All In The Family - Archie's Eulogy for Stretch Cunningham (1976 episode-7.19)
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2018
- ARCHIE: Like he told the one about the Priest said to the Rabbi, “How come you never eat no ham?” And the Rabbi said, “Well, it’s against my religion”. And the Rabbi said to the Priest, “How come you never go out with a girl?” And the Priest said, “Well that’s against my religion”. And the Rabbi said, “You outta try it, it’s better than ham”.
"A Perfectly Imperfect Eulogy: Archie Bunker’s best friend, Stretch Cunningham, died unexpectedly of a heart attack, and he is asked to give a eulogy. Feeling he is over his head, he enlists his son-in-law, the Meathead, to help him write the eulogy. Mike himself is an atheist, but Archie convinces him to include mentions of Jesus Christ, trying to be sensitive towards Stretch’s faith. What Archie does not know is that Stretch was Jewish. The show, “All in the Family,” famously dealt with social issues. Racism was among the regular topics. They wrestled with black-white relations, anti-Semitism, and related concerns. But Stretch was his best friend, making it all beyond mere tolerance. He loved Stretch. When Archie approaches the podium, he realizes his written eulogy is inappropriate and does his best to adjust. He wings it in a very Archie Bunker style. What he really came to say comes through, and that is that Stretch was a good friend and that he’ll miss him. Edith is deeply touched, knowing that beneath Archie’s awkwardness, he did the best he could.
Why It Works: Funny and heartfelt, Archie demonstrates that love is the most important element of a good eulogy. We see Archie and Mike working together despite their differences. Archie learns a little about religious sensitivity, pausing to realize that he wished he knew his friend better. When we think of the essentials of a eulogy, Archie had it. In his case, in any good eulogy, he got out of his skin. It wasn’t about him. It was about the deceased. With that, Stretch was honored and his family remembered him in a way outside of their experience. Archie Bunker’s eulogy is up with the best."
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The delivery of that “shalom” perfectly captures the brilliance of the show and it’s lead actor.
"Until his father sat him down & 'said no more of that!'" I choked on air! 😂
Well it IS kind of true! LOL Most of Archie's comments about things DID have SOME logic to them. Christianity DID replace Judaism which was the covenant God made with Abraham.
😂😂😂😂
"Jesus was a jew, ... til his father sat him down and told him 'No more of that.'" oh God that was so good.
Only on his mother's side
@Michael Smith I was quoting a line Archie said on the show
@@stephenhershey1414 A Jew is such only according to the mother.
@@yehoshuacirt8645 If that is so then why in the OT and NT does lineage always issue from the patrilineal? It's always son of Nun or son of Amos etc...
@@richardrykard3246 "Jewishness" is maternal. All other matters like priesthood, tribe, and inheritance are paternal. Last names have always been paternal. The Jewish soul specifically is solely passed forward by the mother. Regarding the terms OT and NT: I have no connection with NT. So I can't be asked about that. (OT we call Scriptures, not "old testament").
God, I miss this show… ‘’Archie’’ definitely added years to my life.
Carroll O’Connor was a damn national treasure. Beautiful, moving performance.
I wholeheartedly agreee.
Indeed!
He provided many, when Edith died is my favorite. How could a bigot make it rain. Carol O'connor was phenomenal.
So very true. A genius was Carroll O’Connor
@@daBEAGLE1017 he really was. To change gears like that towards the end of his speech was amazing.
There is NO WAY that this is not the greatest eulogy in television history. Funny at times - hilariously so - and touching and moving as well. And of course Carroll O'Connor was, as ever, brilliant as Archie Bunker.
I agree. I nominate the "Chuckes the Clown" funeral from Mary Tyler Moore for second place.
Have you seen John Cleese's eulogy for Graham Chapman? ruclips.net/video/CkxCHybM6Ek/видео.html
I agree
Just goes to show, even bigots can have a heart when it's needed!
Chuckles The Clown on the Mary Tyler Moore Show gives it a run for its money.
This eulogy adds years to your life.
This show adds years to your life. BRILLIANT television programming.
I'm Jewish myself and I think that was one of the funniest scenes from the entire series! One of the greatest shows ever, I would laugh about his commentary about Jews just as much as everything else he said. Of course, with the ultra sensitive generation we have now, this show could never come out today. We are missing out on alot.
