I believe that chair is now on display in the National Museum of American History in Washington,D.C.! And Norman Lear was the creator of “All in the Family”. Merry Christmas,Britt!❤️🎄❤️
Archie's chair is in the Smithsonian! YES Queens accent! 704 Hauser Street, Queens, NYC. Archie was a Longshoreman, a loading dock union man! Working class. Mike Meathead was a college boy!
Yes, that is Archie’s chair. He is very protective of that chair, and nobody else is allowed to sit in it - with few exceptions. “Meathead” is Archie’s pet name for his son-in-law, Mike. He calls him meathead because, as he says, Mike is “dead from the neck up”. I think that accent is an old one that has since faded from use - when I was growing up in the late 70s, an older gentleman that lived next door had the same accent. A few days ago, his granddaughter (who remembered us playing as kids) reached out to me, out of the blue, on Facebook to see if I was that kid. Nice surprise.
It's sad that accents are mostly disappearing because of hearing people with a regular "American accent' that they hear on TV etc. Or that they need to be more accepted at their jobs in some cases. There's a good RUclips video called "American Tongues" that I first watched in the early 80s that has people speaking in their accents at the time.
That chair is now displayed in the Smithsonian Historical Institute in Washington, DC, alongside Fonzie's leather jacket, from the tv show, Happy Days, and many other artifacts from TV history.
Archie's chair is so symbolic of "Who his character represented in America" & the ground-breaking significance of him speaking openly in public for the 1st time on national TV about the America's growing & volatile social issues like; racism, women's rights, gender roles in the workplace, religion, & the ongoing War in Vietnam to list a few. His chair grew to become a 'Hallmark' of the cultural awakening of 1960's & 70's in America, so much so, that it now sits in a place of honor in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. Merry Everything & Happy Always
Yes that is how beer cans looked back in the early 1970's. Cans back then were made from steel. They weren't as easy to crush as these that are made from aluminum. Sometimes during the mid 1970's they started changing the cans from steel to aluminum. We used to step on the middle of the can and make it collapse onto our shoes and we would walk around making noise with that can on our shoes. The aluminum can was softer and lighter and would not stay on your shoes as long.
BRITT: Because of your beautiful youth, it's difficult for you to appreciate how primed America was for All in the Family when it originally aired - massive Vietnam War protests, Watergate, LSD & the hippie revolution when sayings like "Make Love. Not war," John Lenon & The Beatles' song, "Give Peace a Chance," were popular, etc. Also, notice how much greater of an actor Carroll O'Connor was than Rob Reiner (Meathead) and Sally Struthers (Gloria) were.
not surprising that you miss the point of the show - the show is actually very progressive it shined a light on the people who archie represented - but of course you are one of the people that it is shining a light on so of course all you have is your right wing memes
@clintonsmith5163 have you ever seen the show do you really not love archie the guy who got drafted to ww2 in high school and works 2 jobs to pay all the bills and is honestly ignorant of the new age, you don't love him a little? If not, you should watch more. Also, the crap they make today is worse you just have to get hbo
That was so sweet and fun. I do kind of remember a lot of these from when I was a little kid. We didn't watch a whole lot of TV when we were that young but there were a handful of shows my parents have boxed and this was one of them. My mom liked the message of it and my dad liked the situational comedy of it.
All in the and Sanford and son are two of the best sitcoms ever. This is back before people got offended over every little thing if they didn't like it they just changed the channel now they want to cry about every little thing
This, of course, is adapted from The UK's "'Til Death Us Do Part" and its sequel "In Sickness and In Health" and is very mild compared to those series.. Sanford and Son is, also, based on The UK's " "Steptoe and Son"...
In real life, Carroll O’Connor was the complete opposite of his character, Archie. And he strived to play him with glimpses of heart and humanity, to offset the negatives. ❤️
Yes, Britt, that is AAARCHIE'S CHAIR!!! You should react to the episode where Mike(Meathead) gives it away to, I think, an auction by accident. It's hilarious 😂😂😂
Gurlfriend I grew up with Archie and George Jefferson and Redd Foxx!! When we could take and deliver a joke while laughing with each other as well as laughing AT ONE ANOTHER! The best days when everyone didn't have their panties in a wad!
