Yeah, when they are some OTHER man’s wife. When it’s your own wife you tend to lose attraction over behavior that isn’t compatible with a happy marriage. As far as being attracted to hot young women in tight clothes, that’s just sort of a natural involuntary response, especially when you’ve only had pleasant superficial interactions. When you are resigned to your wife sitting around eating bonbons for 20 years and hate your life, sometimes it doesn’t matter how “hot” she is.
Tell me about it… And that hot young football hero who scored 4 touchdowns at Polk High is now a balding lump, guzzling beer, watching sportsball in a recliner all weekend long.:rolleyes: so it goes…but the Bundys really did, under it all, love one another. Proven during the show many times.
I always thought each of the Bundy’s were fantastic in their roles on the show, but Bud is the only one that basically had no career after MWC. IMO, He did the physical comedy very well.
I heard part of his problem that he was a prima donna.
I heard about the Russian version of MWC on while watching an Expedition Unknown documentary on the Discovery Channel.
Part of the joke being that Pete was way better at being what Al considered a good spouse (i.e. he cooked for Al). Al lectured Pete’s husband (played by Sam McMurray also, like Dan C, from the Tracy Ulman Show) on how he was throwing away a good thing.
They had some really great sight gags; the view of the audience after the lights and curtain come up for The Jeffersons: Movin’ on Up live show always makes me laugh.
I just saw Christina Applegate in her new Netflix Show “Dead to me”. I am still impressed how far she has gone as an actress from Kelly, and she is as gorgeous as an adult woman as she was then to my teenage self.
I didn’t watch this show much back when it was on. Then, I saw something funny that helped put a lot of it in context for me.
I guess it was a millenial (they of the lifelong bad economic breaks) reviewing this show. His take was that Al didn’t know how good he had it:
- He owns a house!
- He’s got a stable job!
- His wife wants to have sex with him all the time!
- He can afford to raise two kids!
Compared to my life (the millenial), he’s in heaven. What has he got to complain about!
<al>everything</al>
Al’s biggest problem is that he peaked in high school. Of course he complains about everything now. All his good times ended at graduation. Christina Applegate pushes my buttons because a)she’s almost my age so she was a contemporary and b) she looked JUST LIKE a girl I totally had the hots for in high school. So seeing her in reruns is nostalgic on two levels.
the sad thing is I knew several real life als and peggys …the als were, in reality, bitter mean drunks at dead-end jobs with a wife and kids they didn’t want (one even said the only reason he had either them was abortions weren’t legal back when he was in hs) some were studs in hs some weren’t
the Peggys were neglectful pill heads or trampy drunks themselves that kept the kids clothed and fed just enough so the county. state wouldn’t intervene …
Al: Oh, Peg, it was horrible. Sixteen straight hours of shoe-selling mayhem. Last thing I remember, I was down on one knee, waiting on an overflowing glacier of a woman. First thing they teach you when you’re a rookie shoe salesman is, when you got a fat one in the chair, never look up. I looked up, Peg. I saw underwear. It said “Saturday.”
Peg: So what?
Al: TODAY’S WEDNESDAY! Anyway, the next thing I knew, I was insane.
I loved when Al would make a condecending comment, implying that someone had it worse than him. Kind of the opposite of praise from Caesar.
When Al’s in-laws come to visit, the flamboyantly gay brother Otto is lamenting that the family singing group (played by the Del Rubio triplets) is breaking up temporarily:
*Otto: *The public will forget, interest will wane, oh God, it can happen – look at Glen Campbell!
Peggy: Oh Al, do something!
*Al: *Sorry Peg, Glen’s career is what it is.
I don’t remember any ordinary women on Married With Children, ever; they were either desirable and unobtainable, or shrewish and unbearable. And the male characters weren’t any better. The Bundys weren’t a dysfunctional family in a normal world. Everyone was pretty damn horrid.
Off-topic, but this does remind me of an episode of L.A. Law. The firm was representing someone who got fired from his job wearing a Homer Simpson costume at a theme park. Without the costume, he was rather shy and quiet, but in costume he became the perfect Homer, loud and brash. He was played, of course, by Dan Castellaneta.
And let’s sing the praises of Ted “Jump the Shark” McGinley, who actually improved the show when he joined as Jefferson D’Arcy. The best foil for Al and March.
In googling Jefferson to get the names spelled right, I find out his middle name is “Miolhouse.” Another Simpsons connection. Think he is really a grown up Milhouse Van Houten?
MWC is a good example of characters devolving into caricatures over the run of the show. Kelly, especially, descended into a stereotype blonde bimbo as the show progressed. She started off as simply being one of the cool kids who ditched school and hung out with bad elements. And she was just unschooled enough to fall for Bud’s practical jokes (“helping” her with school reports, usually). but pretty quickly the producers went with dumb blonde humor for her and her gaggle of hot popular friends.
My favorite casting decision of the show was to fire whatever little brat played that Seven kid for one season. The audience couldn’t stand the character, so he disappeared the next season with no explanation whatsoever (other than one or two jokes along the lines of his face on a milk carton implying that he was missing).
I can imagine the producers telling the young child actor: “Sorry, we thought that the show’s fans would love you. It didn’t turn out that way. Nobody could stand you. You’re gone!”
<al>Face it kid, you’re the reason planned parenthood stays in business</al>
Speaking of Kelly and dancing, who can forget the FEVER dance she did with Bruno. One of the hottest dances on network TV ever.
I thought both were a Richard Nixon reference.
Not sure if this requires a 2 click or not -