"Antenna TV", shows the series Monday-Thursday nights. I never watched it when it was on Fox, but have watched re-runs. Mostly I've seen episodes from the final 5 years, almost like those are the ones run the most. Well, "Antenna TV" went through the final season, and is now running the very first season. It's interesting in that the show was a bit more conventional during its first few months, but in the middle or so of the first season, it rather suddenly got more blue-humored. I noticed that the kids had little to do or say at the start of the series. The girl was already a teen, but the boy wasn't. They also didn't involve the children in too much sexual hanky-panky talk very early on. That started changing in the middle of the first season, it appears. The "Kelly Bundy" teen girl starts talking about stealing boy friends from other girls and goes running away with a hot looking guy who is a stranger while the family is on vacation. The "Bud Bundy" 5th grade boy starts to comically over do some bragging to impress a little girl. As for the two main adult characters, very early on the wife, Peggy, is not as lazy as she is in most of the series and Ed O'Neill's "Al Bundy" didn't start doing "I'm-tired of-sleeping-with-my wife" jokes until the middle of the first season. Also early on, Al and Peggy occasionally show affection for eachother during times that, later in the series, they would insult eachother. About the middle of the first season is when "Married: With Children" actually became what we know of as "Married: With Children".
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Married: With Children re-runs
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Once they got their "dirty-mojo" going as I described in the middle of the first season, I think the show is funny. I find the final season to be very funny. Of the "B" characters, I think I like Griff the best, and he was on in the last few seasons.
As for the very first episodes, one of the first ones has Peggy and the kids using the family's credit card to buy Dad/Al gifts. Then when he trys to use the credit card to buy a real nice gift for his wife, the card is denied. When he gets home, he talks about how, as the family's bread-winner, he, in essence, bought the gifts given to him because it was money that he brought into the household that will be used to pay off the credit card charges. Then he goes to work on his car in the garage, leaving the rest of the family alone to think about what he said. There is a rather touching scene at the end when Peggy goes out to the garage to apologize. Not the usual "Married: With Children", that's for sure. Still, it was effective.
As for the very first episodes, one of the first ones has Peggy and the kids using the family's credit card to buy Dad/Al gifts. Then when he trys to use the credit card to buy a real nice gift for his wife, the card is denied. When he gets home, he talks about how, as the family's bread-winner, he, in essence, bought the gifts given to him because it was money that he brought into the household that will be used to pay off the credit card charges. Then he goes to work on his car in the garage, leaving the rest of the family alone to think about what he said. There is a rather touching scene at the end when Peggy goes out to the garage to apologize. Not the usual "Married: With Children", that's for sure. Still, it was effective.
Yeah it was for 3 years I believe. Now the show is on Nick at Nite but Im sure Nick at Nite wont show all the episodes because of the content but then again Nick at Nite did air The Jeffersons and All In The Family and those are not family shows. KDOC here in Los Angeles just started airing it after years of repeats on KTTV and KCOP
No doubt "Married With Children" has enjoy some renewed popularity thanks to the actors' recent successes (Ed O'Neill: Modern Family, Kathy Sagal: Sons Of Anarchy, Christina Applegate: various movies & sitcoms). It's amazing to revisit the show after all these years and think, some of it is still pretty fresh and actually very funny compared to what's out there today. In this viewer's eyes, the show really hit its stride in seasons 2-4, basically before David Garrison (Steve Rhodes) left. I've always felt that was the show's true "Jump The Shark" moment.
I never thought Jefferson added much to the show. He was basically a male version of Peggy. While Steve was a useful as he could see both points of view, from Al's point and from Marcie's point. You didn't always know who's side he'd pick.
I do agree the show was more realistic at first and with each episode became more cartoon like.
I do agree the show was more realistic at first and with each episode became more cartoon like.
Mark said:
Apparently, the producers realised that fact later on when there was an episode where a wild rabbit was digging holes in the Bundys' backyard, leading Al to implement solutions fitting for a cartoon. That episode ended when Al finally gotten rid of the rabbit, but the house was in shambles. Al pulls out a carrot to eat, as he appears in a target similar to the Looney Tunes logo, with Peggy saying, "That's Al, Folks!"
I like both "Steve Rhodes" and "Jefferson D'Arcy". Garrison's "Rhodes" was less cartoonish then the other characters. He also occasionaly represented the wimpy-type guy. McGinley's "Jefferson" was, as stated by another poster, a male Peggy, and unidimensional. Still, I think Jefferson was just fine. I don't see how you can call Jefferson a jump-the-shark moment. The show lasted for many seasons with Jefferson.
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