Archie is bursting with joy he could be a "Cannon Bowler". Even Mike couldn't bring him down. Funny comment about Robin Hood. Simpleton Archie idolizes half-wit Moose. Answering the phone no one is by Archie he pushes away people who aren't there.
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Archie takes a Cannonball to the gut
CJPALLISTER200212 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
In this instalment, Archie challenges for a position on the Cannonballers, a *Top tier(!) bowling team.
In yet another act of discrimination, Archie assumes that as he achieved the same score as the African American man who protests his placement on the league, he will just be granted the spot, but he is incorrect, and the contrary is happening.
Archie ditches his mate early in the episode since he considers himself to be in a different league than him because Arch thought that he was now a Cannonballer.
This incident, I conclude, truly exposed Archie's ineptitude and immaturity. Mike gets a purse, something Archie argues makes him a "Fag because Robin Hood was a fag because England is a fag country"
with stances and virtues that are no longer appropriate Archie has yet again proven that what he says is no longer appropriate and his era is a one of the past where it should stay.
In yet another act of discrimination, Archie assumes that as he achieved the same score as the African American man who protests his placement on the league, he will just be granted the spot, but he is incorrect, and the contrary is happening.
Archie ditches his mate early in the episode since he considers himself to be in a different league than him because Arch thought that he was now a Cannonballer.
This incident, I conclude, truly exposed Archie's ineptitude and immaturity. Mike gets a purse, something Archie argues makes him a "Fag because Robin Hood was a fag because England is a fag country"
with stances and virtues that are no longer appropriate Archie has yet again proven that what he says is no longer appropriate and his era is a one of the past where it should stay.
Archie the pinhead
stones7826 October 2011
This episode has Archie coming home from work in a very good mood, as it turns out that someone from a local and popular bowling team has died, and Archie is in line for a spot on the team, named the Cannonballers. As is to be expected, Mike objects to the happy news of a man who just died, but Archie says "that's life" and soon tells his family about a member on the team, Moose Hanson, who isn't exactly sophisticated and uses force to get what he wants and asks questions later. It also turns out that it helps to make the team if you're white, for which Archie feels that helps his chances that much more. During these scenes at home, Gloria buys Mike what looks to be a man purse, for which Archie, and later on Moose(Brad Logan), both scoff at him. A funny moment has Archie describing how nice the Cannonballers' shirts are, and how nicknames are on the front; for instance, a tall guy's nickname would be "shorty", and a fat guy would be named "skinny". Edith obviously meant no disrespect, but she says to her husband, "I know what your nickname would be...handsome." I don't think she planned to insult him, but it was for a good laugh. In order to make the squad, Archie must bowl against a few guys, and he ends up having a great game, although tied with someone else, who also happens to be black. The bottom line is that the team must take the other man because of league and community pressure, and even Moose says, "face it, Arch, the world's changin'." Allan Melvin also makes a funny appearance as Barney Hefner, who basically gets the shaft from Archie because he thought he made the big leagues on his new bowling team, and bowling with Barney is bush league, as Archie puts it. This is certainly a funny and solid episode during the superior early seasons of this great show.
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