meathead

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From 1971 to 1978,” Reiner played Michael “Meathead” Stivic, the progressive foil and son-in-law to Carol O’Connor’s proudly closed-minded conservative Archie Bunker in Norman Lear’s “All in the Family.”

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In contradicting Archie’s combustible ignorance with facts and understanding, Meathead was often the wet blanket spoiling Archie’s good time in the tight Queens palace that the Bunkers and Stivics shared.

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Many remembrances circulating since Reiner’s shocking murder cite the significance of Meathead and Archie Bunker’s commitment to coexist, however uncomfortable that was in such close quarters.

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Some observe that through Meathead, Reiner showed the liberal Americans in his audience how to push back against prejudice, an ethos he carried into his political and social activism well after he left “All in the Family.”

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Indeed, as he told Emmy magazine in 2006, “I could win the Nobel Prize, and the headline would read, ‘Meathead wins Nobel.’

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