Both Carroll O'Connor and Bea Arthur were experts in facial expressions, check out how many times Archie and Maude have close ups in their respective TV shows.

Maude is the reason men divorce

I always hated Maude.

@@billmason2785 She’s awful.

Ugly & gross a nightmare.

Best line in the sketch!

😂😂😂

Apparently.

Bea was good at playing those characters. lol

Bea was a Marine true story! Once a Marine always a Marine! Semper Fi!

Tell it to other marines like the following: Luke Duke, Cordell Walker, Stanley Wojihoewicz, Rick Simon, Tom “Gunny” Highway, Gomer Pyle, and Mort Metzger.

Big deal!

If only instead of staying in Tuckahoe to run his appliance store, Walter should have tagged along in order to say things like, “Maude, sit!” Or better still, “Archie’s chair is not the chair that you should sit in, Maude! Why don’t you take that nice wooden one over there by the banister instead since it’s more your type anyway!”

😂😂😂😂

Once back in Tuckahoe, Maude had a lecture waiting for her from next door neighbor Dr. Arthur Harmon who told her, “You had no right to sit in the chair of Mr. Bunker at all! Besides, I think that maybe I’d like to meet up with him one of these days”

Especially the part about Nixon; This being filmed right before he got busted...

@@brentfarvors192 True. But Archie continued to support 'Richard E Nixon' even after he got busted. There was one episode in, I think, 1976 where Mike thinks Archie wrote in Nixon in the '76 election and and Edith asks him if its true. He said he just said it to rile Mike and that he really wrote in Reagan (who had lost the primary to Ford)! LOL Then in an episode of Archie Bunker's place Archie buys drinks for the bar and someone says the last time he did that was when Nixon won re-election. Mr. Van Ranseleer, says 'my God is he running again?' Archie says 'no; never again poor man!'

"This country was ruined by Franklin Delano Rooooo-se-velt." 🤣🤣🤣

That should be said about Sesame Street since 1998 being watered down because of Elmo being overdone because of the 1990 death of Jim Hensen O.K!!!!

My favorite episode

I miss that time of life.

Remind me of my Grandmother's home in Newark, NJ. Wonderful times back then.

My grandparents lived in the same part of Queens where the show took place. I loved it because these were my grandparents and their friends. I knew these characters.

Hallelujah!

Good grief!!!!!!!!

Why was Archie crazy? He was 100% correct.

​@@jamessmith4582 wrong

@@talkingthetalk3640 Spoken like a true idiot.

So what if FDR saved our nation by dumping us into WW2? He was also brave enough to take a stand against those maniacs Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. However, if the psychic Edgar Cacey had warned FDR about MacArthur planning to invade Manchuria during the Korean War, it wouldn’t come as no surprise to me if FDR left instructions behind for Harry S. Truman to fire MacArthur, which is no wonder why Ike Eisenhower got elected and now we’re stuck with certain limitations such as: congressional district representatives will be selected only according to the population of each state, each state will be limited to just two U.S. senators, and only two consecutive terms for every candidate who runs for the office of U.S. President. It’s like that fool law that Tennessee had for years limiting the term of a county sheriff to two years per term and three consecutive terms only, which prevented Sheriff Buford Pusser from finishing the job of ridding his jurisdiction of McNairy County of the state line crowd.

Archie Bunker was just a man of his own personal limitations, but occasionally he told it like it is.

Yes, after he got elected the third time the republicans pushed though the term limit.

Mike sat in it and broke it.

I thought either George Jefferson, and/or Louise's brother, when he was pretending to be George, sat in it. I don't know if Louise's brother challenged Archie, but I'm almost positive, George did.

But he was at least kind enough to allow Sammy Davis, Jr., the honor of sitting in the chair, and he would also have done the same thing for The Duke himself John Wayne.

Which resulted in it winding up in an art exhibit all because a careless assistant of a repair man allowed the artist to take the chair away while his boss stepped out for a cup of coffee ☕️?!

Henry Jefferson was George’s brother in case you have failed to listen between the dialogue.

Now he belongs to the ages.

Error of the makeup department.

Ah I didn't know that.

So Richard Nixon hated the only man in the nation who supported him the most?! Obviously it looks like he too failed to listen between the dialogue, let alone read between the lines?! So it was no wonder that the fans were lucky enough to catch the show during summer reruns under the circumstances of the dilemma?!

Strange how we learn secrets about certain people after they’ve become deceased?!

@@user-wi6sh6vh8u Haha. Archie Bunker was a fictitious TV character that everybody laughed at for his conservative viewpoints, usually supported with erroneous info. Nixon spent his entire Presidency trying to be liked and taken seriously. He looked at the show as a bitter parody of the values he believed in, and considered the Bunker character a poor example of support. You weren't around then. People didn't tune into this show so that they could talk the next day at work about how virtuous Archie is. People laughed at his antics and loved the characters. Things then were truly, truly different than they are today. And these comment section entries are proof of that.

