Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора Who's that riding in the sun?
Who's the man with the itchy gun?
Well, who's the man who kills for fun?
Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad!

A little touched or so we're told.
Killed his wife 'cause she had a cold.
Might as well, she was gettin' old.
Psy-cho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad!

He's quick with a gun, and his job ain't done.
Killed his wife by twenty-one
Shot her 'cause she weighed a ton
Psy-cho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad!

Who's the tall, dark stranger there.
The one with the gun and the icy stare.
Holding the scalp of his ex-wife's hair.
Psy-cho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad

Psy-cho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad

Psy-cho Dad, Psycho Dad, Psycho Dad

Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора

Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора The television series Married…with Children started in late 1987 and had a schedule for thirteen shows. It came about from the minds of two directors named Amanda Bearse and Gerry Cohen. Their goal was to bring up a comedy series different than others in the recent past. The series was taped in Sony Studios and had brought up many controversial issues. For example, the third season of the show is the time when the show got increase fame. A woman by the name of Terry Rakolta, who lived in Michigan, had wrote to the studio that the show was out of line for public television and that it should indefinitely be taken off the air. As anyone can guess, this was the turning point of a slow improving show. The show drew attention from many aspects of life. Critics wrote in newspapers and the public spoke outloud. Finally, this was, with out question, the best thing that could have happened to the show. The ratings increased considerably and a comedy sitcom was born. Before all this happened, the two directors had auditions where they selected the following characters: Ed O’Neill as Al Bundy, Katey Sagal as Peggy Bundy, Amanda Bearse as Marcy Darcy, David Garrison as Steve Rhodes, Christina Applegate as Kelly Bundy, David Fastino as Bud Bundy, and Ted McGinley as Jefferson Darcy. There were a few other characters that were also involved that made the show more productive. The location of the setting is located at the Sony Studios. Its described as a normal looking house. For example on the set there is a couch in front of a television and a kitchen where not too much cooking goes on. The house is located on 9764 Jeopardy Lane and is where most of the show takes place. There are still other places where the show takes place. For example there is the shoestore where Al works and the garage where the NO’MAAM meetings take place. Also Al and Peg’s room is also featured to show how much the two are not intimate with eachother. In all sitcoms there is a basic unifying situation. This is a common theme that can be expected to be said or done. This can be seen on this show as follows: The Bundy’s are a stereotypical American family. Al Bundy is a shoe salesman who continually works on reliving his high school football fame and fortune. Peggy, a ditsy red head brings fear into Al’s eyes whenever she feels intimate with him or just when she spends all his money at the mall or at the salon. The daughter Kelly is a beautiful blonde who you can always count on bringing a guy home or going to a party. The son Bud is just a plain old loser. He has so much self-confidence but little evidence to prove it. He’s always looking to score but always finds a way to fail. As you go into more depth about these characters there is a clear mark that each has a specific description and play on important role in the sitcom. Ed O’Neill stars as the working class hero Al Bundy. He is around 50 years old, he is going bald, he has a beer belly, and is a full-time shoe salesman. He uses much of his time trying to evade his wife, Peg, and trying to relive his high school football fame when he scored four touchdowns in one game. Al also plays a leader on the show when he co-founds a guy organization named “NO MA’AM” which is a group of pathetic men that are against women’s secrecy and power and for all men’s rights and superiority. Katey Sagal plays Peggy Bundy on the show. She looks like she is in her late thirties, has red hair and is slim. She doesn’t work but uses Al’s money to go to the mall and buy clothes. She plays a very ditsy wife that always seems to be getting on Al’s last nerve. Christina Applegate plays Kelly Bundy on the show. She is a blond stereotype. Also, an outgoing, good-looking teenager that tends to be seen with many guys. Kelly is the daughter of Al and Peggy and tends to be the party animal on the show. David Faustino plays Bud Bundy on the show. He is the son of Al and Peggy Bundy and the brother of Kelly Bundy. He is what you say the “loser” on the show. He constantly looking to get with girls but is totally out of the picture. Everytime it seems like he’s getting close to “score” he does something to ruin his chances. Amanda Bearse plays Marcy Darcy on the show. She is married to Jefferson Darcy. They are neighbors to the Bundy's. Marcy is a very petite but a strict wife. She seems to have control of her husband and always gets into verbal disputes with Al and Jefferson. She is also the leader of a girl group, where they want girl power. Ted McGinely plays Jefferson Darcy on the show. He is the husband of Marcy and good friends with Al Bundy. He always goes behind his wife’s back to hang out with the guys and just has no self-power. He is constantly being bossed around by Marcy, but yet plays a fun part on the show. The first show that I reviewed was recorded at 11:00pm on UPN 9. The title of the show was “Al Loses His Cherry.” It started out as usual when Al and Peggy got into and argument. Instead of sticking around and fighting, Al decides to leave and wants to be single. He spends his day and night at his friend, Luke’s bachelor pad, where he can be totally free to do what ever he wants. He started out having fun, but the turning point was when he realized he wasn’t as young as he used to be and he couldn’t pick up girls anymore. This made him miss his wife Peg. It ends up, as usual, that he sits on his couch with his hand in his pants watching television. One real funny part was when Peggy want to get “a little close” with Al, but he said, as usual, he would rather die than go to bed with her. The second show that I reviewed was recorded at 11:30pm on UPN 9. The title was “Peggy Sue Got Work.” The problem started out when Peggy really needed a VCR but Al would not give her the money to go get one. Peggy took it upon herself to go out and get a job in a department store. The Bundy house got real boring and there was just no “Peg.” Al and the kids wanted her back home, so she got the money for the VCR and quit her job. The funny part of the show was watching Peggy got to work when she never even does anything around the house. That made the show worth watching . The third, and final, show I reviewed was aired at 12:00am on FX channel 58. The title of the show was “Assault and Batteries.” The problem started when Al just want to exchange batteries that he had just purchased. This show was special because it was available to be watched in 3D. I, myself, was not able to enjoy this special attraction. As for the rest of the show, while in the store the computer shuts down and Al gets stuck in the store not being able to return the batteries. The turning point came when Al is fooling around with the computer and fortunately hits the right button and able to return the batteries and go home to celebrate Buck’s (the Bundy dog) birthday. The funny parts of the show had come when you were able to see the physical expressions Al displayed on trying to return the batteries and get out of the store. What can be said about Married…with Children, which premiered on the upstart FOX network in 1987. As with any new show the cast and crew and their doubts about the show. Married…with Children ran a total of 258 episodes, making it one of the 10 longest running shows in USA television history. Married…with Children was then canceled under dubious circumstances in 1997 after 11 seasons. Over the span of the 258 episodes the show ran there was never a dull moment. The situation of the Bundy’s left endless possibilities for story lines, and the writers used the opportunities well. At it’s peak Married…with Children had over 15 million loyal fans in the USA, and an uncounted amounted overseas. There was a published article in TV guide where writer Ron Leavitt informed them that in 1987, when him and his partner Michael G. Moye met with Fox executives to discuss the test audiences reaction to their newest and crudest creation, Married…with Children, the executives weren’t pleased. Leavitt said that one thing the executives said was, “ make these people obviously love each other. Show that they care more about their children.” Leavitt the replied by saying, “You know, you’re the reason why television sucks.” After that the show went on to be a hit anyway. There was also a published article in the Los Angeles Times, which stated about the end of the shows 11-year run. The article states that the reason they canceled the series was because ratings dropped relative to the increased production costs. With Al Bundy receiving over five hundred thousand dollars a show and the rest of the casts salaries going sky high, Fox couldn’t afford the fees.

