Culture Netflix, Seth McFarlane accused of racism over new animated Good Times reboot - Controversy surrounding the show has resulted in a petition to boycott its release.

Outrage ensued on Wednesday after Netflix and Seth MacFarlane released the trailer for its upcoming animated reboot of the Good Times series, as many claimed the show portrayed racist stereotypes of black people.

In a post on X, Netflix revealed the official trailer for the show set to premiere April 12. One scene of the video shows a character praying to a "black heavenly father" before going into a montage of criminal activity.

JB Smoove, Yvette Nicole Brown, Jay Pharoah, Slink Johnson, Marsai Martin, and Wanda Sykes star in an irreverent reimagining of the TV classic Good Times. From Ranada Shepard and EPs Stephen Curry, Norman Lear, and Seth MacFarlane. Premiering April 12.

In one part, it shows a young, white girl telling a black man that his neighborhood is "a s**thole" before a narrator says the system "put the guns and drugs on the street" and shows gang violence taking place.

"What about the struggle?" one character said. The other responded, "We're black, it will be here tomorrow."

Then to close out the trailer, it portrays young babies as gangsters, where three of them proceed to shoot at each other to a background track that says "all black, everything black."

Following controversy, a change.org petition was started to call for a boycott of the show. Alistair Fannell, who started the petition, wrote, "The New Good Times animated series on Netflix is a glorified stereotypical show that has damaged the image of the original Good Times family show that started in 1974 through 1979."

"The New Good Times animated series promotes violence, culture destruction of the Black community and alcohol abuse," he noted. "It’s time to put a stop to this nonsense that is portraying Black Americans in a negative light through these shows; could lead to bad outcomes towards our youth potential Police brutalities and an increase of the prison population industry.

One of the comments under the post said the show "glorifies the degenerate, destructive behavior some in our community engage in, and tries to portray this a normal behavior."

Another social media user pointed out, "The goal of the original Good Times show was to disrupt the flow of negative stereotypes about black families." They added, "This remake does the opposite, it promotes and amplifies the most negative stereotypes of black families."



"A drug dealing baby? I don’t mind a story of the ghetto or hood lifestyle, but this is what y’all thought was a ‘good time’?" another user said.



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[Constellationzero]

The black community will continue to falter with or without these shows. If looking into a mirror, even a satirical one, bothers them so much then that should be the wake-up call to take action in fixing the problems they hate.

DO NOT TOUCH THE FOLLOWING:

* 227
* Amen
* Family Matters
* What's Happening?
* What's Happening Now?
* Gimme a Break!

 

[biglurker]

I hate how the art is just Lascars but with poor animation and creator design.

Anyway, this is just another reboot anyone will forget about in a few months. They are drumming up claims of racism in the hopes they can use it to stay mildly relevant through controversy like the Proud Family reboot.

 

[Hamstirer]

The YouTube comments are full of.ang brown avatars who don't like seeing themselves in a cartoon.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Good job waiting for Norman Lear to die you assholes.

 

[The Cunting Death]

baskin roberts trust fund band

Kill yourself

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Y’all think the Nigger baby and Stewie will work together to bring down Trump?

 

[UnKillFill]

Who the hell is this even for? Who asked for this?

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Wow, you just triggered an ancient memory in my head; I remember my 3rd Grade teacher having an impromptu rant over The Simpsons which she declared to be the worst show ever. She hated that Bart Simpson was insanely rude to his parents but especially to Homer. I can't remember why she started talking Simpsons but she told the whole class to not watch such bad tv.

Back in the late 80s, The Simpsons, Married with Children, and Roxanne where highly disruptive. People saw them as the anti-Cosby because the family dynamics were more crude and realistic to each other despite there was still love between them.

It's not that the other sitcoms didn't have rebellious characters, though. The Wonder Years had Karen being the hippie kid who always disobeyed the rules, but she was seen as the "bad child" and later straightened up. The two brothers weren't really disrespectful of their parents. Bart went beyond that, he would just mock Homer (but not Marge), while Bud Bundy was a horny brat and Kelly was openly promiscuous and Peggy disrespected Al as well.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Back in the late 80s, The Simpsons, Married with Children, and Roxanne where highly disruptive. People saw them as the anti-Cosby because the family dynamics were more crude and realistic to each other despite there was still love between them.

