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</style><table class="infobox ib-character"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above notheme">Archie Bunker</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader"><i><a href="All_in_the_Family" title="All in the Family">All in the Family</a></i> character</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><div class="infobox-caption"><a href="Carrol_O'Connor" class="mw-redirect" title="Carrol O'Connor">Carrol O'Connor</a> as Archie Bunker</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First appearance</th><td class="infobox-data">"<a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes" title="List of All in the Family episodes">Meet the Bunkers</a>"<br>(<i>All in the Family</i>)<br>January 12, 1971</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Last appearance</th><td class="infobox-data">"<a href="List_of_Archie_Bunker's_Place_episodes" title="List of Archie Bunker's Place episodes">I'm Torn Here</a>"<br>(<i>Archie Bunker's Place</i>)<br>April 4, 1983</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Created by</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Norman_Lear" title="Norman Lear">Norman Lear</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Portrayed by</th><td class="infobox-data"><div><ul><li><a href="Carroll_O'Connor" title="Carroll O'Connor">Carroll O'Connor</a> (<i>All in the Family</i> and <i>Archie Bunker's Place</i>)</li><li><a href="Woody_Harrelson" title="Woody Harrelson">Woody Harrelson</a> (<i><a href="Live_in_Front_of_a_Studio_Audience" title="Live in Front of a Studio Audience">Live in Front of a Studio Audience</a></i>)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header notheme">In-universe information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data"><div><ul><li>Former blue-collar worker (Longshoreman - Dock foreman)</li><li>Bar owner and <a href="Taxicabs_of_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Taxicabs of New York City">cabbie</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Family</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">

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</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>David Bunker (father)</li><li>Sarah Longstreet Bunker (mother)</li><li>Philip Bunker (brother)</li><li>Alfred Bunker (brother)</li><li>Alma Bunker (sister)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1298804929">

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<div class="marriage-display-inline"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;margin-top:1px;white-space:normal;"><a href="Edith_Bunker" title="Edith Bunker">Edith Baines</a></div>

<div class="marriage-line-margin2px"></div> <div style="display:inline-block;margin-bottom:1px;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1948; died 1980)<wbr></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Gloria_Stivic" title="Gloria Stivic">Gloria Bunker Stivic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="Joey_Stivic" class="mw-redirect" title="Joey Stivic">Joey Stivic</a> (grandson)</li><li>Roy Longstreet (uncle)</li><li>Barbara "Billie" Bunker (niece)</li><li>Debbie Bunker (niece)</li><li>Linda Bunker (niece)</li><li>Oscar Bunker (cousin)</li><li><a href="Michael_Stivic" title="Michael Stivic">Michael Stivic</a> (son-in-law)</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Archibald</b> "<b>Archie</b>" <b>Bunker</b> is a fictional character from the 1970s American television sitcom <i><a href="All_in_the_Family" title="All in the Family">All in the Family</a></i> and its spin-off <i><a href="Archie_Bunker's_Place" title="Archie Bunker's Place">Archie Bunker's Place</a></i>, played by <a href="Carroll_O'Connor" title="Carroll O'Connor">Carroll O'Connor</a>. Bunker, a main character of the series, is a <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> veteran, <a href="Blue-collar_worker" title="Blue-collar worker">blue-collar worker</a>, and family man. <i>All in the Family</i> premiered on January 12, 1971, where he was depicted as the head of the Bunker family. In 1979, the show was retooled and renamed <i>Archie Bunker's Place</i>; it finally went off the air in 1983. Bunker lived at the fictional address of 704 Hauser Street in the <a href="Astoria%2C_Queens" title="Astoria, Queens">Astoria</a> neighborhood of <a href="Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a> in New York City.

</p><p><i>All in the Family</i> got many of its laughs by playing on Archie's bigotry, although the dynamic tension between Archie and his <a href="American_Left" title="American Left">left-wing</a> son-in-law, Mike, provided an ongoing political and social sounding board for a variety of topics. Archie appears in all but seven episodes of the series. Three fifth-season episodes were missed because of a contract dispute between O'Connor and series creator <a href="Norman_Lear" title="Norman Lear">Norman Lear</a>.

