All In The Family: Mike Meets Archie Bunker For The First Time | Reaction

[@joeconcepts5552]

Nice to see someone that never heard of a "Polish joke." I'm not that old and even I remember hearing them.

[@LFRFAMILY]

I’m real BET. No Polish jokes over there Fam.

[@acebongboy]

Polish jokes were huge in the 70s when I was in elementary school.

[@cainealexander-mccord2805]

When I was 11 in 1975, I distinctly recall owning "The Official Polish/Italian Jokebook". I know, I know. But the jokes were funny when you're a kid. You're right. It's weird to see someone who doesn't remember "Polack" jokes. The only thing now is that it's some other nationality. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@brendadickenson3547]

And where I grew up in the north, we heard it about all nationalities! We just laughed, didn't mean anything like it does now. I was for the Vietnam War, my brother was against it and mom said where do you all get these ideas?. But I remember her saying don't talk politics or religion as they were both in the war dad in the Navy, Mom worked for the veteran Administration.

[@CaptainSisko1972]

The talent on this show was unbelievable!

[@petergriffen4361]

Polish people used to be called Pollocks as a insult meaning that they were stupid , which is why you hear Archie call Mike meathead sometimes meaning the same thing

[@476429]

I was a little kid in the 70s and it was a common stereotype. It was so common that I was a teenager before I realized it was just a stereotype and Polish people weren't actually stupid. I grew up watching Archie, and I'm sure he helped embed that stereotype in my young mind. 😀

[@jonlate4581]

He didn't call him meathead sometimes, he called him that ALL the time. Rob Reiner has talked about how everybody started calling him meathead.

[@tommeytommey2742]

It came out in at least 1 episode that Archie's father used to call him meathead.

[@sheryljamerson3253]

I grew up watching this show, loved it. The Beverly Hillbillies was a great one too.

[@LFRFAMILY]

I’m checking Beverly Hillbillies Shows to react to as we speak. Thank you.

[@wesalker3479]

Back in the 70's, ethnic jokes were all the rage. NOBODY was safe but, the polish were, for some reason, at the top of the list.

[@hamishmcdog48]

Yea, the stereotype was people who were really stupid. The reality is Poles are as hard working a bunch as I've seen and as smart as anyone else. If you ever heard someone call a person a Pollock it's supposed to be an insult. I'd take it as a compliment. I'm not Polish officially but I believe it's very likely I am about 5 generations back as I had alot of relatives in Pomerania, one of which had a name that sounded Polish.

[@bookwoman53]

Yes. My late dad was Polish and he and the his family had a great self-deprecating sense of humor. I miss him. Our big family would gather at my grandparents’s house a couple of Sundays a month. My Babscia (grandma) was a really good cook. I loved the kielbasa, homemade pierogi, & stuffed cabbage (golumki). She always made babka for dessert.

[@clevelandbci9562]

Al Bundy, Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, and Red Forman are my Mount Rushmore of hilarious TV dads who truly DGAF about what anyone thinks.

[@cflournoy1529]

Can we make room for Fred Sanford??😂

[@476429]

@@cflournoy1529 Exactly! When I was just a little kid in the 70s, I loved Archie Bunker, George Jefferson, and Fred Sanford.

[@mikekelly5491]

You have to throw Fred Sanford in there somewhere.

[@jeremybilbrey1133]

@@476429 back when everyone could take a joke..and not take everything to seriously and "offensive"

[@TedRegal-og2mk]

What about Danny Devito ?

[@Meeshrick]

Good morning Van! Love some All in the family and LFR in the morning

[@clare1061]

Back in the mid-70s my grandparents took my brother, sister and I on a world cruise. We were in Florence Italy and when we stepped into our elevator a man was standing there with a big fat cigar sticking out of his mouth. It was Archie bunker “ Carol O’Connor”. My grandfather would not let us talk to him because he was on vacation just like us. Our last night in the hotel he walked up to our table in the restaurant and commented on how polite his kids are & my grandfather said I told them i would bust their tails if we bother him . Lol

[@stacymoore9836]

I was 10 in 1971 when this show came on Thursday night’s. Archie reminded me of my dad.

[@billsherwin1705]

You mean Tuesday nights.

[@lorilxn1597]

Love when you do the All in the Family clips. I watch it every night on TV

[@scottderechinsky9896]

A little backstory Archie's dad used to call him meathead when he was a kid. You learn that in one of the episodes.

[@LFRFAMILY]

Makes sense!!

