>Al, let's have sex!>No, Peg.
Sneed.
>>151832007>Toilet flushes>Audience cheers and screams at the top of their lungsA typical MWC episode.
>>151832007My wife stumbled onto MWC recently. She grew up in a country that didn't have the show. She wound up binge watching the whole thing in about a week.Also showed her Golden Girls and she loved that as well.
>>151832975She might also like M.A.S.H.Granted I think it gets better when Winchester replaces Burn (and that's pretty far in), but the first few seasons are pretty good too.
>>151833142"Five O'Clock Charlie" is a classic
>>151832975Your wife is an urbanite redneck just like you. Fix your nasal voice, Billy Bob.
>>151833280Seethe
>>151832007>15 year old Kelly Bundy walks on stage>audience : WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
>>151832007one of the first TV sitcoms to have a realistic view of married life instead of the Father Knows Best fantasy that had been peddled for 30 years at that point
>>151833403>Father Knows Best fantasyYou think mother knows best?Or is there something more to 'father knows best' that I'm not getting from the name?
>>151833403Outside occasional exceptions network TV was really slow to leave the 50s behind because it was an old boys' club run by GI/Silent Generation executives and only when they began retiring in the 80s and boomers took over did edgier programming arrive.
>>151833529He's talking about the trend of sitcoms featuring a father who 'knew best' and all of the conflicts or problems were resolved by being guided by the father and doing as he said.
>>151833671yes the corny 50s style sitcom with the perfect happy family in it, which in the 80s still existed in the form of Full House and other shitty shit
Al Bundy is a God
>those two terrible spin off episodes
>>151833671In those sitcoms, the mother/uncle/neighbour never had advise?,,,Was Wilson from Home Improvement a 'Father knows best' character? Tim was dumb, caused problems, and then went to Wilson for the solution.
>>151833403It was written as a parody of sitcoms
>>151833808If I remember correctly Wilson had a wild hippie daughter
>>151833808Please stop being an autistic redditor.
>>151833725As I said, while boomers took over music and Hollywood quickly in the late 60s their parents' generation still pretty much ran network TV for 20 more years and continued peddling the same old 50s corn outside sporadic attempts at social commentary or edgier shows.
>>151833827Niece.
>>151833808how could wilson solve this
>>151834045Thankfully, Wilson was open carrying at the time and, when he saw what would happen, fired multiple times into Tim's lawn to give him a plausible self-defense case.
>>151833403>one of the first TV sitcoms to have a realistic view of married life instead of the Father Knows Best fantasy that had been peddled for 30 years at that pointThe late 80s is when that spell broke entirely. Roseanne and The Simpsons were also more realistic than the bubblegum shlop that came before it. Simpsons was a parody but it was an earnest one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Q-VAGtntc is a good example that a lot of married women would relate to even if the characters are a bit over the top at times to force the episode along.
>>151834192>RoseanneDidn't they try to reboot/renew that series without Roseanne?Also, if I remember right, the last season was full of surreal dream-sequence stuff.... which was odd for a sitcom.
>>151834192Dan was a good guy
>>151834256They revived it with the whole cast, retconning the last season. Then Roseanne tanked her career, and the last few seasons went on without her.
I used to watch Married with Children in the morning on TBS before school.
Al Bundy is best written common man ever put to screen.No amount of tits and early 90s bush would make me love that greedy vapid hagPlague upon that bitch Darcy
>>151833403Because that's what I want from my sitcoms.Realism.
>>151832007https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIqApLRVn_8
>>151834976Even Al can't fully hate his family, as much as he wouldn't admit it.
>>151834539She was fired for wrongthink and they tried to shambles the show on without its star like idiots.
>>151835145>She was fired for wrongthinkcool
Married With Children is genuinely a great show that I'm surprised didn't get talked about enough. I don't care if it's "trashy"People always praised the Simpsons for being the first to depict a dysfunctional family
>>151833344Pretty sure both the character and actress were already 18 at the start of the showThat 70's Show was the sitcom with a 15 year old showing her panties
>>151835575It was huge in the 90s. It was the shock humor that Fox use to rely on to be different from the other 3 major basic channels.
>>151835657Keep crying
sAAAAAAAAAdid AAA hear some cAAAArolers
>>151835144Al loves his family, he just doesnt like them.His greatest treasure is hidden inside his beloved dodge in a copy of big uns: a picture of him with his family.
>>151835657It wasn't really that he got bored of her. Like you said he saw her more as a mistake that ruined his life. That being said he mostly never really put a fight when she wanted sex. He would just say he didn't want to while being dragged into the bedroom.
>>151832975I thought most countries had their own version of the show
>>151833344That was all teen shows at the time.Saved by the Bell overdid the wooooo shit every time someone looked at the camera.
