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All in the Family

"You had no right to leave me that style... without giving me just one more chance to say I beloved yous."

• Gloria's miscarriage in "Gloria's Pregnancy". At showtime, anybody'south stressed out when they find that she'south pregnant, as Mike's betwixt jobs and this pregnancy wasn't planned at all, but they decide to try to brand the best of the state of affairs, only for Gloria to then feel horribly sick. This episode is besides the first fourth dimension we see Archie's gentler side, every bit he's heartbroken that his potential grandchild has been lost to aught else just a cruel twist of fate and he's conspicuously at a loss trying to panel Gloria as he's hurting desperately too. Both Edith and Mike are somewhat shaken up, too.
• The Flavor eight finale "The Stivics Become West" was both a Very Special Episode and a tearjerker, in that it was the final time all four of the show's chief stars – Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner and Emerge Struthers – appeared together as regulars. ^note Reiner and Struthers both would appear in two later episodes, reuniting the foursome.
  • Archie and Mike'southward final conversation, where Mike thanks Archie for all his back up over the years, tells him he loves him, and awkwardly embraces him, is very touching. Soon thereafter comes an emotional farewell. The concluding scene has a deeply saddened Archie sentinel the taxi – with his girl, son-in-police force and grandson, Joey, inside – drive away. Archie chokes back a sob, a few tears welling upwards. Edith, who had gone into the kitchen to get Archie a beer, returns to the living room, and sees Archie wiping his eyes. Chop-chop, she runs back into the kitchen and then he doesn't know she's seen him crying, and announces she's bringing him a beer. Archie puts on a braver face when Edith walks in. Edith then sits next to Archie, and they sit, sadly, in the now-silent house.
  • Co-ordinate to one history of the series, this was a real-life tearjerker, as by the final scene the cast — knowing this was possibly their last time together — were emotionally spent and nervous virtually doing that terminal scene. Reportedly, information technology took 20 takes for an adequate take to be put in the can, and a frustrated (and himself emotional) Norman Lear was wearing sunglasses every bit the number of blown takes mounted.
• The "Ii's a Crowd" episode, where a drunken Archie talks to Mike about his father and reveals where he got his prejudiced views from.

  Mike: My ol' homo used to call people the same things equally your ol' man. But I ever knew he was wrong. So was your ol' man.

  Archie: Don't tell me my father was wrong! Allow me tell you somethin'. Your father who made you, wrong? Your father, the breadwinner of the firm there, the homo who goes out and busts his butt to keep a roof over your head and clothes on your back? You call your father wrong? Hey, hey, your father... Your begetter, that's the man that comes home bringin' yous processed. Your father's the outset guy to throw a baseball game to you. And have you lot for walks in the park. Hold you lot by the hand. My male parent held me by the manus, oh, he had a manus on him, I tell yous. He disrepair that hand once, and he disrepair it on me. To teach me to practice good. And my father, he'd shove me in the closet for seven hours to teach me to do expert, 'cause he loved me. He loved me. Don't be lookin' at me!... Allow me tell you somethin'. Yous're supposed to love your begetter. Because your father loves yous. And how tin can whatsoever man that loves y'all tell you anything that's wrong?

• Any episode involving Stephanie worried about having to leave was this. Especially when she tried to come up upward with excuses as to why she tin't go back home to her terrible male parent yet.
• Although in "The Draft Dodger" the audience is supposed to see Archie as judgmental and reactionary, the oral communication he gives is deplorable in a fridge mode, when yous think Archie himself was drafted. This speech, coupled with Carroll O'Connor's masterful acting, strongly implied that Archie was agape to go to state of war but he did his duty anyway.

  Mike: When the Hell are you going to admit that the war was incorrect?

  Archie: I own't talkin' about that war! Goddammit, I don't want to talk about that goddamn war no more! I'1000 talkin' about somethin' else! And what he done was incorrect! Sayin' he won't go! Whaddya recollect, all the people of this country can say whether or non they wanna go to war? Yous couldn't get a decent war off the ground that fashion! All the young people would say no - sure they would! Cause they don't wanna become killed! And that's why we exit it to the Congress, crusade them sometime quacks ain't gonna get killed! And they're gonna practice the correct thing, and get backside the president and vote yeah!

