Farewell
As the show was approaching the end, Norman Lear talked with Jean Stapleton (who grew weary of playing her role as Edith Bunker) about how to respectfully kill Edith of. She replied with, “Just have her die off, she’s only fiction.” Lear paused and then said, “Not to me, she isn’t.”
Farewell
Inspiration
Norman Lear admitted that most of the show’s catch phrases which include”Meat Head”, “Dingbat”, and “Stifle” were actually inspired by the exact same words that he heard from his father as a kid.
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Inspiration
