Yep......he was stationed in Foggia Italy.

When we think of it this show was barely 30 years after WWII. Sure this still has an impact on them

@@ronalddepesa6221 It would now, too.

How about Archie and George Jefferson

@@scottgould6590 the Jeffersons WERE the Bunkers neighbors on the show.

Or an "All in the Family"/"Sanford and Son" crossover.

@@iowaguy6470 Aunt Esther saying "Archie Bunker, you a HEATHEN!" And don't even get me started with Rollo!

My money on Fred Sanford.

My grandfather dressed just like him in the 70s. Including the hat.

It's like Susan said. My grandfather always wore a white dress shirt with 2 pockets and a pair of wool dress pants in dark colors just like Archie. If you notice, Archie wore the same KIND of pants but he did have different colors throughout the series. Sometimes gray, sometimes brown, etc. Just like my grandfather.

@@retroguy9494 Cool. 🤗

@@ms.mustlovecats1556 👍

@@retroguy9494 My grandfather was born in 1896.

Believe it or not, Norman Lear is still alive - 100 years old!

@@jameslee1062 WOW !!!!

Best show period! 🇺🇲🤓😎✌🏻

​@@jameslee1062 He turns 101 in July. 👍🏾

And he's 100 years old. Bless him!

sometimes, for me, her stupidity becomes more annoying than comic. She rarely has a clue about much of anything.

A little bit of trivia. Gregory Sierra, who played Detective Chano on "Barney Miller," was in this episode. In the next episode (I'm talking about when they were first run), Ron Glass, who played Detective Harris on "Barney Miller," played the refrigerator repairman's apprentice. I believe the swastika episode was from 2-24-73. I do know the refrigerator episode originally aired 3-3-73.

Yeah, that ending was powerful.

Yeah!! The Bunkers were victims of terrorism. The package that was delivered was very funny, but it had them running out of the house, afraid for their lives, which wasnt funny at all. It was terrifying. Exactly what terrorism is designed for. This episode is really a masterpiece.

The look on Edith's face when they were looking out of the door was sheer terror.

I knew Gregory Sierra best as Julio from Sandford and Son. All in the Family was not what I watched as a pre-teen.

@@BladedBear You're thinking of Hitler, but he didn't create the swastika. The emblem has a long history in various cultures, including some Native American.

You have that right! ... and as our cool Archie said ALL the time, ...."and right is RIGHT!!"

Yup, and the Boy Scout who told him that he had it hung up wrong was Jean Stapleton’s son, John Putch!

@@justinjoseph6966 That's right. I'd forgotten that Jean Stapleton's son was in that episode.

@@justinjoseph6966 I never knew that, thanks for the trivia.

Lol. I know John Putch! He has made quite a few good independent films over the years. Nice guy, too.

@@Mister_Listener He was also in the 1981 TV movie "Angel Dusted." Jean Stapleton played his mom in that movie. It was taken from a true story about a college student who took PCP.

:P!!!!

Well dur...

Yes, so was ours!

How true!

oh god... it's a comedy ... it's a show... the bit wouldn't work otherwise... stop overthinking it ya twit and yes... people with higher education are going to be smarter and more successful in this life.... that's a fact.

It was a funny joke because it used a tried and true comic device called misunderstanding. Could it be that those of us who constantly look for ways to own the libs are jealous? Probably.

Correct!

Did he seriously have to argue with Archie over something that insignificant? Just open the damn door!!

The terlet....lol

Well, that was part of the premise of Mike's character. My mother loved engineers because of their intelligence and what they did However, she used to describe engineers as having 'all the brains in the world but not an ounce of common sense.'

​@@retroguy9494 My father in law is an engineer. My mother in law describes him as a brilliant engineer who doesn't have the sense to come in out of the rain. She's not exaggerating.

but he was right here, door was not busted.

AND Beverly La Salle, the femaile impersonator that he gave mouth to mouth to in the cab.

I think it's funny you misspelled it lol

Well, Archie was a World War II veteran. If you ever knew any of them, those guys didn't scare easily. Many of them used to tell me that they could sleep with their doors unlocked and it wouldn't bother them.

This show is way better then Mash or Cheers

Oh. Different types of shows. I agree. Just my 3 favs of all time.

@@mckessa17 It certainly makes you laugh harder than any other show.

I have never seen the resemblance, but i have met Putch a few times. He is a nice guy.

@Jennifer Feather okay. Thank you for pointing that out.

he also appears in Jaws 3

I couldn't agree more!

Jeffersons top 5.

@missbeehaven2023 Nah!! Just the worst spin off of All In The Family.

Lest you forget, Demond Wilson made a guest appearance on All in the Family. This, in my opinion, is a testament to Mr. Norman Lear's intricate eye and mind for talent.

Had? I STILL have them! Granted, they're old. But I still have them!

@@retroguy9494 my son looks at me funny when I say "we need to get a phone book for you to sit on!"

@@Jus-xh6ep LOL! I still use MINE to look up numbers! Businesses mostly. They're still better than the net for ones in my area.

@@retroguy9494 Same..If I am in a real dad mood, I say "hey son, let's call the operator!"

@@Jus-xh6ep I'll tell you a funny story. My own father, who died last year at age 93, still thought the operators were in the old Bell Telephone buildings around our state and when you called, you got one in the building nearest to you. Of course, he had switched to the cable company for phone service years before. He wanted a a number of a company who's name he couldn't remember. He gets on the phone with the operator and said 'yea its that building up the road from you. You get to the light and make a left and its right there on the right.' Then I hear him say 'Maine? You're in MAINE?' What happened to the building down the street from the courthouse? Closed for HOW many years?' 😂🤣He was SO out of touch it was unreal!

