I'm realizing now just how badly Norman Lear's TV shows sucked during the 70's.

[murielm99]

70. When I first saw All in the Family,

I could not believe that such a show was actually on TV. There was some honesty there.

And just think about some of the black people watching TV back then. There were honest-to-God shows with black people who were not stereotypes.

Come on. Those shows were ground-breaking.

One of the funniest things about All in the Family was Archie's face when he was surprised by something that did not fit his world view. I remember an episode where a young Southern belle came to the house. She was a friend of Gloria's. She was not bothered one bit by Archie. She told him she had a daddy at home who was just like him. However, her daddy would call Archie a communist, simply because he, Archie, lived in New York city.

My favorite episode was the one where Edith is baking a cake and the stranger comes into the house to rape her. She thinks quickly, and escapes in an interesting way.

God protects dingbats and children.