Best episode of "All in the Family"?

"Glora's Shock" (the shocker is, Gloria wants a child - Michael does not.)

The hot topic here, once the rock group and God commentary is dealt with? Overpopulation. (4 billion people in 1975 and Michael said, in 25 years, 4 billion alone would live in Asia alone. And how, in 1975, half the 4 bil couldn't be fed.)

What's yours?

Saw it on TV the first time it aired. It was a real shocker for TV back then. It tore me up.

What a great moment in tv history. Have you seen it recently? The studio audience goes completely batshit when Edith escapes. It's amazing.

hard to pick a favourite episode though.

...and it was just as riveting.

Or when Maude comes to visit.

and is murdered at the end of the show :cry:

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tell us more!!!

a female impersonator (I think maybe gay? but really not sure?) I first saw it many years ago. He comes to visit Edith, i'm not sure how they met in the first place but anyway, they visit, Archie of course is up in arms about him being there at all and if I remember correctly kicks him out. It's about showtime anyway and Beverly leaves. There are siren sounds shortly and the police come to tell Edith that her friend has been mugged, she wants to go to him, but the officer informs her "it's too late" .. wish I could remember more .. now I'll have to go and try to find the episode or transcript online ..

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a quote from Archie Bunker:

Archie Bunker: Every man should be king of his castle. And in this here castle, I am the king.
Edith Bunker: And I am the queen.
Archie Bunker: *Concerning Beverly LaSalle* Well this king can only handle one queen at a time.

He picked up a televsion so Edith could work around it. I totally forgot about all of that!! Thanks for reminding me!!

Beverley and Edith became great friends.

I can't believe I forgot about all of that

He saved Beverly's life.

Edith: Archie learned how to save lives in the toilet at work.
Beverly La Salle: Really? He saved mine in a cab.



Beverly LaSalle: I'm a female impersonator.
Edith Bunker: Oh. Ain't that smart. Who better to impersonate a female than a woman?
Beverly LaSalle: I was just telling your wife that I'm no lady.
Archie Bunker: How you earned this 50 is no business of mine.

faith in god and everything else. All in the family---way ahead of it's time.

Having said that, one of the biggest laughs i had watching was when Edith had bought Stephanie some lip gloss and Archie see her wearing it, he turns around and says to Edith--"Geez Why don't you get her some rouge and lamp post?"

:rofl:

I SO loved All in the Family!


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Episodes like that, where Archie's humanity comes through give me hope for humans in general...

But in the 30 years since it first ran, we still have Archie Bunkers to deal with.

I always found that interesting.

Mostly in blue states. These are the cultural ultraconservatives, i.e., racist, sexist, anti-immigrant...

His support of the labor movement was halfhearted at best, IMO.

And ended up kissing Archie after he asked him " Its bad enough that you're black, why'd you turn Jew?"
Classic!

Archie: Now, no prejudice intended, but I always check with the Bible on these here things. I think that, I mean if God had meant for us to be together he'd a put us together. But look what he done. He put you over in Africa, and put the rest of us in all the white countries.

Sammy Davis Jr.: Well, he must've told 'em where we were because somebody came and got us.

That is my all-time favorite TV show; I know most of the episodes backwards and forwards. It's hard to pick a favorite because there are so many. One of my favorites is when Archie gets arrested and thrown in jail with a bunch of anti-war protesters. That was a riot! Another is when a Puerto Rican family wants to buy a house in the neighborhood, and Archie and Henry Jefferson suddenly become best buddies trying to keep the Puerto Ricans out. Of course, the Sammy Davis Jr. episode is another.

And actually, the first episode was very good. Watching that one episode, which mainly consisted of the family at the kitchen table (and a visit by Lionel), gave you a great portrait of who these characters were and what they were about--and it was danged funny too.

Archie spewed out some racial blasts, called his wife a dingbat and his son-in-law a meathead----by far my favorite episode

Can't remember the episode title.

And Archie, Michael, and Edith all give different takes on the repairman.

Archie's story is the repairman's helper was this really threating black man with a huge knife and a bad attitude and threatened him with the knife.

Michael's story is the repairman's helper is an Uncle Tom type character who didn't have a knife at all.

Edith's story was that he was just a average black guy who was trying to help out and was peeling an apple with a pen knife. (Her's was the "real" story)

My favorite episode is the one in which Archie goes on TV to rebut an editorial about gun control. His rebuttal is hilarious. I also like the one in which the aluminum siding salesman convinces Archie that he needs aluminum siding on his brick house.

Ron Glass (the black guy) went on to be in "Barney Miller" and later "Firefly"...

here's a list of episodes.

http://www.tvland.com/shows/aitf/episodes1.jhtml

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a guy who fit some gay stereotypes but was straight.

Mike: "You think a guy's a 'fruit' just because he wears glasses?"
Archie: "No, a guy who wears glasses is a four-eyes. A guy who's a fag is a fruit."

Mike later found out that Archie's ex-football player friend was gay. He told this to Archie, who of course didn't believe him. But later at Kelsey's he was arm-wrestling with the guy, as was their custom, and Archie very casually brought it up.

Their hands were locked, and the guy goes, "He's right, Arch." Then, wham — pins him.

The look on Archie's face as he tried to process all that... classic!

I've always liked the Christmas episode where Mike invites his draft evader friend -- who's been living in Canada -- to Christmas dinner the same day as Archie invites a friend who has just lost his only son in Viet Nam. When Archie finds out about Mike's friend, he and Mike start arguing. Then Archie's friend tells Mike's friend that his son opposed the war too, but he did what he thought he had to do and that Mike's friend was doing what he thought he had to do. Then he says if his son were there, he'd want to share Christmas dinner with Mike's friend and he extends his hand.

In the one about Archie thinking Mike's friend was gay, both Archie's friend and Mike's friend were played by actors who later became soap opera titans: Anthony Geary (Luke Spencer) of "General Hospital" and the guy who played Archie's friend later played "Asa Buchanan" on "One Live To Live".

Some big laughs but a deadly serious ending.

:(

"cling peaches in heavy syrup" eps still makes me laugh.

Oh yeah, Archie at Stretch Cunningham's funeral!

then again, I'm a young'un.

was the one where Archie was in the hospital. They put him in a two-person room with another patient who was on the other side of a closed curtain. Archie and this guy, who IIRC was named Jean (pronounced in the French manner), got to be best buddies...until Archie actually saw the guy, who was a black guy from somewhere in the tropics--Jamaica or somewhere like that.

The best episode ever was the one in Mad Magazine--"A Visit from an Old War Buddy." In it Archie kept taking his family to see "Joe" because "at the end when Joe shoots all those Hippie kids, I notice one of 'em is still breathing, so we're gonna keep on seeing that movie until he gets it right." The "old war buddy" turned out to be Adolf Hitler, who at the end was taken away by executives from the network because if a show starring a guy like Archie Bunker was a hit, one starring Hitler would be a smash. They also alluded to the groundbreaking nature of All In The Family--Archie took the whole family upstairs and showed them the toilet. "Archie, we've all seen toilets before." 'Yeah, but never on national TV.'

When I watch All in the Family, I can't help but think Archie's really a closeted liberal. He puts up this big front and goes overboard to show how conservative he is, just like a closeted gay person does to show he's "straight"--but when you push him, you can see the liberalness shine through.

They were just doing a background check for plant workers because of a government contract but everyone assumed it was a Hoover/McCarthy style criminal investigation and distanced themselves from the neighbor.