
"All in the Family" is touted as the series that brought reality to prime-time TV entertainment. The lead character, Archie Bunker, is a loudmouthed, uneducated bigot who believes in every stereotype he has ever heard. His wife, Edith, is sweet but not the sharpest knife in the drawer. They and their daughter, Gloria, and her husband, Mike, all live in a working-class home. Unfortunately for Archie, he can't avoid the people he disdains: His son-in-law -- whom Archie calls "Meathead" -- is an unemployed student and of Polish descent; the Jeffersons next door are black; Edith's cousin Maude is a feminist; and, later, his partners in a local tavern are Jewish.

An emotional laundromat owner threatens to sue Archie for overloading one of his washing machines.

Archie fumes with jealousy when an old secret about Edith and her former beau is revealed.

Archie and Edith travel to upstate New York to attend the wedding of her cousin Maude's daughter.

Archie appears on TV in a rebuttal over an editorial for gun control he saw on the local news. While celebrating his accomplishment, the Bunkers are held up by a pair of thugs at Kelsey's bar who saw his report.