All in the Family - Sock and a Sock, Shoe and a Shoe

[@raymondminton6388]

This actually happened! Carroll O'Connor observed Rob Reiner putting on a sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe, and tried to tell him he was doing it the "wrong" way. The two ended up writing their silly controversy into the show.

[@stevebailey3827]

You're right -- online, there's a short interview with Rob Reiner that confirms this. What a hilarious scene.

[@robinbrl]

I just heard Rob Reiner say that in an interview. They sure a good job of acting out considering it was not even scripted. LOL. Too funny.

[@robinbrl]

@@stevebailey3827 I think we saw the saw same interview with Rob. LOL.

[@trysometruth]

The interview (or at least _an_ interview) with Reiner discussing the scene is here kzbin.info/www/bejne/eGjblWWvnJeiqbs While Reiner claims it was "improvised", my guess is while the scene was not part of the show's original script, O'Conner and Reiner wrote the scene together by playing around with some dialog and some ideas, rehearsed it a few times... and _then_ it was filmed.

[@CharmingNewSociety]

@@trysometruth that's actually what he says in the clip you linked, that they improvised it in rehearsal.

[@kenlompart9905]

This kind of brilliance is why the show was so great.

[@viccorrell224]

I love the finish “you can start doing it the right way tomorrow, and do it that way for the rest of your life!”

[@thejoshsings894]

Archie, I put my shoes and socks on the way mike did the whole time

[@juliestedfast361]

Brilliant

[@HankFinkle11]

O’Conner and Stapleton justifiably are praised for their near perfect portrayals of Archie and Edith, but the show wasn’t the same without the Reiner’s Meathead and Sally playing Gloria. Meatheads expressions during this ad lib are priceless.

[@robertawesome2410]

Sally was good but I really hated her cringe worth fake crying.

[@Bluepuffycupcake]

I remember watching this episode as a little girl and I still think about it when I put my socks and shoes on 😂

[@keithm9337]

You left us hanging, which way did you decide to go? Sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe or Sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe?

[@Bluepuffycupcake]

😂 I usually do sock sock then shoe shoe and if for some odd reason I do sock shoe sock shoe I feel weird 😂

[@keithm9337]

@@Bluepuffycupcake See, I thought we could have had something special, but I am sock and a shoe and sock and a shoe.

[@rickwilliamson9248]

Yup! Me too. It's actually quicker doing sock-shoe/sock-shoe (since you only have two leg movements), but I keep hearing Archie and go sock-sock/shoe-shoe.

[@Bluepuffycupcake]

@@keithm9337 LOL 😂 the debate continues to this day!

[@christophermason1033]

This scene is one of the funniest things I've ever seen on TV no matter how many times I seen it watching it again 😭 every time

[@annberlin5811]

Me too

[@razb8393]

One of the greatest moments, one of which I just learned was completely improvised on the spot. Shows how talented these people were together. I’m 32, give me AITF any day over the shows on TV now.

[@Mozart1220]

@@razb8393 It was improvised in dress rehearsal. Still just as brilliant.

[@smhdpt12]

You must lead an incredibly boring life. THIS is the pinnacle of funny?? THIS?????? There's nothing EVER funnier IN THE HISTORY OF TELEVISION? THIS??????

[@christophermason1033]

@@smhdpt12 😂

[@kathconserv]

Mike’s blank stare at 1:00 is gold, and he’s done it before and other scenes. God, I love this show.

[@RAPIDREWIND]

How they managed to keep a straight face is astounding

[@mr.m.5719]

THANK YOU for this! I think about this scene every single time I’m putting on my socks and shoes. What a great memory from, Lord, almost 50 years ago!!

[@shermanmullen2406]

Yup it is they talked about it on Donny + Marie.

[@gosloejoe]

All these years later,and still hysterical.

[@coleman6131]

Even as a little kid in the '70s I knew this was comedy gold!

[@wallyhighsmith9005]

Everytime i put on shoes i think of this scene

[@lightsnsirens2002]

Wally Highsmith haha. Me too!

[@andrearuffino]

Me too.

[@kevelocity]

haha...me too.

[@danielberger9435]

me too

[@davido662006]

I haven't seen this since it first aired, but I think about this when I put on my sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe.lol

[@michaellang7908]

All time classic scene, how the 2 did it without laughing or snickering. That’s great acting! There’s no a show that can’t achieve what all in the family did, kicking down doors to pave the tv world to what it became. My favourite television show of all time.