</p><p>Archie was modeled after Norman Lear's father Herman Lear<sup id="cite_ref-Cowan-1979_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cowan-1979-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and on <a href="Alf_Garnett" title="Alf Garnett">Alf Garnett</a> from the BBC1 sitcom <i><a href="Till_Death_Us_Do_Part" title="Till Death Us Do Part">Till Death Us Do Part</a></i>, on which <i>All in the Family</i> was based.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1999, <i><a href="TV_Guide" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a></i> ranked Archie Bunker number<span class="nowrap"> </span>5 on its 50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time list.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2005, Archie Bunker was listed as number<span class="nowrap"> </span>1 on <a href="Bravo_(American_TV_network)" title="Bravo (American TV network)">Bravo</a>'s 100 Greatest TV Characters,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> defeating runners-up such as <a href="Ralph_Kramden" class="mw-redirect" title="Ralph Kramden">Ralph Kramden</a>, <a href="Lucy_Ricardo" class="mw-redirect" title="Lucy Ricardo">Lucy Ricardo</a>, <a href="Fonzie" title="Fonzie">Fonzie</a>, and <a href="Homer_Simpson" title="Homer Simpson">Homer Simpson</a>. Archie's chair is in the permanent collection of the <a href="National_Museum_of_American_History" title="National Museum of American History">National Museum of American History</a>.

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<p>Archie has a gruff, overbearing demeanor, largely defined by his <a href="Bigotry" class="mw-redirect" title="Bigotry">bigotry</a> toward a diverse group of individuals: <a href="African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">blacks</a>, Hispanics, "<a href="Communism" title="Communism">Commies</a>", Freemasons, gays, women, hippies, Jews, Asians, Catholics, "<a href="Women's_liberation_movement" title="Women's liberation movement">women's libbers</a>", and Polish–Americans are frequent targets of his barbs. He refers to his son-in-law Michael as "Meathead" and a "dumb Polack" and to blacks as "colored” (a politically correct term during the time of his upbringing, but one that was becoming increasingly outdated and offensive during the show's airing); in earlier episodes, it is noted that he previously called blacks "coons"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> prior to Gloria's marriage to Michael. As the show progresses, it becomes evident that Archie's prejudice is not motivated by malice but is rather a combination of the era and environment in which he was raised and a generalized <a href="Misanthropy" title="Misanthropy">misanthropy</a>. Archie himself is depicted as a striving, loving father, and basically decent man; nevertheless, he is ill-tempered and frequently tells his long-suffering wife <a href="Edith_Bunker" title="Edith Bunker">Edith</a> to stifle herself. Series creator Norman Lear admitted this is how his father treated Lear's mother.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Archie "turned the <a href="Angry_white_male" title="Angry white male">angry white male</a> into a cultural icon", according to <a href="CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the end of the second season taping, O'Connor said, paraphrasing <a href="James_Baldwin" title="James Baldwin">James Baldwin</a>, "The American white man is trapped by his own cultural history. He doesn't know what to do about it."<sup id="cite_ref-Hano1972_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hano1972-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> O'Connor goes on to say:

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<blockquote><p>Archie's dilemma is coping with a world that is changing in front of him. He doesn't know what to do, except to lose his temper, mouth his poisons, look elsewhere to fix the blame for his own discomfort. He isn't a totally evil man. He's shrewd. But he won't get to the root of his problem, because the root of his problem is himself, and he doesn't know it. That is the dilemma of Archie Bunker.<sup id="cite_ref-Hano1972_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hano1972-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote>

