Characters / All in the Family

The Bunker-Stivic Family

In General

• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: They constantly bicker with their different viewpoints but there is no doubt they love each other like an actual family does.
• Dysfunctional Family: In a more down-to-earth family of the 70's kind of way.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Mike and Archie don't mean any harm and can be very loving but they clearly have their flaws. Both of them are quite stubborn and opinionated. Archie is known for his old fashioned beliefs and bigotry whereas Mike, while he can be more reasonable than Archie, is quite stubborn and has trouble taking criticism.
• Nice Girl: Edith and Gloria are very kind-hearted people and loving wives.
• Obnoxious In-Laws: Downplayed. Mike get along great with his mother-in-law Edith and they have a very loving relationship. His relationship with his father-in-law Archie on the other hand is a different story. They constantly bicker and get at each others throats all the time. They don't hate each other, they just almost never see anything eye to eye.
• Women Are Wiser: Gloria and especially Edith show kindness and consideration to most people and act very much like the Closer to Earth ones compared to Mike and Archie.

Archie Bunker

Archibald "Archie" Bunker

Played By: Carroll O'Connor

The patriarch of the Bunker household, Archie is a blue collar factory worker who was born and raised in New York. He blusters about his conservative, and often bigoted, viewpoints to anyone listening (or anyone nearby), much to the consternation of his liberal daughter and son-in-law. Regardless, underneath all of it is an ultimately good man who is willing to accept others with enough convincing and is happily married to his wife, Edith, who he adores.

