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.
The exchange with Maude was classic:
Archie Bunker: [Maude refuses to get out of Archie’s chair] Well, I got the secret weapon that can lay this little lady right away. Here we go. This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Cousin Maude: You’re fat.
Archie Bunker: Sticks and stones may break my bones, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
Edith Bunker: Archie, you promised never to say that name again in front of Maude.
Archie Bunker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt!
Edith Bunker: [to Maude] He don’t mean nothing. His whole family was for Roosevelt.
Archie Bunker: That was for two terms. But that was it. We didn’t know the guy was going to hold on to the job like a pope!