The grisly murders final week of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his spouse Michele, allegedly by the hands of their deranged son, moved me to return and watch two of my favourite “All in the Family” episodes.
They’re each from Season 2. Within the first one, “Edith Writes a Song,” a pair of thieves, Demond Wilson (“Sanford and Son”) and Cleavon Little (“Blazing Saddles”), break into the Bunker residence and uncover that the house owner has some racist tendencies.
“Look what we done found here,” the Cleavon Little character says. “A genuine,100 percent, died-in-the-wool bigot. Come on, say something bigotty.”
“I ain’t no bigot,” the host, Archie Bunker, responds. “I’m the first one to say that it ain’t your fault youse are colored.”
The second episode, “Sammy’s Visit,” options the legendary Sammy Davis Jr., who leaves his briefcase in a cab Archie was driving. When he involves the Bunker residence to retrieve it, he makes the identical discovery, whilst Archie’s Black neighbor, Lionel, involves his protection.
“He’d never burn a cross on your lawn,” Lionel says.
“No, but if he saw one burning, he’s liable to toast a marshmallow on it,” Davis responds.
“All in the Family,” which featured Reiner as Archie Bunker’s son-in-law, Mike Stivic, was some of the groundbreaking exhibits on tv throughout its run within the Nineteen Seventies.
It introduced me again to a time when the standard of tv was high notch, and everybody, Black, white, wealthy or poor, watched the identical factor.
It additionally made me surprise: How did we get Archie Bunker within the White Home?
After the Reiners have been discovered stabbed to demise of their Brentwood, Calif., residence, President Trump, no fan of the liberal elite, had this to say on social media:
“A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood,” Trump posted on Fact Social. “Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the Trump Administration surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness, and with the Golden Age of America upon us, perhaps like never before. May Rob and Michele rest in peace!”
What a meathead.
Meathead is what Archie Bunker used to name his son-in-law within the iconic present.
However the title appears like a greater match for a person who would assault a beloved homicide sufferer, caught up in a tragic household drama, earlier than the physique was even chilly.
Even within the face of bipartisan backlash, Trump doubled down on his filth.
“I wasn’t a fan of his at all,” Trump mentioned later on the White Home in response to a query about his publish. “He was a deranged person as far as Trump is concerned.”
Actor/producer/director Rob Reiner (heart) and spouse Michele (L) and son Nick Reiner (R) attend Teen Vogue’s Again-to-Faculty Saturday kickoff occasion at The Grove on Aug. 9, 2013, in Los Angeles, Calif. (Picture by Michael Buckner/Getty Photographs for Teen Vogue)
Even Archie Bunker had a delicate aspect.
On the present, Bunker’s favourite president was Richard Nixon. He insisted to his spouse’s cousin, Maude, that “Franklin Delano Roosevelt ruined the country.”
If Bunker’s character have been alive at the moment, he’d have a brand new favourite: Donald John Trump. He’d be on board with every thing Trump has accomplished to dismantle range and comfortable as much as dictators.
Archie Bunker: “Well, I’ll tell you one thing about President Nixon. He keeps Pat home. Which was where Roosevelt should have kept Eleanor. Instead, he let her run around loose until one day she discovered the colored. We never knew they were there. She told them they were gettin’ the short end of the stick and we been having trouble ever since.”
Trump: I’m Donald Trump, and I help this message.
What a meathead.