[@Lori-lp6uc]

They're another Laurel and Hardy😂😂😂

[@annemariegerun7955]

I've been binge watching All in the Family all week. I'm currently on season 5. I just watched the one about the $20.00 counterfeit bill that Archie accidentally gave to George Jefferson and how Meathead turned it into a comical interaction which left Archie mad as hell. I replayed it a couple of times it was soooo funny.

[@dbreardon]

for 45 years I think about this scene every damn time I put on my socks and shoes! Damn you Rob and Carrol!

[@shermanmullen2406]

Haha.

[@shermanmullen2406]

YUP I'VE NEVER SEEN NOBODY DO IT MEATHEAD'S WAY IN MY LIFE THAT'S O.

[@fay8687]

I do too !!!!!

[@jferra5]

Ever time I put my shoes on I think of this. Every now and then I'll put both on one foot at a time. It feels silly.

[@evawynn3929]

I watched these shows as a kid in the 70's - this scene has always stuck w me....very funny - I agree w Archie :)

[@Ch35tr]

This is one of the only scenes from the show I remember from my childhood. Never forgot about it. Everytime I got dressed for decades I thought about.

[@fay8687]

@@Ch35tr me too !!!!!!

[@keykrazy]

@@fay8687 Same!

[@af4od02]

I remember this scene as a young teenager on television. To this day, every morning when I dress for the day, I think of Archie when I put on my socks and shoes. If I go Sock Shoe, I think I am the meat head. If I go sock sock shoe shoe, I feel like its going to be an Archie Bunker kind of day. This is classic television. I am glad this has been saved.

[@RSTI191]

This show was just so great on so many levels.. Acting, writing, theme, everything. No weakness anywhere...

[@mindriot91_96]

It is, IMO, the best sitcom ever.

[@RSTI191]

@@mindriot91_96 It was not only very intelligent it reflected a period of time perfectly. You couldn't ask for better writers and better actors..

[@RSTI191]

If you didn't know, this scene completely off the cuff. All improvised on the fly..

[@chocloditelensman]

I so miss this show and these brilliant actors ! Also reminds me of pre-Seinfeld humor. I could see Jerry and George debating this or even kroemer and George.

[@barakpick]

This is very much in the spirit of Seinfeld, 15 years or so beforehand. Two people having a serious conversation about nothing.

[@hutch1197]

Just watched an interview with Rob Reiner that this entire scene was improvised. Amazing.

[@bensisko4651]

This, to me, is right up there with "who's on first"😂😂😂😂

[@DanielFrost21]

One of the best scenes in the series......it pops onto my head when I'm putting on my socks and shoes.

[@kcgilford518]

I think of this scene almost every day when I put on my sock, sock, shoe, shoe.

[@SwiitKALEL]

this is one of the best moments on All in the Family were Archie and Mike act more like father and son

[@NoellaScott]

Perfect chemistry. Unbelievable! Two greats

[@cshubs]

It's the little things, esp in a family of adults. "We're in a hurry!" LOL

[@danmagoo]

The scene perfectly proves it: These 2 would argue about literally ANYTHING.

[@angela-sanders]

one of my favorite scenes. I quote this all the time

[@dinjim]

Ditto! I think about this scene often when getting dressed. :D

[@johnk2495]

and do it that way for the rest of your life!

[@tompinkerton7101]

The best part is that this entire bit is ad-libbed! Rob Reiner confirms this in his interview with the Archive of American Television.

[@grumpyotter]

It is amazing how many times in my life i have found an occasion for referencing this scene. Thanks for sharing it, Scarlett!

[@marleinasmom]

That "listen TO ME" at 1:29 slays me every time.

[@mikerickard2434]

I have never forgotten this scene. Classic!!!

[@Baebboi]

My favorite episode of all time. Archie was ready to body slam meathead for this. Hilarious 😂

[@1962LIBBY]

Carol O Conner comedic timing was incredible. Archie was the right character for this adolescent. It taught me so many valuable lessons.

[@lydiamlopez86]

"I think you've been hopping around on your head" LOL classic Archie Zinger!

[@DavidLari]

I remember my brother and I rolled in the floor laughing when we saw this on the original broadcast.

[@LucidDreamer54321]

OMG. I remember watching this on TV.

[@btankful]

They actually had that debate on the set in real life.

[@GoSolar]

is that true? did you read that somewhere?

