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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

then the matter would be different. —SlamDiego←T 16:40, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

  • 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)

Could you have a third look? I took the comments into account that might help. Shoemaker's Holiday Over 205 FCs served 01:59, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

See my comment here. --Jazzeur (talk) 22:04, 15 September 2009 (UTC)