AMENDS

AMEN
(1986-1991) NBC

AMENDS
MAD #273, September 1987
w: Arnie Kogen
a: Angelo Torres

Deacon Frye (Sherman Helmsley) is minister of a church in Philadelphia who's a lawyer by day.

His congregation includes The Hetebrink sisters Amelia and Casietta (Roz Ryan, Barbara Montgomery), Reverend Gregory (Clifton Davis), and older voice and token dirty old man Rolly (Jester Hairston)

The church is having a meeting to discuss financial issues...

“On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia” (where the show took place) were often the last words attributed to W. C. Fields.

Frye goes home to see his daughter Thelma (Anna Marie Horsford), who's always having some sort of male trouble.

I don't know why it's Arnold of Diff'rent Strokes and Webster stealing the Liberty Bell (another Philadelphia reference), though Sherman Hemsley's earlier series, The Jeffersons is where Gary Coleman got his start.

Frye has an idea to have an auction to raise money for the church and marry off Thelma. She will eventually marry Reverend Gregory, but not until a few years into the series.

That's Archie Bunker, one-time foe of Hemsley's character George Jefferson, in the last panel.