Al Bundy is a misanthropic women's shoe salesman with a miserable life. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.
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Monday, June 9, 1997

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Nominated for 7 Golden Globes. Another 7 wins & 22 nominations. See more awards »

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Complete series cast summary:
Ed O'Neill ...  Al Bundy / ... 261 episodes, 1987-1997
Katey Sagal ...  Peggy Bundy / ... 261 episodes, 1987-1997
Amanda Bearse ...  Marcy D'Arcy / ... 261 episodes, 1987-1997
Christina Applegate ...  Kelly Bundy / ... 261 episodes, 1987-1997
David Faustino ...  Bud Bundy / ... 261 episodes, 1987-1997
Buck ...  Buck the Dog / ... 106 episodes, 1987-1995
Ted McGinley ...  Jefferson D'Arcy / ... 169 episodes, 1989-1997
David Garrison ...  Steve Rhoades / ... 81 episodes, 1987-1995
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Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle-aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He has a very attractive but lazy wife named Peggy who constantly nags him to death while throwing the little money he earns away on herself. He also has a very promiscuous teen-aged daughter named Kelly who makes up in attractiveness what she lacks in IQ points, and a not-so-attractive but bright teen-aged son named Bud who seems to think he is a ladies' man. To add to Al's misery is his yuppie next-door neighbors Marcy and Steve. They eventually split up with Marcy keeping the house next door to the Bundys and Steve moving away to be a forest ranger. Later, Marcy gets remarried to a gigolo named Jefferson, who is the male version of Peggy. The sitcom revolves around Al's never-ending attempts to better his life which always lead him right back to where he started. Written by Brandon Johns

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Domestic bliss was never like this!

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Comedy

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Trivia

It is never explained at any time why Peggy would have gone to Polk High School with Al when Polk High is in Chicago and her family lives in Wisconsin. See more »

Quotes

Al: You know? It does get kind of boring around her.
Bud: Then why do you come?
Al: [after another strip club patrion elbows Al in the back in the head] For this... Excuse me sir? You bumped into me and I think you owe me an appology.
Strip Club Patron: Drop dead.
[Al punches the other bar patron out and the entire strip club errupts into a bar fight]
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Crazy Credits

With rare exceptions, the end credits are played over a still of Peggy and Al (looking disgusted) sitting on the couch. See more »

Alternate Versions

When aired in syndication, the intro is generally cut in half, generally omitting everything after the line "..and they will say it's elementary" in the theme song. This version of the credits ends with an alternative shot of the fountain seen at the beginning; it is pulled from the scene at the end of "A Dump of My Own" in which Al's toilet flush causes it to stop working. Luckily foreign channels usually do air the original complete opening song, although not always translated to their own language if the show is dubbed. See more »

Connections

Referenced in Saved by the Bell: Save the Max (1990) See more »

Soundtracks

Love & Marriage
Music by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
Lyrics by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen
Performed by Frank Sinatra
Arranged and Conducted by Nelson Riddle
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One of those shows
14 March 2004 | by stevewest-1See all my reviews

"Married... with Children" just has something about it that makes it hilarious, it takes the basic premise of the family and suburban life, and puts the family from the hell in there and just lets them constantly rip on each other. It's a testament to the basic formula of the show that it lasted so long, and was still actually funny right up until the last season (with an overweight, balding Ed O"Neil and kids old enough to have left the house by now). The casting was perfect (except for newcomer Jefferson in my opinion) and the character of Ed was what really made the show. The opening song fitted the show perfectly too. Anyone who has watched the show probably has "Married... with Children" moments to this day when they open a fridge with nothing but an empty milk carton in the door or have thoughts about installing an antenna on the roof.

"Married... with Children" is probably one of America's greatest TV exports, it was a privilege to be growing up when this was on every week and I wish all the castmembers continued success.


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5 April 1987 (USA) See more »

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