His latest work was woke though, on Netflix. I forget the name bc it wasn't terribly interesting to watch. He could never get something like AB made now. Woke is where creativity goes to die.
You know their original choice of actor for Archie was Mickey Rooney? And their original choice for the meathead was Harrison Ford? It boggles the mind trying to imagine some of their back-and-forths coming from the mouths of Mr. Yunioshi and Indiana Jones.
@@ScrambledAndBenedict nah..... I don't think either Mickey Rooney or Harrison Ford would make Archie or Meathead believable. But they're still great actors. Besides, Mickey Rooney would've been too lovable as Archie and Harrison Ford would've been too smart and handsome to play Meathead.
What about the time when Archie got locked in the basement and got drunk, and the guy who came to "rescue" him was a black guy, and Archie thought he was God? The look on his face was absolutely priceless!
I remember when Archie was working as a taxi driver and ended up saving the life of Beverly Lasalle by giving her mouth-to-mouth. When Beverly comes to Archie's house to thank him, Archie finds out she is really a he when Beverly pulls off her wig and says Archie can call her "mister!" The look on his face was priceless! In a later episode, Archie became friends with her, and in a much later episode, Beverly Lasalle returned to the show for the last time and ended up getting mugged and killed. Archie was genuinely sad about that.
Yes😂 That Doctor could stand her own up against Archie. I'd have loved to see Her and Maude Findlay in the same room standing up to Archie.😂😂 Talk About Female Empowerment😉😉😂😂🤣🤣
Certain groups of people would completely lose it in this day and age with this hilarious form of comedy. Oh, how times have changed...and not for the better.
I was about 18 when this show started. Nobody could believe the language and the subject matter covered. It was a shocker and hilarious at the same time.
It did what Norman Lear intended - it brought things out in the open so they could be discussed. "All in the Family" covered all the big things except child molesting and two other sit-coms covered that. Though I didn't like the episodes because of the subject matter, I did like they covered r*pe with both Gloria and Edith. They also covered Gloria's miscarriage very well - I honestly cannot think of another program that covered this.
I was 9 and I remember it was the only show that my whole family watched together . My wife said her parents wouldn't let her watch it. I was very fortunate.
It’s a shame that we will never have shows like this, the Jefferson’s, and Sanford and Son again. People have become sensitive and offended by everything.
I actually don’t think sensitivity is the problem. I think comedy has changed into being crass. Every word is a curse word. This is good clean comedy most young people find boring sadly.
I liked the episode “Edith’s Problem,” where Edith has menopause. She flips her moods back and forth at the family. It was hilarious, glad to see it was #1. But, the real #1 should be the Sammy Davis episode. Another episode that I liked too was when Archie and Mike get locked in the bars freezer and Archie tells Mike that he was called “Shoe Booty” as a kid because he went to school wearing one shoe and one boot.
I ran across a free episode 2 days ago, laughed harder than I did yrs ago! I also had tears in my eyes a few times. Such excellent actors. Pure joy! 😂❤
The part of that one I like best is when he is telling Archie how much they appreciated all the White man did for them - going to get them, giving them free voyage, jobs when they got here, etc.
To this day, the my favorite Archie line, and it's the one that me and my mother still quote and laugh about to this day, is "Only three kinds of people work at night to support their families, and it's pimps, muggers, and Dracula!"
@@frankbridges2171 Both actors are great. Of course, All In The Family talked about social issues related to the 70's as opposed to Married With children that dealt with issues in the 90's. Both Ed O'Neil and Carrol O'Connor were straight shooters and talked about things not politically correct, and that's why we love these characters.
@@ScrambledAndBenedict Simply because you think something, does not mean it's true. When, were people ''always super offended by everything''? I've witnessed from the 50's, to date, and your interpretation is miles off. There was far too much BS accepted back then, as a result of limited access to the world. We caught whatever TV brought us, and were not offended by anything! As for being mature, and able to talk about things...only in ones fantasy. Those were the days of ignorance; and maturity was only achieved after a tour/or two, of Viet Nam. Then you lost the childishness, rapidly. You are obviously a child of, no earlier than, the 1990's, and believe you know what you're saying...well, I'm here to tell you, that's the wrong guess! Sounds great, and believable to people from this age, but it's too misleading to go unchallenged. Don't spread ill-learned dogma, as fact.
Not just that but a time when men took care of their family, families didn't live outside of their means and a mother's job was just to love, support and take care of her husband and children like God intended. Times were tough but everyone had a job to do and they did it. These days everyone has 5,000 issues and disabilities to keep them from working. Back then men would risk their lives for a good paying job working on bridges and in mines, these days parents have 6 kids and no one wants to support them even when it's easy work.
THESE CLIPS ARE IMMORTAL!!!! The combined genius of Carroll OConnor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Bunker is simply mind blowing. The most powerful scenes, like these, are when both of them leave character. Especially Edith!! Still, the most powerful segment by far is when Edith hides her illness from Archie. Archie transforms from an Obstinate, Thoughtless Lug to complete Jello!! All because if his love and complete dependence on Edith. If I were to choose the most powerful moment in television history this would be it. Case Closed. Althoufg, these other clips aren't bad either!!.
