jmyronsmith1583]

This episode is still relevant today

[@e69alpha]

Klans been dead for over 60 years. Skin heads have no order if they're still around anywhere outside of 4chan which compared to 10 years ago is a neutered place. Racism just isn't a big deal like it was before Classism is where it's at

[@alltheclout1585]

The first time I heard the N word on TV was the Jeffersons!!! 🤣😂

[@j.campbell8491]

The 70s had the balls to say the N-Word back then

[@richarddelgado2723]

For me it was Aunt Ester Sanford and Son….

[@Hermanjr69]

And it was said by a white man

[@MarkOliver-f1e]

​@@Hermanjr69George said it the 1st time on the Jeffersons

[@e69alpha]

How times have changed

[@frk4shoes]

Mr. Bently knew to grab George

[@kdizzle79]

At that point, he'd known George for about seven years and also knew how bad his temper was. He knew that it was that bigot's ass had he not got hold of George. Bentley and Tom were real ones when it came to George

[@frk4shoes]

@@kdizzle79 They sure were.

[@Melissa-ek3ce]

Tom too but Bentley was fastest &did most- never saw Bentley move so fast! He knew George!!

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

I havent seen the full episode but when George walks in everyone in the crowd looks happy to see him except the guys at the podium. Either the extras didnt do a good job staying in character or did everyone not know this was a KKK meeting?

[@nodatastored684]

The Pathmark guy... Wow

[@DavidDartley]

SOMETHING always made me uneasy about those PathMark commercials...

[@dre9484]

some 30+ years ago and it’s still the same! racism will unfortunately never go away!

[@swayer37]

What episode is this and season

[@nicholasimholte7359]

"Sorry, wrong meeting." S7, E14

[@SinfulScents]

Speaking as a white person we aren’t all like this! I love every color, it doesn’t matter the skin it matters the heart! And I’ve come across the ugliest person and he was white lol unite!!! Love wins!!!!

[@dinoc734]

is that Jackie Lee Earle from the watchmen?

[@mainstreetsaint36]

Jackie Earle Haley. And it isn't. The young man in the room is Ike Eisenmann. They did have a resemblance, so the mistake isn't that difficult to believe.

[@dgitoutofmany1]

To hear the kid use the N word on regular TV back then is truly legendary.

[@theman1412]

I just watched this episode in syndication, the N-word is said about 4 times throughout (I was actually surprised it wasn’t edited)

[@Hermanjr69]

​@@theman1412cuz kkk disrespect us black people and get away with us cuz the producers back then where all white

[@curt349]

This was probably a prequel to David Chappelle's black KKK

[@HansGugel-hw4tn]

Wasn't that kid is the one who starred in Witch Mountain

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

Yup....and got blown to smithereens in Star Trek 2

[@brandoninglin7566]

0:25-0:57 0:59-1:03 1:08-1:12 1:18-1:21 1:23-1:27 1:29 1:33-1:50 1:57 2:00-2:04 2:12-2:24 2:31-2:34 ❤😂🎉

[@roots1458]

Watching this after trump is re-elected.

[@MarkOliver-f1e]

2:04 Here is the part Biden supporters love to hear.

[@lisadiconti]

I presume George administers CPR?

[@sfliberal]

Indeed, he does. I remember watching this episode as a kid when it was first broadcast (my Dad was with me also watching). And yes, George did note the irony. In an earlier scene, the bigot and his son are at a CPR class with George. George goes before them and does the procedure on the CPR doll. The bigot and his son leave the class. The instructor asks why, and the son acidly responds, "we're not putting our mouths on anything that's been kissed by a nigger!" That's what the kid meant by, "we left early!" Fast forward to this scene. Yes, George saved the bigot's life. Bigot wakes up and asks what happened. Son, now recognizing George as an actual human being after this, answers his father. The father then growls the immortal line..."he should have let me die!" It took my Dad explaining such evil to me, because I didn't understand it at first. Kids don't. What that bigot father meant was that now he would have to live the rest of his life knowing that a "Negro" had saved his sorry life, and he hated that even more than living. It took me some years and life experience to comprehend that death, to some people, was preferable to being saved by someone of a different color skin than your own. I've never forgotten this episode.

[@sfliberal]

Here's a more complete clip showing the context. I was wrong about the son saying that; it was actually the father. Well, it has been 40 years.... :-)

[@lisadiconti]

@@sfliberal Thanks for the explanation. :)

[@lisadiconti]

@@sfliberal Thank you!

[@jayharvey7043]

Yes, then the kkk guy tells his son that he should've let him die, rather than be saved by a black man.

[@MsDisneylandlover]

unsung Hollywood brought me here

[@HMurphy]

he was funny george

[@taylorgibbs1450]

1:08

[@quianapreston8513]

Spirituality over rides ignorance 🤔

[@jerrimenard3092]

Hello MAGA supporters! If you are like George and think you won't be kicked out of the Republiclan party, all they want is your vote. Then there go your rights. If you don't believe me, go ask the women of Texas and Florida!

[@MarkOliver-f1e]

But George is in a room full of Biden supporters, Democrats did invent the KKK

[@MarkOliver-f1e]

2:04 Here is the part Biden supporters love to hear.

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

Personal foul.....unnecessary Trump reference....15 yard penalty.....automatic first down

[@MsDisneylandlover]

sick smh i hate bigotry

[@blakemrolfsensanchez547]

Me too

[@Melissa-ek3ce]

Me too! It's sick senseless and evil.

[@douglaspaterson5269]

🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@Plagueis313]

When black go to Trump rallies.😏🤔

[@ygpeezy88]

The irony is that the klan leader hired Will Smith in The Pursuit Of Happyness

[@biancathediva]

Did this man have a stroke?

[@wardogies]

Heart attack

[@cooper482011]

George Jefferson performed CPR and saved the anti-black racist, which was a mistake if you were to ask me. The anti-black racist that George saved asked his son who saved him and the son said George did and the anti-black racist said to his son: “You should’ve let me die.” SMH After those words, George said to Tom and Mr. Bentley: “No matter what you do you can’t change them.”

[@sweetlistenings3324]

They all trying not to laugh.

[@Vito_993]

Maga nowadays

[@williethomas9953]

This what happened what Clarence Thomas met his in laws.

[@rthompson1330]

😂

[@MarkOliver-f1e]

All Democrats in that room.

[@jae6220]

This where trump gets his motivation from

[@olddisneylandtickets]

TDS runs deep in your foul brain I see....

[@jae6220]

@@olddisneylandtickets 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 we found one folks. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@Texasjim2007]

I voted for Trump in 2016 for the same reason I voted for Obama in his first Primary. He was running against the rich white woman who owns you. Why do you think Trump won running against her in states Obama won in two elections?

[@jae6220]

@@Texasjim2007 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 here’s another one.

[@Texasjim2007]

@@jae6220 Not sure what that means but I think its safe to say George Jefferson was certainly an inspiration to the rich Black Republican who founded Papa John's Pizza.:)

[@Brooklyn7savior]

Now they are moving to OUR neighborhoods

[@Scottwilkie18]

K what