Archie puts on a braver face when Edith walks in. Quickly, she runs back into the kitchen so he doesn't know she's seen him crying, and announces she's bringing him a beer. Edith, who had gone into the kitchen to get Archie a beer, returns to the living room, and sees Archie wiping his eyes.
Archie chokes back a sob, a few tears welling up. The final scene has a deeply saddened Archie watch the taxi with his daughter, son-in-law and grandson, Joey, inside drive away. Shortly thereafter comes an emotional farewell. Archie and Mike's final conversation, where Mike thanks Archie for all his support over the years, tells him he loves him, and awkwardly embraces him, is very touching.note Reiner and Struthers both would appear in two later episodes, reuniting the foursome. The Season 8 finale "The Stivics Go West" was both a Very Special Episode and a tearjerker, in that it was the final time all four of the show's main stars Carroll O'Connor, Jean Stapleton, Rob Reiner and Sally Struthers appeared together as regulars.Both Edith and Mike are somewhat shaken up, too.
This episode is also the first time we see Archie's gentler side, as he's heartbroken that his potential grandchild has been lost to nothing else but a cruel twist of fate and he's clearly at a loss trying to console Gloria as he's hurting badly too. At first, everyone's stressed out when they find that she's pregnant, as Mike's between jobs and this pregnancy wasn't planned at all, but they decide to try to make the best of the situation, only for Gloria to then feel horribly sick.
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