All in the family with Archie Bunker and the rest was my favorite program in the world and still is thank you for sharing I wish they would come back on
No matter what, Archie loves Edith forever. Watch the episode of her death, and see Carroll O Conners epilogue. It’ll make you cry, his love for Edith.
The episode with Mikes draft dodger friend is great. His old friend Pinky Peterson is there. His son was killed in Vietnam. When David /ells archie he is a draftdodger they both put their reasons for acts. David is going to leave knowing that he has respect for a person his parents age to leave. Pinky then chimes in to give Archie his opion. Pinky is a WW2 vet like Archie. He says that he told his son that he shouldnt join but He thought that wss the right thing to do. " BUT my boy made a choice to do what he thouhht was right, david did what he thought wss right. My son is not here to celebrate christmas but David is. Im sure if he wsshere now he would shakes davids hand. Of born after 70 i think you dont get the division of the country. This was where archie showed he knew VIETNAM was wrong. Great tension for a comedy.
Certainly the most powerful All in the Family episode ever - more drama than comedy on the touchy subject of the Vietnam War. When Pinky shakes David's hand it blows Archie's mind and then when they start arguing again Archie in complete frustration yells something like "I don't ever wanna hear again about that stinkin' war!" Carroll O'Connor's acting at that moment is...utterly amazing.
And you watch censored shows. I was 9 and this show was things you saw in life but never on tv. It was your parents or a friends parents take would ask you at that age what you thought about things going on in world. It was hard not to know about Vietnam, racial feelings, abortion, death penalty.
Edith really was the star of the show. Jean Stapleton was so good at playing Edith that they had to stop filming the one episode, you know the one I'm talking about, because the audience was about to beat up the actor who attacked Edith. Edith may have worn a dress but she wore the pants in that family.
Edith's "change" is absolutely right. Very well could be the best episode. I remember watching that episode on our first color TV. I was 9 I think. I had to have my mother explain. But that is the one episode I distinctly remember because Edith was not herself. Things like menopause were not discussed on TV at the time. It is one of the taboos that this show broke. And if you weren't around in the early 1970s, you may not realize how groundbreaking this show was. Watching again as an adult makes me appreciate it even more.
It's a shame with todays "cancel culture," this show (if made today) would never make it to air. Not even sure they would air on a subscription network. I mean, Archie showing up to his grandsons birth with black-face, him using the F-word (3 letters) to refer to gay characters or the sexist things he said or did. I would like to think that maybe the way they pointed out his faults perhaps changed some viewers for the better. There were some really good lessons of tolerance and acceptance going on here.
I think the last really good one to me was 7, The Jefferson's too, I liked the one where Archie got black blood. Season 8 started the trend of bigger elements of risk or controversies, usually not executed that well (not that they would be any better by Jeff Franklin, I think that could describe it) such as the K.K.K. episode and stuff like that. The Jefferson's actually didn't do this in Season 8, it just felt a little different with the casting changes. I will say though, the characters still stayed in character pretty well, the plots just seemed out of place. Maybe it had to do with it being the season where Archie bought the bar? I think the show started to improve again in Season 3 of the sequel, though, maybe about as good as season 7.
I feel the same about "Everybody Tells The Truth". When I first saw that episode, I was laughing hysterically. "Archie and the Quiz" is another great one.
Frankly, there were far many more episodes funnier than #2. The first two episodes with cousin Maude were classics. I’ll always remember watching the first ever episode of All In The Family when the show came on TV for the first time. I was 15 and my dad was in his 50s (there was a definite generation gap between us; e.g. long hair ISSUES). We laughed like hell watching it together, as we never saw any5ing like that on TV.
Omg that one was hysterical, I crack up , like belly laugh when he says "why don't you tell them what that gorgeous cousin Maude said to me " cause she is so not gorgeous at least not at that time , she definitely was so attractive in golden girls
@@abdurobinson6827 The biggest issue with it, I think, is that Archie is portrayed as a genuinely decent person in this show. He's heavily flawed but he is, at heart, a good noble person, who is a genuine character with development, and who even makes salient points and even gets to be right at times. That would never fly today because if this show was made now Archie would be expected to just be a strawman to be portrayed as a remorseless racist and sexist to be lectured by the "proper" characters. Rather than him getting to stand his ground against the Meathead, who is also a heavily flawed by decent person, Archie would be a complete bag of shit to be lectured by Michael who would be this perfect paragon who would chastise him with crap like "You have to do better Senator!"
Archie didn't realize how much he loved her until she was gone. Even then he blamed her for dying first. Edith was so sweet and weak. They both got on my nerves yet in their on way they loved each other.
There are just too many of these masterpieces to only have 5 tops. Sammy Davis Jr. ‘A sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe’…. The $20 bit with Archie and George….
Omg, the sock/shoe scene makes me laugh every time (I do it Archie's way, btw :P)! I also liked the one where Archie finds that Lionel was seeing a white girl and looked at the picture, then had a huge fit over it. I get that kind of emotion sometimes and wish I could just react the scene, minus the thing Archie's mad about, LOL. I also liked when he was trying to write to the President and had Edith read his letter, and how she would then do it "with emotion" when he told her to, lol.
