The Archie-Type: An All in the Family Retrospective

[@JoseBird]

As a small correction, the photo at 1:27:20 appears to be Bill Bixby, and not Mort Lachman. It was an error on the IMDB page I unfortunately replicated. Apologies for the mistake!

[@HuntingViolets]

Rosalynn Carter's name is pronounced like Rosa Lynn rather than closer to Rosalind minus the D (like the flower, Rose, not Roz). Just in case it comes up again.

[@houstonmiddleton6478]

Please do a retrospect if on the beverly hillbillies

[@paullebon323]

I wondered about that. Being 57 years old, older than Archie at the inception of the show, I'm well aware of The Courtship of Eddie's Father, My Favorite Martian, The Incredible Hulk, and The Magician.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@paullebon323 Bill Bixby was a busy actor. He did his own tricks on _The Magician,_ I believe. A lot of tragedy in his life, though.

[@northkoreaspy]

Expose “think before you sleep”

[@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm]

I been confused because I swear you did All in the Family already, and first now I realized I was thinking of Matt Baume.

[@NillKitty]

Omg same :x

[@Lilcutiepie95]

Same! Love both these guys!

[@ccdaly2561]

Yep, same club here! José and Matt are the two channels I follow the closest

[@Furore2323]

TWO CAKES!

[@Spaztastica]

Samesies. 😍

[@YOSSARIAN313]

The mary tyler moore show honestly needs its own video

[@seanm6215]

So does Jeffersons

[@amandaredd3057]

Yes!!

[@iamnotnaturallyevil]

Yeah!

[@russellwboss]

This is the one I want next, for sure. Would really fill out Jose's coverage of James Burroughs. EDIT: The Bob Newhart show would be great to see too.

[@YOSSARIAN313]

@@russellwboss id like to see him do modern family and its wealthy centrist yuppie bs

[@RecRoomPlays]

i know basically nothing about all in the family, but only 40 minutes into this video and i'm already just blown away by how sociopolitical discourse has practically not changed at all from the things they had in that show. the more things change, the more they stay the same, literally

[@marcella8576]

I was thinking the same thing LOL. The line about keeping the ending of Gloria's SA episode the same? Still rings true.

[@ADragon-gi9mr]

Nothing is the same now.

[@Infindox]

​@@ADragon-gi9mryou sure about that?

[@ADragon-gi9mr]

@@Infindox yes! Everything sucks. look at our world

[@carbine090909]

​@@ADragon-gi9mrthings are pretty much the same, except we have twice as many people in the world. The problems are the same, but everything is exaggerated - same 50/50 divide, same oligarchies and greed, same existential threats, same wars, same drugs, same exploitation - but just more of it and to a greater degree. So serial killers are school shooters now. Wars use drones. Smoking weed is chewing gummies, heroin is fentanyl. Nuclear winters are climate change. We have the same abortion issues, and the ERA still hasn't passed. COVID doesn't come close to AIDS but it explains why older medical folks like Fauci were so freaked out about another global pandemic. We still don't have universal healthcare or daycare. AM talk radio is Fox News. Diesel is EV's. Phone booths and pagers are cell phones. And the rich keep getting richer,and the poor, poorer.

[@SpookyouKnowIt23]

At this point you're basically a documentary filmmaker who has a successful series on the history and cultural significance of Sitcoms

[@RemoWilliams1227]

Was thinking the same, this could be on PBS, in a good way.

[@POSSESSEDFANZINE]

He isn’t documenting anything.

[@saranell154]

I’m totally here for it. These are amazing.

[@fortunamajor7239]

​@@POSSESSEDFANZINE you can lightly correct and say 'it's an analysis, not a documentary'

[@ZipplyZane]

@@POSSESSEDFANZINE The term documentary hasn't required documenting something anew in an extremely long time.

[@TGo-n-Roscoe]

The Edith and Gloria segment was…just…wow…eye opening. I literally cried with Edith’s performance.

[@Aencii]

Jean Stapleton was an absolute powerhouse performer! I admire her acting so much.

[@splinkydoodah]

Yeah I have never seen this show before, but I got misty-eyed when Edith said she was going to the police. Incredible acting, my God.

[@VirtualBoy500]

This is actually very well timed for me because, for my own reasons, I've sorta become low-key obsessed with 1970s pop culture ephemera this month.

[@flibbityjibbity]

As one does

[@seanm6215]

What would you say represents the 70s TV best?

[@TheMysteryDriver]

@@FionavanDahli can't find the full seasons on streaming for taxi

[@matfan-q7p]

This is a perfect example of why I want to just pull my hair out when people complain about new shows “being woke” “catering to young audiences” or how TV used to be so much better, and would probably consider this show amazing but hating on new shows that do the same things. It just blows my mind how generations go from caring about change and progress to maintaining status quo and being averse to progress.

