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 Appliance repairman Bob, played by Ken Lynch, as depicted by Archie's account, a gangster-type, in the AITF episode "Everybody Tells the Truth" in Season 4 | ||||
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Appliance repairman whom, with his assisstant Jack, arrives at the Bunker home to fix their broken refrigerator | |||
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depicted in conflicting accounts from Archie, Mike and Edith, who gives the honest depiction of the repairmen | |||
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| Appeared on: | All in the Family | |||
| Episodes appeared in: | "Everybody Tells the Truth" in Season 4 | |||
| Character played by: | Ken Lynch | |||
Bob the Repairman, an appliance repairman, appears on All in the Family in different accounts in the Season 4 episode "Everybody Tells the Truth". The part of Bob is played in the episode by veteran actor Ken Lynch.
About "Bob and Jack" and the Refrigerator[]
Archie, Edith, and Mike all had different accounts of what transpired when Archie called on Bob, an appliance repairmen to fix the Bunkers' refrigerator. According to Archie, Jack, who was a Black assistant to Bob, the repairman, appeared as a militant, knife-wielding black gang-banger and his boss Bob as a Mafioso type, while Mike insisted that the two workers were a stereotypical musical-comedy and an Amos 'N' Andy-style shuffler, with Jack appearing as a cross between Stepin' Fetchit and Rochester Anderson to Bob's Jack Benny straight man depiction. It was Edith who honestly revealed the true personas of Bob and Jack.