I remember being about 8 or 9 and watching this great show on Sunday nights. It covered such controversial topics and the cast was phenomenal. Carol O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were the best at comedy and drama. They do not make shows like these any more. 🙂❤
Same. And one time they presented an Emmy award together and spoke in their regular voices and my mind was blown. 🤯 Being very young and seeing them each week I was shocked to hear them sound so sophisticated compared to what I knew as their voices. 😅
Can't forget "The Elevator Story", "Archie Gets Branded", "Edith's Night Out", "Sammy's Visit" (with the longest studio audience laugh), and even though it was controversial to some people, "Edith's 50th Birthday" with the standing studio audience ovation!
There's so many funny clips from this show. Picking 5 is impossible. But I do have to say Sammy Davis Jr was hysterical. Infact I believe at that time it was the longest time an audience laughed so long
I have very many favorite scenes from a lot of good episodes. With the episode Archie and Edith alone, I like the scene towards the end when Archie is trying to make up with Edith after fight they had. He tells Edith that he could have been a baseball player if he was able to stay in school and Edith told Archie that her mother wanted to be a mother of a tap dancer, and then Archie put some music and they start to dance I love that whole makeup scene.
My favorite episode of many is when Archie talked about his father "busting his hand on him to teach him to do good". Explained a lot about Archie. Also when Gloria had a miscarriage, when Sammy Davis Jr. kissed him, when Edith was attacked in her home, when Mike and Gloria moved with his grandson. There was a soft spot to Archie and it showed many times. The show was satire to show what a bigot and racist really is. I still remember my parents who never missed this or SNL.
You like some of the more dramatic episodes, just as I do. The episode with Archie and Mike locked in Archie's Place storeroom explained a lot about what made Archie the man he was, just as the time Edith explained to Mike that Archie was jealous of Mike's education and prospects for the future. My favorite was the episode of Mike and Gloria moving to Cali. Thing is, I don't think of Archie as racist, he certainly had enough black people come through his house and insisted on going to Lionel's engagement party. Archie was just a product of his times.
@@2468-n2q Firstly, that episode took place in the storage room of Archie's Place, not in a basement. Secondly, in that episode Archie told Mike that kids used to make fun of him because his family was poor and he would wear a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other. They called him Shoebooty. I thought you knew this episode from your comment.
As a little white kid I loved The Jeffersons ❤ and Good Times ❤. I still remember Janet Jackson staring on that show as a little kid 40yrs ? Ago ? Miss shows like these
@@mortsnerd5100 I love how Archie sees himself as an angel. If you liked that episode, check out when the Odd Couple did it at the New Year's Eve party. One of its funniest episodes.
@@torridd Yea I saw that Odd Couple episodes numerous time. My favorite thing about that is Blanche's dress. How Oscar thinks its really low cut in the front and shows too much cleavage and Blanche's version shows it up to her neck but Felix' version shows it quite proper and in fashion for the period! 😂
My dad had names for Jews, blacks, Puerto Ricans, gays, etc. He WAS Archie Bunker!! But oddly ... in his 80's .... he changed. Gays? "Oh they're okay, as long as they keep it to themselves" Blacks? "I have worked with blacks in the FDNY. They're fine" ~~~~~~~ Where did my Archie Bunker dad go?
I was 17 and had long hair. I came down from a shower one day. Dad was reading the paper. I said "Damn!!" Dad asked "What?" "I have split ends!!" Omg!! Lol. His teeth clenched!!
None of these moments were better than when Sammy Davis Jr kissed Archie, the time Edith hit Archie, and the time Archie got trapped in his basement, got drunk, and started talking to God and a black guy showed up, and Archie lamenting Edith's passing was a very poignant moment.
That was a surreal moment in all in the family's history. The audience screaming for Edith to run when she outsmarted him, the loudest applause i ever heard on this show. Edith was not just a television character. She became a real person at that moment. Only An extraordinary actress with an extraordinary history can create a moment like that.
Never to network TV, the land of unbelievably ridiculous reality TV. AitF is too controversial and well written. A once in a lifetime show, Lear caught lightning in a bottle. The only series worth following any longer are on cable and streaming services.
So Edith goes through the change in life. At least you did not go wild and hook up with a black man. The character Archie would have a conniption fit to say the least. 😳. He didn't know that Carroll O'Connor playing Archie hooked up with a black woman 👠👠 don't you?
One of the best shows ever. They don’t make them like this any more. Carroll and Jean were brilliant together. RIP..
To sensitive
The chemistry was second to none.
🤣😂😆😂
Indeed.
MY OPINION IS WHEN A SHOW IS ABLE TO MAKE YOU BOTH LAUGH & CRY IT IS A SUCCESS. THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED THIS SERIES IS TIMELESS❤
Stop shouting!
Well said!
Agreed.
Norman Lear was an absolute genius. Pushing the boundaries as far as able. Comedy is the ability to laugh at ourselves. WELL DONE
RIP Norman Lear
@@BarbaraFischbachOH dang!!! I guess he was on borrowed time
Unfortunately, people today take things too seriously and people are too sensitive to take a joke.
