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The day Archie's chair went missing

On All in the Family, one seat in the living room belongs to Archie and nobody else. So when it goes missing, Edith is the one who has to tell him. more

Carroll O'Connor plays Archie, and the chair is the center of his world. Edith, Gloria and Mike have learned to live around it. Mike, fans like to point out, is forever being told to get out of it.

Now it is gone. Edith starts to explain that the chair has been lost, and she doesn't get far. Archie grabs that one word and stretches it out like a man hearing terrible news about a relative.

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The chair is gone, and someone has to tell Archie.

A lot of the comedy is in his face. Fans say his expressions carry the whole scene, and one admits that a little dance Archie does near the start gets them every time.

The exchange people quote most comes when Edith tells him he wasn't this upset when he lost his own father. Archie has a reply ready. He didn't sit on his father for all those years.

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On All in the Family, one seat in the living room belongs to Archie and nobody else.

The chair is still loved for its own sake. One fan says seeing it at the Smithsonian was a highlight of the trip. Another sums up the whole episode in five words, a man and his chair.