Married...With Children

This show might be considered raunchy by the more serious people of the world, but it is funny. Not once do you ever see Al Bundy cheat on his wife Peg. He might talk about her being an issue, but he loves her dearly

Summary
-Al Bundy works as a salesman in a women's shoe store. His wife, Peg, is lazy and won't cook or do housework. His son Bud thinks he's a ladies' man when he really isn't. His daughter Kelly is dimwitted and is frequent in relationships with men

Cast
-Ed O'Neill: Al Bundy
-Katey Sagal: Peg Bundy
-Amanda Bearse: Marcy D'Arcy
-David Faustino: bun Bundy
-Christina Applegate: Kelly Bundy
-Ted McGinley: Jefferson D'Arcy
-David Garrison: Steve Rhodes

Did You Know?
-On the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Ed O'Neill's star is in front of a shoe store

-When the show was cancelled, the last episode being May 6, 1997, Fox was trying to decide whether to renew or cancel. They cancelled it and did not tell the cast. Christina Applegate learned of the show's cancellation through two of her friends while Ed O'Neill was on vacation and a couple staying nearby let him know about it through an article they had read in the newspaper. He bought them a meal in appreciation

-Ed O'Neill instantly got the role of Al Bundy because all he was required to do was walk through the front door into the Bundy home. But the way he did it was he walked through with slumped shoulders and a deep breath as if he had a hard day at work and producers knew he instantly understood the role

-When the show got more popular, fans would make requests for Ed O'Neill to make birthday and holiday telephone calls while in character as Al Bundy. They would be collect calls, to be in line with Al's cheapskate character

-This show ran into some controversy. A woman named Terry Rakolta, who is all for family values and a Michigan housewife, found the show offensive. She wrote to Fox, urging them to cancel the show. A few channels stopped showing commercials advertising the show, but it had the opposite effect. The story spread like wildfire and ratings for the show jumped. Each year the show was renewed, flowers were sent to Rakolta. The issue was even spoofed on an episode called "No Pot to Pease In", where the Bundy family learns a show is being made based on their lives and gets cancelled because "a housewife in Michigan didn't like it".

-It was Katey Sagal's idea for her character to dress in 1960s-style clothing. She wanted to spoof the 1960s housewife model. When she auditioned, she brought her own red wig. When she landed the role, producers added this image into the show and she brought her own capri-type leggings, a large belt, slip on heels.

-In a 2013 interview, Ed O'Neill admitted that he and Amanda Bearse, who placed Marcy, did not get along. Despite the fact that they generally respected and liked each other, problems started occurring after the third season. O'Neill said that Bearse had started getting "more masculine" and "snarky" and arguments over trivial matters would come up. Despite the fact that O'Neill was fully supportive of Bearse coming out as a lesbian in 1993, she did not invite O'Neill and David Faustino to her wedding. She was worried they would laugh at the sight of "two women in tuxedos". O'Neill even admitted he would

-The name Marcy D'Arcy is a spinoff of the name Marcy Carsey, who was the executive producer of The Cosby Show

-007 actor Roger Moore admitted this show was a guilty pleasure of his because he was friends with director Boris Sagal, Katey Sagal's father

-According to interviews of David Faustino and Ed O'Neill, they brought parts of their real life into the show. Faustino wanted to be a rapper, thus the name Grandmaster B and in college O'Neill really did play college football

-During the show, Katey Sagal was pregnant three times. The first time was in season six, around mid 1991. Her pregnancy was written into the role to make it easier for her but then written out when she miscarried. The second time was 1994 and the third time was between 1995-1996 and those pregnancies were hidden from the audience

-David Garrison, who played Steve, left the show because he missed performing in live theatre. A story was worked out that said Steve and Marcy grew apart, in her opinion because he loved his Mercedes Benz more than her

-The car Al uses is a 1972 Plymouth Duster

-The Bundy family and Rhodes family were named after professional wrestlers King Kong Bundy and Dusty Rhodes.

-In the season four, episode 13 episode "Who'll Stop the Rain?", when Al falls off the roof, was voted the funniest moment in the show's history

-Between the ninth and tenth seasons, in 1995, Christina Applegate wore a blonde wig because she had dyed her hair red for a role in the 1997 film Nowhere

-Christina Applegate's birthday, November 25, 1971, also happens to the birthday for her character Kelly Bundy

-During the opening credits, the large fountain shown is the Buckingham Fountain in downtown Chicago

-Ed O'Neill said he based his character Al on one of his uncles because they both share so many traits in their personality

-Actress Meghan Markle spent some time on the set of this show during her childhood because her father was Thomas W. Markle, a director of photography who worked behind the scenes there

-At first, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate and Ed O'Neill were doubtful about how successful the show would be. When they read the scripts, they found it funny and thought it would be fun to do

-A lot of people would often compare Al Bundy to The Simpsons character Homer Simpson

-On one episode of Sons of Anarchy, when Katey Sagal (Gemma Teller) is on the run from the law, Tig Trager (Kim Coates) suggests she dye her hair red. She says she would rather shave her head bald. This is a reference to her playing Peg Bundy


Katey Sagal as Gemma Teller on Sons of Anarchy



Kim Coates as "Tig" Trager on Sons of Anarchy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-In some of the early episodes, a poster showing an enlarged red ace of spades with the Motorhead mascot, Snaggletooth, can be seen hanging on Kelly's bedroom door