He made great comedy, with great actors.
His latest work was woke though, on Netflix. I forget the name bc it wasn't terribly interesting to watch. He could never get something like AB made now. Woke is where creativity goes to die.
No one could EVER play Archie as well as Carroll O'Connor did. He's irreplaceable.
You know their original choice of actor for Archie was Mickey Rooney? And their original choice for the meathead was Harrison Ford? It boggles the mind trying to imagine some of their back-and-forths coming from the mouths of Mr. Yunioshi and Indiana Jones.
No I agree
@@ScrambledAndBenedict nah..... I don't think either Mickey Rooney or Harrison Ford would make Archie or Meathead believable. But they're still great actors. Besides, Mickey Rooney would've been too lovable as Archie and Harrison Ford would've been too smart and handsome to play Meathead.
Are you a member of the patrarch system? Are you a man?
Besides Mickey Rooney, I heard Gavin McLeod was considered. I can’t imagine the Love Boat captain playing Archie 😂
There's no such thing as the "Top 5 Best Moments"
They're ALL Best!
Even season 8 & 9. I'd take this over Full House, and a whole lot of later shows.
Loved Edith in menopause putting Archie in his place finally 😊😊😊
And it was a good way to put it in there, a good explanation.
Loved when she shouted, "Stifle!" And he asked for someone to pinch him cause he thought he was dreaming.
Never seen the show but just realised Louis from family guy is based on the Edith char, a lot
What about the time when Archie got locked in the basement and got drunk, and the guy who came to "rescue" him was a black guy, and Archie thought he was God? The look on his face was absolutely priceless!
My favorite episode! Archie in the cellar!
@@vintage_gal64 ~ One of my favs, too - along with When Edith goes through menopause. 😁😂
My favorite was when a black guy kissed Archie and that was the candy man 😂😊 Sammy Davis Jr 🎉😮 !
I'm sorry God the Jeffersons was right 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@rockysolmon1 ~ I had forgotten about that! LMAO!!!! 😄😁😆😅🤣
I remember when Archie was working as a taxi driver and ended up saving the life of Beverly Lasalle by giving her mouth-to-mouth. When Beverly comes to Archie's house to thank him, Archie finds out she is really a he when Beverly pulls off her wig and says Archie can call her "mister!" The look on his face was priceless! In a later episode, Archie became friends with her, and in a much later episode, Beverly Lasalle returned to the show for the last time and ended up getting mugged and killed. Archie was genuinely sad about that.
My favorite is when she invited two " swingers" over. And her expression when she realized who they really were.
Classic
The incident with the Cling Peaches 🍑 in Heavy Syrup
Lol.
I NTHE HEAT IF THE NITE WITH CARROLL OCONNER IS HIT OF THE CENTURIY.
The episode where the black doctor gave Archie blood when he was in the hospital was hilarious and Edith’s going thru menopause.
Yes, that one was wonderful!
Yes😂 That Doctor could stand her own up against Archie.
I'd have loved to see Her and Maude Findlay in the same room standing up to Archie.😂😂
Talk About Female Empowerment😉😉😂😂🤣🤣
It was one of the best, I liked the receptionist too.
Certain groups of people would completely lose it in this day and age with this hilarious form of comedy. Oh, how times have changed...and not for the better.
Absolutely true!
I was about 18 when this show started. Nobody could believe the language and the subject matter covered. It was a shocker and hilarious at the same time.
It did what Norman Lear intended - it brought things out in the open so they could be discussed.
"All in the Family" covered all the big things except child molesting and two other sit-coms covered that. Though I didn't like the episodes because of the subject matter, I did like they covered r*pe with both Gloria and Edith. They also covered Gloria's miscarriage very well - I honestly cannot think of another program that covered this.
I was 9 and I remember it was the only show that my whole family watched together . My wife said her parents wouldn't let her watch it. I was very fortunate.
It’s a shame that we will never have shows like this, the Jefferson’s, and Sanford and Son again. People have become sensitive and offended by everything.
I actually don’t think sensitivity is the problem. I think comedy has changed into being crass. Every word is a curse word. This is good clean comedy most young people find boring sadly.
Yep, people have gone WACKO
Cling peaches in heavy syrup; I still remember that to this day.
Don't say it......lol....you mean "mm mm-mm"😂
When Beverly LaSalle took off his wig in front of Archie for the first time, that was definitely a top 10!!!!😂🎉
I liked the episode “Edith’s Problem,” where Edith has menopause. She flips her moods back and forth at the family. It was hilarious, glad to see it was #1. But, the real #1 should be the Sammy Davis episode. Another episode that I liked too was when Archie and Mike get locked in the bars freezer and Archie tells Mike that he was called “Shoe Booty” as a kid because he went to school wearing one shoe and one boot.
Both episodes with Sammy Davis, Jr. were good.
I ran across a free episode 2 days ago, laughed harder than I did yrs ago! I also had tears in my eyes a few times. Such excellent actors. Pure joy! 😂❤
The episode with Sammy Davis Jr is a favorite of mine!
The part of that one I like best is when he is telling Archie how much they appreciated all the White man did for them - going to get them, giving them free voyage, jobs when they got here, etc.
