"Fred Sanford, Legal Eagle" opens with Lamont receiving a traffic ticket from a white officer (Jim Driskill), explaining how he had the right of way at a green light, yet received a citation for failing to yield to another driver who jumped the red light. He'd rather pay the fine rather than fight, but his father has other ideas: "you get a ticket from a white cop in a blue uniform in a black neighborhood and it make you so mad that you see red, and you ain't gonna fight it cause you're too yellow...now what are you, a man or a box of crayons?" Grady's lawyer friend Sonny Cochran (Antonio Fargas) offers legal advice in exchange for a suit made in his tailor shop. Judge Mel Davis (Arthur Adams, later seen in "Donna Pops the Question") first has to dispense with the case of Chicano Juan Diego Lopez (Sosimo Hernandez, later seen in "Committee Man"), who complains in his native tongue, only to respond to the judge with his trademark catchphrase: "I didn't know that!" Unfortunately for Lamont, Fred's pool hall entourage join them before the judge, with Grady, Bubba, Billy (Billy Allyn, last of three), and Otis Littlejohn (Stymie Beard, second of three) causing disorder in the court. One of the very best episodes, and one in which Redd Foxx uses the 'N' word in uproarious fashion.
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