is that it featured the first primetime interracial couple, the willises. - george, if we have a problem, why can't we just talk it through like tom and helen? they don't fight. - they don't fight 'cause they scared to fight. - what's that supposed to mean? - you know damn well what it means. if you two ever really started going at one another, inside of five minutes, he'd be calling you - don't say it! - nigga. - he said it! - coming out of the 1960s loving case, which made interracial marriages legal in the united states, you had this representation of what america could look like, of what america could be. (audience laughs and applauds) - i beg your pardon. i'll come back later. - "the jeffersons" was really groundbreaking. - everything you do, do it cool. that's it. - [marla] "the jeffersons" had something for every segment of society. - yeah. - government is not the solution to our problem. government is the problem. - america was changing. you're in the middle of reaganomics and trickle down economies. - the social policies of that era