>>151833562It's more like they jumped back into the sickeningly sweet perfect family shit in the early 80s. 70s sitcoms left a lot of that crap and were kind of similar to 90s stuff with a lot of real life type situations. But in the 80s there was a whole 50s flashback nostalgia thing happening and they made a shitload of perfect family sitcoms with a perfect dad in a sweater vest. People got so sick of that shit that they started making parodies of it by 87-88.
>>151834256They actually killed her offscreen. They did the same thing with Dan years earlier then made that whole season a dream.
>>151834719Weirdly Al still stood by his family though. His wife was a thieving, lying piece of shit and his kids were little bastards, but he never left them, kept going to work and paying for the any damn way.Al had loads of chances to cheat on Peggy but he never did.
>>151834719ThisAl was not a loser, he was a normal every day guy who did not want to deal with Marcy's PC bullshit, modern feminists, artsy shit, or any kind of fancy upper crust crap. He usually had episodes where something he liked was ruined like beer or baseball and he took a stand for the little guy over it and made an inspirational speech. Marcy usually ruined things for him because she was a 90s era angry activist feminist type that ruined things for Al on purpose.
>>151835876>Al beating up one of Kelly's boyfriends and throwing him out the house Always hilarious
>>151835915Beating up Kelly's ex in the movie theater was one of the best moments.
>>151832007You watch a few episodes and you realize Peg is the shit one of the entire cast that ruins everyone's lives.
>>151833344Was mwc live audience or laugh track?
>>151835929>Walks back to the wrong theater >Cats to Peggy telling him he's in the wrong theater >Hold on, I think I see hooters>Yup, hooters, hooters, hooters >All the guys get up and leave the theater to go to the one Al is in
>>151836015>>151833344It was a real live audience. And the audience cheering for Al Bundy got so insane it started approaching the levels of a WWF wrestler making an entrance:https://youtu.be/m3DNNhhG09w?t=17That video is edited as a joke but not by as much as you may think.
>>151835906>Marcy usually ruined things for him because she was a 90s era angry activist feminist type that ruined things for Al on purpose.She was whatever the writers didn't like that weekIn some episodes she's an environmentalist feminist who hates men, in other episodes she's a big business loving self ascribed republican who could pave over a public park, both modes were still annoying nags who got offended at everything. That's what always fascinated me about her character
>>151836015I realized it was a real audience when I heard one audience member yell "GO AL!"
>>151834192I hate this meme zoomer YouTubers tell that the Simpsons was super edgy for the time due to Bart saying stuff like "EAT MY SHORTS MAN". Married... With Children was another family sitcom from Fox that came out before and it was like constant non-stop sex jokes and showing off strippers.90's also had stuff like the Jerry Springer Show airing during daylights time at the same time as stuff like Sesame Street and Blue's Clues with people going insane about fucking their sisters with constant words . But yeah "DON'T HAVE A COW MAN" was supposedly too much for 90's audiences to handle.
>>151835876>Weirdly AlSay that again...
>>151836245Steve had the same evolution early in the show. He was a moralistic wimp controlled by his wife in the first season. Then he became the materialistic capitalist money grubbing opportunist that loved to display that he had lots of money. Then he was a jobless loser that didn't want to do anything with his life for the last few episodes he appeared in. The worst part about Marcy is that she is no longer an extreme tv comedy caricature any longer. In the 2020s she is a very typical Karen social media activist type that just likes to fucking ruin major public things for people and uses being a feminist as a shield from any controversy she creates.
>>151836245The actress for Marcy in real life was an actual lesbian.>>151835906>[Al] usually had episodes where something he liked was ruined like beerModern shows like "The New Norm" or "Mr Birchum" are basically just doing that same bit. It's obvious they want to create a character like Al Bundy or Archie Bunker but are too incompetent to do it right. And even while trying desperately to seem non-woke still fail at being more politically incorrect compared to the likes of Married... With Children or All in the Family.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7msKwDjV18M
Ever read the comics?
>>151836313>I hate this meme zoomer YouTubers tell that the Simpsons was super edgy for the timeLiterally everyone has said that for decades, every Simpsons fan has said that, a lot of shows inspired by the Simpsons have said that. It's untrue if you watch MWC, but youtubers and "zoomers" didn't start it.
>>151835906Truthfully he was a loser. Majority of his life was taking losses and being made fun of them for it
>>151836553No but I remember staring at Kelly's tits on the covers>files too biggay
>>151836397Shit like New Norm and Birchum are just made with annoying and pathetic resentment, seething, petty grievances and shit like that. Just the lamest shit the right has to offer.There's no joy and whimsy in it like prime Married With Children or King of the Hill, and it's not like MWC wasn't angry or loved to sling shit either. It's why KotH was great but no one remembers the show Mike Judge did after that.
It's still insane to me Peg and Leela are played by the same personIt wasn't until Futurama until I realized how cute her voice was
>wife bad>liberuls bad>kids bad>tfw wasted potentialmwc was the boomer equivalent of millennial relatable comics
