Everything in the family was built on the beloved British comic play

Comedy does not always travel well, even between countries like the United States and the United Kingdom; We may share some close cultural ties and we may speak the same language, but our humor is skillfully different. However, this did not prevent television networks in importing famous comic series from all over the pool and re -equipped them to suit their fans, with many most famous examples in a western direction to rotate in the United States. It was a mixed bag for contracts: While some hit, such as “office” or “Sanford and Son” (based on “Steptoe and Son”), you also have failed attempts such as “The Real Guard” (“Adm’s Army”) and “Kings of Van Nuys” (“Only fools and horses”). When it works, it really works, and the muscle of one American edition can be said that it is better than the beloved British origin is “all in the family”.

Norman Lear’s pioneer showed a basic hypothesis of “Till Death Do Do Part”. Each episode focuses on a man of a working class with a loud voice and his long wife, drawing from a lot of humor and objectivity from the clashes of the Patriarch Kantan with his daughter and strong progressive husband. In the case of the American version, our fanaticism with the heart of gold was Archie Bunker, which Carroll Okunor played wonderfully. He joined him in the general manager by Jean Stableton as his arduous wife, but Ditsey Edith, who was often called “Dingbat”; Sally Strots in Gloria, their daughter is good but moderately rebellious; Rob Riner as Gloria’s husband Michael, serious progressive who always argues with Archi.

For the first time on CBS in January 1971, “Everyone in the family” hit the land running Nielsen ranked for five consecutive years, the first American TV program to achieve this achievement. This series was a departure from the other comfortable comic play in that period by dividing the regions in many hot flowers issues, most notably racism, sexual discrimination, religion, gay fear, and anti -Semitism, not to mention some topics that are still limited to the mixture to a shortcut to this day, such as menopause, miscarriage and breast cancer. But despite all the serious themes that have been addressed, he always remembers that it is funny first and foremost, with great comic shows that got many nominations and prizes for their representatives. Let’s take a closer look at the British origin and how the two are accumulated against each other.

It was first broadcast in July 1965, “Till Death Do Us Part” came from Johnny Speight, a life -long socialist who grew up on the eastern end of the working class in the traditional London. It is clear that he wrote what he knew, as the British audience came to a thousand Garne (Warren Mitchell), a cage worker loudly, very biased, is permanently angry, and his craft daughter (ANTON), and his wife in the Labor Party. Despite the narrow living conditions and the lack of money, ALF is a conservative of the working class loyal to it its main hobby, which is supported by the beloved in West Ham United and inhales unintended views on politics, race, gender, religion and anything else that angered him.

Speight’s writing was very normal, as it acquired the rhythms of the working -class dialogue, and it was clear that the presentation had its roots in the “kitchen” realism in the movement of the new British wave in the late fifties and early 1960s. Just as the United States represented, Britain was going through a contract of social and political change, and Speight exceeded the contradictory opinions of people on both sides of the gap.

The British Broadcasting Corporation and its viewers had a more close relationship with a thousand bite and his warring family for nearly three decades. Although “Till Death Do Part” was very popular with the experimental episode onwards, Beep was tired of lawsuits, endless complaints, and repeated clashes with moral guardians such as Mary Whitehouse. The show was canceled in 1968, but it was promoted to a colonel for a revival between 1972 and 1975, and the agate returned to “to death …” in 1981, this time I moved to Estborn on the southern coast of England. They returned to London in favor of “in disease and health” in 1985, and at this point, Dandy Nichols was clearly weak, and she died the following year. The show is still working until 1992, and although Alf was just as biased as it was always, his character was largely diluted to become a popular old blow. He even got a happy ending, and returned the satisfaction and the weapons after the discovery of a hidden money in his wardrobe. Warren Mitchell continued his role in his individual offer, but he finally stuck to West Ham scarf when Spanit passed in 1998.

“Until death, “Everyone in the family” are great clips of their ageThey were both surprisingly popular at the time. In Britain, the screams of a thousand Garniets were shared outside the colors regularly, masses of about 20 million viewers, including the Queen. (Prince Philip claimed that he was one of her favorite TV programs.) Both showcases were controversial from the beginning thanks to the racist insults of Alf and Archie, sexual comments, and other controversial language. The Book Agreement at the time, Alf has made regular complaints due to the pronunciation of the “bloody” moderate word more than 1400 times in the first seven seasons.

Both showcases also raised a more complex problem about how effective satirical characters such as Alf Garnett and Archie Bunker are already. Speight wanted to reveal people like ALF as “ignorant of the pig”, his writing distorting narrow -minded opinions, flagrant intolerance, and disorganized hypocrisy of a certain type of working class, just as Normman Lear did with fanatics in the United States in the United States. In fact, “Everyone in the Family” received a criticism of the health of the conservative conservative viewers who share the views of Archie, just as Alf has become a kind of popular hero for people who woke up to culture and claim that they miss those ancient, unfinished days of British comedy when “salt characters can tell her” as they are. “

At the level of pure entertainment, I hate to say this as a British: “Everything in the Family” is more enjoyable to see it from “to death.” I am a fan of social realism and appreciate the validity of Speight, but many episodes are very dark. Two small Garnetts, heading to a narrow yard for a great scream between Alf and Mike, and Alf’s relationship with ELSE more than Archie and Edith. Meanwhile, Archie has become great and his opinions are unable to defend, but it is nevertheless a warmer than the loud foam in Mitchell. Perhaps most importantly, “Everything in the Family” is more entertaining thanks to the coordination of the most traditional comic play/punchline. I am not a big lol’er when it comes to comedy, but the show makes me a regular laugh – in Archie, not with him.