"Ultra-sensitive" = thin skinned.
I heard there was a gold mine in the sky. All the jews joined the air force
I have great respect for the jews as a religion and people. I am a catholic and we forget that Jesus was a jew. We are supposed to honor them as God's people.
@@evaschroeder4020 he was "until his Father sat him down and said, 'no more of that.'"
@@spiveym 😂 Jesus will always be ethnically jewish. All the biblical figures of the old testament were. I am part ethnically jewish myself. The people in my family were jews who converted to Catholicism.
From a time when we could laugh at ourselves... Respect
"I heard it said having the Blues takes years off of your life and if that's true then laughing puts years ON your life. And if that's true then Stretch put years on my life!"
I'm admitting that tears came when Archie talked about laughing making one's life longer. Very very touching end of eulogy. He's still making us laugh.. Bless you Archie!!
You could actually see tears in Carrol O'Connor's eyes. He was one of the greatest of all time.
Cyndi, I’ve seen this at least a dozen times and when it originally aired as well and I never laughed so hard and cried so hard at the same time. This scene, even through television seemed so real. The thing that set Archie apart from those that are ignorant was the fact that he was so honest in his own ignorance.
@@SThompsonRAMM_1203 I'm impressed by your comment. Ignorance/honest ignorance...
There's a huge difference between the two. Kudos in your observations, well said!
@@cyndik9921 awe, thank you so much for making my day.
I think that remark is attributed to Norman Lear.
"Maybe he thought it would."
One of the low-key most tragic lines ever. That you learn your best friend was hiding a massive part of his or her life, because he was afraid of losing that friendship, and you'll never be able to tell him you're sorry.
I was very young when this show first aired - too young to have seen the first couple of seasons. But I seem to remember this episode as being something of a turning point for Archie. He started to evolve just a little bit, and be ever so slightly more tolerant. Norman Lear has said the key trait of Archie was that he was afraid of change. Over the course of the show, he got a little more comfortable with it.
I think Arch would have still liked him. Arch was all bluff most of the time. He had a kind heart. After all he took in Stephanie who was Jewish and tried to be respectful of her religion He bought her a star of David and celebrated Shabbat dinner with her.
@@SonicandTheTailsboysyou're completely right. Those of us who watched the show regularly for years and actually paid close attention to Archie, you realize he's nowhere near as bad as some people make him out to be. He was just an awkward, uneducated confused man who didn't realize a lot of things in life and mishandled many situations. But at the core he was a good guy with better intentions than what showed on the surface.
Archie was a work in progress
"A Jewish name ain't supposed to have no ham in it, Edith!" Classic.
Noah's son ham was what first came to mind.
@@AmyJones-to8mh Or Abraham...
@@AmyJones-to8mh maybe stretch was related to Noah somehow.
Yeah! That was hilarious.
You gotta keep the Jewish food away from the Gentile food or else it loses its kosher...
Don't forget your beanie! I love it when he starts telling a Jewish joke! 🤣🤣🤣
As far as sitcom writing, it doesn't get any better than this!
I love how the Rabbi never says anything during the eulogy, but his facial expressions tell us everything we need to know.
That one guy in the audience keeps looking like he's going to get up and hit Archie!
Ediths are gold too
I give the actor standing up beside him full credit for keeping a straight face throughout.👍🏾😊
Probably had to do 14 takes to get it done!
Charles Siebert, character actor, one of those "he's that guy in everything" actors, Blue Sunshine to narrow it down for me.
Rest in piece Mr. Siebert.
Charles Siebert was arguably the best celebrity player ever on $100,000 Pyramid.
They recorded every episode twice in the same day with two different audiences. That way if someone messed up in a scene they could easily just pick the scene from the other recording. I still remember a scene from James Bond where a boat runs over a wedding cake, and the bride cries, but the groom starts to smile, and they cut the film just as he was starting to smile. I noticed that the first time I saw that movie, and the Director was probably fuming when he saw the groom smiling, but decided to cut it there. ruclips.net/video/cZmSeIgBZu8/видео.html
Hard not to lose it when Archie taps the casket and says shalom...
I came close to doing just that.
Teary eyed moment right there 🥲
❤
Poignant indeed.
