/—-/ Much to their chagrin, the blue collar workers identified with Archie and saw meathead ad an idiot. It was not Lear’s intentionLionel mocked Archie and Archie drove meathead insane with his ignorant bigoted racism.That's what todays assholes don't get. Archie wasn't "racist".. He had buddies that were wops, hebes, polocks,jungle bunnies,beaners, chinks and every other kind of American at the docks, the bar and elsewhere.
Guys like Lionel understood that. So did meathead.
All of Archie’s friends were white. Wasn’t Sam the butcher on the Brady bunch stretch Cunningham?