His latest work was woke though, on Netflix. I forget the name bc it wasn't terribly interesting to watch. He could never get something like AB made now. Woke is where creativity goes to die.
Certain groups of people would completely lose it in this day and age with this hilarious form of comedy. Oh, how times have changed...and not for the better.
I was about 18 when this show started. Nobody could believe the language and the subject matter covered. It was a shocker and hilarious at the same time.
It did what Norman Lear intended - it brought things out in the open so they could be discussed. "All in the Family" covered all the big things except child molesting and two other sit-coms covered that. Though I didn't like the episodes because of the subject matter, I did like they covered r*pe with both Gloria and Edith. They also covered Gloria's miscarriage very well - I honestly cannot think of another program that covered this.
I was 9 and I remember it was the only show that my whole family watched together . My wife said her parents wouldn't let her watch it. I was very fortunate.
I remember when Archie was working as a taxi driver and ended up saving the life of Beverly Lasalle by giving her mouth-to-mouth. When Beverly comes to Archie's house to thank him, Archie finds out she is really a he when Beverly pulls off her wig and says Archie can call her "mister!" The look on his face was priceless! In a later episode, Archie became friends with her, and in a much later episode, Beverly Lasalle returned to the show for the last time and ended up getting mugged and killed. Archie was genuinely sad about that.
You know their original choice of actor for Archie was Mickey Rooney? And their original choice for the meathead was Harrison Ford? It boggles the mind trying to imagine some of their back-and-forths coming from the mouths of Mr. Yunioshi and Indiana Jones.
@@ScrambledAndBenedict nah..... I don't think either Mickey Rooney or Harrison Ford would make Archie or Meathead believable. But they're still great actors. Besides, Mickey Rooney would've been too lovable as Archie and Harrison Ford would've been too smart and handsome to play Meathead.
Yes😂 That Doctor could stand her own up against Archie. I'd have loved to see Her and Maude Findlay in the same room standing up to Archie.😂😂 Talk About Female Empowerment😉😉😂😂🤣🤣
I ran across a free episode 2 days ago, laughed harder than I did yrs ago! I also had tears in my eyes a few times. Such excellent actors. Pure joy! 😂❤
To this day, the my favorite Archie line, and it's the one that me and my mother still quote and laugh about to this day, is "Only three kinds of people work at night to support their families, and it's pimps, muggers, and Dracula!"
@@frankbridges2171 Both actors are great. Of course, All In The Family talked about social issues related to the 70's as opposed to Married With children that dealt with issues in the 90's. Both Ed O'Neil and Carrol O'Connor were straight shooters and talked about things not politically correct, and that's why we love these characters.
The part of that one I like best is when he is telling Archie how much they appreciated all the White man did for them - going to get them, giving them free voyage, jobs when they got here, etc.
I liked the episode “Edith’s Problem,” where Edith has menopause. She flips her moods back and forth at the family. It was hilarious, glad to see it was #1. But, the real #1 should be the Sammy Davis episode. Another episode that I liked too was when Archie and Mike get locked in the bars freezer and Archie tells Mike that he was called “Shoe Booty” as a kid because he went to school wearing one shoe and one boot.
I think the last really good one to me was 7, The Jefferson's too, I liked the one where Archie got black blood. Season 8 started the trend of bigger elements of risk or controversies, usually not executed that well (not that they would be any better by Jeff Franklin, I think that could describe it) such as the K.K.K. episode and stuff like that. The Jefferson's actually didn't do this in Season 8, it just felt a little different with the casting changes. I will say though, the characters still stayed in character pretty well, the plots just seemed out of place. Maybe it had to do with it being the season where Archie bought the bar? I think the show started to improve again in Season 3 of the sequel, though, maybe about as good as season 7.
I feel the same about "Everybody Tells The Truth". When I first saw that episode, I was laughing hysterically. "Archie and the Quiz" is another great one.
What about the time when Archie got locked in the basement and got drunk, and the guy who came to "rescue" him was a black guy, and Archie thought he was God? The look on his face was absolutely priceless!
All in the family with Archie Bunker and the rest was my favorite program in the world and still is thank you for sharing I wish they would come back on
And you watch censored shows. I was 9 and this show was things you saw in life but never on tv. It was your parents or a friends parents take would ask you at that age what you thought about things going on in world. It was hard not to know about Vietnam, racial feelings, abortion, death penalty.
