Irreverent comments regarding sensitive topics.
Likely to offend
Archie Bunker frequently espouses politically incorrect perspectives on sensitive topics.
At least one racist term is used each episode.
The show is banned from UK TV but allowed on DVD it was banned for its racist language
Archie says crapola and others variants of crap
Damn goddamn it etc are used
Archie refers to England as a fag country
Archie refers to gay people as fags
Archie refers to gay people as faggots
Archie refers to gay people as queer
In reference to disabled people Mike uses the term retard this was common at the time and not meant to be an insult
Archie expresses views that Black people are not equal to him
Archie joins the KKK
Archie refers to black people as coons
Archie uses the term coloured to refer to black people
Archie says "They're wonderful people, they're lovely people ... but they are also coloured people'
Referring to his African American neighbours Archie says 'These guys don't wanna socialise any more with us any more than we wanna socialise with them'
Referring to civil rights Archie says 'I didn't have no million people marching and protesting to get me my job'
After saying some racist things Archie says 'I ain't no bigot'
Archie says "I ain't no bigot. I'm the first guy to say, 'It ain't your fault that youse are coloured.'"
Archie being bigoted says: You're coloured. you didn't sound coloured on the phone
Archie often refers to his son in law as a pollock
When his friend asks Archie if he knows any polish jokes he responds "are you kidding I got one living with me"
Archie says If God had intended white people to dance with coloureds then Mike interrupts saying he'd of given us rhythm too.
George refers to white people as honkeys
Archie: I think that if God had meant us to be together, He'd have put us together. But look what He done. He put you over in Africa, and He put the rest of us in all the white countries.
Gloria says fuck you to Mike
Archie refers to Japanese people as japs
Archie mentions "cops dressed as dames dressed up waiting for some fella to rape them"
1 use of fuck and it is used by a female character this was the first time in TV history a woman used the word and it was considered to be extremely shocking at the time
A lot of swearing and racial insults