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Your confusion
If someone refers to the Kennedys as “the Kennedys” in the middle of a sentence, “the” isn't capitalized even though there was, indeed, a movie entitled “The Kennedys”. In the sentence
Despite having an adversarial relationship with his African American neighbors, the Jeffersons, especially patriarch George Jefferson and his brother Henry, he formed an unlikely friendship with George's young son, Lionel, who picked up and dropped off the Bunker's dry-cleaning, and fixed various electronics for them.
Bunker's neighbors aren't themselves a show, even though there was, indeed, a show about them. Had someone written
his African American neighbors, who were the eponymous characters of The Jeffersons
Thank you for the explanation. I guess I was trigger happy on that occasion and I immediately presumed that the show title applied instead of understanding the meaning of the phrase. My mistake. Cheers, --Jazzeur (talk) 00:16, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
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