Michael Stivic Nobel Prize and they'd write 'Meathead wins the Nobel Prize'." A later episode of "All in the Family" reveals that Archie Bunker himself was referred to as "Meathead" in his youth. Norman Lear said his father used to call him "Meathead". Michael Stivic Michael Casimir "Mike" Stivic is a fictional character on the 1970s American television sitcom "All in the Family". He was the live-in son-in-law of the series' lead character, Archie Bunker, who frequently called him "Meathead". Michael was the husband of Archie's daughter Gloria (played by Sally Struthers). Rob Reiner played the role of Michael Stivic throughout the
Archie Bunker's Place on DVD. "Eulogy and Tavern," the 12th chapter (Chapter 4, Part 3) of Jonathan Lethem's novel "Dissident Gardens", is set within the world of the television show. One of the book's main characters, Rose, begins frequenting a bar called Kelcy's on Northern Boulevard near her home in Sunnyside Gardens, Queens, where she befriends the owner, Archie Bunker, and eventually tries to seduce him with her old Communist rhetoric. ("Your lifelong dream, Archie, only you don't know it. Hump a hot Red.") The chapter includes appearances by series-regulars Barney Hefner, Hank Pivnik, Edgar Van Ranseleer, Harry Snowden and Stephanie Mills. Archie