Posted on 06/26/2014 1:30:49 PM PDT by Veggie Todd
Funny quotes from All In The Family.
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Agreed!
MEATHEAD Why don’t you run down to the post office and salute a flag?
ARCHIE I will if you go with me!
“People who live in communes are commune-ists.”
Mike: “You think anyone who wears glasses is a homosexual.”
Archie: “Not true! A man who wears glasses is a four-eyes. A man who is queer is a fag.”
Oh I forgot...he is..
Archie Bunker: The Reverend Fletcher...
Edith Bunker: Felcher.
Archie Bunker: WHATEVER.
Reverend Felcher: Archie, When the collection basket is passed, you use it to make change.
All in the Family's biggest triumph was how it made both left and right, black and white, laugh at, and with, each other. Humor defuses animosity, which is why the left screams bloody murder when someone tells an off-color or ethnic joke these days. The left doesn't want people laughing together at shared foibles, they want people at each other's throats.
The show's creator was a major lefty, too. Archie's views were supposed to be held up to ridicule by the viewer. But, much like Gordon Gekko's "Greed is good," what to the liberal mind was an abhorrence found resonance in "right" minds to the chagrin of the left. Michael Douglas deals to this day with thumbs-up from people who see greed as a driver of economics rather than the left's whipping boy.
Archie let us get in touch with our inner racist.
Yeah he tried to "soften" Archie in the last seasons, which is why the show became terrible.
. Especially when Meathead moved to California.
Archie and Edith met a couple that were swingers. They were given extravagant gifts of perfume and cigars by the couple, but were disgusted when they figured out what “swinging” was going to entail. They sent the couple away.
Archie told Edith she had to throw away the perfume.
Edith: Well, ok, but what about the cigars?
Archie: I’m gonna burn ‘em.
I remember watching this show, siding with Meathead and thinking that Archie was a terrible person in general and a racist, to boot.
Over the past few years, I’ve startled myself with how much I sound like Archie - and I’m black. The man spoke the truth.
Lear’s father called him “meathead”. Politically, Rob Reiner is a moonbat and his dad Carl prob is one too. I heard Carl interviewed on radio and he said he was proud he got his start through some kind of acting program sponsored by the government. Carl’s sitcom Head of the Family became the Dick Van Dyke show, and the main char was named after Carl’s son: Rob.
If Archie were around today you might hear:
“Hey I read here that there’s a fox loose on the grounds of the White House”
Archie: “I ain’t surprised. Been a family o’ coons livin’ there for quite some time now...”
LOL!
On one of the early episodes, Mike’s friend Roger was visiting. He turned out to be straight, but he didn’t look it....he definitely had the appearance of being light in the loafers.
Mike said something about Roger having to leave, and Archie said, “Just open up a window and watch him fly out!”
When I watched that show in the 1970s, I always identified with Meathead. These days, I identify with Archie Bunker. In fact, I’m older than Archie Bunker was when he was in that TV series and that’s a little bit scary to me.
‘Sammy’s Visit’ is/was the single greatest 30 minute episode of any sit-com ever imo. Archie: “I said black meathead, Harvey Belefonte ain’t black.......he’s just a good lookin’ white guy dipped in carmel”!
"out of the trees and down to the river". LOL!
paraphrased from memory!
One of the accomplishments of All in the Family was to establish the stereotype and perpetuate the myth that conservatives are more racist than liberals.
You might not have realized this, but in truth Archie’s racism is the one trait which he shared with liberals as well as with anyone else.
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