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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:40:39 GMT
Married....With Children is soooo awesome!! This is the comedy that started all the others of that have followed in this way.It set a trend with networks when first started,very controversial yet really funny in the episodes.The whole cast were great in each of their characters,they all got along like a family and the chemistry that they had off-screen moved on-screen and thats why it worked.Everyone on their genuinely liked/loved each other,even tho their characters tried not to show it most of the time!hehe. An excellent show that should maybe have continued,although if it had Katey wouldn't be in 8 Simple Rules and have Ed join her in one episode,which from what I've read and seen was very funny. But overall this was a turning point in comedy programmes and set a new standard to which no-one has come close to since.Its gonna be a show that is going to be on air for years and years to come.I plan to buy every season on DVD.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:42:23 GMT
Perhaps the greatest sitcom ever without a doubt, I would have said Married...With Children is the greatest sitcom ever created. Many people say its a bland comedy thats full of fart jokes and innuendo. Its more than that....Its the personal struggle of Al Bundy, normal man who hates everything. All the man wants is some peace and a chance to be rich...
As soon as he touches what he believes is his personal heaven, something always comes along to ruin the day for Al, thus leaving him back where he was before. Comical episodes include Al trying to remove an unwanted pest from his garden. The visitor is a rabbit and Al is very unorthodox on how he gets rid of this pest, deciding to use a flamethrower and explosives.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:44:05 GMT
We need more comedies like this... Married with Children was one of the more entertaining comedies of the 1990's. It's the usual scenario of a financially troubled white family that somehow manages to stick together with all its eccentricity.
I only regret not being able to tune into this show sooner. It has great characters, sharp stories, and excellent humor. It features the goofy, desperate husband/father, Al Bundy, the lazy, carefree wife, Peggy Bundy, the hilariously clueless daughter, Kelly Bundy, the continuously perverted Bud Bundy, and the witty dog, Buck.
Married with Children has made a few mistakes that many shows make, including the addition of the "new kid". The "new kid", in this case, Seven, only exists to steal the main casts' thunder. Luckily, the show got rid the pesky "new kid", something that many other shows NEVER do (My Wife and Kids, The Brady Bunch, The Cosby Show).
In spite of its few flaws, Married with Children is still a fine example of what's missing in comedies today. The cast and crew did a lot of what it took to bring the characters to life, and it became a little more than a run-of-the-mill family show.
Fortunately, repeats can still be seen on FX, and are also available on DVD.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:45:16 GMT
I watched it from the beginning to the end! 10/10 I love "Married with Children" for a lot of reasons. I remember when it first aired on the new Fox station. "Married with Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show" were the first two shows to air on Sunday nights and the first night, it was aired twice. There has not been another show like it and it's still missed very much. When "Friends" became successful, you hoped that they would create the anti-Friends version of the show just like Married with Children Bundys was inspired by the 80's Cosby Show and the almost too real Huxtable clan. The Bundys were every family. The teens like Peg and Al who got married with no college education ended up struggling with two undesirable children like Bud and Kelly. The Bundys never had the luck like any of our other television families. Ed O'Neil deserved an Emmy. He liked Al so much that he is still fond of the role. Katey Sagal was unforgettable as Peggy with her red bouncy air and laugh. They were the unlikeliest pairing but it worked. Christina Applegate will always be remembered as the definitive dumb blonde Kelly Bundy. Her character like Peggy and Al never changed and we wouldn't want them too. Remember when they change the characters by improving them on television, the characters lose their original, natural appeal. Even David Faustino's Bud was still the pervert from beginning to end of the show. The neighbors began with Steve and Marcy Rhodes, both trained in New York City theater. Steve played by David Garrison was the typical boring father type on the show and his wife played by Amanda Bearse really became more than just a modern woman. As Marcy Rhodes Darcy, she became her own character without having too rely too much on her husband. When Garrison left the show to return to Broadway, Marcy was alone but not for long until Ted McGinley's Jefferson Darcy came into the picture. Finally Al met his match, a good-looking gigolo who avoided work. Jefferson too had a spotty history. Al and Marcy's battles were always fun to watch. In fact, Bearse also directed several of the show's episodes when she was not in front of the camera and has become one of television's comedic directors since the show ended by Fox abruptly. I loved AL's male friends like Griff, Ike, Bob Rooney, and officer Dan. The show may have made jokes at the expense of a lot of overweight even obese actresses but that gave them exposure and work so I don't think Married with Children should get too much negative criticism. I don't see other shows using plus sized women at all. This was a fun show to watch and I still miss it.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:55:50 GMT
One of the funniest programs ever to air. The first few seasons of this long-running series, I felt, were the better ones, such mundane subject matter, totally believable characters, something we all could identify with.