<p>As the series progressed, Archie mellowed somewhat, albeit often out of necessity. In one episode, he expresses revulsion for a <a href="Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>-like organization which he accidentally joins.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On another occasion, when asked to speak at the funeral of his friend Stretch Cunningham (<a href="James_Cromwell" title="James Cromwell">James Cromwell</a>), Archie—surprised to learn that his friend was Jewish—overcomes his initial discomfort and delivers a moving eulogy, wearing a <a href="Yarmulke" class="mw-redirect" title="Yarmulke">yarmulke</a>, and closing with a heartfelt "<a href="Shalom" title="Shalom">shalom</a>". In 1978, the character became the guardian of Edith's stepcousin Floyd's nine-year-old daughter, Stephanie (<a href="Danielle_Brisebois" title="Danielle Brisebois">Danielle Brisebois</a>) and came to accept her Jewish faith, even buying her a <a href="Star_of_David" title="Star of David">Star of David</a> pendant.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Archie was also known for his frequent <a href="Malapropism" title="Malapropism">malapropisms</a> and <a href="Spoonerism" title="Spoonerism">spoonerisms</a>. For example, he refers to Edith's <a href="Gynecologist" class="mw-redirect" title="Gynecologist">gynecologist</a> as a "groinacologist" and to Catholic priests who go around sprinkling "<a href="Incest" title="Incest">incest</a>" (<a href="Incense" title="Incense">incense</a>) on their congregation, whereas he referred to incest itself as "committing 'insects' in the family". Archie repeatedly called President <a href="Richard_M._Nixon" class="mw-redirect" title="Richard M. Nixon">Richard M. Nixon</a> "Richard E. Nixon". By the show's second season, these had become dubbed "Bunkerisms", "Archie Bunkerisms", or simply "Archie-isms".<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>O'Connor was Irish Catholic, and Norman Lear modeled the character on his Jewish father, but Bunker's own ethnicity is never explicitly stated, other than identifying him as a <a href="White_Anglo-Saxon_Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="White Anglo-Saxon Protestant">WASP</a>; over the course of the series, he mocks or belittles not just most minorities (including blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, and Asians), but also most white ethnic groups as well.

</p><p>Archie, a Christian belonging to the Episcopal Church, often misquotes the Bible. He takes pride in being religious, although he rarely attends church services and constantly mispronounces the name of his minister, Reverend Felcher, as "Reverend Fletcher". (When Edith inevitably corrects him, he dismisses the error with "Whatever".)

</p><p>He is a compulsive gambler, who, in earlier years, frequently lost his entire weekly paycheck in poker games, as related by Edith in the Season<span class="nowrap"> </span>4 episode "Archie the Gambler"; he quit only when Edith threatened to leave him, taking then three-year old Gloria with her.

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<p>When first introduced on <i>All in the Family</i> in 1971, Archie is the head of a family consisting of his wife <a href="Edith_Bunker" title="Edith Bunker">Edith</a> (<a href="Jean_Stapleton" title="Jean Stapleton">Jean Stapleton</a>), his adult daughter <a href="Gloria_Stivic" title="Gloria Stivic">Gloria</a> (<a href="Sally_Struthers" title="Sally Struthers">Sally Struthers</a>) and his liberal son-in-law, college student <a href="Michael_Stivic" title="Michael Stivic">Michael "Mike" Stivic</a> (<a href="Rob_Reiner" title="Rob Reiner">Rob Reiner</a>), with whom Archie disagrees on virtually everything; Archie frequently characterizes Mike as a "dumb <a href="Polack" title="Polack">Polack</a>" and usually addresses him as "Meathead" because, in Archie's words, he is "dead from the neck up". During the show's first five seasons, Mike and Gloria live with Archie and Edith so Mike can put himself through college. Upon Mike's graduation, he and Gloria move into their own home next door, allowing Archie and Mike to interact nearly as much as they had when they were living in the same house.

</p><p>Archie was born in Queens<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> on May 18, 1924,<sup id="cite_ref-Bday-note1_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bday-note1-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to parents David and Sarah.<sup id="cite_ref-Bday-note2_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bday-note2-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a <a href="Taurus_(astrology)" title="Taurus (astrology)">Taurus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>; He also notes on occasion that his family came from <a href="Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore</a>, where his father's family home was located and where his brother was living. Information on his siblings is inconsistent, because three of them are mentioned and Archie is seen talking on the phone to his younger brother Fred in "Cousin Oscar" (as well as Fred's daughter Debbie Marie) but during season 6<span class="nowrap"> </span>episode "Archie Finds a Friend", he states that he is an only child. Two later episodes (one during season<span class="nowrap"> </span>8 and another during season 9) feature Fred (played by <a href="Richard_McKenzie_(actor)" title="Richard McKenzie (actor)">Richard McKenzie</a>) and it is now suggested that Fred is Archie's only sibling. Another of Fred's daughters, Linda, visited Archie during the third season (she briefly dated the Bunkers' neighbor Lionel in "Lionel Steps Out"). Archie's father David is said to be an only child while his mother Sarah has one brother named Roy Longstreet whom Archie liked more than his own parents.

