Posted on 01/11/2021 10:14:04 AM PST by Borges
But the thing is, most people were sympathetic to Archie, which was certainly not Lear’s intent.
And they did make Meathead an unlikable character as well, portraying him as a parasite living off of Archie.
Warren Mitchell was in the 1980 BBC filming of “The Merchant of Venice” and was the best Shylock I’ve ever seen.
What's reasonable about putting on a sock then a shoe?
This old red neck hillbilly white trash enjoyed the show. So there!
Uncensored?
I could say the same about Meathead for Conservatives.
Piece of crap show.
Didn’t age well.
Norman Lear hated America and every last one of his shows betrayed his contempt for our country.
I always bring up thi sshow. Alas my wife is 10 years younger than me and the kids more so, so nobody understands what i am talking about. This is one I could binge watch Netflix style.
So many liberals (including Norman Lear himself) were miffed that viewers found Archie Bunker a far more richly-realized human mensch than any of the progressive stereotypes in the show.
Lmao. That show would never make it today. What about different strokes or the jeffersons.
at least O’Connor was acting.
Two words: Archie Bunker
That's what was supposed to happen, as meathead triumphs ever week. But to their shock people loved Archie and thought meathead was an insufferable arrogant jerk.
Good times? The Jeffersons?
“When All in the Family was on the air between 1971 and 1978, I was 12 to 19 years old, and even back then it was obvious to me that Archie was always spouting the unreasonable, bigoted, racist, right wing extreme point, and Meathead was always countering with the ‘reasonable’ liberal counterpoint.”
Your statement is intriguing to me as I was maybe 1-2 years younger than you but I saw it just the opposite. Yes, I did see some racism in Archie, though it wasn’t hatred but mostly ignorance. His points all mostly made sense to me, on war, politics, though he said them in less than smooth ways. At the same time I saw Meathead as a moron.
Maybe it was the environment I had grown up in. Parent were old fashioned and very traditional. IDK, but I found it interesting to read your view.
I wasn’t a huge fan...I watched it occasionally but that’s it. Of the lines I recall my favorite happened when Meathead bumped into Lionel. As usual,Meathead started in about “the struggle” and how terrible things are for blacks. Lionel listened politely for a minute or two and then interrupted Meathead and said something like: “Hey,Mike...how come you and I never talk about the weather? We black folks have weather too,you know”.
Even ‘Maude’.
Watch these shows with a critical eye and you’ll see the leftist tropes they pushed at the time that are now causing cities to burn. Maude, by the way, was a closeted lesbian and when you see the show now you’ll see her for what she was.
More shows of the period followed Lear with their overt anti-American themes such as MASH, The Partridge Family, and etc.
Yep, right after “The Rural Purge”.
And I remember Lear pointing out that the character of George Jefferson was a Republican. And of course he made George look like a bufoon as well.
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