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Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора U.S. air date order


Season 1 (1987)

0101 - PILOT - The common title for a first episode of a series
0102 - THINERGY - Expressions thin and energy
0103 - SIXTEEN YEARS AND WHAT DO YOU GET? - Line "You move 16 tons and what do you get" from the song "Sixteen Tons" by Tennesee Ernie Ford
0104 - BUT I DIDN'T SHOOT THE DEPUTY - 2nd line in the US #1 song "I Shot the Sheriff"
0105 - HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY? - Slogan by Ford
0106 - WHOSE ROOM IS IT ANYWAY? - Movie "Whose Life Is It Anyway" with Richard Dreyfuss, originally a play
0107 - AL LOSES HIS CHERRY - Phrase "lose one's cherry" (i.e. to lose one's virginity)
0108 - PEGGY SUE GOT WORK - Song "Peggy Sue Got Married" by Buddy Holly, movie "Peggy Sue Got Married" 1986 with Kathleen Turner
0109 - MARRIED... WITHOUT CHILDREN - MWC self-referential
0110 - THE POKER GAME
0111 - WHERE'S THE BOSS? - Sitcom "Who's the Boss"
0112 - NIGHTMARE ON AL'S STREET - Movie "Nightmare on Elm Street"
0113 - JOHNNY B. GONE - Song "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry

Season 2 (1987-88)

0201 - BUCK CAN DO IT - Adapted from a line in the song "Let's Fall in Love"
0202 - POPPY'S BY THE TREE, PART I - Common Florida beachfront resorts addition "by the Sea"
0203 - POPPY'S BY THE TREE, PART II
0204 - IF I WERE A RICH MAN - Song from "The Fiddler on the Roof"
0205 - FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS - Part of a poem line by John Donne / novel by Ernest Hemingway / movie
0206 - GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN, PART I - Song by Cyndi Lauper
0207 - GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN, PART II
0208 - BORN TO WALK - Song "Born to Run" by Bruce Springsteen
0209 - ALLEY OF THE DOLLS - Movie "Valley of the Dolls" by Russ Meyer
0210 - THE RAZOR'S EDGE - Play, movie with Theresa Russell
0211 - HOW DO YOU SPELL REVENGE - Slogan "How Do You Spell Relief?" by Rolaids
0212 - EARTH ANGEL - Song, originally by "The Penguins"
0213 - YOU BETTER WATCH OUT - Song lines "You better watch out (...) Santa Claus is coming to town"
0214 - GUYS AND DOLLS - Play
0215 - BUILD A BETTER MOUSETRAP - Inventor's saying "Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door"
0216 - MASTER THE POSSIBILITIES - Slogan by Mastercard
0217 - PEGGY LOVES AL, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH - Song "She Loves You" by The Beatles
0218 - THE GREAT ESCAPE - Movie with Steve McQueen
0219 - IMPO-DENT - Impotent (show content), an evil little man (imp) likes to damage (dent) cars (show content)
0220 - JUST MARRIED... WITH CHILDREN - Saying "Just Married" / MWC self-referential
0221 - FATHER LODE - Expression "Mother Lode", movie "Mother Lode" with Kim Basinger
0222 - ALL IN THE FAMILY - TV series

Season 3 (1988-89)

0301 - A PERIOD PIECE - Fiction (movie, play, book) set at a specific time in history
0302 - HE THOUGHT HE COULD - Children's book "The Little Engine That Could" by Watty Piper
0303 - I'M GOING TO SWEATLAND - Song "I'm Going to Graceland" by Paul Simon
0304 - POKE HIGH - The High School of the Bundys is called "Polk High"
0305 - A DUMP OF MY OWN - Movie "A Home of Your Own", NOT the movie "A League of Their Own"
0306 - HER CUPS RUNNETH OVER - Song "My Cup Runneth Over" from the musical "I Do! I Do!", originally from the 23rd Psalm
0307 - THE BALD AND THE BEAUTIFUL - Show "The Bold and the Beautiful"
0308 - I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT - Common phrase
0309 - THE GYPSY CRIED - Song
0310 - REQUIEM FOR A DEAD BARBER - Movie "Requiem for A Heavyweight"
0311 - EATIN' OUT - Eating in a restaurant (show content)
0312 - MY MOM, THE MOM - One of many "my/the" titles
0313 - CAN'T DANCE, DON'T ASK ME - Song by Jerome Kern
0314 - A THREE JOB, NO INCOME FAMILY
0315 - THE HARDER THEY FALL - Movie with Humphrey Bogart
0316 - THE HOUSE THAT PEG LOST - Song "The House that Jack Built" by Aretha Franklin
0317 - MARRIED... WITH QUEEN (PART 1) - MWC self-referential
0318 - MARRIED... WITH QUEEN: THE SEQUEL
0319 - THE COMPUTER SHOW
0320 - THE DATELESS AMIGO - Movie "The Three Amigos" with Steve Martin
0321 - LIFE'S A BEACH - Saying "Life Is A Bitch"
0322 - HERE'S LOOKIN' AT YOU, KID - Line from the movie "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman

