All in the family

[gord klassen]

Hi,
Anyone want to post their favorite moment?

Mine was when Edith went through the change of life, and
Archie didn't know how to deal with it...=)
seeya
Gordo

[Perry and Lauri]

gkla...@wpcusrgrp.org (gord klassen) wrote:

That WAS hilarious!! I think this was the episode where she told HIM
to stifle, stifle, stifle. LOL!!
Lauri

[Trudi Marrapodi]

In article <57sh7q$t...@top.MTS.Net>, gkla...@wpcusrgrp.org (gord klassen)
wrote:

> Hi,
> Anyone want to post their favorite moment?
>
> Mine was when Edith went through the change of life, and
> Archie didn't know how to deal with it...=)
> seeya
> Gordo

My favorite moments were when Edith would begin to tell a story in her
long and involved way...not leaving out one single irrelevant,
off-on-a-tangent detail...and Archie would mimic committing suicide in
some way or another as a way out of his agony, while she continued on,
completely oblivious.

I remember once he hanged himself, and one time slashed his wrists (I
remember this one most because he mimed plucking a hair out of his head to
test the sharpness of the "razor"). I think he also played Russian
roulette.

I think this was one of the funniest things for me because my mother tells
stories this way. My sisters and I still refer to this style as an "Edith
Bunker story." "OK, so tell me how the car got banged up...and don't make
it an Edith Bunker story!"

I also loved his malapropisms, like "groinocologist," his reference to any
and all feminists in the media as "Helen Gurley Steinway," etc.

Maybe the most memorable episode was the one where he got accidentally
locked in the bar storeroom with Meathead Mike, and they both got drunk
and he began telling that poignant story about how when he was a kid he
was so poor he had to go to school wearing one boot and one shoe, and the
other kids called him "Shoe-bootie." And how Mike began to see the roots
of his bigotry...how he'd learned it at his father's knee...he didn't
think think his father who loved him could ever be wrong, so when he
called people of other races names, Archie thought it was OK.

FInally, one of my favorite lines from the show of all time. A friend asks
Edith whether sex with Archie isn't all fireworks "like the Fourth of
July." "Well..." contemplates Edith, "with me and Archie, it's more like
Thanksgiving."

Trudi
www...@frontiernet.net

[mben...@aol.com]

My favorite was when he kissed the female impersonator on the lips. I
thought my Dad would have a heart attack laughing.( was that the one where
Gloria had her baby? In the phone booth?)

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[G. Jeffrey Gower]

On 1 Dec 1996, gord klassen wrote:
> Anyone want to post their favorite moment?

The entire run of that great show was terrific! At least until Edith
died and it became "Archie's Place" or something like that. Alot of the
magic was lost then, IMO.

Jeff

[Garrison Hack]

: >Anyone want to post their favorite moment?

This is probably one of the most difficult questions that I've seen on
this newsgroup. There were so many outstanding episodes that dealt with
very pressing subjects that the time. I guess the one that I remember
most was the episode with the octagenarian whom Edith brought home. The
guy's presence in the Bunker home gave Archie nightmares. The guy was
waiting for his friend Jo(e) to pick him up. Jo(e) turned out to be a
woman with whom he was going to shack up. I remember one of the memorable
lines in which the old man says to Archie something like, "May you never
know the troubles of old age."

[lonew...@aol.com]

I can't pick a favorite moment, but I can certainly list a few of the
worst moments.
One word: Spin-offs. Although I did like the "Jeffersons", I can't say the
same about "Gloria" or "Archie's Place". Gee, what ever happened to
Danielle Brisbois anyway? ;)

[Dennis McGee]

In article <583ke2$f...@nnrp1.news.primenet.com>, Garrison Hack
<pig...@primenet.com> wrote:

>There were so many outstanding episodes that dealt with very pressing
>subjects that the time. I guess the one that I remember most was the
>episode with the octagenarian whom Edith brought home.

Probably the most riveting episode to me was when Mike's draft-evading
friend was invited over to the Bunkers' for Christmas dinner, along with a
Silver Star Vietnam War dad. O'Connors' performance was so intense that
night that as I remember parts of the inevitable confrontation were edited
out for subsequent showings.

As for the most hilarious, I'd probably have to go with Edith & "the change".

I once wrote a college paper in English Composition about Archie's
"Bunkerisms" -- the malaproprisms that were more like Fruedian slips ("Miss
Information", "Manual", "Hard Pore Cornography", etc.).

What a ground-breaking show, perfect for the times.

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[willkap]

Garrison Hack wrote:
>
> : >Anyone want to post their favorite moment?
>
> This is probably one of the most difficult questions that I've seen on

> this newsgroup. There were so many outstanding episodes that dealt with

> very pressing subjects that the time. I guess the one that I remember

> most was the episode with the octagenarian whom Edith brought home. The
> guy's presence in the Bunker home gave Archie nightmares. The guy was
> waiting for his friend Jo(e) to pick him up. Jo(e) turned out to be a
> woman with whom he was going to shack up. I remember one of the memorable
> lines in which the old man says to Archie something like, "May you never
> know the troubles of old age."

It wasn't one particular moment, but the way Archie reacted to things.
Like sometimes Mike would make a terrific, poignant point that Archie
would actually seem to be listening to. The audience would stop in
their tracks, thinking "He GOT Archie. There's no way he can refute
that!" and then Archie would pause for just the right moment and then
stick out his tongue and give Mike a huge raspberry. Or he'd just go
"Well, whoop - de - doo!"

[p.b.]

Believe it or not, she recorded an album for Sony about two years ago.
It was a Mariah Carey-like record of sappy love songs.

[Rara Avis]

On Tue, 3 Dec 1996 09:21:40 -0500, "G. Jeffrey Gower"
<jgo...@mtholyoke.edu> wrote:

>On 1 Dec 1996, gord klassen wrote:
>> Anyone want to post their favorite moment?
>

>The entire run of that great show was terrific! At least until Edith
>died and it became "Archie's Place" or something like that. Alot of the
>magic was lost then, IMO.
>
>Jeff

Rara Avis replied:

I really enjoyed watching that show with my parents. The topics
frequently covered the taboo issues of the day. We had a lot of family
conversations following the shows. Archie going to the terlet and
flushing was pretty risque back then. Now it seems nostalgically
amusing. I was pretty disappointed like yourself in the final
episodes, especially when Mike and Gloria divorced. Looked upon them
as a youth as the "together," couple in contrast to a stowic
generation that preceeded.

[msde...@aol.com]

I always remember thinking that the Bunkers were like my own grandparents.
A large, boisterous white -haired man who had his "chair" and cigar and
beer who's bark was much worse than his bite. And a curly short-haired
woman in a flowered house-dress who waited on him and seemed to outsiders
to be under his thumb while in reality she quietly made his world go
around.

Devane