I love the fact that the viewing audience didn’t despise Archie and didn’t hold Meathead up as the enlightened hero despite Lear hoping they would.
I remember Meathead going on about something once and my mom shaking her head in disgust and saying “I can’t stand him.” My parents loved that show.
My late brother in law wouldn’t tolerate any criticism of Archie. Agreed with him on everything!
They weren’t supposed to despise him. But to see the human frailties.
I guess that just proves what I always thought. You may be able to change a person’s behavior; but, you can’t change their basic nature. It didn’t help that meathead came off as so self-righteous.
“I love the fact that the viewing audience didn’t despise Archie and didn’t hold Meathead up as the enlightened hero despite Lear hoping they would.”
People saw Archie was really a nice guy for letting Meathead freeloading and mouthing off at him like that, and not kicking his ass and throwing him out.