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Can I get a whoa Bundy: Married with Children premiered 30 years ago today

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Jmille99

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Still my favorite tv series of all time. Holds up incredibly well, still hilarious, and its hard not to love all the characters in some capacity. One of the shows that my parents and I always caught every week when it aired. Good memories, even as a kid who didnt get all the jokes at that time.

Two things:

1. Always had more of a thing for Peg than Kelly.

2. Maybe I overlooked it, but this many pages and no mention of the nudie bar?

"Where the breasts may be fake but man do they shake, at the nudie bar"
 
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FaintDeftone

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Easily my favorite sitcom of all-time. I have fond memories of watching this with my dad every week. I need to drop the cash on the full season set one of these days. The show got really strange once they introduced the character Six though.

Oh and Jefferson > Steve
 
bunbun777

bunbun777

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Easily one of the top sitcoms of all time.

"Beans buhbeans buhbeans beans beans, beans buhbeans beans corrrrnnnnn!"
 
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krae_man

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Hey mister, save the whales!

Who cares

Hey mister, save the rainforrest!

Who cares

Hey mister, they are going to raise our beer tax two cents!

Those Bastards!
 
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Blackpanther25

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Woman: I thought you loved the jiggley room
Al: yeah but all the wrong things are jiggling!

My favorite show of all time.
Jefferson > Steve
 
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Hyperborean

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Because of when and where I was born, I could never be a member of the studio audience for an episode of Married with Children. This makes me sad. In every episode, the audience is having a great time.
 
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The Horror the horror

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Sam Kinison: I'm sorry, Bundy. I failed you. I was sent down to Earth to show you a reason why you should live, but I can't think of one darn reason.
 
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LycanXIII

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TestMonkey said:
"So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be are still out there being what we don't want to be forty hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner." -Al Bundy
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Al will always be a winner to me.
 
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TAJ

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Rockandrollclown said:
Watching it now, its a wildly uneven show. I still rank it among the greatest of all time though.
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Naw, it started off a little rough because they couldn't figure out what to do with the kids. Once they established them it was consistently great.
 
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Septimus Prime

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TestMonkey said:
"So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be are still out there being what we don't want to be forty hours a week for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner." -Al Bundy
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No, Mr. Bundy, that's what makes you a loser. You see, you could have made something of your life, I suppose. But you never followed through. That's always been your problem. Like I always told you, "make a promise, keep a promise." And maybe if you did that just once, you'd be a winner.
 
bunbun777

bunbun777

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Septimus Prime said:
No, Mr. Bundy, that's what makes you a loser. You see, you could have made something of your life, I suppose. But you never followed through. That's always been your problem. Like I always told you, "make a promise, keep a promise." And maybe if you did that just once, you'd be a winner.
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That old bat got hers lol.
 
kingwingin

kingwingin

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Very sad to see so much support for this show.

Fat shaming
Misogyny
Frequent Jokes about suicide
Promoting the dumb blonde stereotype
Women are just objects
Feminist hate

So glad this show is off the air and we will never see garbage like this ever again
 
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Marky Mark

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Clipse said:
lol I came into this thread for this, but wasn't expecting it so early. Thank you.
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If you came in expecting it but didn't expect so early, why did you come in so early if you expected not to see it? You would've been setting yourself up for disappointment.

The fact that it was here so early wouldve been a pleasant surprise but you masochistically came in expecting to be disappointed from the outset.
 
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BannedAtTheTroxy

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I credit (blame?) this show for my life long love of women in high heels. To this day I can't have sexual intercourse without my SO wearing heels or pantyhose.
 
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Lothar

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kingwingin said:
Very sad to see so much support for this show.

Fat shaming
Misogyny
Frequent Jokes about suicide
Promoting the dumb blonde stereotype
Women are just objects
Feminist hate

So glad this show is off the air and we will never see garbage like this ever again
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Haha, funny sarcastic post. But someone a few pages ago already beat you to it.
 
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-shadow-

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It's still amazing the series never got a true final episode. I love it, truly a shame it was recorded on VHS because this deserves so much more.
 
Ban Puncher

Ban Puncher

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TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT - DON'T MAKE FUN OF OUR WEIGHT!!

TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT - DON'T MAKE FUN OF OUR WEIGHT!!

One two three four - you're gonna fall through the floor!

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Violence Jack

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Ban Puncher said:
TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT - DON'T MAKE FUN OF OUR WEIGHT!!

TWO FOUR SIX EIGHT - DON'T MAKE FUN OF OUR WEIGHT!!

One two three four - you're gonna fall through the floor!

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My favorite fat joke had to have been:

Customer: "How dare you say that behind my back?"

Al: "I'd say it to your face, but my car's only got half a tank of gas!"
 
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Dai101

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kingwingin said:
Very sad to see so much support for this show.

Fat shaming
Misogyny
Frequent Jokes about suicide
Promoting the dumb blonde stereotype
Women are just objects
Feminist hate

So glad this show is off the air and we will never see garbage like this ever again
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Funny thing. Amanda Bearse (Marcy Rhoades/D'arcy) a feminist and a lesbian wrote/co-wrote and directed some of MWC episodes.
 
bryanee

bryanee

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My friend bought me the complete box set for Christmas. I cant wait to get started on it but she also bought me the complete Cheers box set for my birthday before Chrimbo and I'm still making my way through those.

Love them both.
 
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Hickbilly Deluxe

Banned
kingwingin said:
Very sad to see so much support for this show.

Fat shaming
Misogyny
Frequent Jokes about suicide
Promoting the dumb blonde stereotype
Women are just objects
Feminist hate

So glad this show is off the air and we will never see garbage like this ever again
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I for one can't wait to have kids and watch this with them on DVD. A shame you apparently lack a sense of humor and will never be able to enjoy it like the rest of us.
 
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The Real Abed

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My mom used to ban us from watching it. We were kids so obviously. But we would always try and find a way to watch it anyway. Even if it was reruns at my grandmothers house, who will always be famous for her "What are hooters?" exclamation when I was watching an episode once. I didn't tell her.
 
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DrForester

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Knuckle Sandwich said:
That last season of Roseanne and especially the finale kills a lot of the fun of watching the older eps for me. I remember feeling insulted at the time and I was just a kid lol.
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Roseanne pretty much ends in my mind after Darlene takes off for College (end of S5 I think). While it wasn't as bad as the final season, there was a notable dip in quality, with a lot of the characters getting flanderized.
 
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Parahan

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I was too young to have watched this show but saw a few random episodes online and youtube after reading high praise on this thread. I don't get it...why would anyone think this is funny?

Overweight customer : Not sure I like this shade of blue.
Al the salesman: I'll tell you what, we will stand you in front of a mirror and I will begin strangling you. When you reach a shade of blue that is satisfactory to you, you yell "moo" and I will stop.



So keeping the lowbrow humor aside , is nostalgia an excuse to just ignore body shaming and violent misogyny?

I am glad we live in times when shows like these wouldn't get past pilot screenings. I liked Ed'O Neil as an actor and glad I got to see him play Jay Pritchett first. There is a lot of difference between a fat nasty cartoon kid being mean and a normal looking family guy behave the same way.
 
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RionaaM

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Fantastic show. I'll always love the episode where Santa Claus dies in the Bundy's backyard. Or the "So you think I'm a loser" one, that monologue is incredible.
 
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norm9

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Parahan said:
I was too young to have watched this show but saw a few random episodes online and youtube after reading high praise on this thread. I don't get it...why would anyone think this is funny?



So keeping the lowbrow humor aside , is nostalgia an excuse to just ignore body shaming and violent misogyny?

I am glad we live in times when shows like these wouldn't get past pilot screenings. I liked Ed'O Neil as an actor and glad I got to see him play Jay Pritchett first. There is a lot of difference between a fat nasty cartoon kid being mean and a normal looking family guy behave the same way.
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Why aren't you watching the recommended episodes in this thread?
 
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adin75

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This news makes me feel old.

Loved this show, although I haven't watched it in years (must change that).

I had the biggest crush on Kelly, I expect like most young guys at the time.

One of the highlights for me at the time was the Dinner with Anthrax episode, mainly due to one of my fave bands being on a TV show.
 
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