• Edith alone in the house with a rapist in "Edith'south 50th Birthday". Archie ends upwards interrupting them, and so the rapist hides in the closet with a gun, telling her that if Edith says anything, he'll shoot the both of them. Watching Edith looking and so desperate while Archie prattles on virtually needing a punchbowl, and so when he leaves, she cries for him non to get. Doubles as Nightmare Fuel.
  • At the terminate of the same scene, Edith, who feels like there is no longer annihilation she tin exercise to escape, begs her rapist, "Couldn't we do this without kissing?" Information technology seems like a ridiculous request, but the fearfulness and utter despair in her vocalization is heart-wrenching.
  • At the stop of function one, Edith manages to escape the rapist (a Moment of Crawly), and runs to the Stivics, where a surprise altogether political party is waiting for her. Equally everyone cheerfully sings "Happy Birthday" and "For She's a Jolly Good Young man," Edith rushes to Archie's arms and completely breaks down, and Archie, who's usually portrayed as totally oblivious, knows that something is horribly, horribly wrong. The episode ends with Edith sobbing and Archie looking genuinely concerned, all set to the irony of the partygoers singing happily.
  • The second office of the episode is similarly depressing, but in a unlike way. Edith goes through a flow of post-traumatic stress that paralyzes her to the signal of beingness agape to leave the house. Seeing the normally cheerful, oblivious Edith and so broken by her experience that she can't do annihilation but obsessively iron pillowcases is horrible. Similarly, watching Gloria desperately effort to get through to her—and eventually reach a point where she's and so frustrated and overwhelmed by Edith's refusal to cope that she screams "You're not my mother anymore!"—is extremely painful.
    • Remember that Gloria wanted to do everything she could to bring her rapist to justice, only to exist steamrolled by Mike and Archie. Recall that her decision was prompted by Edith sharing her story of a similar assail when she was a young adult female and her regret over non speaking upward and potentially stopping that man from pain anyone else. Her anger at Edith refusing to assistance put away the rapist from this episode is hard to watch just fully understandable.
  • At the beginning of the 2nd part, Edith has to tell Archie what happened, and the pain equally she struggles to fifty-fifty say the words is palpable. Subsequently, when Gloria and Mike enter and hear about what happened, information technology becomes a horrible case of Truth in Television: Gloria wants to call the law and written report the assault, as she did when she was nearly raped (an effect that happened a few seasons before). Archie points out that if the case did go to court, the lawyers for the defence force would twist the story to make information technology seem equally though Edith was coming on to her rapist, a sadly common tactic in actual rape cases.
  • It'southward fifty-fifty worse when you think that this is the second fourth dimension in her life that Edith has suffered an attempted rape. The first time, she was a young woman lured by a date nether a boardwalk. This time, she'due south turning fifty and in the causeless safe of her ain home.
• The episode "Gloria the Victim," which is mentioned higher up, is every bit tragic. A construction worker attempts to rape Gloria, and though she escapes, she'due south torn between pressing charges and wanting to forget the whole incident, especially when a police detective shows up and explains that the rapist'south defense team will dredge up every "questionable" thing Gloria has ever done (such as posing nude for an creative person or wearing a mini-skirt) to make it seem like the crime was her fault. She eventually decides that she'south going to press charges regardless—and Mike and Archie refuse to allow her practice information technology by shouting her down and essentially robbing her of agency again. The episode ends with a tiresome zoom on Gloria's face equally she stares off into the distance, her eyes broad with fear every bit she imagines the human being who attacked her walking the city and looking for his next target.
  • What makes Gloria decide to printing charges is likewise heartbreaking. While Archie, Mike, and the detective talk, Gloria goes to Edith for comfort in the kitchen, and her mother remarks that she's been thinking all solar day most a time when she was a teenager at the boardwalk on a blind double date. Edith explains that her date lured her under the boardwalk and tried to assault her as well; thankfully, her male parent had taught her how to defend herself, and then she was able to escape. Just and so she remarks that the incident has haunted her all her life:

    Edith: Gloria, I never told no one about this before, because in my time we was too scared to talk open up—but what I'm sayin' is perhaps nosotros should take, 'cause over the years, I've often wondered how many other girls that human got under the boardwalk...and how many didn't get away...