Well-written and well-performed. I went from laughing to crying in a matter of seconds.
The way he ends it with a "shalom", putting his hand on the coffin, almost made me tear up.
@@77barrymacit harkens back to the episode where Edith asked how do you know when Shalom is hello or goodbye.
One of those moments like Sally Field in Steel Magnolias when the whole audience was crying and then they told her to slap ouisa and then everyone was crying and laughing at the same time.
What I always liked about All in the Family were those moments when Archie’s deepest feelings came out and what was revealed was not a bigot or racist but a tender hearted guy who was just living his life in the context of his own ignorance. Some of that ignorance was his own fault but some of it wasn’t. The fact is that we all say and do insensitive things. We are all bigoted at times. Certainly we are all ignorant at times. There are levels of ignorance as well. Some ignorance is worse than others.
The writers were good at creating a heartfelt eulogy that would have been spoken by a regular working guy from that time and place. I have worked alongside people like this in my life. They have the rough edges, they talk rough, make off coloured jokes, etc but often are salt of the earth people. In our current age of insincere outrage, political correctness gone crazy, and a moral superiority that looks down on people who are often completely misunderstood it would be nice to have a few more Archie Bunkers in the world. It’s what is deep down inside you that counts. Like the good book says, man looks at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart.
I think you summoned it up pretty nicely, he was ignorant at times and we all say things that are insensitive to others. Here’s he is saying things that may be inappropriate but he really loved Stretch as a person. I grew up watching All In The Family a lot of the episodes were controversial at times.
Well put. Archie did not like other people in context but when the time came, his heart took over and realized his mistake. Remember the episode he was recruited into the KKK. When he found out, he turned that down with furor. That right there showed you that his real intentions were good and he was a good man. This was a brilliant show with the best possible acting, especially the two elders. They could make you laugh, then make you cry at the same time.
nicely put sheldon
Sheldon: you said very beautiful thoughts. Carrol O'Connor was a brilliant actor.
Glad I got to watch this show Growing Up
That was an acting clinic. He's such a good actor.
Carroll O'Connor was one of the greatest TV actors of all time.
Norman Lear was the greatest sitcom writer of all time also.
Carroll was and still is The Greatest TV actor of all time.
THE greatest. Alan Alda is second.😊👍🏾
@@Dan-nt2yb AA is good but too cheesy. I prefer Warner Klemperer as one of the greatest.
He was THE BEST!
This scene is gold. Carroll O'Connor was a genius.
And he had some truly great writers.
This whole show was so unbelievably ahead of its time….has to be the #1 most groundbreaking show Hollywood has ever produced !!
@@MrManfly it was the most watched show in the USA when it aired
So were the writers. ☺️
As were the writers of course.😊
Carroll O'Connor created the most indelible... and important... character in the history of American Television. Case closed.
I actually fully agree with you!
Too effing sad that today’s American voters are so.....( ). Insert something plz
The Jews that have always ruled hollywood, would manage to find ways to insert judaism into their shows. For the record, I like conservative jews. ie. Mark Levin.
Don't forget Fred G Sanford son😆
@@trowerz the word is “pussified”
Carroll and Jean were just the BEST!
I thought Archie did a beautiful job with Stretch's eulogy delivery. I'm sure Stretch would be looking down smiling upon Arch. Especially when Arch told Stretch's joke...
Archie was the most brutally honest characters.
True story: When my son was born, and they handed him to me, for some reason I remembered Archie and I said: "Welcome to the world. little one. This is your mommy, and I'm your daddy, and now I'm going to tell you a joke." And I told him Archie's joke about the priest and the rabbi.
Archie was so funny here, I don't think I ever saw him put his foot in his mouth more. But he loved Stretch, and that shows.
It's sad and a shame that our nation has devolved to the point where we can't have fantastic shows like this anymore.
Political correctness has now gone a great step further, and is now censoring those who don't agree with them. We got real issues going forward.
It was the same then. The show was made to make fun of conservatives. Problem is, even the hard leftists who wrote it couldn't get past that even the basest conservatives are still good people at heart.
@@frankcabanski9409 Notice how Norman Lear softened the character of Archie Bunker over the years. He never intended for Archie Bunker to be so accepted by the American people.
