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Tony Homo
Oct 30, 2014

by zen death robot
I recall back in those days the commercials promoting the show had a young Applegate being very sexually provocative. Because she was so young looking it seemed a lot like a young teen girl doing those suggestive moves. It was very sexy.

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Demon Of The Fall
May 1, 2004

Nap Ghost
I like when they went to England

Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

JediTalentAgent posted:

I get that, too. I knew people from the early 90s who were massive metal/hard rock fans who HATED everything about those sorts of acts at the time because it wasn't the 80s-styled loud metal scene stuff.

But with it being a popular TV show I could have seen them trying to capitalize on "This Nirvana stuff is HOT right now! The kids aren't into the 80s acts, anymore! Get Kelly to stop dressing like she's in a Whitesnake video and drop more references to Pearl Jam!" etc. I do get the feeling had the show not been winding down by the time the Spice Girls/Boy Band era was starting, they probably would have had Kelly/Bud involved in some character arc or storyline of becoming part of such a band or obsessed with one.

*flushes toilet*

*audience cheers*

SAustria
Jul 25, 2007
MWC also had some of the most hilarious fight scenes of all time. Al and bud taking on the whole strip club, Al, bud and the father in law(if i recall) taking on a chicago street gang in a bad neighborhood.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


Season 8 in random screenshots.






I think they hit more than their grunge quota with Waylon Jennings in flannel.

Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

biggie smalls

RVWinkle
Aug 24, 2004

In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create a natural doubt of the authenticity of my narrative.
Nap Ghost

Kelly is the best, obviously, but I also think Marcy is severely underrated. I do recall her doing the sexy dress up thing several times.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


RVWinkle posted:

Kelly is the best, obviously
I recall there being at least one news story of a fatal shooting over the Kelly-Peg argument. And no that's not a threat, I'm just politely informing you there are different schools of thought.

Also we lost something as a civilization when it no longer became politically correct on evening tv to exclaim "Raise the bimbo its time to limbo!" and rub your neck all over a woman's dangling rear end.

http://i.imgur.com/MtFd6bu.gifv

The televised world will never quite be as raunchy as it was right before internet pornography blanketed the globe.

Supreme Allah
Oct 6, 2004

everybody relax, i'm here
Nap Ghost

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Al was the best. He'd constantly make fun of his own wife but if anyone else hurt her feelings he'd defend the poo poo out of her.

I also loved how much he adored Buck. There was one episode where Peggy was complaining about being very sick, and Al just kept saying "ok Peg". A few minutes later one of the kids say "dad, I think Buck is sick" and he immediately jumps up and shrieks "MY BABY????!!!" and runs over to console him.

What a great show. It was one of the few things my father and I bonded over even though it wasn't appropriate for my age (I was in elementary school). He kind of let it slide just for this show.

The whole familys like that, they're vicious to each other but also protective. It was a big part of the shows charm. For instance Bud hates Kelly but when Cory Feldman brags about being a jerk to her, Bud gives him measles in revenge. When Tiffany amber thiessen embarrassed Bud, Kelly ties her up naked to the lockers.

I also loved that Buck moment.

Anyway here's Al hitting people -- the guy at the 5:30 mark does some fantastic selling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVOQ0EKHBMY

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug
My best MwC moment was watching it in German.
In the early 90s UK satellite TV was analogue, so we got 200+ channels from France/Germany/Holland.
And in Germany they dubbed over the voices in MwC.
And Peggy was a gravelly MALE voice! After watching it in english, the dubs made it hilarious.

polio king
Jun 19, 2004

I always wanted a No Ma'am shirt.

Centripetal Horse
Nov 22, 2009

Fuck money, get GBS

This could have bought you a half a tank of gas, lmfao -
Love, gromdul

Uncle at Nintendo posted:

Al was the best. He'd constantly make fun of his own wife but if anyone else hurt her feelings he'd defend the poo poo out of her.

I think I covered this when I started this thread. All the bickering, and the in-fighting becomes less abrasive and gains depth because we know that the family will always stick together when the chips are down. It's one of the things that elevates Married... with Children above the copy-cat "bickering family" shows that came afterward.


Booblord Zagats posted:

OP this is a very good thread and you're doing some good reviews as well

Thanks. I really like this show. I've been watching it on and off for nearly thirty years, and it still cracks me up.


happyhippy posted:

My best MwC moment was watching it in German.
In the early 90s UK satellite TV was analogue, so we got 200+ channels from France/Germany/Holland.
And in Germany they dubbed over the voices in MwC.
And Peggy was a gravelly MALE voice! After watching it in english, the dubs made it hilarious.

