Married with Children

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Married... with Children is a show about shoe salesman Al Bundy who raises his dysfunctional family. Peg Bundy is Al's wife, she is addicted to shopping and watching Oprah. Marcy Rhoades/D'Arcy is the Bundys' neighbor who works as a banker.... more »

Married... with Children is a show about shoe salesman Al Bundy who raises his dysfunctional family. Peg Bundy is Al's wife, she is addicted to shopping and watching Oprah. Marcy Rhoades/D'Arcy is the Bundys' neighbor who works as a banker. Marcy was married to Steve Rhoades, another banker, for a few years but they ended up getting a divorce. A year later Marcy met and got married to Jefferson D'Arcy, a former spy who had various jobs, but he preferred being a house husband. Kelly Bundy is the attractive daughter with the intelligence of a fruitfly.
Bud Bundy is the son who has bad luck with women.
Fox Broadcast History:
April 1987-October 1987---Sundays-8:00 p.m.
October 1987-July 1989---Sundays-8:30 p.m.
July 1989-August 1996---Sundays-9:00 p.m.
September 1996-June 1997---Saturdays-9:00 p.m.less «

• The Bundys in England.

  In the three-part episode where the Bundys go to England, the citizens of Lower Umpton tried to kill them to free their town...more »

  In the three-part episode where the Bundys go to England, the citizens of Lower Umpton tried to kill them to free their town of the curse of eternal darkness; however, the citizens of Upper Umpton tried to get the Bundys out of the twon so they can kill them and preseve the curse and the tourist trade. But the people of Upper Upton didn't have to kill the Bundys. They just had to keep them out of Lower Umpton.less «

  gideonbernstein Last online 3 hrs, 53 mins ago
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• Who was the coolest Bundy?

  Al Bundy was the coolest for me. And Kelly was just really really attractive.

  Al Bundy was the coolest for me. And Kelly was just really really attractive. less «

  CVPWaveMaster Last online Sep 26, 2007
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• Funniest line in MWC

  What is the funniest line in Married with Children? IMHO, it is: "'Zis him???" from the Harder They Fall. Only because I have an inside joke with my cousin. Whenever we see eachother, we say "'Zis him?" note*this line was used right before Al and Steve brought the midget Mr. Williams in from being punched.

  What is the funniest line in Married with Children? IMHO, it is: "'Zis him???" from the Harder They Fall. Only because I have an inside joke with my cousin. Whenever we see eachother, we say "'Zis him?" note*this line was used right before Al and Steve brought the midget Mr. Williams in from being punched.less «

  martelli9 Last online Nov 25, 2008
  63 comments, last one Apr 22, 2009 + Add Comment

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  10 Perfect

  Classics are far and few between. These days, far too few. Married With Children was one of the last batch of classic shows that went far and beyond just trying to get a few laughs. This show wanted me in their family and to laugh along with them. hide « show »

  There is far too much for me to say about Married With Children (MWC) that has already been said by anyone else who appreciated this show and what it did for its audience and TV as a whole. But I can say exactly what I feel about why MWC is probably among if not the funniest sitcom I will ever watch.
  
  No review would be complete without a quick synopsis. For me, this would be like trying to sum up my own life in a few sentences as the show is both easy and complicated to explain. But the short of it is, The Bundy's aren't your normal, happy family on the block. Or are they? From the Windy City, Chicago, Illinois, Al (Shoe Salesman), Peggy (Self Proclaimed Home Maker and Shopaholic), Bud (Student and Sex-Challenged), and Kelly ("Popular" Girl and World's Biggest Ditz) have a love/hate relationship that everybody should laugh at for being both absurdly horrible to one another one minute, and the next showing each other the love only a family member can, only in their own Bundy way. And that is what this show is all about. Both with one another and themselves, the show is about the difference between what the family shows on the surface and when it really counts.
  
  With that out of the way, why is it that I love MWC so much? Mainly its the way that it shows how things that seem like they don't have anything in common, or don't have anything to agree about, actually in the end do. It may be through love, or something weird or ridiculous, but with MWC its always funny and thats what counts to me when watching a sitcom. This show didn't give me cheesy morals or predictable tender moments. And even when it did, it was always in the Bundy way. Nothing more, nothing less.
  
  The most obvious way it does is of course the relationship everyone has with one another and the world. Al may seem to loathe Peggy, but would kill for her. Peggy may seem to lust after other men or neglect her wifely duties, but she'd never leave Al or not defend him when it counts. Bud and Kelly have the same brother and sister love/hate relationship and some of the funniest moments are when they are hilariously cruel and stick up for one another. The Bundy's usually end up circling the wagons when the outside world tries to get in on the picking on one another. That duty is tightly reserved for Bundy's only. And they aren't shy about making that known when it counts. As you can see, "when it counts" is the main theme and they go out of their way to prove it to make the softer moments towards one another that much better.
  
