Posted on 05/02/2021 1:08:00 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I'm surprised that this has not been "canceled" by the fascist brownshirt "wokesters".
One of my favorite scenes was when Lionel chastised Meathead for only wanting to talk about racial issues with him. “Why don’t we ever talk about the weather, black people have weather too, you know.”
I’m thinking Norman Lear is part of the reason wokesters are silent on this. Also Carroll O’Connor and Reiner the meat head.
Loved this show back in the day. Carrol O’Connor was an incredible actor.
Yep, some A holes are more equal than other A holes.
The Jeffersons is also on youtube. If you want to see a somewhere head explode, let them watch hat show!!!
I watched a couple of re-runs of “Maude” a while back. And I was surprised to realize that the show was pretty much based on making fun of Maude and her extremely liberal attitude. I didn’t remember it that way, but that’s how it struck me when I saw it again.
By pure coincidence I shortly thereafter heard an interview of Norman Lear (I’m almost sure it was on NPR’s “Fresh Air” radio show). And he said that Maude was based on him, that he was a big lib, he admitted it, and Maude was the fictional version.
And I really had to give him a lot of credit for making a show that made fun of himself. That’s like Larry David’s “Curb Your Enthusiasm”, it makes fun of Larry David, who tbh is A LOT more obnoxious that Maude could ever be.
This is what humor is suppose to be folks, you make fun of everybody, you start with yourself, and you don’t stop until you’ve got them rolling in the aisles!
All I remembered was Adrienne Barbeau.
OMG. I’m watching this and I see so much of myself in Archie. I know the show is intended to mock him... but he was spot on.
Archie was the typical blue-collar Democrat of his time.
Ironically it was George Jefferson that was the Republican.
I think her poster was the second most popular behind Farrah Fawcett, in the late 70's
I believe it.
Alhough I must admit I had the Jacqueline Bisset poster from “The Deep”.
Yep. I’ve been mostly a software engineer (or dev manager) for most of my career so not exactly blue collar. But I come from a family of such. Most of my extended family were union blue collar democrats. MAGA is a blend of Reagan democrat views, pro American worker, Nationalism, Love of country and sick and tired of the woke. I was never a good globalist chamber of commerce type Republican ... though I always voted GOP. If MAGA leaves the GOP, I’m done with it. I can’t ever go back to the days of unfair trade deals and offshoring.
You have to remember that All in the Family came out right at the time the 60s Radicals were engineering their takeover of the Democratic Party from the Blue Collar Democrats.
ALL IN THE FAMILY - Archie’s Operation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfocap0Wyac
The did a good job co opting the GOP as well. Ergo, no push back on the election steal. I’d love to see MAGA infiltrate the democrats and turn the tables on all of them. Do what they did to us.
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!
Once a meathead, always a meathead.
Maude to Hispanic man: “What would you prefer to be called, a Chicano or a Mexican-American?
Hispanic man: “Well, like most Bolivians, I prefer to be called neither!”
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