# Married With Children **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 3, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638 "2001-03-03T17:37:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/1 "2001-03-03T17:37:19Z")
I always thought Peg was _much_ hotter than that skanky ass Applegate chick. I dunno what Al is always complaining about. I’d do her in a second. ---
**Author:** ![Who\_me\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@Who\_me\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Who_me_1)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/2 "2001-03-03T23:30:45Z")
you’re sick ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2001, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/3 "2001-03-03T23:44:13Z")
**friedo** , even the FOX network frowns on incest as a plot line. Pervert. ---
**Author:** ![silent\_rob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@silent\_rob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silent_rob)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/4 "2001-03-04T01:00:06Z")
Uh, I think **friedo** meant that he didn’t know why Al was complaining about sleeping with Peg. Hence no incest involved. Though I could be wrong as to **friedo’s** meaning… But, I don’t really share it. Peg just didn’t float my boat. Kelly was pretty good, but you’ve got to take into account the skand-index. Her skank-index was pretty high. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/5 "2001-03-04T03:01:26Z")
Peg wasn’t UNattractive… but they did her makeup so as to make her seem like your stereotypical redneck, Oprah-watching, Bonbon-eating housewife: Big red hair, tight skanky clothes, overdone lipstick and eyeliner… etc. Kelly had a nice smile. Bud wasn’t that unattractive, was he? I mean, yeah, he was short… but aside from that…? Ladies, what say you? (I can’t make any conclusions on that… I’m just a sexually-confused SPOOFE). However, I DO think Marcy looked like a chicken. And Jefferson was the coolest sumbitch I’ve ever seen on television. ---
**Author:** ![Purd\_Werfect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e47c2d/32.png) [@Purd\_Werfect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Purd_Werfect)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/6 "2001-03-04T03:41:48Z")
I have to agree with **friedo** on this one. Katey Sagal is babe-alicious, even decked out in full blown Bundy mode. Too bad I couldn’t stand the show after the first season. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/7 "2001-03-04T03:46:59Z")
No…incest is baaaaad, m’kay? I’m sayin’ Al shouldn’t bitch and moan so much about having such a hotty for a wife. All he has to do is convince her to shut up. ---
**Author:** ![Elkman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Elkman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elkman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/8 "2001-03-04T07:46:58Z")
This probably says something about my diseased psyche, but I remember wanting to do the horizontal bop with Marcy something fierce. Didn’t think she looked like a chicken at all, although with hindsight I can see the resemblance. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/9 "2001-03-04T20:10:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by SPOOFE Bo Diddly \* > \*\* > Bud wasn’t that unattractive, was he? \*\* I always thought he was decent-looking. I never could understand that angle of the show: that Bud was so hideous he could never get a gal. ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/10 "2001-03-04T21:02:53Z")
Actually, what we saw on MARRIED…WITH CHILDREN and what the characters were talking about seemed to be two different worlds. ``` Did the Bundy house look that bad to you? No peeling wallpaper, sagging ceiling, decrepit couch.. the place wasn't awful. It had a yard, a garage, plumbing that worked. For someone who never did housework or held a job and who sat eating bon bons all days, it's noticeable that Peggy did not put on weight. And Kelly had questionable taste in clothes but she obviously had a large wardrobe and her clothes looked clean and not threadbare. I do have to say that, when she was seventeen or eighteen, Kelly Bundy pushed all the right buttons in my testosterone console. **rawr** ``` ---
**Author:** ![Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@Chance\_the\_Gardener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chance_the_Gardener)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/11 "2001-03-05T00:02:20Z")
Katey Segal and Amanda Bierce were both hot. The makeup artists for _Married With Children_ sure made them look like something else, though. Peg Bundy looked like trash, and Amanda Bierce looked like a boy. To see either one of them off that show’s set, you’d barely recognize them. I’ve always been particularly impressed with how them made Amanda Bierce appear flat-chested when she really wasn’t. She didn’t exactly have a heaving bosom, but she actually was shapely. _Married With Children_ is one of television’s greatest programs. My theory is that in fifty years, universities will be studying it as art. (I’m serious about that!) ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/12 "2001-03-05T02:07:06Z")
“Look, dad, hooters!” “That’s an elbow, son!” Man, now THAT is art! ---
**Author:** ![Eo\_Echo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ebca7d/32.png) [@Eo\_Echo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eo_Echo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 6:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/13 "2001-03-05T06:34:16Z")
I won’t comment on Amanda Bierce, but with regards to her character Marcy, I’ll have to second Al Bundy, who once said she’s “Flat and Cheesy but…ain’t a pizza.” And about the set: if it were run down and decrepit, Fox would’ve been deluged with complaints. Remember the set of _Good Times?_ It was just as clean and just as good repair, and that show was set in housing project in the ghetto. But that’s sitcoms for you. ---
**Author:** ![tclouie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/838e76/32.png) [@tclouie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tclouie)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/14 "2001-03-05T07:20:32Z")
I will have to get used to Ed O’Neill as tough New York City cop. Despite the loss of the Loser Goober accent, all I can think of when I see him is “Al Bundy.” What the hell, the actor O’Neill has probably paid his dues as an actor for years. He’s probably due his shot at the “Big Apple.” If it turns into a hit, maybe he’ll stop being identified instantly with Al Bundy. _Maybe._ ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2001, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/15 "2001-03-05T08:06:47Z")
I dunno, Louie, I saw a commercial for _Big Apple_… the first shot of O’Neill was for about a tenth of a second, but I immediately jumped up and screeched “AL!!!” ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/16 "2001-03-06T01:41:25Z")
The thing that always bothered me about MWC is that Al and Bud both were constantly lusting after young chicks…like, say, their daughter and sister, Kelly? Hello? Personally I always thought Christina Applegate was just beautiful, and I thought Bud was cute. I don’t care that he’s short. So am I. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/17 "2001-03-06T02:14:06Z")
Amanda Bierce sure threw off this straight guy’s “gaydar”… (I dunno…do we breeders even have gaydar?) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/18 "2001-03-06T02:25:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by salinqmind \* > **The thing that always bothered me about MWC is that Al and Bud both were constantly lusting after young chicks…like, say, their daughter and sister, Kelly? Hello?** ??? Not sure what you’re saying here…Are you saying that you got the impression Al and Bud lusted after Kelly (eeeew), or that since Kelly existed that neither Al or Bud should have had as active a libido as they did, OR that they should have had a better attitude towards women than they did. In the first two cases, I’d ask why…in the third…hey, since when does being related to a woman stop men from being sexist pigs? ---
**Author:** ![dr\_hermes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/dfb087/32.png) [@dr\_hermes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dr_hermes)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/19 "2001-03-06T02:34:02Z")
When it comes to being sexist pigs, Kelly and Peggy were` as bad if not worse than Al and Bud-probably the women were worse because they were more successful at it. Kelly got dates when she wanted dinner and Bud shook out the toaster for crumbs. Remember Peggy explaining to Kelly’s class how to use and manipulate men? The sexist behaviour was pretty evenly matched between the females and males on MWC. ---
**Author:** ![SPOOFE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638/20 "2001-03-06T05:08:39Z")
> [@](#): > > The thing that always bothered me about MWC is that Al and Bud both were constantly lusting after young chicks…like, say, their daughter and sister, Kelly? Hello? The thing that always bothered ME was the fact that Al kept lusting after young women, but everytime an attractive woman started coming on to him, he’d get scared off. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/married-with-children/56638.md?page=2)