"All In The Family" remake

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James had moved away first. They were celebrating at their going away party, and they received the telegram that James died.
 
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I think it was just more good, clean fun than anything else. Nobody expected it to be anything profound.

Imagining Woody Harrelson and Marisa Tomei in those roles? Beyond funny. Woody Harrelson can play anything.

And from a man’s perspective, I’d watch Ellie Kemper selling ginsu knives on an infomercial at 3 in the morning :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:😴
 
I’m a big fan of Robert Patrick, the actor who played T-1000 (the melting man!). A classic film, and fantastic casting of an unknown actor in a memorable role.

Haven’t really been impressed by any Terminator franchise films since that T-1000 film.
 
I generally liked the episodes.

I liked the Jeffersons episode a bit better than the All in the Family episode.

I sometimes catch the Jeffersons on rerun now. It’s really funny.

One episode that is not pc at all but really funny is when George had to dog sit for his landlord I believe, and the dog ended up being a mean Doberman.

George figured out that the dog would play fetch, so he started tossing the ball. He got distracted by a phone call, and tosses the ball too hard over the terrace. The Doberman follows the ball and leaps off the terrace. It was so shocking, but so funny. I haven’t seen that episode in a while.
 
I went back and watched the remake.
I think Marisa Tomei and Jamie Foxx seemed to have the most fun playing their parts. Both did an excellent job of recreating Edith and George.
 
JoeShlabotnik said:
I went back and watched the remake.
I think Marisa Tomei and Jamie Foxx seemed to have the most fun playing their parts. Both did an excellent job of recreating Edith and George.
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Dear Marisa was having a blast! You could tell.

I finally educated my old self in using ABC On-Demand last night and watched the whole thing (missed 15 minutes of the aired episode).
 
When I was a kid (evangelical). we were forbidden to watch any Norman Lear program. He was considered a mouthpiece for evil and there were sermons preached against him!

My parents were very protective of what we watched. We were also not allowed to watch “Bewitched” or see the movie “Escape from Witch Mountain”. At age 11 I had campaign for almost a year to be allowed to read “The Loin, the Witch and the Wardrobe”.

“All in the Family” was verboten. I do remember sneaking in “The Jeffersons” sometimes.
 
TheLittleLady said:
At age 11 I had campaign for almost a year to be allowed to read “The Loin, the Witch and the Wardrobe”.
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Well come on, @TheLittleLady, would you want your kids to read “The Loin, the Witch and the Wardrobe?” 😉
 
Peeps said:
it’s all so different, and the Norman Lear shows seem “quaint.” They do serve to show us how we got here, but not the remakes–they just showed us how actors can mimic other actors, and how make-up artists can make any actor look like any character.
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For those of us who grew up in the sixties and seventies, memories from that time, like the Norman Lear sitcoms, often give us the warm fuzzies. But as your post mentions, it wasn’t all “Happy Days.”

Up until recently, I had a part time job in a home improvement store and the music that plays, comes from that era. Chicago, Seals & Croft, and Elton John. The other day I started paying attention to the content of some of the music playing. Afternoon Delight, Love the One Your With, [Stephen Stills] on and on. Sex and more sex. I used to love Maude, but wow, what an emasculating feminist. We didn’t have a chance. What would Ward and June think?

By the time the internet got here, we were ripe for the harvest. It is all so depressing when you take off Elton Joh’s rose colored glasses. But it is water under the dam I suppose. I must say, though, while part of Norman Lear’s works takes me back to I time when summers were long, responsibilities were few, and melodies were light, shows like “All in the Family” and Maude really were not all that harmless.

Carol O’Connor had regrets about Archie in All in the Family. He cast himself with a black wife [one of my favorites from Room 222] in reparation, in the drama show, “Heat of the Night.”. His words. Having said all that, what is the purpose or the intent of these remakes? Hopeful advertisement revenues? A blast from the past, or a memorial for a time, when things started going wrong?
 
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TheLittleLady said:
When I was a kid (evangelical). we were forbidden to watch any Norman Lear program
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LOL I wasn’t “supposed” to watch All In The Family or even MASH, but golly, it was hardly my fault if I just happened to be at a friends house and it just happened to be on their set, now was it?
 
esieffe said:
But as your post mentions, it wasn’t all “Happy Days.”
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Happy Day’s could be naughty. They talked about making out and strippers. The first episode was even entitled “All the Way” (Ritchie wound up not going all the way but that was his original intent.
Although, you’ll notice all the hoods and bad girls had Italian last names. Hmmm
 
I wonder if those Italian names were from Gary Marshall’s background. He was Italian American but his family changed their name to Marshall.

I liked Happy Days better when it was filmed in the bigger house, and they had a formal dining room, instead of that table off to the side of the living room. In those episodes Richie was the main character, he had a brother Chuck, and Fonzie was only on for a few minutes per episode.

At a certain point, they stopped even trying to get the costumes right, everything looked like the seventies and eighties, even though it was the late fifties early sixties.
 
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