[@pablosonic892]

Too simplistic. One major huge creative divide between the two eras is the Norman Lear shows were written by the greatest television writers ever. The material and complexity of the shows still hold up. The cost cutting, union breaking, profit hoarding total control dictatorship of all the major studios decided to cut out all the established or unique new voice writers in Hollywood who pushed back with their own imaginative ideas, higher salaries and with their own ideologies that clash with the inhouse politics. So they colluded, pushed the talented legit great writers and literally hired people who had no credits, no resume, no talent, no interest in the things they were hired to write on, but were cheap, shared the corporate social justice agenda and would bend at the knee without question. That's why all the massive quality drop off the last five years all at once. Everything was produced and created and completed by people who really didn't know what they were doing who just wanted to push their personal politics and it has led to a era of across the board product that follow the same plot structure without any depth or nuance, redundant story beats and episodes of entire series that don't so much seem like characters or situations, but political essays preaching their particular doctrine of truth and not actual stories. The studios then cover this by taking the offensive and saying it's a racist, sexist, out of touch audience that is to blame. No. It's something much more simple and timeless. Good old fashioned corporate greed.

[@popastrology1900]

​@@pablosonic892This! So true.

[@matfan-q7p]

@@pablosonic892 I won't argue against any of that. But I'm speaking more to the discourse surrounding shows. Too often the message is blamed rather than how the message is being delivered, to the point now that many people default to the message itself being "bad writing" rather than being able to separate the message and the delivery. It leads to the discrediting of anything and everything that has certain messages and the delivery is entirely ignored. You then have individuals with their own political agendas basically using that as fodder to try and discount the messages themselves, sometimes even going so far as to obfuscate their points by saying things like "The message would be fine if it were delivered better, but it's too 'in your face'" which on the surface sounds like legitimate criticism but is often used as a means of pushing their own political agendas whilst trying to avoid any political pushback themselves.

[@hippojuice23]

Ideas/ideals: Embody them. Incorporate them. Demonstrate them in action. Don't just preach them.

[@FINNSTIGAT0R]

In my opinion, this "young progressive - older conservative" mindset is totally normal. At some point, people just grow older and cannot be part of what's new, so they lose touch with the problems contemporary society places on the young. As one gets older, they usually also become attached to the things they are accustomed to. In a healthy situation, they could still talk and negotiate on issues and at least try to intellectually see the point of view of others, even if they cannot *feel* the other's perspective as true. Progressives and conservatives shouldn't even be mortal enemies to each other, as they serve as checks and balances to each other. Or at least they should act like that. Sadly, these positions have been made into political positions, which is kind of stupid, since rarely can anybody be one or the other all their lives or be that way in all matters.

[@russellwboss]

It's really amazing the career Jose has had as a background actor in so many of these shows. He's a real character actor; I can't recognize him at all between parts.

[@hikolicious]

What else has he been in? I was blown away to find out he was in All in the Family! 😮

[@SkepticalChris]

Edith Bunker easily was my favorite character, she had such an impact on so many millions of people over so many decades I'm sure I'm not the only one who occasionally hears Edith bunkers voice and her kind words in our minds and hearts.

[@christophergreen6595]

Two and a half hours about a show I never saw? Yes pls

[@gfdggdfgdgf]

You're missing out if you've never seen all in the family

[@Nixus237]

@@gfdggdfgdgfI don’t like multi camera sitcoms so I’m not missing much

[@Attmay]

After less than that, you'll wish it had never been made.

[@Attmay]

No, you're not. Skip this and watch *The Jeffersons* and *Gimme A Break!* Stop watching racists and communists and watch those targeted by their racism And terrorism.

[@Attmay]

There are good multi camera sitcoms. This isn't one of them. *The Mary Tyler Moore Show* is a multi-cam sitcom and was shot on film, so it still looks better while the writing actually holds up much better by virtue of being funny, and its characters of color, though few and far between, are less caricatured. The late John Amos was Gordie the weatherman before starring on *Good Times.* The way Norman Lear ripped off Eric Monte makes him one of the twist villains of TV history.

[@PlaylistGeneral]

Archie reminds me quite a lot of my dad - who I haven't seen in years. I think it's his expressions in the serious moments. He suppresses himself in the exact same way. I don't know what he's doing but he's capturing something real.

[@trinaq]

I loved this show so much growing up. The most chilling episode is definitely when Edith is almost sexually assaulted at her own birthday party, nobody was expecting a usually lighthearted sitcom to get dark quickly.

[@jamesa.romano8500]

I remember one person on YT once commented it was like watching 9/11 with a laugh track - which ya tbh lol

[@youngkc866]

@@jamesa.romano8500 The laugh track was a little unnerving imo

[@amandaredd3057]

Absolutely heartbreaking

[@TheHopperUK]

I've never seen it and I'm having to take a break just hitting this part in the episode. My god.

