All In The Family - Joey's Baptism 2-3

[61kingsize]

this is so great!

[SKULLBASHA7]

THE REAL JEWS ARE BLACK

[Smartboy8877]

@SKULLBASHA7

What is that comment supposed to mean.

[matthewosmond1]

I'm a proud Christian and i believe everyone should be baptised

[Smartboy8877]

@matthewosmond1

I am a proud Jew, but I do not believe in anyone being initiated into any religion against the will of the people raising him/her. This is why I do not condone Archie's behavior in this episode.

[Brunstar123]

No way anyone would leave a baby on a porch like that today.

[nniedenfuer]

I like Archie's sentiment, but infant baptism is not at all Biblical. The Bible says that a person who believes should be baptized. A baby isn't capable of believing. I do love this episode though.

[caribaa]

see the porch ? its not in any of the houses shown in the beginning

[shewstring2000]

edith's character is portrayed nice but when she doesnt want something she is not so nice very stubborn, and funny too

[talon115]

what a great show!

[Smartboy8877]

@talon115

Yes it surely is!

[KellyGreen5555]

I never liked Mike.

[skinnyminny25]

@KellyGreen5555 Neither do i! In fact if you look later on in the series when they move to california up until they start with Archie Bunker's place, he leaves gloria for one of his students and they move to a hippie commune, Archie plays the prime role of a good father he knew mike was a meat head when he first saw him hence the name and how much he has hurt gloria and their child. Cant stand Mike so I totally agree with you there. :)

[Smartboy8877]

@skinnyminny25

If Mike were really a meat head, he would not have been a big enough person to eventually forgive Archie for baptising Joey and to say to Archie "I know you always thought I hate you but I love you" before leaving for California!

[Smartboy8877]

@KellyGreen5555

What did you no like about him? I thought that he had quite a few likable characteristics.

[LilFireFox]

I don't see what is the problem with Mike having the baby baptised. I was baptised in a protestant church, but I chose not too and don't follow that religion. I more believe in energies, karma/wiccan, and reincarnation

[Jiballin]

Edith "maybe you need to read God's word" You'll find out you're answers there.

[slaterms11]

"The whole room smells of a hundred armpits!" HA

[FijneWIET]

I think there are 4 basic cultural "reasons" for circumcision

1) religious (=barbaric)

2) to be "clean" (=personal hygiene... keep your body clean, you wipe your ass, so clean your foreskin too...)

3) to look like his dad/friends...  (oh PLEASE.. what if dad has dentures?)

4) ... to prevent MASTURBATION.... (why not simply cut off their hands).....

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@FijneWIET you forgot one fundemental reason

- brutal cupidity and lust for monetary gain as well as the perverted libido of the pedo-sadist.

Circumsicion offers a socially acceptable and perfectly legal outlet for the abominable desires of the crypto-pervert.

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@FijneWIET or in plain english

Some doctors get turned on by it and make money out of it .

(Others probably just don't care)

[Jakegothicsnake]

"If there is a God, then why is there so much unhappiness in the world?" Honestly Michael, if you took some classes/courses in theology/religious studies, you'd learn that the reason why the world is imperfect is because when Adam and Eve first ate the forbidden fruit, it caused the world to be cursed with evil, death, pain, and unhappiness and that is why all these bad things happen everyday in life.

[roycer19]

@Jakegothicsnake - The ol' original sin argument...brilliant! Write back when you can come up with a legitamately viable reason for the human condition instead of this overly antiquated creationist bunk!!

[Jakegothicsnake]

@roycer19 Alright then, do you have a more valid explanation or theory about how there are vad things happening??? Enlighten us.

[LadyAneh]

I know what god wants...clunk! lol

[613bo]

@LadyAneh LOL.!

[rdg1234]

I think "So's maybe when we get to heaven, we'll notice the improvement" is one of the greatest lines in comedy.

[bke274]

It's what God wants, and I know what God wants.

Smack on the head with the window.