[@orgonkothewildlyuntamed6301]

show me the link where you read that

[@unclealice]

Hands down, no question, the single greatest scene in the history of television

[@DavidFobare]

"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly"

[@debbiebankscell]

@@DavidFobare sorry. The turkey thing is from WKRP in Cincinnati.

[@christophergraham7194]

Nah. Look up Shoebooty, All in the Family.

[@ricktaylor6579]

@@christophergraham7194 Shoebooty was bloody sad, though.

[@artyanthony1682]

Shoe booty

[@pamelamays4186]

Archie and Mike's father-son moment. Instead of the birds and the bees it was the socks and the shoes.

[@JaxBlade]

Me and my friend had this exact argument the other night and I had to come find this clip xD

[@jerrenelong2337]

My husband and I just had same convo, and he had never seen this, lol

[@nothingsuspicioushere.6379]

Lol you're here

[@jscotthales]

;)

[@stoneyll]

Those were the days~!

[@scoundrel99]

This was the funniest scene from that show and I still quote it to this day.

[@mikegruber172]

10 minutes later "we're in a Hurry"

[@ispeakmytruth1549]

Classic! I think of this scene almost every time I put my socks and shoes on, and I first saw it over 50 years ago! I think the memory will last for the rest of my life! (I do it Meathead's way - I'd rather hop around and stay dry)

[@Joebangles34]

Mike: “I like to take care of one foot at a time.” Archie: “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard in my life.” 🤣🤣🤣

[@jamesdavison2927]

I was watching Larry King Live tribute to Carroll OConnor , Rob Reiner talked about this They showed PART of this INCREDIBLE scene , but I had to come and see the WHOLE SCENE because how Archie ends it is PERFECTION My father introduced me to All in the Family We used to rush home at night from whatever we were doing to make sure we caught the All in the Family re runs He took his own life when he was just 48 and I miss him TERRIBLY❤ but I'm forever grateful for all the good times we shared , including the GEM that is All in the Family❤

[@naples1161]

I remembered this episode from the time I saw it probably 45-50 yrs ago. Love the fact I could find it and that you uploaded it. Just a great, great scene.

[@Lue_Jonin]

Tomorrow have the socks on over the shoes for an absolute Archie meltdown 😂 hahahaha

[@joebarr725]

When I put them on, it's sock-sock-shoe-shoe. But when I take them off, it's shoe-sock-shoe-sock.

[@annemariegerun7955]

Me too, now that I think about it!!! Odd, but I never thought about it but I do it too.

[@PamJacobson-xs5yd]

I think of this scene every time I put my socks and shoes on. Sometimes do it Archie's way and sometimes the other way.

[@creaturesfromelsewhere203]

I never heard my dad laugh harder than he did during this scene.

[@ChrisBakerauthor]

This is a great scene for many reasons. It's timeless and will still apply many years later. Even a four-year-old can get it. And they played it so well.

[@lyndsaywalsh2518]

Archie finds anything he can to yell at meathead!😂😂😂

[@thomasthomas2418]

Mike finds everything he can to piss of Archie!

[@shermanmullen2406]

YUP EVERY SINCE HE MEET HIm.

[@shermanmullen2406]

Yup Lyndsay.

[@baileyhumphrey5806]

Definitely one of the best scenes from this show.

[@jacobjones5269]

Too young for the original run, but I fondly remember being on the road in Colorado, hustling pool in the Denver area for a few months back in the 90’s, catching reruns with my road partner in the middle of the night… What a great show!..

[@Laffingrl]

This was one of the best episodes ever!

[@markrossow6303]

Never saw that episode in the day !

[@emirlsanchos6302]

And this entire bit was improvised by them both. No script, no direction except the "Sock and a Shoe" subject.

[@pablo08034]

Undoubtedly one of the most iconic sitcom scenes of the 1970s!

[@11SEXMACHINE]

Absolutely genius writing and even better acting by both.

[@BLRANCH0300]

Pure comedy gold. I came over after watching a Rob Reiner interview where he said the whole scene was improvised. The cherry on top was Archie telling him to do it for the rest of his life as he exits out the door. So damn hilarious!

[@alexanderestrada2499]

I agree with Archie. I do a sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe.

[@neilshapiro568]

Of all the arguments Mike and Archie had throughout the show, this is the one that still sticks with me! I don't know how they kept straight faces through this scene!!

[@peter9962]

My favourite sitcom of all time. I have the whole series and I still watch it😊

[@Angellll_Marie_B]

i put on my shoes and socks Mike's way every day because of this! 😸😼

[@michaelmartin3674]

I now do put on my socks and shoes one at a time or "the way rest of the world does it" interchangeably.