Don Rickles used to skewer us. Didn't matter if you were black, fat, Asian, Mexican, or Arab. And we laughed our asses off because we were proud to be Americans, after the big wars of the middle 1900s. Archie did the same thing, but he saw things beginning to change and didn't like it. And today, we see Archie, despite his bigotry, was correct. Today they're so busy cancelling everything, Archie wouldn't recognize this as America anymore. If we had these hateful libtards running around here in 1945, we'd all be speaking German with pictures of Hitler on our walls at home.
@@garylobo348
Amen brother.
I love how Carroll O'Connor leaves you gasping with all the awkwardly delivered humor, and once you think you can't stand any more, he delivers truly kind, tender and heartfelt words with some of the best dramatic acting that ANYONE could deliver! A master actor!
You could SEE Archie's pain and sadness in losing his dear friend as O'Connor paused and at long last with great emotion delivered his parting "shalom" to Stretch.
I needed a good laugh and cry today.
This never fails to put me in hysterics only to leave me bawling like a baby.
Great writing, and great delivery from a great actor.
Still one of the greatest sitcoms in history.
One of the greatest scenes in television history.
Agree. I think the best scene was in the Christmas episode with the draft dodger. Archie's line "I don't want to talk about that goddamn war anymore".
@@mcpbaa3000 I also agree with that.
Poor Archie, he meant well, he was a loveable bigot who's heart was in the right place, but his foot was in his mouth a majority of the time. God bless Edith, " don't forget your beanie"... LOL!
The last word Archie said brought tears to my eyes! Shalom RIP Stretch.
Stretch's joke was actually pretty funny.
Amazing that the guy beside Archie could keep a straight face!
Charles Siebert
What a great show. They could have you crying laughing one second, then crying from emotion the next.
All in the Family shifted seamlessly from comedy to drama (and vice versa) I've never seen another TV show do it that well.
@@mindriot91_96 greatest show in history. Watch the episode sometime where Mike and Gloria say goodbye. Challenge you to ever find better television
I love this show because it'll have you laughing and crying at the same time
As a Jew, I only wish there were MORE episodes like this! Satire is great!!! I envy the blacks, bc they got more jokes in, lolss! RIP Carroll O’Connor! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻💕💕💕💕💕
Watch the series, Archie rips on all. Watch the Jeffersons, its just as edgy.
Bless you.
Canzuk...just in case you didn't know this show , All in The Family was based directly on the British Till Death Us Do Part, a great show in its own right, while Alf and Archie are different they both gave so many so much to laugh at to help in tough social times.
Sadly, this kind of satire is fading. I wish the cancel culture mobs of today knew that scenes like this actually unite us.
The Jewish people have always had the best sense of humor..the greatest? ...Mel Brooks...
To the whole cast of All in the Family .. Thank you for the memories and laughs .
Honestly, during COVID...I have been watching all of these episodes and they were so brilliant and so incredible and THERE IS SO MUCH TO LEARN FROM THEM...SO MANY DEEP THEMES...my grandfather, who was Republican and my dad, who was liberal, used to love and watch the show and argued about the things that came up on the show. Watching "All In The Family" is getting me through this very difficult time.
Bless you. Your father and grandfather were for whom the show was made. It broke all previous taboos and opened up real dialogue about real life at the time .. And continues today because most of those themes are timeless. According to Norman Lear, the creator, he himself was the liberal growing up in his home and his father was a true Archie. So it came naturally to Lear when he got the rights to England's Til Death Us Do Part, and adopted it for American TV.
Epic acting skills brilliant delivery had me crying and laughing at the same time
My favorite scene! Shalom, Archie!
Powerful performance. Leads up to the the climax with humorous and ending it on a heartfelt note. Archie is more nervous and out of his element than anything in this scene.
Used to watch this show in its first run way back growing up.
"..unless your over on this end" classic
When he says, "Jesus was a Jew til his father sat him down and told him, "no more of dat."🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That WAS a hoot.....the "beanie" cracked me up, too.....
Hilarious
"It wouldn't have made no difference." That means a lot coming from a man like Archie. One of his finest moments on TV.
As funny as he is, it's made all the more powerful but what I think the greatest thing about Archie is, ....his pathos, when he says Shalom at the end ,.....he made me cry.
