Birthday Episode: The episode "Happy Birthday, Pop" has Fred celebrating his birthday.Beleaguered Assistant: Lamont often points out that he does the majority of the actual work while Fred spends most of his day watching television and sleeping.Beef Bandage: Following a fight with the ex of a girl he's seeing, crazy old Grady Wilson puts a slice of bologna on Lamont's black eye because, as he says, steak is much too expensive.While he wasn't successful in the long-term, he usually did enough to set up brief roadblocks in their relationship, with Fred usually none the wiser half of the time, except at the end of "The Engagement", where Fred chases after Lamont with a baseball bat. Batman Gambit: Until he mellowed out and became friendly with Donna in later seasons, Lamont constantly attempted to derail Fred's relationship with Donna usually by instigating Fred's prideful attitude and/or arranging for other characters including Aunt Esther and her sisters to interfere with Fred and Donna's dates in "The Members of the Wedding Party/The Engagement", (and in one case, their actual near marriage).Bad "Bad Acting": Inverted in the earthquake episode, all throughout Fred's exodus to Las Vegas, the extras constantly break reality: as Fred walks down the street after departing the bus, other pedestrians around him have idiotic grins on their faces when he encounters Steve and Eydie Gorme in the casino, a group of men in the background just stand there and watch the taping in progress (it doesn't help that they're all wearing matching white T-shirts with red hearts, making them stand out like sore thumbs) when Fred later walks towards an outdoor fountain, in the distance, we see a security guard clearly holding tourists back trying to take Fred/Redd Foxx's picture.Additionally, despite their mutual disdain for each other, Fred and Aunt Esther would invariably put their differences aside in times of each other's need-such as the time Fred helped convince a by-the-book case worker that Aunt Esther would make a good mother to a young orphan or in the rare event they actually agreed on something they thought was an injustice.
Well, until he actually did in the Sanford revival in 1980 to work on the Alaskan pipeline. Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Despite the insults, Lamont would never leave his father to fare alone.Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In "The Hawaiian Connection", after the diamond smugglers are apprehended and arrested, Fred and Lamont are also taken into custody for their own misdemeanors in trying to elude the smugglers, including:.Arab Oil Sheikh: Fred runs into one in a later episode after accidentally discovering oil in the junkyard, only to later learn what little oil was discovered was essentially worthless.Fred spends most of the episode doing everything short of outright asking him to find out if he is or not. Ambiguously Gay: An antiques collector who hires Fred and Lamont to move a piano in "The Piano Movers".Whenever he visits Fred and Lamont, he always pours himself a drink before doing anything else. The Alcoholic: Aunt Esther's husband Woodrow.Before that was The Sanford Arms: during the opening scene, Grady comes to the house and discovers that Fred and Lamont had moved to Arizona ( without telling Grady, a lifelong friend and the godfather of his son) "because of Fred's health", the house had been sold to a widower named Phil Wheeler, who had seemingly overnight turned it into the head office of a fully operational hotel that now employed Bubba. Later, it is revealed that Lamont's middle name is in fact "Grady" and the running gag was dropped. Accidental Misnaming: In his early post- retcon appearances, Grady repeatedly forgets Lamont's name and has to be prompted, despite the fact that Lamont is his godson and he is a frequent visitor to the Sanford home.
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