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Title: Married With Children
Post by: Mr. DS on September 05, 2009, 08:17:26 PM
I used to love this show and still do.  I was watching a marathon today and luckily caught some great episodes.  There was the one where Marcy was having orgasms while making speeches and the one where death visits Al on Halloween. 
My all time fav, which I didn't catch today, was the supermarket sweep competition between Al and Marcy. 

What are some of your fav episodes if any?


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: SkullBat308 on September 05, 2009, 08:25:14 PM
The episode were Al gets his high school football field named after him, good to see something nice happen too him.

*fun fact, they made a XXX spoof of the show recently.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Mr. DS on September 06, 2009, 06:22:41 AM
I recall my psychology teacher complaining in class how the show gave negative connotations to marriage and family life.  I think its highly accurate actually.   :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Doggett on September 06, 2009, 06:59:10 AM
Intresting one this, I used to watch the repeats on ITV4 and I hated it. I watched it for ironic reasons, I cringe at most of the "jokes". Katy Sagel's hot though...love her hair !

(http://www.editrix.ws/celebs/pics/341082/kateysagal-marriedwithchildren.jpg)


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Jack on September 06, 2009, 07:13:48 AM
I absolutely love that show!  I've got season 4 on DVD, I think Kelly was the hottest in seasons 4 & 5.  My favorite episode, coincidentally, is the Labor Day barbecue ep.  Al's making speeches about how the men work and the women do nothing, and Marcy's aunt has died and her ashes wind up in the grill.  Steve is so sick of listening to how great the aunt was that he takes a huge bite out of his burger  :teddyr:  I also love the one where the roof is leaking and Al is up there fixing it.  He falls off the roof numerous times, gets tangled up in the TV cable and is hanging in midair, as everyone ignores him.  The Christmas episode where the mall has Santa parachuting from an airplane, but the chute doesn't open and he falls to his death in the Bundy backyard is another favorite.  And Al and Jefferson trying to build a Black and Decker Workmate was hilarious as well.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 06, 2009, 07:16:30 AM
I used to watch "Married With Children" religiously years ago. I loved every episode. I can understand why alot of people don't like it, but its charm is in its blatant sexism and toilet humour. MWC knew it was a knuckleheaded show and the Al Bundy character cracks me up all the time, he's my idol - I'm sure never having kids or getting married.
My favourite episodes were "No Ma'am", "Nightmare On Al's Street" and "The Dateless Amigo". I also really like the episodes with King Kong Bundy, Doug Donatelli and Anthrax. It was a good show, but I'm glad it ended when it did, as I don't think it would've worked well in the 00s and would've gone stale fast.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Doggett on September 06, 2009, 07:30:13 AM
It was a good show, but I'm glad it ended when it did, as I don't think it would've worked well in the 00s and would've gone stale fast.

The one good thing of the show, for me at least, was the certain charm of it's late 80's early 90's feel.

I really hated how over the top the audience was, though. I spent a lot of episodes with the sound off and just looking at the subtitles, can't stand all that over the top clapping and cheering. It's like panto for adults. Surely I can't be the only one thinking that ? The audience must have been very easily pleased ! They would probably have a heart attack if they ever saw an early episode of Red Dwarf !!


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Mr. DS on September 06, 2009, 07:59:55 AM
Let us not forget the great Sam Kinison's appearance as an angel during Christmas.   :thumbup:


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Psycho Circus on September 06, 2009, 08:02:25 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB4LYHO9zhk&feature=related


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: BeyondTheGrave on September 11, 2009, 03:09:19 AM
One of the running gags I liked how everyone thought that Jefferson didn't have a job but he was a secret agent. Like that two part epsiode were they go to D.C. and hes get them into to see congress,or where Als car breaks down and can't get the engine in the States and Jefferson gets it from Castro or when Al suspect him being a spy and keeps telling him to say all the presidents and all Al says is "Dwight D Eisenhower".


