I doubt Reiner ever recovered from the South Park boys taking him down.
Rob Reiner essentially became his Meathead character, minus the lack of money.
Mike "Meathead" Stivic was a pompous, loud, know-it-all liberal who got very agitated when people disagreed with him or called him out. In one memorable episode, when the Bunkers came home and were held at gunpoint by two black burglars they surprised (played by Clevon Little and pre-Sanford Demond Wilson), Mike attempted to lecture them how he understood their plight of living in poverty in the city. When asked by one of the burglars what experience he had with being black in the inner city, Mike sheepishly replied, "Well, I'm studying it in my sociology class", and they laughed at him. While All in the Family almost exclusively made fun of the political right, via the ignorant Archie character, they also sometimes poked at obnoxious, know-it-all liberals via the Mike character.
Reiner then became Mike Stivic, and public rapidly got sick of hearing him lecture them. He's been doing it for decades, and now especially loves doing it via social media.
Hilarious how he ran away from Twitter's "toxicity", only to find the same level among fellow libs on Bluesky. Ya think? This old retard still hasn't realized that the social media left is even more toxic than the social media right.
The last we saw of the Meathead character was him losing his good job as a professor at UCSB, because he marched naked to protest nuclear weapon proliferation. Edith asked, "So how was Michael taking his clothes off going to stop nuclear weapons?", which got the biggest laugh from the audience of any line, because it illustrated how ridiculous liberals at the time were.
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