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Laughing hard with Married with Children: Starring Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate & David Faustino

Posted on February 2, 2012 Written by ripitup

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 Married with Children with Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate & David Faustino
Married with Children with Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate & David Faustino. Image via amazon

 

Ever since Friends and Coupling ended, I have been on the lookout for my next favorite comedy. Nope, How I Met Your Mother doesn’t do it for me. Sure, it is entertaining sometimes but it doesn’t hook me. It is something to watch if I’m eating and it is on.

The reason? You see- Barney isn’t funny after Friends’ Joey or Coupling’s Patrick-both notorious womanizers that come with great lines. Hey, Joey has confidence and he is an actor. Patrick is…in the words of his ex Susan…a tripod. Oh well, the feeling is mutual.

The greatest fans of How I Met Your Mother don’t typically like Friends. I guess they like their actors to have all the technology, to be dressed in fashion and they prefer the sense of humor. Hey, you can read my Coupling and How I Met Your Mother posts for more reasons.

Modern Family lost me after 3 episodes. My friend assured me that it gets a lot funnier, but you see- to me- Ed O’Neill is Al Bundy. Yes, he is a great actor who he can pull off any role- but he can never be as funny as Al Bundy, and Modern Family isn’t a match for the ultimate loser family- the Bundys.

I’ll get into specifics, and I hope Married with Children fans stay on and get nostalgic. There’ll be quotes!!!

Married with Children Premise and Characters

Al Bundy (Ed O’Neill) is a shoe salesman. He hates his job and his life. His wife and two kids don’t respect him, and according to them (and to any other character in the Married with Children universe) – being a shoe salesman is the worst fate a man can ever have. His customers are usually fat women with bad tempers. He fondly remembers his high school years when he scored 4 touchdowns in one game and was single with no kids…

Peggy Bundy (Katey Sagal) is the most undomestic housewife you can ever meet. She hates housework, rarely cooks and is bad at it, is very unsupportive of Al when it comes to his job.  Her hobbies are daytime TV, shopping and making fun of Al. She is constantly demanding sex from Al, and rarely getting it.

Al and Peggy have been married for a long time, and even thought they love putting the other down, they don’t have the will or the energy to go do something else. And despite the fact that they openly lust after a hot person when they see one, they never cheat on each other. So their love-hate relationship, along with their political incorrectness and absolute inappropriateness add to the hilarity of the show.

Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) is their gorgeous, slutty, and not-so-smart teenage daughter. Her hobbies are talking on the phone, dating boys and annoying little brother Bud.

Bud Budy (David Faustino) is a manipulative, smart kid who loves making his sister’s life hell. And as he grows up, we see that he can’t use his brain cells when it comes to girls.

Marcy (Amanda Bearse) and Steve Rhoades (David Garrison) are the next door couple and the complete opposite of Bundys. They are newly and happily married, they have a regular and satisfying sex life and they make good money. More often than not their appearances annoy the hell out of Al, but he has a love-hate-benefit relationship with his neighbors.

After Steve

After Steve lost all of his materialistic ambitious and ran off to become a park ranger, Marcy stayed single for a while.

But in the 5th season, during one episode she announced she got drunk at a party, passed out and woke up married. The husband turned out to be Jefferson Darcy (Ted McGinley) a younger, good-looking man who didn’t do much apart from staying pretty.

While some people think that the show got less funny after Steve, you need to remember that Ted McGinley joined the show well after 100 episodes. And while we still loved the characters and things were still funny, the novelty effect had worn off.

I don’t remember exactly when Married with Children stopped being hilarious, and I’m currently on season 7 (again) and am still having a blast. While I don’t get laughing cramps all the time, it is still a bloody good time.

 

Favorite Lines

You have to see Married with Children- to hear the lines, see the facial expressions and interactions to see what the fuss is all about. I started re-watching the series, and it is still funny as hell. Is it always great? No-towards the latest seasons, the jokes and the characters become too predictable and a lot less funny. You start guessing what character will make what joke, and be right %80 of the time.

But that being said, it is one of the funniest shows ever made – and you have quite a bit of episodes to enjoy before getting bored. Yes, it is a sitcom with laughing tracks, 80s and 90s exaggerated fashion and good music (I love the 80s and 90s, so the music is a plus for me).

Yes, it is out there, and yes- the characters would be obnoxious in real life. But together, in that show, for a very long time, they make the audience laugh hard. I still remember some of the lines back when I first starting watching it. You are by all means allowed to hate it, but at least do yourself a favor and try it.

I’ll add more quotes soon.

 

Married with Children Season 2, Episode 11: How Do You Spell Revenge?

Kelly: Dad, can I talk to you?

Al: Why?

Kelly: Please, it’s important daddy.

Al: OK. Now, listen this is not about sex, is it? ’Cause I don’t know anything about that.

Kelly: I know. Mum told me.