Archie bunker of the best characters in TV history
To this day, the my favorite Archie line, and it's the one that me and my mother still quote and laugh about to this day, is "Only three kinds of people work at night to support their families, and it's pimps, muggers, and Dracula!"
Him and Fred Sandford twins of the times
Al Bundy wasn't too bad, either. Ed O'Neil played a great role as Al Bundy.
@@stephendacey8761 I agree 💯 and it's my fault I should of mentioned him
@@frankbridges2171 Both actors are great. Of course, All In The Family talked about social issues related to the 70's as opposed to Married With children that dealt with issues in the 90's. Both Ed O'Neil and Carrol O'Connor were straight shooters and talked about things not politically correct, and that's why we love these characters.
Brilliant Brilliant Acting!!! LMAO!!!! BUT THE BEST Episode was when Archie give Meathead Crap for how he puts on his Socks and Shoes!!!!!
That was funny AF! 😂😂😂
Having Edith tells Archie “Stifle” was perfection
Stifle! Stifle! Stifle! 🤣🤣
Da stifle hoid round da woild! 😂🤣
Yes in the great second season episode called Edith's Problem when she was going through the change of life.
Yea an abusive man trying to oppress everyone around him .. Horrible
@@DavidLopez-jl2ug That was hilarious!
The 70's were the best. This was the best show ever. If they rolled this show out today, the delicate flowers would lose their minds lol.
The snowflakes would have it banned, immediately.
And Sanford & Son & The Jeffersons….
Imagining watching a left-leaning show and claiming that leftists would hate it..
I am/ was a liberal, and me and my liberal friends loved it.
It’s literally mocking close minded bigots.
If Sammy Davis Jr. visiting wasn’t in the top 5 then this list has zero credibility.
A time when you could bring tough subjects and talk about them and make jokes about it and laugh. People didn't get offended about everything.
People were always super offended by everything, but they were just more mature and more able to talk about things.
@@ScrambledAndBenedict
Simply because you think something, does not mean it's true. When, were people ''always super offended by everything''?
I've witnessed from the 50's, to date, and your interpretation is miles off. There was far too much BS accepted back then, as a result of limited access to the world.
We caught whatever TV brought us, and were not offended by anything! As for being mature, and able to talk about things...only in ones fantasy.
Those were the days of ignorance; and maturity was only achieved after a tour/or two, of Viet Nam. Then you lost the childishness, rapidly.
You are obviously a child of, no earlier than, the 1990's, and believe you know what you're saying...well, I'm here to tell you, that's the wrong guess!
Sounds great, and believable to people from this age, but it's too misleading to go unchallenged. Don't spread ill-learned dogma, as fact.
Not just that but a time when men took care of their family, families didn't live outside of their means and a mother's job was just to love, support and take care of her husband and children like God intended. Times were tough but everyone had a job to do and they did it. These days everyone has 5,000 issues and disabilities to keep them from working. Back then men would risk their lives for a good paying job working on bridges and in mines, these days parents have 6 kids and no one wants to support them even when it's easy work.
THESE CLIPS ARE IMMORTAL!!!! The combined genius of Carroll OConnor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Bunker is simply mind blowing. The most powerful scenes, like these, are when both of them leave character. Especially Edith!! Still, the most powerful segment by far is when Edith hides her illness from Archie. Archie transforms from an Obstinate, Thoughtless Lug to complete Jello!! All because if his love and complete dependence on Edith. If I were to choose the most powerful moment in television history this would be it. Case Closed. Althoufg, these other clips aren't bad either!!.
That one and the draft dodger. POWERFUL episodes
Yes as soon as she mentioned going to Scranton to visit her family he lost it.
When cousin maude came for a visit is one of my favorites
So many memories. Takes me away from the situation of today.
Those were the days.
You mean the nightmare of today
@@TheTJohnsonNetworkhehehe
@@TheTJohnsonNetworkfamily guy copied the sh!t outta this show
Two words-- Cling peaches….(in heavy syrup)
Absolute genius writing and timeless characters.
It can't be done no more.
@@TheTJohnsonNetwork true
All in the family with Archie Bunker and the rest was my favorite program in the world and still is thank you for sharing I wish they would come back on
No matter what, Archie loves Edith forever. Watch the episode of her death, and see Carroll O Conners epilogue. It’ll make you cry, his love for Edith.
Archie having surgery and gets a doctor from the West Indies was the best episode ever.
The episode with Mikes draft dodger friend is great. His old friend Pinky Peterson is there. His son was killed in Vietnam. When David /ells archie he is a draftdodger they both put their reasons for acts. David is going to leave knowing that he has respect for a person his parents age to leave. Pinky then chimes in to give Archie his opion. Pinky is a WW2 vet like Archie. He says that he told his son that he shouldnt join but He thought that wss the right thing to do. " BUT my boy made a choice to do what he thouhht was right, david did what he thought wss right. My son is not here to celebrate christmas but David is. Im sure if he wsshere now he would shakes davids hand. Of born after 70 i think you dont get the division of the country. This was where archie showed he knew VIETNAM was wrong. Great tension for a comedy.
