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When AITF first came on, one of the biggest fans was my grandfather, who dying of cancer. He loved that show. We all snickered behind his back because he WAS Archie Bunker. He told my mother when she was young never to date an Italian because they all sleep with their daughters. He had something to say about the Irish, black people, and Chinese, women, etc.
When AITF first came on, one of the biggest fans was my grandfather, who dying of cancer. He loved that show. We all snickered behind his back because he WAS Archie Bunker. He told my mother when she was young never to date an Italian because they all sleep with their daughters. He had something to say about the Irish, black people, and Chinese, women, etc.
It was said here in philly that italian guys sleep with their sisters by a Phillies Manager in 1993 on sports radio-LOL
I liked aitf but to me sometimes it was not funny because that was my reality, my dad and grandfather were archie... and very dysfunctional. I am sure I was not alone. Personally I thought Edith's character was the real glue that made that show work.
If you think about it, Archie is not all that different from Homer Simpson; Archie could be nastier, and more prejudiced, but they are similar in many ways...
I forgot how sad that scene was. The show was going downhill for a while before that but really tanked after Edith died and Maureen Stapleton left the show.
Archie was many things but he wasn't a bad person, far from it. He was ignorant and bigoted, intolerant, foolish, crotchety, a little thick headed, but not a hateful person. He could learn and could change and showed a good deal of common sense and had some hard gained life experience and wisdom.
He had a perfect match with his son in law Michael. Michael was just as intolerant as Archie was, narrow minded, foolish, easily given to believing whatever liberal ideas were being tossed around even if they were wrong. Idiotic, in short. He was easily upset and angered. He was naive about many things but couldn't see his own shortcomings and thought education was the only way to understand how the world runs or should be run. A classic bleeding heart liberal, and the writers never felt the need to make him grow or be used as a foil the way Archie was. A few episodes had him confronting his own shortcomings but not many. He had a wife who parroted all his same beliefs but eventually lost her. Did Gloria get tired of him or did he get tired of Gloria? I think he probably ended up just as alone as Archie was for a different reason. If I have a lower opinion of Michael its because he had an education and a reasonable amount of intelligence and was still no better than Archie. Archie at least had an excuse, he had to leave school to work.
Edith was the smartest person on that show. She knew to let people have their foibles and to accept them for who they were and that loving someone meant letting them have their way sometimes. She was the only tolerant person in that house and how she handled three erratic selfish people was a testament to how great a human being she was.
I forgot how sad that scene was. The show was going downhill for a while before that but really tanked after Edith died and Maureen Stapleton left the show.
Archie was many things but he wasn't a bad person, far from it. He was ignorant and bigoted, intolerant, foolish, crotchety, a little thick headed, but not a hateful person. He could learn and could change and showed a good deal of common sense and had some hard gained life experience and wisdom.
He had a perfect match with his son in law Michael. Michael was just as intolerant as Archie was, narrow minded, foolish, easily given to believing whatever liberal ideas were being tossed around even if they were wrong. Idiotic, in short. He was easily upset and angered. He was naive about many things but couldn't see his own shortcomings and thought education was the only way to understand how the world runs or should be run. A classic bleeding heart liberal, and the writers never felt the need to make him grow or be used as a foil the way Archie was. A few episodes had him confronting his own shortcomings but not many. He had a wife who parroted all his same beliefs but eventually lost her. Did Gloria get tired of him or did he get tired of Gloria? I think he probably ended up just as alone as Archie was for a different reason. If I have a lower opinion of Michael its because he had an education and a reasonable amount of intelligence and was still no better than Archie. Archie at least had an excuse, he had to leave school to work.
Edith was the smartest person on that show. She knew to let people have their foibles and to accept them for who they were and that loving someone meant letting them have their way sometimes. She was the only tolerant person in that house and how she handled three erratic selfish people was a testament to how great a human being she was.
the Edith character didn't die on AITF, she died on Archie Bunker's Place
One of the BEST NYC shows of all time.
Right up there with Barney Miller, Welcome Back Kotter, and a few others.
NYC 70's show were the best.
{ if u lived in NYC then...otherwise your gonna get lost}
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