*

Al: (talking to Kelly) I’m not saying it is bad to be a girl-(then adding) I’d rather be dead myself (continues talking with a straight face)

*

Al: Oh great! My daughter is dating the spawn of Norman Bates and Seabiscuit! (on finding out that Kelly’s boyfriend is the son of Peggy’s ugly ex and his horribly fat wife.)

Season 2, Episode 13: You Better Watch Out

Al: Bud, apologize to your sister.

Bud: No.

Al: Ok.

*

Kelly: Can we go to that new Lakeside Mall?

Al: No, we can’t and I’ll tell you why. That mall is killing your father.

Bud: I thought mom was doing that.

*

Season 2, Episode 14: Guys and Dolls

(on Bud’s bad grade and torturing his sister)

Peggy: I think I know what the problem is. He has too much free time. What can we do about it?

Al: We could get him a wife.

Season 2, Episode 15: Build a Better Moustrap

Al: This is great! “Daddy, I need money.” “Daddy, I need food”. “We need somebody to clean after a mouse with a broken neck”…Just once I’d like to hear-“Al, I’m outta here I’m taking the kids”. But on the good side, life is half over.

*

Al: You know I have no insurance so you must be killing me for the sport.

*

Season 2, Episode 17: Peggy Loves Al – Yeah, Yeah, Yeah

Peggy: Honey, you want something special for Valentine’s Day?

Al: Yeah, but she’s wrestling in the mud and I’m just living there.

*

The door rings- Peggy guesses:

Peggy: Maybe it’s Cupid.

Al: Nah, he never shows his face around here after making this match.

*

(On their traditional Valentine’s Day Sex)

Al: Now, the kids are upstairs. We probably shouldn’t do it up there with your screaming and everything.

Peggy: No, Al. That’s your fault. You were the one who turned the lights on.

 

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Covert Affairs starring Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham & Kari Matchett

Posted on January 22, 2011 Written by ripitup

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Covert Affairs starring Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham & Kari Matchett
Covert Affairs starring Piper Perabo, Christopher Gorham & Kari Matchett. Image via screenrant.com

Annie Walker (Piper Perabo) is a talented and beautiful CIA trainee who outperforms others at pretty much anything. And she speaks 6 languages so Langley can’t wait to get her on the field.

The reason she wanted to be CIA was because she no longer wanted to suffer from deception. A while back, the love of her life – Ben (Eion Bailey) walked out on her, with a note that said “truth is complicated”.

Annie does her best to adjust to CIA protocol as well as her cold yet confident boss Joan (Kari Matchett), who is married to the Arthur Campbell (Peter Callagher), who happens to be their boss. While Joan and Arthur try to solve their marital problems, they also strategize on how to make the best use of Annie, without truly revealing the truth. Annie’s ex Ben was right. The truth is complicated and he just might be a big part of everything.

Blind and brilliant tech guy Auggie (Christopher Gorham) becomes Annie’s best friend and ally, as well as the series’ main sense of humor.

Of course Annie is expected to hide her real job from her sister Danielle (Anne Dudek). Danielle is happily married with two kids and Annie is staying at their guest house. Living close to them makes keeping secrets harder and stressful.

Each episode covers a new case as well as some foreshadowing on “the complicated truth”. We get action, deception, role play, a little drama and more action, with some comedic relief attached.

**

Covert Affairs is a fun action/drama with a decent cast. It looks like Kari Matchett decided her supporting role in Leverage as Nathan Ford (Timothy Hutton)’s ex-wife didn’t cover enough espionage or screen time so here she is in one of the leading roles.

Peter Callagher (The O.C., Sex Lies and Videotape, While You Were Sleeping) is getting older and more charismatic, certainly looking his powerful position. And isn’t it fun to see Anne Dudek in such a domestic role after she was the bitch of a doctor on House and beat the crap out of Josh Radnor’s Ted Mosby on an episode of How I Met Your Mother?

Sure, my favorite CIA agent ever will be Jennifer Garner’s Sydney Bristow of Alias. Covert Affairs started at a fun but medium pace. So far, it lacks the excitement level of the first Alias seasons, but it is very entertaining and promising. Since I no longer have Alias, I might as well have another spy show with a female lead.

Certainly recommended for Alias fans, lovers of the spy genre and definitely anyone who loves to see the female lead a girl kick ass.

7.7   on IMDB.

Fun notes:

  • Piper Perabo was nominated for Golden Globe this year for her role as Annie. She lost out to Katey Sagal, who won for her role in the series Sons of Anarchy. I don’t know about you, but for me Katey Sagal will always remind me of her hilarious role of 11 years as Peggy Bundy on Married with Children.
  • Canadian actress Emmanuelle Vaugier plays the beautiful and charismatic reporter who might give CIA a hard time. She also plays The Morrigan, head of the local dark Fae government in Lost Girl.

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