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I used to love this show and still enjoy it when i can catch it in syndication. Personally, i agree that it JTS when Peg got pregnant then Al awoke to see it was all a dream. That was just bad cliche t.v. My favorite episode of all time was when Marcy was nervous about speaking to a group at her bank and Peg talked her into seeing some psychiatrist who could relax her for the event and to everyone's horror, especially Al's, she ended up having an orgasm in front of the audience. That is classic television you just won't see anymore.
I have to agree that this is the one time Ted McGinley actually made the show. Its been said that it went down after he got there but he was better then the charecter Steve. Jeferson was hilarious. He and Al were the perfect fit.
This is one show that I liked Ted McGinley on, I will agree with every shark jumping ted mcginley show mentioned except this one! He caused marcy's name to be "Marcy Darcy" for that reason alone he was superior to Steve, Who I thought never belonged with this cast anyway!
I don't know about anyone, but all the people my age who grew up when this show was on the air were forbade by their parents to watch. Since it's been on in syndication and I have seen a few episodes I know why. I actually think the acting is quite strong, but the trashy immaturity of the show hardly make up for it. It doesn't have the integrity of a show like Roseanne, nor the cleverness of the similarly apathetic characters of Seinfeld. It's pretty disgusting.
Jumped after the whole Peg gets pregnant arc....

Funniest show is the one where Al is funding a Bet on Kelly's pool playing. He donates blood for the money. Staggers back in saying he donated 7 pints of blood...Bud,"But Dad, the body only holds 6"...AL,"True, but the Brain Hides some.... HEY! Everything looks like noodles in here!"
From day one...married with children is like junk food among high quality restaurants..it sucks but you crave it once in a while
I loved that show. I was happy with Steve and when I first met his successor, I thought this isn't going to work but, guess what, that gigolo-husband became quite believable as a do-nothing that was concerned about his appearance. That kid Seven made me mad every time I saw him. I looked at the show as chewing gum for the eyes, nothing more, nothing less and that's all it was meant to be. I didn't care for the London episodes. They were pitiful.
The show jumped for me when the actress who played Marcy come out in real life as a Lesiban. She was playing an sex-starved housewife who was always looking for attention from her husband. She was less convincing in this role once she came out.
I'm sorry, but anyone who seriously thinks Jefferson was funnier than Steve must have an IQ of approximately 18.

Jefferson was annoying and utterly predictable, completely one-dimensional and too similar to Al to provide any funny banter.

Steve, as another poster noted, provided a dry, witty humour and his reaction to various situations would vary. His esteem was lowered somewhat in my view when he came back in that ridiculous episode in which he was smuggling a rare bird egg. By then Married With Children had already transformed into the cartoon it came to be, and he should have stayed far away from that.
Married with Children is burlesque at it's finest. It's meant to be low brow. Even at it's worst, it still succeeded at reaching it's ultimate goal which is crass, irreverent, over the top parodies of everyday American families. Rich or poor, all Americans can relate at least one of the situations portrayed in this show throughout it's long life on network TV.
Those of you who think the show was better in its later years are fools. You're probably the type of people who still employ whoopie cushions for use during practical jokes.

The early seasons by far were the funniest. There was always toilet humor, and they were always to an extent, playing to the studio audience, but the writing was fantastic.

And even though the story lines were not all that believable, you could at least relate to it in someway.

But when it became a cartoon, it became harder to enjoy. For instance, I can imagine someone screwing up a roof fixing job (season 5), but who the hell builds a toll booth in a drive way? - a toll both that looked like a fake toll booth set (from season 8 or 9, i think). And all those stupid cameos? Gary Coleman? Dave Madden? Danny Bonaduce?

Oh forget it, the show ended for me after Season 5. After that, it was all about playing to the liquored-up audience and their "Yeah Al!!!!!"
If Married... With Children jumped the shark, it was the "new kid in town" Seven that did it. Not Ted McGinley. And not Steve's "exit... stage left." Seven made no sense.

I think this show got BETTER and FUNNIER with the addition of Ted McGinley, which might be a first.

Anybody know where I can score a NoMa'am shirt?
I have no problems with jefferson and enjoy the character, but I too prefer steve. I just love that 80s humor/style. My perfect married with children seasons are 3,4,5.
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