The wite and wisdom of Archie Bunker

[NightTrain]

On God's words to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden: "Put your clothes on and get the hell out of here."

Archie: "Let me tell you something about Richard E. Nixon. He keeps Pat home. Which was where Roosevelt should have kept Eleanor. Instead he let her run around loose, rousing up the coloreds, tellin' them they were gettin' the short end of the stick and we been having trouble ever since. Eleanor Roosevelt discovered the coloreds in this country. We never knew they was there!"

Archie (to Mike):"You're the one who needs an American history lesson. You don't know anything about Lady Liberty, standing there in the harbor, with her torch out high, screaming out to all the nations of the world - Send me your poor, your deadbeats, your filthy..."

On Affirmative Action: (Archie reads off the names on the slate he's voting for): "Tore, Feldman, O'Reilly, Nelson. That's an Italian, a Jew, an Irishman and a regular American. That's what I call a balanced ticket."

On Jesus: "Jesus was a Jew, yes, but only on his mother's side."

Archie: "I was talking about the Bible, which has nothing to do with the Jews."



Archie Bunker: "If your spics and your spades want their rightful share of the American dream, let 'em get out there and hustle for it like I done."

Mike: "So now you're going to tell me the black man has just as must chance as the white man to get a job?"

Archie Bunker: "More, he has more... I didn't have no million people marchin' and protestin' to get me my job."

Edith: "No, his uncle got it for him."

[rpannier]

1. He's Still Funny 30 Years Later

That was great.

[baldguy]

2. Clear Channel would give him a talk-radio show now.

Though Archie is a little too much of a "compassionate Conservative" for todays Nazi gas-bag Republicans

[NightTrain]

3. Don't give them any ideas!

:eyes:

[Deja Q]

4. LOL!

Great show...

Season 3 (arguably the best) to come out in July, I gather.