</p><p>Two of Archie's cousins are depicted: Oscar, who dies off-camera in the Bunker house during a visit and cousin Bertha (played by <a href="Peggy_Rea" title="Peggy Rea">Peggy Rea</a>, who appears in the same episode), apparently a somewhat distant cousin, because Archie does not recognize her.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Archie celebrates his 50th birthday in a 1974 episode and the character is last seen on the final episode of <i><a href="Archie_Bunker's_Place" title="Archie Bunker's Place">Archie Bunker's Place</a></i>, titled "I'm Torn Here", on April 4, 1983. In season 5, during a three-episode stretch where Archie's whereabouts are unknown, it is revealed that he attended <a href="Flushing%2C_Queens" title="Flushing, Queens">Flushing High School</a> and <a href="Varsity_letter" title="Varsity letter">lettered</a> in baseball. He tried out for the <a href="New_York_Giants" title="New York Giants">New York Giants</a> but could not turn professional because he was drafted to serve in <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>. Likewise, he never took advantage of the <a href="G.I._Bill" title="G.I. Bill">G.I. Bill</a> in order to finish his high school education (although years later he took a night school course to get a high school diploma). After World War II ended, he got a job on a New York City loading dock through his uncle's influence; by 1974 he had risen up to dock foreman. To supplement his income, he also works as a part-time taxi driver at night.

</p><p>While locked in the storeroom of Archie's bar (Archie's Place) with Mike in the season<span class="nowrap"> </span>8 <i>All in the Family</i> episode <a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes#Season_8:_1977–1978" title="List of All in the Family episodes">"Two's a Crowd"</a>, a drunk Archie confides that as a child, his family was desperately poor and he was teased in school because he wore a shoe on one foot and a boot on the other, so kids nicknamed him "Shoe-booty". In the same episode, Mike learns that Archie was mentally and physically abused by his father, who was also the source of his bigoted views. Yet, Archie then goes on to vehemently defend his father, who he claims loved him and taught him "to do good". It is revealed that Archie's father was a <a href="Brakeman" title="Brakeman">brakeman</a> for the <a href="Long_Island_Rail_Road" title="Long Island Rail Road">Long Island Rail Road</a>, when Archie receives his father's pocket watch from his formerly long-estranged brother, Alfred ("Fred"), who later appeared in two <i>All in the Family</i> episodes, "<a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes" title="List of All in the Family episodes">Archie's Brother</a>" and "<a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes" title="List of All in the Family episodes">The Return of Archie's Brother</a>", and the <i>Archie Bunker's Place</i> episode "Father Christmas".

</p><p>When Fred visits Archie in the "Archie's Brother" episode, it is revealed that they had not seen each other in the 29 years since Archie and Edith's wedding, although they apparently had communicated over the years via phone (two early episodes, "Cousin Oscar" and "Lionel Steps Out", depict phone conversations between Archie and Fred). Their long estrangement was fueled by the fact that Fred refused to attend their father's funeral, with Fred even describing him as "nuts about everything." In "The Return of Archie's Brother," the two seem to have reconciled, with Fred offering to invest $5,000 to put Archie's bar in a <a href="Syndicate" title="Syndicate">national syndicate</a>. However, in Fred's return trip to visit Archie and Edith, he arrives with a beautiful 18-year-old wife named Katherine. This leads to a heated discussion, which erupts into an argument between Archie and Fred over "<a href="Age_disparity_in_sexual_relationships" title="Age disparity in sexual relationships">May–September romances</a>", with Archie even asking if the "<a href="Truant_officer" class="mw-redirect" title="Truant officer">truant officer</a>" married them and places another strain on the relationship between Archie and Fred, who storms angrily out of the Bunker home with his teen bride after Archie vehemently snubs his brother's offer to go into business with him. Archie and Fred apparently are estranged for the next three-plus years. Putting a further strain on the relationship was the 1981 arrival of Fred's 18-year-old daughter, Barbara ("Billie") <a href="Denise_Miller" title="Denise Miller">Denise Miller</a>, who is also upset over her father's marriage to someone not even three years older than she is (although in <i>Archie Bunker's Place</i>, Billie begins dating someone 15 years her senior). Fred visits again for Christmas in 1982, finally revealing to everyone why he left his first wife and found love with Katherine.

