Over All in the Family's long run, Archie uttered so many malaprops. Which ones were your favorites? I'll start with three:

"You're taking it out of contest."
"It's just a pigment of your imagination."
"Well goodbye and good ribbons."

"Capital punishment is an effective detergent to crime."

"Minororities."

"A witness shall not bear falsies against thy neighbor."

Archie sure butchered the English language. There are so many I have to go back and watch the eps again. There's gotta be AT LEAST one in each. How ironic for Carroll to play a character like Archie, considering Mr. O'Connor was once an English teacher!

The other thing that was funny was when the real meaning of a word went right over Archie'ss head. Like when Irene Lorenzo is coming over and telling Edith all abt Catholicism. Archie gets mad and tells Irene to stop coming over and shoving her religion down Edith's face. Irene looks Archie right in the eye and says "Are you accusing me of proselytizing?" Of course Archie, dumbbell that he is, has no clue to the correct meaning of the word, and thinks Irene means hooking, and says red-faced "I never accused you of THAT!!" :crazy: :lol:

"Going to a Catholic church with the priest sprinkling incest over everybody!"

going Chatholic Church

Women's Lubrication Movement.

He even did one on Spanish: Por favor ? Yes, pour some more !

I like how he always called Reverand Feltcher, Reverand Fletcher. :lol: And then when someone would correct him, Archie would say, "whatever". :lol:

He signed the contract for aluminum siding under duress, without knowing he was under-the-dress !

There is one episode where he's in the social security or unemployment office and there is a Mexican guy next to him. He tells the Mexican guy to hand him a
"pencil-eto!" I about DIED :rotflmao: :rofl: :brent when I heard that!!! I wish I knew which episode it was!

Well Goodbye and Good Ribbins

"Going to a Catholic church with the priest sprinkling incest over everybody!"


I remember that episode; I always laugh for several minutes after that line!
:rotflmao: :brent

How about guns being proven to be a "detergent" to crime?:lol:

"You never believe nothin' Edith, you're one of them septics."

"Archie Bunker here- this is my Last Will and Tentacles."

I also love when Archie would try (and most often fail) to quote the Bible accurately:

"God don't make no mistakes. That's how he got to be God. It all got screwed up in the Garden of Eden. They had it all there- they didn't even know they was naked. Then Eve went and forced Adam to eat that apple, so God told 'em to get their clothes on and get the hell out of here!":lol:

"It's a well known fact that men are WORTH more than women. Certainly! That's why God made man in His own image . . . then later He made women from a rib, out of man- a cheaper cut".

"I'm sympathizin' my watch with yours!" (instead of "synchronizing")

I'm not positive which episode that was, but I THINK it was the one in which Archie and Mike bet whether Mike can go longer without eating than Archie can go without smoking a cigar.

"You don't BUY beer, Edith; Ya only RENT it!"

Scene: Archie stuck in an office building elevator with a Latino Couple, a white Woman and a very well dressed black man.
After tolerating a few racial comments from Bunker, the Latino man asks, heatedly: Whats the matter, Mr Bunkers?? Don't you Think I'm Equal To You??"
To Which Archie Says, "Equal to ME? Equal to ME??" He points to the black man and says,"You're not even Equal To HIM!!"

All of them :D

"You don't BUY beer, Edith; Ya only RENT it!"

Scene: Archie stuck in an office building elevator with a Latino Couple, a white Woman and a very well dressed black man.
After tolerating a few racial comments from Bunker, the Latino man asks, heatedly: Whats the matter, Mr Bunkers?? Don't you Think I'm Equal To You??"
To Which Archie Says, "Equal to ME? Equal to ME??" He points to the black man and says,"You're not even Equal To HIM!!"

I'm gonna nit pick here. Neither of those examples had malaprops in them.

"Groinocologist." (gynecologist)
"Minororities." (minorities)
"This looks like a good reality company." (realty)
"Returgerate." (regurgitate)

When he asks for a yamaha at Stretch's wake/funeral

"A witness shall not bear falsies against thy neighbor."

OMG, that one sounds so funny!! :lol: :lol:

Don't forget when Archie would mix up two famous people's names into one as well like:

Billy Jean Graham = (Billy Jean King and Rev. Billy Graham)
Fred McMahon = Fred MacMurray and Ed McMahon
Alexander Graham Booth = (Alexander Graham Bell and John Wilkes Booth)
Booker D.C. Washington = (Booker T. Washington and Washington D.C.)

Other great malaprops:
The pope is inflammable (infallable)
insex (incest) in the family
infilterated (infiltrated)
circumscribed (circumcised)
yamaha (yamika)
rectal nerve (renal nerve)
assiatic nerve (siatic nerve)

These malaprops were always my favorite part of AITF and also why I loved Amos N Andy too :lol:

Archie's malaprops also extended to television shows.

For example:

Lavene and Shirley (Laverne and Shirley).
6 Thousand Dollar Man (6 Million Dollar Man).

He even did one on Spanish: Por favor ? Yes, pour some more !

This is definately one of my favorites!:lol: I know there is many more but I can't think of them and alot has been mentioned.