Mike and Archie get locked together in the storage room at Archie's Place and have a long talk.Mike and Archie get locked together in the storage room at Archie's Place and have a long talk.Mike and Archie get locked together in the storage room at Archie's Place and have a long talk.
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- TriviaThis is the only episode in the series in which Archie Bunker uses the racial slur "nigger".
- GoofsAccording to Archie, his first words to Michael were "Are you Jewish?" In fact, in the episode Flashback: Mike Meets Archie, Archie's first words to Michael are "Look Edith, he wore his Halloween costume." (Note: Those words were actually spoken to Edith. Archie's true first words to Mike were "Put it there", after being coerced into shaking hands with him, and there was no mention of asking Mike if he were Jewish).
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Mike Stivic: Did you ever think that possibly your father just might be wrong?
Archie Bunker: My old man? Don't be stupid. My old man? Let me tell you, he was never wrong about nothing.
Mike Stivic: Yes he was, Arch. My old man used to call people the same things as your old man. But I knew he was wrong. So is your old man.
Archie Bunker: Don't tell me my father was wrong. Let me tell you something, a father who made you is wrong? A father, the breadwinner of the house there? The man who goes out and busts his butt to keep a roof over your head and clothes on your back you call him wrong? Father, that's the man that comes home, bringing you candy. Father is the first guy to throw a baseball to you. And take you for walks in the park holding you by the hand? My father held me by the hand, hey, my father had a hand on him though I tell you. He busted that hand once, and he busted the other on me to teach me to do good. My father, he shoved my in a closet for seven hours to teach me to do good, 'cause he loved me. Don't be looking at me. Let me tell you something, you're supposed to love your father 'cause your father loves you. How can any man who loves you tell you anything that's wrong?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016)
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Written by Lee Adams and Charles Strouse
Performed by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton
This is a plot used in many sitcoms of the time in which characters are locked together in a room, it happened in The Odd Couple, Maude, Bob Newhart Show and some others. A previous episode "Archie In The Cellar" had Archie all alone and it was much funnier than this one. It starts with some bickering between the two characters, Reiner overacts a bit and O'Connor is strangely sedate. Then it attempts to be an Arthur Miller type play as Archie recalls his relationship with his father and how he became prejudiced, the writing is not up to par though. The audience is even giggling at this supposedly great dramatic moment.
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- Apr 23, 2018