Season 4 (1989-90)

0401 - HOT OFF THE GRILL - Expression about grilled food
0402 - DEAD MEN DON'T DO AEROBICS - Movie "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" with Steve Martin
0403 - BUCK SAVES THE DAY
0404 - TOOTH AND CONSEQUENCES - Saying/50's TV game show "Truth or Consequences"
0405 - HE AIN'T MUCH, BUT HE'S MINE - Song "He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother"
0406 - FAIR EXCHANGE - Movie/60's TV series
0407 - DESPERATELY SEEKING MISS OCTOBER - Movie "Desperately Seeking Susan" with Madonna
0408 - 976-SHOE - Movie "976-EVIL", a possible US phone number, the Bundy house number 9764
0409 - OH WHAT A FEELING - Slogan by Toyota / Song "What A Feeling" from the movie Flashdance
0410 - AT THE ZOO - Marx Brothers movie "At the Circus"
0411 - WHO'LL STOP THE RAIN? - Song by Creedence Clearwater Revival
0412 - IT'S A BUNDYFUL LIFE (PART 1) - Movie "It's A Wonderful Life" with James Stewart
0413 - IT'S A BUNDYFUL LIFE (PART 2)
0414 - ROCK AND ROLL GIRL - Song by John Fogerty / movie "Rock 'n' Roll Mom"
0415 - A TAXING PROBLEM - Japanese movie
0416 - YOU GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO HOLD 'EM (PART 1) - Song "You Gotta Know When to Hold 'Em" by Kenny Rogers
0417 - YOU GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO FOLD 'EM (PART 2)
0418 - WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND - Saying
0419 - RAINGIRL - Movie "Rain Man" with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise
0420 - PEGGY TURNS 300 - Common phrase about somebody's age
0421 - PEGGY MADE A LITTLE LAMB - Children's rhyme "Mary Had A Little Lamb"
0422 - THE AGONY OF DeFEET - Phrase / Slogan "The Agony of Defeat" by "ABC Worldwide Sports"
0423 - YARD SALE - Selling junk in the backyard (show content)

Season 5 (1990-91)

0501 - AL... WITH KELLY - MWC self-referential
0502 - WE'LL FOLLOW THE SUN - Song "I'll Follow the Sun" by The Beatles, summer vacation phrase
0503 - SUE CASA, HIS CASA - Spanish saying "Mi casa, su casa" (My home is your home)
0504 - THE UNNATURAL - Movie "The Natural" with Robert Redford and Glenn Close
0505 - DANCE SHOW
0506 - KELLY BOUNCES BACK
0507 - MARRIED WITH ALIENS - MWC self-referential
0508 - WABBIT SEASON - Elmer Fudd says "wabbit" instead of "rabbit" in the Bugs Bunny cartoons
0509 - DO YA THINK I'M SEXY - Song sung by Rod Stewart and Tiny Tim
0510 - ONE DOWN, TWO TO GO - Movie / phrase / football expression
0511 - AND BABY MAKES MONEY - Children's rhyme / movie "And Baby Makes Six" / phrase "And Baby Makes Three"
0512 - MARRIED... WITH WHO? - MWC self-referential
0513 - LOOK WHO'S BARKING - Movie "Look Who's Talking" with Kirstie Alley and John Travolta
0514 - THE GODFATHER - Movie trilogy by Francis Ford Coppola with Marlon Brando
0515 - A MAN'S CASTLE - Saying and old legal principle "A man's home is his castle"
0516 - ALL NIGHT SECURITY DUDE - Similar to a fictional TV show on MWC (Bud watches it in ep. 510 on "Nick at Night")
0517 - WEENIE TOT LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS - Movie "Lovers and Other Strangers"
0518 - OLDIES BUT YOUNG'UNS - Saying "Oldies but Goodies"
0519 - YOU BETTER SHOP AROUND (PART 1) - Phrase, song by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, remake by The Captain and Tenille
0520 - YOU BETTER SHOP AROUND (PART 2)
0521 - KIDS! WADAYA GONNA DO? - Phrase
0522 - ROUTE 666 (PART 1) - Highway / TV series "Route 66", 666 is the devil's number
0523 - ROUTE 666 (PART 2)
0524 - BUCK THE STUD - Movie "The Stud" with Joan Collins
0525 - TOP OF THE HEAP - Movie "Top of the Hill", line from the song "New York New York" by Frank Sinatra

Season 6 (1991-92)

0601 - SHE'S HAVING MY BABY (PART 1) - Movie "She's Having A Baby" / US #1 song "You're Having My Baby" by Paul Anka
0602 - SHE'S HAVING MY BABY (PART 2)
0603 - IF AL HAD A HAMMER - Song "If I Had a Hammer" by Peter, Paul and Mary
0604 - CHEESE, CUES, AND BLOOD - Phrase "blood, sweat and tears"
0605 - LOOKING FOR A DESK IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES - Song "Looking For Love in All the Wrong Places"
0606 - BUCK HAS A BELLY ACHE
0607 - IF I COULD SEE ME NOW - Song "If They Could See Me Now" from the play "Sweet Charity"
0608 - GOD'S SHOES
0609 - KELLY DOES HOLLYWOOD (PART 1) - Pornographic movie "Debbie Does Dallas"
0610 - KELLY DOES HOLLYWOOD (PART 2)
0611 - AL BUNDY, SHOE DICK
0612 - SO THIS IS HOW SINATRA FELT
0613 - I WHO HAVE NOTHING - Song by Shirley Bassey
0614 - THE MYSTERY OF SKULL ISLAND - Movie "The Mystery of Thug Island"
0615 - JUST SHOE IT - Slogan "Just Do It" by Nike, song by Michael Jackson
0616 - RITES OF PASSAGE - Movie "Rites of Passion"
0617 - THE EGG AND I - Movie "The Egg and I", play "The King and I", movie "The King and I" with Yul Bryner
0618 - PSYCHIC AVENGERS - Comic book "Psychic Avengers" / TV series "The Avengers"
0619 - DINNER WITH ANTHRAX - Movie "My Dinner with Andre"
0620 - HI I.Q.
0621 - TEACHER PETS - Saying/movie "Teacher's Pet"
0622 - THE GOOD-BYE GIRL - Movie
0623 - THE GAS STATION SHOW
0624 - ENGLAND SHOW (PART 1)
0625 - ENGLAND SHOW (PART 2)
0626 - ENGLAND SHOW (PART 3)