[@Eddie-f9e9e]

Actually, I think it originated on Archie's first day at work - see the Joe Tucker episode (with Vic Tayback as guest). That was a great episode

[@debbiebruhn7753]

You're the best. Love your reactions and laugh.

[@runningdeer2111]

This and Sanford and Son were huge. As an older adult I find All In The Family very funny, however as a youngster, I did not. Now Sanford and Son I’ve always loved as a youngster and older adult.

[@mobus71]

Same here. Hated it as a kid. Now, It’s like a new show to binge.

[@LFRFAMILY]

What’s up my ALL IN THE FAMILY Lovers! I want to check out some really good ones NO ONE else has reacted to. Not sure where to start though.

[@marypulley6512]

Archie knows no boundaries for his prejudices, and that is why he is so funny. He includes everyone except his little circle

[@Denise-ol1kc]

Jefferson was a straight up RACIST in your face so at least Archie just told the truth

[@rshelley7496]

You were just getting to the best and funniest part when you stopped....hope you watched the rest of the episode😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@GenXfrom75]

I heard that growing up all the time! Like it or lump it, take it down the road and dump it... Omg that brought back memories 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@wealldieatthehandsoflovedones]

MAN growing up in the 70s and watching these brand new was great

[@antoinettelopes]

Back in the days of ethnic jokes, each had their own stereotype. The jokes about Polish people centered around the idea that they were all stupid. So Archie has immediately determined that Mike is stupid based on his ethnicity.

[@audraross3012]

Yes, was especially a Northeast thing because the Eastern European immigrants came over in a later wave of immigration, and many of the Polish got low wage jobs at the coal mines and they didn't speak English, so they were dubbed "dumb."

[@hanssolo8795]

Archie would have been thinking of a description that was slang for a Polish person that was common back then.Today most people would consider it the equivalent of the N word but it was common for the real Archies of the world to call them Pollacks.Everyone was waiting for him to say it.

[@BelindaTN]

And Archie does sometimes refer to Mike as a “dumb polock.” Though I remember the polock jokes of those days. I never knew what sparked the idea of polish people being dumb. I am from the southeast. I am used to all the derogatory jokes about us, but I never knew why the derogatory about the polish people. At the end of the day, anyone or any group of people can (and sometimes does) become the topic of a joke.

[@jimkontos4221]

My favorite TV show

[@ufc4me07]

I used to love Married with Children when I was a kid. My dad always told me that this show was his Married with Children, when he was young. 😎🤣

[@InvestBetter.]

Archie Bunker A true OG

[@sammyholloway334]

That was so weird, to realize nobody has told pollack jokes for 30 years now(except pollacks,), I want to thank you for watching this series,,its a GREAT niche. You are the best host for this,that I can imagine.

[@joepangia4413]

Sadly the best part of this meeting was cut from the scene depicted in this review. The argument quickly escalates, mike begins yelling at Archie, proclaiming him to be a racist as Archie ignores him and sings “God Bless America “. Mike subsequently walks out slamming the door behind him as Archie undeterred finishes the song and closes out the scene.

[@rhwinner]

'Meat head' was the son of one of the producers, Carl Reiner. He also became a very famous director later in life.

[@sabrenas7895]

Really like the headbands! 😄

[@jamesoconnor9027]

Born in the '60s in a white neighborhood I got to hear all the real life Archie Bunkers making Polish jokes, Italian joke etc...My neighborhood was mostly Irish, heard those jokes too.

[@maryarawson7921]

Laverne and Shirley were hilarious. Try watching one of those episodes.

[@sigmaslimez]

I remember watching this show in my younger years ,was a funny classic

[@garnet0101]

Archie's chair is in The Smithsonion.

[@FourFish47]

There's a big fight later and Gloria basically makes Archie choose between accepting Mike or losing her. Archie has more respect for Gloria than Edith. Maybe because Gloria has more respect for herself. Still, everybody loves humble, naive Edith. The show wasn't the same without her

[@BoxerRick]

This was like my house growing up. If Mom got mad, she’d start barking in Italian or German whatever hit her mood. Dad would just start laughing

[@davidtesso4789]

You missed the end of it . Called him a dumb pollock lol

[@christisheeks6334]

You should look up Norman Lear and all of his accomplishments! He's a legend!

[@christinemorris8578]

I really like your commentary.

[@mikeb3835]

Polish jokes were very common back in the '60s and '70s, as a kid I had a book of Polish and Italian jokes.

[@norskawarrior1919]

Funny thing about the term "Pollock" in the U.S, it's used in a derogatory way. It's akin to outright calling someone stupid, really stupid. But in Polish, it means a Polish person. Nothing derogatory in the way they use it.