</p><p>Archie is a <a href="World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> veteran who had been based in <a href="Foggia" title="Foggia">Foggia</a>, Italy, for 22 months. During a doctor's appointment, it is stated that Archie had an undistinguished military record for his non-combat ground role in the <a href="Fleet_vehicle" title="Fleet vehicle">motor pool</a> of the <a href="United_States_Army_Air_Corps" title="United States Army Air Corps">Air Corps</a>, later called the Army Air Forces, which at the time was a branch of the <a href="United_States_Army" title="United States Army">United States Army</a>. He received a <a href="Good_Conduct_Medal_(United_States)" title="Good Conduct Medal (United States)">Good Conduct Medal</a><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, in the <i>All in the Family</i> episode <a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes#Season_6_(1975–76)" title="List of All in the Family episodes">"Archie's Civil Rights"</a>, it is disclosed he also received a <a href="Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Heart</a> for being hit in his buttocks by shrapnel.

</p><p>Archie married <a href="Edith_Bunker" title="Edith Bunker">Edith Bunker</a> 22 years before season 1. Later recollections of their mid-1940s courtship do not result in a consistent timeline. In the flashback episode showing Mike and Gloria's wedding, Archie tells Mike his courtship of Edith lasted two years and hints that their relationship was not consummated until a month after their wedding night. Edith elsewhere recollects that Archie fell asleep on their wedding night and reveals that their sex life has not been very active in recent years. On another occasion, Edith discusses Archie's history of <a href="Problem_gambling" title="Problem gambling">gambling addiction</a>, which caused problems in the early years of their marriage. Archie also reveals that when Edith was in labor with Gloria, he took her to <a href="Bayside%2C_Queens" title="Bayside, Queens">Bayside Hospital</a> on the <a href="NYCT" class="mw-redirect" title="NYCT">Q5 bus</a> because "<a href="New_York_City_Subway" title="New York City Subway">the subway</a> don't run to Bayside".

</p><p>According to Edith, Archie's resentment of Mike stems primarily from Mike's attending college while Archie had been forced to drop out of high school, to help support his family during the <a href="Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a>. Archie does not take advantage of the <a href="G.I._Bill" title="G.I. Bill">G.I. Bill</a>, although he does attend night school to earn his diploma in 1973. Archie is also revealed to have been an outstanding baseball player in his youth. His dream was to pitch for the <a href="New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> but he had to leave high school to enter the workforce to financially support his family. His uncle got him a job on a loading dock after World War II, and by the 1970s he was a foreman.

</p><p>Although he is a <a href="Protestant" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant">Protestant</a>, Archie seldom attends church, despite professing strong Christian views. The <a href="Justice_For_All_(TV_pilot)" class="mw-redirect" title="Justice For All (TV pilot)">original pilot</a> mentions that in the 22 years Archie and Edith were married, Archie had attended church only seven times (including their wedding day) and that Archie had walked out of the sermon the most recent time, disgusted with the preacher's message (which he perceived as <a href="Leftist" class="mw-redirect" title="Leftist">leftist</a>). Archie's religiosity often translates into "knee-jerk" opposition to <a href="Atheism" title="Atheism">atheism</a> or <a href="Agnosticism" title="Agnosticism">agnosticism</a> (which Mike and Gloria variously espouse), Catholicism, and <a href="Judaism" title="Judaism">Judaism</a>; by the time of <i>Archie Bunker's Place</i>, Archie's <a href="Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitism</a> has mostly disappeared in part due to being increasingly associated with Jews such as his adopted daughter Stephanie and business partner Murray Klein.

