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?)
Was Edith Bunker's maiden name Dingbat? Archie called her that all the time.
Yeah... Archie was to be portrayed as a numbskull conservative. But to be fair, Meathead the liberal was certainly a jackass himself.