[@ChibiFighter]

It wasn't a laugh track it was a legitimate live studio audience ​@@youngkc866

[@emisformaker]

I braced myself for That Scene, but it was not enough. Thanks for another wonderful retrospective!

[@AdrianWoodUK]

I literally said "oh, hell yeah" out loud just now from seeing this show up. I've never seen the show, mind, no specific interest in it, but a new José video? Always a good time.

[@thomasrude4512]

Please keep making these. This is the best series on KZbin. Really, great work. You’re a talented documentarian. Keep going!!!!

[@Attmay]

These "documentaries" are shitlib propaganda.

[@JohnnyFilmsy-Boi]

This is THE show I wanted you to talk about because it’s so nuanced. Im gonna out an evening aside for this video. So happy you got to this show! Love you’re stuff!❤️

[@russellwboss]

I thought the same thing when I saw it.

[@Attmay]

Nuanced? It is outright communist propaganda.

[@derekbrou]

I love this show so much, it is shocking how well it's held up and how modern it still feels. Also Carroll O Connor and Jean Stapleton were like two of the greatest actors in television

[@gaz-l621]

Honestly, I went back and watched a good chunk of Maude a while back and it feels the same way, with a bit more focus on skewering a particular kind of middle class white liberal (Maude will come off in the right far more often than Archie will, but there's still episodes with, say, her refusing to call out a gay author for being a classist, snobby jerk because she wants to be seen as progressive for having a gay friend) while still mocking more bigoted or conservative views at the same time.

[@Attmay]

Maude is a babykilling b---h whose gay friend was 100% justified in his behavior.

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

You're one of the few leftist media channels (as in analyzing media from a leftist perspective; not necesarily media analysts who have leftist views in their personal life) I still watch regularly. There's this black-and-white, holier-than-thou, over-emotional, angry kindergarten teacher attitude a lot of people who analyze things from that perspective on KZbin have. Which is a shame, because leftism is IMO an insightful framework from which to look at media made in liberal and capitalist societies. Your reviews are always thoughtful, nuanced, and sane. Also I'm a janitor so the long-form essay model gives me something to listen to while I mop, which may be your greatest contribution to the working class. Thank you for that.

[@Attmay]

*The Jeffersons* proved capitalism works. Non-conservative political opinions should not even be protected speech anymore after the attempted unaliving of Donald Trump. I hold Norman Lear and absolutely all those who continue to defend his content collectively responsible for it. The failure to prosecute him for the damage he has done while he was still alive is one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in human history.

[@amandaredd3057]

This show and The Jeffersons both were really REALLY something special

[@issakelly8071]

I hope he does The Mary Tyler Moore show next

[@starlite04]

I loved Archie's rivalry with George and yet Archie had a great relationship with Lionel.

[@Attmay]

*The Jeffersons* was so much better that I wish we didn't have to suffer through this crappy show and its equally crappy UK progenitor. The only reason we tolerated this wretched show was to get its spin offs, and even those were not enough to justify its existence. TV would be better off without Norman Lear. People of color were already coming back onto the air in a big way before this lousy show ever premiered. *Star Trek* had already come and gone by this point.

[@Attmay]

The people he is prejudiced against need to do videos about that show.

[@MillennialMcGuyver]

Ive never seen the show but remember it growing up, and given how much I love all the other Norman Lear shows I have seen - and your excellent recap - I definitely want to watch it now.

[@Ty-ix3bc]

Please talk about SOAP next. Love you so much Jose. You’re videos have helped keep me sane during psychotic episodes no cap. Love you fr

[@amandaredd3057]

Yes!!

[@literaterose6731]

Will Jose do a Soap episode in the future? Will KZbin’s algorithm only recommend it to people who watch personal hygiene videos? Will anyone under 45 even know what the hell he’s talking about? Tune in next time to find out!

[@emisformaker]

@@literaterose6731 Well done! /gen

[@xp7575]

He really does have a soothing voice, I often put on a long José video to fall asleep too

[@Robstafarian]

Clearly, we have to keep the Lynne Moody continuity!

[@CoreyB88]

I was never a big sitcom person, but my grandmother gave us a dozen All in the Family VHS tapes that had 4 episodes each. It was the late 90s and I was only like 9-12 years old, but I watched them and loved them. Mike Stivic was my first encounter with an open atheist in media, and I remember going from thinking the idea was bizarre when I first started watching the show to becoming comfortable enough with it to actually deconvert myself a few years later.

[@xp7575]

Being an atheist is just as delusional as being a theist is, agnosticism is the ONLY scientifically valid rational position on the existence of God

[@Attmay]

Atheism is antisemitism disguised as enlightenment. meathead was just another racist if he would rather have no god at all than be Jewish.