I agree, it didn't pick up steam until the second or third season, but the earliest ones were SO on the money, it just nailed it. Everyday things, like playing softball, or Al's penchant for putting his hand in the front of his pants, and Steve Rhodes' wanting to be one of the guys, but somewhat henpecked by his wife, Marcy, etc.
Making the characters caricatures of themselves, seemed to kill the credibility of the show, Kelly Bundy for instance. Here you have a good-looking girl, with some street-smarts, and limited book-smarts. We all know the type. But making her so jaw-droppingly stupid, made for a few laughs, but killed the credibility, as with Bud's hopelessness; they each became what the other's insults made them out to be; it was comical, but these things made the show lose its punch.
This isn't to say that unrealistic things should've been left off; one of the funniest episodes ever, had Al falling off the house repeatedly, while Steve, who had just lost his job at the bank, was working in a pet store. An animal he was caring for, bites Marcy, and she grows a hump on her back. Ridiculous. But I laugh like an idiot every time I see it.
No doubt, the show lost its punch after a while, and it did scrape the barrel for a while, but it will be remembered as one of the funniest shows ever to air.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:57:30 GMT
Proud member of the Philly chapter of No Mam One of my favorite shows as a kid revolved around Al Bundy, a misogynistic slob who forever fondly remembered his glory days while hating the hell that was his life now. Married to an ungrateful money-hungry, sex-stared nag of a wife, Peg, and his selfish kids: the dorky sex-hungry Bug and the bombshell but borderline mentally retarded Kelly. I tuned in week in and week out, enamored by the family's constant put-downs of each other and everyone else. I loved the crass, juvenile humor. And you know what? I STILL do!! It's such a timeless great piece of trash. Yea the jokes are always the same (jokes on fatties, Al's job, Peg's lack of sex, Kelly being an idiot, etcetera), but who cares? those jokes are endlessly funny. When Seven joined the cast the laughter died down quite a bit. They had the sensibility to give the brat the heave ho but it was never the same afterwords.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 20:58:35 GMT
Definitely an all-time great Almost every great sit-com is regarded as such because it pushed the envelope and took TV comedy into previously uncharted territory. "Married With Children" certainly did that, becoming one of TV's longest running sit-coms in the process. The show began at a time when "The Cosbys" dominated the ratings and many people were growing weary of its sugary-sweet portrayal of family life. Al, Peg, Kelly, and Bud were the perfect antidote. Their characters were very easy to relate with for most people who grew up in a dysfunctional, lower-middle class family. Al's shoe store stories were the best. Kelly and Bud's verbal jousting was classic. Peg's inept and lazy approach to life was as pathetic as it was funny. Even the secondary characters like Marcy, Steve, and Jefferson all added immensely to the show's unique character.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:29:28 GMT
An absolute FOX classic! 10/10 "MARRIED WITH CHILDREN," in my opinion, is an absolute FOX classic! I'm not sure I've seen every episode, but I still enjoyed it. One of my favorites would have to be the one where a protest breaks out in the shoe store. I liked it when a mishap occurred. I always laughed at that. Even though I liked Ted McGinley, it would have been nice if all the main characters stayed with the show throughout its entire run. It seems that no one stays with a show throughout its entire run. Everyone always gave a good performance, the production design was spectacular, the costumes were well-designed, and the writing was always very strong. In conclusion, I hope it stays on FX for fans of the show to see for a long time.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:31:44 GMT
Hilarious! Married With Children is one of the funniest if not the funniest all of sitcom comedies. It's TV run of 11 seasons over 10 years is a testament to this. This show was perfectly cast from Ed O'Neill as the women's shoe salesman Al Bundy, Katey Sagal as the lazy housewife Peggy Bundy, Christina Applegate as the dumb blonde Kelly Bundy, David Faustino as the sexless bookworm Bud Bundy, and the next door neighbors David Garrison as Steve Rhodes, Ted McGinley as Jefferson D'Arcy, and the VERY funny Amanda Bearse as the perfect "Next Door McNugget" Marcy Rhoades D'Arcy. Though the first 2 seasons were shaky, since the show was trying to find its firm footing, and the last few seasons got overly silly and raunchy, for the most part, this show about a dysfunctional family (a first for network TV) lead the new Fox network into success. This show is must-see TV for sure (you can definitely catch it on TV - it's still in syndication) - 9 out of 10!
