All The Tropes

Archie Bunker's Place: Difference between revisions

Page Discussion

Archie Bunker's Place (view source)

Revision as of 18:33, 18 July 2017

70 bytes added ,  6 years ago
added trope
VisualWikitext
m (Mass update links)
(added trope)
Line 2:
[[File:abplogo1_1754.jpg|thumb|400px]]
 
''Archie Bunker gets to loudly voice his opinions in his own bar... instead of at home.''
 
''[[Archie Bunker's Place]]'' (a continuation of the critically and commercially acclaimed sitcom ''[[All in The Family]]'') aired from 1979-1983 on [[CBS]]. While not as popular as its predecessor, the show maintained a large enough audience to last four seasons, ending its run in 1983.
 
Following the previous series, [[Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist|Archie Bunker]] (Carroll O'Connor) and his wife Edith (Jean Stapleton) continue to nag each other and deal with Archie's ''very conservative'' views, all while attempting to raise their adopted grandniece, Stephanie, who is rapidly growing up. The major difference in the series is that most of the stories were set at Archie Bunker's Place, the [[Local Hangout|neighborhood tavern]] he'd purchased in 1977 (in the eighth-season premiere of ''AITF''). The tavern was the place for him to sound off on current issues, get support from his friends, and argue with the bar's liberal, Jewish co-owner Murray Klein (Martin Balsam).
Line 13:
 
{{tropelist}}
 
* [[After Show]]
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: The season 1 episode "Thanksgiving Renunion" has the Stivics (from ''AITF'') returning for a visit from California, while the season 3 two-parter "Gloria Comes Home" has Gloria returning to reveal that {{spoiler|she and Mike divorced}}.
Line 27 ⟶ 26:
* [[Franchise Zombie]]: Despite being a sequel series that didn't have the input of original creator [[Norman Lear]], the show still ran for four years (and with a diminished cast).
* [[From the Ashes]]
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: {{spoiler|Edith's}} death}} numbs Archie so much that he spends most of the second-season premiere dumbly refusing to believe {{spoiler|she}} died}}. He breaks down when he's alone at the end of the episode, though, and laments that he didn't know {{spoiler|she died until he tried to wake her by shaking her body}}.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Archie softens up a bit in later seasons, especially when he gains custody of Stephanie.
* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Edith}} dies off-screen between seasons due to a stroke. A major part of the Season 2 opener is Archie trying to cope with {{spoiler|her}} death.
* [[Left Hanging]]: The show was abruptly cancelled at the end of the fourth season without all the loose plot threads from the series.
* [[Long Runner]]: Along with ''[[All in The Family]]'', the Bunker's story ran for a massive 13 seasons.
* [[Not Allowed to Grow Up]]: Thoroughly averted with Stephanie.
* [[Poorly-Disguised Pilot]]: "Gloria: The First Day", a repackaged (and unaired) episode which was intended to be the pilot for the series ''Gloria''.
* [[Put on a Bus]]: Murray Klein gets married and moves to California at the end of season 2.
Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/1533500"