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".
LOL!!! Yes, I can see them doing that exact joke! Those Mad parodies were hilarious!
Carrol O’Connor had the best facial expressions!! With a tone of voice to match. Loved that show.
I remember the Mad parody of All in the Family had Hitler visiting Archie.
Many old series need (and some now do) carry warning labels.
Wokers are getting to them, slowly but surely.
What a stupid show.
Norman Lear did so much to degenerate our country.
Meat head was a true SJW
Netflix is beyond ridiculous with their warning labels.
I was watching “The Twilight Zone” and one of the warnings was “fear”.
“The Crown” has warnings for “smoking”.
Fear? Smoking? Really?? Are some snowflakes too fragile to handle fear and smoking??
Archie Bunker and the Doctor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQuKr0tCH_I
I guess you had to be there.
I’m a millennial and I’ve watched a lot of old tv on dvd and youtube.
I Love Lucy holds up, and Columbo; the black-and-white Andy Griffith years were great, Dick Van Dyke was fine, and the ancient Sid Caesar was hilarious. The older Bonanza was wonderful.
But most of them...Laugh In, Maude, AITF, Jeffersons...I just don’t get it.
And the kiddie shows my parents watched — Howdy Doody, Andy Devine and that creepy frog, Ding Dong School, Mickey Mouse, Soupy Sales, Superman, Sandy Becker — I’ve seen (portions of) all that and I wonder why boomers are not more eccentric than they are.
What holds up best, in my view, is the scary stuff. Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Hitchcock.
Incidentally, we didn’t have a tv in the house when I was growing up. I remember some 9/11 viewing and the 2000 election but I only saw them in the homes of relatives. Election night 2000 started off as a great little get-together, and ended with a lot of very grumpy grownups in the morning.
Finally, best tv EVER was election night coverage, 2016.
Adrian Barbeau is what I remember about Maude.
You have never seen HR Puffenstuff?!! Sid and Marty Kroft's weirdest creation to make it on the air.
You poor thing.
bump
Saved the link and just watched this again. Reminds me of my late aunt and uncle—OMG, we had many family dinners like that, with me and my cousins playing the part of Gloria and Meathead. Hard to believe the pilot was that very developed, with all the things the show would be known for, especially Archie’s malapropisms. Thanks for the laughs!
This is still my all-time favorite All In The Family scene, and it was improvised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prRtcQz8Uqk
I loved that show as a kid.
Priceless! There was one moment in which Carroll O’Connor almost laughed — his face remained still, but his eyes lit up just a little. (Unlike the Carol Burnett cast, who broke each other up in almost every skit!!) He was a master comedian. It used to drive me crazy because of my Irish relatives on one side whose disparaging manner of speaking was so much like Archie’s. Good to laugh at it!
I know exactly how I wandered onto this 2-1/2 year old thread today, but what was your route?
Seeing your post.
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