later on, archie is in a broken elevator with a woman who archie thought was crazy, an african american businessman and a puerto rican man and women who is about to give birth. in season eight of the show gloria and michael move out of the house and move into their own house to raise their son but the house is very close to archie and edith's house. michael and gloria start to argue many times and they think they might get divorced. michael looks to archie for help but it does not work very much. they do stayed married for the rest of the show. archie's ideas about transgender people are put to test when he saved a transgender person's life not knowing that they were transgender. many important and controversial things happen in season eight of the show. during the episode "edith's 50th birthday" a man who is dressed up as a police officer tried to rape edith. edith fights him off but has a very hard time telling archie about it. another time archie and michael are locked in kelsey's bar together and they argue but become very close and archie finally tells michael that he loves him. later in the show archie and edith raise a young girl named stephanie mills who was abandoned by her father and her mother (edith's cousin). archie buys a bar with a friend and they own it. the story of "all in the family" continued in "archie bunker's place" and the house is the main place with a new family named the "cumberbatches" in the spin-off show "704 hauser" but the show was cancelled less than a month after it started.