Imagine how it would look if her neighbors Arthur and Vivian met up with Archie and Edith?!

Surely there may have been secret sealed orders possibly?

It’s a possibility.

Sorry to slightly disagree but the original 39 Honeymooners were the best ever. All in the Family 1st 3 seasons (1972-1974) a close 2nd.

Actually, I feel that “THE HONEYMOONERS” are much lower in rank because you got the following sitcoms that come right after “ALL IN THE FAMILY”: “THE JEFFERSONS”, “GOOD TIMES”, “MAUDE”, “HAZEL”, “THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW”, “GOMER PYLE, USMC”, “MAYBERRY R.F.D.”, “MAMA’S FAMILY”, “CHARLES IN CHARGE”, “MY LITTLE MARGIE”, “I MARRIED JOAN”, “HAPPY DAYS”, “BLOSSOM”, “MORK & MINDY”, “WKRP IN CINCINNATI”, “LAVERNE & SHIRLEY”, “THE FLYING NUN”, “ONE DAY AT A TIME”, “GIDGET”, “NANNY & THE PROFESSOR”, “MY MOTHER THE CAR”, “THE ADDAMS FAMILY”, “SANFORD & SON”, “THE MUNSTERS”, “GREEN ACRES”, “SOAP”, “BEWITCHED”, “MY 3 SONS”, “FAMILY AFFAIR”, “THE GHOST & MRS. MUIR”, “THE NANNY”, “THE JIMMY STEWART SHOW”, “PETTICOAT JUNCTION”, “JULIA”, “GILLIGAN’S ISLAND”, “BENSON”, “THE FARMER’S DAUGHTER”, “CAR 54, WHERE ARE YOU?”, “THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES”, “AMEN”, “THE GOLDBERGS” (with the late actress Gertrude Berg as Molly Goldberg), “227”, “MISTER ED”, “BURNS & ALLEN”, “THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW”, “MARY TYLER MOORE”, “MR. BELVEDERE”, “RHODA”, “DIFF’RENT STROKES”, “PHYLLIS”, “BARNEY MILLER”, “THE FACTS OF LIFE”, “ALICE”, “3’S COMPANY”, “LOVE AMERICAN STYLE”, and “THE HONEYMOONERS”, which is just the tip of the iceberg.

@@user-wi6sh6vh8u damn! You actually typed all of that?

Just covering all the details, regardless of poor editing.

This is the one debate that Mike avoided for once in his miserable lifetime.

What??? Dumb comparison

Archie would have had Sheldon tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.

Definitely.

Maude let the bats 🦇 overrun her belfry.

I have these kinds of conversations with my republican grandpa, it's exhausting.

Exactly! I remember, as a kid, while watching the show, I never thought it was funny. I felt angry at Archie because he's such a bigoted dunce (was too young to appreciate his good side). Archie reminded me of my stepfather, who I loved. But I really disliked that ignorant racist side of stepdad.

Archie:” Running around with the coloreds”

Oh God 🤦

“The Dixiecrat Woman Of The Year!”

And telling them that they were getting the short end of the stick.

Try picturing the possibility of Archie finding himself getting into a car through the window, especially if the car in question is the greatest 1969 Dodge Charger of them all, the General Lee of Hazzard County?!

How about the one in which Archie says, “Just hold it right there! Leave me out of that! Leave it to a Heeb to charge admission to his own bachelor party! What’s he going to do, sell tickets to the wedding?!” Walter replies, “He’s all yours, Maude!”

Most of the time!

well, they were weak from being sick

How true that is.

Well, be that as it may, by the end of the episode, Maude was sick, too. Besides, she should have heeded Archie’s advice in telegram telling her to stay the H-E-Double-Toothpicks away. However, since it’s Maude’s own fault that she got sick from taking care of them, Archie probably had Maude using the cot in the attic that Cousin Oscar used when he visited Archie and died on them?!

If anyone needs to hug a land mine, it should be Maude.

“704 HAUSER STREET” only ran for 4 episodes before getting cancelled.

Also not to mention the fresh prince of bel air is also in the same universe as all Thouse shows

Perhaps Will Smith’s character needed a run-in with Archie?!

@@alexanderhussussian5653 Not really.

Alright, how about possibly having J.J. Evans encountering Archie at Kelcy’s?

No way.

I absolutely agree! And Edith doesn't say shit!

@@superstarreviews9937 He gave as good as he got when he went to Carol's wedding!

@@superstarreviews9937 and she could have being married to Archie. Maude wasn't disrespectful nor was any of Edith's family like Atlantic claimed above. It's Edith's house too because they are married, regardless of whether she is employed or not.

@@DavidLopez-jl2ug Still no excuse to have a relative act like a foul mouthed boor in one's own house.