LOL

[aviationwingnut]

I never noticed before but, Arch stifled Edith with the remote control. I remember that version of remote control from way back. They sort of made a "meeping" kinda sound when you'd hit one of those buttons.

[amcfan84]

can't believe they left the baby on the porch all that time. you couldn't do that today.

[agincourts]

Mike is such a hypocrite. He doesn't want the kid baptised because he wants the kid to make his own choice later on in life, yet he goes ahead and has the kid circumcised. What if the kid wants to know what it's like to have foreskin?

[FijneWIET]

I fully agree!

circumcision is barbaric.

[StephanieLives]

I'm guessin' this comes from someone who isn't circumsized. My member is just fine without a roll of thick, disgusting, cheesy skin wrapped around it. Gah, foreskins turn my stomach just to think about them.

[GarsinX]

@StephanieLives cheesy skin? LOL

[ofutassi614]

@GarsinX

Go away you tranny faggot anonymous dumbass, no one likes you, and btw, stop cross-dressing.

[evfich]

@StephanieLives its only gross if you dont take care of it, like any hygenic aspect.

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@StephanieLives 

[XtreemMetalMan]

@FijneWIET But the baby doesn't even remember the circumcision. They are too young. Also, don't they apply anesthesia so the baby doesn't feel pain? There are many benefits to circumcision. I think the Muslim tradition of circumcision at 13 is more barbaric.

[leoprincess8567]

@XtreemMetalMan That's so not true, they get circumsised when they're babies not thirteen.

[XtreemMetalMan]

@leoprincess8567 Reall? Well, than I am wrong them.

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@XtreemMetalMan You're both wrong .. Theres is no exact date , when to circumcise according to Islam. Most Boys are circumcised before puberty. Hardly any muslim boy is circumcised as late as 13. ( they might be autonomous enough to offer some resistance at that age). Theyre "done" mostly between 3 and 10 years of age...without being asked for permission of course.!

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@XtreemMetalMan NO THEY DON'TUSE ANTHAESTHESIA. And they do remember it -not verbally but bodily...Before we learn to express ourselves verbally through the spoken word we memorise experiences both painful or pleasurable in kind bodily.

And by the way there is a visual ´differnce they are certain to note when theyre older, >So they are to note an optically questionable circular scar and scar -tissue. Benefits - increasing loss of sensativity , lack of mechanical and immunological protection ?

[XtreemMetalMan]

@GreAtpoLLutIon Well, I was circumsised and I don't remember a thing.

Pros of circumcision = reduced chance of catching HIV/AIDS by 50%, Dissuading masturbation, and Cleanliness.

Cons of circumcision = Could be cruel; involves mutilating a baby

[Smartboy8877]

@XtreemMetalMan

What does circumcision have to do with masturbation? I am unable to see the connection.

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@FijneWIET according to your profile you live in the Netherlands...

I'm gad to reform you hence that the Ryoal Dutch Medical Association a few weeks ago formelly denounced circumcision declaring it to be not only medically unneccessary but harmful, stating that unvoluntary circumcision of minors constitues child abuse comparable to FGC. Personally your country has immensely risen in in my esteem due to this humane and enlightened decision of your medical establishment! lang leve Oranje !

[XLuminariumX]

@GreAtpoLLutIon mmhmm mhhm makes sence

[CheekyThrill]

I agree on this point. I thought Mike was all new-age, love everyone, hippie type. He won't allow some water over his head for a religious custom that would make the child's grandparents feel better, but to surgically alter his child's genitals in the name of social custom is fine?

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@CheekyThrill I

I totally agree with you. Obedience to the priests of deist religion and religionist bigots is morally wrong, backwards and old fashionaed. Progressive people rather adhere to the tenets of the priests of secular society -the medical profession which is socially acceptable. But hey- that was the 1970s , religious conservative were impoverished and uninfluential back then, Liberal media than thought Christianity was dying never to rise again-what a blunder.

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@CheekyThrill But the succeding decades witnessed the revival of Christianity rIse to fame and power of arch-conservetive Christian leaders, who would make old american tv-icon Archie Bunker appear like a stout leftist-liberal.