POWERFUL episode
Certainly the most powerful All in the Family episode ever - more drama than comedy on the touchy subject of the Vietnam War. When Pinky shakes David's hand it blows Archie's mind and then when they start arguing again Archie in complete frustration yells something like "I don't ever wanna hear again about that stinkin' war!" Carroll O'Connor's acting at that moment is...utterly amazing.
no way i could pick even 10 "best" moments - the show is just too good to limit it to even 10.
Yeah.
@@TheTJohnsonNetwork 👍👍
The vignettes of life…….tackled so well by cast and writers….loved this show….
Born in 1988 and I love this show to death. Words can't describe!
And you watch censored shows. I was 9 and this show was things you saw in life but never on tv. It was your parents or a friends parents take would ask you at that age what you thought about things going on in world. It was hard not to know about Vietnam, racial feelings, abortion, death penalty.
Yeah, I'm even younger than you, and I can agree.
I cried when Edith died, I cry every time I watch it
Edith really was the star of the show. Jean Stapleton was so good at playing Edith that they had to stop filming the one episode, you know the one I'm talking about, because the audience was about to beat up the actor who attacked Edith. Edith may have worn a dress but she wore the pants in that family.
Edith's "change" is absolutely right. Very well could be the best episode. I remember watching that episode on our first color TV. I was 9 I think. I had to have my mother explain. But that is the one episode I distinctly remember because Edith was not herself. Things like menopause were not discussed on TV at the time. It is one of the taboos that this show broke. And if you weren't around in the early 1970s, you may not realize how groundbreaking this show was. Watching again as an adult makes me appreciate it even more.
Sad for you, you weren't out doing something else besides watching television. Gross ...
What does any man, know about menopause?
It's a shame with todays "cancel culture," this show (if made today) would never make it to air. Not even sure they would air on a subscription network. I mean, Archie showing up to his grandsons birth with black-face, him using the F-word (3 letters) to refer to gay characters or the sexist things he said or did. I would like to think that maybe the way they pointed out his faults perhaps changed some viewers for the better. There were some really good lessons of tolerance and acceptance going on here.
TV ain't what it used to be. It seems there are no good writers anymore. And it really is disappointing.
The woke mobs and pc generation killed tv
Archie miming Russian roulette while Edith drones on about her cousin Maude🤣🤣
Because of the high incidence of suicide in this country, I did not find that amusing at all. It is never material for comedy.
@@GlennaVan Tell us when you find something that DOESN'T offend your delicate sensibilities.
My favorite episode was the one with Sammy Davis Jr. That kiss is one of the funniest moments in the history of television.
Do remember, the second time Archie kissed him.
All of the episodes were amazing. The chair episode was so funny. I love when she said stifle too.
WOW. What a pleasure. Edith jumping is way beyond great. Such brilliant work from them and entertainment for us.
My father, a general surgeon, was a bigot's bigot. This and Alf were his two favorite shows for some time.
Just his facial expressions alone makes me giggle 😂
"Mmm mmm in heavy syrup."
"Everybody Tells The Truth" was always one of my favorite episodes. The 3rd, 4th and 5th seasons were the best.
I think the last really good one to me was 7, The Jefferson's too, I liked the one where Archie got black blood. Season 8 started the trend of bigger elements of risk or controversies, usually not executed that well (not that they would be any better by Jeff Franklin, I think that could describe it) such as the K.K.K. episode and stuff like that. The Jefferson's actually didn't do this in Season 8, it just felt a little different with the casting changes. I will say though, the characters still stayed in character pretty well, the plots just seemed out of place. Maybe it had to do with it being the season where Archie bought the bar? I think the show started to improve again in Season 3 of the sequel, though, maybe about as good as season 7.
I feel the same about "Everybody Tells The Truth". When I first saw that episode, I was laughing hysterically. "Archie and the Quiz" is another great one.
I would love to find bloopers/outtakes of all in the family lol
Frankly, there were far many more episodes funnier than #2. The first two episodes with cousin Maude were classics. I’ll always remember watching the first ever episode of All In The Family when the show came on TV for the first time. I was 15 and my dad was in his 50s (there was a definite generation gap between us; e.g. long hair ISSUES). We laughed like hell watching it together, as we never saw any5ing like that on TV.
Omg that one was hysterical, I crack up , like belly laugh when he says "why don't you tell them what that gorgeous cousin Maude said to me " cause she is so not gorgeous at least not at that time , she definitely was so attractive in golden girls
This show was so funny 😂😂😂😂 It covered so many issues that we deal with today. This was show back in the day. 😂😂😂😂
I don’t know what happened to us as a society but this show would be off the air in this day of time because this was true comedy 😊
Yea but the only difference is that with TODAYS generations, they simply get divorced rather than try to work it out and make up.
@@abdurobinson6827 The biggest issue with it, I think, is that Archie is portrayed as a genuinely decent person in this show. He's heavily flawed but he is, at heart, a good noble person, who is a genuine character with development, and who even makes salient points and even gets to be right at times. That would never fly today because if this show was made now Archie would be expected to just be a strawman to be portrayed as a remorseless racist and sexist to be lectured by the "proper" characters. Rather than him getting to stand his ground against the Meathead, who is also a heavily flawed by decent person, Archie would be a complete bag of shit to be lectured by Michael who would be this perfect paragon who would chastise him with crap like "You have to do better Senator!"