Season 7 (1992-93)

0701 - MAGNIFICENT SEVEN - Movie "The Magnificent Seven"
0702 - T-R-A... SOMETHING, SOMETHING SPELLS TRAMP
0703 - EVERY BUNDY HAS A BIRTHDAY - Song "Everybody Has A Birthday"
0704 - AL ON THE ROCKS - Drink variation "on the rocks" (i.e. with ice)
0705 - WHAT I DID FOR LOVE - Song from the musical "A Chorus Line"
0706 - FRAT CHANCE - Common expression "fat chance" / frat is short for fraternity
0707 - THE CHICAGO WINE PARTY - Historic event "Boston Tea Party", song by The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
0708 - KELLY DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE - Movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore", line "Carrie doesn't live here anymore" from the song "Carrie" by Cliff Richard
0709 - ROCK OF AGES - Religious song
0710 - DEATH OF A SHOE SALESMAN - Movie/play "Death of A Salesman"
0711 - THE OLD COLLEGE TRY - Saying
0712 - CHRISTMAS
0713 - WEDDING SHOW
0714 - IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS - Phrase
0715 - HEELS ON WHEELS - Slogan "Meals On Wheels" by a food delivery company / Phrase "Hell on Wheels"
0716 - MR. EMPTY PANTS
0717 - YOU CAN'T MISS - Saying or phrase
0718 - PEGGY AND THE PIRATES - Comic strip "Terry and the Pirates"
0719 - GO FOR THE OLD - Phrase "Go for the Gold"
0720 - UNALFUL ENTRY - Legal expression / movie "Unlawful Entry"
0721 - MOVIE SHOW
0722 - TILL DEATH DO US PART - Line in wedding ceremonies
0723 - TIS TIME TO SMELL THE ROSES
0724 - THE OLD INSURANCE DODGE
0725 - THE WEDDING REPERCUSSIONS - Phrase
0726 - THE PROPOSITION

Season 8 (1993-94)

0801 - A TISKET, A TASKET CAN PEGGY MAKE A BASKET? - Song "A Tisket, A Tasket", 2nd line "A green-and-yellow basket", words and music by Ella Fitzgerald and Van Alexander
0802 - HOOD IN THE BOYZ - Movie "Boyz N The Hood"
0803 - PROUD TO BE YOUR BUD - Slogan by Budweiser
0804 - LUCK OF THE BUNDYS - Saying/movie "Luck of the Irish" / Poker saying "Luck of the Draw"
0805 - BANKING ON MARCY
0806 - NO CHICKEN, NO CHECK - Song "No Woman, No Cry" by Bob Marley
0807 - TAKE MY WIFE, PLEASE - Movie "Take My Daughters, Please" / old comedians' line (especially by Henny Youngman)
0808 - SCARED SINGLE - Movie "Scared Straight", movie "Scared Stiff"
0809 - NO MA'AM
0810 - DANCING WITH WEEZIE - Movie "Dances with Wolves" with Kevin Costner
0811 - CHANGE FOR A BUCK - Change for a dollar
0812 - JUST A LITTLE OFF THE TOP - Phrase
0813 - THE WORST NOEL - Christmas carol "The First Noel"
0814 - HONEY, I BLEW UP MYSELF - Movie "Honey, I Blew Up The Kids" and sequels
0815 - SOFA SO GOOD - Phrase "So far so good"
0816 - HOW GREEN WAS MY APPLE - Movie "How Green Was My Valley"
0817 - GET OUTTA DODGE - Cowboy saying
0818 - VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE - Event "St. Valentine's Day Massacre" on February 14, 1929 / movie "The St. Valentine's Day Massacre"
0819 - FIELD OF SCREAMS - Movie "Field of Dreams" with Kevin Costner
0820 - THE D'ARCY FILES - Series "The X-Files"
0821 - LEGEND OF IRONHEAD HAYNES - Song "Ballad Of Ira Hayes" by Johnny Cash
0822 - NOONER OR NOTHING - Phrase "sooner or later", movie "Double or Nothing"
0823 - KELLY KNOWS SOMETHING
0824 - ASSAULT AND BATTERIES - Legal expression "Assault and Battery"
0825 - RIDE SCARE - Movie "Running Scared"
0826 - AL GOES DEEP

Season 9 (1994-95)