This, of course, is adapted from The UK's "'Til Death Us Do Part" and its sequel "In Sickness and In Health" and is very mild compared to those series..
This, of course, is adapted from The UK's "'Til Death Us Do Part" and its sequel "In Sickness and In Health" and is very mild compared to those series..
Archie had a way of mangling the English language. Some of his classics were: Groinocologist = Gynecologist Expensive care = Intensive care Medicure = Medicare Misconscrewed = Misconstrued Archie's chair was such a part of American TV culture that it now sits in the Smithsonian in Washington DC
Once upon a time, people made fun of life. Not anymore, less you be called a racist or insensitive. Humans have become more cynical, bitter, toxic, and self-destructive.
I happened to catch this series on the FIRST episode. The scene opened and Archie wasn't there. Then, a toilet flushes upstairs and down comes Archie. It was revolutionary. Never before had a toilet flushed on TV. What an introduction.
Hope you had a very Merry Christmas and Have a very Happy New Years. The chair was used from the very beginning of the series then for the last season a reproduction was made as the original chair was donated to the Smithonian. 😊
I am reminded of Frasier’s widower dad Martin on the sitcom Frasier. After he is shot in the line of duty he goes to live with his persnickety son in his condo. He brings his dog and his green and orange striped easy chair, which has a few patches of duct tape. Martin’s chair holds so many memories of the last 20+ years. He was sitting in it when he learned that he was a grandfather.
I was born in 77 this show was already a hit show when I came along ... but I remember my parents watching All In the Family and the Jeffersons religiously ...I didn't start watching these shows till the early 90s on Nick at night when I was a teenager .. but I instantly fell in love with these shows ... the lovable Aholes 😂..Sanford and Son is another WONDERFUL show... I've never found any shows since that made me genuinely laugh the way these shows do !!!...I think Jr Highs and High Schools should have a class where they watch these shows and teach these kids how to laugh again .. at themselves and eachother .. laughter brings ppl together... if you can laugh together.. you can love together ❤.. the world stopped being fun when everyone decided to get butthurt so easy...I'm so glad I grew up in a generation that making fun of someone and laughing meant we liked each other❤
Pretty sure that chair is in the Smithsonian Museum. Also, Norman Lear created the series--he create many of the most controversial comedies from that era--just passed away THIS month. He was 101 years old!
Rob Reiner ( the Meathead ) is the son of the late, iconic tv/movie actor, comedian, producer, Carl Reiner, whose career spanned 7 decades. He is perhaps best known for producing ( & playing an occasional role in) the wildly popular Dick Van Dyke show in the early 60's. One of his funniest scenes was when the Mary Tyler Moore character went to his office to apologize for accidentally making public the fact that he was bald. (His character was a tv comedian, & Mary's husband was one of his writers). The scene is probably on 'the tube'. Cheers!
If you didn't get offended, and believe me it offended everyone, then it was truly a laugh out loud show. So funny. Merry Christmas Britt!! I hope Santa brings you everything you want.
Black people didn't get offended by the show because they were used the opinions of people like Archie. The television show pointed out the racism and buffoonery of those type people and that's where the laughs came from.
Thank you for your reaction to Archie!! I grew up in a family with 4 kids, me being the baby, and mom/dad. We would sit in the den and watch this on the only tv we had which was a console color tv (and if you had a console tv, you were somebody)!! Oh and your laugh is so cute!!!
The recently late Norman Lear was the writer and creator of this show and others. Geo. Jefferson was the same as Archie with the difference of it being that Geo. showed his colors from the black perspective.
