All in the Family (TV Series)

Archie Gives Blood (1971)

Sally Struthers: Gloria Bunker-Stivic

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• Archie Bunker : Some of those doctors are beginning to look at us as if we was all a collection of spare parts.

  Gloria Stivic : C'mon, Daddy, don't get paranoid about it. Medicine is still dedicated to keeping us alive.

  Archie Bunker : All right, but not against His will.

  [Points skyward] 

  Mike Stivic : What does 'His will' got to do with it?

  Archie Bunker : I ain't talkin' to you, you're an atheist!

  Mike Stivic : Oh, wait a second. We're talkin' about modern medicine here. We're talkin' about doctors keeping us alive. Now how did He get into it?

  Archie Bunker : He was never out of it, buddy boy. Life and death is His business. And you gotta go when He calls.

  Gloria Stivic : Unless modern medicine saves you.

  Archie Bunker : It can't.

  Mike Stivic : Whaddaya mean it can't? It happens all the time.

  Archie Bunker : That's when He wasn't really calling. But when He really calls, you gotta go. And He don't want no quack doctors down here putting other hearts in you to keep you here against His will. Throws His schedule all off. You throw His schedule off and you're gonna have to answer for it when you get up there.

  Mike Stivic : Where?

  Archie Bunker : Heaven, wise guy! You knew damn well what I was talkin' about - Heaven! When you get up there He's gonna want to know from you, why you didn't come when you was called. Why you was late.

  Mike Stivic : You really believe that?

  Archie Bunker : I certainly do!

• Gloria Stivic : Blood is blood, Daddy, it's all the same!

  Archie Bunker : You hear that, Edith? You send 'em out for a normal education, and they come back with all these radical subversions!