Fave "All in the Family" episode?

[CanuckAmok]

I have a few, which are the basis for this poll... what's yours?

I haven't seen it in years, but it's being rebroadcast on "Prime" in Canada...I forgot how good it was!

[Fenris]

1. Archie is kissed by Sammy Davis Junior.

[Magrittes Pipe]

9. You are correct, sir.

[Bat Boy]

13. Second that one...

[CrownPrinceBandar]

15. You read my mind. Now...................

GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!!!!!!!!

[fortyfeetunder]

24. "Would you like cream and sugar in your eye?"

I think our house laughed until they cried at that one...

[Deja Q]

2. 'Archie is Branded'

While I love the episode where Edith gets raped (very chilling scene, don't think that I like watching Edith getting raped!), the swaztika episode is a bit more powerful. Especially the ending.

[peekaloo]

5. that was my vote

Wasn't that their first ep not to go out on a laugh?

The Beverly LaSalle eps were classic, too.

[troublemaker]

3. The Rashomon episode where we see three versions of the black guy w/ knife

[Deja Q]

4. 'Everybody Tells the Truth'

AWESOME episode, and the camerawork was exceptional and innovative. :D

[arwalden]

7. Yep... That's The One That First Popped Into My Mind Too...

The next one would be the Sammy Davis Jr episode.

[SmileyBoy]

6. That one Christmas episode.

Meathead's (Mike's) friend (who's a Vietnam draft-dodger) comes over from Canada to have dinner. The speech by Archie's war buddy at the end made me cry.

[eleny]

8. Archie gets a transfusion

Edit: I spelled "gets" wrong! Argh!

[terrya]

10. "Glowworm...in the Fifth"! SLAP

Archie is gambling again...after promising Edith he would never gamble again. Edith finds out about it...and gets PISSED at Archie. One of the very few times she stands up to Archie.

Great episode. :-)

T

[henslee]

11. I liked when Fred got married and Lemond and Aunt Esther wouldn't

go to the wedding. And Grady was the best man.

[AngryOldDem]

12. Definitely the Christmas episode

...and I think this country could stand seeing a rerun of it about now, too.

My second favorite episode(s) (I think it was a two-parter) is also one that was shown at Christmas -- when Edith's transvestite friend was killed because he was gay, and Edith had a major crisis of faith.

For sheer hilarity, for me it's the episode where Archie accidentally locks himself in the basement.

These shows may be showing their age, but their messages are still very much on the mark.

[CanuckAmok]

14. Let's put it this way...

25 years from now, nobody will be talking about the greatest moments in "Friends" or "Home Improvement"...

[SmileyBoy]

20. I agree wholeheartedly.

I think that episode should be rerun nationwide again on CBS the night before congress votes on a draft.

[AngryOldDem]

29. It Is Still Powerful Today

...as it was when I first saw it when I was 12 or 13. It still chokes me up -- Archie's confusion, his unwillingess to forgive someone a decision that they made in good conscience; the father of the dead soldier doing just that by embracing the young man and inviting him back to dinner. Wow.

That ranks up there with the all-time BEST television episodes, EVER.

[Bluebear]

16. Edith's friend is killed for being a crossdresser

What powerful episodes that show put out.

[Bucky]

17. The one when Jack wakes up in Chrissy's bed & Janet thinks they're doin it

Good for a million laffs that one. Oh, and the look on Mr. Furley's face!!

[Dukkha]

18. Stretch Cunningham's Funeral

When Archie learns that is best friend was Jewish and he delivers the eulogy for him.

Also when Archie unknowingly joins the Klu Klux Klan then tells them their plans to burn crosses will be stopped by "Us Blacks" telling them he has black blood in him.

Those episodes and others showed that his prejudice stemmed from ignorance and not hatred. Through the series he learned to be more tolerant to others.

[Kat45]

19. When Archie and Henry Jefferson band together to try to keep

the Puerto Rican couple from buying a house in the neighborhood: the black man and the white man joined together to work against a different minority moving in. That episode had some classic racial and ethnic stereotypes.

I also love the one when Archie ends up in jail with all the antiwar protestors.

There are so many great episodes; I know them all well. IMHO, the all-time best TV series. The very first episode itself was classic; not much happened, yet it was a great introduction to all the characters.

[Skittles]

21. when Archie agrees to take in that little girl

when she runs away, feeling unwanted, and he finds her at the bus station - a priceless scene (girl: will you buy me ice cream? Archie: gawd, they're all the same). :D

[Dukkha]

22. that would be Danielle Brisebois

Who grew up to he a babe! She's a pop singer now.

[AngryOldDem]

30. A Factoid

If you have seen "As Good As It Gets," it's Danielle Briesbois who is singing with the band in the seafood restaurant where Jack Nicholson takes Helen Hunt for dinner.

She does have a pleasant voice.

[SmileyBoy]

23. All In The Family went downhill when that stupid girl came on the show.

They should have just ended the series when Mike and Gloria moved out.

[JVS]

25. Total shark jumping

[JVS]

26. The one where Meat-head took bad acid and beat the holy hell out of...

the whole family and then jumped through the Jefferson's front window and tried to hide in their refrigerator

[CanuckAmok]

27. sorry, *who* took the bad acid?

Methinkst it may have been you.

"...unless it's your own trip, in which case be my guest..."

[JVS]

28. You mean you didn't see that one? You missed out.

And they'll never air it again because of all the complaints the network got about them showing archie naked and being whipped with an electrical cord.

[Bucky]

35. Nick@Nite showed it once, but they cut out the "Weesie Sandwich" scene

Supposedly the controversy over that scene is why they agreed to spin off the Jeffersons into their own sitcom.
But now I'm just makin' stuff up

[Barad Simith]

31. Archie gets addicted to speed

Not kidding. Some old bar friend of his told him a couple of hits would pep him up, and he asked what would happen if he took the whole bottle. The friend said, "Don't do that, Arch! You'll find yourself goin' to rock concerts!" Cut to the next scene, where Archie's leaping onto his front porch, screaming. (For the skeptics: I am not making any of this up.)

[Rhiannon12866]

32. There are just so many

For me, it would be between Edith's "cling peaches in heavy syrup" episode, the one in which Archie meets Sammy Davis Jr., or where Gloria has faced a sexual attack. That last one really got to me, since her Dad showed such compassion, but they were all so good. An incomparable show.:-)

[DerekG]

33. MENOPAUSE!

Are you people daft? The crown jewel of the series was an early episode whereupon Edith goes through "the change"--the agonized expressions on Archie's face are priceless. And Edith actually tells Archie to stifle!

[NightTrain]

34. Other

1. Sammy Davis, Jr's visit.
2. Edith goes through menopause.