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wackier humor through JJ, compared to the balance struck by Lear's "All in the Family".
When she was still on the show and it was still on the damn air, Rolle complained o the press that JJ was 18 and didn't work and was a poor role model for young black people. In the press. While she was still on the show. JoMarie Payton would have possibly never.
So whatever feelings they had, they were felt enough to where it was clearly a showstopping issue for them. I don't suppose a little balance would have hurt (it also would have helped the writers not burn through all of their JJ material quite so fast, which also became an issue and is often an issue on TV).