227 - JACK - AY

i think i just 227ed. There was all kinds of noise outside and I poked my head out the window to find the neighbor kid with his head out the window, so we chatted there three floors above street level with our heads poking out of our respective windows.

227. this thread died before it had a chance to live.

that's called 227ing? awesome

i dunno, probably not. i just felt like i was on 227 because i was being a nosy neighbor with my head poked out of the window. i think it was the address of the building, actually.

i know! i think it should be called that

indeed it should. two more posts and we can double the length of this thread!
i always liked this show.
i liked the way jackee said meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery.

Random thought: if I remember right, there was some time there when "227" and "Golden Girls" were both on Saturdays, and actually both of those shows were mainly focused on women -- same with "Empty Nest" or that other spin-off from that, the one about nurses -- and ... well, sitcoms are really incredibly male-focused these days, aren't they? It's strange to think that there were a whole bunch of sitcoms at that time that were mostly about women, and somehow that yanked WAY far back in this oafish-men direction. (But I guess people watched sitcoms more back then, and don't now, and maybe hour-long dramas are providing the balance.)

That was also a serious Jeffersons-raiding period, where they had her on "227" and then straight after that Sherman Hemsley on "Amen."

I'm still back where Ned thought Nell Carter and Jackee were the same person and then tried to cover it up by invoking Balki.

I'm still back where Ned thought Nell Carter and Jackee were the same person and then tried to cover it up by invoking Balki.

"EWW!"

http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2007/02/jackee.JPG

in my early college days a friend and I used to admit at parties that we cowrote episodes of "227."

this thread is making me want to watch sitcoms and listen to lisa lisa and cult jam.

ps it turns out that there was an altercation on the corner involving a bottle, a dude, and someone's head. other people in the building/on the block were 227ing too.

sitcoms are really incredibly male-focused these days

i don't know about that. if anything, it seems like they're focused on either families or diverse groups of friends or coworkers

i liked the way jackee said meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery.

Ask me to do this in person for you sometime.

omg

Yeah, n/a, I'm not entirely confident about that claim, but I do find it really hard to imagine a current-day sitcom that's entirely about four women ("Golden Girls") or mostly about a wife, her daughter, her two friends, and the old lady in the ground-floor window. (On "227" Lester seemed to play the Ricky Ricardo role where he'd just come in and chuckle at his wife's antics, and the only other recurring male I remember was neighborhood boy Curtis, who ... was he the old lady's grandson or something?)

sorry dude, but your generalization of "the ricky ricardo role" is pretty offtm also

I was trying to figure out if Jackee had ever been on Hollywood Squares, because she seems like she was born to be on that show. All I could dig up while researching was this, though.

http://www.xanfan.com/othergrabs/hs3.jpg

I have been watching 22Sassy p much nonstop via the Crackle iPhone app (also you can watch it right at http://www.crackle.com/c/227 !!!!!!!!!!!!!), this is pretty much my new favorite thing ever. Sort of convinced it was written about gay men and then changed to black women shortly before production. Have started saying "Oooh, Meeehhhrehh" IRL. Cannot get enough of this, for real.

plz find me another sitcom with a line as great as "Come on, Mary, be divine"

yess! i love this show, Jackee is iconic!

the only 227 I remember is the one where the two kids "study" for their history test by making up "raps" about historic events and people.

Marla Gibbs called me at 2 o’clock in the morning asking what a WAP is. 😫

I couldn’t bring myself to tell her so I lied and said “iunno, Mary!!!”

— Jackée Harry (@JackeeHarry) December 7, 2020

Yes, Marla and I still talk. I laugh every time I get her voicemail because her greeting ends with: “Remember, I love you and so does God.”

Sis gave herself TOP BILLING.
OVER GOD.

Legend.

— Jackée Harry (@JackeeHarry) December 7, 2020