All in the Family (TV Series)

Henry's Farewell (1973)

Mike Evans: Lionel Jefferson

Quotes 

• Archie Bunker : [Edith answers the doorbell]  Listen, let me tell you something...

  Edith Bunker : Oh, hi Lionel.

  Archie Bunker : You can take the coloreds out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the...

  Archie Bunker : [changes conversation when he sees Lionel]  Oh, hi Lionel.

  Lionel Jefferson : Oh, hi Mr. Bunker; sorry to interrupt your lecture on anthropology. Mom just asked me to stop over and borrow some big dishes.

• Gloria Bunker-Stivic : Hey Lionel, I'll bet your uncle Henry's pretty excited, huh?

  Lionel Jefferson : Oh yeah yeah, he's really looking forward to it.

  Archie Bunker : Oh, well you must be looking forward at long last to getting your own bedroom, huh Lionel?

  Lionel Jefferson : I always had my own room, Mr. Bunker.

  Archie Bunker : Well, where's Henry sleeping, up in the attic?

  Lionel Jefferson : No, he's got his own room, too.

  Archie Bunker : Wait a minute, wait a minute. Henry's got his bedroom, you've got a bedroom, your mother and father's got a bedroom? You've only got two bedrooms in that house.

  Lionel Jefferson : No, we got three bedrooms.

  Archie Bunker : You're telling me your house is bigger than mine?

  Lionel Jefferson : Sure, You didn't know that, Mr. Bunker? I got a room, he got a room,

  Lionel Jefferson : [sings]  All God's children got rooms!