Not really. That gives it a Queens, NY old neighborhood vibe because the different ethnicities. And Dont forget Sybil Guhli or Gooley, not sure what the spelling is.

@@Mister_Listener I just always assumed by that point of time Edith and Louise were close friends to the point that they would be on a just a first name basis...

@@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854 true. My guess is “Louise” alone isnt enough to establish to the audience that the cake is for a neighbor. Also, since she wasnt seen in this episode, they used her to reinforce the reality of a caring, off camera neighbor hood so the terrorism inside their home and the explosion has more impact and tragedy?

I don't think that's so strange. I do the same thing out of respect including using my friends surname with title. I reckon it just depends on the culture + environment a person grew up in.

"Edith Bunker" would've made a fine College or Pro Sports Play by Play Announcer then. Almost invariably they refer to The Retired Expert Athlete Commentator by both his or her first and last name. "Tony Romo, what did You think about that?"😂B.W.

Where's his goat?

Also on Barney Miller

It's pretty simple. The hate group who did it transposed Archie's house with the house it was meant for one block up who was a Jewish activist and was also on the school board. Archie gets a visit from the head of a Jewish militant group who, when realizing they got the wrong house, wants to use Archie's house to lure the other hate group into a trap. He and Mike have a big fight over violence being the way to settle ethnic and racial hatred. In the end, they find out that the hate group realized it's mistake and was headed to the right house. As the head of the Jewish militant group goes to join the other members, he gets blown up in his car.

"Archie is branded "

Oh my god how dare they?

That really sucks 😮

January 6th was Trump's fault. It's okay that you don't like Biden, but what Trump did was unforgivable.

@@justthefactslibrarian3935 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

he called the local precinct switchboard not 911

911 didn't exist in 1973.

911 wasn't available at this time you had to dial a 7 digit number

There is no part 2,this episode ends with Paul being blown up in his car

It was for their local police precinct

There was no 911 back then.

​@@markbrown4039 Just researched.... "Regarding national U.S. coverage, by 1979, 26% of the U.S. population could dial the number. This increased to 50% by 1987 and 93% by 2000.[9] As of March 2022, 98.9% of the U.S. population has access." Born in the 80's. Never knew this. 😢

We just dialed 0.

@@markbrown4039 911 came out in 1968

WRONG! It was meant for a Jewish activist who is on the school board who lives one block up. The hate group who did it transposed the house numbers.

It was Edith's idea for Mike and Gloria to live there

Eh! It would depend on the reason. I don't think I'd mind much,as long as they were respectful. Mike never showed Archie any respect.

@@superstarreviews9937 The whole point of the show was to be disrespectful to Archie

@@KJTV67 the point of the show was Archie was an idiot

@@superstarreviews9937 Both Archie and Mike were insensitive meatheads. Edith was the only member of the household really deserving of respect.

@arlichar11 - I bet these organizations: Paul's 'HDA' and the 'other side', kept good tabs on each other (maybe spied on each other) - including knowing that a public figure (Bloom at 740 Hauser St) was part of an escalating threat campaign. As for the bomb, consider this: Maybe the 'other side' was already staking out Archie's house and were actually ready to bomb him by tossing an explosive device through the window? Then, they find they are at the wrong address but saw that Paul was still inside. Most of them move on to the other house, Jerry tells Paul they know the other side is moving, Paul tells Jerry to go ahead of him. The other side knows Paul will be coming back out to his car in a minute and when he gets inside the car, maybe they toss the aforementioned, fused bomb meant for Archie under his car? I thought the same thing you did about him being blown up and thought maybe the above was plausible. In the end, it's a TV show that needs to use plot devices to move the story along and as usual, the audience is at times, asked to 'suspend disbelief' in order to let it unfold. Great post!

The schmucks who put the Swastika on the door were tracking "Paul" because he was part of a neighborhood protection group. Very much Anti Nazi.🤔B.W.

What? Paul was a Jew, he was with a radical Jewish group that wanted revenge on the people harassing a Jew in the neighborhood. The people got Archie and the Jews house mixed up.

Bigoted but not a nazi

@@paisleybabee what’s the difference

You must be young. Archie was a member of the 'greatest generation' and a veteran of World War II where he was stationed in Foggia Italy. He was even wounded and had a piece of German shrapnel in his butt for the rest of his life. Archie HATED the Nazis and all they stood for including that symbol. I was a boy when this show aired. Conservatism 50 years ago was in no way the way it is today. In fact, both Nixon and Reagan (who Archie loved) would be considered liberals today by the right. Back then, the greatest and silent generations did not use symbols or compare themselves to certain peoples who committed some of the worst atrocities of their generation to define their politics or conservatism.. Sadly, MY generation started that crap!

@ekalbelddirp Sounds just like something an oatmeal-for-brains leftist would say. Read a book.

The best President ever for the State of Israel.

Still have yet to see one shred of evidence he is a racist.

At least he wasn’t the one that said: “if you have a problem of whether you vote for me or him then you ain’t black.” I don’t like him anymore than you do but never forget it was that Buffon with dementia that said it not him

You're so clueless! I mean SERIOUSLY you are! So much that it's scary. Don't you know that Trump's daughter married a Jewish guy and that Trump has Jewish grandchildren that he loves and dotes on constantly?

I have noticed that also .I feel for people that are deaf and have to depend on CC .