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• Abusive Parents: His father was not a nice guy to say the least. Being locked in a closet barely touches the surface of his childhood. Archie himself, for all his disagreements with his daughter, certainly never took a swing at her.
• Affectionate Nickname: He calls Gloria "Little Girl," even when she's well into adulthood. Loathe though he'd be to admit it, his calling Mike a meathead also becomes a form of endearment.
• Arch-Enemy (no pun intended): To George Jefferson. Going into Jefferson's house would be the day hell froze over for Archie.
• Book Dumb: His education is fairly substandard because he was forced to drop out of school, and he's known to misuse and mispronouce words, but he's not an idiot; at worst, he's ignorant.
• Character Catchphrase: Archie had quite a few.
  • "You're a pip, Edith."
  • "Stifle yourself, Edith."
  • "Dummy up, you".
  • "Whoop-de-do, whoop-de-doo, whoop-de-doo!"
  • "Aw, geez."
  • And Blowing a Raspberry.
• Character Development: In his early TV appearances, he tried to stop Puerto Ricans from moving next door. By Archie Bunker's Place, he had lost most of his bigotry. And if 704 Hauser is considered canon, he apparently sold his home to a black family in the early 1990s.
• Characterization Marches On: His initial characterization was prudish in the extreme, but this was softened later into a mere disdain for "free love" sexuality. It's repeatedly made very clear in later episodes that while he'd rather not talk about it, he and Edith have an active and mutually satisfying relationship in the bedroom.
• Dad the Veteran: He served in Italy as part of the Army Air Corps during WW2 and he's very proud of it.
• Embarrassing First Name: "Archibald"
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Shoebooty", what the other kids called him when he was little because his parents could only afford to give him a shoe and a boot to wear as a pair of footwear, according to the Bottle Episode where he and Michael are locked in the cellar.
  Archie: They used to holler, "Tooty fruity, here comes Shoebooty." And they kept calling me that until they found out my name was Archibald, and they thought that was funnier. And then I wished they'd go back to "Shoebooty".
• Emotionally Tongue-Tied: Archie has difficulty with expressing affection. In the episode "Gloria Has a Belly Full", he visits Gloria after she had a miscarriage.
  Gloria: You wanna say something?
  Archie: Well, no, no, nothin', I... no, nothin'.
  Gloria: You love me. (Archie nods silently)
• Everyone Has Standards: You wouldn't know it from his temper, but he actually has lines he won't cross.
  • Besides being a Noble Bigot, he objects to one of his friends calling Mike a "Communist". He may disagree with Mike and he may call him a Pinko, but he won't call him a "red".
  • He was also thoroughly repulsed when he found out that what he thought was a social club turned out to be the local KKK chapter, and promptly tells them off and quits, after warning them to stay away from Mike and Gloria's house (Mike had written a controversial letter to the editor and the Klan intended to burn a cross on his lawn) or he would come back with some of his "black blood brothers" and "bust their honkey heinies."
  • He also eventually refrains from using more offensive racial slurs like "nigger" or "wop", since he realizes these are genuinely malicious terms, as opposed to his other Innocent Bigot ways of describing other ethnicities. When George Jefferson uses the N-word at Lionel's engagement party, Archie is surprised and declares he hasn't uttered that word in three years.
  • For all that irritates if not frustrates him about Edith, he has never been known to physically harm or threaten her — and does truly mutually love her, despite his griping. The worst he's gotten is "stifle yourself", the "Dingbat" nickname, and periodically insulting her intelligence further.
  • The episode "Edith's Crisis of Faith" also proves that, while he gripes about virtually every minority group under the sun, he doesn't want to see them physically harmed. Edith's friend Beverly LaSalle, an openly gay man and drag queen, is killed while defending Mike from some teenage vandals. Archie is genuinely saddened by this and makes it clear that, while he wasn't entirely comfortable around Beverly, he did like him and wouldn't wish what he suffered on anyone.
  • Lastly, though not that surprising considering he's a World War II veteran, he absolutely hates Nazis.
• Freudian Excuse: His father was a mean old racist himself. It's implied he was in fact far worse than Archie, freely using the word "nigger" and abusing Archie and (presumably) his brother Fred. Archie, for all his faults, never called a black person anything worse than "colored" or "spade", and was a genuinely loving father.
• Good Parents: Absolutely, given that Gloria was a well-adjusted and smart girl. Archie may have his many flaws, but he adores his daughter (and later, his grandchild). He also never abused Gloria, physically or emotionally, which is notable since it's mentioned that's how he was raised.
• Happily Married: To Edith. Though he may poke fun at her, he thinks the world of her and is broken when she dies.
• Henpecked Husband: He's firmly and loudly of the opinion that a man is the king of his castle and a woman's place is serving her husband, and Edith is usually content to be bossed around, but whenever the two get into a real argument, Archie almost invariably loses.
• Hypocrite: Often bemoans his own son-in-law for being an atheist, but he hardly ever goes to church, and sometimes tries to cheat others as well.
