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'Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times' interrupted by Trump's impeachment votes and fans find it 'ironic'

The general consensus was a tone of complaint as frustrated fans tweeted about how unnecessary the interruptions in the special were.
PUBLISHED DEC 19, 2019
Woody Harrelson as Archie Bunker and Marisa Tomei as Edith in 'Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times' (ABC)
Woody Harrelson as Archie Bunker and Marisa Tomei as Edith in 'Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times' (ABC)

As the airing of the 'Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times' commenced, there was a lot of confusion over ABC's local programming coverage of the impeachment votes tonight. While ABC did cut its impeachment coverage short, practically ditching it to air the sitcoms' modern-day portrayal, for some fans, the live airing would get interrupted by the impeachment votes. Well, both programming advisors for the special, Jimmy Kimmel and creator of the original sitcoms Normal Lear, did warn us in advance that this might happen!

Kimmel and Lear teamed up ahead of the live coverage to discuss how "We might get interrupted during the broadcast," as Kimmel put it. Lear added: "Or impeached!" And when exactly that happened, it's no wonder why Twitter erupted with comments pouring in from everywhere, as fans think it's only fitting that the network would cut its coverage of the impeachment votes and switch right to the politically charged satirical episodes of the sitcoms featuring brand new cast members.

For 'All in the Family,' Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei, Ike Barinholtz and Ellie Kemper returned to reprise their respective roles as Archie Bunker, Edith Bunker, Mike “Meathead” Stivic and Gloria Stivic. Kevin Bacon, Justina Machado and Jesse Eisenberg took over the roles of Pinky Peterson, Teresa Betancourt and David Brewster respectively. In case of 'Good times', we got Andre Braugher as James Evans Sr, Viola Davis as Florida Evans, Tiffany Haddish as Willona, Jay Pharoah as JJ Evans, Asante Blackk as Michael Evans, Corinne Foxx as Thelma Evans, and finally Jharrel Jerome joining as Jimmy Pearson.

The cast and crew of 'Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times' (ABC)

With the 'Good Times' section titled 'The Politicians', there was no doubt we were going to see a stiff rivalry between a socially woke younger man trying to win in his constituency (Jerome's Jimmy) and an older, more conservative one. While Braugher's John was a more feminism-driven one than the original, Harrelson's Archie was the same 'lovable bigot' who wasn't entirely socially offensive, but just didn't always find the right way to put his opinions. 

All of this funny discourse of politics arrived right in the middle of ABC's impeachment vote, where the network chose to cut the coverage short on POTUS Donald Trump's impeachment results to focus on a more delightful side of politics via live airing, and somehow, both the sitcom's individual plots pandered to America's sense of politics, where despite making sound arguments, it is the racist, conservative bigot who wins. And now in the wake of Trump's impeachment votes, fans couldn't stop sniggering about how ironic, yet fitting all of this is.

Taking to Twitter, a fan wrote: "I think it’s ironic there’s an All in the Family revival on the day of Trump’s impeachment".

Another fan noted: "How appropriate tonight’s impeachment of a crooked president corresponds with a reboot of All In The Family Live."

Even the fact that ABC would cut short their coverage of the impeachment to air the special didn't go unnoticed, as a fan pointed out: "Anybody else see the irony of going directly from the serious business of impeachment to Good Times and All in the Family? All without skipping a beat?"

The general consensus was, however, a tone of complaint, as frustrated fans tweeted about how unnecessary the interruptions in the special were. "Good Times was great! I have to rewatch on demand since Trump's impeachment broke in, twice. I have no interest in All in the Family bigotry as if we can't see that in real life now," wrote a fan.

Another one empathized, saying: "Was so excited to see live Good Times and All in the family but Trump's impeachment hearings are interrupting it!!!"

'Live in Front of a Studio Audience: All in the Family and Good Times' aired on Wednesday, December 18, at 8 pm ET/PT only on ABC.

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