Archie didn't realize how much he loved her until she was gone. Even then he blamed her for dying first. Edith was so sweet and weak. They both got on my nerves yet in their on way they loved each other.
There are just too many of these masterpieces to only have 5 tops. Sammy Davis Jr. ‘A sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe’…. The $20 bit with Archie and George….
Omg, the sock/shoe scene makes me laugh every time (I do it Archie's way, btw :P)!
I also liked the one where Archie finds that Lionel was seeing a white girl and looked at the picture, then had a huge fit over it. I get that kind of emotion sometimes and wish I could just react the scene, minus the thing Archie's mad about, LOL.
I also liked when he was trying to write to the President and had Edith read his letter, and how she would then do it "with emotion" when he told her to, lol.
@@OverlordZeroULTIMA “THEY’RE SITTING TOGETHER ON THE COUCH!!!”
Best tv show ever made!!!
@@OverlordZeroULTIMA The white girl was Archie's niece which is why he had the fit.
I love the sock and a sock too‼️☮️
Watched the original series decades ago. Now I’m in awe of the amazing talent on this television series…Hasn’t been duplicated since!
I loved the one when Archie finds out he can't vote anymore because he hasn't voted in years! 😆
I loved Mike's Groucho Marx impersonation 😂😂
RIP Norman Lear. A legend in show business!
Norman Lear was a genius! Loved ❤ "The Jefferson's," too! He also made "Three's Company," great show, too! 👍🎉🎉🎉👍
All time best and most surprising was when Sammy Davis Jr was on show.... hard to beat that episode. These were fun yet..
Edith and Maude...the two best women on tv in the 1970s
Maude reminded me of a prison warden and I couldn’t even watch that show.
@@Yonder27 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Edith and Weezie...the two best women on TV in the 1970s. Never cared for Maude.
@@Yonder27 That was the Marine in her coming out! (Bea Arthur served in the U.S. Marine Corps. during WW II.)
This is such beautiful writing and such beautiful acting
Archie was over the top in "Archie's Chair" 😂😂😂😂 They were all hilarious on "Everybody Tells the Truth" 🤣🤣😂😂😂
I saw Archie's chair in the Smithsonian.
@@albundy6008 really?
@@kristinadospoy7347 yes, it was on display with several other items including Fonzie's leather jacket.
I remember being about 8 or 9 and watching this great show on Sunday nights. It covered such controversial topics and the cast was phenomenal. Carol O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were the best at comedy and drama. They do not make shows like these any more. 🙂❤
Wouldn’t be permitted !
Are dvd copies for sale anywhere ?
Ep.#4 is a real treasure ! 🎉
Ah heck ! They all are !❤
Same. And one time they presented an Emmy award together and spoke in their regular voices and my mind was blown. 🤯 Being very young and seeing them each week I was shocked to hear them sound so sophisticated compared to what I knew as their voices. 😅
0:09............................One of my all-time favorite Archie/Edith fights!!!! "WHAT WAS HE USIN' MY CHAIR FOR, A TRAMPOLOON?!!!"
I would like to see the whole show in in order.❤
Archie is the best!
How about when Sammy Davis JR kisses Archie Bunker on the cheek? What a moment!😂
This show was priceless. 😊😊😊
Can't forget "The Elevator Story", "Archie Gets Branded", "Edith's Night Out", "Sammy's Visit" (with the longest studio audience laugh), and even though it was controversial to some people, "Edith's 50th Birthday" with the standing studio audience ovation!
I loved the one with Sammy Davis Jr and also the where Archie got a blood transfusion from a black guy😂❤
No Sammy Davis Jr. in these clips??? Or Archie stuck in the elevator??? This list is blah.
There's so many funny clips from this show. Picking 5 is impossible. But I do have to say Sammy Davis Jr was hysterical. Infact I believe at that time it was the longest time an audience laughed so long
Love this, THOSE WERE THE DAYS 😅
Yep & that was also a nice song by Mary Hopkin (during that same era).
Edith going through the change was the funniest episode ever!!, 😂😂😂
I have very many favorite scenes from a lot of good episodes. With the episode Archie and Edith alone, I like the scene towards the end when Archie is trying to make up with Edith after fight they had. He tells Edith that he could have been a baseball player if he was able to stay in school and Edith told Archie that her mother wanted to be a mother of a tap dancer, and then Archie put some music and they start to dance I love that whole makeup scene.
My favorite episode of many is when Archie talked about his father "busting his hand on him to teach him to do good". Explained a lot about Archie. Also when Gloria had a miscarriage, when Sammy Davis Jr. kissed him, when Edith was attacked in her home, when Mike and Gloria moved with his grandson. There was a soft spot to Archie and it showed many times. The show was satire to show what a bigot and racist really is. I still remember my parents who never missed this or SNL.
