Lamont hires a housekeeper, but Fred isn't wild about her being white.Lamont hires a housekeeper, but Fred isn't wild about her being white.Lamont hires a housekeeper, but Fred isn't wild about her being white.
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- TriviaThe thing about Lamont slamming on the brakes to not hit a cat and causing Fred, whom was apparently in the truck bed at the time, to get injured, is based on another stand-up routine from Redd Foxx, which is how he would rather run over a cat than ruin his car or hurt himself or the passengers in his car slamming on the brakes for it.
- GoofsFred tells Lamont to go get the paper. Lamont states they don't get one anymore. Fred points next door and says the neighbors do and he reads it first then returns it. Lamont says he's not stealing someone else's paper. Both of them act like a stranger lives next door. In episode S2.E8 - The Puerto Ricans Are Coming!, Julio Fuentes, moved in. He later appears in 11 more episodes.
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Fred G. Sanford: [to Aunt Ethel] Let me tell you something. If you ain't outta here by the time I count to three I'm gonna take this crutch and wrap it around your head so many times you'd think you were wearing a wooden turban!
- ConnectionsReferences Days of Our Lives (1965)
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"The Light Housekeeper" opens with Fred wearing his sprained arm in a sling, after a sudden step on the brakes by Lamont while driving the truck. Fred receives a visit from Aunt Ethel (Beah Richards, previously seen in "By the Numbers"), who rejoices at his injury: "just look at you, you look ridiculous!" "Ethel I fell off a truck, what's your excuse?" Needing to get back to work Lamont sends for a temporary housekeeper, with Fred hoping she isn't a sex maniac. Neither is pleased to see Mary (St. Louis native Mary Wickes), an older white woman, who spends more time resting than working. After just two appearances, Beah Richards' Aunt Ethel would be replaced by the intimidating Aunt Esther, LaWanda Page making her debut in "The Big Party."
- kevinolzak
- Dec 13, 2016
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