[@AniGaAG]

I didn't know All in the Family. Thank you for introducing me to it. It is incredible to me that this show, with the recklessly powerful messaging and acting it boasted, actually existed here in western television. Again, thank you for introducing me to it. There shall be a time when I watch the whole thing.

[@wHw_Syxx]

Born in 1988 and seen every episode of All In The Family and Archie Bunker's Place. My mom and grandmother let me watch this while reruns were still on TV. As a teenager I watched all the episodes, as an adult did the same thing. My opinion on this show will never change. Absolute brilliance, gutsy and relatable even in 2024. I always recommend this show to people and makes me sad they've never heard of Archie Bunker or All In The Family. Jose. Great job my man. Second time watching this. 👏

[@Funnylittleman]

I’ve been dying for you to cover this show! Of course, not every little detail has aged perfectly, but it’s remarkably progressive for the time. It’s also just a good show. It’s my “The Office” or Futurama. Always on in the background.

[@russellwboss]

My background roll is Frasier but this is a great pick. I might have to give it a run through.

[@TriTwingTwang]

Holy fucking shit the episodes about SA are so raw and that's JUST from the clips.

[@Attmay]

The worship of Cosby and the vilification of every other sitcom with black people on it by the press proves it changed nothing.

[@slashingkatie7872]

Also I love when Boomers use Archie Bunker memes to own the libs while completely missing the point of the show

[@americanmanhood]

I love when millennials and gen z say how much they hate stereotypes ... except when it comes to older people. They also hate all the -isms and -phobias, except for ageism. This is why no one wants to listen to you.

[@MM-bn5yc]

my boomer father looked at the whole show this way, “hollywood had the archie character play the bigot to make fun of that section of society, but that section was bigger than they thought and the section liked archie. then hollywood switched gears and leaned in, showing that the ‘hollyweirdos’ tried to push their agenda but real americans pushed back”. id say that proves your point.

[@atanvardecunambiel8917]

He was the original “you missed the point by idolizing them”

[@Victor-s6i8l]

Actually, I think this was a racist show. So, I don’t think these “boomers” are missing the point. Also, a gif of the character only represents the character and not the entire show.

[@Attmay]

No, they know the point of the show was to demonize white men and sexual normalcy, and to justify sending our jobs overseas. It is a reclamation of the bigoted strawman by those it is a form of bigotry against. George Jefferson forever! archie and the meathead never!

[@cemeterymidtown]

From a sociology student who is writing a 10 page paper and who loves old sitcoms, thank you for something to listen to while I write ❤

[@littlefire003]

JUST finished the Matt Baume retrospective on this show, and then saw this pop up… I guess this is my sign to rewatch!

[@Attmay]

Matt Baume is a privileged tool whose website URL normalizes hate speech. Any gay person who does not recognize how this show has harmed gay people is also harming gay people at this point. The only thing ironic about ironic bigotry is the irony. You can't watch the show and be a decent human being anymore. You just can't.

[@PeanutsAssorted]

Jean Stapleton's performance in the Birthday episode is so good, they honestly should've just stopped handing out Emmys in that category for as long as the series was on the air because every performance since then couldn't even begin to come close to what she did in those two episodes.

[@itsjustmekinsey]

it still makes me ugly cry

[@earldouglas3631]

The Edith Bunker rape story line was originally meant for Bonnie Franklin on One Day At A Time and Norman changed it because he felt the audience would not stand for someone hurting Edith.

[@Attmay]

That's honestly kind of disgusting. It implies that if it happened to Ann Romano, they would not feel sorry for her.

[@PeanutsAssorted]

@@Attmay it doesn’t imply that in the slightest, not even a little

[@siddhantshah6013]

I have been looking forward to a retrospective on All in the Family ever since I started listening to your retrospectives on old sitcoms!

[@Paint_The_Future]

I hadn't heard of this show before. What a fantastic show and fantastic retrospective.

[@Paint_The_Future]

@@xp7575 It's an American show. There are places in the world other than America.

[@Attmay]

Yeah, and the actually civilized ones criminalized this crappy show as hate speech.

[@lindsays7232]

I was actually just recently thinking that you needed to do an All in the Family retrospective! Thanks for all the work you do.

[@wHw_Syxx]

Absolutely beautiful. I enjoyed this while having a few beers. I was born in 1988. My grandmother and mother watched it and I did as a kid. Appreciated it more as an adult obviously after watching all the episodes of All In The Family & Archie Bunker's Place. I miss and love them both and thank them for introducing me to this show as it did have a positive impact on my life.

[@Attmay]

*Archie Bunker's Place* at least spared us from having to deal with the meathead.