</p><p>Archie is a <a href="Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> and an outspoken supporter of <a href="Richard_Nixon" title="Richard Nixon">Richard Nixon</a>, as well as an early supporter of <a href="Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a> in <a href="1976_United_States_presidential_election" title="1976 United States presidential election">1976</a>; he correctly predicts Reagan's election in <a href="1980_United_States_presidential_election" title="1980 United States presidential election">1980</a>. During the <a href="Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, Archie dismisses peace protesters as unpatriotic and has little good to say about the <a href="Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>. Despite having an adversarial relationship with his black neighbors, the Jeffersons, he forms an unlikely friendship with their son Lionel, who performs various <a href="Handyman" title="Handyman">odd jobs</a> for the Bunkers and responds to Archie's patronizing racial views with sarcastic quips that usually go over Archie's head.

</p><p>The later spinoff series <i><a href="704_Hauser" title="704 Hauser">704 Hauser</a></i> features a new, black family moving into Bunker's old home. The series is set in 1994 but does not indicate whether Bunker, who would have been 70 by this time, is still alive. His now-adult grandson, <a href="Joey_Stivic" class="mw-redirect" title="Joey Stivic">Joey Stivic</a>, appears briefly in the first episode of the series and references his grandfather, but does not state whether he's still alive at this point.

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<p>Such was the name recognition and societal influence of the Bunker character that by 1972, <a href="Political_commentators" class="mw-redirect" title="Political commentators">political commentators</a> were discussing the "Archie Bunker vote" (i.e., the voting bloc comprising urban, white, working-class men) in that year's <a href="1972_United_States_presidential_election" title="1972 United States presidential election">presidential election</a>. In the same year, there was a <a href="Parody" title="Parody">parody</a> election campaign, complete with <a href="T-shirt" title="T-shirt">T-shirts</a>, <a href="Campaign_button" title="Campaign button">campaign buttons</a>, and <a href="Bumper_sticker" title="Bumper sticker">bumper stickers</a>, advocating "Archie Bunker for President".<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo1_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-philly1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philly1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 1973, <a href="RCA_Records" title="RCA Records">RCA Records</a>' trade advertisement for Archie and Edith's debut single, a recording of "<a href="Oh%2C_Babe%2C_What_Would_You_Say%3F" class="mw-redirect" title="Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?">Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?</a>", carried the tagline "John and Yoko, move over", referring to the artist-activists <a href="John_Lennon" title="John Lennon">John Lennon</a> and <a href="Yoko_Ono" title="Yoko Ono">Yoko Ono</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>The character's imprint on American culture is such that Archie Bunker's name was still being used in the media to describe a certain group of voters who voted in the <a href="2008_United_States_presidential_election" title="2008 United States presidential election">2008 United States presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-yahoo1_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-yahoo1-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-philly1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philly1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Bunker's perceived racist and misogynistic views were allegedly the template for the creation of <a href="Eric_Cartman" title="Eric Cartman">Eric Cartman</a>, one of the characters in the adult animated sitcom <i><a href="South_Park" title="South Park">South Park</a></i>;<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> however, it has been acknowledged that <i>South Park</i> greatly served as a bond between Lear and his son Benjamin, and that Benjamin, who was born in 1988, was also not very familiar with his dad's work from the 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Archie and the KKK", Parts I and II</span>

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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Episode 197</span>

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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/archie+bunkerism">"Archie-bunker | Define Archie-bunker at Dictionary.com"</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140116113559/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/archie+bunkerism">Archived</a> from the original on January 16, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">October 5,</span> 2012</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20200814094752/https://lsa.umich.edu/history/reverbeffect/episode7.html">"Episode 7: Archie Bunker for President! | U-M LSA History"</a>. <i>lsa.umich.edu</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lsa.umich.edu/history/reverbeffect/episode7.html">the original</a> on August 14, 2020.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-Bday-note1-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bday-note1_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In the episode "Archie & the Miracle", Archie explains to Mike that he believes he has the winning church raffle ticket #18 because "the Lord saved me on the 18th; I was born on the 18th of the month. In episode 106, <a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes#Season_5:_1974–1975" title="List of All in the Family episodes">"Archie and the Quiz"</a>, there is a direct reference to the fact that Archie was born in 1924.</span>

