And I'd put All in the Family as the best sitcom of all time. ......or at least tied with I Love Lucy.
My 1-2-3 list may be: Archie, Al Bundy, Batman. Very underrated character: Nancy Walker as Rhoda's mom.
There are far better sitcoms than All in the Family - Sgt Bilko comes to mind immediately, for example. The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Bob Newhart Show are also standouts.
I consider the last truly 'great' sitcom to be 'The Odd Couple,' which had tons more depth and wit than All in the Family.
Modern sitcoms have devolved into rapid-fire put-downs and bathroom humor. Even Seinfeld, which I consider to be one of the more recent consistently very good tv sitcoms, lacked the wit of 'The Odd COuple' or the 'situation' aspect of 'sitcom' of the old sgt Bilko show.
Also, All in the Family's big mistake after a few seasons was the same mistake other programs made with 'mean' characters. People naturally enjoy the mean characters and over time, the producers soften them up so that they barely resemble the characters they started as. Norman Lear's folks did this with both Archie Bunker and George Jefferson, and the 'softening' hurt both shows.
Back to Seinfeld, they thankfully never softened any of their characters. I am cursed through life that most of my friends consider me to be a cross between George Costanza and Kramer, even though I have been that way for decades!
That being said, I enjoyed 'The Jeffersons' more than 'All in the Family' and always maintained that George Jefferson was the first successful relatively conservative black character on televison!
Of course it's all a matter of taste. I own bootleg DVD copies of every Odd Couple episode and I swear I wear those 14 discs out! So we all enjoy what we like, but comedy on tv for the last 2 or 3 decades has been awful.