can't change it. >> maybe we can't change it, james but we sure can't let it change us. >> "good times" was not only to show the problems but show the love of a minority family. [ applause ] >> we're staying in a used car lot of love. >> in 20 years we only turned out one clunker. >> the idea of white families seeing things on an episode of "good times "they could relate to their own experience is the power that cannot be duplicated with hours of conversation. >> it showed how sitcoms weren't afraid to discuss social issues that had formally been taboo. ♪ ♪ >> the single mother in that show was divorced. that was unusual for television. >> sure was different before the divorce when daddy was around. yeah, yeah, i know. you used to wrap him around your little finger.