0901 - SHOEWAY TO HEAVEN - Song "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin
0902 - DRIVING MR. BOONDY - Movie "Driving Miss Daisy"
0903 - KELLY BREAKS OUT
0904 - NAUGHTY BUT NIECE - Saying/Movie "Naughty but Nice"
0905 - BUSINESS SUCKS (PART 1) - Secondary it might hint at babys sucking breast milk
0906 - BUSINESS STILL SUCKS (PART 2)
0907 - DIAL B FOR VIRGIN - Movie "Dial M for Murder"
0908 - SLEEPLESS IN CHICAGO - Movie "Sleepless in Seattle" with Tom Hanks
0909 - NO POT TO PEASE IN - Saying "No Pot to Pee in" (meaning that somebody is broke)
0910 - DUD BOWL - Slogan "Bud Bowl" by Budweiser
0911 - A MAN FOR NO SEASONS - Play "A Man for All Seasons"
0912 - THE NAKED AND THE DEAD, BUT MOSTLY THE NAKED - Movie "The Naked and The Dead"
0913 - I WANT MY PSYCHO DAD (PART 1) - Line "I want my MTV" in the song "Money for Nothing" by the Dire Straits
0914 - I WANT MY PSYCHO DAD: SECOND BLOOD - Movie "First Blood"
0915 - KELLY TAKES A SHOT
0916 - SOMETHING LARRY THIS WAY COMES - Novel/movie/saying/poem line (Macbeth Act 4 Scene 1) "Something Wicked this Way Comes"
0917 - GET THE DODGE OUTTA HELL - Cowboy saying "Get the Hell out of Dodge"
0918 - 25 YEARS AND WHAT HAVE YOU GOT?
0919 - SHIP HAPPENS (PART 1) - Saying "Shit Happens"
0920 - SHIP HAPPENS (PART 2)
0921 - AND BINGO WAS HER GAME-O - Line "And Bingo Was Her Name-o" from a story
0922 - THE UNDERGRADUATE - Movie "The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman
0923 - USER FRIENDLY - Lie about every TV/HiFi/VCR :)
0924 - SHOELESS AL - Baseball player "Shoeless Joe Jackson"
0925 - PUMP FICTION - Movie "Pulp Fiction" by Quentin Tarantino
0926 - RADIO FREE TRUMAINE - Common name for radio stations in conflict areas fighting for democracy "Radio Free ..."

Season 10 (1995-96)

1001 - A SHOE ROOM WITH A VIEW - Movie "A Room with A View" with Helena Bonham Carter
1002 - GUESS WHO'S COMING TO BREAKFAST, LUNCH AND DINNER - Movie "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn
1003 - REQUIEM FOR A DEAD BRIARD - Movie "Requiem for A Heavyweight"
1004 - REVEREND AL
1005 - HOW BLEEN WAS MY KELLY - Movie "How Green Was My Valley"
1006 - THE WEAKER SEX - Saying/movie
1007 - FLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE - Piece from the opera "Tsar Saltan" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1008 - BLONDE AND BLONDER - Movie "Dumb and Dumber" with Jim Carey
1009 - DUD BOWL II - Slogan "Bud Bowl" by Budweiser
1010 - BEARLY MEN - Combination of barely and bear
1011 - THE TWO THAT GOT AWAY - Movie "The One that Got Away"
1012 - I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S BUTTER - Food "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter"
1013 - LOVE CONQUERS AL - Saying "Love Conquers All"
1014 - THE HOOD, THE BUD AND THE KELLY (PART 1) - Movie "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly"
1015 - THE HOOD, THE BUD AND THE KELLY (PART 2)
1016 - CALENDAR GIRL - Song by Neil Sedaka / movie
1017 - SPRING BREAK (PART 1) - American holidays in spring, movie with David Knell
1018 - SPRING BREAK (PART 2)
1019 - THE AGONY AND THE EXTRA C - Movie "The Agony and the Ecstasy"
1020 - TURNING JAPANESE - Song
1021 - BUD HITS THE BOOKS - Phrase for "Studying"
1022 - AL GOES TO THE DOGS - Phrase "... goes to the dogs"
1023 - KISS OF THE COFFEE WOMAN - Movie/musical "The Kiss of the Spider Woman"
1024 - ENEMIES - TV sitcom "Friends"
1025 - TORCH SONG DUET - Play "Torch Song Trilogy"
1026 - THE JOKE'S ON AL - Phrase "The Joke's on You"

Season 11 (1996-97)

1101 - THE STEPFORD PEG - Movie "The Stepford Wives"
1102 - CHILDREN OF THE CORNS - Movie trilogy "Children of the Corn" by Stephen King
1103 - TWISTED - Movie "Twister"
1104 - GRIME AND PUNISHMENT - Novel "Crime And Punishment"
1105 - CRIMES AGAINST OBESITY - Legal expression "Crimes Against Humanity"
1106 - KELLY'S GOTTA HABIT - Movie "She's Gotta Have It" by Spike Lee
1107 - REQUIEM FOR A CHEVYWEIGHT (PART 1) - Movie "Requiem for A Heavyweight"
1108 - THE JUGGS (HAVE LEFT THE BUILDING) - Country duo (mother/daughter) "The Judds" (Naomi & Wynonna) / common phrase when a band leaves after a concert
1109 - REQUIEM FOR A CHEVYWEIGHT (PART 2)
1110 - BUD ON THE SIDE - Movie "Boys on the Side"
1111 - A BUNDY THANKSGIVING - TV movie "A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion"
1112 - LIVE NUDE PEG - Movie "Live Nude Girls"
1113 - GOD HELP YE, MERRY BUNDYMEN - Christmas carol "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"
1114 - T*R*A*S*H - Movie/TV series "M*A*S*H"
1115 - A BABE IN TOYLAND - Movie "Babes in Toyland" with Laurel & Hardy
1116 - BREAKING UP IS EASY TO DO (PART 1) - Song "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do" by Neil Sedaka
1117 - BREAKING UP IS EASY TO DO (PART 2)
1118 - BREAKING UP IS EASY TO DO (PART 3)
1119 - BIRTHDAY BOY TOY - Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt
1120 - DAMN BUNDYS - Movie/band "Damn Yankees"
1121 - CHICAGO SHOE EXCHANGE - Chicago Stock Exchange
1122 - LEZ BE FRIENDS - Lez is short for lesbian (show content) / Phrase "Let's Be Friends"
1123 - THE DESPERATE HALF-HOUR - Movie "The Desperate Hours" with Humphrey Bogart
1124 - HOW TO MARRY A MORON - Movie "How To Marry A Millionaire" with Marilyn Monroe

Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора Peggy Bundy Maquette

When flipping television stations, are there certain shows which make you stop flipping and pay attention? Everyone has their own list of shows which, once on the screen, stay on until the episode is over, no matter how many times you may have already seen that particular episode. Although this list is a personal thing, there are certain shows which are on a lot of "remote stopper" lists: Cheers, M*A*S*H, All in the Family, Seinfeld, and Married with Children are shows which make many people stop flipping and start watching.


