THE JABBERSONS

THE JEFFERSONS
1975-1985 CBS

THE JAZZYSLUMS
MAD #191, June 1977
w:Stan Hart
a: Angelo Torres

Started with All in the Family where they started as the neighbors, then spun off into their own show which lasted even longer. The Jeffersons started as a working class family in Queens but on their own show moved into a high-rise apartment in Manhattan. The patriarch was George Jefferson (Sherman Hemsley) and his wife was Louise (Isabel Sanford). Rounding out the cast were George's mother (Zara Cully), his English neighbor Harry Bentley (Paul Benedict), maid Florence (Marla Gibbs), neighbors Tom and Helen Willis (Franklin Cover, Roxie Roker), son Lionel (Damon Evans), Lionel's wife Jenny (Berlinda Tolbert) who was also the Willis' daughter, and the doorman Ralph (Ned Wertimer).

George owned a chain of dry-cleaning stores. When he was on All in the Family, he fed into Archie Bunker's worst fear of black men. Not that George didn't have a bit of prejudice himself, he wasn't very happy with the fact that the Willis' were a mixed race or that his son was seeing their daughter.

J. J.'s father on Good Times was killed off.

Dr. J. a/k/a Julius Erving was a basketball player

From TV Disclaimers We'd Like to See by Lou Silverstone and Jack Davis in MAD #180, January 1976. The married couple are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward.

From Obituaries for TV Show Characters in MAD #194, October 1977, by Frank Jacobs.

THE JABBERSONS
Cracked #185, March 1982
a: Samuel B. Whitehead

Mike Evans, who played Lionel originally on All in the Family, came back later in this series.

I don't think the writer of this piece knew Gary Coleman was once a character on The Jeffersons.

THE JITTERSONS
Crazy #88, July 1982
w: Murad Gumen
a: Kent Gamble

George would call his wife “Weezy”

A recurring bit was that Harry had a bad back and needed to have it walked on, which George was always eager to do since if gave him the chance to walk on a white man.

Because Jenny was the daughter of a mixed race couple, George would refer to her as a “zebra”.

I think that's supposed to be Greg Morris (Mission:Impossible) between Richard Pryor and an I Spy-era Bill Cosby, and the others are Isaac Hayes, Jimmie Walker, Redd Foxx, Ernest Lee Thomas (What's Happening), and Kene Holliday (Carter Country).

From The Final Segments of Popular TV Series by Paul Laikin and John Reiner in Crazy #47, February 1979