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'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' rebooted for one-night event at ABC
NBC 4 Washington ^ | Published Apr 19, 2019 at 3:24 AM | Lynn Elber

Posted on 04/19/2019 9:49:20 AM PDT by conservative98

"All in the Family" and "The Jeffersons" are coming back to TV, live and for one night only.

Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will star in re-creations of episodes from the influential sitcoms born in the 1970s.

Norman Lear, who created "All in the Family" and its spinoff "The Jeffersons," and Jimmy Kimmel are hosting the ABC prime-time special airing next month, the network said Thursday.

Harrelson and Tomei will play Archie and Edith Bunker, with Foxx and Sykes as George and Louise Jefferson. Ellie Kemper, Justina Machado and Will Ferrell also will appear, ABC said, with more stars to be announced.

The original shows starred Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton as the blue-collar Bunkers, and Sherman Hemsley and Isabel Sanford as the upwardly mobile Jeffersons.

People say "these two shows were meant for the '70s and would not work today," Lear said in a statement. "We disagree with them and are here to prove, with two great casts depicting 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons,' the timelessness of human nature."

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcwashington.com ...


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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
George had his favorite chair.


21 posted on 04/19/2019 10:02:12 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: ex91B10
Can’t wait to see the PC version of Archie.

Archie will be an over the top racist cringe worthy Trump supporter.

22 posted on 04/19/2019 10:03:01 AM PDT by upsdriver (WWG1WGA)
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To: conservative98
RE: Picture of Jefferson cast.

UGH. That's not Lionel. This is Lionel.

Image result for lionel jefferson

Only Mike Evans was credible. That replacement guy never had "it".

23 posted on 04/19/2019 10:03:02 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: conservative98

I have to change the kitty litter that evening.


24 posted on 04/19/2019 10:03:53 AM PDT by mombonn (God is looking for spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.)
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON; Army Air Corps; KC_Lion; mylife; Rebelbase; Sparklite; ...

And “Gee our old LeBaron ran great!”


25 posted on 04/19/2019 10:04:35 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Red Badger

Bill and Hillary in a spin-off: Meathead and Gloria go to Washington ...


26 posted on 04/19/2019 10:05:59 AM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: conservative98

In thought all in the family was just the American version of the BBC sitcom till death do us part?


27 posted on 04/19/2019 10:06:37 AM PDT by Jeff Vader
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To: Gay State Conservative

She was kinda funny...until she went lesbian.


TRUE. The funniest joke Sykes ever told...

Why do women fake orgasms?! It’s called time management.

The way she told it was hysterical.

He’s working hard to make it happen, but you know it ain’t gonna happen. You get a look at the clock. It’s 2. You have to get up at 6.

Oh, Hell NO.

Let the moaning commence.


28 posted on 04/19/2019 10:07:34 AM PDT by Conserv
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To: conservative98

By today’s standards, these shows are utterly racist and sexist, not to mention homophobic!


29 posted on 04/19/2019 10:10:03 AM PDT by jimmygrace
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To: newzjunkey

Isabel Sanford was iconic in the role.

Cliff Clavin time: Did you know that Weezy was actually 21 years OLDER than George?

Her: 1917. Him: 1938.


30 posted on 04/19/2019 10:10:37 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: conservative98

I wish they’d bring back “Maude”, just so I could see who they’d get to play the Adrienne Barbeau role?


31 posted on 04/19/2019 10:11:24 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

LOL. Meathead was an insufferable idiot, in my opinion.

It’s funny how Archie became a cultural icon of sorts, when liberal Norman Lear intended for the character to be the butt of the joke .


32 posted on 04/19/2019 10:11:39 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: jimmygrace

By today’s standards, these shows are utterly racist and sexist, not to mention homophobic!

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Did someone ever do a count? How many times “nigger” was used on The Jefferson?


33 posted on 04/19/2019 10:11:50 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( Import the third world and you'll become the third world.)
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To: Conserv
When Rush said of Obama "I hope he fails"
Sykes replied (about Rush) "I hope his kidneys fail".

Liberal civility doncha know.

34 posted on 04/19/2019 10:13:44 AM PDT by red-dawg (Climate change caused the end of the Ice Age. Did man play a part in it?)
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To: o-n-money

Will Ferrell - I’m out.


35 posted on 04/19/2019 10:15:28 AM PDT by Skywise
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To: upsdriver

Weezie and Edith will have a lesbian affair and Archie will wrap a noose around Georges neck and throw bleach on him

Meathead will be the only sane one


36 posted on 04/19/2019 10:16:43 AM PDT by digger48
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To: red-dawg

Yeah. Sykes is now a humorless lesbian. She hasn’t been funny since her BET days.

I think every sitcom she has been in has failed miserably...

including that one with Julia Louise-Dryfus.


37 posted on 04/19/2019 10:17:53 AM PDT by Conserv
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To: conservative98

Marisa Tomei as Edith Bunker?
Not picturing it....

BTW shouldn’t all the roles be reversed race now?


38 posted on 04/19/2019 10:18:53 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: dfwgator

And I believe CBS’ ratings really took that kind of a dinging when they did the Rural Purge and also retired “Hogan’s Heroes” and even Ed Sullivan at about the same time.


39 posted on 04/19/2019 10:20:06 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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To: conservative98

[[Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Jamie Foxx and Wanda Sykes will star in re-creations]]

Way to ruin good shows!


40 posted on 04/19/2019 10:22:18 AM PDT by Bob434
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