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Jefferson Joins The Cast

[slightlymad22 · 9/10 · 28 October 2014]

Another great episode of "Married With Children" in Season 5.

Plot In A Paragraph: After getting drunk at a bankers party, Marcy wakes up to find herself to be married to a mysterious hunk named Jefferson D'Arcy, whom Al finds out to be a con artist. Al and Peggy convince the newly wed couple to let them arrange a new ceremony for them.

Ted McGinley is a great addition to the cast.

Amanda Bearse as Marcy is at last given something to do. Peggy's (Katey Segel) fantasy sequences are fun. Bud (Davd Faustino) and Kelly (the gorgeous Christina Applegate) have individual moments to shine, but the highlight of the show is once again is Ed O'Neil as Al Bundy.

Jefferson joins the cast!

[Sylviastel · 8/10 · 16 June 2009]

This is the episode where guest star, Ted McGinley, joins the cast officially as Jefferson D'Arcy, a hunky guy with a past, who marries banker, Marcy Rhoades, at a banker's convention. She was the girl on top of the banker pyramid. Anyway, they barely remember their wedding and their night together when they end up at Marcy's house. So the Bundys decide to help the newlyweds relive their wedding ceremony at their house but they plan on cashing the money and going on vacation. Al to Europe and Peggy off to Hawaii. Well, things don't always work out. Bud and Kelly want a party too so they invite their guests to the wedding unknown to the bride and groom. They hire a sea captain on the radio to marry off Marcy and Jefferson but Al has a surprise about Jefferson's past.

Welcome aboard Ted McGinley.

[ChrisMoore-2315 · 9/10 · 9 March 2022]

AKA "The Patron Saint of Shark Jumping" by that popular website that documents the event(s) which cause a successful TV show begins its decline. Ted prior to MWC had most famously helped ease out of the TV world of the living The Love Boat and Happy Days.

Fortunately for MWC McGinley now permanently joining the cast (he appeared in 1987 as Normon Jablonsky in "It's a Bundyful Life Part 2") did not swing the grim reaper's scythe this time. MWC stayed on the air mostly funny as ever for seven more years.

So after drifting around in a promiscuous fog since her hubby Steve left her during the prior season, neighbor Marcy has found a husband in Jefferson D'Arcy(McGinley).

The episode is very entertaining. All the Bundy family cast embrace the plot with enthusiasm, their usual funny selves, and sensitivity for Marcy's plight (not!) Anyway after Marcy and Jefferson realize they got married in a drunken haze the night before, they decide they want to stay together and have a "real" wedding ceremony. When Al and Peggy learn there is $2040 to be spent, they offer to cater/host it in their back yard. Unknown to the happy couple, Al and Peggy have designs on the money, her a vacation trip to Hawaii, him payment on a lot ( fittingly at Lake Chicamocomico) for a future retirement cabin. With this in mind Al cheaps out in every way possible on the shin dig. What a welcome for Jefferson to Bundy-world! But in an unexpected twist at the end Jefferson gets a little revenge for this on Al.

Marcy finds Ted in her bed.

[BA_Harrison · 20 November 2022]

Ted McGinley appeared in Season 4 two-parter It's a Bundyful Life, as Norman Joblonsky, but this is the one where he became a regular on the show as Jefferson D'Arcy, the gigolo/convicted con-artist who marries Marcy at a wedding chapel during a drunken banking seminar.

To be honest, it's not an auspicious start. The episode only made me laugh once, when Peggy gets Al to do a quiz in her women's magazine (Peggy: "Who would you rather spend the night with? A: Your wife, or B..." Al: "B"). The rest is rather forgettable, as Al holds a special ceremony for the newlyweds in his back yard, charging them $2040 for the pleasure (the fact that Marcy and Jefferson agree to this is far-fetched, even for a show that has featured aliens). Naturally, Al does everything on the cheap, but gets his comeuppance in the end.