  But MWC establishes this "opposites aren't really" theme in many more ways. I've always said that MWC's dialogue is the best in a TV comedy I've ever heard. And every time I watch it, I say it again and again. OK admittedly, more from a certain era of shows, but let's not get nit-picky. More often than not, when watching random re-runs, I get reminded of just how great their dialogue is. They blend such a crass, everyday sort of language with one another, with random spurts of formality in their speaking. It is pure genius. It would seem like this kind of thing would be way out of place for a low-class family, but it isn't. It just makes what they say a whole lot funnier. A recent episode I watched has Bud saying "This, I vow.". Now who says that in real life? But its comedy at its best. Too bad I'm not sophisticated enough to explain why that is funny. It just is. The show is peppered with such formal, almost archaic style phrases and sentence structures that put an emphasis on everything they say. And I haven't ever seen this kind of formula from any other show I've watched since then. So original, so Bundy-essque.
  
  Pesronally, its both strange and proud for me to say that it has shaped my take on the world and my humor. Okay, so it didn't shape my relationships much as the Bundy's aren't exactly role models, and they certainly don't want to be. But this is a comedy, so humor is what counts. From that point of view, its shown me how to find humor in unlikely places, people, and situations. That things don't have to be funny to be funny. Nor purposely said funny to be funny. You just have to have that sort of blind confidence and self-deprecating sense of humor that the Bundy's are so good at getting across to take life for what it is. Whether you fail or succeed, you'll always be who you are, and nothing is ever so serious that you can't laugh at yourself for being you.

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  h4mmb0ne Added May 13, 2009 All my reviews
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  5.5 Mediocre

  Married... was one of the first "sticking shows" for FOX and FoxNet. Watching on Sunday nights from '89 to the end, history was being made on a new fledgling network. However, the total results were medium. hide « show »

  Married... had some great moments during it's earlier days. I remember watching "FOXNET" (Now "FX"), and seeing a different kind of humor. I watched this last night on the "CW network" non primetime feed, and thought it got dumb in the end.
  
  Kellie Bundy was the airhead, along with neighbor, Marcy's Husbands. That didn't appeal to me at all.
  
  Bud, a nerdy geek, tried desperately to become "cool," by embracing what the show never really showed. The ghetto. "Master B," as he was called, did not have a place in the show, because it was really not a basis of anything. It came out of the blue. That also did not appeal to me.
  
  Peg was better as a less than hip person. In the beginning, she was **** relaxed, and no primadonna. Towards the end, her hair color changed, just like the character. Peg became the total diva, who was more uptight. Al Bundy was just stupid. From early days to the end. The writers of the show did not paint the typical male of the show to be in a positive light. It kinda showed Al as being a caveman, well before ABC introduced the caveman show, 10 years later. Toilet humor is not what I would consider funny. With Al Bundy, it was one of the main events of the show. You knew what it was about, when you all the sudden heard a toilet flush.
  
  In the beginning it was a better show. Too many changes from cast, to writers, to directors, did not improve the series. I was actually surprised that it went on as it had, for as many years as it had. However, the show did have some big names on it, for it's time. It was supposed to e the new "All In the Family," but did not live up to it's potential, at the end.

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  EmmGeeImage Added May 13, 2009 All my reviews
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  5 Mediocre

  Annoying. hide « show »

  I have watched a few times and I think that it was a show that was for those who liked the quick punch-line. This wasn't a funny show at all, but I must say it had some interesting bits. The actors and actresses in this show were good. The writing was not good, at least to me. I don't know why, but I think that I was most bothered by the misuse of certain characters. Overall, this was an average show that bored me some times, but I must say that it wasn't the worst. It wasn't really a must-see show. Thank you.

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  cactusjack39 Added Apr 28, 2009 All my reviews
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  9.5 Superb

  Married with Children was a show about Al Bundy the former football star turned shoe salesmen and his hilariously ungrateful family. I loved every minute of it. hide « show »

  I love watching this show. I've watched it since I was a kid and barely understood the sexual innuendos. Al Bundy was a riot. Bud aka Grand Master B would have me dying laughing so hard that my parents would have to come and check on me. It's weird watching the show now that I am older and realizing what some of the jokes I missed actually mean. No Ma'am was so bad but so entertaining especially when Jefferson would sell out when he saw Marcy. Married With Children was an excellent show and brought me hours of laughs. I was so excited when I saw that episodes were put on-line.

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  rstevens9 Added Feb 12, 2009 All my reviews
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  4.5 Poor

  dumb-humor appeals to many hide « show »

  This sitcom has its occasional good laughs, but they are always from humor about empty-headedness, sex or sexism, and insults, all in *wildly* unrealistic situations. There is no intellectual humor or creative language play here, nor are there story lines that would allow you to actually relate to the characters rather than seeing them plain stupid, every single one of them, at every moment, in every show. Even the extras.
  
  However, this kind of mindlessness and slapstick, this kind of sex-centered, insult-centered, stupid-humor, appeals to many people, including my husband, which is why I've seen most episodes. It's all a matter of preference.
  
  People like me who prefer more intelligent humor with some cleverness or character development have to be in a real "I hate the world, everyone sucks" mood to want to watch this. Then we can laugh at how unlucky, dumb, and base the Bundys are, and think it's hilarious when they fall out of second story windows or get kicked in the b@lls. We hope that the world "poops" on them because that is what they deserve, and we are rewarded.
  
  Every time I see this show I feel like I wasted my time. IMO there are better and certainly more reliable ways to laugh. Yet my husband loves the show and would watch it all day. Apparently so would many others.

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