All in the Family: Episode Trivia
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- Gloria and Mike (Richard) are the originals, but not the classic "Little Girl" and "Meathead." Along with that, the Bunkers are known as the Justice's
- The type of person Alf Garnet, Archie Bunker's counterpart in the original British version, hated most was catholics of irish descent. This is ironic because Archie Bunker was played by actor Caroll O'Connor who was irish catholic himself.
- All in the Family was based on the British television series, Til Death Us Do Part.
- Carroll O Connor (Archie) co-wrote the closing theme to All in the Family - "Remembering You."
- The penultimate line of the theme song is "Gee, our old La Salle ran great." Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton slurred the line some, and the La Salle brand was not much remembered (it's a car), so few people could make sense of this line. In later seasons the opening theme was re shot and Stapleton pronounced the line phonetically "Gee..our..old..La Salle..ran..great" so that people could understand it easier.
- "Meet the Bunkers" was actually the third "All in the Family" pilot filmed, although the only one aired in the '70s. ABC had filmed one under the title "And Justice for All" with Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton as Archie and Edith Justice and two other actors in the Mike and Gloria roles (Mike was Irish in this version) When ABC passed on the series, CBS filmed a pilot more or less like the aired version, but still with two other actors in the Mike and Gloria roles. These pilots remained unbroadcast until 1998 when TVLand aired one of them as part of its celebration of gaining the rights to air the show in its line-up.
- Their doorbell is totally different from the rest of the series,including the flashback story of when Mike and Archie first met.
- Edith's comment about Nixon paying more attention to Archie's letter if Nixon thought it was from a plumber would take on a second meaning eight months after this episode's original airing when the White House Plumbers or simply The Plumbers -- the popular name given to the covert Nixon White House Special Investigations Unit -- was established on July 24, 1971.
- Only All in the Family episode to feature a dream sequence (Archie daydreams President Nixon's reaction to his letter).
- Mike mentions that he has a brother-in-law who is a lawyer in this episode that Archie could use. This implies that he has a sister who lives close by. The brother-in-law or sister were never mentioned again and were never seen.
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- Goof: When Edith shows Mike and Gloria what is supposedly a group photo, she mentions that it includes the shoulder of a celebrity, but when she briefly flips the photo around so it faces that audience, one can clearly see that it is a head shot of a single person.
- According to the book Archie & Edith, Mike & Gloria: The Tumultuous History of "All in the Family" by Donna McCrohan, the original title of this episode was "Now That You Know the Way, Let's Be Strangers."
- Mike did have a best man. In fact, it does look like the same actor who played Paul after becoming a hippie, only cleaned up.
- In the second last scene, a boom mic is visible in the top left hand corner of your screen.
- In this episode the Jeffersons house is said to be two doors away, and of course later it will be right next door to the Bunkers.
- Lionel says his aunt is moving in with them, but doesn't mention his uncle. Later we meet his uncle, but never hear about his aunt again.
- Archie reminds Jim Bowman that Mr. McNab sold his house to a Jewish family when he left the neighborhood. However, in the previous episode, the Bunkers have the McNab's doormat on their porch, because the McNab's dog chewed up theirs.
- Doris Singleton, who plays a juror who is sequestered with Edith, is most famous for her role as Lucy Ricardo's catty "friend" Carolyn (in some episodes, Lillian) Appleby on I Love Lucy.
- Archie says that his father died, yet in the first episode when he refers to his parents as David & Sarah, they had both just visited the year before.
- Gloria's hairstyle changed beginning with this episiode from the "Little Orphan Annie" curls to a longer, more relaxed style parted in the middle.
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- Archie seems to have mellowed a bit regarding the Jefferson family being that Louise comes for the wake, bringing the Bunkers a cake. However, Archie still feels uncomfortable about what his family and friends will think about Louise, prompting the classic line, "Edith try and get an apron around her, maybe they'll think she's the maid".
- It was mentioned that Archie has a sister, Elmer, and a brother, Phil. First of all in other episodes Archie has no sister and has a brother whose name was Fred, not Phil.
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- When Louise takes care of Edith and Archie to fill in the application, there are three other people at the desk doing nothing. They could've easily just brought out the next person in line.
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- In this episode Archie coins the term "Hail Moses," when he's talking with the TV repairman, which is evidently his idea of the Jewish equivalent of a Hail Mary.
- Maude is said to have two ex-husbands here, but no mention of Chester or Barney. For that matter there is no mention of Carol or Maude's present husband Walter (of course their characters were not invented until it was decided Maude would be a spin-off, but this episode implies that Maude is not presently married, when later on in her series she should have already been married to Walter by this time).
- Mike must really feel sick not to get in the middle of the political discussion between Archie and Maude. For once he has someone else on his side.
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- Marcia Rodd would play Carol, Maude's daughter in the episode "Maude" which was also the pilot for Bea Arthur's sitcom of the same name. However, in the series "Maude", Carol was played by Adrienne Barbeau.
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- Edith says that it will be the first night that she and Archie slept separately in 24 years. But in the episode "Edith Has Jury Duty", Edith spent several nights in a hotel.
