No more Good Times ... RIP Ja'Net DuBois

Ja'net Dubois -- one of the main characters on "Good Times" -- was found dead Tuesday ... TMZ has learned.

Ja'net played the Evans family's sassy neighbor Willona Woods on the classic '70s TV series. Her family tells us ... Ja'net died unexpectedly in her sleep overnight at her home in Glendale, CA.

'Good Times' Star Ja'net DuBois Dead at 74

 

Watched it everyday along with What's Happening!

 

Gotta be honest ... Don't remember her from anything other than "Good Times." RIP

 

Sad to hear. I always picked up the reruns on the local LA station when I was a kid and always enjoyed the show. She served as the anchor on the show when Esther Rolle left for a year or so.
Also, don't forget she sang the theme to "The Jeffersons."

 

Good Times was classic if for no other reason that you could hear people in the audience yelling "Uh HUH!" to a particular on-point exchange.

 

...which she also co-wrote.

 

The cruelest moment in 70s TV was Good Times when Keith broke his leg at his wedding to Thelma. Up there on the Cruelty Meter with Edith Bunker's rape and Henry Blake's death.

 

I thought it would be when John Amos "died".
hell, its become a meme 45 years later

 

Hearing of James' death as the family was celebrating their move out of the projects was the ultimate gut punch during that series. Keith, meanwhile, rehabbed his injury (it was his knee actually, not a broken leg), and signed with the Bears a year later, so things turned out fine on that end.