All in the Family (TV Series)
Meet the Bunkers (1971)
Carroll O'Connor: Archie Bunker
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Quotes
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Archie Bunker : Now wait a minute, Meathead, you said that, not me. I never said your black beauties was lazy. It's just their systems is geared a little slower than the rest of us.
Mike Stivic : Archie...
Archie Bunker : You don't believe me, look it up.
Gloria Stivic : He's prejudiced, there's no hope for him. No hope at all.
Archie Bunker : I'm not prejudiced, any man deserves my respect and he's gonna get it irregardless of his color.
Mike Stivic : Then what are you calling them names like black beauties for?
Archie Bunker : Now that's where I got you, mister liberal, because there's a black guy who works down at the building with me, he's got a bumper sticker on his car that says 'Black is Beautiful', huh, so what's the matter with black beauties?
Edith Bunker : It's nicer than when he called them coons.
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Archie Bunker : If your spics and your spades want their rightful share of the American dream, let 'em get out there and hustle for it like I done.
Mike Stivic : So now you're going to tell me the black man has just as must chance as the white man to get a job?
Archie Bunker : More, he has more... I didn't have no million people marchin' and protestin' to get me my job.
Edith Bunker : No, his uncle got it for him.
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Archie Bunker : I stopped in the gent's room the other day, so help me there was a man in there with a ponytail. My heart nearly turned over, I thought I was in the wrong toilet.
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Archie Bunker : Back in my day, they wasn't called Chicanos or Anglo-Americans or Afro-Americans, we was all Americans so if a guy was a jig or a spick, it was his own business.
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Edith Bunker : I think he's right, Archie. Like, you haven't said the word "Coon" in almost a year.
Archie Bunker : What are you talking about? I say it everyday.
Mike Stivic : You haven't said it in front of us.
Archie Bunker : Alright then: Coon! Coon! Coon! You wanted it, you got it.
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Mike Stivic : See? Look at how he
[Archie]
Mike Stivic : uses his hands when he argues. A very Semitic gesture.
Archie Bunker : What do you know about it, you dumb Polack?
Mike Stivic : Yeah, all right, I'm a Polack.
Archie Bunker : You sure are. You're a Polack joke!
Mike Stivic : Okay, I'm Polish, and I'm proud of that.
Lionel Jefferson : Just like you should be proud that you're Jewish.
Archie Bunker : But I ain't Jewish!
Edith : [confused] I didn't know you was Jewish.
Archie Bunker : [completely exasperated, gesturing wildly and yelling] What the hell are you talking about? You of all people should know I ain't Jewish!
Edith : Well, you *are* talkin' with your hands.
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Archie Bunker : I used to know a whole flock of them coloreds in the old neighborhood. One went by the name of Roundtree Cummerbatch.
Mike Stivic : You never knew anybody by that name. You made it up.
Archie Bunker : I made up a name like Roundtree Cummerbatch?
Mike Stivic : That's right, you made it up to put down a black man.
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Archie Bunker : Hey Lionel, that's a pretty nifty looking suit you got on there, its classy, you know, It's quiet. Where'd you get it?
Lionel Jefferson : Oh, up.in Harlem.
Archie Bunker : Naww...
Lionel Jefferson : I got two more. One's yellow with stripes, the other one's purple with checks... you know, for when I'm with *my* people