Edith also took Gloria and left Archie for a short time when Archie wouldn't quit gambling early in their marriage so she slept apart from him then too.
Don't forget "Cousin Maude's Visit" when Maude made the sickly Archie sleep on the couch.
- Edith says that it will be the first night that she and Archie slept separately in 24 years. But in the episode "Edith Has Jury Duty", Edith spent several nights in a hotel.
- Factual Error: Gloria says that the Orthodox Jewish man says "Blessed...that I was not created a woman" in order to show his dominance over women. This is completely incorrect. The reason for the man saying that is because men have more "mitzvot" (positive commandments) than women do, and the men thank God for the opportunity to perform more mitzvot. Judaism has always stressed the importance of women throughout the Torah.
- Archie has a pleasant phone conversation with his brother Fred in this episode, but when Fred appears in season 8, they say they haven't spoken in 29 years.
- Why didn't Edith explain to the security when they 'caught her stealing' that she was actually running out to warn the Old Lady? Did Edith really need a Priest to refresh her memory on why she ran out of the store with the merchandise?
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- Script co-written by Rob Reiner
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- Just before Barney opens the door to leave the Bunkers' house, a television camera can be seen briefly to the right of the screen.
- When Archie frantically answers the phone after his Cannonballers tryout you can see the overhead mike.
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- The man delivering the package looks like he's got a U.S. Postal service uniform on and is credited as "Mailman". Why is the Post Office delivering to the Bunkers on a Sunday morning? This is even more mysterious when it turns out to be a legitimate package from Cousin Amelia--a bomb (delivered by a guy dressed as a postman) would've made more sense!
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- Gloria says that she never knew her grandparents, but in the first episode it was stated that Archie's parents visited the year before. Gloria would've known them for sure.
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- When Archie plays a tape recording of Stretch Cunningham telling a joke, Stretch's voice is different than what we witness in later episodes.
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- Goof: When Irene comes to bring over Mike's test results, Archie appears out of nowhere in the middle of the scene. He had not been seen in the episode for about nine and a half minutes and was said by Mike to not have been home, yet tells Edith to open Mike's test results.
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- Charlotte Rae, who plays Lillian Henderson in this episode, is best known as Edna Garrett, from the popular television show Diff'rent Strokes, and it's spin-off The Facts of Life.
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- While Archie is trying to sell George aluminum siding, you can see the Jefferson's house next door through the back door, and it already has aluminum siding on it.
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- In this episode, George says he rented a limo to "leave Bunkersville in style". However, in the opening credits of The Jeffersons, they are riding in a taxi.
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- We learn the name of the company Archie works at when he reads it off a company pen: Prendergast Tool & Die Company.
- According to the quiz, Edith will outlive Archie. Ironically, Edith passes away from a stroke on Archie Bunker's Place, leaving Archie a widower.
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- The final joke of this episode has Archie push Mike's face into the cake and Mike (being Mike) eating the frosting instead of wiping it off. But as the camera angle changes you can see Rob Reiner spit the blob of icing back into his hand just as the shot fades out.
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- In this episode, Edith begins to talk in detail about the film Rose Marie with Jeanette McDonald, which she claims she saw seven times. However, she assigns the name Rose Marie La Flamme to Jeanette McDonald's character, which is not what her name was in the film (it was Marie La Flor). This is such a significant difference that had Edith seen the film even once she would not have confused it - evidently a flaw on the part of the writers.
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- The Stivics had different types of phones in various episodes. This episode they have a yellow push button, in another episode they have a yellow Archer rotary dial, in another episode they have a yellow rotary dial phone, in where Mike is accepted a teaching job in California they have a almond push button phone.
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- In the final scene on the porch both Archie and Edith realize that they never even knew Mr. Bernstein's first name. The end credits revealed it to be Bernard.
- This is the second time somebody dies under Archie's roof; the first was Cousin Oscar in the first season.
- In this episode, Archie tells the watchmaker that he is an only child. However, in a later episode, Archie's brother Fred comes to town.
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- Quigley is proud of the fact that he’s in good shape for 92, but in the episode “Archie Feels Left Out”—just a couple of seasons ago—Quigley was about to turn 83!
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- To leave a baby, even in colder weather, on the porch was common in the 70s. I am from Chicago and it was done here alot. Just bundle the kid up real good and stick him outside.
- You notice when Archie and Edith are in the house they leave Joey outside on the front porch didn't they realize that he could've been kidnapped?
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- We learn that sherry in the 1970's (and in New York City, no less) costs 70 cents per glass in a bar.
- The song that everyone sings in Kelsey's is the drinking version of "The Anniversary Waltz."
- The song Edith plays on the piano at Kelsey's Bar is "As Time Goes By" from the classic film Casablanca.
- In the closing credits Scott Brady is credited as Mr. Benjamin instead of Joe Foley
- When archie give the waitress the money for his bill ($1.35), he also tells her that her tip is on the table. She never gives him the change from the two dollars he gives her, and he never tells her to keep the change. Double tipping!
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- In the climactic scene, Archie and Edith come together on the front porch of their house. They even talk about it needing to be painted. But in the opening credits (and the closing ones too), the house they show as being the Bunkers' does not have a front porch.
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