Editing Archie Bunker (section)

==Viewer reactions==

Such was the name recognition and societal influence of the Bunker character that by 1972, [[political commentators]] were discussing the "Archie Bunker vote" (i.e., the voting bloc comprising urban, white, working-class men) in that year's [[1972 United States presidential election|presidential election]]. In the same year, there was a [[parody]] election campaign, complete with [[T-shirt]]s, [[campaign button]]s, and [[bumper sticker]]s, advocating "Archie Bunker for President".<ref name="yahoo1">{{Cite web |title=Yahoo!News |url=https://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080306/pl_bloomberg/ar7wd5nircc |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080309234141/http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080306/pl_bloomberg/ar7wd5nircc |archive-date=March 9, 2008 |access-date=2008-03-09 |df=mdy}}</ref><ref name="philly1">[http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20080313_The_Archie_Bunker_strategy_.html The Archie Bunker strategy? | Philadelphia Daily News | 13 March 2008]{{Dead link|date=July 2012}}</ref> In May 1973, [[RCA Records]]' trade advertisement for Archie and Edith's debut single, a recording of "[[Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?]]", carried the tagline "John and Yoko, move over", referring to the artist-activists [[John Lennon]] and [[Yoko Ono]].<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=May 19, 1973 |title=Archie & Edith 'Oh, Babe, What Would You Say?' (advertisement) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IQkEAAAAMBAJ&q=genius |magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |page=2 |access-date=March 9, 2018}}</ref>

The character's imprint on American culture is such that Archie Bunker's name was still being used in the media to describe a certain group of voters who voted in the [[2008 United States presidential election]].<ref name="yahoo1" /><ref name="philly1" />

Bunker's perceived racist and misogynistic views were allegedly the template for the creation of [[Eric Cartman]], one of the characters in the adult animated sitcom ''[[South Park]]'';<ref>{{Cite news |last=Rovner, Julie |date=April 5, 2008 |title=Eric Cartman: America's Favorite Little $@#&*% |work=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89375695}}</ref> however, it has been acknowledged that ''South Park'' greatly served as a bond between Lear and his son Benjamin, and that Benjamin, who was born in 1988, was also not very familiar with his dad's work from the 1970s.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://people.com/all-about-norman-lear-kids-8363775|title=Norman Lear's 6 Children: Everything to Know|first=Stephanie|last=Kalai|publisher=People|date=December 6, 2023|accessdate=January 13, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-ca-mn-fathers-day-norman-ben-lear-20160610-snap-story.html|title='We're proud of each other':For Norman and his son Ben, the moving picture spans generations|first=Josh|last=Rottenberg|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 16, 2016|accessdate=January 13, 2023}}</ref>