in the next three to five hours. mourners have paid their respects to the last soviet leader, mikhail gorbachev, who was buried in moscow, this afternoon. a £2 cap on bus fares across england for three months from january is announced by ministers in the hope it will help people cope with the rising cost of living. a to me, it is a no brainer. there is no point taking the car and then paying for parking fees and everything. it is costing me £15, normally, for a trip, for a day ride for myself and then a day ride for my children. it is extortionate. this will help with millions ofjourneys through the toughest months of the winter, when we know things are going to be tough. and i think it will help attract people to the bus, particularly at a time when fuel costs are so high. russia s main pipeline transporting gas to europe through germany will now not reopen as planned. russian state energy firm gazprom said it had found an oil leak in a turbine on nord stream 1, meaning it
they just see him as being a hero. caroll o conner: president nixon saw the show, and he was asked about what he thought of it and he said, they re trying to make a fool out of a good man. archie: sorry don t help me, boy, now i gotta change the shirt. norman lear: some people think it was altogether wrong, but the blowback from the public was far buried by the excitement and the applause. assistant: hey, i don t like that. archie: you don t like what? assistant: you calling me boy. i m not a boy, i m a man. tracy: if you look at archie bunker, he s a racist guy, but we loved him. sitcoms hold a mirror up to us. say, look at us. look what we re afraid of. archie: i m a man too, i don t have to go around making a point of it. assistant: you never had to make a point of it. beretta smith shomade: in the 70s, with all in the family, we re starting to have a conversation about race in ways that the conversation had not been had. aramide tinubu: there was this huge rise of the black middl
dad, we re going to go out for a chinese meal. why do you have to say chinks? archie: jim bowman, our neighbour down the way just sold his home to a family of coloreds. lionel: no! norman lear: part of the joy of doing it was, well, this hasn t been done before. jefferson: oh hi neighbor! ethan alter: all in the family, commented directly on racism saying, we need to deal with this and here is a vehicle through which we can do that. the television sitcom. archie: there ain t no sense arguing because i m right and i know i m right, all this business of mixing the colors. sara k. eskridge: but at the same time, archie bunker is a lightning rod of controversy because he s allowed to hold some very bigoted views. edith: well what s wrong with that, archie? archie: can t you use your head, how the hell we going to tell each other apart? sara k. eskridge: and there are people who don t see archie bunker as being an antihero.
we gonna hit class. we gonna hit gender. to, can t we all just get along? the world don t move to the beat of just one drum what might be right for you, might not be right for some tracy: it was a dream. two kids in a ghetto get adopted by rich white man. beretta smith shomade: the white savior narrative in a, diff rent strokes is the basis of the whole series. philip: welcome, gentleman! arnold: how bout that willis, downtown two minutes and already were gentlemen. todd: it was about love and understanding and respect for each other s cultures. beretta smith shomade: and of course, gary coleman he s just this cherub, little black child who s making us laugh. willis: arnold, to collect unemployment, you gotta not be working at what you re working at before you stop working. arnold: what you talking bout willis. sarah rodman: diff rent strokes, makes us feel good. huh, we solved racism, thank goodness.
anything was funny. margaret: mom, don t wait up for me. randall park: i hadn t ever seen an asian-american family on a sitcom so in a lot of ways, we learned lessons of how to tell a story about people who are traditionally underrepresented. margaret: i m very, very proud that it broke ground and it gave an amazing push to a generation experiencing this great success now. jessica: if you try to suspend our son because of this, we will sue everyone in this school. eddie: hey, it s the american way right. jessica: you know about that.