Somehow, I don’t remember “All in the Family” that way. My Dad and I hated Meathead and despised Gloria. Archie was mosty an admirable fellow, except for the way he treated his wife, Edith.
I’m sure I wouldn’t see it that way if I watched it today.
Common sense from Archie:
Archie: Now I want to talk about another thing that’s on everybody’s minds today, and that’s your stick-ups and your skyjackings, and which, if that were up to me, I could end the skyjackings tomorrow.
Meathead: You could?
Archie: All you gotta do is arm all your passengers. He ain’t got no more moral superiority there, and he ain’t gonna dare to pull out no rod. And then your airlines, they wouldn’t have to search the passengers on the ground no more, they just pass out the pistols at the beginning of the trip, and they just pick them up at the end! Case closed.
Meathead: That’s incredible, Arch