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Mr Archie Bunker

Mr. Archie Bunker
For the good ole days did hunker
   
   Confronted with 'ethnics' or punkers
   He turned green at the gills...went bonkers

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Hannah Borke

Date: 11/27/2019 1:00:00 PM

That show sets the humor bar so high that all other shows are relatively boring.

Hannah Borke
Date: 11/27/2019 7:25:00 PM

The writers and actors — genius! I’d want to contact Norman Lear and thank him for the fun, but I think that’s impossible

Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/27/2019 5:33:00 PM

I'm with you, Hannah! What a show!!... Although I know those who were at the opposite end of the opinion spectrum; I think they took TV shows way too seriously. Either that, or they had lost their sense of humor somewhere along life's journey... Thanks! Cheers, Gershon

John Gondolf

Date: 11/10/2019 2:51:00 PM

And he lovingly told Edith to stifle, those were the days. Nicely written, Gershon. All the best. John

Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/10/2019 4:24:00 PM

Yeah. What a show that was... They would have had to censor a lot of it today, I guess. Thanks, John

John Lawless

Date: 11/10/2019 7:49:00 AM

a humor that exposed the inanity of so much of the behavior of the times

Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/10/2019 1:19:00 PM

Love your label, inanity, for those not-so-great 'old days.' Thanks, John. ~ Gershon

Caren Krutsinger

Date: 11/10/2019 3:35:00 AM

I love the fact that he was in no way a bigot in real life, only for the show.

Gershon Wolf
Date: 11/10/2019 1:18:00 PM

I think that Archie was actually more liberal than 'Meathead!' I preferred his TV version to his real-life 'do-gooder persona. Oh, well. Just my taste. ~ gw