Cheers was a place we wished we could go, M*A*S*H made us laugh and cry, All in the Family pushed boundaries, and Seinfeld was about nothing. But Married with Children, well, it is a head-scratcher. A comedy about a dysfunctional family in Chicago, it left many viewers confused about one key element: how could Al Bundy have no interest at all in his wife Peggy, who was obviously an extremely attractive and, to be blunt, willing, woman? Al was supposed to be your average frustrated middle-aged man, getting no respect at work and no respect from his friends or family. Yet he had a drop-dead gorgeous wife, and inexplicably ignored her. Viewers wished that they had his "problems."

Married with Children ran on FOX from 1987 to 1997, so the "situation" in this situation comedy was one that viewers liked. In addition to Peggy, the daughter on the show (Kelly) was also "eye candy" for viewers, and the son (Bud) was essentially a younger Al, getting no respect from anyone.


Peggy Bundy was played by Katey Sagal, older sister to the twins who starred on the short-lived series Double Trouble in the mid-1980s. Since the end of Married with Children, Katey Sagal has been Hyde's mother on That 70s Show and supplied the voice for Leela on Futurama. Not limiting herself to just acting, she has also been a back-up singer for Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, and Gene Simmons.

Electric Tiki Design has chosen Peggy Bundy to be the third maquette in their "Tooned Up Television" series, following Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie and Samantha from Betwitched. The Married with Children sub-series will continue with Al Bundy, and then Kelly and Bud. The "Tooned Up Television" maquettes translate popular television characters into cartoonish versions, boiling the characters down to the essential elements. In the case of the Peggy maquette, these elements include her giant hairdo and her walk.

Peggy's unique walk is due to the combination of her high-heeled shoes and her rather tight pants. The pants have a slightly glossy finish, giving the impression of a stretchy fabric. Very often on the show, Peggy's walk was accompanied by her hands waving in the air, and Electric Tiki has captured this in the sculpt of the maquette. Her hands are in the air and only one of her feet is flat on the base, with the other leg bent as if she is taking a step. Peggy's outfit is completed with a tight leopard pattern shirt with cut-outs on the shoulders.

The face of the maquette is a caricature of Katey Sagal, with a wide smile, rosey cheeks, and closed eyes. Peggy's hair is enormous: piled much higher on her head than it was on the show and forming a helmet which hides her ears and shoulders. Her hair extends halfway down her back, with a few curls cascading over her shoulders in the front.



Not counting the small base, the Peggy maquette is about 9.5 inches tall, with about .75 inches of that being the hair built up over where the top of her head should be.

Peggy was designed ("tooned up") by Tracy Lee and sculpted by Tony Cipriano. This piece is a limited edition of 2,500 regular editions and 50 artist proofs. The maquette is packed sturdily inside the box with molded Styrofoam pieces and has a numbered color Certificate of Authenticity. The bottoms of the maquette and the box are also numbered.



from http://www.toymania.com/columns/rtmisc/etpeggybmaq.shtml

Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора
Married...With Children, created by Michael Moye and Ron Leavitt, premiered as one of the new FOX Broadcasting Company's Sunday series in 1987. Moye and Leavitt had previously produced The Jeffersons, a long-running comedy about a black entrepreneur who becomes wealthy and moves his family to an almost all-white New York City neighborhood. Set in Chicago, their new show was a parody of American television's tendency to create comedies dealing with relentlessly perfect family. Their program was immediately termed "anti-family."

At the time of MWC's appearance, the top-rated television series was The Cosby Show. In the Cosby version of family, an African-American doctor and his attorney-wife raised their college bound offspring in an upper-middle-class environment. Instead of such faultless people, Moye and Leavitt presented "patriarch" Al Bundy (Ed O'Neil) whose family credo is, "when one of us is embarrassed, the others feel better about ourselves." In Married...With Children, almost every character is amusingly tasteless and satirically vulgar.

Bundy is a luckless women's shoes salesman who hates fat women, tries to relive his days as a high-school football hero, and does almost anything to avoid having sex with his stay-at-home, bon-bon eating spouse Peggy (Katie Sagal). Peg loves to shop and her ability to buy always exceeds Al's capacity to earn. She refuses to cook and the Bundys must take desperate measures to stay fed, frequently searching beneath the sofa cushions for crumbs of food. After one family funeral, the Bundys steal the deceased man's filled refrigerator. Peggy's clothes are too tight, her hair too big, make-up too thick, and heels too high. She wants sex as much as Al avoids it.

The Bundy's stereotypically beautiful dumb blonde daughter, Kelly (Christina Applegate), is a frequent target of their naive con artist son, Bud (David Faustino). Moye and Leavitt created Kelly in the guise of Sheridan's Mrs. Malaprop; she can never manage to find the right word and her verbal confusions are felicitous. According to Bud, Kelly will have sex with any available male. In one episode, Kelly acquires backstage passes to a rock concert and announces she is just one paternity suit away from a Caribbean home. The Bundy's think Bud has no chance of ever attracting a date; running jokes mention his collection of blow-up rubber women. All characters have a common failing: none exercises good judgment.

In MWC Moye and Leavitt not only lampoon Cosby, they parody its creator, Marcy Carsey. The other continuing characters in Married...With Children are Al and Peggy's upscale next door neighbors, Jefferson and Marcy D'Arcy. Marcy and her husband serve as a device to entice and challenge the Bundy clan, then put them down. Marcy (Amanda Bearse) is a banker and activist for almost any cause which defeats Al's current get rich quick scheme. She marries Jefferson (Ted McGinley) while drunk and discovers him in her bed the next morning. He has no career although he has claimed to be a clever criminal, now living in the witness protection program. Marcy's first husband Steve Rhoades (David Garrison) makes frequent guest appearances.

