The scene from AITF that will always stick with me was the scene at Thanksgiving Dinner, when Archie finds out that Meathead’s fried was a draft dodger who just returned from Canada.
You can just feel Archie’s outrage...he didn’t play it for laughs, it was heartfelt and very powerful.
That episode aired on December 25, 1976 and is as good as any to demonstrate how this series worked.
Here is the episode from December 1976 you can watch the first 15 minutes as the audience is softened up by the media experts, or you can skip to the part where it really starts, at about 15:00 in.
Draft dodger amnesty was an issue at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcalHLtewXo
The scene from AITF that will always stick with me was the scene at Thanksgiving Dinner, when Archie finds out that Meathead’s fried was a draft dodger who just returned from Canada.
You can just feel Archie’s outrage...he didn’t play it for laughs, it was heartfelt and very powerful.
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Politics aside, AITF had a lot of other themes ...the Daddy’s Girl, Gloria is who always stuck out most to me as I watched it as a kid.
My husband to this day calls my daughter’s boyfriend Meathead ...(a liberal snot from Massachusetts ...;)