Loved Archie, BTW, even if Caroll OConner didn't.
I used to have one of these.....
"Now, Mr. Davis, do you take cream and sugar in your eye?"
Boy, the way Glenn Miller played.
'Funny though...much like American History X this was one of those attempts to push leftism which actually garnered the opposite reaction...many were sympathetic to the purported bad guy. Best actor on the show was Jean Stapleton.
What? The Governor and JJ has been cancelled?
Archie Bunker, as played by the very liberal actor Carrol O’Connor was the butt of every joke and perpetrator of every evil deed on the show was in fact a lower middle class blue collar union worker. The only member of a household of four who worked. He alone supported a stay at home wife, a married daughter, an unemployed son-in-law who was in college studying to be government employee and later a grandson. And Archie was the bad guy?!
Wasn’t Edith HOT?!!
archie, a “conservative white male” was made to look like a fool week after week
That was one of the worst shows ever produced.
Short Version (Aired at beginning of episodes)
“Boy the way Glen Miller played, songs that made the hit parade, guys like us we had it made, those were the days, and you know where you were then, girls were girls and men were men, mister we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again, didn’t need no welfare states everybody pulled his weight, gee our old Lasalle ran great, those were the days!”
Full Version
“Boy, the way Glen Miller played. Songs that made the Hit Parade. Guys like us, we had it made. Those were the days! Didn’t need no welfare state. Everybody pulled his weight Gee, our old LaSalle (a car) ran great. Those were the days! And you knew where you were then! Girls were girls and men were men. Mister, we could use a man like Herbert Hoover again. People seemed to be content. Fifty dollars paid the rent. Freaks were in a circus tent. Those were the days! Take a little Sunday spin, go to watch the Dodgers win. Have yourself a dandy day that cost you under a fin (five dollar bill). Hair was short and skirts were long. Kate Smith really sold a song. I don’t know just what went wrong! Those Were the Days!”
I recall seeing an interview with Sally Struthers where she proudly proclaimed that Carroll O’Connor was a wonderful person...”the opposite of Archie Bunker.” I guess she believed that the public was not supposed to like Arch.
Gotta give O’Connor credit for giving Archie such humanity and likability, considering that in real life he probably never agreed with the character at all.
We watched every week when it came on in the 70’s. Just watched a couple of episodes on TVLand last night. Best TV show ever. I’ll never get tired of watching it. It captured the timeperiod (70’s) very well.
One of my favorites scenes was after Archie became a grandpa. He was alone with his grandbaby and had to feed him. He fed him, and as he was burping him, you suddenly heard a loud, wet sound. Archie, in his own inimitable way, said...
“Dat woint no boip.”
I’ve had a chance to use that same line on all 4 of my kids.
Archie Bunker:
Conservatives are called the “right-wing” because they are RIGHT.
Liberals are called the “left-wing” because they are WRONG.
Reminds me of a saying...
Behind every great man there is a woman...
I had a pin like that with a picture of Edith on it...
LOL...thanks for the stroll!