# Married with Children question. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 5, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children-question/159144 "2003-03-05T02:09:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Broadway\_Danny\_Rose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc79bd/32.png) [@Broadway\_Danny\_Rose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broadway_Danny_Rose)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children-question/159144/1 "2003-03-05T02:09:40Z")
Simply asked, Why did Al never want to have sex with Peggy? She was so hot in a slutty way. That flat chested lesbian is one I would never touch.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children-question/159144/2 "2003-03-05T02:23:50Z")
They talked about that in their recent reunion special. It was explained as something to the effect of long term bordom. After so many years she just wasn’t sexy to him anymore. They went on to say that they thought that they were one of the first shows to deal with that aspect of marriage. He never cheated on her though, and Katy Segal (sp) said that as an actress she played it as if it was really good once, and that was why she was always begging for more. ---
**Author:** ![syncrolecyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f08c70/32.png) [@syncrolecyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/syncrolecyne)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children-question/159144/3 "2003-03-05T02:24:59Z")
I think the point was that as a couple married for quite a few years, the Bundys tended to not have much sex, and Al was far from adequate in that department by that point in his life. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children-question/159144/4 "2003-03-09T10:51:26Z")
I think he also resented her for falling pregnant with Kelly, after which they “had” to get married. Yes, I know that was his responsibility as well, but Al was a lunkhead from blue-collar Illinois: that’s how he would see it. I remember comments like, “And for want of a condom…an entire life was wasted.” So (he thought), if he’d been able to resist Peg’s sex appeal when they were in high school, he wouldn’t have gotten into a shotgun marriage, and could have fulfilled his dreams. Whatever they were. Then after Bud happened, Al developed a permanent association: nothing good could ever come of sex with Peg. ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children-question/159144/5 "2003-03-09T13:19:14Z")
> [@](#): > > VICTOR Tell us a scary story, Dan’l! > > AL Okey dokey! Kids, gather 'round the flashlight. [they do so] Now. > Once upon a time there was a young boy. A boy full of hope. He was single, > thus he was happy. Then one night, much like tonight, something rose from the > swamp. He heard a noise behind him, thump-thump, thump-thump. He walked a > little faster, thump-thump, thump-thump. Then he saw it. And there, in the > light of a bar, stood the evil, red-headed, high-heeled, spandex monster. He > ran from it, he stood it up, he dated others, but nothing could stop it! He > could hear it’s wild call [in a higher voice] “Oh, Honey! Honey!” It was > horrible! Finally, it trapped him. Opened, opened it’s hideous mouth, bared > its fangs and said… “Marry me?” > > VICTOR And did he marry it, Dan’l? > > AL Yes, I’m afraid he did. And he was never heard from again. But the worst of > it is, there’s still some of them out there. There might be one behind that > TREE! [the kids scream and look around] Then again, there might not be. But > beware. Because wherever a man is free and has change in his pockets, they’ll > come a-creepin’ and the can’t be stopped. Now sleep, if you can… > > He laughs evilly. [http://www.geocities.com/marriedaniac/newsite/epguide/script/0403t.html](http://www.geocities.com/marriedaniac/newsite/epguide/script/0403t.html)