THESE CLIPS ARE IMMORTAL!!!! The combined genius of Carroll OConnor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Bunker is simply mind blowing. The most powerful scenes, like these, are when both of them leave character. Especially Edith!! Still, the most powerful segment by far is when Edith hides her illness from Archie. Archie transforms from an Obstinate, Thoughtless Lug to complete Jello!! All because if his love and complete dependence on Edith. If I were to choose the most powerful moment in television history this would be it. Case Closed. Althoufg, these other clips aren't bad either!!.
Archie didn't realize how much he loved her until she was gone. Even then he blamed her for dying first. Edith was so sweet and weak. They both got on my nerves yet in their on way they loved each other.
@@mortsnerd5100 I love how Archie sees himself as an angel. If you liked that episode, check out when the Odd Couple did it at the New Year's Eve party. One of its funniest episodes.
@@torridd Yea I saw that Odd Couple episodes numerous time. My favorite thing about that is Blanche's dress. How Oscar thinks its really low cut in the front and shows too much cleavage and Blanche's version shows it up to her neck but Felix' version shows it quite proper and in fashion for the period! 😂
It’s a shame that we will never have shows like this, the Jefferson’s, and Sanford and Son again. People have become sensitive and offended by everything.
I actually don’t think sensitivity is the problem. I think comedy has changed into being crass. Every word is a curse word. This is good clean comedy most young people find boring sadly.
@@abdurobinson6827 The biggest issue with it, I think, is that Archie is portrayed as a genuinely decent person in this show. He's heavily flawed but he is, at heart, a good noble person, who is a genuine character with development, and who even makes salient points and even gets to be right at times. That would never fly today because if this show was made now Archie would be expected to just be a strawman to be portrayed as a remorseless racist and sexist to be lectured by the "proper" characters. Rather than him getting to stand his ground against the Meathead, who is also a heavily flawed by decent person, Archie would be a complete bag of shit to be lectured by Michael who would be this perfect paragon who would chastise him with crap like "You have to do better Senator!"
Edith's "change" is absolutely right. Very well could be the best episode. I remember watching that episode on our first color TV. I was 9 I think. I had to have my mother explain. But that is the one episode I distinctly remember because Edith was not herself. Things like menopause were not discussed on TV at the time. It is one of the taboos that this show broke. And if you weren't around in the early 1970s, you may not realize how groundbreaking this show was. Watching again as an adult makes me appreciate it even more.
No matter what, Archie loves Edith forever. Watch the episode of her death, and see Carroll O Conners epilogue. It’ll make you cry, his love for Edith.
Edith really was the star of the show. Jean Stapleton was so good at playing Edith that they had to stop filming the one episode, you know the one I'm talking about, because the audience was about to beat up the actor who attacked Edith. Edith may have worn a dress but she wore the pants in that family.
Can't forget "The Elevator Story", "Archie Gets Branded", "Edith's Night Out", "Sammy's Visit" (with the longest studio audience laugh), and even though it was controversial to some people, "Edith's 50th Birthday" with the standing studio audience ovation!
There are just too many of these masterpieces to only have 5 tops. Sammy Davis Jr. ‘A sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe’…. The $20 bit with Archie and George….
Omg, the sock/shoe scene makes me laugh every time (I do it Archie's way, btw :P)! I also liked the one where Archie finds that Lionel was seeing a white girl and looked at the picture, then had a huge fit over it. I get that kind of emotion sometimes and wish I could just react the scene, minus the thing Archie's mad about, LOL. I also liked when he was trying to write to the President and had Edith read his letter, and how she would then do it "with emotion" when he told her to, lol.
The episode with Mikes draft dodger friend is great. His old friend Pinky Peterson is there. His son was killed in Vietnam. When David /ells archie he is a draftdodger they both put their reasons for acts. David is going to leave knowing that he has respect for a person his parents age to leave. Pinky then chimes in to give Archie his opion. Pinky is a WW2 vet like Archie. He says that he told his son that he shouldnt join but He thought that wss the right thing to do. " BUT my boy made a choice to do what he thouhht was right, david did what he thought wss right. My son is not here to celebrate christmas but David is. Im sure if he wsshere now he would shakes davids hand. Of born after 70 i think you dont get the division of the country. This was where archie showed he knew VIETNAM was wrong. Great tension for a comedy.
Certainly the most powerful All in the Family episode ever - more drama than comedy on the touchy subject of the Vietnam War. When Pinky shakes David's hand it blows Archie's mind and then when they start arguing again Archie in complete frustration yells something like "I don't ever wanna hear again about that stinkin' war!" Carroll O'Connor's acting at that moment is...utterly amazing.
