Gloria Stivic Gloria Stivic Gloria Stivic (née Bunker), is a fictional character played by Sally Struthers on the American situation comedy "All in the Family" (which aired on the CBS television network from 1971 until 1979) and the spin-off series "Gloria" (CBS, 1982–83). She was the only child of Archie and Edith Bunker, and she was married to—and eventually divorced from -- Michael Stivic. She was born 11 months after Edith and Archie were married as stated in the episode "The Longest Kiss" (Season 5, Episode 10). Gloria was often caught in the middle of arguments between her liberal husband Michael and
Archie Bunker sprinkling "incest" (incense) on their congregation, whereas he referred to incest itself as "committing 'insects' in the family". Archie repeatedly called Richard M. Nixon "Richard E. Nixon". By the show's second season, these had become dubbed "Bunkerisms", "Archie Bunkerisms", or simply "Archie-isms". The actor who played Bunker, Carroll O'Connor, is Irish Catholic, and Norman Lear modeled the character on his Jewish father, but Bunker's own ethnicity is never explicitly stated, other than identifying him as a WASP; over the course of the series, he mocks or belittles not just most minorities (including blacks, Hispanics, Latinos, Jews, and Asians), but also