I am trying to find the German season four DVDs. They have the entire season in its original, un-edited form, and they come with English audio.

JnnyThndrs
May 29, 2001

HERE ARE THE FUCKING TOWELS
No mention of the Bundymobile in the OP? Shameful.

'No brakes!!' :crashes into garage:

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Has there been any word on the sequel show that the guy who played Bud had been talking about last year? Last I heard everyone from the original cast was on board and it sounded like it might actually happen.

Vertical Lime
Dec 11, 2004

SAustria posted:

MWC also had some of the most hilarious fight scenes of all time. Al and bud taking on the whole strip club, Al, bud and the father in law(if i recall) taking on a chicago street gang in a bad neighborhood.

where the beer gives you gas but the bundys kick rear end

at the nudie bar

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Vince MechMahon posted:

Has there been any word on the sequel show that the guy who played Bud had been talking about last year? Last I heard everyone from the original cast was on board and it sounded like it might actually happen.

ed o'neill said it probably wasn't gonna happen due to everyone's schedule aka they all still have careers except for bud




speaking of, anyone else remember when david faustino actually tried to become a rapper?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alXlHh6CiRo

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


Good lord Lil' D is awful. Anger is never a music motif that flows well from child stars.

Shoulda taken the Joey Lawrence route and used his debut track to bring some colorful joy into this world via blue-eyed new jack swing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7FtI3cmZ38

Gaunab
Feb 13, 2012
LUFTHANSA YOU FUCKING DICKWEASEL
Married...with children is really a product of its time and not in that timeless sense. If you're not watching it during the early hours of the morning because there's nothing else on, then you watching the show wrong

Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!
Who's that riding into the sun?
Who's the man with the itchy gun?
Who's the man who kills for fun?
Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad.

He sleeps with a gun
but he loves his son
Killed his wife 'cos she weighed a ton.
He's Psycho Dad!

Nolan Arenado
May 8, 2009

I've gotta say, I never liked this show. It is similar to me to Everybody Loves Raymond in that every character is an unhappy unlikable shithead. Which isn't funny to me. I've no doubt that Married... With Children is actually much better than Raymond, that's just the comparison I have in my mind.

Perhaps op can convince me to change my mind and give it another try.

dad gay. so what
Feb 18, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
did you know that lady was alesbian?

Commie Lasorda
May 15, 2009

IT'S CLOBBERIN' TIME!

dad gay. so what posted:

did you know that lady was alesbian?

yeah and she also directed a buttload of episodes too

suck it 3rd wave feminism

Centripetal Horse
Nov 22, 2009

Fuck money, get GBS

This could have bought you a half a tank of gas, lmfao -
Love, gromdul

OctoberBlues posted:

I've gotta say, I never liked this show. It is similar to me to Everybody Loves Raymond in that every character is an unhappy unlikable shithead. Which isn't funny to me. I've no doubt that Married... With Children is actually much better than Raymond, that's just the comparison I have in my mind.

Perhaps op can convince me to change my mind and give it another try.

Please follow this thread, and watch along with us. Your life will be better for it.

Excuse me while I do rage-reducing breathing exercises because Married... with Children is NOTHING like Everybody Loves Brad Garrett.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

Seriouspost: Married... with Children is painful to watch because in comedy, timing is everything, and in that show all the comedy is done at ½ speed so that retarded people can follow it.

shadow puppet of a
Jan 10, 2007

NO TENGO SCORPIO


You can't tell a good Bundy Lemonade or guys-all-named-Habib joke at some fast paced auctioneers patter.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

shadow puppet of a posted:

You can't tell a good Bundy Lemonade or guys-all-named-Habib joke at some fast paced auctioneers patter.

You can't tell one at any speed :smugbert:

Comfy Fleece Sweater
Apr 2, 2013

You see, but you do not observe.

I hate Maggie and her chicken legs

Go away Maggie

Yvershek
Nov 15, 2000

and there are no
diamonds in the
mine
Carry on OP

Chumbawumba4ever97
Dec 31, 2000

by Fluffdaddy

JediTalentAgent posted:

In some other thread I made a comment that the show seemingly bypassed the college rock/alternative/grunge scene for the kids, didn't it? The earlier seasons had them sort of into hard rock and metal acts, Bud had his rapper phase, but it's almost like those never happened.

