All in the Family/Trivia

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • I Am Not Spock:
    • Try to imagine Jean Stapleton as anybody other than Edith Bunker. Just try it.
    • Oddly enough, the only one out of the core foursome to fully escape this was Sally Struthers, who put on quite a bit of weight, and then became widely known and ridiculed for those commercials shilling correspondence diplomas (you know the ones) and later, Narm-laden appeals for children-oriented charities.
    • 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.
  • 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.