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:34:06 GMT
It's The 90's What's On TV ? Married With Children Married With Children (1987-1997): Starring Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, David Faustino, Christina Applegate, Amanda Bearse, Ted MGinley, David Garrison..Creators Ron Leavitt and Micheal G. Moye When "Married With Children" first aired on Fox 11 on regular television, it changed the face of family sitcoms forever. Creators Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye conceived a show that was not full of sentimentality like "Full House" or family values as with The Cosby Show and Family Ties. Instead, we have an outlandish, almost cartoonish show about a shoe-salesman, loud-mouthed, dead-beat dad Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill)whose married to a shopaholic, lazy, good-for-nothing red-head wife Peggy (Katey Sagal), whose daughter Kelly is a brainless, slutty blonde (Christina Applegate) and whose son Bud (David Faustino) is a horny but smart but tragically unsuccessful young student. This family was not about sharing tender moments or raising serious issues. Everything is a living joke. Next-door married gal Marcy (Amanda Bearse)is an assertive feminist, successful banker who loves money and craves a bigger status in life. Her first husband Stephen Rhodes, a submissive, gentle man, eventually tires of her domineering ways and leaves her. She then marries a handsome boy-toy Jefferson D'Arcy (Ted McGinley) who is being kept by her and loving it. The show's theme:Al is a perennial loser, generally hates women but loves pretty girls, loves his beer, hangs out with his guy friends, and is proportedly a typical straight American male. The show is perhaps male-oriented as the women on the show are not portrayed in a favorable light. But it was Fox 11's greatest successes and it's still running endless re-runs. Despite its unorthodox family sitcom style, it was never really realistic. Al is supposed to be making very little money selling shoes at the local mall, and his children have grown up eating toaster left-overs and yet they live in a house that frankly is nicer than my own home. Also, if Marcy was such a social climber, why would she live next to a shoesalesman and allow her husband to be friends with him. Even she was a friend of Peggy's. But overall, the comedy really worked, i.e. the extent of the Bundy's poverty - Peggy spends the money on clothes and useless luxury items instead of much needed food, doesn't clean the house or cook, Al's clashes with Marcy- he's macho, she's feminist, Kelly Bundy's overly sexual nature (she dated hundreds of guys, biker gangsters, ex-convicts, other dumb guys among them an Italian-American character named Vinny Berducci played by Matt Le Blanc, who would later get famous as Joey on Friends). David Faustino as Bud Bundy is also a pitiful character, cursed with the same Bundy misfortune as his father. The series lasted 10 years, concluding in May of 1997, with a marriage that almost was for Kelly. But things truly didn't change that much for the characters. They forever remain the Bundys, who, despite being TV's most dysfunctional family, showed strength and loyalty deep down. Al never left Peggy, provided for his kids even if it was in meager degrees. For me, this hilarious sitcom will also serve as a document/time capsulte for television during the 90's. Other than NBC's Seinfeld, Married With Children is forever linked with 90's comedy.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:34:58 GMT
married with children rocks 10/10 married with children its a very good show every time i get home from school i make my food and turn on TV to channel 11 to see married with children i like how AL always makes fun of Darci chest .also i hope married with will never end because that show humor and great jokes. and i love bud Bundy every time i see him my hearth pound i like him a lot hes very good looking anyways i hope bud Bundy will find hes true love someday in the show anyways bud Bundy I'm here waiting for you also the best episode that i love is when bud finally has a girlfriend but it turns out to be a man . i see married with children on Sunday night also everyday on fox11 i never missed a show i have already both both of the series DVD .also i have both everything movie that has been sold.i always watch hope and faith because Darci husband from married children its always there.i just wanto thank who ever created married with children should of been a genius married with children rocks!!!!!!!! i love that show i think its the #! show in the world it totally rocks.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:36:31 GMT
Oh look Steve, a fruit cake...and it's got a footprint in it 10/10 I feel almost sorry for Ed O'Neill, who never again hit the heights he did in as Al Bundy, the funniest character I ever saw on American TV.