Bud's rapper phase wasn't a mistake. He legitimately wanted to be a rapper in real life, and they made fun of this aspect on the show.

No, seriously. He had a single and everything:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbX5cuvLRWs

e: f,b

Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 21:00 on Jul 17, 2016

My Q-Face
Jul 8, 2002

A dumb racist who need to kill themselves

Vince MechMahon posted:

I don't understand why Al wouldn't bang Peg. I'd still bang Katey Sagal like 20 years later. I've never been in a long term relationship with a woman

Fixed.

rakovsky maybe
Nov 4, 2008

Jerry Cotton posted:

Seriouspost: Married... with Children is painful to watch because in comedy, timing is everything, and in that show all the comedy is done at ½ speed so that retarded people can follow it.

Nah it has like an old school theatre/vaudevillian vibe with all the hooting and hollering. Better than the canned laugh track every 45 seconds of BBT or HIMYM.

3D Megadoodoo
Nov 25, 2010

rakovsky maybe posted:

I'm voting for Trump.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Pudding Huxtable posted:

yeah and she also directed a buttload of episodes too

suck it 3rd wave feminism

one of the ways the show was ahead of the curve even today is both peg and marcy had sexual agency

some bust on that guy
Jan 21, 2006

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.
This is good and interesting thread with proper capitalization and grammar. What's it doing in GBS?

Aside from the first episode of Season 1, I think this is a show that began to get good in Season 2. Then it became great in Season 3. It really got better when Bud and Kelly got older and grew into their characters. 12 year old Bud has nothing on sexually frustrated 16 year old Bud.

OctoberBlues posted:

I've gotta say, I never liked this show. It is similar to me to Everybody Loves Raymond in that every character is an unhappy unlikable shithead. Which isn't funny to me. I've no doubt that Married... With Children is actually much better than Raymond, that's just the comparison I have in my mind.

Perhaps op can convince me to change my mind and give it another try.

Once you realize that deep down, the whole family really loves each other, you'll probably see them as likable. Al talks about how he doesn't like being married but any time he has the chance to cheat, he doesn't do it. Al talks about how unfortunate he is to have kids but when Kelly turned 18 and tried to get her own apartment, he convinced her to stay because he missed her. They never get seriously angry at each other. They always defend each other against others. You get the sense that they just enjoy making sarcastic quips and playfully teasing each other. It's like a mutual understanding where they poke fun at each other and no one gets offended. None of them take anything too seriously.

makoto20
Nov 23, 2006
Ed O'neil had great timing.

"Did you miss me, Al?"

"With every bullet so far."

some bust on that guy
Jan 21, 2006

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

argondamn posted:

at what point does it become okay to oggle kelly? the late 80s/early 90s were a different time and i don't want to be led astray by the live studio audience

Pick an age you're okay with.

Kelly's Metamorphosis

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Super Ninja Fish posted:

Pick an age you're okay with.

Kelly's Metamorphosis


22 3/4 is obviously peak Kelly.

Bonzo
Mar 11, 2004

Just like Mama used to make it!
One of my favorite shows of all time.

Al gets a song stuck in his head but can't place it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZZUuxXaU

Al starts a vegetable garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rg1w88ekqw

Psycho DAD!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnK85RoXF6o

Also the Christmas one where the mall Santa falls and dies in their yard is right up there with the WKRP Thanksgiving episode.

Vince MechMahon
Jan 1, 2008



Bonzo posted:

One of my favorite shows of all time.

Al gets a song stuck in his head but can't place it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPrZZUuxXaU


Thanks to the comments here I finally know what song this was.

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kjetting
Jan 18, 2004

Hammer Time

OctoberBlues posted:

I've gotta say, I never liked this show. It is similar to me to Everybody Loves Raymond in that every character is an unhappy unlikable shithead. Which isn't funny to me. I've no doubt that Married... With Children is actually much better than Raymond, that's just the comparison I have in my mind.

Perhaps op can convince me to change my mind and give it another try.

It's pretty much the opposite of Everybody Loves Raymond.

The thing with M...WC is that it does everything "wrong". The characters are all extreme caricatures, the actors are chewing scenery and being over the top, the plots are unrealistic and dumb, everything is cheaply made and the jokes are hitting you hard over the head. And... it works. It's kind of a package deal. It's not just a sitcom about a dysfunctional family, it's a spoof of the entire sitcom genre.

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