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!
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.