• Innocent Bigot: His prejudices are mostly depicted as a product of his ignorance and upbringing rather than any actual malice. He seemed genuinely fond of Lionel and upon finding out his longtime friend and coworker Stretch Cunningham was Jewish (after Stretch had died), he delivered a heartfelt eulogy, including a sincere "shalom". He was also surprisingly accepting of Beverly's lifestyle, and was saddened when she was killed.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he was most famous for being an outspoken bigot, his bigotry was actually more of a product of his background than out of hatred and malice. Once you take that aspect of his character, he surprisingly could be a pretty decent guy. Despite his opinions and somewhat harsh nicknames, there was no doubt that he loved his wife, daughter, grandson and, despite how much he would hate to admit it, his son-in-law, Michael.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Whenever his daughter or son-in-law come at him with some cherry-picked statistic to bolster their emotion-driven "feel-good" liberalism, he comes right back at them with some logical counter-argument that shuts them down, cold.
  • Mike and Gloria say as much in "Mike's Hippie Friends Come to Visit" when Archie agrees to a compromise and Mike's friends still won't budge.
• Laser-Guided Karma: When his selfishness and bigotry become too much, it almost always comes back to bite him. In one episode, he willingly accepted a bribe to not to press charges against the son of a local politician, and by the end of the episode, he lost money on the deal.
• Lower-Class Lout: A crass, blue-collar worker with bigoted viewpoints.
• Malaproper: Big time. If he uses a big word, chances are he'll use it incorrectly, or at the very least mispronounce it. He calls the Book of Ecclesiastes "Ecclesiasticles" and once refers to "carnival (i.e. carnal) knowledge".
• Mirror Character: Though neither of them would ever admit it, he and Mike actually have quite a few personality traits in common despite their opposing political views. Both are stubborn, loud-mouthed, and prone to thinking they know more than they actually do.
• The Nicknamer: When he isn't malaproping someone's name, he'll be referring to them by a deliberate nickname. He refers to all three members of his immediate family by a "pet" nickname more often than their real name:
  • His wife, Edith, is "Dingbat", though this fades as their affection for each other grows. When he's annoyed with or angry at her, he'll still say she is a dingbat rather than actually call her dingbat.
  • His daughter Gloria is almost always "little girl", in all situations.
  • His son-in-law Michael is "Meathead", even when he's not arguing with him. When he calls him "Mike", it's a Big Deal.
• Noble Bigot: In spite of his prejudices, he is not a truly hateful man, as evidenced by his sort-of-friendship with Lionel, his acceptance of his niece Stephanie's Jewish heritage (to the point of buying her a Star of David necklace), and the way he stands up to a local Klan chapter to prevent them from burning a cross on Mike's lawn.
• Papa Wolf: He gets incredibly angry if anyone threatens Mike, Gloria, Stephanie, or his grandchild, and will go out of his way to make the offender regret it.
• Parental Substitute: Loathe as he'd be to admit it, he loves Mike like a son, and the feeling is mutual.
• Real Men Hate Affection: Archie hates showing affection, and is disgusted by Mike and Gloria for doing so. He occasionally shows genuine affection for Edith, but believes such things to be private.
• Sour Prudes: Early on, Archie was a male example: genuinely sexless (multiple characters including his wife wonder how he ever could have fathered Gloria) and completely terrified of sexuality in general. This was quietly retconned later: it's clear that although Archie doesn't approve of newfangled concepts like "free love" and doesn't like talking about sex, he and Edith have a healthy and active sex life.
• Straw Character: According to Word of God, his character was created for the express purpose of showing Republicans, Conservatives, or worse Conservative Republicans are racist, sexist, homophobic bigots so we could laugh at them. Whether intended from the beginning or not, this quickly became a subversion as Archie was ultimately depicted as a rather flawed yet decent man, whose heart was usually in the right place. Most sources indicate this was primarily the doing of his portrayer, Carroll O'Connor, who (as an old-school socialist) saw the white working classes as victims of their exploitative society, and their backward views as being born of ignorance, not malice.
• Strawman Has a Point: In-universe. Whenever he gets antagonized by leftist, big-government activists and politicians, he ultimately winds up showing them that they're just as bigoted as he is, if not more so, yet they remain completely oblivious to it, many of them insisting that "people of color" are so pathetic that they can't possibly improve their lives unless the government takes over control of their lives for them and the "Social Welfare" programs they advocate couldn't possibly hold water if it wasn't for the fact that the government can simply dump more money into them. Money that was taken at the point of a gun from hard-working blue-collar workers like himself.
• Tragic Dropout: Part of the reason why he's annoyed with Mike's academic background is because he had to drop out of high school to support his family during the Great Depression.
• Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Sometimes. Aside from his bigoted opinions, he can be quite selfish and he constantly puts down everyone around him.
• Verbal Tic: Archie has a few of these, what do you call, verbal tics, there.
• Working-Class People Are Morons: Not entirely Archie's fault, given that he had to drop out of high school during the Depression to join the work force. For what he lacks in book smarts, he makes up for in street smarts, and he's generally more accepting of different walks of life than he would let on at first.