Whenever Archie Bunker had a tender moment, it was always touching. Carroll O’Connor was one of the best TV actors of all time. He and Jean were a perfect on screen pair.
Wow. 4 Emmys for playing Archie. Quintessential example of why.
The ham joke is awesome.
Both ham jokes were good.
My father never watched TV until All In The Family went on the Air.
Because of this show, we finally got our first Color TV
I was a Little girl when all in the family first came on the air it came on at 9pm I was not aloud to watch it and I had to go to school the next day but I could hear the Shem song thoses were the days with Edith jean Stapleton voice who could forget that voice when she sang you new all in the family was on it was one of the greatest shows of all time
The "Shem" song? I guess there were more things about All in the Family we didn't know were Jewish than just Stretch Cunningham.
So, were you ALLOWED to sing "the Shem song"?
Don’t forget your beanie 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Archie once called it a yamaha
The ending…I am all verklempt. 😢❤
Carroll O'Connor's role as Archie Bunker is easily one of the best character ever on TV. The writing is amazing of course and the ability to portray the Bunker character with such humanity was truly amazing.
No tv show today can make you laugh and bring you to tears in a couple of minutes of the same scene at that... brilliant writing and a masterpiece of acting
When you're in a hole STOP DIGGING yourself deeper. This was a good episode.
TV was never greater than All in the Family..and this is among its greatest moments. The high water mark for modern comedy...rip Carroll & the great Norman Lear.
I could not agree with you MO’s !!!
Funniest thing I have seen in years. Could not stop laughing.
One of THE best scenes. Such masterful acting and writing. ❤
I was a kid when this show was on and I never appreciated it until I became an adult. Archie always struggled with mainstream beliefs, but when it came down to it, he had a heart. When he starts with the “blues and laughter” at the end, you can’t help but be touched, because you see him trying to be a better man.
Same here. But that was the secret to understanding Archie. He was trying his best to cope in a changing world which he could not accept or understand and with limited education. He was also abused by his father as a child. But deep down under, he WAS accepting of good people.
Shalom from a gentile to the Great Norman Lear!
I’ve heard that priest and rabbi joke. It’s hilarious.
This was masterful - and touching. Kudos to both Carol O’Connor and the brilliant writers.
This is before the world got sensitive...
Not "sensitive", uncaring.
@@usernamemykel yes fake sensitive cancel culture isn't genuine
@@usernamemykelAgreed
@usernamemykel well said
Exactly what rock were you and/or anyone you know who was alive in the 1970s living under, to preclude awareness of how much of a cultural landmine this show was?
The things I have trouble wrapping my head around is how different people looked in those days.
When Mr. O'Connor started on All in the Family, he was 49 years old. I'm sixty this year and Archie could easily look like my father.
It is so weird how people aged so much more rapidly in those days. We know life was harder back then, but no one looks as old as Archie and Edith nawadays, in their late 40s.
Smoking was the biggest reason people looked so old for sure, but nutrition, regular exercise has changed a lot. If you died in your sixties in 1975, no one would say, "Oh, he died so young."
Life expectancy is up almost 15 years from that time period. Makes one wonder why people with so much are all so miserable. Back then people had shorter lives, but they seemed... Happier? Maybe more content?
But it is how they looked that I find so strange.
I notice this a lot on old shows. I mean look at Bob Newhart, he's looked the same for 50 years. LOL
Apparently inflation applies to aging too, not just money
Moved me to tears at the end. Awesome actor
A man whose two greatest roles, iconic roles, were as a racist and in life he was the least racist, most generous, and genuinely decent and kind man to have ever walked the earth.
Probably one of the greatest actors America produced as well.
A truly great man.
He also played the unprejudiced Mississippi police chief William Gillespie for seven season on In the Heat of the Night. Talk about being a great actor? You would think it would be impossible for an actor who played Archie Bunker to take on an entirely different role and succeed in playing a character so different from the iconic character he is best known for. And it’s a dramatic role at that! Great actor, indeed.
I wouldn't call Archie a racist.
I am 58....and watched tons of Archie Bunker and George Jefferson in the 70's. My grandmother's cousin's son is Norman Lear. I 100% get this in 2022!
'All In The Family' equals Classic.... Every characters were equally important to the show....
What a fabulous actor Mr. O'Connor was!
