Get them plants there and bring 'em in the house. 6.Hey, what's the matter with you? Can't you drive yet? You almost wrecked my washing machine.

But when an antique collector, played by guest star Jonathan Harris, offers a big price for the piece, Lamont insists he knows what he’s doing. Lamont buys an antique commode for what he thinks is a steal. Fred and Lamont find themselves trapped in their home bill collectors knocking on the door. Fred’s repeated instructions to Lamont to put the bills “back in the mailbox” isn’t a real solution. When money runs out, the Sanfords realize they can’t pay their bills. Lamont notices a bullet hole in a window across the street at the neighbor’s home and Fred immediately assumes he’s killed the neighbor. ‘The Shootout’įred has a loud argument with a neighbor and then later accidentally fires an old rifle, not realizing the old war relic was loaded. When Fred decides to spend the night outside in the truck, Lamont’s own superstitions begin to get the best of him, too. But Lamont scoffs at the offer, which is exactly what he originally paid for the boxes. Fred, who is too superstitious to sleep in a home with coffins, urges Lamont to take the offer of a funeral director. Lamont makes what he considers a great purchase: a pair of wooden coffins. But Fred’s suspicion about the man’s new lifestyle lead to hilarious moments as Lamont tries to keep his father focused on the job at hand. Lamont learns a newly-divorced eccentric man wants to get rid of his ex-wife’s piano and brings Fred to the man’s penthouse apartment to move it out. The N-word was occasionally dropped, but those occasions seem to have been quietly edited out over the years in syndicated reruns.īut despite the calamity, it was a series about a father and son who genuinely loved each other, even as they grated on each other’s nerves. The series, which was considered NBC’s answer to Lear’s CBS series, All in the Family, often featured racial humor, some of which would probably not pass muster by today’s standards. Lear created Sanford and Son based on the British series Steptoe and Son, and based it in a junkyard in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts.

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