Britt, what you have to understand about Archie is that he's a semi-educated bigot (not an outright racist). He grew up in a time when segregation was very prevalent. When the series began, we didn't know exactly how old Archie was, but there's an episode in Season 1 where Archie celebrates his 50th birthday, so that nailed it down. He was born in the early 1920s, lived through the Great Depression and WWII, Korea, and Vietnam was raging when the show debuted. IIRC, he never even made it into High School (still speaking of the character, not the actor, who was in real life, the exact opposite of Archie), because like many people of that era, they had to try and work to help support their families at a young age. So, Archie's level of education was probably topped out in 8th grade. His "social standing" was hard earned, and he had limited exposure to "others", so his opinions were formed on what he was taught by others. He had no problem using certain words that would be highly shunned, now. He also had a "foil" in his black neighbor George Jefferson. An equally bigoted and opinionated man who built his own business (dry cleaners) from the ground up. Their interactions are absolute comedy GOLD. The two men's wives and children are all very good friends, but they themselves are constantly in conflict. "The Jeffersons" would spin off into their own show, which was also highly successful. In fact, All in the Family would have numerous successful spinoffs, including Maude and Archie Bunker's Place. Over the years, Archie WOULD mellow quite a bit, and learn that many of his bigoted beliefs were in fact, wrong. If you haven't seen it yet, the time Sammy Davis Jr. cameoed as himself was hysterical! Highly recommend that. But also, you should watch full episodes, many are available here on RUclips.
My Grandpa had his Chair and my Dad had his Chair. I don't know where or how she grew up but it was like that for a lot of years and still is in many households. Archie was very popular because he somewhat represented millions of blue collar working men and his logic was often very sound.
Now listen little goyl 😉, Archie’s chair was so infamous, it is in the Smithsonian as a tribute to All in the Family and its impact on TV and their audience. Archie was truly an American gem.
There was a whole episode about Archie's chair. Mike (Meathead) sits in it and breaks it, then it ends up in an art gallery while it was being repaired.
The more I rewatch episodes of All In The Family, the more I miss my parents. I wish I could share how much Archie and Edith resembled my folks. Not in the subject matter but their demeanor. My dad was so quick and witty and my mom even looked like Edith. Thanks so much for the reaction.
Itbis sad that people now a days think like this seriously. This show brings me back to my childhood years. It was to touch on subjects that a lot of people hid or tolerated and bring them out in the open in a comic way. They did treat Archie as evil but as a normal everyday person. As the series went on and he was exposed to more cultures you could see his growth.
Good you're not taking Archie too seriously. Archie is hilarious & has an appeal to a much broader swath of different people than the easily offended & outraged & wound too tight of today wld hv us believe. Good to see you can see the humor & satire of Archie Bunker. Sort of like watching Blazing Saddles today. Is it a racist movie or a movie that shows us how foolish racism is (while allowing us to laugh)? Keep laughing & smiling - it's contagious!!!
I think we watched every episode, but certainly can’t remember hardly any of them. My dad had “his chair”, unless he wasn’t in the room, and when he walked in, you just automatically got up to reposition!
Yup, I love the accent. I'm not even American but I recognize the same pronunciations in old 3 Stooges movies and Big Bunny cartoons. "Why soitenly little goil" I could hear any of these characters saying something like that. Anyways, that accent is almost nonexistent now.
If you were not alive in the 70's you really missed out. Best sitcoms and music.
Actually the sitcom format was considered to be a dying art form in the late seveties and early eighties .... until Cosby and Cheers Thursday night.
Just starting to watch The Odd Couple again after all these years. Good stuff.
I believe that chair is now on display in the National Museum of American History in Washington,D.C.! And Norman Lear was the creator of “All in the Family”.
Merry Christmas,Britt!❤️🎄❤️
It's the National Museum of American History
@@rayj1011 Thank you so much for correcting me! I’m usually so careful about posting…having far too many “senior moments” these days! ☺️😉
I do the same! Try to be careful but get those "slips." Thanks though for bringing out this interesting fact.@@Ctkare4k9
Seen it in person in D.C. M😊
Archie's chair is in the Smithsonian! YES Queens accent! 704 Hauser Street, Queens, NYC. Archie was a Longshoreman, a loading dock union man! Working class. Mike Meathead was a college boy!
Yes, that's Aaachies(Archie's) chair.A lot of dads had "their" chair that was just theirs after a hard days work.
…and no other “Dads” have their chair in the Smithsonian.
My dad did. It was a light blue velour La-Z-Boy.
