# Q About The 'Married…With Children' Episode Where Al Rapes Peggy. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 2, 2003, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519 "2003-12-02T16:31:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/41 "2013-12-20T15:45:22Z")
I had a whole post that started with: It’s not Bundy rape unless. . . and then I had a whole lotta stuff much more suited to fanfic. Terrible tenticle fanfic. Or February. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/42 "2013-12-20T16:08:32Z")
I wait with baited(sic) breath. ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/43 "2013-12-20T16:44:02Z")
Ever notice how it’s only right wingers that throw around the term, “PC”? ---
**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/44 "2013-12-20T18:11:07Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > You are literally ten years too late with this post. Maybe he’s only now getting internet service to his shack in the woods. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/45 "2013-12-20T18:51:40Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Funny, I always had the impression that deep down, the charcters _did_ love each other, or at least there was loyalty. I remember one scene in which the daughter gets her heart broken by some jerk, says “Get him, Daddy”, and Al nods and promptly beats the crap out of the guy. > > It was always a relief, though, that the love (or whatever sick variant the Bundys had) was never sappy. Well said, me from a decade ago. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/46 "2013-12-20T19:00:21Z")
> [@Lord\_Ashtar](#): > > I’ve seen virtually all the episodes of **Married…** but I honestly can not remember an episode where Peggy showed she cared about any of the other Bundys. I’ve seen Al caring many times (as he was the main character on the show), and Kelly and Bud caring a few times (when they have Kelly or Bud centric episodes). Does anyone remember an episode where Peggy actually showed she gave a damn? Yeah, I know it’s a zombie, but I’m still watching MWC almost every day… There’s an episode where Vanna White guest stars as a now rich and famous ex-girlfriend of Al’s from high school. She and Al get back in touch, and Vanna falls in love with him again. She offers to buy him from Peggy for a million dollars or so. At first, Peg eagerly agrees, but when it’s time to actually turn Al over to Vanna, and Peg is going over all the things she does to keep him happy (or at least not fully suicidal), she changes her mind and throws Vanna out of the house. [The episode](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642412/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_1). ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/47 "2013-12-20T19:02:19Z")
> [@Simplicio](#): > > And I shudder to think what search term he was googling to turn up this thread. I just tried it from a fresh VM that has never performed a Google search (to prevent SDMB bias) - this thread is the first result of a search of “Al Peggy Rape” “Accidentally find” indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/48 "2013-12-20T19:03:25Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Well said, me from a decade ago. I hope you realize that the person you are responding to may have a different opinion now, or may not even be posting on the board anymore. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/49 "2013-12-20T19:04:00Z")
> [@Surreal](#): > > I distinctly remember an episode of the show ‘Married…With Children’ where Al Bundy repeatedly rapes Peggy Bundy. Of course, they didn’t actually show Al’s penis being forced into Peggy’s vagina, but the ‘hints’ surrounding the events were obvious enough that anyone could immediately recognize what was going on. > > The setting of the episode in question was on a Labor Day weekend. It was the episode where the ‘big joke’ was that everyone was eating hamburgers that contained the ashes of one of Marcy’s deceased relatives. I don’t recall _every_ detail, as this was an older episode with the original Steve, not Jefferson, playing Marcy’s husband, probably from 1989 or 1990. > > But the rape part was rather obvious. In one scene, after Al had had several beers, he is watching Peggy bending over to cleaning a bench, wiggling her butt. He grabs her as she cries and pleads for him to stop, saying ‘_Oh no, not again!_’ as she is still sore and exhausted from their previous encounters. The audience laughs and cheers as he hauls her off to the bedroom once again. > > Aren’t there censors that are supposed to screen out this type of thing from network television? How could such a show have aired without being pulled?? I know for a fact that it wasn’t, as I remember seeing it rebroadcast a few times. Why didn’t this create a storm of controversy??? > > Thanks. I distinctly remember every other episode of married with children were the exact opposite takes place. The joke wasn’t that Al was raping Peggy, the joke was that the situation was the opposite of the normal. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/50 "2013-12-20T20:59:26Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve seen virtually all the episodes of Married… but I honestly can not remember an episode where Peggy showed she cared about any of the other Bundys. You must never have seen an episode with Seven in it. She cared about him to the point of neglecting everyone else (yes, moreso than usual). > [@](#): > > Ever notice how it’s only right wingers that throw around the term, “PC”? Well, it would be self defeating for left wingers to throw it around. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/51 "2013-12-21T00:25:05Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > Wrong month for thread. I think the contingent of "rape month"criers are at least as annoying as the sporadic bout of rape related threads. Just sayin’. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/52 "2013-12-21T04:13:10Z")
> [@AtomicDog](#): > > Ever notice how it’s only right wingers that throw around the term, “PC”? Duh, gee, Tennessee. Maybe that’s because left-wingers are the only one who give a rat’s ass about being PC? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/53 "2013-12-21T04:31:03Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > I distinctly remember every other episode of married with children were the exact opposite takes place. The joke wasn’t that Al was raping Peggy, the joke was that the situation was the opposite of the normal. I think they were equal opportunity spouse rapists. I remember the episode where Peggy announces her pregnancy and Al checks his diary to figure out how it could have happened. > [@](#): > > AL: > Week One: sold shoes, watched TV. Week Two: sold shoes, watched TV, wept. > Week Three: sold shoes, had a few beers, passed out… > Uh oh. I dreamt I fell in a washing machine, woke up feeling cheap. > Peg, WHAT ON GOD’S GREEN EARTH DID YOU DO TO ME?!? > > PEGGY: > Well, I couldn’t help myself. You looked so cute pulling your underwear up over your head! I’m not made of stone, you know. Of course, Peggy’s pregnancy was later revealed to be a dream sequence (after actress Katy Sagal suffered a miscarriage late in her real life pregnancy), but that wasn’t the intention when that scene was written. ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/54 "2013-12-21T04:39:50Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > I hope you realize that the person you are responding to may have a different opinion now, or may not even be posting on the board anymore. I’m pretty sure that, by his own words, he has not changed his opinion from his former opinion. Or were you in such a hurry to get your nose up you didn’t notice he was quoting himself? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/55 "2013-12-21T04:55:32Z")
Gad, you get windchill from whooshes that strong. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/56 "2013-12-21T05:24:14Z")
We’ll find out if we get that link to “punch line” again. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/57 "2013-12-21T05:32:05Z")
I may be wrong but I feel I’m on fairly strong ground here. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/58 "2013-12-21T06:04:02Z")
That’s good, otherwise that woosh would have toppled you. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/59 "2013-12-21T06:30:10Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Gad, you get windchill from whooshes that strong. I thought it took long enough to get a bite on that one. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2013, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519/60 "2013-12-22T02:16:08Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Duh, gee, Tennessee. Maybe that’s because left-wingers are the only one who give a rat’s ass about being PC? :dubious: Left wingers may have invented the term, and used it for about fifteen minutes, but it was the right wingers that took it and ran with it, and only they use it now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/q-about-the-married-with-children-episode-where-al-rapes-peggy/216519.md?page=4)