[@dustywelchcraneman6614]

I'm never more nervous about a fire in my house than when I'm putting my shoes and socks on....

[@skingerskanger]

Archie got after Mike for putting mustard on a pretzel too, and it pissed off Archie just as much then as in this scene ! 😆

[@grandmamcgreary]

This is one of my favorite scenes. That and the one where they are arguing over if there should be a flap in the covers or not!

[@jobeth68]

FACT: Rob Reiner said this entire scene was ad-libbed between he and Carroll O'Connor. The scene with Meathead putting on his shoes was supposed to happen, however that's how Reiner puts on his socks and shoes in real life and O' Connor caught him doing it, yelled at him how stupid it was and the cameras kept rolling.

[@TariqKhan-xt5qs]

Now that I think about it, I put both my socks on and then my shoes.

[@alexanderpytko5394]

+Tariq Khan That's how I always do it.

[@johnk2495]

The whole world does it that way (except for meatheads).

[@grumpyotter]

I used to--until i saw this. And then i didn't want to be siding with Archie, so I switched, lol

[@shermanmullen2406]

YUP T.

[@WilliamNast-v1g]

SIMPLY FANTASTIC AND ALL IMPROVISED ACCORDING TO ME.REINER!

[@Lori-lp6uc]

I love how Archie made a hilarious fuss over the silliest things. 😂 This is like an episode of Seinfeld!

[@peteypete1216]

Such a classic , comedy like this the way the world is now will never see again...

[@Niemannsnuthouse]

I find this hilarious. My DIL shared this with me. I don't remember seeing it. I had to send it to my husband. Ya see, I am disabled. I need assistance putting on my socks & shoes. When I first needed this kind of help, my husband would help me put on my right sock & then my right shoe. Then my left sock & then left shoe. I asked him, "What are you doing?" He said, "I'm putting on your shoes & socks." I said, " I know. But why are you doing it like that?" He said, "Like what?" I replied, " Why are you putting them on sock shoe sock shoe?" He says, " How are you supposed to put them on?" I said, " You put your socks on first & then you put your shoes on." He says, " Who says that you have to do it that way?" I said, "Everybody does it that way." I'll spare you the rest of the conversation. It continued. 🙄 He thought that I was making a big deal about it. I was just asking a question & clarifying the topic. I told him that it was throwing my groove off. I mean that's not how I normally get dressed. It felt funny. I mean he doesn't put his own socks & shoes on that way. So why does he persist on putting mine on that way?? I DON'T LIKE IT. It feels strange. Why can't he just put them on the way that he puts his on? 🤦🏼‍♀️🤪🤯😩 He won't stop it. I think that it's a way to control something in my life. 🤷🏼‍♀️. ☮✌🏼

[@JavierArveloCruzSantana]

This scene, according to Norman Lear, was improvised--to his complete delight.

[@ianmiller8992]

Just recently watched a Rob Reiner interview and he said the same thing..completely improvised!

[@bartman898]

I watched this as a kid and think about it often while putting on my shoes.

[@marymarth7298]

You, my good man, are showing your age!

[@marymarth7298]

Hee Haw first, then All in the Family, then, The Jeffersons and let's not forget much later-Chilly Billy.

[@bartman898]

Mary Marth Please don't forget : the Brady Bunch, Sonny and Cher, Gilligan's Island, Batman, The Six Million Dollar Man,The Wild,Wild West,or Gunsmoke. The game shows : The Dating Game, Match Game(my favorite), Bob Barker on Truth or Consequences, the Gong show. I probably should have spent more time on my homework.

[@marymarth7298]

What a memory you have. I absolutely watched all of those shows with my family. Archie was my favorite(Shoe Bootie episode).Some are no longer with me but the memories take me back. Thank you for that Billy bartman.

[@pershorty]

Same!

[@InVinoVeritas.]

Archie's right. 🙂

[@willblood7082]

Completely improvised, started by Carrol unknown to Rob. Rob picked up on it without missing a beat and made for one of the funniest scenes in the show 😂

[@rogergarrison4271]

As a 'sock shoe sock shoe' person, a "sock sock shoe shoe" person ain't been able to reasonably explain yet how it makes sense to lift the same foot twice

[@audreynalinerush]

Extra exercise. It's good for you. :>

[@Lkhrobertson]

Had to pull this up. This scene rolls through my head everytime I am putting on socks and shoes, no matter the order. Hilarious scene.

