All in the Family (TV Series)

Meet the Bunkers (1971)

Mike Evans: Lionel Jefferson

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• Lionel Jefferson : [Archie comments on the three-piece suit he's wearing]  I also got a yellow one with stripes and a purple one with checks for when I'm with MY people.

• Mike Stivic : See? Look at how he

  [Archie] 

  Mike Stivic : uses his hands when he argues. A very Semitic gesture.

  Archie Bunker : What do you know about it, you dumb Polack?

  Mike Stivic : Yeah, all right, I'm a Polack.

  Archie Bunker : You sure are. You're a Polack joke!

  Mike Stivic : Okay, I'm Polish, and I'm proud of that.

  Lionel Jefferson : Just like you should be proud that you're Jewish.

  Archie Bunker : But I ain't Jewish!

  Edith : [confused]  I didn't know you was Jewish.

  Archie Bunker : [completely exasperated, gesturing wildly and yelling]  What the hell are you talking about? You of all people should know I ain't Jewish!

  Edith : Well, you *are* talkin' with your hands.

• Archie Bunker : Hey Lionel, that's a pretty nifty looking suit you got on there, its classy, you know, It's quiet. Where'd you get it?

  Lionel Jefferson : Oh, up.in Harlem.

  Archie Bunker : Naww...

  Lionel Jefferson : I got two more. One's yellow with stripes, the other one's purple with checks... you know, for when I'm with *my* people