A lot of people took it seriously who were not involved in trying to have it banned. I know some of them. Another thing to keep in mind - back when All in The Family was on TV, it had two distinctly different viewer demographics. There were the ones who knew that the show was poking fun at Archie Bunker, and there were the ones who didn't think the show was doing that, and they enjoyed the show because they saw its lead character as being just like them.