Michael Barbaro

Didn't know him.

And yet there's also this deep undercurrent of love between them.

Right.

The son-in-law, Reiner, becomes, in a sense, the father, the parent of a suddenly quite openly wounded, although not self-aware of his wounds, Archie Bunker.

And for those who don't know that movie, it's quite specific.

And Reiner's in this movie.

He doesn't just direct it.

Right.

And these movies are not just memorable.

They literally become part of pop culture, part of our vernacular.

There is a quote from each and every one of the movies you just mentioned that either one of us could recite back to each other.

Including, and this is from Spinal Tap, it's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

I can't handle the truth.

And, of course, Reiner's personal life ends up figuring into the plot of When Harry Met Sally.

Right, and it's actually kind of unfathomable that that movie would end any other way than it did with Harry and Sally in that famous scene telling each other that they love each other and that they will be together.

Pretty full circle for a guy who stars in one of the great sitcoms of his era.

Right.

And he becomes a thorn in the side of President Trump.

Right, which is a pretty wildly unsubstantiated, I dare say, reckless claim.

And I think that Julia brings us back to Reiner's relationship with his son, which we started with.