All in the Family

Archie Bunker

Edith Bunker

Michael 'Meathead' Stivic

Gloria Bunker-Stivic

A few very early episodes featured some musical scoring, but the use of music outside the opening and closing themes was quickly dropped.

When the show was ending its run, Norman Lear spoke with Jean Stapleton (who was growing weary of playing Edith Bunker) about how they would respectfully have Edith die. She said, "Just have her die off, she's only fiction." Lear paused, then said, "Not to me, she isn't."

Notoriously, the first toilet flush in prime time television was heard on this show.

From the inside, reading backwards, we see "Kelcy's Bar". In most, but not all episodes, the ending credits spell the name of the Brendan Dillon or Bob Hastings character as "Kelsey", not "Kelcy".

Throughout the first five seasons,it appears that Mike and Gloria's bedroom is on the opposite side of the wall from Archie and Edith's bedroom. But in later episodes both bedrooms appear to be directly across the hall from eachother.

The house in the opening credits (that is presumably supposed to be Archie and Edith Bunker's house) does not come anywhere near matching the studio sets that represent the house in the show. For example, window placement and size is completely wrong, and the sets depict the house as having a large front porch whereas, the house in the credits has only a small stoop.

Mike Stivic: You know, you are totally incomprehensible.

Archie Bunker: God can do anything! He can turn your jawbone into an ass!

Gloria Stivic: Daddy, what I don't understand is how can the Duke be alive if he threw himself on a grenade?