Yes, that is Archie’s chair. He is very protective of that chair, and nobody else is allowed to sit in it - with few exceptions.
“Meathead” is Archie’s pet name for his son-in-law, Mike. He calls him meathead because, as he says, Mike is “dead from the neck up”.
I think that accent is an old one that has since faded from use - when I was growing up in the late 70s, an older gentleman that lived next door had the same accent. A few days ago, his granddaughter (who remembered us playing as kids) reached out to me, out of the blue, on Facebook to see if I was that kid. Nice surprise.
I beleive Sammy Davis sat in his chair
@robertskinner6487 and kissed him on the cheek lol classic
And we learned later on that 'Meathead' was what Archie's dad used to call him.🤣
It's sad that accents are mostly disappearing because of hearing people with a regular "American accent' that they hear on TV etc. Or that they need to be more accepted at their jobs in some cases. There's a good RUclips video called "American Tongues" that I first watched in the early 80s that has people speaking in their accents at the time.
That chair is now displayed in the Smithsonian Historical Institute in Washington, DC, alongside Fonzie's leather jacket, from the tv show, Happy Days, and many other artifacts from TV history.
Archie Bunker skewered the English language. He also skewered all history. And yes, he was almost always agitated! Love your reactions!
Old style Queens accent.
Merry Christmas Britt and your family. Archie was absolutely hilarious which is one reason the show was on TV for so long
As Archie bunker would say "happy Christmas to you's and your's. This TV show took on all subjects.
00:42 Not just this show, Rob Reiner is a real life "MeatHead" same views in real life as on this show.
Archie's chair is so symbolic of "Who his character represented in America" & the ground-breaking significance of him speaking openly in public for the 1st time on national TV about the America's growing & volatile social issues like; racism, women's rights, gender roles in the workplace, religion, & the ongoing War in Vietnam to list a few.
His chair grew to become a 'Hallmark' of the cultural awakening of 1960's & 70's in America, so much so, that it now sits in a place of honor in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C.
Merry Everything & Happy Always
That chair is in the Smithsonian Museum. Great to see you back Britt hope everything is good.
Yes that is how beer cans looked back in the early 1970's. Cans back then were made from steel. They weren't as easy to crush as these that are made from aluminum. Sometimes during the mid 1970's they started changing the cans from steel to aluminum. We used to step on the middle of the can and make it collapse onto our shoes and we would walk around making noise with that can on our shoes. The aluminum can was softer and lighter and would not stay on your shoes as long.
Ohhhh YES! Archie and his chair is like Linus and his blanket!
Great reaction, Britt! I hope you have a Merry Christmas.
BRITT: Because of your beautiful youth, it's difficult for you to appreciate how primed America was for All in the Family when it originally aired - massive Vietnam War protests, Watergate, LSD & the hippie revolution when sayings like "Make Love. Not war," John Lenon & The Beatles' song, "Give Peace a Chance," were popular, etc. Also, notice how much greater of an actor Carroll O'Connor was than Rob Reiner (Meathead) and Sally Struthers (Gloria) were.
Spot on! A Merry Christmas to you!☃️🎄👍✌️
This is a TV show that could never happen in today's hypersensitive world.
Yeah, look at how people get outraged at Disney.
not surprising that you miss the point of the show - the show is actually very progressive it shined a light on the people who archie represented - but of course you are one of the people that it is shining a light on so of course all you have is your right wing memes
This has been in reruns for many years. Still on MEtv
A show that makes fun of an ignorant bigot couldn't be made today? Nonsense.
@clintonsmith5163 have you ever seen the show do you really not love archie the guy who got drafted to ww2 in high school and works 2 jobs to pay all the bills and is honestly ignorant of the new age, you don't love him a little? If not, you should watch more. Also, the crap they make today is worse you just have to get hbo
The whole show was around those 2 chairs. It was pretty brilliant for it's time.
That was so sweet and fun. I do kind of remember a lot of these from when I was a little kid. We didn't watch a whole lot of TV when we were that young but there were a handful of shows my parents have boxed and this was one of them. My mom liked the message of it and my dad liked the situational comedy of it.
