Archie befriends a Jewish man named Bernard Bernstein and plans to make a doorbell invention and sell it. But Bernard needs 1000 dollars to do it, and Edith, who thinks the invention is kind of stupid, tries to persuade Archie to not give Bernard the money.
Good episode. It got kind of boring near the middle, but the ending, when Bernard dies, is one of my favorite endings, because it handled the emotionality of a death in a mature way. They didn't try to end the episode on a joke, they ended it in a sad, serious way, and it paid off. The whole last 5 minutes is pretty good.moreless
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Archie becomes friends with a Jewish man named Bernard Bernstein and he asks Archie to go in with him on an invention that he is perfecting. When Edith learns that Archie is planning on giving him $1000, she tries her best to talk him out of it but Archie is persistant on this venture.moreless
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GUEST STAR
Jack GilfordBernard Bernstein
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Carroll O'Connor
Archie Bunker
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Jean Stapleton
Edith Bunker
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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.
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This is the second time somebody dies under Archie's roof; the first was Cousin Oscar in the first season.
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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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QUOTES (1)
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Archie: (greeting Mr. Bernstein) As youse people say, "shiboom."
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NOTES (1)
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Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers do not appear in this episode.
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