Married... with Children
Created by Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt
Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous. From TMDB
230 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 26, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 21 | 13 | 176 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Lemmy * | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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Critics, per Wikipedia
For season 1, Metacritic calculated an average of 58 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Reviews of the debut episode were mixed. In 1987, Howard Rosenberg of the Los Angeles Times praised the casting of the Bundys, found the character development of the Rhoades lacking, and warned viewers: "The satire is heavy-handed." Conversely, also in 1987, Tom Shales of The Washington Post called the debut episode "nasty-minded, overacted and poorly cast". For The New York Times, John J. O'Connor described it as "loud, coarse and life-of-the-party vulgar". O'Connor also compared Married... unfavorably to other family shows like The Life of Riley and All in the Family,…
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60 of 230 · most liked firstSo anyway, just sold some MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN comics to the fella who played Officer Dan on the show.
neutral · AI labelView post →Without mentioning SNL, What's a Comedy or Drama Television Series that a Musician guest stars on & performs? 🎶 The "Rock Of Ages" episode on season 7 of Married With Children features guest stars Robbie Krieger (The Doors), Mark Lindsay (Paul Revere & the Raiders), Peter Noone (Herman's Hermits), 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →The Russian version of Married With Children lasted longer then the original US show and had to start making their own scripts rather then adapting them
neutral · AI labelView post →"You're watching Phlox. Shame on you". Gag is from "Married...with Children" S9E09 "No Pot to Pease In" and the title is from a bite the hand joke from King of the Hill. **Edit**: I feel like everyone who upvoted this post is like 10 years from the old folks' home. See you there!
neutral · AI labelView post →my roommate gets into like one show at a time and just watches the shit out of it and unfortunately lately it's been Married With Children and I'm going back in time to kill Frank Sinatra
negative · AI labelView post →Bulls broadcast said that when Buddy Hield was a baby his parents thought he resembled Bud Bundy from the TV Show “Married With Children” and that’s how he got the nickname “Bud” which led to “Buddy” I’m speechless
neutral · AI labelView post →* this was because Nikki Cox became the star of the show, she also dated her brother (E from Entourage) on the show and left him for Bobcat Goldthwait in season 4, whole the show was still on * is technically a spinoff of Married With Children I think
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember this 🤣 "DUCKMAN" is very much another "It all holds up because none of it does" 90s object for me that works because Duckman *himself* is an authentically awful bastard and the show understands it. It's a more surreal cousin to early "MARRIED WITH CHILDREN" before we're meant to "like" Al
positive · AI labelView post →I honestly never understood the attraction to Seinfeld. There were a few good jokes in there but the whole show was about them being assholes and proud of it. They're selfish, judgemental and entitled. They're constantly mocking and bullying other people and each other. The final episode even lays it out explicitly. Shows like "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia", "Married... With Children" or "Breaking Bad" have various unsavory characters but we're invited to reject these flaws or at least…
neutral · AI labelView post →Literally *every* TV family had a large house then. The Bundys in Married With Children had a nicer house than I’ve ever lived in and a running joke in that show was that Al was working the same entry level job as a shoe salesman that he got right out of high school.
neutral · AI labelView post →TOP 10 COMIC BOOKS # 5 ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN 1, vol.2 This is the 2024 first issue of Pete & MJ, Married with Children. $108(NM) ⬆️ $19 🔥🔥🔥🔥 Issue 14 was the last issue released & CLZ has issue 17 up, as this popular series is the one Spider-man fans LOOK FORWARD TO READING! Editor N. Lowe: take note 💫
neutral · AI labelView post →I have no idea how so much of the liberal establishment is enamored of that show. I had it on in 2020 while waiting for states to fully report results and it's some of the dumbest shit that's ever been on my TV. And I watched Married with Children!
negative · AI labelView post →The term "feminazi" was brought into popular usage by Rush Limbaugh. The Howard Stern Show was syndicated and even on air in Canada. Shows like Home Improvement and Married with Children depicted men beset with nagging wives they were forced to endure with snide winks at the camera.
neutral · AI labelView post →Yeah, if you're younger than ...30, (maybe?) I'm not sure the series has stayed in memory; but in the EARLY era when Fox Network's identity was "Black shows the bigger White networks won't air, plus 'Married With Children' and 'The Simpsons' is paying for everything THIS was their third big sitcom.
neutral · AI labelView post →How is Herman's Head not streaming anywhere? (Insert my rant about how Fox treats most of its early series except the biggies like Married with Children and The Simpsons here).
