If Archie were still around he would be a Trump supporter --100% guaranteed.
What's amusing is that a certain kind of conservative doesn't understand the fact that Archie is intended to satirize a conservative bigot. For example the humor would go over the head of people like @Mark94 and @Clubber.
@BGSD3100 wrote: "He's the current President of the USA."
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Maybe you were kidding but how far off is that from reality? Wouldn't it be in character for Archie to compliment the "very fine people" who started the race riots in CHarlottesville? And wouldn't Archie come up with a cartoonish wall idea to keep the Mexicans out because they're all rapists and murderers? Or perhaps these things are so cartoonish that Norman Lear would have avoided putting into the TV series.
LOL, we really did elect Archie Bunker as our current president!
^ try to find the episode That Sammy Davis Jr. guest starred in you’ll laugh from beginning to end
And check out The Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason you’ll enjoy that just as much
How could none of you mention George Jefferson on this thread? He was the yang to Archie's yin. All in the family was and always will be the single most important show in the history of television. What it did was bring up unomfortable issues and splash them on tv. In fact its even the first tv show to have the sound of a toilet flushing. Maybe none of you remember the show, but the day after people discussed it and by doing so actually discussed real issues. The Sammy Davis Jr epsiode is funny, but not even half as funny as the episode where Edith undergoes the "change". I don't want to go to disney world, I want to go to Scranton. The single best line is when Archie is locked in a basement; gets drunk; believes God is coming for him (black working man actually) and Archie says: "forgive me Lord, the Jeffersons was right."
^?Of course we remember George Jefferson, but the thread was going in the direction of who is “Everyman”
George was supposed to be the example of a black man done good to counter the stereotypes that were common to those times
My favorite clip is the one I linked to the board.....his ideas on gun control....especially taking the inside of an airplane and making it the wild wild west.
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