Freeloading family and friends flock to fleece the golden sheep when Fred plays the numbers.Freeloading family and friends flock to fleece the golden sheep when Fred plays the numbers.Freeloading family and friends flock to fleece the golden sheep when Fred plays the numbers.
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- TriviaThe illegal lottery ("numbers game") Fred was playing in was the inspiration for different US states to start their own lotteries, which started with 3 digit and 4 digit number drawings.
- GoofsIf Fred won $3000 on a $5 bet, he would only have about enough to buy a new pickup truck, as the MSRP of a Chevy C10 long bed pickup in 1973 was just under $3000. (Unless he was referring to a more newer second hand truck and not a "new" new truck in addition to the other things he said he could do.)
- Quotes
Lamont Sanford: President Nixon's not gonna run.
Fred G. Sanford: If he comes through Watts he will.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Sanford and Son: The Light Housekeeper (1972)
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Don Bexley debuts as Bubba
The second season opener, "By the Numbers" marked the debut of Don Bexley as his on screen namesake 'Bad Boy Bubba' Bexley (his 43 episodes surpassed only by LaWanda Page's 48), while appearing in the first of only two episodes is Beah Richards as Aunt Ethel (later seen in "The Light Housekeeper"), a character that would evolve into Aunt Esther (her first appearance in "The Big Party"). Fred is so happy one morning that Lamont tries to guess why, though it's not about Lena Horne: "President Nixon's not gonna run!" "if he come through Watts he will!" He figures that '219' is his lucky number today, but Lamont won't allow him to play again. Bubba's very first scene finds him asking Fred for $5: "you caught me at a bad time Bubba, I got it!" It's quite a shock when Bubba reports that the number '219' was the winner. Aunt Ethel drops off some dinner with the lucky winner, looking for $200 to help pay for a gall bladder operation. Now down to his last $50, it's not long before he loses that too.
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