@@KJTV67 "Good night nurse, she's marryin' a Jew." 🤣🤣🤣

HE Did sell us out to Stalin

Big deal.

Imagine how it would look if Archie was to meet Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose?!

Because of lunatics ranging from Nixon to Trump.

FDR was too skinny.

@@user-wi6sh6vh8u That's true, but in his last years as President, which was because of stress of the war. FDR wasn't too skinny in his earlier presidency.

But Archie has the bigger belly. If in doubt, I triple dog dare you make up your own comparison, just in case?

@user-wi6sh6vh8u Oh no, Roosevelt had that belly in there somewhere. He did drank after all, and there are plenty of pictures of him smoking. In fact, that partly contributed to his death.

Ok, but add those factors in with his polio, and then you’ll have the main contributors to his passing away.

Right on!

Edith can handle Archie. Edith belongs with Archie.

Lol, Maude and Archie would have been divorced a long time ago. Now Edith, she is something else altogether. She knows how to make a marriage work!

That’s Maude’s opinion, I assume?!

He was just another Herbert Hoover.

Baby Boomers,as Classic Humor! 😄

This show is making fun of people like you. 😬

Only partially.

​@@Dagger-DeepSure Debbie

Good grief.

Whatever.

How about possibly old Tom Kelcy who owned as well as operated Kelcy’s Bar?

I just posted this comment as well (see above) And FDR stole everyone's gold as well in March 1933! Read executive order 6102. Under penalty of fine and imprisonment E/O 6102 compelled citizens to turn in their gold coins for $20 per ounce in return for Federal Reserve Notes (paper). The next year (1934) gold was revalued at $35.00 an ounce effectively a 40% devaluation in their "fiat" dollars. Same 1 oz gold coin today, about $2,000! Archie forgot to include that ""little point" in his rant to Maude. Nonetheless really funny clip...

Yeah most of his social programs only helped on a small scale, the U.S. economy primarily recovered due to WWII creating jobs

@@megabladechronicles962 FDR was also funding the Bolsheviks. His vice president, Henry Wallace, was communist. And FDR, together with churchill, gave eastern europe to stalin. Thus actually proving hitler right when he was warning of the impending marxist revolution with FDR and Churchill allowing the communists to invade. Even George Patton wanted to help the Germans fight the communists. "We defeated the wrong enemy"--- G. Patton

At least he was right in prohibiting privatized ownership of gold bullion because he realized that gold was the only true security behind the value of the dollar. Then after about 37 years, Nixon refused to renew the 1934 Gold Reserve Act of FDR. If that law was still enforced to this day, we wouldn’t have all the inflation of the 1970s and 1980s attacking us with a vengeance. H-E-Double-Toothpicks, we need to get the 1934 Gold Reserve Act of FDR back on the books, law wise that is!

And all the contributions of scrap metal, among other things.

For example, he was being alphabetical when he said that prior to God allowing a black President into the White House that he would probably have to test it out on the rest of the world by ordaining a black Pope.

Maybe in a greater majority type sense of the word.

🤣...Jeez! I'm sure as hell glad that Eleanor Roosevelt discovered us! If it wasn't for her, who knows where I'd be!

I don’t care what color you are, this show was funny. Either this was our parents or us.

Perhaps you would be happier if she was getting stretched out on the rack in the playroom of the mansion of the Addams Family?! LMGDSOBMFAO!

Try imagining the possibility of her in a verbal confrontation with Winslow County deputy sheriff, Sergeant Beauregard Wiley and Atlanta PD Officer Wilhameinha Johnson aka The Fox; for brains instead of vanity, after they have given Walter a speeding ticket? Remember that this is the very same Sergeant Wiley as played by the late actor Slim Pickens that had run-ins with Milwaukee born independent semi trucker B.J. (Billie Joe) McKay as portrayed by Greg Evigan in the classic 1979-81 NBC adventure comedy series of “BJ & THE BEAR”?!

Maude is actually from Edith’s side of the family; their fathers were brothers.

and all true today…

Things never change

Then don't watch it

​@@milfordcivic6755 exactly

You must mean those old Buster Crabbe movies obviously?

At least it had the old fashioned chain pull toilet.

Carroll O'Connorr was extremely liberal & played Archie as a dope who was rarely ever right. But he got fan mail from stupid people such as you who thought he was intelligent.

That's def something a cult member would say.

How much Ivormectine have you eaten today?

Good grief.

Nixon was a G.O.P. communist.

The actual liars of the Oval Office were and still are to this date as follows: Herbert Hoover, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush (Sr. and Jr.), and Donald Trump.

In actuality, such labelings are better suited for Trump.

@@user-wi6sh6vh8u Please, have you seen what is currently occupying the White House?

And when she got sick, Archie made her use the cot in the attic that Cousin Oscar used when he visited and died on them.