Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'

TV Special
2019
TV-14
1h 6m

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Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Ike Barinholtz, and Ellie Kemper in Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (2019)

A one-night-only sitcom special hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear featuring live performances of two of Lear's most popular shows, 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'.A one-night-only sitcom special hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear featuring live performances of two of Lear's most popular shows, 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'.A one-night-only sitcom special hosted by Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear featuring live performances of two of Lear's most popular shows, 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons'.

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8jamiefontenot-66621

Great casting

Jamie Fox and Marissa Tormei nailed their respective characters. Others were good but these two stole the show in my opinion as someone who grew up watching both shows.

9jenifer-m99

Nostalgic and as good as the originals!

I loved both episodes! I thought they were both well casted, especially Woody Harrelson as Archie Bunker and Jamie Foxx as George Jefferson. I was a little too young to watch the originals although I did enjoy the Jeffersons reruns on TBS after school. It was amazing to see how relevant these old classics are in 2019. The premise of bringing them back to bring social issues like racism to the forefront as a way to teach lessons through laughter is brilliant!! I hope they do this again with other classic shows!!

7davidsask

Nice To See Classic TV Shows Redone Live With No Changes, Not A Movie

It is sad that this was brought back to today's time for viewing as that is how far backward today's society has come. Having said that, this was wonderfully done. Woody Harrelson and Jamie Foxx as the male stars played roles just like original, bravo! Wanda Sykes was greatest in female lead. Everyone else was adequate and looked part playing, So good. I hope the demographic of this live show brings in some views and thoughts from the young ones of today. 7/10

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The original All in the Family episode has an additional scene that wasn't adapted in the live remake. In both the original and the remake, Archie tries to mock George Jefferson by claiming that the flower on his lapel is a joke squirting flower to which the insulted George lets Archie know the flower is genuine. The scene at the end of the original episode has Gloria and Mike going to the movies and Mike shows Archie that he's been inspired by George to also wear a flower on his lapel. Except Mike is actually wearing a joke squirting flower and after being insulted by Archie, Mike sprays him in the face.