It's not that the other sitcoms didn't have rebellious characters, though. The Wonder Years had Karen being the hippie kid who always disobeyed the rules, but she was seen as the "bad child" and later straightened up. The two brothers weren't really disrespectful of their parents. Bart went beyond that, he would just mock Homer (but not Marge), while Bud Bundy was a horny brat and Kelly was openly promiscuous and Peggy disrespected Al as well.

And what a wonderful irony that Homer, Al Bundy, and Dan Connor were ultimately good loving blue collar Dads who may have loathed their children but would move heaven and earth to protect them. While Cliff Huxtable was an OBGYN with his Office in the FAMILY BASEMENT. And we can't forget the actor who played the good christian dad on 7th Heaven is a pedo.

 

[Troon_Patrol]

This really feels like a dumber/less funny total ripoff of "The Boondocks".

All the main characters are not ivy league grads solving world problems and fighting racism so the show will be called into question for everything possibly racist.

I love it when left-wing faggots in Hollywood get policed by their own nonsense. They made up all these stupid fucking rules about who was allowed to say what and now even when they hide behind a 99% black staff they still get called out for breaking their own rules. Fuck these people.

 

[Racist Trash]

I actually despise that animation, if more effort was put into it even if the writing isn't up to par at least I would have cool animation to look at.

 

[Here to Gawk]

Wow, you just triggered an ancient memory in my head; I remember my 3rd Grade teacher having an impromptu rant over The Simpsons which she declared to be the worst show ever. She hated that Bart Simpson was insanely rude to his parents but especially to Homer. I can't remember why she started talking Simpsons but she told the whole class to not watch such bad tv.

The reaction to the first season of The Simpsons is my personal yardstick for how far American society has fallen. I remember everyday Americans being horrified that Bart said the word "sucks" and talked back to his parents. Watching it was considered "edgy" back then. And that was my experience in the liberal Northeast back then. I imagine the Bible Belt was much more vocal about it.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

And what a wonderful irony that Homer, Al Bundy, and Dan Connor were ultimately good loving blue collar Dads who may have loathed their children but would move heaven and earth to protect them. While Cliff Huxtable was an OBGYN with his Office in the FAMILY BASEMENT. And we can't forget the actor who played the good christian dad on 7th Heaven is a pedo.

The "blue collar" family is the difference here. Blue collar families tend to be more upfront with their kids. Rural families as well. Take Jack Arnold. Even when he worked for some company, he wasn't the guy who would sit down with their kids to give them the lesson of the week, but he did love them and was always there when they needed a hug. Homer and Al were the evolution of that. Remember when Kelly wanted to be a model? Al did pay for that at the end. Homer always made sure his kids never lacked anything. He might call Bart a little devil and Jack barely smiled to his kids, but they loved them. Then Uncle Phil wasn't shy on calling his kids and nephew morons, but that's because of his background of being poor before he made it big. He still would kill to protect them.

Reminds me of a reality show here that had two couples of father and son participating. The first one was an actor and his son, a model. He treated him like his baby despite he's in his 20s. The other couple were physical trainers and their dynamic was more direct: "hey, bring your ass here" and stuff like that. Some watchers feel disturbed by this "abuse" despite this is how middle class families naturally treat each other.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

That old SNL parody of Good Times was much better.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

McFarlane is like John Kricfalusi in that they have this boner for classic television but all their attempts at bringing it back relies on just being vulgar.

 

[Mr. Zed da Robot Poon Fed]

Apparently, black entertainment will never get passed drugs, money, pussy, racism, slavery, civil rights, guns and anything else black-oriented. We will almost never see something beyond that.

Because this honestly looks like hot garbage and shit I've seen a thousand times already. We just got through The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder.

 

[Mr. Bobby Brown]

I'm genuinly curious if most of the people who are making this even watched the original show. Did they just see the original show and go: "This shit's boring, imma add in a buch of ugly nigger shit thats associated with black people"?
Cause apparently most of the people working on this are black.

The original show was just a wholesome 70's sitcom, so im just gonna assume that its half outrage bait and half souless remake of a good show.

 

[ShmeedlesMcGee]

They made Stewie Griffin a Black baby.

 

[Screamer_2]

That animation is ugly as all hell.

Good animation and artistic style is a white construct. You're racist to expect anything black to look good.

 

[GamerGateSurvivor]

I'll give it a pirate, see how it goes.