[@joshuamartiancartoons]

Wow, what an accomplishment this video is! I can't imagine how many hours went into editing the thousands of hours of this show into something so easy and informative to watch. Bravo! Also, the scenes of Edith in distress are already difficult to watch due to the subject matter but even harder because she looks and acts (though does not sound) like my Mum. I love her.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

Edith is basically my grandmother if Edith was Irish Catholic. Some of the same mannerisms & tragedies, & the same appeasing nature, but also this ferociously loving heart. I've been thinking a lot lately about how my grandmothers never forgot my childhood dreams & never stopped taking those interests seriously. I love & miss them so much.

[@FairyPrincessNia]

Edith Bunker is an absolute queen 👑👑👑

[@stephens021]

Please consider covering MASH at some point, I would love to get your take on the series.

[@gaz-l621]

Honestly, All In The Family, Mary Tyler Moore and MASH are all critical to the evolution of the sitcom in the US (hell, the West in general) in different ways. AITF created the topical home-based comedy that eventually got sanded down into the Very Special Episode likes of Family Ties and the like (a change you can see with Archie Bunker's Place already), MTM essentially created the modern workplace hangout comedy - no MTM, no Brooklyn 99 or Parks & Rec - and MASH pioneered the single camera dramedy, especially in markets where there was no laugh track (here in the UK it aired with no laugh track at all)

[@WilliamStoneContentZone]

Yess

[@Attmay]

*Family Ties* holds up better than any Norman Lear show, quite frankly. Alex P. Keaton is another strawman with a point. This one is easier on the eyes and ears.

[@wHw_Syxx]

I remember my mom telling me for the series finale of MASH, some people were let off work early to go home and watch and bars were packed with them playing the episode.

[@susiefairfield7218]

Omg! Thank You José love the Archie Bunker Show .. watched it every week with my Aunt & Uncle

[@RichGilly]

Great job! This is the best retrospective on All in the Family I've seen. I am happy something like this exists to expose and educate young people on what was going on in media/the culture back before they were even born. If you are unaware of history you're doomed to repeat it.

[@Attmay]

Now I want an actual retrospective pointing out all the damage that Norman Lear has done to the show from right wing gay perspective. One of the best criticisms I ever heard about this show was from the former President of log cabin Republicans in San Francisco. He called it one-sided. The more I thought about what he had to say, the more I thought that he was right. Str8 shitlibs like Norman Lear need to be held to account for normalizing degeneracy and doing nothing to stop western imperialism and terrorism except make it worse. This goes for *MASH,* too. Hawkeye and the meathead sounds like an evening in Hell.

[@tristanbruns5968]

My parents let me watch AITF as a kid and it was my introduction to racism and bigotry and how flawed these ideologies are. As far as its impact, I can say that it helped at least one person, me. Excellent retrospective, Mr. Jose, please keep up the fantastic work.

[@Attmay]

It did nothing of the kind. I have been subject to hate speech by fans of this show for criticizing it. Your parents never should have let you watch the show.

[@tristanbruns5968]

@@Attmay Sorry you ran into some bad fans. They obviously missed the point, like how right-leaning folks didn’t get that Colbert was doing a character mocking right-leaning folks on the Colbert Report. But that small sample has nothing to do with fans’ reactions writ large. Your bad experience does not invalidate my and others’ good experience.

[@picahudsoniaunflocked5426]

The reruns of this series were a central part of my youth & Norman Lear was an incredible show runner + creator whose work I recognize as having impacted me. Thank you.

[@penelopejoann]

José, this is so well done. I really enjoyed your analysis on the Golden Girls as well. Thank you for piquing our minds and hearts with this gem 💎

[@mhancock8854]

Every time I see one of your retrospective videos I end up wanting to watch or rewatch whatever show it's covering. Fantastic work as usual!

[@martinsmith6342]

Just finished watching this video, very emotional as I watched this, watched the reruns as a kid, one of a kind show!

[@bloodyfloorboards]

when edith slaps gloria then breaks down and apologizes it brought tears to my eyes… what a powerful performance and an harrowing episode

[@kestrel4294]

How did I miss this release!?!? It took 6 DAYS to show in my feed. I subscribed and hit alerts FFS🤬

[@MandaMalice]

Ah!!! Thank you so much for covering this! One of my all time favorites. Actually call my husband Meathead because of this show ❤️

[@ChutneyRomero]

Thank you so much for making this. Your videos are amazing. I get emotional every time, some times more than others. Your content is meaningful to me-therapeutic even.

[@pengwin_]

Well José, you finally did it. i have been waiting for you to cover this one since you alluded to it waaaay back in the poll that included Fraiser. This show is undoubtedly one of the best american television show ever made. It is easily up there with the likes of Roseanne, Star Trek: TNG, Frasier, and Breaking Bad. My girlfriend in college turned me on to it and we watched quite a few episodes of it together. It hold a special place in my heart and is absolutely the bar by which all Television writing needs to meet. The acting is also top notch and as you pointed out, won many emmys. We are not likely to see another show like it again, but thats not too bad because every issue it touches remains relevant today. Again, great video José.