All in the and Sanford and son are two of the best sitcoms ever. This is back before people got offended over every little thing if they didn't like it they just changed the channel now they want to cry about every little thing
They really are almost the same show: A family having to deal with an old fool, who makes everyone around them crazy.
@@Tijuanabill yeah but I love those shows they are hilarious
@@jdwilmoth Same. Also...Boomer? I recognize that name. 😎😎
@@Tijuanabill yep Boomer Sooner
This, of course, is adapted from The UK's "'Til Death Us Do Part" and its sequel "In Sickness and In Health" and is very mild compared to those series..
Sanford and Son is, also, based on The UK's " "Steptoe and Son"...
Glad you found Archie Bunker. Way ahead of its time!
In real life, Carroll O’Connor was the complete opposite of his character, Archie. And he strived to play him with glimpses of heart and humanity, to offset the negatives. ❤️
Archie's chair is actually very famous and is now in the Smithsonian.
Yes, Britt, that is AAARCHIE'S CHAIR!!! You should react to the episode where Mike(Meathead) gives it away to, I think, an auction by accident. It's hilarious 😂😂😂
It ends up in an exhibit at an art show.
Gurlfriend I grew up with Archie and George Jefferson and Redd Foxx!! When we could take and deliver a joke while laughing with each other as well as laughing AT ONE ANOTHER!
The best days when everyone didn't have their panties in a wad!
Merry Christmas ! Thanks for the laugh. I remember watching All in the Family every week back in the day
Girl you would LOVE this show….😊😊😊❤
This, of course, is adapted from The UK's "'Til Death Us Do Part" and its sequel "In Sickness and In Health" and is very mild compared to those series..
Yes it's a real beer can! It's a pre-aluminum, seamed steel, tin-coated, beer can with a removable, throw-away pop tab.
Norman Lear produced the show. Carroll O'Conner who played Archie, outstanding actor!
This, of course, is adapted from The UK's "'Til Death Us Do Part" and its sequel "In Sickness and In Health" and is very mild compared to those series..
Archie had a way of mangling the English language. Some of his classics were:
Groinocologist = Gynecologist
Expensive care = Intensive care
Medicure = Medicare
Misconscrewed = Misconstrued
Archie's chair was such a part of American TV culture that it now sits in the Smithsonian in Washington DC
Yeah, they're called malaprophisms
Chrome-a-stones.
Named for? (Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan's play "The Rivals," who was always getting words amusingly wrong.)
@@romans52345-cy3tq Also known as Nipsy Russellisms.
@@FloridaMugwump Exactly 💯
Once upon a time, people made fun of life. Not anymore, less you be called a racist or insensitive. Humans have become more cynical, bitter, toxic, and self-destructive.
That "chair" is in the Smithsonian now lol.
Merry Christmas, Beautiful Lady!!! May this Christmas be the Best!!!
PLEASE do more All in the Family reactions!!
Love it love it love it 🤭
I happened to catch this series on the FIRST episode. The scene opened and Archie wasn't there. Then, a toilet flushes upstairs and down comes Archie. It was revolutionary. Never before had a toilet flushed on TV. What an introduction.
Hope you had a very Merry Christmas and Have a very Happy New Years. The chair was used from the very beginning of the series then for the last season a reproduction was made as the original chair was donated to the Smithonian. 😊
*Merry Christmas **#Britt** & all those in the comment section*
I am reminded of Frasier’s widower dad Martin on the sitcom Frasier. After he is shot in the line of duty he goes to live with his persnickety son in his condo. He brings his dog and his green and orange striped easy chair, which has a few patches of duct tape. Martin’s chair holds so many memories of the last 20+ years. He was sitting in it when he learned that he was a grandfather.
This show, the Jeffersons, the Redd Fox show would cause the current generation to absolutely explode. They cannot handle this type of satire.
His chair is an iconic part of the show and is in the Smithsonian Institution.
