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==Cultural impact== [[File:all in the family props.JPG|Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Museum of American History]]|thumb]] As one of US television's most acclaimed and groundbreaking programs, ''All in the Family'' has been referenced or parodied in countless other forms of media. References on other sitcoms include ''[[That '70s Show]]'', ''[[The Simpsons]]'', and ''[[Family Guy]]''. Popular T-shirts, buttons, and [[bumper sticker]]s showing O'Connor's image and farcically promoting "Archie Bunker for President" appeared around the time of the [[1972 United States presidential election|1972 presidential election]]. In 1998, ''All in the Family'' was honored on a 33-cent stamp by the [[United States Postal Service|USPS]].<ref>All in the Family stamp at National Postal Museum, Smithsonian Institution [http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=74776&img=1&mode=2&pg=1&tid=2043993 Arago.si.edu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409012247/http://arago.si.edu/index.asp?con=2&cmd=1&id=74776&img=1&mode=2&pg=1&tid=2043993 |date=April 9, 2014 }}</ref> Archie and Edith Bunker's chairs are on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[National Museum of American History]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/factsheet.cfm?key=30&newskey=54 |title=NMAH, The Bunker's Chairs |website=Americanhistory.si.edu |access-date=September 17, 2011 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110816205357/http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/factsheet.cfm?key=30&newskey=54 |archive-date=August 16, 2011 }}</ref> The originals had been purchased by the show's set designer for a few dollars at a local [[Goodwill Industries|Goodwill]] [[thrift store]] and were given to the Smithsonian (for an exhibit on American television history) in 1978. It cost producers thousands of dollars to create replicas to replace the originals. Then-US President [[Richard Nixon]] can be heard discussing the show [[List of All in the Family episodes#Season 1 (1971)|(specifically the 1971 episodes "Writing the President" and "Judging Books by Covers")]] on one of the infamous [[Watergate tapes]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfVnBmpMm8 |title=Richard Nixon discusses homosexuality |date=July 24, 2013 |work=CNN|access-date=May 15, 2017 |via=YouTube |quote=In a clip from the 1970s, Richard Nixon is heard complaining that the sitcom "All in the Family" glorifies homosexuality. |archive-date=March 30, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170330044938/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMfVnBmpMm8 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Politics/Nixon_on_Tape.html |title=Nixon on Tape Expounds on Welfare and Homosexuality |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=November 7, 1999 |first=James |last=Warren |author-link=James Warren (journalist) |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206080612/http://econ161.berkeley.edu/Politics/Nixon_on_Tape.html |archive-date=February 6, 2012 }}</ref> Rapper [[Redman (rapper)|Redman]] has made references to Archie Bunker in a few of his songs, specifically his smoking of large cigars.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metrolyrics.com/how-to-roll-a-blunt-lyrics-redman.html |title=Redman β How To Roll A Blunt Lyrics |website=MetroLyrics |access-date=April 20, 2015 |archive-date=April 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150427124703/http://www.metrolyrics.com/how-to-roll-a-blunt-lyrics-redman.html |url-status=unfit }}</ref> [[Mad (Magazine)|''Mad'']] parodied the series in its 1973 special issue No. 11 entitled "Gall in the Family Fare", which also included a free flexi-disc record so the reader could listen to the parody as they read it.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.illustratedgallery.com/artwork/original/2571/by-norman-mingo/ | title=MAD Magazine Special #11 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/06/03/rip-jean-stapleton-actress | title=R.I.P. Jean Stapleton, Actress | date=June 3, 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhIpR1x1-fI | title=MAD Magazine presents "Gall in the Family Fare" | website=YouTube | date=July 10, 2007 }}</ref>
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