Jesus Christ Superstar gets hell from Archie Bunker!

Mar 22, 2024

It’s Season 2, Episode 3: Archie Bunker’s in jail on trumped-up hate speech charges. He gets prickly when being proselytized by some hippie whose listening to “Jesus Christ Superstar” on a transistor radio. 

Archie: Turn that racket off, huh?”

Hippie: “You mean you actually don’t dig Jesus Christ Superstar?”

Archie: “Jesus Christ I dig, and I dug him a long time before you weirdos turned him into a Superstar!”