Merry Christmas !😘
I was born in 77 this show was already a hit show when I came along ... but I remember my parents watching All In the Family and the Jeffersons religiously ...I didn't start watching these shows till the early 90s on Nick at night when I was a teenager .. but I instantly fell in love with these shows ... the lovable Aholes 😂..Sanford and Son is another WONDERFUL show... I've never found any shows since that made me genuinely laugh the way these shows do !!!...I think Jr Highs and High Schools should have a class where they watch these shows and teach these kids how to laugh again .. at themselves and eachother .. laughter brings ppl together... if you can laugh together.. you can love together ❤.. the world stopped being fun when everyone decided to get butthurt so easy...I'm so glad I grew up in a generation that making fun of someone and laughing meant we liked each other❤
Merry Christmas 🌲
Pretty sure that chair is in the Smithsonian Museum. Also, Norman Lear created the series--he create many of the most controversial comedies from that era--just passed away THIS month. He was 101 years old!
0:56 The beer cans on Carol Burnette and Mama's family were HUGE, same for the coke cans.
For the record, I would pay for a patreon where you reacted to full length episodes. :)
A very Merry Christmas to you and your families dear! 🎄🎅🤶🎁🎄
Archie's chair is on display in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. (Along with Fonsie's leather jacket!!
Rob Reiner ( the Meathead ) is the son of the late, iconic tv/movie actor, comedian, producer, Carl Reiner, whose career spanned 7 decades. He is perhaps best known for producing ( & playing an occasional role in) the wildly popular Dick Van Dyke show in the early 60's. One of his funniest scenes was when the Mary Tyler Moore character went to his office to apologize for accidentally making public the fact that he was bald. (His character was a tv comedian, & Mary's husband was one of his writers). The scene is probably on 'the tube'. Cheers!
2:25 Yup, he was a living legend
That chair is in the Smithsonian museum in D.C. in the, uh, you know, the chair part, meathead. Where else would they put it?
Have a very blessed and merry Christmas
I saw Archie Bunkers' chair in DC at the Smithsonian Institute. Along with Howdy Doody and Fonzys leather jacket.
Archie's chair is literally in the Smithsonian Museum. Or one of those museums, lol. 😂😂😂
Archie Bunkers chair is in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. It is iconic.
Merry Christmas to you and your family 😊
Merry Christmas! 🎁🌠🌲
That's HIS chair. So he's always there. It was one of my favorite parts of visiting the Smithsonian on that 8th grade trip. (Edith's is there too.)
If you didn't get offended, and believe me it offended everyone, then it was truly a laugh out loud show. So funny.
Merry Christmas Britt!! I hope Santa brings you everything you want.
Black people didn't get offended by the show because they were used the opinions of people like Archie. The television show pointed out the racism and buffoonery of those type people and that's where the laughs came from.
@@beaujac311Exactly, the show wasn't racist, it was showing how stupid it was to be racist.
not surprising that you miss the point of the show -
For comedy from this era you could check out a show called "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In". It was the fastest and hippest show of this time period.
Thank you for your reaction to Archie!! I grew up in a family with 4 kids, me being the baby, and mom/dad. We would sit in the den and watch this on the only tv we had which was a console color tv (and if you had a console tv, you were somebody)!! Oh and your laugh is so cute!!!
I’m glad I was around back when all in the family first came on. Back when TV was good.
Merry Christmas Britt!
That is what endeared Archie to viewers everywhere.
Archie and Edith's chairs are both on display in the Smithsonian Institute in Whashington, DC....
Merry Christmas Brit!!!
Merry Christmas Britt
The recently late Norman Lear was the writer and creator of this show and others. Geo. Jefferson was the same as Archie with the difference of it being that Geo. showed his colors from the black perspective.
George's was a reaction to all the racism he had faced in his life.
Greatest comedic actor in tv history!!
Sadly Norman Lear recently passed away @ 100 yes old. Also holds the record for tge most spinoff from one show
So typical of the time. Totally reminds me of my dad...especially with "his" comfy chair.
The actor with the long hair and mustache is Rob Reiner who is now a celebrated director. In this show he plays Archie's son-in-law.