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm going to give a non-answer here, but spend some words pointing out that there is an entire TV Trope explicitly named after the phenomenon contributing to much of the current-day Seinfeld hate, namely that it feels trite and predictable only when viewed through the lens of modernity. [Seinfeld is unfunny](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny) as we decry that it's all been done before, forgetting that it's only been done before because Seinfeld did it *first* and…
neutral · AI labelView post →Name a show you’re positive no one remembers, but you 📺 It's Your Move starred Jason Bateman in his first leading role. The show lasted one season and the writers went on to create Married With Children. No idea what happened to Jason Bateman. He was clearly going nowhere fast.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I'll krump with you, sweetie!" Up next we have Hilary (Mordecai's mom) from Regular Show as Marge Simpson from The Simpsons! Fun fact, Hilary is voiced by Katey Sagal, who also played Peg Bundy from Married With Children, which was done a few pics back! Next hint: "Dang, Mama!"
neutral · AI labelView post →I think what's happening here is I go "who's that guy?" and the neuron for the word "Ted" lights up but also the neuron for the TV show "Full House"* lights up but this also causes the neuron for the TV show "Married with Children"* to light up which lights up "Bundy" * Which I never watched
neutral · AI labelView post →Maybe I should flesh it out into an actual guide. The Nepenthes docs are "meh" at best and completely gloss over integrating it into your stack. You'll also need to give it corpus text to generate slop from. I used transcripts from 4 or 5 weird episodes of Voyager (let's be honest: shit got *weird* on Voyager lol), mixed with some Jack Handy quotes and a few transcripts of Married...with Children episodes. https://content.dubvee.org/ is where that bot traffic lands up if you want to…
neutral · AI labelView post →Unhappily Ever After. Yeah, it was pretty much a Married...with Children ripoff (even with the same co-creator Ron Leavitt), but it had its own charm. Also, the whole series seem to be on Youtube, so I may do a watch through of this since I've never seen it on home media and have no idea if any streaming services carry it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsZ3zjrqFN0&list=PLAfK2fe7wJp-ij_nKYuGnSjFWI3E2AYOl
neutral · AI labelView post →like half of the gag of The Man Show as I remember it was basically the same gag as Married with Children or Family Guy, ie, "look at this fucking guy", except they delivered it really flat and while smiling this was not very funny but it was meant as *a gag*
neutral · AI labelView post →My childhood was shaped by… The Muppet Show H.R. Giger Poltergeist Star Wars Disney Animation Power Rangers Hellraiser Mr. Bean Married With Children Full House Austin Powers Stephen King's It (TV) Batman Jurassic Park Samurai Pizza Cats Bikermice from Mars Game Boy Playstation Animaniacs
neutral · AI labelView post →The nineties was absolutely filthy with good sitcoms. Seinfeld, NewsRadio, Frasier, The Drew Carey Show, Get A Life, Third Rock From The Sun, The Nanny, The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, The Simpsons, Married With Children, Roseanne. Friends also aired around the same time
neutral · AI labelView post →So, I now discovered that it is coming AN ANIMATED MARRIED WITH CHILDREN SERIES. Yes it is real, all the cast comes back to voice the characters. I cannot believe 😲 ❤️ youtu.be/GNAW_O1Pl1U?... TVsky 📺
neutral · AI labelView post →Sleepaway Camp Crocodile Dundee The Cleveland Show Nip/Tuck The Fan Terror Train Tropic Thunder Little Man Scary Movie Fatal Games Homicidal Insidious: Chapter Two Married... With Children Switch Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls Freebie And The Bean Zoolander 2 Ted 2 Workaholics White Chicks
neutral · AI labelView post →10 shows to get to know me: (In no specific order) Absolutely Fabulous Futurama Arrested Development American Dad The Tracey Ullman Show Strangers With Candy Married With Children The Carol Burnett Show The Bionic Woman Charlie's Angels
neutral · AI labelView post →10 Shows to get to know me. 📺 1. Star Trek TNG / Lower Decks 2. Ash Vs Evil Dead 3. Burn Notice 4. Justified 5. Night Court 6. The Real Ghostbusters 7. Santa Clarita Diet 8. Ghosts 9. Married With Children 10. Batman The Animated Series
neutral · AI labelView post →The real disconnect is no audience track. Is it honestly Married with Children without the hooting and hollering? This was so fundamental part of the show’s vibe that Futurama’s inevitable riff on the series found a way to incorporate it.
positive · AI labelView post →“Cheers” “Northern Exposure” “The Cosby Show” “Three’s Company” “Laverne & Shirley” “WKRP in Cincinnati” “Married with Children” Were our favorites.
positive · AI labelView post →I know Bill Maher as a game show host on Married with Children. Second-rate comedian who knows shit. Put in Fetterman, and you have two Fucking morons.
neutral · AI labelView post →April 5, 1987: Fox TV network premieres showing "Married With Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show."
neutral · AI labelView post →It's Your Move (1984). However, the only reason I know of this show is because I am a Married with Children fan, and because this was Jason Bateman's first show he did after Silver Spoons.
neutral · AI labelView post →So watching some episodes of a classic 80s to 90s tv show. Yep it's Married with Children good old Al Bundy football legend shoe sales king lol #tvshow #80s #marriedwithchildren #albundy
positive · AI labelView post →65) Buck the dog, from Married With Children. Best character in the show 🥹
positive · AI labelView post →It's a throwback to the kind of sitcom that existed pre-Simpsons and pre-Married With Children. They're recreating the Andy Griffith Show and The Brady Bunch for people with slightly less patriarchal sensibilities.