[@teruienages962]

We'll never see another show like this because people bash the concept of "woke" on sight and refuse to think for themselves or be challenged or ask questions. Not for lack of trying, there are always people that want to try and use media as art with societal value, but people have declared openly and angrily that they don't want to be challenged or be reminded that personal accountability is an option. We desperately need another All In The Family to ask these questions desperately, but these questions would not be understood anymore, due to the devolved mind of Americans in this day and age. An Archie Bunker figure today would just become another Trump in the minds of the intellectually de-evolved today. They'd take everything reactionary and bigoted he says, put it on a pedestal and absolutely claim themselves to be just like him, and toss away any message or commentary as "woke values being shoved down my throat when I just want to have my """"free speech""""" just like he does when he speaks for me". And if there was a 2024 All In The Family to come along in all but name, there would just be 8 million KZbin videos about it being "more woke propaganda trying to target my """"free speech"""" as not valid." It's not because we don't need it, it's because people won't accept it anymore. They just want Paw Patrol for the kids, and Zack Snyder movies or spite-drenched trash like Rick and Morty for the older kids that refer to themselves as adults.

[@nathanaelgazzard7989]

I've never watched a sitcom for more than a couple of episodes in my life, bit I never miss the latest episode from José

[@Darm0k]

I just got curious and looked up how old Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton were when All in the Family premiered. He was 47, and she was 48. I'm 47 now and Archie and Edith both look way older than me.

[@mjc4real]

Another incredible job, Jose... I so appreciate and look forward to your retrospectives and insights into various TV shows and other media... Your work is so detailed and informative, and we appreciate it....Have a great summer and I will be looking forward to whatever topic catches your eye next... All the best.....

[@hpalpha7323]

Sitcom really is the perfect medium for bringing attention to serious social issues. The humorous tone of the series makes the serious moments more striking and memorable

[@curiotimetv]

Una Stubbs, who played Rita, the British counterpart to Gloria, also had a resurgence of career in her 70s and 80s as the delightfully sweet and sassy Mrs Hudson in BBC's Sherlock.

[@Lovehandels]

Thank you for talking about this show! It was my mother's favorite! I watch it thanks to her watching it all the time!

[@MrBird2007]

I've been a follower for about 4 years now. This may just be your best retrospective

[@jameskelly3502]

I grew up watching reruns of All in the Family on Nick at Nite I can honestly say that it had a huge impact on how I view the world and different groups of people It also shows how the difficulties, that a lot of people think of as recent, are in fact decades old and not exclusive to the younger generation. As far as I'm concerned, All in the family is a MUST-SEE show. P.S. As a lifetime fan of this show, I do believe this documentary is a very fair examination of it. Thank you, Jose, for an excellent video.

[@kblixt]

Your sitcom analysis are a perfect addition to your other videos

[@bluestruthspodcast3398]

An incredible video once more that highlights why you have one of then greatest channels on the site. Have you every considered doing a retrospective of mash? I think it’s possibly the greatest sitcom of all time, thank you :)

[@BrutalOddball]

I really love these retrospective videos, thank you for making them!

[@Wack.d]

The subject of "what do you do when you are the subject of family prejudice", interestingly enough, gets explored in what'd turn out to be Lear's last show, the 2017 version of 'One Day at a Time', through the lens of queerness. (It's also, iirc, a not-insignificant part of 'The Jeffersons', through the lens of interracial marriage.) Anyway, this was very thorough and thoughtful and I'd love to see you explore more of the Lear corpus.

[@gaz-l621]

ODAAT did a fantastic job with that arc, from the abuela processing it over the course of one fantastically funny scene, to the mother both being worried about her daughter being the target of homophobia and being awkward and stereotyping when trying to be supportive (the scene with her shoehorning in articles from Autostraddle into conversation is pitch perfect cringe comedy, IMO) to the heartbreaking stuff with the dad.

[@kezia8027]

Amazing video, and considering how foundational this series was to sitcoms as a whole, I have to say that you've done a phenomenal job of bringing to life this wonderful story. Thank you for your hard work!

[@Attmay]

The show was terrible and anybody who defends it is a bigot.

[@carbine090909]

Thanks for this. I never knew rhe Carroll O'Conner backstory, and it's so perfect that he was the last one to go, lol, and that the show collapsed in on itself without the tension between him and Lear.

[@user-hm4yi7um9d]

You know. You've done a lot to show the value of so many shows that I've never even considered watching

[@ZombicidalMadMom81]

Great video as per usual! Recent subscriber here, I've been binge watching your retrospective videos about the shows I remember watching because my parents watched them in the 80s lol I'd love to see you do a video of Night Court! It's in the same vein of Cheers set in the scene of (obviously) a Court room, but it was funny and went on for a few seasons. Or a video on Hillstreet Blues, I think it's a cop show but I have to reach far back in my mind for the vaguest of memories

[@travismorin3704]

I grew up watching this show on Nick at Nite/TV Land and watched it with my grandparents after dinner every night when I was in high school. It's truly the foundational American sitcom and I'm so glad you're finally covering it. This is for sure going to be a favorite episode/cozy can't sleep at night episode of your channel for me.