As an ex-pat who'd grown up with Monty Python, Till Death Us Do Part, and Steptoe & Son, I was wondering by 1987 (by which time I'd lived in the US/Canada for 8 years) if North Americans actually had a sense of humour. Sit-comes were contrived, moralistic and formulaic; so much so that people were actually watching Benny Hill(!) for relief.
Thank God for Married...With Children; a sit-com that finally proved worthy of the name. Raunchy, anarchistic and funny; with enough sexy girls for us guys and (I suspect) sufficient male humiliation for 90's women. At long last we had a non-cartoon show that really poked fun at "America the Beautiful". And nobody preaching.
By the final seasons it was showing signs of wear, but nothing's perfect. I sincerely hope the next MWC is out there but, unfortunately, haven't seen much sign of it yet; people seem happier with the safety of 'Friends'.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:37:55 GMT
Rude,Crude,A Joy To Watch 10/10 Married With Children is absurd and unbelievable,which is why it's so damn good.The situations are innovative and the family is hilarious mostly because they all can't stand each other.Al Bundy is definitely the classic character spawned from this show.He's a sexist,gross,primitive,rude,obnoxious,prick and is funny as hell.Peggy is a lazy,mooching housewife who always wants something but is never willing to earn it herself.Kelly is a trashy,slutty,rebellious teen who is only concerned about popularity,and dates.Budd is a blackmailing,sneaky,loser who is all hormones and greed.The family is so ridiculous but so funny.This show is intelligent,witty,and all and all raunchy.Married With Children is no doubt a classic sitcom.It's The Osbournes before The Osbournes.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:39:39 GMT
Pretty funny at first 10/10 Married... With Children started out as one of the funniest and freshest shows on TV, and it was FOX's first real hit. Just about everything from the first few seasons was gold. My picks for best episodes:
1. The 1987 Christmas special where Santa Claus died
2. The game show where Al and Peg pretended to be newlyweds
3. The one where Al was actually trying to get Peg pregnant and it was killing him. The last 5 minutes of that one were particularly funny.
Around the second season, they started the show with a picture of Al smiling back at the audience as if he was spaced out watching TV. They soon replaced this with him in a more familiar grumbling pose. But I thought the "happy and distant" was more appropriate and funnier. I can't find that picture anywhere.
Towards the end the humor got stale. I suppose they had different writers. They lost track of the original formula of making it a war between the men and the women. Al and Steve would team up against Peg and Marcie. There were never really any winners. If one of them is unhappy, they made sure everyone was miserable.
Also, they really lost count of how many years they were on. In the episode where Al entered the Olympics for old people, the announcer said, "Bet you thought Al was going to let the old guy win. Well, then you haven't been paying attention for the last seven years." However when this aired, Married… With Children had been on for a little over 5 years. Toward the end, I think they said it was on for 14 years, when in reality it was on from 1987 to 1997. I don't know why they were off so much.
But even the last season wasn't all that bad. I watched every single episode.
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Post by sbtbfanatic on Feb 5, 2014 21:41:19 GMT
A Comedy Classic 10/10 Al Bundy suffers one humiliation after another, thanks to a layabout wife, trampy daughter, clueless son and fickle dog. Neighbors named Darcy fuel the fire, with their antics. Add some well-meaning male companions and a dead-end job and you have a show that could rightly have been called, "Father Knows Nothing." Norman Lear was credited with breaking untested ground when "All In the Family" premiered. The Fox Network, however, pushed the envelope even farther with MWC. A man languishing as a ladies shoe salesman (and having the measure of "support" he had at home) with no prospect of advancement was the height (or depth, depending on one's perspective) of absurdity and also precisely what made this show as appealing and hilarious as it was.
Viewers had never seen a family like the Bundys. Baby boomers grew up with the Nelsons, Gillises, Taylors, Andersons, Cleavers, and others. When the Bundys came along, we were ill prepared. And yet, despite all the dysfunction, we each recognized that we knew someone similar to a member, neighbor or co-worker of the Bundy clan. We still loved them and our new found friends, the Bundys, were welcomed with open arms.
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