All in the Family
Archie's Weighty Problem
TV Flash files “Archie's Weighty Problem” as hour 130 of 210 in the TV Flash guide — All in the Family (1971–1979) on CBS, season 6, episode 20, aired 1976-02-09, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S06E20: listed hour 130 of 210 in the All in the Family guide, hour 20 of 24 in season 6. It aired 1976-02-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Mike's Move” (S06E19). Next is “Love by Appointment” (S06E21).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Archie is not at all pleased after he has a visit with the doctor and learns that he has to go on a diet to lose 25 lbs. Edith does her best to keep him on a healthy diet but when Archie gets fed up he soon turns to Kelsey who begins cooking him his unhealthy dinners. But Quigley shows up to Kelseys and tells him the importance of losing weight and Archie starts changing his ways.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Archie's Weighty Problem sit in the All in the Family guide?
S06E20 is listed hour 130 of 210 — hour 20 of 24 in season 6, season 6 episode 20.
When did All in the Family S06E20 air?
Archie's Weighty Problem aired 1976-02-09 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Meet the Bunkers. The chair, the marriage, and the Meathead argument are already the series. If that hour feels like a museum, skip ahead to Sammy's Visit and come back; the pilot is still the contract.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch it for the blocking, not the clip account: a multi-cam living room that treats a slur as a pause, Edith as the cut, and a weekly argument as the only plot a country that will not shut up actually needs.
The opening is a chair. Not a thesis about the 1970s — a wing chair, a man, and a camera that already knows where the fight will sit. Carroll O'Connor's Archie is not a cartoon of prejudice; he is a cadence. Jean Stapleton's Edith is not a punching bag; she is timing. Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers arrive as the future walking through the door and sitting on the wrong furniture. If you came for a clip of slurs as period flavor, you have already missed the cut. The cut is how long the room is allowed to stay ugly…
Filed against
- Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker
Carroll O’Connor made Archie Bunker the living-room argument America could not mute — bigotry, love, and loud chairs as national sport. He is a cadence, not a cartoon of prejudice, while sponsors panicked weekly. TV Flash files him as the…
- Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker
Jean Stapleton’s Edith Bunker is All in the Family as timing, not a punching bag — a saint in a Queens living room where bigotry, love, and a loud chair became national theater. Carroll O’Connor’s cadence is the fight; her voice cracks…
- Rob Reiner as Michael Stivic
Rob Reiner’s Michael Stivic walked into All in the Family as the future sitting on the wrong furniture — Meathead as a man who cannot stop explaining a country three feet away. Norman Lear’s Queens living room refused a truce. TV Flash…
- Sally Struthers as Gloria Stivic
Sally Struthers’s Gloria Stivic walked into All in the Family as the daughter the chair could not contain — Lear’s Queens living room, a meathead marriage, a laugh track that kept the country arguing. Edith was the cut; Gloria was the…