Archie Bunker

Archie Bunker was a fictional character in the long-running and top-rated American television sitcom All in the Family. He was a reactionary, bigoted blue-collar worker played to acclaim by Carroll O'Connor. In 1979 the show was retooled and renamed Archie Bunker?s Place, finally going off the air in 1983. Bunker lived in the borough of Queens in New York City. TV Guide once named Archie TV's greatest character of all time.

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Fictional character - American - Sitcom - All in the Family - Carroll O'Connor - 1979 - Archie Bunker?s Place - 1983 - Queens - New York City - TV Guide

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The show got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and his liberal son-in-law Michael "Meathead" Stivic (Rob Reiner) provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. Other family members included wife Edith (Jean Stapleton) and daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers).

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Michael "Meathead" Stivic - Rob Reiner - Edith - Jean Stapleton - Gloria - Sally Struthers

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In spite of his numerous flaws, Archie was simultaneously portrayed as being basically decent and, rather than possessing genuine malice, a product of the time in which he was raised. (In the episode "Archie and the KKK," Archie is invited to join a "Christian" club which turns out to be a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. In spite of his inherent discomfort around blacks, Archie responds with genuine revulsion at the group's violent methods, and attempts to thwart a cross burning).

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Ku Klux Klan - Cross burning

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One of the few times Archie showed love was after he wife died.

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