The way edith, was looking at Archie, at 5.54 her look had a heart break, on her face.
The guy in front of her, lol!
1976 Episode. and we are still Laughing at this CLASSIC scene. That Priest/Rabbi Joke. to funny.
You could never tell he was Jewish by looking at his face, and I never seen nothing else!
🤣👍
Yeah, and then that look on Edith’s face! 🤣
I like the way Archie mixes the words "Eulogy" and "Urology".
The most moving episode was when Gloria and Mike move to California and Archie says Good Bye to Mike !!!
True - the last scene of the two alone and camera panning away is very spooky - like if someone died. Also the episode where the door remote control device inventor visits their home and he dies inside in the sofa because he was ill. That had a touching end as well. Great acting.
@@mr.aerial1885 That should have been the last episode, the final season with Steph was plum awful. Although he did get her the star of david
That was simply the best episode of television in history
I disagree. I think the most moving episode, which was technically on Archie Bunker's Place, was when Edith dies and he does the monologue with Edith's slipper then breaks down and cries. That NEVER fails to make me tear up. O'Connor is SO brilliant that you literally cannot tell he's acting. Its just SO real!
No laugh track. Just pure comedy. The best.
The mustache mans face after the joke 😄
I remember that actor. He worked on several shows as an extra that were shot at the Channel 11 Studios in Hollywood.
@@randomstranger7202 Do you know the name of that actor?
@@adamlorber I never knew his name, but I think he worked on an episode of Maude that I was in titled "Maude's class reunion"
Oh Archie. Ya just kept diggin yourself deeper god bless ya.
Well, this was laugh out loud funny!
Watching this, I miss my dad soooo much. I can just hear him laughing his head off.
Indeed. I had the same thought. Some of my earliest memories were of my dad cracking up over something Archie said.
He was amazing.
I watched All In The Family all the time !!! This episode was by far, the best one that showed Archie’s “TRUE” nature ( as he acted it), and the way that he portrayed it was worn an Oscar award…….any day !!! Just the SHALOM said it all !!! ❤️😢💔🙏😊❤️👍
There've been few comedies that made me laugh out loud like All in the Family... This was brilliant
This is a great episode. Archie was crude and rough on the outside, but he had a heart the size of a 55 gallon drum.
A Heart Of Gold
The words of wisdom from Archie Bunker ..🤣🤣🤣😂.. if we would have listened to Archie Bunker how many years ago . This world would be a better place and safer for all...
Caroll O'Connor was one of the finest actors to grace our living rooms! He was Wonderful in "Heat of the Night" as well.
Nothing like him, or his TV shows on to watch now! Didn't know how good we had it entertainment-wise in the 70's and 80's til NOW!!
It's so typically Archie! I just saw him in the old movie Kelly's Heroes, and his character never changes. He was a great star and character actor!
I'm sure Stretch was looking down smiling upon Archie's eulogy...
When God made Archie Bunker the Lord must of dropped the mold because you will never see a character like him again!!! All in the family was the funniest show ever and even to this day I still laugh hard at the many time's I have watched the reruns!!
One of the greatest scenes in TV history! The looks on some of those faces. .......priceless!
Too bad Mr. Pendergas, Black Elmo, Little Emanuel, or Hank weren't able to attend the service... 😟
Shalom, Stretch!
Archie can eulogize me any time at all! Just don't forget your beanie!!!
Love this!
This show should be required viewing today.
This great comedy should be on reruns
Every 5 years or so TV Land puts AITF on its airwaves
Carroll O'Connor delivering awkward humor as Archie Bunker has definitely added years to my life . Thank you Mr O'Connor for a job well done
“You oughta try it (girls), it’s better then ham!” How true!!! 😂
It's quite telling to see as Archie wraps up his eulogy and steps off the podium the American flag comes into view. Where else but the good old U.S.A. can such seemingly diverse people come together and unify to build an exceptional & extraordinary society.
Thank you for posting.
I noticed that too !!! Diversity is good. It's sad that we live in times where too often it is used to divide us.
@@vladlenin2698 What the world needs now is more Stretch Cunningham's!
@@nelsonphilip4520 😀
Carroll O'Connor could be honored by calling that fantastic zoomshot after him. The Archie Bunker zoom at 5:25. Fantastic actor, very moving.