Edith Bunker

Edith Bunker (née Baines)

Played By: Jean Stapleton

The ditzy but sweet and kind-hearted matriarch of the Bunker household. Edith is often naive and simple about a great many things, but her simplicity belies a folksy wisdom and observation about the world and other walks of life, and Archie usually defers to her decisions on bigger moral issues because of it.

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• All-Loving Hero: To a tee. Edith was one of the most openminded, kind hearted characters to ever appear on TV. Especially at that point in time in America, in direct counterpoint to her husband Arche's Innocent Bigot persona. Explicitly describing her friendships with the black Louise Jefferson and the drag queen Beverly LaSalle as being like family.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Despite being saintly, Archie and even Mike have often tested her patience more than once, and the result was a very sharp verbal beat-down.
• Butt-Monkey: On occasion. She often had to deal with her husband's antics, several medical issues, and was nearly raped.
• The Ditz: Silly and cheerful, and seemingly ignorant of Archie's temper.
  • Genius Ditz: But was actually a wise and outspoken woman when she needed to be.
• Dumb Is Good: Edith is ditzy and uneducated, and she's the nicest character on the show.
• Good Parents: To Gloria and later to Stephanie.
• Motor Mouth: Whenever she's reminded of her family, Edith will proceed to tell long and crazy stories that can go on forever, unless Archie or someone else tells her to wrap it up.
• Nice Girl: She is very kind and accepting toward everybody who came to her door.
• Only Sane Woman: Often proves to be the balance between Archie and Mike, being much more tolerant than Archie without Mike's grandstanding while having a greater understanding of how the world works than Mike without Archie's cynicism. She's just a nice woman who wants everyone to stop fighting and to get along.
• Parental Substitute: She's like a mother to Mike, who even calls her "Ma". (His real mother died when he was little).
• Too Dumb to Live: In the final episode of All In The Family, she attempted to cook a St. Patrick's Day dinner, even when stricken with phlebitis, which could kill her. Archie himself gave Edith a What the Hell, Hero? moment for that.
• Underappreciated Women's Work: Edith was the glue of the family. She cooked. She cleaned. She kept everyone on task and in one piece. Her husband, Archie, often took her for granted and tended to refer to her as "Dingbat". Not that Edith couldn't be a force to be reckoned with when truly riled. That said, Archie would be the first to come to Edith's defense if someone else belittled her, and no other woman could tempt him, as he was committed to Edith.

Mike Stivic

Michael Casimir "Mike" "Meathead" Stivic

Played By: Rob Reiner

Archie and Edith's son in law, married to their daughter Gloria. Mike is a Chicago-born, liberal academic who lives with the Bunkers while he attempts to finish his degree, and his progressive tendencies often lead to arguments with Archie's conservatism.

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• Big Eater: Rarely does an episode go by without Mike being seen eating something, even when there are no scenes at the family dinner table. This is a particular sore spot for Archie, who is being eaten out of house and home by a son-in-law he can't stand. (It's probably not a coincidence that their relationship improves considerably once Mike and Gloria move out and have to start paying for their own food.)
• Character Development: He grew more accepting of Archie as time went on. However his radicalism actually grew beyond being merely mouthed, and eventually he engaged in behavior that finally destroyed his family by Archie Bunker's Place.
• Condescending Compassion: His liberalism often contained traces of this—obviously women, blacks, and members of other disadvantaged groups couldn't possibly solve their own problems and needed white college-educated men like him to "help." Various characters, including Gloria and Lionel, weren't afraid to take him to task for this condescending attitude and tell him to shut his mouth once in a while.
• Fatal Flaw: His pride over his liberal views has made him just as stubborn as Archie. Eventually his pride causes his beliefs and actions to become more radicalized and he winds up choosing his activism over his family.
• Hollywood Atheist: Downplayed. Though he would argue with Archie about organized religion, he wasn't demeaning toward other people's beliefs, and actually helped Edith through a crisis of faith after Beverly LaSalle was killed.
• Honor Before Reason: Lost his college job protesting in the nude to prevent the construction of a nuclear power plant. Deconstructed, since this attitude helped destroy his marriage with Gloria.
• In-Series Nickname: His friends call him Mike. Archie calls him "Meathead".
• Like Father, Like Son: Averted. His father was apparently as racist as Archie, but Mike made a point to never try to become a bigot. He's also mentioned to have been raised by his uncle, who didn't share his father's racist attitudes.
• Mirror Character: Despite not seeing eye-to-eye with Archie, he wasn't that much different in attitude, and could be just as loudmouthed and stubborn. He was sexist sometimes too. There was also leaving his wife and son to live on a commune with one of his students. Also, for all his championing for the rights of minorities, he still ends up feeling angry and disappointed when loses a professorship position he applied for to a black applicant due to Affirmative Action.
• Mr. Vice Guy: Mike is a a well-educated and good-intentioned man whose liberal views can make him just as stubborn as Archie.
• Only Sane Man: Subverted. He thinks he's this, but he can be just as bad as Archie. Worth noting is that while he does believe in racial equality, he seems to be of the opinion that minorities can only advance in life with the help of open-minded white guys like him.
• Parental Abandonment: His parents were killed in a car crash when he was a child, and he was raised by his uncle. He left his wife and son to live on a hippie commune.
• Soapbox Sadie: A male example—he's always quick to start preaching about various liberal reforms or problems in society, and while his intentions are generally good, he has a tendency to ignore people who actually belong to the groups he's advocating for and treat them like tokens. In "The Games Bunkers Play," Lionel Jefferson calls him out on it, pointing out that Mike only ever speaks to him about civil rights and never talks him to like a human being.
• Strawman Political: A passionate liberal, in contrast to Archie's conservative working class ideals.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: In "The Games Bunkers Play", Mike's flaws are shown in full form. The episode shows how he can be stubborn, uptight, picky, and struggles to accept criticism.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Mike is consistently ungrateful to Archie for providing him with a roof over his head and putting food on the table and getting nothing in return for it. One time, when Mike does manage to come into some money, he donates it all to the McGovern campaign (despite him being way behind Nixon in the polls and having no chance to win) rather than help to cover the household expenses, all while his wife and father-in-law work hard to support him.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: In his last season as a regular, Mike and Archie could be described as being very close, despite their different world views. They both can barely hold back tears as Mike, Gloria, and Joey depart for California at the end of the eighth season.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The extremist part is more with how passionate he is about his liberal beliefs rather doing any risky, harmful actions.