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<li id="cite_note-Bday-note2-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Bday-note2_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Stated in season one, episode one, "Meet the Bunkers"</span>

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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Last original airing of <a href="Archie_Bunker's_Place" title="Archie Bunker's Place">Archie Bunker's Place</a></span>

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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In the Season 2 opener, Archie asks "Who the hell are you?" to his cousin Bertha.</span>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div>

<ul><li><cite id="CITEREFVidmarRokeach1974" class="citation journal cs1">Vidmar, Neil; Rokeach, Milton (March 1974). "Archie Bunker's Bigotry: A Study in Selective Perception and Exposure". <i>Journal of Communication</i>. <b>24</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">36–</span>47. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1460-2466.1974.tb00353.x">10.1111/j.1460-2466.1974.tb00353.x</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFCollins2012" class="citation book cs1">Collins, Kathleen (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=w7rOEAAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA34">"Citizen Bunker: Archie Bunker as Working-Class Icon"</a>. In Booker, M. Keith (ed.). <i>Blue-Collar Pop Culture</i>. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. pp. <span class="nowrap">34–</span>50. <a href="ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <bdi>978-0-313-39199-6</bdi>.</cite> Also published as: <cite id="CITEREFCollins2012" class="citation journal cs1">Collins, Kathleen (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://academicworks.cuny.edu/jj_pubs/125/">"Citizen Bunker: Archie Bunker as Working-Class Icon"</a>. <i>Publications and Research</i>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFWinberg2017" class="citation journal cs1">Winberg, Oscar (April 2017). "Archie Bunker for President: The Strange Career of a Political Icon in Moynihan's America". <i>PS: Political Science & Politics</i>. <b>50</b> (2): <span class="nowrap">392–</span>396. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1017%2FS1049096516002882">10.1017/S1049096516002882</a>. <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:157406219">157406219</a>. <a href="ProQuest" title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1882434965">1882434965</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFDemsky2019" class="citation journal cs1">Demsky, Jeffrey (2019). "Stretch Cunningham, We Hardly Knew You: Seeing Jews and 'Others' through Archie Bunker's Eyes". <i>Jewish Film & New Media</i>. <b>7</b> (1): <span class="nowrap">23–</span>47. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.13110%2Fjewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0023">10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0023</a>. <a href="JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0023">10.13110/jewifilmnewmedi.7.1.0023</a>. <a href="S2CID_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="S2CID (identifier)">S2CID</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:239369430">239369430</a>. <a href="Project_Muse" title="Project Muse">Project MUSE</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/759006">759006</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFWilhoitde_Bock1976" class="citation conference cs1">Wilhoit, G. Cleveland; de Bock, Harold (1976). <i>Archie Bunker in a Foreign Culture: A Panel Study of Selectivity Processes in the Dutch Television Audience</i>. Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1061387828">1061387828</a>. <a href="ERIC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ERIC (identifier)">ERIC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED128821">ED128821</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFShowalter1975" class="citation journal cs1">Showalter, Dennis E. (December 1975). "Archie Bunker, Lenny Bruce, and Ben Cartwright: Taboo-Breaking and Character Identification in 'All in the Family'". <i>The Journal of Popular Culture</i>. <b>IX</b> (3): <span class="nowrap">618–</span>621. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.0022-3840.1975.0903_618.x">10.1111/j.0022-3840.1975.0903_618.x</a>. <a href="ProQuest" title="ProQuest">ProQuest</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/1297362608">1297362608</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFSurlinBowden1976" class="citation conference cs1">Surlin, Stuart H.; Bowden, Elizabeth (August 1976). <i>The Psychological Effect of Television Characters: The Case of Archie Bunker and Authoritarian Viewers</i>. Annual Meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism. <a href="OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/1061468851">1061468851</a>. <a href="ERIC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ERIC (identifier)">ERIC</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED150612">ED150612</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFSurlinTate1976" class="citation journal cs1">Surlin, Stuart H.; Tate, Eugene D. (December 1, 1976). "'All in the Family': Is Archie Funny?". <i>Journal of Communication</i>. <b>26</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">61–</span>68. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1460-2466.1976.tb01937.x">10.1111/j.1460-2466.1976.tb01937.x</a>.</cite></li>

