just saw this episode on Antenna TV....do you agree or disagree with Archie that Paul & Robin weren't legally married?

They weren't married. That was the whole point of the show. In the episode, Paul referred to Robin as his 'old lady' which to everyone in the show meant they weren't married. At that time in real life, using that expression meant you were married. Maybe it had something to do with the censors.

In the episode, Paul referred to Robin as his 'old lady' which to everyone in the show meant they weren't married.

Except to Edith. To her it meant that Robin must be Paul's mother. :lol:

We NEVER did find out what ever happened to the tube of instant glue...

:confused: huh? What's that have to do with AITF???

This episode annoys me to no end. I say Archie showed more patience than those two morons ever deserved. If it were my house, I would have called the cops and had the two flea bags thrown out on their asses! Case closed. Hell, it got so bad even pain-in-the-ass Meathead was on Archie side, showing some mercy for him and his aching toe!

There's no such thing as a bad episode of All In The Family.

my favorite part of the hole episode mike standing up for archie

They weren't married. That was the whole point of the show. In the episode, Paul referred to Robin as his 'old lady' which to everyone in the show meant they weren't married. At that time in real life, using that expression meant you were married. Maybe it had something to do with the censors.

Yes, they weren't legally married but the real bottom line is it was Archie's house and his rules were "the law". If you're not going to respect your host's rules you need to park your butt someplace else.

This episode annoys me to no end. I say Archie showed more patience than those two morons ever deserved. If it were my house, I would have called the cops and had the two flea bags thrown out on their asses! Case closed. Hell, it got so bad even pain-in-the-ass Meathead was on Archie side, showing some mercy for him and his aching toe!

There's no such thing as a bad episode of All In The Family.

Well, yeah, actually there were a lot of bad AITF episodes.

That was the toe spasm episode? Now that bugged me. Number one, the toe spasms were supposed to be such a regular occurrence that Edith timed them but they never happened in any other episode. And number two, it was every eleven minutes, but of course in reruns I timed it and it wasn't.

i like when Mike sided with Archie in this episode

"Robin talks with her eyes " !!!:lol:

"Robin talks with her eyes " !!!:lol:

They were both so full of you know what...

This episode annoys me to no end. I say Archie showed more patience than those two morons ever deserved. If it were my house, I would have called the cops and had the two flea bags thrown out on their asses! Case closed. Hell, it got so bad even pain-in-the-ass Meathead was on Archie side, showing some mercy for him and his aching toe!

There's no such thing as a bad episode of All In The Family.

Well said. I would only add that this is a true classic episode.

They were both so full of you know what...

Drugs?:crazy:

As much as they tried to get the audience to try to identify against Archie here by his insisting that he couldn't let two legally unwed folks spend the night together under his roof, I have to admit that they were very poor guests.
First of all, despite the fact that she'd never met any of them before, Robin arrived at the door barefoot directly from the mean Queens streets with no footwear in sight (and the feet looked downright filthy) . Would it have killed her to wear sandals until she at least had gotten permission from hosts to remove them?
Secondly, without even attempting to ask, Robin burned incense. While they tried to make Archie look hypocritical to object to it while smoking a cigar, again, it was HIS house and if he didn't want the place to smell 'like a house of ill refute' that was entirely his call. For the record, I very much dislike BOTH kinds of smoke and won't let either of them reek under my roof.
Oh, and Archie WAS willing to let them bunk 'dorm style' with Mike and Paul in one spot while Gloria and Robin was in the other spot but Robin and Mike's pal adamantly refused. Come on! They were lucky Archie didn't call the cops on them to have them thrown out of his house for trespassing!
They even dug in their heels by refusing Archie's offer of then-generous offer of $10 to stay in a motel just to get them out of there! I have to wonder what they thought they could accomplish by staying in this spot with a the host so hostile to their presence . Oh, and let's not forget that Archie did NOT invite them but that Mike just sprang first his own friend Paul who 'dropped by' and then tried to insist that the friend and Robin needed to stay the night at the Bunker house.
In the end Mike and Gloria likely blew the $10 on cab fare to/from JFK where Robin and Mike's friend had to bunk on benches until their Europe-bound plane took off (and did Robin manage to produce footwear to board the plane or did she and Mike's friend just get grounded by her refusal to compromise on that?) . Despite the fact that Paul had been his Best Man, the Stivics dropping them off at the airport seems to have been the very last Paul and Robin were ever heard from by anyone in the Bunker House.

One of my top 10 episodes for sure

One of my top 10 episodes for sure

It was a funny ep but not in my top 10 —too many really good ones

My all time fav is Ep where Cousin Maude comes to visit.

This episode is airing on GetTv right now if anyone's interested.

"Robin talks with her eyes " !!!:lol:


They were stereotypical hippie types of that time and at the end even Mike and Gloria could not stand them.

I saw that episode before I was a teenager. I always thought it was odd that someone communicates by the expression in her or his eyes.
I think that perhaps an opportunity for a funny line was missed. It might have been a good comeback if Edith or maybe someone else asked the hippie woman "Then how do you communicate with a blind person?"

I liked when Gloria was trying to reason with Robin and the boyfriend kept saying how she doesn't talk and Robin kept giving her the airhead look with the eyes. Gloria says "Robin shut up."

They were stereotypical hippie types of that time and at the end even Mike and Gloria could not stand them.

I saw that episode before I was a teenager. I always thought it was odd that someone communicates by the expression in her or his eyes.
I think that perhaps an opportunity for a funny line was missed. It might have been a good comeback if Edith or maybe someone else asked the hippie woman "Then how do you communicate with a blind person?"

THAT WOULD have been a great line for Edith. That hippie couple worked my nerves too.

It was a funny ep but not in my top 10 —too many really good ones

My all time fav is Ep where Cousin Maude comes to visit.

Cousin Maude ep is a moment of television history in the making. Bea Arthur is hilarious in that episode. No wonder they gave her her own show! I can remember my family watching this during it’s original broadcast & everyone in tears from laughing.

Cousin Maude ep is a moment of television history in the making. Bea Arthur is hilarious in that episode. No wonder they gave her her own show! I can remember my family watching this during it’s original broadcast & everyone in tears from laughing.

Bea was an absolute riot in that ep. Thank God they gave her her own show. And boy did she work magic there too. God Bless Her and May she R.I.P.

he said Paul was his best man at their wedding, but I don't recall seeing him there..