The episode "Edith's 50th Birthday" centers around sexual assault.

A common joke in the series is that Mike and Gloria are constantly desperate to have sex

Off screen and on screen rape

Many plots involve abortion, miscarriage, sexual orientation and impotence

Some stories involve the Vietnam War.

Irreverent comments regarding sensitive topics.

Likely to offend

Archie Bunker frequently espouses politically incorrect perspectives on sensitive topics.

At least one racist term is used each episode.

The show is banned from UK TV but allowed on DVD it was banned for its racist language

Archie says crapola and others variants of crap

Damn goddamn it etc are used

Archie refers to England as a fag country

Archie refers to gay people as fags

Archie refers to gay people as faggots

Archie refers to gay people as queer

In reference to disabled people Mike uses the term retard this was common at the time and not meant to be an insult

Archie expresses views that Black people are not equal to him

Archie joins the KKK

Archie refers to black people as coons

Archie uses the term coloured to refer to black people

Archie says "They're wonderful people, they're lovely people ... but they are also coloured people'

Referring to his African American neighbours Archie says 'These guys don't wanna socialise any more with us any more than we wanna socialise with them'

Referring to civil rights Archie says 'I didn't have no million people marching and protesting to get me my job'

After saying some racist things Archie says 'I ain't no bigot'

Archie says "I ain't no bigot. I'm the first guy to say, 'It ain't your fault that youse are coloured.'"

Archie being bigoted says: You're coloured. you didn't sound coloured on the phone

Archie often refers to his son in law as a pollock

When his friend asks Archie if he knows any polish jokes he responds "are you kidding I got one living with me"

Archie says If God had intended white people to dance with coloureds then Mike interrupts saying he'd of given us rhythm too.

George refers to white people as honkeys

Archie: I think that if God had meant us to be together, He'd have put us together. But look what He done. He put you over in Africa, and He put the rest of us in all the white countries.

Gloria says fuck you to Mike

Archie refers to Japanese people as japs

Archie mentions "cops dressed as dames dressed up waiting for some fella to rape them"

1 use of fuck and it is used by a female character this was the first time in TV history a woman used the word and it was considered to be extremely shocking at the time

A lot of swearing and racial insults

Some characters smoke weed

Archie smokes cigars and drinks beer.

The rapid shift in tone from comedy to intense drama in some episodes may unnerve some viewers unaccustomed to seeing serious content in a sitcom.

In one episode a nazi symbol is painted on a house that the nazis believed was Jewish

Intense subjects like Rape and murder may shock viewers especially as this is a sitcom

There is talk of race riots and Alot of tension between black and white people in season 4 and 5

the show broke ground in its depiction of issues previously considered unsuitable for a US network television comedy, such as racism, antisemitism, infidelity, homosexuality, women's liberation, rape, religion, miscarriages, abortion, breast cancer, the Vietnam War, menopause, and impotence

A lot