All in the Family (TV Series)

Gloria and the Riddle (1972)

Patricia Stich: Tammy

Quotes 

• Archie Bunker : [when no-one can figure out the riddle, Archie proposes a new game]  Bandleaders' initials.

  Edith Bunker : Oh, I know that game. You think up the name of a famous bandleader, but you just give the initials, and then the others have to guess who it is. But you have to have lived a lot to play a game like that.

  Archie Bunker : Yeah, you said it... Let me think of a good one for you. Ahhhhh, P.W.

  Tammy Robinson : Paul Whiteman.

  Archie Bunker : [impressed]  Hey, Look at Tammy. She got it right away, here.

  Archie Bunker : [after some further discussion and a couple more bandleaders]  Hey, hey, I thought of a good one... Now, I got one for all of youse: E.C.

  Gloria Bunker-Stivic : E.C...

  Tammy Robinson : Eddie Condon.

  Archie Bunker : Well, Eddie Condon's E.C., but ain't the E.C. I'm thinkin' about.

  Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : Eddie Cochran?

  Archie Bunker : I never heard of him.

  Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : So?

  Archie Bunker : [annoyed]  Well, if I never heard of him, he ain't the right E.C.

  Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : All right, we give up. Who is it?

  Archie Bunker : Youse all give up?... Heh, heh, heh. Egzavier Cugat!

  Tammy Robinson : [everyone falls on the floor]  Egzavier Cugat! That's wonderful!

  Michael 'Meathead' Stivic : Archie, that's not E.C., that's X.C. Xavier begins with an 'X'.

  Archie Bunker : Get outta here... No human being begins his name with an 'X'. I heard it a million times: Egzavier Cugat. E - G - Z - avier Cugat. Look it up.