The show had a small, loyal following until February 1989, and the producers had a history of arguments over taste and language with FOX's lone, part-time network censor. One episode, "A Period Piece" in which the Bundy and Rhoades families go camping, was delayed one month in the broadcast schedule because it focused on the women's menstrual cycles. Two months later, the episode scheduled for 19 February 1989, "I'll See You in Court," was pulled from the schedule and never aired on the FOX network. The episode involved sexual videotapes of Marcy and Steve, which Al and Peggy viewed when they rented a sleazy motel room. When both couples realized their activity at the motel was broadcast to other rooms, they sued. The jury chose to compensate the couples for their performance quality, with Al and Peggy getting no money.

That same winter, two weeks after "A Period Piece," an episode titled "Her Cups Runneth Over" led to a social stir. The segment featured Peggy's need for a new brassiere, which coincided with her birthday. Al and Steve traveled to a lingerie shop in Wisconsin where an older male receptionist wore nothing below his waist but panties, a garter belt, stockings and spike heeled shoes. Steve fingered leather-fringed falsies attached to the nipples of one near-naked mannequin; women flashed Al and Steve, though the nudity was not shown on camera.

One television viewer, Terry Rakolta, from the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan took offense at the show after the brassiere episode. She saw her children watching the program and found both the language and partial nudity unacceptable for viewing during a time when children made up a large portion of the audience. Rakolta acted by writing to advertisers and asking them to question the association of their products with Married...With Children's content. She also brought her cause to national television news shows.

In March 1989 Rakolta said on Nightline, "I picked on Married...With Children because they are so consistently offensive. They exploit women, they stereotype poor people, they're anti-family. And every week that I've watched them, they're worse and worse. I think this is really outrageous. It's sending the wrong messages to the American family."

Rakolta had mixed success. Advertisers such as major movie studios and many retail stores refused to buy commercials on the new FOX network (prime time telecasts had started less than two years earlier). Media brokers cited a bad connotation. Newsweek magazine featured a front page story on "Trash TV" questioning the standards of taste in prime time television. Married...With Children and tabloid news shows such as A Current Affair were primary examples. Yet the greater effect was strongly positive.

Among FOX's greatest problems at the time of the controversy was limited viewer awareness. Many viewers simply did not know a fourth network existed. Related to this was the fact that a small, similar viewing group comprised FOX's entire audience. Moreover many FOX stations had weak UHF signals which were difficult to receive. Rakolta's complaints garnered substantial national publicity and this seemed to assist the network in solving many of its difficulties. After Nightline, Good Morning America, Today and most other national and local news shows featured the controversy over Married...With Children viewer awareness rose dramatically. People purposely sought out their local FOX affiliate and Married...With Children became a success.

By April 1989 Married...With Children had reached a 10 rating according to Nielsen's national measurements, the highest rating of any FOX show to that date. FOX began charging the same amount for commercials in Married...With Children that CBS asked for 60 Minutes. The program began intermittently winning its time slot.

By 1995, the show had become the longest-running situation comedy currently programmed on network television, on the air as long as the classic comedy Cheers. After many years, Married...With Children no longer pushed new boundaries of good taste and the jokes became routine and expected, even when still funny. The show did, however, have an extremely lucrative afterlife in daily syndication, running strongly for years in many markets. In Los Angeles, FOX's station KTTV ran the program twice each weekday in primetime access. Daily viewership for the show continues to be strong and with at least ten seasons of episodes to add variety to off-network nightly reruns MWC is likely to consistently remain one of the most successful properties in the history of television syndication.

Kat_Davis (Married_with_children) все записи автора
RHOADES-D'ARCY, Marcy
(Married...with Children)
9766 Jeopardy Lane
Chicago, IL

Marcy is a loan officer at Kyoto National Bank. She is newly married, ambitious, holds extreme feminist viewpoints and drives a Mercedes. Her husband, Steven Bartholomew Rhoades works as a loan officer for the Leading Bank of Chicago. To profess their love, both Marcy and Steve wear matching wedding bands. Marcy’s ring inscription reads: “To our everlasting love, Steven” Ultimately, their sex life is very active and often kinky.

Marcy Rhoades D'Arcy

Living next door to Marcy are the Bundys, a blue-collar family lead by Al Bundy, a former football player from Polk High School who now works as a shoe salesman at the New Market Mall. Bottom line: Marcy's hates Al and he hates her. They insult each other whenever they get the chance. Steve Rhodes often laughed at Al's put-downs of his wife, but was careful not to let Marcy catch him do so.

When she's not a rockin' the bedposts with her husband, Marcy enjoys a night out with the girls. Al's wife, Peg Bundy and Marcy like to visit male strip joints. Once Marcy lost her wedding ring down the pants of an exotic stripper named Zorro while cramming dollar bills down his briefs. Luckily, he returned it to next-door neighbor, Al Bundy who gleefully informed Steve Rhoades with hopes of causing some mischief..

Marcy's marriage to Steve ended soon after he lost his job for giving a bad $50,000 loan to Al Bundy who started a failed phone line called “Dr. Shoe”: 555-SHOE. Steve then took a job with Slither’s Pet Emporium and eventually became a Forest Ranger at Yosemite National Park. From time to time, he came back into Marcy's life with irritating results.

After Steve left Marcy, she got drunk one night and woke up the next morning married to a handsome, but lazy ex-convict named Jefferson Millhouse D‘Arcy who claimed to be a criminal in the Witness Protection Program as well as a former covert ops agent for the CIA (code name: "Bullwinkle"), Allegedly, the government fired Jefferson because he could not kill Castro whom he had befriended.

A man who worshipped a good time, Jefferson's work ethic was just the opposite of his new wife. He never wanted to get a job, although constantly urge to do so by Marcy. Following the footsteps of his gigolo father, Jefferson believed that he was too handsome to work and just liked to live off Marcy's salary. He'd perform in the bedroom, but that was the only work he'd ever do around the house or elsewhere. Occasionally, Marcy forced him to find a job, but he always found a way out of it.

