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Anybody ever watch the reruns of this show? Sitting here watching it now. I had forgotten how fricking hilarious that show was...

I've its generally good with some very funny episiods, the heart attacks make me burst out laughing.

I catch it occaisionally. It's much funnier than some of the sitcoms that are on FOX, ABC, NBC, etc. nowadays.

Sheer brilliance and captured some of the racial elements that I remebered when I was a kid growing up in the 70's. Some of it is a little dated, but the jokes are still hilarious. Red Foxx was a brilliant comedian.

That was the US knock off of Steptoe and Son wasnt it?

One of the local channels where I'm at has reruns of Sanford and Son and All in the Family on late nights.


As a kid I didn't get the humor when I was growing up watching them, but as an adult I find them to be some of the funniest shows on these days

I never did like S&S. I watched it everyday for a week after I tore my knee all to hell. I was high on painkillers and it still wasn't funny.

Keevan_Colton wrote:That was the US knock off of Steptoe and Son wasnt it?

I'm assuming yes, because I thought it was Steptoe and Son for all of 10 seconds just now.

Chardok wrote:I never did like S&S. I watched it everyday for a week after I tore my knee all to hell. I was high on painkillers and it still wasn't funny.

You ol' heathen you...

(If you've seen the show, you'll get it)

InnerBrat wrote:

Keevan_Colton wrote:That was the US knock off of Steptoe and Son wasnt it?

I'm assuming yes, because I thought it was Steptoe and Son for all of 10 seconds just now.

Was this "steptoe and son" about a black man and his son who owned a garbage dump?

Col. Crackpot wrote:

InnerBrat wrote:

Keevan_Colton wrote:That was the US knock off of Steptoe and Son wasnt it?

I'm assuming yes, because I thought it was Steptoe and Son for all of 10 seconds just now.

Was this "steptoe and son" about a black man and his son who owned a garbage dump?

Nope. it was about a white man and his son who owned a garbage dump.

I checked it out, and Steptoe and Son was where they got the idea for Sandford and Son. Still, Sandford and Son was funny as hell. I think Nick at Night, or TV Land still shows the reruns.

You know what's ironic? But Red Foxx died on stage of a tv show he was doing of a heart attack. From what I read at Snopes, it took a while for people to realize that he wasn't faking.