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m listening to an exec talking to this group of new hires (mostly right out of college) and he just said “has anyone heard of the show ‘Married with Children’?” Dead fucking silence, lmao
neutral · AI labelView post →Five shows to get to know me: • Star Trek (all of them) • Six Feet Under • Married with Children • Twilight Zone (original) • Farscape • Battlestar Galactica • Firefly • Orphan Black • Stargate (all of them) • Sliders • The Golden Girls • Doctor Who • Batman the Animated Series • Justified
neutral · AI labelView post →I vaguely remember this guy from seeing him on TV when I was a kid but the show aired when I was like 5 years old and so for some reason I conflated the show with Married with Children and thought he appeared in certain seasons of that show?
neutral · AI labelView post →My problem with catching up on TV is that I could be three episodes into a new popular show and suddenly think "uh, I wonder if Married... With Children holds up. I should go watch all ten seasons."
neutral · AI labelView post →I realized that back when “Married with Children” was popular. I couldn’t stand that show, nor any show that glorified marital discord. My wife and I are about to hit 26 years of marriage, and we still haven’t had a fight. It’s not worth it.
negative · AI labelView post →Married with Children was such a ridiculous show. "Oh bloo bloo, I have a steady job, a three-bedroom house, and a hot wife who always wants to fuck me. I'm a downtrodden everyman, bloo bloo."
negative · AI labelView post →I can still swim! My Dad mentioned mentioned scene from a show called Married with Children. Al sitting in a kids pool. That gave me an idea for this comic. #dragon #art #comic #dragonart #dragoncomic
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of an episode of Married With Children.. The one where Kelly was cramming for a quiz show.
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Cheers Simpsons Married with Children Person of Interest Sanford and Son MASH The Jeffersons Soap Futurama Parks and Recreation Batman:The Animated Series Buffy the Vampire Slayer Firefly Arrested Development News Radio
neutral · AI labelView post →I wasn't allowed to watch You Can't Do That on Television but really only that show. There were worse ones like Married with Children that were fine for some reason.
neutral · AI labelView post →Age verification? I can tell you the Fox Summer Sunday Lineup from Memory (American's Most Wanted, Married With Children, It's the Gary Shandling Show, Tracy Ullman Show).
neutral · AI labelView post →Here's another one. Brilliant but cancelled. From the creators of Married with Children and vehicle for Jason Bateman after he stole the show on Silver Spoons.
neutral · AI labelView post →He has a reputation as a show killer, having been brought into a lot of hits late in their runs (Happy Days, Love Boat, Married with Children)
neutral · AI labelView post →10 shows to get to know me: 1. The Simpsons 2. The Office 3. Clerks: The Animated Series 4. Scrubs 5. Arrested Development 6. 24 7. Married With Children 8. Daria 9. Parks and Recreation 10. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
neutral · AI labelView post →Can't believe how much Season 7 of Married With Children has gone downhill. I guess part of the problem was that the show was a delicate balance anyway, so you only have to get it SLIGHTLY wrong for the problems to start.
negative · AI labelView post →Wait, Joe did another show? In the Married with Children font in white? I will resist the urge to go to imdb immediately
neutral · AI labelView post →Married with Children animated series Are you going to watch?
neutral · AI labelView post →NEW EPISODE! @williambwest.bsky.social & I are BACK to examine this TV pilot from the creators of Married...With Children. We discuss other infamous TV show pilots and how this sitcom becoming a hit would have destroyed TV as we know it. Listen now rememberthatshow.transistor.fm/episodes/rem...
neutral · AI labelView post →10 shows to know me 🎥 The X-Files Friday the 13th: The Series The Simpsons Futurama Seinfeld Daria Teen Titans Go! American Gothic Eerie Indiana Married with Children
neutral · AI labelView post →Combine 2 Show Titles 2 make a New TV Show. Married...With Children of DUNE
neutral · AI labelView post →Tune in Sunday on FOX after Married with Children for the series premiere of Mafia Mom.
neutral · AI labelView post →30 years from now, historians will be talking about this time like Season 7 of Married... with Children, when they introduced the little kid to the Bundy household and dumped him as soon as they noticed audiences turning on the show.
neutral · AI labelView post →he looks like Ted Bundy's (90s television show Married With Children Ted Bundy) Louisiana cousin, Terry Bundy I can't unsee it
neutral · AI labelView post →Jefferson replacing Steve on Married With Children made the show better.
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