Marcy & Steve visit the Bundy house. Marcy & Jefferson face-off with poor Al in the middle

If not pestering her husband (Steve or Jefferson), Marcy found time to interfere in the efforts of Al Bundy, especially when Al Bundy's male social group, NO MA'AM (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood) took on a cause. Jumping into action, Marcy was quick to oppose Al's efforts with her own group called F.A.N.G. (short for "Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys"). Marcy's political agenda supported all sorts of plights against women whether they be fat, pregnant or ugly. And if her group could keep men from enjoying their trips to the local nudie bar ("The Jiggly Room"), so much the better.

When Al Bundy had enough of Marcy and wanted to drive her from his home, he mocked her skinny stature by using quips relating to a chicken, often calling her "Chicken Legs." Once Al said "Look what's crossed the road. It can't be a chicken, it hasn't got breasts...just nuggets." Not to be out done in the insults department, Marcy retaliated in kind. During the holiday season she recited this yuletide greeting to Al in song:

Marcy's song for Santa-Al
from Christmas (712)

Bundy the no-man,
he's as bald as he can be.
With the hair in his nose and rot on his toes,
he's as bald as he can be.
Bundy the no-man,
he's as bald as he can be.
He's into old age,
making minimum wage,
he's as bald as he can be...

To get back at Marcy, Al puts together a Top Ten List on Marcy with suggestions to approve her appearance. It read:

10. Wear traditional Islamic garb covering all but the eyes
9. Feather removing electrolysis (Chicken Joke)
8. Ski mask
7. Sew up holes in ski mask
6. Hire attractive woman to stand in front of you at all times;
5. Beak job (Chicken Joke)
4. Put paper bag over ski mask
3. Shave head, tattoo Cindy Crawford's face on back of head
and learn to walk backwards
2. Poke out eyes of every man on Earth
1. Get President to make every day Halloween.

Some more Marcy facts: Marcy's early childhood consisted of a mother whose three husbands committed suicide and a number of pet dogs including Winkums and Chester. In later life, Marcy's got a Doberman dog and named it Bella after New York feminist politician Bella Abzug. When Marcy cut her hair short, she was constantly being mistaken for a young man. Having a flat chest didn't help. Marcy likes to role play during sex. Once she and Jefferson dressed up like Al and Peg Bundy and participated in an orgy of trailer trash lovemaking. Marcy has a lesbian cousin named Mandy whom Al Bundy likes, even though she is a dead ringer for Marcy.

Kat_Davis (Married_with_children) все записи автора The Bundy House as seen on the series at fictitious 9764 Jeopardy Lane, Chicago IL...

.. and in a Chicago IL suburb in May of 2002. Of course it was only used for outside shots.

Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора Common Plot Mysteries

The Bundynomics Mystery: Al earns a minimum wage, but the average costs of his disasters and Peg each week comes to at least a few thousand dollars. And his house isn't that cheap, either. How come he never gets called to account?
Ade Bundy: The Bundy Curse keeps Al out of prison so that he can always be with his family.

The Couch Mystery: How can Peggy keep her weight, sitting on the couch and eating bonbons all day?

The Cleaning Mystery: Since nobody cleans the Bundy house, why is it not especially dirty?

The Food Mystery: What do the Bundys eat?
Bertram Thompson: Al gets food at the mall; Bud can buy his own food, or steals; Kelly gets guys to buy her stuff; Peg eats out with Al's money.
Andreas Carl: Al doesn't seem to have a particular source of nutrition; he just manages to get food from various places.

Another Food Mystery: When Al hardly eats, how come he can lock himself in the toilet for hours and overflow it?
Andreas Carl: For Al it's the only quiet place, and he uses a lot of Aurora White toilet paper.

The Front Door Mystery: Why is the Bundys' front door hardly ever locked? (Don't tell me that nobody wants to steal anything from this house because people do so in 518 and 720, and Al cares at least about his TV.)
Michael Nissen: Peggy is too lazy to check the door. Kelly is too stupid to remember.

The Marcy Mystery: If Marcy has so much money, how come she still lives next to the Bundys?
Bertram Thompson: Marcy often ends up losing money as a direct result of some contact with the Bundy family.
Ade Bundy: Marcy got suckered in to a huge morgage for her property. Nobody wants to buy Marcy's house; because of her neighbours.


Mysterious Important Events

The Graduation Mystery: How did Kelly ever graduate from high school?
Joe H. Rowland, Jr.: In episode 722, Kelly says she is going to the place that got her through high school - the principal's house.
Andreas Carl: She might have slept with her teachers; at least that's what she did for her junior finals (415).
Ade Bundy: Kelly passed at maths due to her abillity to make her mind go blank and think of a number. According to Principal Wicker in 313: "She's our best student."

The Seven Mystery: How did Seven disappear? (It's even more mysterious that he reappears on a milk carton in episode 825, so somebody is looking for him.)

The Divorce Mystery: Why is Steve and Marcy's divorce never mentioned?
It must have happened between 415 (last episode with Steve) and 503 (Marcy calls Steve her ex-husband).

The Car Mystery: Why did Peggy's car disappear after episode 520?
Kelechi Nwanuforo: In that episode, Al explains to the kids that he built his custom shopping trolley using "pieces of your mother's car".

The Vietnam Mystery: Al and Peggy left High School during the Vietnam War. Why is there no reference to any military service back then?

Sandyrella (Married_with_children) все записи автора The show is about a chaotic white trash family, the Bundys. They live in Chicago in disharmony. But they will always stay together, or as Al, the father of the family, says: "Love, hate, look, we're a family, what's the difference?" The plot is a parody on US family sitcoms of the mid-eighties, and so the working title of the show was "Not The Cosbys". Main issues in Married... with Children are sex, failures, indifference, parasitism and falseness. But the characters' lives go on, or as Al says: "Bundys are losers, not quitters". Its characters are usually politically incorrect, and some of them are more or less dumb. The show is so obnoxious that it never had really famous guest stars. As a compensation, the producers hired many Playboy Playmates and other beautiful women for small parts. During its 10 production years, the show changes a lot, but the Bundy family always stays together.