phable-75044
I grew up on married with children and the new fox network in the 80s. as a 7 year old girl, I sometimes didn't get some of the more adult jokes but it never kept me from tuning out. as the show went on to get different time slots as it was nearing the end, it was sad. this has to be one of the most under rated shows and casts ever assembled. this show was so ahead of its time in all ways, when you watch it now in 2018, though its decades old its still very modern.
David del Real
Al and Peggy Bundy are a married couple that lost any similitude to liking each other a long time ago. Also any reminiscence of loving each other, (in case it ever existed) is absolutely long gone, mostly on Al's side. Nevertheless they found along the years a way of surviving to their marriage by annoying and sometimes insulting each other on a regular basis. It is safe to assume that they keep wondering most of the time how in God's Earth they ended up married in the first place...I mean...it is not like they don't express their discomfort along the episodes...They have two kids, a boy and a girl. The boy, Bud Bundy doesn't seem to like any of the other members of the family much, but likes to make business with some of them sporadically. Their daughter, Kelly, seems at very first sight a very innocent person. But innocence is a very difficult characteristic to define. If a part of innocence has to do with some lack of common sense, that is the only part of innocence she will ever keep.The advertising was so right: IT'S A SUGAR-FREE SITUATION COMEDY!!!!!!! and one of the best ones ever!!!!!!!Thanks for reading.IMDb Review by David del Real.November 2017.
nicholls_les
The only reason this got 9 instead of 10 is because it didn't always work, especially the last series. But over all this is what all comedies should be .... funny! Married with Children is laugh out loud funny and some of the episodes are classics. Ed O'Neill proves to be a brilliant comedy actor as Al Bundy, surely Al is one of the best comedic characters ever created? Christina Applegate provides some of the series funniest lines as the pretty but less than intelligent Kelly Bundy. She is laugh out loud funny at times. Katey Sagal creates a unique comedy classic character as Peggy and although Bud is probably the weakest family character, David Faustino does it brilliantly. It is hard to find fault with any of the cast in this series. Amanda Bearse as Marcy D'Arcy is very funny. Her interactions with Al are comedy genius. Ted McGinley who replaced Steve Rhoades as her husband is also very funny.But what makes this series so funny is it is politically incorrect and goes back to a time when what mattered in comedies was that they make people laugh. So many so called modern comedies and comedians are just not funny and resort to bad language which for some strange reason makes some people laugh.Some Al Bundy scenes in the shoe shop are just some of the most hilarious I have seen.Love this show and sad it ended the way it did.
Dark_Lord_Mark
Sitcom are made with females in mind. But Married with Children(MWC) was on of the rare sitcom guys love because of the relateablity of the characters, the adult toilet humor, and the great cast acting. There was someone for everyone to latch on to, Al was the loser husband, peg was his wife who has no job and does nothing and only wants sex from Al, bud was a dateless virgin loser who had a rubber woman and Kelly was the Sexy airhead sister who sleeps with anything. His neighbors hated Al and his family and Al did not care. He's a man's man.THat's why guys love it. While other shows (Seinfeld) jokes were helped GREATLY by the processed laugh track and has held up terribly over time, Friends not very well written minimal jokes that was laugh track crazy, MWC is STILL funny and refreshing and well written. It's one of the few sitcoms that were made for guys in a market dominated by the female audience.It made fun of every subject, from sex to penis size, to sluttiness to virginity....nothing was safe. Ethnic neighborhoods, gays, straights; nothing was off limits. A show that because of its edginess was and always will be funny.It's a guys comedy 10 out of 10.....MWC is a funny, well written and considered the best sitcom ever by men.