Thelma has mixed feelings when her boyfriend Larry accepts a job in California.Thelma has mixed feelings when her boyfriend Larry accepts a job in California.Thelma has mixed feelings when her boyfriend Larry accepts a job in California.
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Ja'net DuBois
- Willona Woods
- (as Ja'net du Bois)
BernNadette Stanis
- Thelma Evans
- (as Bern Nadette Stanis)
Jimmie 'JJ' Walker
- James 'J.J.' Evans, Jr.
- (as Jimmie Walker)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis was the last episode to feature the entire original main cast.
- GoofsThis is the second time a character has made reference to going to Jack in the Box. While filmed in California where there are many Jack in the Box restaurants, the show is set in Chicago where there are none.
- SoundtracksAin't No Mountain High Enough
(uncredited)
Written by Valerie Simpson & Nick Ashford
Playing on the record player while Thelma dances
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Last appearance of Carl Franklin as Larry
"The Break Up" opens with JJ questioning how much Thelma really loves her boyfriend Larry Walters (Carl Franklin, introduced in "Love in the Ghetto"), since the two seem to have nothing in common. As a garage mechanic he often discusses his work days fixing carburetors or radiators. When young Michael admits he's already been in love three times this year, the experienced JJ dismisses it as puppy love: "I may get 'em when they're puppies, but you get 'em when they're dogs!" Larry's news of becoming co-owner of his uncle's garage in California leaves the Evans family shaken, as they expect he'll ask Thelma to go with him. Thelma realizes that she and Larry may be together, yet are headed in opposite directions. Their final dinner features an expensive menu displaying live Maine lobster: "maybe we should order a dead one!"
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