You like some of the more dramatic episodes, just as I do. The episode with Archie and Mike locked in Archie's Place storeroom explained a lot about what made Archie the man he was, just as the time Edith explained to Mike that Archie was jealous of Mike's education and prospects for the future. My favorite was the episode of Mike and Gloria moving to Cali. Thing is, I don't think of Archie as racist, he certainly had enough black people come through his house and insisted on going to Lionel's engagement party. Archie was just a product of his times.
That episode in the basement with Michael was deep
@@2468-n2q Shoebooty.
@@ongogablogian8568
I DON'T SPEAK OR UNDERSTAND EBONICS
@@2468-n2q Firstly, that episode took place in the storage room of Archie's Place, not in a basement. Secondly, in that episode Archie told Mike that kids used to make fun of him because his family was poor and he would wear a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other. They called him Shoebooty. I thought you knew this episode from your comment.
Both blacks and whites loved these sitcoms and no one got offended! What happened??
People don't understand a joke.
As a little white kid I loved The Jeffersons ❤ and Good Times ❤. I still remember Janet Jackson staring on that show as a little kid 40yrs ? Ago ? Miss shows like these
Everybody Tells The Truth is one of my favorite episodes of anything ever.
Pure brilliance.
Lavender Jack...Swooping On Down.
That's my favorite one ever.
@@mortsnerd5100 I love how Archie sees himself as an angel. If you liked that episode, check out when the Odd Couple did it at the New Year's Eve party. One of its funniest episodes.
Ours too! HYSTERICAL and Archie's version is the funniest: "...Edith daaaarling...." !!!! :P!!t! :P!!!
@@torridd Yea I saw that Odd Couple episodes numerous time. My favorite thing about that is Blanche's dress. How Oscar thinks its really low cut in the front and shows too much cleavage and Blanche's version shows it up to her neck but Felix' version shows it quite proper and in fashion for the period! 😂
And what a swoop it was too!
Best one Edith and Archie go to California 2 visit Gloria. States Gloria's neighbors must be poor because they all were sharing 1 cigarette 😂😂😂
Good list and lots that could have been here including the Thanksgiving religious debate, that is one of the best scenes in TV history
How about Edith, “I am a clepper!”
They forgot cling peaches the Sammy Davis. Episode. And the Beverly Sallie s episode
My dad, in NY, was Archie Bunker. He went nuts when my gf and I were kissing on the couch. Yes, I married her! 4 kids in 5 years!!
My dad had names for Jews, blacks, Puerto Ricans, gays, etc. He WAS Archie Bunker!! But oddly ... in his 80's .... he changed.
Gays? "Oh they're okay, as long as they keep it to themselves"
Blacks? "I have worked with blacks in the FDNY. They're fine"
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Where did my Archie Bunker dad go?
I was 17 and had long hair. I came down from a shower one day. Dad was reading the paper. I said "Damn!!"
Dad asked "What?"
"I have split ends!!"
Omg!! Lol. His teeth clenched!!
@@kolasom like Sammy Davis said when he came back for a second visit. It's not so much who a man is rather than who he's trying to be.
I wish I had a Edith…..
If you ever get one, treat her right!
MY FAVORITE WAS WHEN ARCHIE BECAME FR8ENDS WITH THE BLACK WOMEN THAT GAVE HIM THE KISS OF LIFE
I remember that person as a Transvestite. Maybe a different episode or maybe the Mandela Effect…..
Changes..Hits Home On All Levels.
Been There.
And then some.
None of these moments were better than when Sammy Davis Jr kissed Archie, the time Edith hit Archie, and the time Archie got trapped in his basement, got drunk, and started talking to God and a black guy showed up, and Archie lamenting Edith's passing was a very poignant moment.
RIP Norman Lear. He was brilliant
I love when Archie says all the wrong words for things. They sound sort of right but hysterically wrong.
And the phrases: "Look at the Black calling the Kettle Pot".
Edith trapped in the house with a rapist…what a performance from Jean Stapleton
That was a surreal moment in all in the family's history. The audience screaming for Edith to run when she outsmarted him, the loudest applause i ever heard on this show.
Edith was not just a television character. She became a real person at that moment. Only An extraordinary actress with an extraordinary history can create a moment like that.
The 3rd episode is probably one of the best ones they ever did over the life of the entire series
I loved watching this show since 1971 till it ended in 1978 and then watch it in reruns since cable TV put the show on cable TV !
Need more shows like this to make a comeback. Humor is the spice of life David!!!!
Never to network TV, the land of unbelievably ridiculous reality TV. AitF is too controversial and well written. A once in a lifetime show, Lear caught lightning in a bottle. The only series worth following any longer are on cable and streaming services.
It's unfortunate that in today's time, this show wouldn't work
Why do people think that shows regarding "serious" topics are better than pure comedy? Nothing is harder to write or act than comedy!
Does anybody know who the actor is in the "God is black" scene?
Edith well, my aunt Elizabeth went through this, and she didn’t get manifestation she got a mustache😆
Edith works for the house. She owns the house that Archie paid for.
So Edith goes through the change in life. At least you did not go wild and hook up with a black man. The character Archie would have a conniption fit to say the least. 😳. He didn't know that Carroll O'Connor playing Archie hooked up with a black woman 👠👠 don't you?
And the time that Archie first met George Jefferson
That was funny to watch they were crazy 🤣