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LessAspin

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12. Archie Bunker'd

Reply to left-of-center2012 (Original post)

Tue Jul 16, 2019, 01:03 PM

Jul 2019

Actually I'm encouraged to read your description of the episode. I didn't get a chance to watch it and I probably wouldn't have even if i could. Was never a fan of the show so I'm glad they picked a script that depicted the worst of Archie.

Emily Nussbaum was on Fresh Air yesterday and talked about some of the pushback that Norman Lear received at the time. Lear defended the Archie Bunker character by saying hey we all have that bigoted relative that we love anyhow.

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Did Archie Bunker pave the way for Trump or just foreshadow Trump?

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Did you watch Norman Lear special, "All in the Family," "The Jeffersons"? [View all] left-of-center2012 May 2019 OP

Live performance (plays) are very hard to translate to tv. hlthe2b May 2019 #1

My husband went to a taping of the Jeffersons and he said they were so professional kimbutgar May 2019 #2

"then he saw facts of life" left-of-center2012 May 2019 #3

In Los Angeles at the studios kimbutgar May 2019 #4

Agree on Woody. Everyone else were pnwest May 2019 #5

I agree, "The Jeffersons" was more spot on. I enjoyed it more. brush May 2019 #8

Woody was miscast IMO. I would have tried for Sean Penn, Russel Crow or Alec Baldwin Auggie May 2019 #9

Or Steve Carell Auggie May 2019 #10

Did They Bleep Some Of The Dialogue?..... global1 May 2019 #6

It was so-so, but I had no expectations one way or the other. The Jefferson's episode seemed dameatball May 2019 #7

I watched both of them. femmocrat May 2019 #11

Archie Bunker'd LessAspin Jul 2019 #12

"we all have that bigoted relative that we love anyhow" left-of-center2012 Jul 2019 #13