History Awesome / AllInTheFamily

'''Archie:''' Nothin' wrong with me, hey, I notice I sing and dance better! But, the main thing that does to me, see, that gives me the right to call out a whole gang of my black [[BloodBrothers blood brothers]], to come with me and back me up, see? And if we catch youse guys burnin' any crosses, we're gonna come up here, and we're gonna bust your [[NWordPrivileges honky]] heinies!

** And in the second part of the episode, both Gloria and Edith get crowning moments. Gloria calls her mother out on why she refuses to identify the rapist when he's caught, even though it would stop him from doing this to other women; getting increasingly angry before finally screaming, "You're not my mother anymore!" Edith, in response, slaps her across the face, breaks down, and then confidently walks towards the front door.

** Some credit needs to go to Archie's behavior in the second episode. It's shown to take place some time after the first one, and Archie is shown to be completely attentive to Edith's obvious trauma. He's clearly frustrated by it, but he never shows that to Edith; furthermore, his anger is clearly directed at ''himself'', as he feels both powerless to help her and too stunted by his own upbringing to even discuss the subject aloud. Later, when Gloria (who, as noted above, was previously a rape victim herself) explains what Edith is going through, Archie does something [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely out of character]]--he listens to what his daughter has to say patiently, takes her advice, and uses it to help calm Edith down. Those are HiddenDepths to the extreme.

* "The Elevator Story" gives us Hugh Victor Thompson III, an African-American professor (played by BadassBaritone Roscoe Lee Brown, who delivers his lines with steely grace). From the start of the "trapped in an elevator" ordeal to the end, he verbally smacks Archie around for the latter's racist views. One particularly awesome moments occurs when Archie trots out his military service to claim superiority:

* A meta example is that Archie was intended to be disliked by the audience, but Carroll O'Connor's performance turned him into one of the most beloved TV characters of all time.

** Perhaps the greatest-ever CMOA on the part of a StudioAudience, who ''immediately'' fill the studio with ''deafening'' cheers once Edith evades her would-be rapist, even stamping their feet on the bleachers.[[note]]The sequence was shot in one uninterrupted take. The studio audience got tenser and tenser as it went on, and there was a good chance that they'd actually rush the set to save Edith. That's how much tension is being released in those cheers.[[/note]] All by itself, it elevates the scene from great to unforgettable.

* "The Elevator Story" gives us Hugh Victor Thompson III. Who from the start til the end verbally smacks Archie around. The standout being when Archie trots out his military service to belittle his race.

* A meta example is that Archie was intended to be disliked by the audience, but Carroll O'Connor's performance turned him into one of the most beloved TV characters of all time.

** Some credit needs to go to Archie's behavior in the second episode. It's shown to take place some time after the first one, and Archie is shown to be completely attentive to Edith's obvious trauma. He's clearly frustrated by it, but he never shows that to Edith; furthermore, his anger is clearly directed at ''himself'', as he feels both powerless to help her and stunted by his own upbringing to even discuss the subject aloud. Later, when Gloria (who, as noted above, was previously a rape victim herself) explains what Edith is going through, Archie does something [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness completely out of character]]--he listens to what his daughter has to say patiently, takes her advice, and uses it to help calm Edith down. Those are HiddenDepths to the extreme.