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1	While eating dinner, in a restaurant, Archie and Mike both give conflicting (and exaggerated) accounts of the events of earlier that evening, involving a confrontation between Archie and a young black repairman's apprentice (Creator/RonGlass) who had come to help repair the broken refrigerator.
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3	!! Tropes associated with this episode:
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5	* ArgumentOfContradictions: The plot starts with Archie insisting that a repairman's apprentice pulled a switchblade on him, and Mike arguing that the apprentice didn't have any knife. Gloria, who did not witness the scene, claims that their statements are contradictory to each other, so someone is wrong. This sets off Archie and Mike giving their exaggerated accounts recalling the earlier events of the evening.
6	* DIYDisaster: The reason why the refrigerator is broken, possibly for good: Archie tries to fix it himself after the repairman leaves, but he doesn't know what he's doing and not only breaks it worse than it was before, he causes the house to lose electrical power!
7	* HowWeGotHere: The episode begins with the Bunkers eating dinner in a restaurant, which is a rare occurrence for them when it's not a special occasion. As they wait for their food, they recall what happened that led to them not being able to have their meal at home, prompting flashbacks.
8	* MalcolmXerox: Archie's depiction of a blue-collar African American appliance repairman's assistant as a militant activist.
9	* MoralMyopia: Archie and Mike have no room calling each other out on their inaccurate tellings of what happened at the house during the repairman's visit.
10	* RashomonStyle: The centerpiece of this episode's plot; Mike and Archie tell two contradictory versions of the same story.
11	** Mike's version depicts Archie as a primitive caveman growling and screaming at every slightest provocation, and berating the assistant with a medley of racial slurs.
12	** Archie's version depicts himself as calm and passive, and everybody else ganging up on him, or telling him off anytime he acts the slightest bit assertive, including the black assistant who becomes irate with him for no apparent reason.
13	* UncleTomfoolery: Mike's depiction of a blue-collar African American appliance repairman's assistant as a minstrel show stereotype.

Context Recap / AllInTheFamilyS3E20EverybodyTellsTheTruth