BAWDE

MAUDE
1972-1978 CBS


BAWDE
MAD #162, October 1973
w: Tom Koch
a: Angelo Torres

Sitcom spun off from All in the Family and was said to be the reverse of it. While that one was about the patriarch of an all-american conservative family, this was the matriarch of an all-american liberal family.

Maude was married for the third time and her third daughter is Carol (Adrienne Barbeau). There's the maid Florida (Esther Rolle), and neighbor Arthur (Conrad Bain), the token Republican. And then there's Maude (Bea Arthur) and her husband Walter (Bill Macy), He owns an appliance store and they live in Tuckahoe in Westchester County.

Maude was always espousing various liberal causes. Carol was also a militant feminist, though she and Maude often disagreed based on the different generations they came from. Arthur's wife was later introduced. “God will get you for that” was Maude's big catchphrase.

The arresting officers are Martin Milner and Kent McCord of Adam-12.

Wife-swapping (which would also be husband-swapping by defimition) was talked about all the time in media though I'm not sure how much it existed in real life. The host of the Swingers' Club is supposed to be Dean Martin.

They must have not known the program was spun off from All in the Family and/or they didn't know that Edith Bunker was Maude's cousin and would know Walter. They knew both shows were produced by Norman Lear though. But they didn't know that it was Archia and Edith's son-in-law Mike who's the Meathead, she's the Dingbat (they made the same mistake in their All in the Family parody).

From Obituaries for TV Show Characters by Frank Jacobs.

And then there's Broad, the parody on The Carol Burnett Show.