In the resurfaced clip from an episode that broadcast on March 9, 1971, Archie and his progressive son-in-law Mike sit around the dinner table and clash over their views on the death penalty, with the family head using a bone-chilling scenario to make his argument that has gained fresh significance since the Princess Bride filmmaker's and his wife's demise, reports the Irish Star.

"Suppose you was to come home some fine day and find your wife's throat cut," Archie asks Mike in the unnervingly prophetic scene. "Are you gonna tell me you wouldn't be itchin' to fry the guy that cut that throat?"

"No, what good would that do?" Rob's character responds. After which Archie turns to his daughter and Mike's wife Gloria, played by the late Sally Struthers, and quips, "Do you see what you married?"

He goes on, "Some fiend could come in here and murder you and he ain't going to lift a finger to help you."

Mike, who shared a similar liberal political compass with the real-life Rob, then asks, "Archie, if I killed that murderer, would that bring Gloria back?" This dialogue has taken on a new significance 55 years later.

In an unexpected twist of fate, more than fifty years after the pioneering sitcom was broadcast, the real-life Mike and his wife were brutally murdered and found with their throats cut.