The show was based on the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part, with Archie Bunker modeled after his British counterpart, Alf Garnett.

All in the Family is about a typical working-class Caucasian family living in Queens, New York.

Archie longs for better times when people sharing his viewpoint were in charge, as evidenced by the nostalgic theme song "Those Were the Days" (also the show's original title).

Although Gloria's husband Michael is the most-educated person in the household, Archie often refers to him as "Meathead" because, in Archie's words, he is "dead from the neck up".

Kelsey's Bar (which later became Archie Bunker's Place) is the bar Archie frequents and later purchases.

His uncle got him a job on a loading dock after World War II, and by the 1970s he is a foreman.

Edith eventually loses her job at the Sunshine Home for the Aged when she breaks company policy by allowing a terminally ill woman to die and fails to inform the staff.

Believing that he has eaten poison mushrooms, Archie rushes to the hospital for a botulism shot. But it turns out that Edith didn't actually buy the brand of mushrooms that were recalled, and Archie's trip to the hospital was for nothing.

During a farewell party at the Bunker household, Archie finds himself deep in conversation with Henry's contentious brother George Jefferson. Amazingly, the two men find they have a lot in common -- especially their mutual disdain for those outside their respective races.

While the others are away for the weekend, Archie tries to relight the pilot light to his furnace and accidentally locks himself in the cellar. Trapped for the entire weekend, he entertains himself with a bottle of vodka and a tape recorder, on which he records his "last will and tentacle".