Gloria Bunker-Stivic

Gloria Bunker-Stivic

Played By: Sally Struthers

Archie and Edith's feminist daughter, and the wife of Mike. She often found herself to be the only rational member of the house, and often tried to separate the bickering between her husband and father.

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• Adaptational Personality Change: Her British counterpart, Rita, from Till Death Us Do Part was a Flat Character who mainly existed to have the in-law connection between Alf and Mike. Gloria though is a much more layered and strong-willed character who changed between the time period.
• Affectionate Nickname: Archie often calls her "little girl".
• Closer to Earth: Unlike Mike, who as a college student frequently espouses "ivory tower" liberalism that is often detached from people's actual lives, Gloria is a working woman (she has a job in a department store) and has a lot more real-world experience than he does. As such, she offers perspectives that he often misses and speaks about how feminism is more than just a theory, but something that can tangibly improve people's lives.
• Daddy's Girl: Even though they often got into arguments like the family always does, there is no doubt Gloria is very close to her father and loves each other with adorable affection. It's telling that whenever Gloria is in crisis and needs emotional support, Archie is always the one who is called upon to be there for her; by contrast, Edith usually leans on Gloria rather than the other way round - scenes where Edith attempts to "parent" Gloria are usually played for (good-natured) laughs, like when she tries to give Gloria "the talk" before her wedding.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: She married an atheist, liberal Polish-American, beginning eight years of arguments.
• Nice Girl: While she can still have the stubbornness of her father, she has the kind and good-natured soul of her mother. She is still a loving and sweet person overall and is a loyal and supportive wife until they move to California during the run of Archies Bunkers Place and eventually divorce.
• Not So Above It All: Occasionally. She once marched in the nude with her husband, even though it cost him his job.
• Only Sane Man: Female version. She wasn't as outspoken as her father and husband, nor was she as silly as her mom.
• Shared Family Quirks: When Gloria gets really angry, she'll blow raspberries just like her father does.
• Straw Feminist: Averted. She would often argue strongly with Archie over her viewpoints, but was less consumed by her politics than her father or Mike, and didn't hold any misandrist views.
• Surprise Pregnancy: Gloria was one, as revealed in "Gloria's Shock" when Mike remarks that most pregnancies are the result of the couple forgetting to take a trip to the drugstore, and Archie and Edith exchange knowing glances. All things considered, Gloria takes this news very well, even joking that she was a "surprise package".
• Women Are Wiser: She's able to resist falling into the arguments that consume Mike and Archie and offers a more nuanced perspective, often making peace between them.

Neighbors and Friends

Lionel Jefferson

Lionel Jefferson

Played By: Mike Evans

Son of George Jefferson and friend of Archie despite their different races. Later moves on up with his father to live in the East Side.

