Posted on 06/01/2013 1:21:54 PM PDT by Monty22002
Jean Stapleton, who played Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith in the long-running 1970s television series “All in the Family,” died Friday at her New York City home. She was 90.
Stapleton died of natural causes, her family announced Saturday.
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My understanding is that the show was originally created to mock conservatism, but backfired. Everyone loved Archie and hated Meathead.
Do you recall that eventually Meathead was shown to be a philanderer? He was cheating on his wife and their marriage ended. After Edith died Archie was the complete and utter moral center of the show (then called Archie Bunker’s Place).
They didn’t reshape it, they mirrored it........
Bull. They didn’t mirror it then any more then they are mirroring it now. I didn’t know one single person with an IQ over sixty five as ignorant and delusional and hypocritical as Archie Bunker.
I agree with that description of Archie completely.
Brilliant post...could not agree more.
How mind blowingly ignorant, you are trying to portray Norman Lear and All in the Family as PROMOTING CONSERVATISM, AS BEING PRO-CONSERVATIVE, PUSHING A WHOLESOME CONSERVATIVE, PRO-AMERICAN VIEW, RATHER THAN BEING CREATED TO SERVE THE LEFT, AND SUCCEEDING BRILLIANTLY.
I asked you before, do you have any conservative instincts at all??
This is nutburger stuff.
I’m not claiming it was ‘pushing’ anything. Only that it was effective comedy/drama and transcends whatever politics the creators had.
Keep in mind that the show’s first pilot was made in 1968. It was based on an earlier British show that had the exact same premise.
Wonderful photos from the series.
Thanks so much.
No, AIF did not back fire and accidently become a Norman Lear, Carroll O’Connor, Rob Reiner, Jean Stapleton, Sally Struthers show promoting conservatism and conservative defenses to the American public in our time of need.
The show was created to bring up “its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for U.S. network television comedy, such as racism, homosexuality, women’s liberation, rape, miscarriage, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence”, and conservatism was to never win the argument, Archie was to always survive and remain likable, but the audience was to have moved a little farther to the left each time.
My suggestion to you is to either get laid, get drunk, get high or get a life.........or all of the above. Maybe you might start enjoying life...........Sheesh!
It was pushing the left’s view into middle American living rooms, just as it was intended to and being very effective at it.
You seem determined to keep pretending that it wasn’t liberal, I think that you are just a committed anti-conservative, that supports the Hollywood agenda and methods.
You never stray from that single minded position.
No kidding, it worked, and is still working on some.
I wonder how many of these people grew up on Sesame Street and PBS, and Ted Turner kiddie cartoons indoctrinating them.
I have no interest in its politics at all. I have even less interest in the politics of the creators. None. I only know that it as effective at comedy/drama. If you only ‘like’ art with who’s socio-political outlook you completely agree then there won’t be much to absorb. Wagner’s operas are morally repellent but are still great operas that I enjoy.
BTW you didn’t answer my earlier question. Rod Serling admitted that he wanted to push progressive values on the general public via The Twilight Zone. Many of the episodes are blatantly nothing but Serling preaching at you. Yet I would wager that most people who post here also love that show. Do you feel the same way about that show?
My suggestion to you is to turn off the TV occasionally and do some reading about Hollywood and television and cultural and political influence.
Well, this is a conservative political site, an activist's site, we are pro-God, pro-Life, pro-Family, pro-Country and pro-Liberty, politics is what we do here.
I do have interest in my own politics and the politics of politicians who have an effect on my government.
Judging from what we can pick up from threads like this one, I think that it is obvious that you have your own subtle way of promoting your political views.
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