And of course you are right- pouring some water over his head is neither a traumatic, nor painful, or sexually crippling ,potentially fatal, or disfiguring as circumcision beyond dispute ( especially on boys as young as 1 or 2 days) invariably is. It must be banned !

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@agincourts Truely said .... He really is an ultimate hypocrite.

Yet back then almost all boys delivered in US hospitals were unvoluntarily circumcised right after birth as a matter of course. Sadly, questioning the medical merit of THIS RITUAL or the infallibility or omniscience of doctors probably did occur to even less parents than today. So cIrcumcision in the 1970s still was ( or rather misconceived as) ""normal""".

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@agincourts By the way I watched this episode deliberitaly because i knew the issue of circumcision was perfuntorily referred to.

I am delighted that some viewers including you noted this hypocrisy. ( Not to mention the cruel (yet THEN nothing but normal and "trival") belittlement and extenution of the flagrant human rights violation! Customary to the operation anaesthesia , which is highly ineffective anyway, is rarely used during routine neonatal circs as performed upon roughly 55 % of boys.

[NebraskasWallpaper]

It's funny, most Protestants don't believe Baptism is necessary for salvation.

[mrpeacelover1]

Edith is soo cut running around like a dingbat

[mrpeacelover1]

This was on Yesterday

[badtown88]

Sighhhh....

[advil0069]

God has nothing to do with the evil of this world. we humans (with a little satanic influence) do.

its called free will.

and about the baby on the porch, stfu, disney and nick etc. is causing more harm to kids than having a baby outside...

[MalaTemporaCurrunt]

are you all people crazy ?!? he's on the frickin porch, for chrissake, not in the midde of the road!

[DiAnno13]

Maybe the rain is God's way of baptising everyone. Unless, of course, He keeps it up for forty days...

[GreAtpoLLutIon]

@DiAnno13 yes and mayby true phimosis ( and many doctors proclivity to misdiagnose it) is God's nefandous and macabre way of turning everyone into Jews or Muslims. Though you don't need to be Jew or suffer from true phimoses to be circumsied in the US. Anyway GOd works renownedly in mystrious ways. And he has just a very dark and cynical sense of humour. ( No offence, man Im just joking around)

[cmammlj]

The family argues about baptism & leave the baby outside on the front porch - LOL

[evfich]

god. when edith said that about the rain...thats awesome

[LuckyIrishGirl08]

very awesome!

[24Scotian]

you know whats funny about archie is that his beliefs are common around the western civilization. Such as souls, God and heaven. It's almost as if the writers are making fun of society for believing it

[dakotagerman1]

@24Scotian

It's not the believing in souls, God, or heaven but the superstitions in believing in these that are the laughing stock.

[guyfromcanadayup]

I love this episeode its one of my faves of All in the family.

[poughkeepsiejohn]

Best moment in this video: Archie discussing how the Jews can get into heaven even though they don't believe in baptism.

[orlandobabe]

With what Edith said, I am glad my nephew wasn't baptised. I never believed in it and I didn't care for it because I was bapt and so were my sister, it didn't make any difference.

[yamagoof]

That's why babies shouldn't be baptised. It is up to the individual when they are old enough to decide for themself.

[orlandobabe]

Amen and Awomen!

[NewfieDallas]

one of the best shows of all time..

[AnnaKPOIHonolulu]

Geez I can just imagine what your wife would be like/is like. And, oh god, your kids...

I wonder how often the nation has seen their mug shots...

Open mouth insert foot. LOSER!

[DiAnno13]

Original sin! Right there in the book of Generous.

[trppey66]

"maybe so when we get to heaven we'll notice the improvement."  HA HA...that has to be one of Edith's best lines in the entire series.

[pdxeddie1111]

@trppey66 that was quite brilliant of an answer

[Mcmlix1959]

Thanks for uploading this

love this show

[iluvtobme]

it took me awhile to find this. Thanks for posting!