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• Actually Pretty Funny: This is the secret to his friendship with Archie—he recognizes that the older man's bigotry comes from a place of ignorance instead of genuine hatred, and as such can find the humor in Archie's ridiculous views.
• The Gadfly: Is fond of giving Archie just enough rope to hang himself, in a much more deft and subtle way than Mike's confrontational approach.
• Intergenerational Friendship: As noted under Odd Friendship, Lionel (who's in his twenties) genuinely appreciates Archie (in his fifties at least) as a person and enjoys spending time with him. Some of it is for his own amusement at Archie's foolishly bigoted views, but it's also clear that Lionel understands the lack of maliciousness behind those views and can take them in stride.
• Morality Pet: For Archie, in the early going. Though Archie behaved ignorantly toward him, his interactions with Lionel proved he wasn't malignant in his bigotry, even seeing himself as something of a mentor figure and friend to Lionel.
• Nice Guy: Is quite a mature young man who is very polite and friendly towards the Bunkers, even Archie.
• Odd Friendship: With Archie. He makes fun of his racism but seems to like him and occasionally defends him to Mike. He even went to live with him after a fight with George over Jenny.
• Only Sane Man: In the Jefferson family.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lionel is usually able to ignore or laugh off Archie's bigotry and ignorance. But in one episode, he starts dating Archie's white niece, and the older man starts talking about how much he disapproves of mixed-race relationships. Lionel is clearly furious with Archie and barely contains his insults toward him, showing that Archie has crossed a line this time.
• Token Black Friend: Functions as this to the entire Bunker-Stivic family. How Lionel relates to both Archie and Mike's condescending paternalism towards him informs many of his stories.
• Uncle Tomfoolery: Plays this up in front of Archie to amuse himself.

Louise Jefferson

Louise Jefferson

Played By: Isabel Sanford

Mother of Lionel Jefferson and wife to George Jefferson. After moving into the neighborhood she becomes fast friends with Edith. Like her son (and emphatically not like her husband) she generally gets along well with Archie despite their racial differences.

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• Affectionate Nickname:
  • Her husband George calls her "Weezy".
  • Archie calls her "Mrs. J".
• Closer to Earth: Hard not to be when your husband is George Jefferson. A contrast to daffy dingbat Edith.
• Deadpan Snarker: She has her moments. When George decides to disown Lionel after he refuses to stop seeing his mixed-race fiancee Jenny, George informs Louise that he wants another son. Louise's response?
  Louise: You better call parcel post... 'cause I've stopped making deliveries!
• Fangirl: She's one for Sammy Davis Jr., squeeing over him like a bobby-soxer when he stops by 704 Hauser St. in "Sammy's Visit".
• Foil: Functions as one to her husband George (being Closer to Earth) and to Edith (having a similar role in her household but being much more intelligent than sweet, naive Edith).
• Nice Lady: Perhaps only Edith is nicer than Louise, although she's not afraid to talk back to George or be tough with Lionel if the situation calls for it.
• N-Word Privileges: Like her husband, she had them, but unlike him, she only said the N-word once, on The Jeffersons, in outrage at George having bought Lionel a $350 wristwatch for no particular reason. According to Isabel Sanford, after she said the line the studio audience laughed for over two minutes straight, which had to be cut in the aired episode.
• Odd Friendship: With Archie. The two get along very well, all things considered, although Louise generally doesn't go out of her way to spend time in Archie's company (although she did visit him when he was in the hospital). Archie's high esteem for her is reflected in that he always calls her Mrs. J, a privilege he never extends to anyone else.

Irene and Frank Lorenzo

Irene and Frank Lorenzo

Played By: Betty Garrett and Vincent Gardenia

Introduced in Season 4 as the Bunker's new neighbors, their attitudes toward marriage and gender put Archie at odds with them.

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• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Frank vanished after Season 4, while Irene vanished during Season 6.
• Gag Nose: Invoked at one point, where Frank declared himself proud of his nose during a special game.
• Large Ham: Frank was a very boisterous (but non-violent) individual.
• Nice Guy: Irene and Frank are very normal and decent neighbors. True they can still clash with Archie from time to time but they are still good neighbors to the whole Bunkers, even him.
• Wrench Wench: Irene was very geared toward blue-collar work, and even carried tools in her purse.

Stretch Cunningham

Jerome "Stretch" Cunningham

Played By: Billy Sands ("Archie in the Cellar", voice only) James Cromwell (all other appearances)

Archie's practical jokester friend.

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• Bus Crash: While he was never Put on a Bus, he stopped physically appearing after Season 5, until he dies of a heart attack in "Stretch Cunningham, Goodbye".
• Killed Off for Real: Dies of a heart attack in Season 7.

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