Bobbie Jo Loomis

Bobbie Jo Loomis
Bobbie Jo Loomis was the new wife of Duke Loomis, an old Army buddy of Archie's, who appeared in the episode titled "The Threat" in Season 3. Gloria LeRoy, who played Bobbie Jo, would later appear in a recurring role as Mildred "Boom Boom" Turner in season 4.
Gender	Female
Relation	Wife of Duke Loomis, an old war buddy of Archie Bunker
All in the Family appearance	"The Threat" in season 3
Played by	Gloria LeRoy
Hair Color/Body Type	Blonde/Buxom

Bobbie Jo Loomis was a middle-aged, buxom, sexy blonde Southern belle-type character who appeared on the show in the Season 3 episode titled "The Threat". Bobbie Jo was the new wife of Duke Loomis, who was an old Army buddy of Archie Bunker who served with him overseas during World War II; Duke, who could not make the trip to Queens to visit Archie and Edith because of a business engagement, instead sent Bobbie Jo in his place, with well wishes to the family.

The presence of the sexy Bobbie Jo, who showed a great sense of humor and an adept ability to engage others in conversation, and a hearty laugh to go along with her prodigious, pulchritudinous assets, made Edith, who felt that Bobbie Jo might be coming on to Archie, so uncomfortable that she wound up asking Bobbie Jo to leave after they, which included Mike and Gloria, all had dinner with her. Bobbie Jo was played by actress/former Burlesque entertainer Gloria LeRoy, who would appear in three more episodes of All in the Family as Mildred "Boom Boom" Turner, who worked with Archie at the Pendergast Tool & Die loading dock, before she began working full-time at Archie's Place, after he bought Kelsey's Bar in season 8.

Trivia

Though Norman Lear's 1970s television work was at times hyped as being alternatives to The Andy Griffith Show, Bobbie Jo's rather flamboyant elements of her personality, such as her kissing of Archie and her light pass at him, bare noticeable resemblance to the way The Andy Griffith Show made use of Charlene Darling and, perhaps even more importantly, the show's occassional Fun Girl characters. Unlike many characters in The Andy Griffith Show, the Fun Girls were in fact among the show's more indecent characters who even hinted they were willing to go far with Sheriff Andy Taylor and his Deputy Barney Fife, noting their desire to have "fun" with them; this may have even included possibly a willingness to engage in sex. Archie would even tell Mike and tell Mike and Gloria that Bobbie Jo forcibly kissed him in a way which greatly resembled how Barney Fife made clear to his girlfriend Thelma Lou that one of the two Fun Girls "forced herself on me" when she saw them kiss after she landed a kiss on him. During some of her appearances, Charlene Darling-who later married- attempted to get physically intimate with Sheriff Andy Taylor as well. Like Charlene Darling and The Fun Girls, Bobbie Jo, who was even given a Southern accent, lived in the Southern part of the United States and even had blonde hair like them as well. However, unlike Charlene and The Fun Girls, Bobbie Jo did not intend to have an affair with Archie. Bobbie Jo's denial of having "a thing" for Archie bore a stark contrast to Charlene Darling, who would one occassion during her marriage to Dud tried to renew her intentions of pursuing Andy, though this occurred when she was undergoing a divorce effort which would later be abandoned.