George Jefferson
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George Jefferson is an American entrepreneur who moved on up to the East Side to a deluxe apartment in the sky.
George Jefferson performing his He is known for his George Jefferson Dance and owning a chain of dry cleaning stores in New York. George is the decendant of President George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. First brought to attention in the television reality show All in the Family (from 1973 until 1975) Mr. Jefferson then earned his own tv show, a spin-off The Jeffersons (1975-1985). He is married to Louise Jefferson who he affectionately called "Weezy (a nickname of Louise focusing on the second half of the name). His family moved from Manahttan to Bel-Air in 1996, as was documented on the series finale of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
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George Jefferson Biography
George Jefferson was born in Harlem in 1929, an ambitious African American entrepreneur who started and managed a successful chain of seven dry cleaning stores in New York City.
Family Background and History
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The family tree can be traced back to American Royalty. Thomas Jefferson's love child with one of his female slaves led to a daughter named Notfromdaloina. This half black woman, full name Notfromdaloina Thomas Jefferson, was abandonned by the aristocrat and kicked out of his mansion. Wandering aimlessly, Notta, as she was called for short, found a trail of bread in the forest one day which she followed to a giant ginger bread house surrounded by cherry trees. She entered the house, with her brother JaHanzel and were greeted by a nice old man named George. George gave them nice treats like pie and cheese and told them they can stay in his annex apartment, where he had other people "like them". When Notta and JaHanzel went into the back building, JaHanzel was put with the men and Notta went into the female luxury suite where she was locked in with two other females. Everyday, Geroge's wife, Martha, would come and deliver the women delicious and fattening foods to Notta and the other girls while JaHanzel had to mandatorily do voluntary work in the fields with his friends as if they were slaves or something . Eventually, Notta began putting on a lot of weight, "much faster than the other concubines", aaccording to George, and was taken back to George's Hot Tub. George began telling her sweet nothings before telling her he liked "'em big and round and juicey -- with junk in the trunk". After a masterful sexual performance with Notta, George said he had to go to town early in the morning then tried to leave. Notta forced him to stay by sucking on a piece of lard laying by the coal powered hot tub and the two began talking about their pasts. When Notta found out about George being the first president, she said "Hey, my father wants to be that too," to which George replied "black people for president? Child please". When Notta told George, that Thomas Jefferson was not black. George kicked her out and said "You may never tell anyone about this. By the way, you probably have Herpes now, you must leave".
Notta left, pregnant, and wondering about why George was mad Thomas Jefferson was not black. She clearly did not understand that white people just do not have sex with black people: unless no one knows about it or it is for a music video. Notta's son was named George Jefferson, since she didn't know George's last name. Named after George but banned from being written about in history for fear that an interracial child would disgrace the President, George Jefferson moved from Mt. Vernon to Kentucky and became a lumberjack, who invented the outdoor redneck games, (originally called President's Illegitimate Son and Friends Games) which the white man eventually stole and sold to ABC as a package with NASCAR which ABC would go on to destroy ratings wise and complain that the sport started to coincedentally suck the minute they began broadcasting and rebounded when they stopped.
At the age of 21, he married Erica Carter, a devout christian who had a one woman show in Louisville called Half White Half Black: What Bad Name are You Gonna Call Me, Bitch?. The entire show has been plageurized by "comedian"/hate monger Carlos Mencia and terribly. One night, when she was walkin on, with a walkman on, she saw a guy who gave her an awkward eye, then yelled "__)_ You too, man, Call the Cops". The two then suddenly began making out viciously and got married. Their first son, George Jefferson No. 1 (since he was officially recorded by the state, he was No. 1), would relocate to Alabama to be sharecroppers before moving to New York to finally get a piece of the pie. In Alabama, an attempt to start his own country, the United Black States of America by claiming that his royal roots and the constitution grant him the right to have his own country that disagrees with the federal government and should have 3/5 the power of the U.S. was superceded by a more sucessful rebel movement that squashed his dreams and forced them up the Mississippi during the civil war to St. Louis and eventually New York. He is the great great grandfather of television star George Jefferson.