[@kathleenfullerfuller2155]

Everybody enjoyed this series, laughed, and nobody was insulted. It was all in fun. Carroll O Conner was great, the whole cast was.

[@lindaallen9409]

You didn't watch the whole scene...best part.

[@unndunn1]

In the 70’s lots of people judged others who were from different ethnicities based on which country they came from. Polish people were viewed as very stupid. I take that look in Archie’s eyes as someone just handing him so many targets he didn’t know where to start. Like lobbing a pitch right over the plate. All four of my grandparents are from Ireland, so my father hated the British and thought Italians shouldn’t be trusted.

[@peterstanghellini393]

Mike and Archie played their characters so well. It was entertaining and lighthearted even though they were tackling serious social issues. Can't take that approach nowadays.

[@beckygrant2258]

This show made Americans look at ourselves, how we treated each other. Archie was an exaggerated version of many people in this country. Most folks were judgmental about certain ethnic groups, political issues, etc. Archie was judgmental about all of them…a WWII chest-thumper, like some of our dads were. Liberating Europe and Japan kind of went to their heads a bit, and so taking on Korea and Vietnam…sending their sons to do the “liberating,” well, it wasn’t the same thing, exactly. But they thought it was, in their own way. This show came about because families in America were arguing about these subjects every day in their homes. They called it a “generation gap,” the distance of thinking between the generations. Everyone yelling at each other, not really listening to each other very much. Norman Lear wrote the script as a comedy, so we would start listening more. It made us laugh at ourselves, I guess. And it had good results. We stopped using the N word and calling people ethnic slur names. Pollock jokes stopped being told. Women were taken more seriously. Lots of good came from this show. It spawned “the Jeffersons”….issues resulting from a black family moving up the social ladder, from Queens to Manhattan, with money. It spawned “Maude,” a show about an outspoken feminist, a character whom Archie had to deal with….and the show was about issues women deal with…we learned a lot through the comedy lens of Norman Lear’s scripts.

[@randallknapp7528]

Mike got the nickname "Meathead" on the show (there is a backstory about sandwiches on set), because Archie's own father called HIM "Meathead".

[@richardmyers1506]

Man, I wished the clip would have run longer. Mike and Archie had a big scene battle of battles together.

[@827dusty]

In the 60s and 70s, Polish jokes were rampant in this country, it was all good fun, and even Polish folk took it really well. Most people told these "Polish Jokes" in good humor, and that's all. Example "What is the national Bird of Poland"? "The mosquito." "How many poles does it take to to change a light bulb?" Seven...one to hold the light Bulb...and six to spin him around." Pretty harmless stuff. These Jokes were huge in the 70s, and then came "political correctness." I knew plenty of Polish people, and none of them felt offended. It wasn't a mean spirited thing. In fact you can just change "Polish" to "Irish," or any other ethnicity, and you were good to go. It was a joke where you just plugged in the desired nationality you wanted to insult. Today, you'd be called a racist. This was not that at all.

[@marcusbetancourt3760]

Back in the day, a long time ago certain words were used by the fathers when their sons and themselves did not see eye to eye, agree on certain things. Archie would call his son in law " Meathead" because that's what his father would call him when he would do something stupid. This was not a racial slur whatsoever because both the father and the son were of the same color, nationality or whatever. Just like if you were to watch another great comedy show, one of my other favorites called Sanford and Son, the father would always refer to his son as a "dummy". It was to try to get his son to thinking in his way of thinking and doing things.

[@marcusbetancourt3760]

The Jewish and non Jewish fathers and sons would also do this kind of derogatory way of discipline to see, think and do better. The Marines and many other branches of the service would demean the privates or buck privates in front of the other troops to embarrass them and so the "knucklehead" would act right and fly right.

[@marcusbetancourt3760]

Whether you agree or not in this type of discipline, it would work. Period!

[@christopherthorkon3997]

Polish people were often considered slow or dumb, so the early 1970s were replete with what were called "Dumb Polack Jokes". These jokes came to an end after Pope John Paul II (a Pole) was elected pope and clearly impressed Catholics and non-Catholics alike with his keen intelligence.

[@stevezisk3415]

You Talked over the funniest Line when he mocks edith saying, He has a lot of Character

[@cameronpickard7456]

right when i heard stivic knew shit was gonna hit the fan

[@BlackieNuff]

Polish, Irish, and Ukrainian people were the butt of a LOT of jokes, usually anything that belittled their intelligence. In other words, they were the "blonde jokes" before blonde jokes became a thing.