• Equally the family stays upwardly all nighttime waiting to hear if Archie volition be laid off, he remembers how his father was devastated by the Neat Depression. "He just kept asking why, and no one could tell him."
• "Archie's Biting Pill". Information technology starts with Archie being frustrated that his bar is going nowhere. Then he takes pills from a friend, and starts roaming around town with enthusiasm on how he'll build a concatenation of bars. But as his energy dies down, he starts breaking up over the imminent failure of his business. Edith comforts Archie as he comes downward from his pill-shock, crying over and over again "I didnt mean no damage, Edith..."
• During the prove's run, Edith ends upward befriending Beverly LaSalle, a cross-dresser who performs as a female impersonator (he's implied to be gay, but not transgender). In "Edith's Crisis of Organized religion," Beverly and Mike are mugged (off-screen) by a grouping of teenagers; Beverly protects Mike from being bludgeoned with a metal pipe, but the incensed teens bludgeon Beverly instead (Mike implies that they sensed his being gay), and, while Mike survives the ordeal with only minor injuries, Beverly dies from his injuries. The look on Edith's face when the doc at the hospital tells her is utterly heartbreaking; even the studio audition reacts. It escalates from there as Edith even starts questioning her religious organized religion, much to Archie's dismay.
  • This all overlaps with a moment of heartwarming as Archie and Gloria talk about Beverly, and Archie himself remarks that he/she was a decent person who was a proficient friend to Edith.
  • In the first role of the episode, when Barney comes rushing up to the house to tell Archie about what's happened, Gloria starts badly screaming Mike'south name, which is chilling and sad.
  • A moment earlier in the episode becomes all the more depressing by what follows (and especially on repeat viewings, when y'all know what's going to happen). Beverly has just been told that he'due south going to go to do his drag show at Carnegie Hall, and to celebrate, Edith gives him an early on Christmas present: a scrapbook total of every newspaper item that mentions him and his act (Edith explains that she's put information technology together all twelvemonth). But what clinches the moment every bit heartbreaking is when Edith tells Beverly that he's "like family" to her. Beverly is normally a jovial human who doesn't have much seriously, but when Edith tells him that, a look of pure joy comes over his confront, and his voice breaks as he says "I love you, Edith." Refrigerator Horror kicks in when you realize that Beverly either doesn't take a family, or, even worse, was disowned when he came out as gay and started cross-dressing. He considered Edith his sis and the Bunkers every bit a 2nd family...and an 60 minutes later, he'south gone. Even Archie, who still is quite uncomfortable around Beverly but at least has accepted that he is now "part of the family" to the point where he is cordial around him, is securely stunned and emotional, as information technology is clear even he wouldn't have wished this brutal fate on him.
• "The Bunkers and the Swingers" is largely a comic episode—Edith inadvertently answers an ad in an erotic mag (as The Ditz, she doesn't detect the content) for wife-swapping. When Curtis and Ruth, the swinger couple, comes to the Bunkers' abode, a lot of errors in communication, plus Louise Jefferson having to tell Edith the truth of the situation, leads to laughter. But at the finish of the episode, Ruth delivers a brusk monologue about how swinging has saved her marriage; her voice trembles as she does so, hinting that she and her husband have probable been constantly judged or ostracized for their choices, and that it'south injure her deeply. What really hurts is that when Ruth says that "we were drowning," and that wife-swapping saved her union, Edith replies (rather confusedly, rather than maliciously) that she'd rather have drowned. That gets a laugh, but consider the state of affairs from Ruth'due south perspective: what would it exist like to be told that your lifestyle—something that you lot, as two consenting adults, freely chose— was so awful to some people that decease is considered a improve pick?
• Flavor i'south "The Success Story" sees Archie'southward old Ground forces buddy Eddie Frazier visiting New York after making millions as a car dealer in Los Angeles, and Archie organises a reunion of some of his other boyfriend soldiers with Eddie as the guest of accolade. During the political party, Eddie excuses himself to make a call, and Archie orders Mike to become drinks and ice for his friends. However, as Mike passes the phone, he overhears Eddie'south conversation and learns the real reason he is in New York: he is hoping for a reconciliation with his estranged son, Greg. Mike passes Eddie twice on the way to and from the kitchen, and each time the conversation has deteriorated further; knowing no other way to get through to his son, Eddie is reduced to begging and trying to bribe him with $500 for a 5-minute meeting, just Greg finally loses patience and hangs up. Eddie forces a grin and tells Mike his son tin have anything he wants from him, simply when Mike, having overheard enough to know something'southward up, asks, "What does he want from you lot?", he is forced to admit that Greg wants him "to stay the hell abroad from him." He returns to the party, being cheerful and making jokes, but as Archie and the other veterans serenade him with a chorus of "For He's a Jolly Good Young man", Eddie sees Mike looking at him with sorrow, every bit if to say, "All that money hasn't brought you happiness, has information technology?", and Eddie lowers his caput in grief and embarrassment. The looks on both their faces is pretty depressing to watch. Eddie somewhen starts crying, but tries to hibernate it through laughter. In The Stinger, Archie and Mike are alone in the living room, and a boozer Archie tells Mike it was a night to remember; Mike, clearly thinking better of shattering Archie's gilt paradigm of Eddie, says he'll never forget it. A possibility that makes it fifty-fifty sadder, is that if Greg has children, then Eddie would have grandchildren that he'll never get to see or know, because of the estrangement.

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• The Season 2 opener "Archie Lonely" sees Archie in deep denial over Edith's offscreen death (afterwards series star Jean Stapleton decided to leave the show). Eventually frustrated that everyone is talking about information technology, Archie shouts at the world to go abroad. He then goes upstairs and sees one of Edith's slippers, before he has his emotional breakup.

  Archie: It wasn't supposed to be like this. I was supposed to be the get-go one to go. I always used to kid you lot most you going commencement. You know I never meant none of that and that morning time when you was laying there. I was shaking you and yelling at you to go down and fix my breakfast. I didn't know. You had no right to get out me that manner, Edith... (Holding the slipper to his face, Archie starts to cry) without giving me just one more adventure to say I love you.

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