My Dad Called Me Meat Head Dead

'all In The Family' Took Ten Weeks To Take Off In 1971, And We Were Lucky To Start In January, Because If It Had Started In The Regular Fall Season Of 1970, I Don't Know If We Would Have Lasted. The Ratings Didn't Take Off Until The End Of That Fall Season, When The Other Two Networks Ran Out Of Fresh Shows.

That's A Very Hard Thing To Help The Establishment Know. We're Still An Establishment That Thinks The Average Mentality Is Something Like 13 Years Of Age, That Never Forgot H.l. Mencken's Notion That Nobody Lost Money Underestimating The Intelligence Of The American People. That's The Horseshit The Establishment Has Always Lived With.

Bud [yorkin] Broke Out Big When He Did 'the Fred Astaire Show' And Won Four Emmys. His Wife At The Time Suggested That We Team Up. We Got A Lot Of Press In Show Business Papers, And A Number Of Offers...we Eventually Signed With Paramount Pictures. But I Always Like To Say, His Was The Horse That We Rode In On. That Is My Favorite Recollection.

I Think Somehow I Got A Sense Of The Foolishness Of The Human - My Favorite Phrase, The Foolishness Of The Human Condition.

My Dad Called Me Meat Head Dead From The Neck Up.