[@barbarabisson2551]

Well, not many people had schooling back then. Also Croatians, Italians, Chinese, French Canadians, Japanese, too

[@crowbonze]

I just want to take a sec for one of entertainments unsung heroes. Carroll O'Connor was a brilliant actor that was willing to take on the face of a "villian'. A guy we loved to hate, so that through his acting we could talk about some real problems in our society. I don't know of anyone who ever watch Archie Bunker, and could walk away without a strong opinion about something. He intentionally shoe-horned his character into a racist, selfish verbally abusive bigot so that America could begin to talk about just how wrong that was... it was brilliant. He didn't mind sacrificing his reputation and becoming that bad guy. The next time we saw him was as Chief Gillespie in "The Heat Of The Night", a show that began to address more problems, like racism, drugs, alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and child abuse... dirty subject matter that society would prefer that no one spoke of and swept it under the rug. Our nation is a better place because of this guys work... That's how I remember the great Carroll O'Cconner .

[@johnevans7350]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@karenrediker2449]

Back when the show was aired there were a lot of Polish jokes going around

[@davehenley9980]

Awesome. Finally you found out why he's called meathead.

[@intensifiednonchalance6770]

I would have strangled Archie Bunker by now if I didn't know he was just acting. 😁 Check him out in the heat of the night. He's nothing like blockhead Archie Bunker.

[@cesarfernandez616]

Actually Archie's brother was the one who called Archie that first. Mike laughed at him and Archie got angry as usual

[@CG68810]

Back in the day when people were still segregated by nationality/ethnicity (Italian neighborhoods, Irish neighborhoods, German etc etc) Polish were looked down upon. Just like so many other groups they had a derogatory ethnic slur against them which was "Polak". It was not a nice meaning. You will hear Archie call him that throughout the series, along with Meat head.

[@rcjr68]

please if u can do full show reactions from the start to end. this show would not be on in this time, but was good still is

[@eugenemcdonald4414]

Norman Lear father holds him Meathead and it was his idea to use the name Meathead in the show☺️

[@tinagriggs1004]

I agree with everyone. Back on those days if you did something stupid, you might get called a "pollock ".

[@FourFish47]

Jean Stapleton, Edith, played a housekeeper on Dennis The Menace. The exact opposite of Edith. Just shows her talent. P.S. you gotta see the episode of Edith going through menopause!!! Archie is a mess! Lol

[@JamesLachowsky]

Jean Stapleton's voice was much deeper than Edith's. After she left the show she never used the Edith voice again. If she was asked, she would politely demure.

[@FourFish47]

@@JamesLachowsky always go out on a high note making them want more. 😉

[@docdee770]

The term, "Dumb Polack" was coined by the Germans in world war II. The Germans had surrounded the capital city of Warsaw with tanks and armaments, and shelled the city to pieces. The Germans wanted the Polish to surrender, but they refused, and fought to the death with pitchforks, shovels, and anything that they could use as weapons. The Germans continued shelling the city, unmercifully, so much so that the Germans called them "Dumb Polacks" for not surrendering even to the overwhelming firepower and force.

[@mamakat114]

This was the whole introduction to a whole ton of controversial conversations

[@marcusbetancourt3760]

Back in the day, a bunch of father's would call their son's all kind of crazy crazy to keep them in their place and to let them know who should be looking up to who. Archie Bunker's dad would call him a meat head when he was a little boy and would do something wrong too. If you were to look at a Show call "Sanford and Son, the acting father Fred would call his son a "dummy" even after his son was grown. I am not a Black guy or a White guy. I am a Mexican. My ole' man would always show me in his own way that he was the dominate one. Until one day, when I was grown up and sick and tired of talking all of his stuff and told him flat, that he just better not hit me anymore, that he realize that I was no longer a boy, but that I became a man. He didn't ever know that way deep down inside that he could have beaten the living he'll out of me and wouldn't sweat doing so. He knew that respect deserves respect and wasn't wondering how long it was going to take me to stand up for myself. Not only were we father and son but became very Super good friends, best friend's with each other until he died. God rest his soul.l will lo e him always. Adios.

[@DV-ol7vt]

He’s a Pollock , it’s a derogatory term. When the Polish were immigrating in large numbers into the U S they were looked down on by other Americans. Every group that comes over is looked down to until they are integrated. Just seems to be the pecking order. The Polish and Germans contributed some awesome sausage and beer making in the U S .

[@dantorchio9668]

The Poles are a proud people... However, very stoic, headstrong and stubborn at times. Yet they were, especially in the 70s, stereotyped as being stupid and dumb. I Polish jokes were derogatory such as , "Why is there no ice on Poland?"...the inventor died and took the recipe with him.

