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Word: archbigot (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Racial jokes are also the staple of television's other top comedy show, All in the Family-but with a difference. Where Flip Wilson kids conventional prejudices by turning them inside out, Family's archbigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor) is a living compendium of those prejudices. To see how Archie might react to Flip, TIME asked Family Producer-Writer Norman Lear to imagine a scene in the Bunker living room after the family has watched Flip's show. Lear's script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Archie Bunker Looks at Flip | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

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