All in the Family (TV Series)
Lionel Steps Out (1972)
Jean Stapleton: Edith Bunker
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Quotes
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Archie Bunker : [Answering the door to Mr. Jefferson] I didn't order you on the phone, I ordered your brother.
Henry Jefferson : Well, what you see is what you get.
Archie Bunker : Well, I got something here for you to see.
[Holds up picture of Lionel Jefferson and Archie's niece Linda]
Archie Bunker : I want to know what your family is gonna do about him?
[Points to Lionel]
Henry Jefferson : [Holding up his own copy of the same picture] Well, I want to know what your family is gonna do about her?
Archie Bunker : You ain't even the head of your family. Why didn't Lionel's father come over here?
Henry Jefferson : You don't want to know the answer to that.
Archie Bunker : Yes I do.
Henry Jefferson : Alright. He said he "ain't never stepped into a honky's household," and he "ain't about to start at the bottom of the heap."
Archie Bunker : Jefferson, I don't like that.
Edith Bunker : He said you wouldn't like it.
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Gloria Bunker-Stivic : Ma, was your father strict with you, I mean about who you went out with?
Edith Bunker : Oh yeah. The boy had to be kind and thoughtful and a gentleman.
Mike Stivic : How did Archie ever pass that test?
Edith Bunker : Well, Daddy died a year before I met Archie.
Gloria Bunker-Stivic : Ma, when you say kind and thoughtful and a gentleman, you're describing Lionel.
Edith Bunker : ...I am, ain't I.