<li><cite id="CITEREFBrighamGiesbrecht1976" class="citation journal cs1">Brigham, John C.; Giesbrecht, Linda W. (December 1, 1976). "'All in the Family': Racial Attitudes". <i>Journal of Communication</i>. <b>26</b> (4): <span class="nowrap">69–</span>74. <a href="Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1460-2466.1976.tb01938.x">10.1111/j.1460-2466.1976.tb01938.x</a>.</cite></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050315090731/http://www.tvland.com/shows/aitf/character1.jhtml">Archie Bunker information at tvland.com</a></li>

<li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110816205357/http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/factsheet.cfm?key=30&newskey=54">The Bunkers' chairs at the National Museum of American History</a></li></ul>

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<li><a href="Edith_Bunker" title="Edith Bunker">Edith Bunker</a></li>

<li><a href="Gloria_Stivic" title="Gloria Stivic">Gloria Stivic</a></li>

<li><a href="Michael_Stivic" title="Michael Stivic">Michael Stivic</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><a href="George_Jefferson" title="George Jefferson">George Jefferson</a></li>

<li><a href="Louise_Jefferson" title="Louise Jefferson">Louise Jefferson</a></li>

<li><a href="Lionel_Jefferson" title="Lionel Jefferson">Lionel Jefferson</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="List_of_All_in_the_Family_episodes" title="List of All in the Family episodes">Episodes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>"<a href="Maude_(All_in_the_Family_episode)" title="Maude (All in the Family episode)">Maude</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Cousin_Liz" title="Cousin Liz">Cousin Liz</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Edith's_50th_Birthday" title="Edith's 50th Birthday">Edith's 50th Birthday</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Edith's_Crisis_of_Faith" title="Edith's Crisis of Faith">Edith's Crisis of Faith</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="The_200th_Episode_Celebration_of_All_in_the_Family" title="The 200th Episode Celebration of All in the Family">The 200th Episode Celebration of All in the Family</a>"</li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="Till_Death_Us_Do_Part" title="Till Death Us Do Part">Till Death Us Do Part</a></i>

<ul><li><i><a href="Till_Death..." title="Till Death...">Till Death...</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="In_Sickness_and_in_Health" title="In Sickness and in Health">In Sickness and in Health</a></i></li></ul></li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="Maude_(TV_series)" title="Maude (TV series)">Maude</a></i> (1972–1978) (<a href="List_of_Maude_episodes" title="List of Maude episodes">episodes</a>)</li>

<li><i><a href="Good_Times" title="Good Times">Good Times</a></i> (1974–1979) (<a href="List_of_Good_Times_episodes" title="List of Good Times episodes">episodes</a>)</li>

<li><i><a href="The_Jeffersons" title="The Jeffersons">The Jeffersons</a></i> (1975–1985) (<a href="List_of_The_Jeffersons_episodes" title="List of The Jeffersons episodes">episodes</a>)</li>

<li><i><a href="Checking_In" title="Checking In">Checking In</a></i> (1981)</li>

<li><i><a href="Gloria_(American_TV_series)" title="Gloria (American TV series)">Gloria</a></i> (1982–1983)</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sequels</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Archie_Bunker's_Place" title="Archie Bunker's Place">Archie Bunker's Place</a></i> (1979–1983) (<a href="List_of_Archie_Bunker's_Place_episodes" title="List of Archie Bunker's Place episodes">episodes</a>)</li>

<li><i><a href="704_Hauser" title="704 Hauser">704 Hauser</a></i> (1994)</li>

<li><i><a href="Live_in_Front_of_a_Studio_Audience" title="Live in Front of a Studio Audience">Live in Front of a Studio Audience</a></i> (2019)</li></ul>

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<ul><li><i><a href="Ein_Herz_und_eine_Seele" title="Ein Herz und eine Seele">Ein Herz und eine Seele</a></i></li></ul>

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