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To: Red Badger

How can you re-do All in the Family - the snowflakes will riot if the new Archie says, “Coon” or “Hebe” or “Chink,” etc., etc., etc. The whole show would have to be bleeped out.

Here’s my advice: don’t mess with the original. Many have tried it across many industries, and it fails miserably about 95% of the time, and simultaneously diminishes the reputation of the original. Prime example: the Pontiac GTO - the 1974 was a warmed-over Pontiac Ventura (i.e. a Chevy Nova) with an anemic engine, and the 2000s version was not even American. Better for Pontiac to have let the nameplate die.


12 posted on 12/19/2016 2:37:37 PM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Ancesthntr
The original All in the Family can be very funny, even in 2016.

So can the Jeffersons.

One that will never be funny in reruns is Maude.

She is such a repulsive example of haughty, elitist liberals, that I wager she wasn't that "funny" even to 1973 TV viewers.

And yes, Lear "intended" for Archie to be the villain, average Joes actually LIKED the character.

Lear happily pocketed all that dough he made from the show, but it kind of blew up in his face when it didn't go how he wanted.

Hatred of the conservative viewpoint.

And how liberalism was just the correct way of thinking.

If you watch it now, you realize how Archie really had common sense, hard working American values and Mike was just a hypocritical buffoon.

60 posted on 12/19/2016 5:21:27 PM PST by boop ("We don't feel like we are doing anything illegal"- Democrat credo)
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