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While the residents of 704 Hauser Street offered plenty of opportunities for Archie to, well, show what a jerk he could be, it occasionally took an outsider to make that special brand of Bunker idiocy really shine. Enter Sammy Davis Jr. in "Sammy's Visit," this collection's first of three episodes. When Sammy agrees to pick up the briefcase he left in Archie's cab, Archie is beside himself with excitement, commanding Edith to open up a fresh box of Twinkies. "It's a kind of Wasp soul food," Meathead explains to Sammy. Of course, Archie can't leave the evening unmarred for long: "Bein' colored... I know
While the residents of 704 Hauser Street offered plenty of opportunities for Archie to, well, show what a jerk he could be, it occasionally took an outsider to make that special brand of Bunker idiocy really shine. Enter Sammy Davis Jr. in "Sammy's Visit," this collection's first of three episodes. When Sammy agrees to pick up the briefcase he left in Archie's cab, Archie is beside himself with excitement, commanding Edith to open up a fresh box of Twinkies. "It's a kind of Wasp soul food," Meathead explains to Sammy. Of course, Archie can't leave the evening unmarred for long: "Bein' colored... I know you had no choice in that. But whatever made ya turn Jew?" Sammy rises above it all in the end, though, with a kiss smack-dab on the cheek and a zinger that flies way over Archie's head: "I can honestly say, having spent these moments with you, you ain't no better than nobody." In "Maude," staged largely on the set of Bea Arthur's eventual spinoff, Edith and Archie arrive to attend a wedding that never quite gets off the ground. The Bunkers are still in town long enough for Archie to get into it not only with Maude but also her daughter, a kind of Meathead minus the Y-chromosome. Finally, in "The Very Moving Day," news of Gloria's pregnancy is the cause of an actual tender moment between Archie and Mike. It also paves the way for a whole new genre of pregnancy-hysteria-induced Bunkerisms: "Don't run! You'll fall off your shoes and wake the baby up!" --Bob Michaels
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Release date: 7 July 1998
EAN: 9780767813228 UPC: 043396021334
Tags: Edith Bunker (1), Carroll O'Connor (1), Archie Bunker (1), 9 Seasons (1), American Sitcom (1), Right-Wing (1), Blue Collar (1), Meathead (1), Stifle (1), World War II Veteran (1), Sally Struthers (1), Jean Stapleton (1), George Jefferson (1), Polish-American (1), Norman Lear (1), Those Were The Days (1), Tandem Productions (1), Stretch Cunningham (1), Gloria Stivic (1), Michael Stivic (1)
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