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: meQal on September 11, 2009, 01:36:28 PM
I was watching it early this morning on TBS. I remember watching this show regularly when it was on the air and loved it. One of my favorite episodes is where the Bundys go to England and you find out there is a curse on all the Bundy males. I also like the re-occouring joke about A's favorite show, "Psycho Dad". another good episode was when Jerry Springer guest starred and was taken hostage by No Ma'am on the set of his "show". Also the episode where Al starts a drunken riot because of a two cent beer tax hike.(saw that one again thsi morning)but my all time favorite has to be when aliens come to take Al's socks. It turns out that Al was the savior of the universe because his vile smelling socks fueled the weapon to stop a deadly monster asteroid that was destine to destory many worlds including Earth.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: voltron on September 11, 2009, 05:10:10 PM
"The guy who met Andy Griffiths!"  :bouncegiggle:


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Mr. DS on September 11, 2009, 07:34:05 PM
I like the one where Al has a near death experience and thinks he sees God's shoes and goes on to invent them.  Another one that came to mind today is the one where Bud sleeps with his rather large cousin's fiance and is afraid he'll get killed when he finds out. 


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Fausto on September 12, 2009, 12:41:32 AM
I recall my psychology teacher complaining in class how the show gave negative connotations to marriage and family life.  I think its highly accurate actually.   :bouncegiggle:

Your teacher is either high or a lousy psychologist. Shows like Full House are more damaging, in that they present an unrealistic ideal, leaving family members feeling messed up or that something is wrong. By comparison, watching Married with Children or the Simpsons not only provide characters with which the audience can relate, but also leaves viewers with the feeling that their own lives arent that bad after all.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Jim H on September 16, 2009, 02:35:42 AM
I don't remember the whole episode too well, but the ending of the episode where they get conned into buying a Fool's Gold mine has such a great ending.  I tend to like the episodes best where the Bundy's end up "winning", especially Al. 

He's a douche, but he's my kind of douche.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Warp Ninja X on September 28, 2009, 12:12:31 PM
It still p**s me off that dumbass Rupert Murdock kept this show on but not Werewolf. :hatred: That one who plays Marcie was hot when she was in Fright Night too bad she's a lesbian. :bluesad:


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: JPickettIII on October 23, 2009, 11:25:18 PM
I don't have a favorite episode, because I loved them all.  Some of you are going right.  But it is true.   I will have to say my favorite thing that Al did was the found of No 'Maam.  National Order of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood.  Good stuff.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Hammock Rider on October 26, 2009, 03:03:17 PM
 I watch this show almost every morning on TBS as I'm getting ready for work. Great way to prepare for the day :thumbup: There are so many good ones it's hard to pick out just one, although most of my favorites have to do with Al and his obsessions. Remember when he was after the last cheesecake made by the German cheesecake chef, or when he was looking for a new barber, or when he decided to build his own bathroom and was excited because he finally got to own a Ferguson brand toilet?


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Torgo on October 27, 2009, 08:56:36 AM
I watched this show for about the first 5 or 6 seasons. I think it lasted for a full 10 seasons actually.  I thought that the quality of the show started to drift sometime around the 7th season but there were still funny episodes within those latter seasons as well.

Plus, I know why a lot of males including myself tuned in each week:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Br3EKb0jY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOuY-_fe6aA


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: The Burgomaster on October 28, 2009, 04:06:51 PM
"Bundy Sunday Funday" was a funny episode


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: Torgo on November 04, 2009, 02:12:55 PM
One particular favorite episode of mine is the one where Al has the little garden going in their backyard and a rabbit I believe keeps taking his vegetables.

He winds up taking more and more drastic measures to try to eliminate the varmint and ends up blowing up the entire neighborhood.  Very cartoony but boy did I laugh.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: WyreWizard on November 15, 2009, 03:54:47 PM
My personal favorite episodes of MWC are...

The one where Al is building a doghouse in his backyard with powertools.  And Marcy, being the b***h she is calls in a building inspector who forces Al to tear it down unless he puts in some stupid things in the doghouse, like electricity and plumbing.

My other personal favorite is the one where Al's dodge is so old and used that the odometer is ready to rollback to zero.  So dodge approaches Al with an offer.  If he can get his car's odometer to a million miles and have it filmed, he gets a free dodge Viper.


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: louielabro on November 16, 2009, 03:49:27 AM
Awesome show! Al Bundy is the best!  :cheers:


Title: Re: Married With Children
Post by: paula on November 20, 2009, 03:59:17 AM
i must shout out to my cosmic twin, christina applegate.  GOD we're....er, she was hot!   :wink: