Posted on 06/01/2013 3:26:50 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron
Jean Stapleton, an actress whose portrayal of a slow-witted, big-hearted and submissive — up to a point — housewife on the groundbreaking series “All in the Family” made her, along with Mary Tyler Moore and Bea Arthur, one of the foremost women in television comedy in the 1970s, died Friday at her home in New York City. She was 90.
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Edith....finally stifled. RIP
Those were the days.
She was a wonderful actress. RIP.
Sorry to hear this, she had many great roles.
OHH I just hear
RIP Edith
I wonder if Antenna TV may do marthon on All in the family
It reminds me of the joke where a drunk in a bar goes up to the bar tender and posits a bet of $20.00 that he can stand on the bar, pee in a shot lass without spilling a drop.
Of course the bartender dismisses him as a drunk and ignores him but the drunk insists.
Reluctantly the bar tender accepts his bet.
The bartender put a shot glass on the bar, the drunk gets up on the bar, stands, whips it out an proceeds to piss all over the bartender, the bar and everywhere else.
The drunk calmly gets down and walks away.
The bartender, hilarious and amused at his good fortune calls him back and tells him it was the stupidest bet he ever saw.
The drunk says really?
I just bet everyone in here a $100.00 bucks each that I could get atop your bar, piss on you and every thing in it ....and you would laugh about it.
I've always thought the same thing.
Interesting take. I admit I was a bit young for the show. My Mom watched it religiously, so I saw parts of it here & there. I thought Archie came off pretty well in most cases? If that’s not the way it was, then obviously you know far more about it than I do. I’m happy to stand corrected.
Ironically, it was just three days ago that I finally looked up a LaSalle, to see what Archie & Edith were signing about in the opening. Just judging from the song, I’d have thought it was a pretty good show. Do you recall the lines, ‘Didn’t need no welfare state; everybody pulled his weight’? To me, that sounds like conservatism. ;)
(PS: from what I recall, Meathead always got the worst of the argument. Am I misremembering this completely?)
Overall a great actress.
I saw her perform live in a stage production of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” many years back. She got a huge round of applause when she made her entrance.
I may just do that; thanks for the suggestion. I once viewed a pilot for The Addams Family, & it was just awful. They tweaked it big time, & ended up w a hit.
I was in my teens when this show was popular, and I loved it as well as most of the TV watching peoples did.
But now it retrospect I see it was the beginning of shaping pop culture toward the lib side of town.
Archie with his conservative views was always depicted as an idiot racist bigot.
Go over to the DUmp and you’ll see how they claim Archie had the “repukes” pegged.
It worked....and we laughed.
Was Edith Bunker's maiden name Dingbat? Archie called her that all the time.
Maybe the DUers are seeing what they want to see? I just don’t recall thinking Archie was stupid, but it’s been a while. I may have missed it.
I vividly recall thinking Meathead was a wimpy parasite, & I never cd stand Gloria. They seemed like an obnoxious pair from the inside out.
But he too, was a hell of an actor.
IIRC, the highest paid TV star of the '70s, and worth every penny.
While it was made by leftists with a definite left-wing agenda, Meathead didn’t exactly come off in a flattering light either. I remember some episodes where they allowed Archie to win against him.
IMHO, the best of the family of sitcoms from commie Norman Lear were “The Jeffersons” and “Sanford and Son”. They tended to be funnier and less preachy(at least less preachy than “All In The Family”). The worst was “Maude” with the “courageous, very special” episode where she has an abortion.
I think they’re seeing it exactly how it was intended to be seen.
In those days it was just the subliminal beginning of the liberal media manipulation which today is blatant.
Norman Lear is a left wing loon, he knew what he was doing with this show.
Quod Erat Demonstrandum
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