[@Attmay]

Nick at Nite jumped the shark when they showed this crap. Now, they're nothing but the same even worse shows I turned to Nick at Nite to get away from.

[@rileynewman1171]

You did a great job with your analysis of All in the Family. I was hoping to introducing my freinds to the show and I think your video might help me convince them to watch it.

[@angelsinger4574]

I would love to see you do a retrospective of the original “misfit tv,” Night Court. There’s so much that went on both in the series and behind the scenes, and the show doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Plus, you already talked about Harry Anderson in your Cheers video, so this would be a natural outcome of that. And thank you for another wonderful video!

[@gaz-l621]

I think Night Court is a bit awkward in the way the back part of Roseanne was, in that the revival is still airing so it's hard to place the show as a whole in context.

[@Mistahhuntah]

I just watched the whole series recently, it still holds up.

[@jovishark]

ive never seen all in the family but am i gonna watch this whole video just to hear your analysis? yes sir i am

[@charleselmore4707]

Man…even the clips are still powerful. What a great show.

[@teddyfurstman1997]

All in the Family was a game-changer for Sitcoms. The Theme Song is so Iconic. Lol

[@Attmay]

Change it back. I want TV back the way it was before that and I wasn't even born then.

[@mofny]

One of the best videos I've seen on KZbin, and I've been watching great creators for close to 20 years. It gave me perspective on my own relationship with my dad. He can be bigoted but usually only subtlety. Fortunately he's grown over the years, but we still have difficult conversations about work and the economy/capitalism, conspiracy theories, and just life in general. It has always been difficult to pinpoint where his core perspective/personality was formed. I'm now convinced it was probably in the 70s, maybe even with some influence from Archie. He was in his 30s at the height of this show's popularity. He also speaks very highly of his parents, especially now that he's elderly. I imagine I could never speak ill of his father, a man I never met and honestly don't know much about. How much of his personality rubbed off on my dad? What is mostly good or bad? I guess I never really thought about it.

[@softiejace]

i like your way of talking so much i find myself clicking on videos about shows I've never even heard of. ❤

[@chrisaguilera1564]

That was one of the best written retrospectives on AITF I've ever seen. I watched this show on reruns as a kid and grew up with it no knowing about the hidden meaning behind the show. I just found it very funny even though some of the humor went over my head. I did something I rarely do on KZbin, I watched the whole thing. That's a testament to how good this was.

[@canag0d]

What a ridiculously good comprehensive recap. This is amazing. Damn I love your videos but this one is special. How do u know so much aboot so many shows?

[@lilymccann5329]

This was before my time but I would see it on in reruns. I wanna thank you for presenting this beautifully done retrospective. All of your work is excellent but this one made me a little teary. I kept hearing Rob Reiner and thought, "Nah, that can't be the director..." I NEVER KNEW. Also, if you were an 80s baby, you knew Sally Struthers for being that crying woman on the needy children's commercials. I'm sure some sketch show even spoofed it.

[@joshthefunkdoc]

Even South Park did a Sally Struthers parody, i feel like that's the lasting image of her for a lot of Gen Xers-early Millennials

[@malcolmconnors4502]

Im going to need a Quinton Reviews esque NCU on the All in rhe Family Universe

[@MrAwesomusMaximus]

I love these so much thank you for making these! I know you don't generally do animated ones but if you ever had an inkling to do one I think king of the hill would be an amazing one to have a retrospective of and I'd love to hear your opinions. I also understand that you are probably doing these as love letters to shows you already watched so please just keep on doing what your doing. I love these so much!

[@leviblevins513]

I am 40. I was 13 when it came on Nickatnight in the 90s. I am beyond the generation but made part of it. Along with every other old show Nick got me hooked on.

[@davidguerra9994]

Never ever for never watch this before going to bed..🤕my whole head hurts from dropping this on my face🤕

[@TweedleDeem]

immediately started crying when she pushed the cake in his face, even tho it's a sitcom it's still very powerful and cathartic

[@jonlittle5032]

Interesting reflection on a classic show that continues to surprise me. I grew up on this, and other, shows. Watching this retrospective, looking back at my own life, I am stunned by how much it shaped me. Looking at America now, it seems the answers to today's divisive culture were there, right in front of us. Somehow we forgot those answers. Or, have we discounted them, lessons lost in the weapons of trivialization of our culture war?

