What's Happening!! : Was this the first show to say…

Ni**er in it?
on the episode where rerun worships the head of lettuce rodger says "you worship a head of lettuce? Ni**er please!" definitely the funniest thing said on whats happening but I cant remember any other shows before it actually saying it.

Nah, they also said it on The Jeffersons and Sanford and Son. Probably the most hilarious example:

They said it plenty in Good Times too.

They also used it on All in the Family.

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I think Sammy Davis Jr. said it on 'All in the family' in reference to Archie Bunker NOT saying that word, when he came in the house . I am sure George Jefferson must have said it as well on AITF , but definitely on Jeffersons

This was probably the first.

It was 1972.


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One of Fred's ex-girlfriends visits with her daughter.

The ex mentions that they have to leave to get a headlight repaired so as to not get pulled over, to which Fred comments something like:

"They death around here to a n***** with one headlight. You got one headlight, you better be riding a motorcycle!"

I of course had to check the credits.

It was written by Richard Pryor and Paul Mooney.

The producers were clever enough to have some black dudes writing the teleplays for many of the early episodes.

Doing such gave them a lot of slack as to what they could get away with.

I do believe that a later episode, writen by a guy with a Jewish name, used n***** as well.

At that the point, the show was such a huge success I guess it didn't matter.

Cheers

That episode came out in 1978 "Rerun Sees the Light". Three years before on the Jeffersons In 1975 "Rich Man's Disease" Louise said the exact same thing. That's probably where "Whats happening" got it from. Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWWBrAIv1J0

On Sanford and Son, Fred is taking a parking ticket to court and claims racism as why he got it - he looks around the courtroom and says, "just look 'round herethere's more ni***s in here than a Tarzan movie!"

You know I never realized he says that! He sorta mumbles it! Not like Wheezy said it to George on THE JEFFERSONS. THAT was clear as a bell!

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Just weeks after "All In The Family" debuted in 1971, Sammy Davis Jr. used the word - tossed it off really - when he quipped, "If you were prejudiced, Archie, when I came into your home, you would have called me a coon or a *beep* But you didn't say that, I heard you clear as a bell. You came right out and called me colored."

Believe it or not, Archie Bunker never used the "N" word although more antiquated colloquialisms like "coon," "colored," and "black beauties" were heard in abundance.

The word *beep* was re-introduced in a first season "Sanford & Son" episode 'Here Comes the Bride, There Goes the Bride' airing January 28, 1972. In it, Lamont is getting married and Fred, looking at the bride's family with contempt, mutters "Buncha jive *beep* under his breath. It gets applause.