Media Meditation # 4: Love and Marriage!

(Picture found at Sodahead)
Recently I have been wanting a TV series on Netflix, Married With Children. In a 11 seasons of roughly 22 episodes to each season. The show is about a family based in Chicago. With the father, Al Bundy (played by Ed O'Neil) as a lowly shoe salesman, he makes little cash and has horrible luck. Ignoring his lack of hygiene, he has been able to own a two story house on a three dollar wage.
He is married to Peggy Bundy (Kate Segal), she is a stay at home house wife with big fake red hair and always up to style clothing. She doesn't cook, often leaving her children and husband starving because of the lack of food in the house, and she refuses to clean. This couple that has been able to stay married since high school, they have had two children.
The oldest child is their airhead daughter, Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate), has the looks, has the body and popularity that helps to her own entertaining appeal in the family. Always the comic release, she is witty when it comes to insulting her little brother.
Bud Bundy (David Faustino) is the younger son, a short guy who is on the constant search for a good quick lay. He has the brains, unfortunately like the rest of the family, he was cursed with the Bundy Curse. A curse that doesn't allow them to get the money they want, the opportunities that are shown and the change of future they want.
Of course they have friends, Marcy Roads/Darcy (Amanda Bearse), a strong independent banker who constantly is enjoying the pain of her friends and showing glimpse of a crazy side you don't often see.
Her first husband, Steve Roads (David Garrison) was always there at her side to tease and joke. Until he left her to go be a mountaineer and was replaced with the handsome, Jefferson Darcey (Ted McGinley) an attractive ex con artist who is always at Marcey's side to crack a joke.
The appeal of this show is it's constant joking, the show of a disfunctional family that still manages to stay together. They go through trials and tribulations, including losing thousands of dollars and being attack by an axe murderer, they manage to joke their way through and stick together.



The opening song is a well know song sang by Frank Sinatra. Of course, as with most Fox shows, the show was canceled abruptly before they could end it properly. So there was an ending aired in 2003, but it was a season that ran for 11 years or more and had many viewers. It has quickly become one of my favorite shows and I am currently just starting season 7.