[@teruienages962]

No, the media is still at least TRYING to fight as hard as it can to continue to tackle these subjects, it's just that every time they do now, it's screamed down by the ignorant loudmouthed majority who doesn't want "woke" shoved "down their throats", lest the scary boogeyman of asking questions and having self-reflection remind people that things like personal accountability is a societal option. Even South Park has transformed from a show willing to ask or present difficult questions to merely being just another loud annoying wall of anti-progressive pandering, echoed back to justify today's vapid indifference of being challenged through a dingy, cynical lens of "everything is dumb and stupid, woke is dumb and thinking is stupid" that the show now, relentlessly conveys as a shadow of it's former self. Because ever since Trump turned on this county's moron switch and awakened mindless reactionary tantrums towards the concept of thought, as if berzerk, chest-pounding sleeper agents, people have convinced themselves they won't want art to reflect challenge or questions. Only with the tables flipped, as it's no longer the broadcasters, and corproations that want to kill the concept of thought and intelligence in media, it's the people themselves that now reject it.

[@jonlittle5032]

@@teruienages962 No, I think we as a society have forgotten. it isn't just that media has gone hoarse, large swaths of the public are completely indifferent.

[@kenthuang436]

The thing I love about Archie as a character is how much he loves his family and the things he’ll try to do to make them happy when things go wrong. Sure he sometimes made fun of Edith whenever she made a mistake but he still cared a lot about her and tried his best to make her happy again after Beverly was killed and he definitely showed how much he cared about her well-being after she hid the diagnosis she had gotten from the doctor about possibly developing a blood clot in her legs if she stood too long and she kept on cooking without telling him and he told her that her being healthy was more important to him than some food.

[@sp0ck1p]

And here I was just thinking yesterday about how culturally significant this show is. Hooray!

[@Attmay]

It's a significant reason for why American "culture" has become an oxymoron every decade since the end of the 1960s. You think the opposite would be be the case with more gay people coming out of the closet.

[@ErikiParakeet]

I loved this show growing up, thank you for making this video.😊❤

[@spadinnerxylaphone2622]

My two favorite Archie Bunker moments are when he objects to the Klan by saying he doesn't want them burning a cross in his yard because he doesn't want his grandson getting the wrong idea of what the cross means (I'm a Christian and I hate how so many Christians are bigots); and when he goes to his Jewish friend's funeral, starts out being bumbling and ignorant, but ends up delivering that beautiful eulogy. Musing that if the blues take years off your life, laughter must add them; and that he wished he made Stretch laugh more.

[@MrMatthias]

I went from thinking "How great could it have possibly been?" When you were talking it up in the intro to thinking "I have got to watch this show" by the halfway point

[@Kenny-dr1oz]

Excellent video. I’m a fan of the show in my late 20s and a history teacher. It is a fascinating cultural treasure. I show clips from Edith’s jury duty episode to my students. Subbed 😁

[@michaeldunkerton3805]

Another very good video opening my eyes to a show I never watched. Still holding out for a Sister, Sister/Smart Guy video!

[@tvxedobvnny]

this is filling the hole left in my heart by the takedown of quinton's 38 hour beverly hillbillies video, thanks José!

[@raydayo8048]

Interested to see your perspective on this! Been waiting for it, as I grew up with a father who unironically believed Archie's worst traits to be something idolize.

[@raydayo8048]

Paused to mention (I have to watch this in sittings, this show was on throughout my entire childhood on repeat), the baptism episode I remember not making much sense to me and being outright unpleasant to me. It was my dad's favorite episode (aside from the godforsaken one with 'the difference between men and women being some 'chair trick', one he uses to this day to prove genetic differences in sexe., yes its as cringe as you can imagine every time). This whole retrospective is really well done, and has helped me tackle a part of my childhood in an adult perspective. Well done again, Jose!

[@Robstafarian]

The two-part episode series in the videos sixth section, after the content warning, made me cry (a lot). It says a lot that I have never heard anyone mention those episodes when talking about the show.

[@seto749]

My most lasting memory of the series was when Edith finally yelled at Archie, "Stifle, stifle, stifle!"

[@zer0nen0ne78]

Thanks José, keep up the excellent work!

[@Drumboardist]

I'm SUPER impressed by your deep-dive on "All in the Family", Jose! Having seen EVERYTHING ELSE YOU'VE done, I thought "....naw, this is TOO big, dude would his mind from the cultural landmarks *alone*...." ....and yet, here we are. Another brilliant documentary, and I loved every second of it. I don't know where you'll tread next, nor do I know how excited I'll be about the discovery, but I'm ready for that shock. (Also, where can I submit suggestions? I mean, things like Alf, Barney Miller, or even more contemporary things like "How I Met Your Mother" could provide HOURS or content. Whatever you do, I'm here for it, cheers chief.)

[@IvyLeather13]

I almost died at 47:03. That timing is just insane, its wild how its so funny.

[@Detective_Stone]

Brava man another amazing documentary

[@charleselmore4707]

Love to see your take on M*A*S*H 😊