[@DalilahR]

Carol O'Connor was a great actor. Rob Reiner never was. But he is a great director & has directed some great movies.

[@jameslefty3365]

I love Archie will saying stupid Pollock. Because he is blatantly trying to get someone pissed.

[@jamesfarrington9030]

Norman Lear was MHead by his father. Thats how it worked its way in to the show.

[@jsull6430]

You need to watch the episode when Archie meets Maude (although they supposedly meet b4). She is Edith's cousin and can't stand Archie & the feeling is mutual. Very funny

[@joannholmes8726]

"Amscray" is pig Latin for Scram. Did you catch that comment of Archie's? LOL

[@annabogart6689]

polish people were discriminated against back then, they were considered stupid

[@robinmills8675]

Many episodes later we find out that Archie's father called Archie Meathead when he was growing up.

[@annsmith3450]

You have got to watch Archie and the $20 with the Jeffersons. Poor Archie , everybody is telling him how to owe back money to George and he is totally lost on all the math. It’s a hysterical scene!

[@kathleenfullerfuller2155]

EVERYBODY ENJOYED THIS SERIES

[@convictionwoman61]

Polish jokes were huge at this time. Called them pollacks

[@cathybeebe4764]

Here come the polock jokes. Being raised in Milwaukee, it was a thang 🙃

[@barbarabisson2551]

All immigrant nationalities got dumped on at first. It takes time to meld into the fabric of a nation's ways & customs. Isolating into their own communities and keeping their own customs just isolates any group from acceptance into the mainstream.

[@michaeldennett6125]

Watch the whole thing after you cut the best part.

[@stacymoore9836]

This is in 1971

[@pb68slab18]

Imagine all of Archie's faults , prejudices and ignorance , rolled up in a bitter drunken Pollack. That was my father!

[@joannholmes8726]

Yep! I had the same step-father.

[@CherylBeachlerRizzo]

At the time white Americans of northwestern Eoropean and protestant backgrounds were still pretty bigoted against white Americans of Eastern and Southern European and Catholic backgrounds. I'm 100% northwestern European from a working class protestant family. I married someone of Italian, Jewish, Eastern European and Catholic background. I'm sure my grandparents were rolling in their graves.

[@tedregal8545]

Archie's dad used to call Archie meat head so he passed it on.

[@christyshultz6443]

I think after the world war there was a lot of dislike for certain countries Poland being one of them the French also because they didn't really take a side during the war. For the wars plural. So yeah there was that Poland other than dumb Pollock I hear that a lot and that's not nice. I think it had to do with the resource problems after Hitler and the power vacuum and all that partially at least. And as I said Archie was a safe way to explore these thoughts and feelings that people had in the day. It was also a way that some very smart devs had to point out that this is not okay. And safer easier ways to make people understand that some of the misconceptions that they have some of the ignorance they have it isn't a good thing. And it's smart it's a smart way of dealing with things Mary Tyler Moore also did that. As did Maude and Mash. It was a lot going on back then and there were such a difficult time and being able to cope with things and shows like this were able to address things without being volatile. I like Michael because Michael and George both help Archie grow as person and Gloria too they all help him like I said grow as a person. Michael understands that Archie is just ignorant he's not a bad person and he's a lot more patient with our cheese and a lot of people would have been and it set the tone of the other people around him too. I love that about that show.

[@dtaylor939]

Check out Madonna's music video for "Justify My Love"

[@dixbowman3452]

You have to look at Archie vs the KKK episode

[@spindletopcenter]

Oh, Hon. You missed about 100 years of Pollack jokes. Shameful, but a tradition

[@paulcasas8777]

😂😂😂

[@stevedotwood]

Only the Irish are ok according to Mr. Bunker

[@d00med74]

👀

[@debbiebruhn7753]

But Archie used to be called a Meathead when he was in the military

[@jono8884]

And really, not much has changed since then.

[@cooperstonebadge2228]

i'm half meathead.... i mean polish

[@BlackieNuff]

Too bad the video did not continue a little longer, the escalation is intense, lol. Mike loses his shit and Archie just keeps rubbing salt in his wounds, lol.

[@debbiechang5781]

This show was great. There were many jokes told back then which targeted various ethnic groups, including Polish people. They were ridiculed as being of lower intelligence. Very “politically incorrect” and insulting. Not cool. I don’t miss any of that 🌺✌️

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[@geniej9093]

Archie's bigotry ws not reserved to race. Why did we love him I will never understand. I guess great writing.

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