Married with Children: Season 7, Episode 20Un-Alful Entry (28 Mar. 1993)After Al knocks out and captures a burglar that breaks into his house one night while he's sleeping on the couch after an argument with Peggy, he becomes a neighborhood hero. But the tables... See full summary » Director:Amanda Bearse |
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Well, this 7th season follows where 6th has been interrupted as the family has indeed a new kid. Maybe that's explains why the fun is less eccentric and more literal in dialogs. Yet, it allows all the cast to behave like real parents or siblings (more or less) and it's the opportunity to have a bedtime story and the return of Rubio the cruel (7.18). A new trend develops also this year by depicting Jefferson as an effeminate guy. Maybe to explain why he fell in love with a cabin boy girl! At least, the food feud has disappeared and makes place for an intimacy feud: 7.4, 7.5, 7.16, the climax being (7.22) with a session that explodes Peggy's hair!
Actually, it's the kids who provides for crazy episodes, as Kelly when she had to work as a waitress (7.8) or Bud getting an college grant ludicrously spent by his parents (7.11). The show is also beginning to cannibalize famous movies (7.26) or itself as it repeats previous plots: the cabin vacation (7.14), the Christmas episode (7.12). But, as wine gets better with age, it's also true that those folks have fine-tuned their art and they kept getting better each season! Who could have thought that Ed O'Neil was such a funny guy!
The proletarian nature of the show is also good this year: punching a wealthy parent who private a public park with his money (7.3) or telling that voting is useless (7.7).
Yet there's a real stinker this season: (3.10) is too morbid to be funny. I prefer Al and Peggy sitting on the couch the entire episode (3.17) than having them in this coffin.
About the best one, it' more difficult to choose because the fun encompasses a lot of different situations! I pick this one as it's always fun to see Al managing his gay opinion and it offers a good slap on justice!