This is a good episode, especially for its time-- except for one thing I note. It's likely to inevitable Norman Lear's method of getting his own political message in. In the discussion between Archie and Mike in the kitchen, Archie, upon Mike's charges of near-poverty level existence for those who rely on Social Security, says "(President) Nixon got them a 5% increase (in ss)," to which Mike retorts "While groceries went up 20%!?" That misrepresents how SS benefits were determined-- which was by congressional actions until 1975, when the SS Administration could affirm automatic cost of living adjustments (COLA's). So Nixon is thrown in as having achieved a SS increase, but a puny one compared to inflation, while it was Congress, which was made up of 2/3 Democrats at that time, that passed the increase. The president could recommend, but not enact, any such thing. So it was a swipe at Nixon, and silence about the Democratic Congress that did what is being criticized, even ridiculed, in rhetoric. And there was not 20% inflation overall, but I don't know if that figure wasn't true for groceries only. To sum up, this show, and his others, were Lear's means of pushing his left wing political agenda in a subtle way, and this episode is good evidence.