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.
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!
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.
ALL IN THE FAMILY - Archie’s Operation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfocap0Wyac
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.
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
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.
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!