One of my favorite Lottery themed TV Shows are Good Times episode, Rich Is Better Than Poor.... Maybe, where JJ Evans wins The Lottery for $2,500(This aired in 1976 where $2,500 would have been more like $10,000. , ;) and he and his Family start celebrating right in front of some Juvenile Delinquent named Edna who has already been in jail before... Uh oh... She later brings a gun and holds the Children at Gunpoint and she sends Florida, the Children's Mother to go to the Bank with Edna's dimwitted Sister who also holds Florida at Gunpoint. Roz immediately notices that Florida is writing letters, not numbers on the withdrawal bslip and mentions she is actually good at reading numbers and knows that Florida should be writing Numbers, not letters. GT Fans pointed out that Florida was writing something like,"Help me. I'm being robbed at Gunpoint." I thought before the GT Fans pointed this out that she was writing out the numbers like a normal withdrawal slip such as twenty five hundred dollars and zero cents."
Roz crumples up the withdrawal slip and makes Florida fill out a new one with no letters. When they come back home, The Children claim that Edna claimed she was going to cheat Roz out of the entire $2500. Edna claims the Children were lying and Roz doubts Edna's claims as she had cheated her at times for real.
Roz demands her share of the money, and this argument enables JJ and Willona(Willona had inadvertently walked into Edna holding the Children(14 year old Michael, 19 year old Thelma, 20 year old JJ hostage) to save the day. JJ slaps the money out of Roz's hand and Edna drops the gun enabling Willona go turn the tables and point it at Edna and Roz instead while Thelma calls the police and informs Edna she is going to go to jail again for some get rich scheme she she just pulled.
Edna berates Roz for lousing this one up and Roz lowers her head and said,"I'm sorry." Roz being a dim witted Sister and Edna being the smart(er) Sister who bullies her dim witted Sister around was REALLY interesting as Roz is played by Shirley Hemphill who is about 10 years older than Tamu Blackwell who plays Edna. Shirley was about 30, Tamu was about 20. A GT Fan pointed out that Shirley should have played the smarter Sister since she is clearly older and couldn't see an older Sister allowing her younger sister to bully her around GT Fan replied that many older Siblings are much mentally disabled than their younger siblings and get bullied by their smarter younger siblings ought the casting was realistic.
"What's your ADDRESS?" May be the CREEPIEST question EVER asked to a Lottery Winner! O.O WTF?
At first, I found the one digit away draws kind of amusing, but now I am PISSED! 15 or 16 times I was off by just one digit in recent times!🤬 No longer find this amusing, it's making me REALLY angry now!🤬