Was "All in the Family" a funny show?

It was alright. I liked Sanford & Son more.

I watched it as a kid.

I watched the pilot episode a while back and found myself exhausted from the yelling.

The episode where Archie and Meathead play with the karate figures is the one I remember best.

It is an attack on the white working class though.


I dont know how many shows didnt inject some kind of propaganda message.

They all did in one way or another.
All in the Family was just less subtle about it.

I watched it a couple of times, found it a little bland. the British show from which it was adapted, Till death Us Do part, i thought was funnier. But Americans couldn't quite bring themselves to make a tv show based around a foulmouthed ignorant bigot, they had to tidy him up and tone him down for american tv, make him slicker.

the very best bit out of all the shows was the time archie went on tv to talk about terrorism on airplanes. to this day he makes perfect sense...

It was funny until the Stivics moved away and lil' Stephanie moved in to play Shirley Temple to Archie's Lionel Barrymore. The racial jokes had worn thin by then and seemed forced, with the audience encouraged to react with loud "oooooooohhhhh"s when
Stephanie's school principal turned out to be (gasp!) African-American, or the local priest happened to be Asian, if for no other reason than to have Archie make bigoted comments about them.

I always thought it was funny, if only because they would let Archie/etc. say stuff you would crawl under the table in real life if you'd been sitting with him as he said it. Plus, there were some things in there that weren't meant to be funny, but still good stuff. One example I remember well is when Gloria sort've falls out of love with her husband and gets all mid-life-crisis about work, marriage, life, everything. Her husband leaves with Archie after asking several times if Gloria is alright, if she'd prefer he stayed, and if she wants anything while he's gone, but she just goes into the kitchen, still in her PJs and bathrobe. Edith knows exactly what it is, and once the men have left, she goes in and tells Gloria about the day she woke up and realized she wasn't in love with Archie, she hated her life, and she was scared to death that all her life would ever be was washing Archie's clothes and cleaning the house. Gloria asks Edith how she got past it and Edith says for a long time, she didn't know until she had Archie do something (I don't remember exactly what it was, something like she had been sick and he took a then-4 year old Gloria for a walk and ice cream, or something like that, to let Edith have some peace and even though he was still Archie-like about it, the fact that he did something to take care of her or Gloria was what snapped her out of it) that reminded her why she loved him. Edith tells Gloria how no one ever warned Edith that there would be days she wouldn't love Archie, days where she wouldn't be satisfied with her life, or days when she would want to run away as fast as she could, but that meant no one ever warned her that those days would pass if she just hung in a little longer, and she would have a wonderful daughter, a husband who was rough but would have done anything for her, etc. Then Gloria's husband comes back, having made an excuse to Archie so he could come check on Gloria, and Gloria starts to "snap out of it" with her bout of depression/dissatisfaction.
I liked some of that serious stuff ALL IN THE FAMILY used to sneak in from time to time, and the commentary on the world at the time. Scary how relevant some of it still is. Like IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT, when you watch reruns and you can't get over how some of the stuff they were dealing with (a guy shooting up a church, kids getting into drugs cut with new and deadly things, biracial couples being harassed, etc.) hasn't changed at all in the years since then.

Surprised that it's not a favorite of yours. The main character was a rude, crude, obnoxious and stupid man who got away with saying any dumb, bigoted thing that crossed his mind. Come to think of it, he  reminds me of that oaf in your avatar. 

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