George Jefferson's Early Life
George had no high school diploma. He was a cook in the US Navy during the Korean War. He began dating Louise when they were teenagers and married her upon his discharge from the navy.
Before the Jeffersons' Dry Clean store opening, the family lived in a derelict section of Harlem. George had worked as a janitor, and Louise as a housekeeper. In one episode Louise says that the building's white janitor was properly referred to as a "cleaning technician". George says: "Well, whenever a man of our race has that job, he is a janitor!"
George's brother Henry appeared in All in the Family during the lead-up to the The Jeffersons spin-off. That character was created only because George Jefferson was starring in the Broadway musical HairSpray and not yet available for filming. Once Jefferson became available, the character of his brother became extraneous, and a result, Henry Jefferson never appeared on The Jeffersons. Henry's absence was attributed to his family's move to Chicago, but was mentioned one time when he had a son named Raymond (who looked like Gary Coleman), who came to visit his aunt Louise and uncle George in one episode of The Jeffersons.
During All in the Family, Jefferson lived in a working-class neighborhood in the borough of Queens, next door to the Bunker family, with his wife Louise and son Lionel. During the period, between 1971 and 1973, George's perpetual absence was explained as being a result of his refusal to set foot in his bigoted neighbor Archie Bunker's home, although in later episodes relationships between Jefferson and Bunker thawed somewhat. When the spin-off series The Jeffersons began in January 1975, George and his family had moved "to a deluxe apartment in the sky" on the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
Attributes
Like his neighbor Archie Bunker, George Jefferson was frequently opinionated, rude, bigoted, prone to scheming and not particularly intelligent in a scholastic sense. Unlike Archie, however, George was more quick-thinking, and usually more clever. Frequently, plots in The Jeffersons revolved around George's usually dishonest schemes, which always ended in comedic failure. In one farcical episode, George schemes to obtain a new client (a mixed-race couple) by inviting them and the Willises (also a mixed-race couple) to dinner. When the Willises realize that George is using them, they leave before the new client shows up. This makes George bribe Florence the maid and Ralph the doorman into pretending to be the Willises. Eventually the Willises return, and by pretending to be Florence and Ralph, they help George land the client, while trapping George into throwing them an extravagant anniversary party.
Like Archie Bunker, George Jefferson's personality softened somewhat as years passed. By The Jeffersons series finale in 1985, the frequent racism and interracial marriage plotlines of early seasons were replaced with plots involving the Jeffersons' family life, as well as interactions with maid Florence and neighbors.
Jefferson Cleaners
The third episode of All in the Family explained how George Jefferson started his dry-cleaning business. George Jefferson's son Lionel explains that the family used a $3,200 insurance settlement from a car accident to start Jefferson’s Cleaners. A Christmas flashback episode, which featured Sherman Hemsley playing his character's father, explained how he got the idea to open a dry cleaning business as child after his father told him that dry cleaning was expensive. This episode also showed how George had been involved in money-making schemes since childhood, with him working as a shoe-shine boy and paying a schoolmate to push people into mud puddles, forcing them to get their shoes shined.
George Jefferson’s chief business rival was Gil Cunningham, with whom George had a considerable antagonistic relationship. Later in the series, after Gil Cunningham died, the Jeffersons discovered that Gil never desired to be enemies with George. It was revealed that Gil's wife ,had been the motivator behind this competition all along. In his will, Gil left George the bowling trophy he won vs. Jefferson Cleaners, with a letter inside warning George to never trust her because “she put the ‘cunning’ in Cunningham.”
Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
In 1996, George and Louise Jefferson moved out to Bel-Air and purchased a mansion which belonged to Judge Phillip Banks. Judge Banks, ironically, lost to a man very similar looking to George Jefferson in his bid for Judge. The Jeffersons also werein couples counseling with Will Smith and his fiance where the two got into a fight.
George Jefferson Dance
George has a hilarious dance
George Jefferson's Descendants
George Jefferson is the grandfather of NBA player Richard Jefferson and MMA fighter Manatee Ass Jefferson JJ Y'all.