Great Reaction And Merry Christmas 🎄🎁👍🙏👣💯
Britt, what you have to understand about Archie is that he's a semi-educated bigot (not an outright racist). He grew up in a time when segregation was very prevalent. When the series began, we didn't know exactly how old Archie was, but there's an episode in Season 1 where Archie celebrates his 50th birthday, so that nailed it down. He was born in the early 1920s, lived through the Great Depression and WWII, Korea, and Vietnam was raging when the show debuted. IIRC, he never even made it into High School (still speaking of the character, not the actor, who was in real life, the exact opposite of Archie), because like many people of that era, they had to try and work to help support their families at a young age. So, Archie's level of education was probably topped out in 8th grade. His "social standing" was hard earned, and he had limited exposure to "others", so his opinions were formed on what he was taught by others.
He had no problem using certain words that would be highly shunned, now. He also had a "foil" in his black neighbor George Jefferson. An equally bigoted and opinionated man who built his own business (dry cleaners) from the ground up. Their interactions are absolute comedy GOLD. The two men's wives and children are all very good friends, but they themselves are constantly in conflict. "The Jeffersons" would spin off into their own show, which was also highly successful. In fact, All in the Family would have numerous successful spinoffs, including Maude and Archie Bunker's Place.
Over the years, Archie WOULD mellow quite a bit, and learn that many of his bigoted beliefs were in fact, wrong. If you haven't seen it yet, the time Sammy Davis Jr. cameoed as himself was hysterical! Highly recommend that. But also, you should watch full episodes, many are available here on RUclips.
“Dimples”, baby!❤
My Grandpa had his Chair and my Dad had his Chair. I don't know where or how she grew up but it was like that for a lot of years and still is in many households. Archie was very popular because he somewhat represented millions of blue collar working men and his logic was often very sound.
I grew up watching this show. It's funnier now that I know so much more!
That chair is in the Smithsonian and there was a line 20 or 30 people long to see it.
Now listen little goyl 😉, Archie’s chair was so infamous, it is in the Smithsonian as a tribute to All in the Family and its impact on TV and their audience. Archie was truly an American gem.
Merry Christmas Britt.
Happy Bday Jesus.
That set there is in the Smithsonian museum.
So funny!! Merry Christmas!!😂
Sadly, shows like this will never be made again. Archie, Jeffersons, Sanford and Son, pure greatness. Great reaction!!
There was a whole episode about Archie's chair. Mike (Meathead) sits in it and breaks it, then it ends up in an art gallery while it was being repaired.
The more I rewatch episodes of All In The Family, the more I miss my parents. I wish I could share how much Archie and Edith resembled my folks. Not in the subject matter but their demeanor. My dad was so quick and witty and my mom even looked like Edith. Thanks so much for the reaction.
Simple…yeah. That’s a good word for him. 😊
You are so right about the acting and writing.
I still have not seen a better written and performed character than Archie Bunker
Archie bunker always moved to the beat of his own drum . We miss you carole .
Itbis sad that people now a days think like this seriously. This show brings me back to my childhood years. It was to touch on subjects that a lot of people hid or tolerated and bring them out in the open in a comic way. They did treat Archie as evil but as a normal everyday person. As the series went on and he was exposed to more cultures you could see his growth.
Good you're not taking Archie too seriously. Archie is hilarious & has an appeal to a much broader swath of different people than the easily offended & outraged & wound too tight of today wld hv us believe. Good to see you can see the humor & satire of Archie Bunker. Sort of like watching Blazing Saddles today. Is it a racist movie or a movie that shows us how foolish racism is (while allowing us to laugh)? Keep laughing & smiling - it's contagious!!!
I think we watched every episode, but certainly can’t remember hardly any of them. My dad had “his chair”, unless he wasn’t in the room, and when he walked in, you just automatically got up to reposition!
Fun FACT: Archie & Edith's Chairs and table are now in the Smithsonian Museum.
Yup, I love the accent. I'm not even American but I recognize the same pronunciations in old 3 Stooges movies and Big Bunny cartoons. "Why soitenly little goil" I could hear any of these characters saying something like that. Anyways, that accent is almost nonexistent now.
Archie Bunkers Chair is in the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC
This was one of the best shows of the 70s.
your brooklyn accent was priceless! Def made my day
The writing was another level
THAT chair is in the Smithsonian!!
Best show ever!