I have very many favorite scenes from a lot of good episodes. With the episode Archie and Edith alone, I like the scene towards the end when Archie is trying to make up with Edith after fight they had. He tells Edith that he could have been a baseball player if he was able to stay in school and Edith told Archie that her mother wanted to be a mother of a tap dancer, and then Archie put some music and they start to dance I love that whole makeup scene.
@@ScrambledAndBenedict Simply because you think something, does not mean it's true. When, were people ''always super offended by everything''? I've witnessed from the 50's, to date, and your interpretation is miles off. There was far too much BS accepted back then, as a result of limited access to the world. We caught whatever TV brought us, and were not offended by anything! As for being mature, and able to talk about things...only in ones fantasy. Those were the days of ignorance; and maturity was only achieved after a tour/or two, of Viet Nam. Then you lost the childishness, rapidly. You are obviously a child of, no earlier than, the 1990's, and believe you know what you're saying...well, I'm here to tell you, that's the wrong guess! Sounds great, and believable to people from this age, but it's too misleading to go unchallenged. Don't spread ill-learned dogma, as fact.
Not just that but a time when men took care of their family, families didn't live outside of their means and a mother's job was just to love, support and take care of her husband and children like God intended. Times were tough but everyone had a job to do and they did it. These days everyone has 5,000 issues and disabilities to keep them from working. Back then men would risk their lives for a good paying job working on bridges and in mines, these days parents have 6 kids and no one wants to support them even when it's easy work.
Never to network TV, the land of unbelievably ridiculous reality TV. AitF is too controversial and well written. A once in a lifetime show, Lear caught lightning in a bottle. The only series worth following any longer are on cable and streaming services.
Frankly, there were far many more episodes funnier than #2. The first two episodes with cousin Maude were classics. I’ll always remember watching the first ever episode of All In The Family when the show came on TV for the first time. I was 15 and my dad was in his 50s (there was a definite generation gap between us; e.g. long hair ISSUES). We laughed like hell watching it together, as we never saw any5ing like that on TV.
Omg that one was hysterical, I crack up , like belly laugh when he says "why don't you tell them what that gorgeous cousin Maude said to me " cause she is so not gorgeous at least not at that time , she definitely was so attractive in golden girls
My favorite episode of many is when Archie talked about his father "busting his hand on him to teach him to do good". Explained a lot about Archie. Also when Gloria had a miscarriage, when Sammy Davis Jr. kissed him, when Edith was attacked in her home, when Mike and Gloria moved with his grandson. There was a soft spot to Archie and it showed many times. The show was satire to show what a bigot and racist really is. I still remember my parents who never missed this or SNL.
You like some of the more dramatic episodes, just as I do. The episode with Archie and Mike locked in Archie's Place storeroom explained a lot about what made Archie the man he was, just as the time Edith explained to Mike that Archie was jealous of Mike's education and prospects for the future. My favorite was the episode of Mike and Gloria moving to Cali. Thing is, I don't think of Archie as racist, he certainly had enough black people come through his house and insisted on going to Lionel's engagement party. Archie was just a product of his times.
@@2468-n2q Firstly, that episode took place in the storage room of Archie's Place, not in a basement. Secondly, in that episode Archie told Mike that kids used to make fun of him because his family was poor and he would wear a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other. They called him Shoebooty. I thought you knew this episode from your comment.
I remember being about 8 or 9 and watching this great show on Sunday nights. It covered such controversial topics and the cast was phenomenal. Carol O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were the best at comedy and drama. They do not make shows like these any more. 🙂❤
Same. And one time they presented an Emmy award together and spoke in their regular voices and my mind was blown. 🤯 Being very young and seeing them each week I was shocked to hear them sound so sophisticated compared to what I knew as their voices. 😅
It's a shame with todays "cancel culture," this show (if made today) would never make it to air. Not even sure they would air on a subscription network. I mean, Archie showing up to his grandsons birth with black-face, him using the F-word (3 letters) to refer to gay characters or the sexist things he said or did. I would like to think that maybe the way they pointed out his faults perhaps changed some viewers for the better. There were some really good lessons of tolerance and acceptance going on here.
I absolutely love your personality. Your smile could melt an iceberg!! Thanks for making me smile and laugh. I also watched your reaction the the 8 mile ending that was awesome...
None of these moments were better than when Sammy Davis Jr kissed Archie, the time Edith hit Archie, and the time Archie got trapped in his basement, got drunk, and started talking to God and a black guy showed up, and Archie lamenting Edith's passing was a very poignant moment.
I loved the one when Edith had the change. My mother was laughing hysterically! Then when I started watching the show, she told me what the change was, 😂
