Posted on 01/12/2011 9:07:20 AM PST by Borges
PC would prevent something like it from getting on the air today.
Norman Lear transferred the British show "Till Death Do Us Part" very accurately - same characters with different names. The former had started airing in the U.K. in 1965.
Nixon can be heard discussing the show on one of the Watergate tapes.
T-shirts, buttons, and bumper stickers showing O'Connor's image and promoting "Archie Bunker for President" appeared at the time of the 1972 presidential election. Archie Bunker received votes as a write-in candidate.
I grew up in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s also, yet my experience was different. In my family, mom went to work five days a week after the youngest child was in school all day... dad worked hard too, of course. We kids thought we knew everything. But mom was never fetching dad a beer, etc. She was a strong woman in her own right. But then I grew up in the South.
Meathead spouted the same thing liberals still spout. Thats what makes meathead the sterotype of liberals. Same playbook as the 1970s...
Archie Bunker:
Conservatives are called the “right-wing” because they are RIGHT.
Liberals are called the “left-wing” because they are WRONG.
I’m commenting very early in the thread and someone may have said this already, but my favorite Archie jab at Mike was when, after discovering love letters Mike wrote Gloria, Archie said:
“He’s a regular Edgar Allen Pollack.”
Hillarious!
Laz would hit her.
Mike: With nuclear weapons, this world could be blown up twenty times over
Archie: When it can be blown up thirty times over we can sleep at night!
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!
I can remember more of this (it was on an album of highlights)
Maude: That man had charisma! (FDR)
Archie: I don’t care if he was sick. He always had his mouth open at those fireside chats.
Maude: Those fireside chats kept this country informed! And one “my friends” from Roosevelt was worth a barrel full of “Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear”s!
Archie: Aww, now you’re rappin’ my President, eh? Well let me tell you one thing about Richard E. Nixon. (sic) He keeps his wife, Pat, at home. Roosevelt never did that with Eleanor. She was always out on the loose. Runnin’ around wit’ the coloreds. She was the one who discovered the coloreds in this country, we never knew they were there!
Archie: I heard ya. So did every moose up in Canada.
Maude: It’s only 8 am and already that foul mouth is open for business....Listen Archie, I’m only here because of
Edith. The fact that you happen to be here with her is beyond my control. Like any other freak of nature.
I can remember more of this (it was on an album of highlights)
Maude: That man had charisma! (FDR)
Archie: I don’t care if he was sick. He always had his mouth open at those fireside chats.
Maude: Those fireside chats kept this country informed! And one “my friends” from Roosevelt was worth a barrel full of “Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear”s!
Archie: Aww, now you’re rappin’ my President, eh? Well let me tell you one thing about Richard E. Nixon. (sic) He keeps his wife, Pat, at home. Roosevelt never did that with Eleanor. She was always out on the loose. Runnin’ around wit’ the coloreds. She was the one who discovered the coloreds in this country, we never knew they were there!
Archie: I heard ya. So did every moose up in Canada.
Maude: It’s only 8 am and already that foul mouth is open for business....Listen Archie, I’m only here because of
Edith. The fact that you happen to be here with her is beyond my control. Like any other freak of nature.
http://www.dentonrealestate.org/videos-all-in-the-family-archie-%5B4YvA67iKDZk%5D.cfm
That’s great.
A: “How many people in this here U.S. of A. would like to have guns?”
Meathead: “Too many.”
A: “And how many want to have V.D.?”
M: “Well, none, but...”
A: “SEEEEE..”
(Paraphrased)
Funny stuff!
That song was written by the same songwriting team who had written the songs for ‘Bye Bye Birdie’. It wasn’t written for the show. Composer Charles Strouse later did ‘Annie’ (the original Broadway cast of which had Danielle Brisebois who went on to play Stephanie on AITF).
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.