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** Even Rob Reiner, who became a successful director, has often said that if he were to win the Nobel Prize, all the headlines would read "MEATHEAD WINS NOBEL PRIZE". It was a double trumping as he was first known mostly as Carl Reiner's son.
** Somewhat averted with Carroll O'Connor, thanks to the TV version of ''[[In the Heat of the Night]]''.
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Carroll O'Connor used to get piles of hate mail while he played Archie Bunker from people who thought he was like his character. In [[Real Life]], O'Connor was involved in the boycott of Florida orange juice, in protest of the Florida Citrus Commission's support of Anita Bryant and her anti-gay Save Our Children coalition. He did this in The Seventies, an era when gay people were [[Acceptable Targets]] (both in the "butt-of-jokes"- and the "thrown paving brick"-sense) and anybody who supported any form of equality for gay people was suspected of being gay themselves.
* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: With its storylines almost always centered around the current events and culture of the time, it's a pretty insightful look into the things going on in the 70s.
* [[What Could Have Been]]:
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** Two famous casting tidbits: Mickey Rooney was the first choice to play Archie, and [[Harrison Ford]] was actually cast as "Dickie", but both backed out because they found the playing of Archie's bigotry for humor to be offensive.
** Long before she became [[Laverne and Shirley|Laverne]], Penny Marshall was up for the role of Gloria. Had she gotten it, she could have worked alongside [[Real Life Relative|then-husband]] Rob Reiner.
 
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