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CanSocDem

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11. That was the hope, however...

Reply to Hekate (Reply #4)

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 09:54 AM

Feb 2018

...many of us worried that Archie Bunker was given a loud voice that would only embolden those too ashamed to speak up themselves. I did start hearing more 'bunker-isms' in everyday conversation after a few years of the show. I think the producers were hoping the American public would get the irony...they didn't.

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We were laughing at this shit 40 years ago [View all] tomhagen Feb 2018 OP

"just arm all your passengers" JenniferJuniper Feb 2018 #1

Deja vu all over again. LuckyLib Feb 2018 #2

If you look at the post on Youtube videohead5 Feb 2018 #3

One reason we could laugh at Archie Bunker is because his troglodyte ideas seemed to be... Hekate Feb 2018 #4

That was the hope, however... CanSocDem Feb 2018 #11

Just posted this to NRA twitter in a conversation about how kentucky mentalslavery Feb 2018 #5

The commentary at youtube is disgusting yuiyoshida Feb 2018 #6

Learned a lot from that show benld74 Feb 2018 #7

I remembered watching this on television apkhgp Feb 2018 #8

my grandfather referred to me as "Meathead" for years. bdtrppr6 Feb 2018 #9

Pretty funny, I gotta admit. But on the serious side... Honeycombe8 Feb 2018 #10