All in the Family Live Draft Dodger 2019

Midweek's Live in Front of a Studio Audience recreated an explosive Christmas Eve dinner at the Bunkers, as All in the Family's Archie unloaded on Meathead'due south war-avoiding friend.

Editor's annotation: The aforementioned episode, Season vii's "The Draft Dodger," originally aired Dec. 25, 1976. Equally such, it includes vocabulary — particularly when information technology comes to Archie'south dialogue — that is sometimes dated and/or offensive.

When the episode begins, Archie (played again by Woody Harrelson) is looking forward to hosting his good friend Pinky Peterson (City on a Hill'southward Kevin Bacon). He tells Edith (Marisa Tomei) that he wants his pal to accept a lovely, home-cooked meal for the holidays consummate with the "family feeling" that he's been missing since he'southward all alone in the world. He even goes out to get Pinky a gag souvenir: a bombardment-powered Santa Claus that squirts water when y'all squeeze its necktie. Information technology doesn't seem to be working until Edith gives information technology a expert tug and accidentally shoots Archie foursquare in the face.

As soon as Archie heads upstairs to change his shirt, the doorbell rings. Edith answers to find Mike's erstwhile friend David Brewster (The Social Network'due south Jesse Eisenberg), who's been living in Canada to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. Mike (Ike Barinholtz) enters presently after, and male child is he surprised to see him. He tells David that he's taking a big chance coming downward to us: Even David's parents pass up to encounter him! Gloria (Ellie Kemper) is next to meet "the friendly fugitive from justice." Mike warns David that he's in for a "big treat, conservatively speaking," when he comes face up to confront with Archie, but assures him that his father-in-police would never call the feds. To err on the side of circumspection, though, it'd exist all-time for David to steer articulate of any subjects — everything from politics to organized religion — that might cause friction at dinner.

It's at this indicate that Archie marches dorsum downstairs and grouses virtually his newly pressed shirt. "Ch—ks must accept invented starch every bit a torture for the white people," he says, though the racial slur was censored in ABC's alive version. Archie is introduced to David, their visitor from "north of Niagara Falls." He assumes that the kid is from Rhode Island, but Edith lets skid that he'due south actually from Canada. So, before the conversation can continue, the Bunkers' Puerto Rican boarder Teresa (Ane Day at a Fourth dimension's Justina Machado) enters and sings "Feliz Navidad." Archie is not a fan, and tells her non to sing in Spanish. "God don't wanna hear that," he gripes — later on all, the Bible is not in Spanish. "The earth was started by Adam and Eve, not Desi and Charo," he adds.

Just before Pinky arrives, Archie warns everyone that his friend has been a little low e'er since he lost his son Steve in the war. Mike and David share a startled look, then Pinky enters and is greeted by everyone. David heads toward the kitchen to help Edith, while Archie introduces Pinky to Teresa (whose thick accent proves to exist a bulwark). Later that, Archie reveals his gag souvenir to Pinky and winds up getting squirted in the confront yet again. He runs upstairs to dry off, then David enters and shakes hands with Pinky. Little practise either of them know what'southward about to transpire.

At dinner, Pinky begins to share a story about his son. Archie interrupts and offers to tell a "Polack joke," but his friend isn't interested. The conversation eventually finds Archie asking David what brought him to Canada. "Liberty," he answers. "For some of u.s.a., America is not gratis." Gloria and Pinky try to change the subject area, but Archie is onto David and suspects that he's AWOL. "I'm non a deserter," David clarifies. "I'thousand a typhoon dodger." An anguished Arch says that David owes an explanation to the U.S. Armed forces, also equally the Commander in Chief, then David reveals that he wrote the president and he "just couldn't come upwards with as many reasons for killing people as I could come up with for not killing them." He senses that he's no longer wanted at dinner, and then gets up to leave. Meathead leaps upward to defend his friend and asks Archie what it'll take for him to admit that the war was a mistake. That's when Archie erupts.

"I ain't talkin' almost that war!" Archie screams. "I don't wanna talk about that rotten damn war no more! I'thou talkin' about something else! And what he washed was incorrect! Saying he won't go! What, do yous think that all the people in this land can say whether or not they wanna go to war? You couldn't become a decent war off the ground that way. All the young people, they don't desire to go to war."

Pinky listens on, then attempts to get a word in edgewise. "My kid hated the state of war, too," he says. "He did what he idea he had to do, and David here did what he thought he had to do. Just David is alive to share Christmas dinner with the states — and if Steve was here, he'd want to sit down down with him, and that's what I want to do." Pinky then shakes David's hand, and the two men wish each other a merry Christmas.

Archie calms down, just he's all the same shaken to his core. He tells anybody else to go ahead and enjoy Edith'due south dinner, then heads out to the front end porch to tell a flock of Christmas carolers to move information technology along.

Midweek'southward Alive in Front of a Studio Audition also featured a archetype Skillful Times episode with an ensemble that included Viola Davis (every bit Florida), Andre Braugher (every bit James), Jay Pharoah (as "Dyn-o-mite!" J.J.), Corinne Foxx (as Thelma), Asante Blackk (as Michael), Tiffany Haddish (as Willona), Jharrel Jerome (as Jimmy Pearson) and original series star John Amos (as Fred Davis).

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Source: https://tvline.com/2019/12/18/all-in-the-family-live-recap-the-draft-dodger-archie-bunker/