[@gic8849]

This whole scene was improvised 🥰

[@shermanmullen2406]

What doe's that mean m.c.?

[@Etobeeshawn]

@@shermanmullen2406 it means one day during rehearsal of this episode Carroll O'Connor (Archie) noticed Rob Reiner (Mike) was getting dressed that way in real life and they literally argued about it in real life (not as actors but as two men) and they and the writers decided to reenact (improvise) that "argument" between Carroll and Rob into the script to have Mike and Archie argue about it. Rob Reiner admitted that that's how he always got dressed in real life...and go figure, it would take Carroll O'Connor to notice it lol

[@spider_hoss]

I remember seeing this when I was 9 or 10. It stuck with me and I’m 55 now. Every time I put my socks and shoes on I think about the order.

[@judyroe663]

Best scene of the entire show. I watch this over and over and over

[@pattyschlossberg1209]

It is a perfect synopsis of how parents and their kids conflict over their living styles. That could have easily have been my mom and me when I was growing up. With me, she hated it when I buttoned my shirts down to up instead of top to bottom. I coudnt do it, whenever i tried, there was either always an extra button hole or extra button and the blouse/shirt would look lopsided. When I did it my way, I never had that problem. :)

[@thefish5861]

I can’t believe I saw this when it aired, think about it often when I’m getting dressed a million years later, and then it pops up on my KZbin feed. That is truly weird.

[@MikeD-tf7dk]

Amazing that was totally improvised

[@Guy_de_Loimbard]

You can start doing it the right way tomorrow morning.... *and do it that way FORDARESTAYERLIFE!!*

[@bostonwhofan]

Long live Archie Bunker! Along with Edith, the 2 greatest TV characters of all time!

[@pprims]

DroverChicago that tag line is actually the best part of the whole scene followed by the door slam.

[@robertonline6543]

My all-time favorite Archie scene next to his nightmare where Meathead carrying his casket eating a sandwich.... That stupid Meathead... Don't you know your not supposed to be eating a sandwich when you're carrying my casket! Lol.

[@followyourideas]

I thought about this scene and didn't remember where I'd seen it. Thanks Majuska for finding it end ending this torture.

[@user-ud4qz1gd3z]

At your service gato

[@followyourideas]

@@user-ud4qz1gd3z 😘

[@TheNiwotmom]

This scene was completely improvised. Not part of the script. Rob Reiner said that it was one of his favorite unscripted scenes.

[@CharlesLinn-rm9dl]

Classic scene

[@BrianWolters2112]

This is the most balanced show in the world...we all loved Archie and Meathead...

[@atcguy77]

I saw this episode when it first aired in 1974. Since then, if and when I put on a sock and a shoe and a sock and a shoe, I think about it. Every. Time.

[@richardsiciliano7117]

One of the few times I'm in agreement with Archie. I always put both socks on first.

[@lisaray8377]

Me too lol Sorry Mike 😮

[@sdftrd]

Classic scene.

[@BlacKnightRising]

'Don't you know that the whole world puts on a sock and a sock and a shoe and a shoe?' LMAO

[@chevand8]

One of my all-time favorite bits from the entire series! I love the way that it's apolitical on the surface, but if you look deeper than that, you can actually interpret it as being *very* political. At face value, it's a dumb little inconsequential disagreement about socks and shoes. But it's also a perfect demonstration of Archie's conservative viewpoint-- he is so fixated on his way of doing things (the 'way it's always been done', or the 'way it's supposed to be done'), that he is completely incapable of thinking laterally about the ways other people (especially the liberal Mike) might want to do things. He's hopelessly devoted to the status quo, even when there are valid reasons for wanting to do things differently. I think about this particular scene often.

[@danielgregg2530]

It's more than that. "Do it that way for the rest of your life" = "it drives me crazy that other people won't do everything the way I personally am comfortable with." The same problem is still the biggest one we have to this very day in 'Merica.

[@TheresaDamron]

I couldn't agree more with your observations. Excellent way of describing America's problems.

[@dilberthogwash1372]

This scene was completely improved, according to an interview with Rob Rainer. Comedic gold.

[@ThatAdultCrash24]

This has lived rent free in my head since the 1970s😂

[@lindapettigrew1888]

Rob Reiner reminds me of myself with my mom..... Same thing....

[@lindapettigrew1888]

😂