― musically (musically), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 05:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmotdeth (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
I suspect I'm having trouble separating the bulldust written/said about the show from the show itself, and I also wonder if MWC is one of those cultural phenomena where some crits tell us that something is subversive/cutting edgs/non PC/(insert cliche of choice) and therefore we should ignore any suspicion that it might actually be crap.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:55 (seventeen years ago) link
If I remember correctly, the show was so popular in Germany that they made a German version of it.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 07:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:01 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092400/movieconnections
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 08:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link
Wasn't it a Beatles song? And not an obscure one either ... from Rubber Soul? I forget now.
― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish doesn't live here anymore (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link
I've rewatched it quite a bit over the past year and this will sound lazy but the main appeal of the middle 5 years or so was their relentless ever-more cartoonish milking of established characters and setups, played with such perfect weariness by almost everyone involved. This is obv. the kiss of death for damn near any sitcom but it became MWC's implicit reason for being early on and the show got away with it for a long time on Ed O'Neill's shoulders.It's why I'm not to big on the first season or so, where they'd shoot for some semblance of story progression/story balance/slight social commentary that just diluted the absurd awfulness of Al's assholishness/predicament.
― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link
I liked the one where their AC broke down and they moved into the frozen food aisle at the local supermarket.
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link
that was one of the greatest moments in TV history.
― helix aspersa (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link
"Mom, this is metered parking!"
"That's OK. That's what our 'out of order' sign is for. Get some scotch tape."
― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― lil' merzbow wow (haitch), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 00:52 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Shakey Mo Collier (audiobo...), May 31st, 2006 9:25 AM. (later)
I thought I wrote this on the thread days ago, but it doesn't seem to have stuck. "Foodies, the store with food... and heaaaaart"
Also:
Bundys = Simpsons (but still hide-bound to outdated notion of live-action bodies --> they couldn't go where the Simpsons eventually did; also the mom was the most sarcastic bitch alive)
-- Tracer Hand (tracerhan...), January 17th, 2003 6:10 AM.
Mostly true, but the episode where Al goes to hell is far better and more surreal than anything the Simpsons have had to say on the subject - the scene alone with Napoleon is gold.
― S- (sgh), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 02:11 (seventeen years ago) link
Haha, I could've written this exact same sentence.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 08:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Puff, Puff, Pass (2006) .... Steve... aka Puff, Puff, Pass (Canada: English title: DVD title)
lol
but the main appeal of the middle 5 years or so was their relentless ever-more cartoonish milking of established characters and setups, played with such perfect weariness by almost everyone involved
tremendoid otm
― Q('.'Q) (eman), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:15 (seventeen years ago) link
"I hate you all.I thank no one but myself...."
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:23 (seventeen years ago) link
It's hard to pick one, but I really like the episode where Al is voted off the softball team, only to be begged at the end to replace the injured Sven Hungstrom. He hits a game winning home run and delivers a parody of the famous Lou Gherig retirement speech. I believe this episode was sans Steve or Jefferson. Maybe that says something. "Today.........I consider you............the luckiest team............on the face of the earth................I thank no one but myself................"
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:36 (seventeen years ago) link
found it on someone's Myspace:
Today(today today today)...I consider you(you you you)...the luckiest team ...on the face of the earth...
and in closing id like to say...that i hate you all...I thank nobody but myself...and as of today...I...Al Bundy...am finished with baseball...
M.....V......P!!!!
― dave's good arm (facsimile) (dave225.3), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 14:31 (seventeen years ago) link
-- Sterling Clover (s_clove...) (webmail), January 16th, 2003 3:09 AM. (s_clover) (link)
WTF did you mean by this, Sterl??
― Allyzay Rofflesbot (allyzay), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RI3oySI4aeU
― can it compete with the wagon wheel (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 March 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Heh, an uncle watched this episode and asked me (music know-it-all/geek) if I could identify the song. Took me about 5 seconds, the humming was enough. He was impressed and satisfied.
How did Al manage to make the (correct) leap from "hmm-hmm" to "go with"?
― Ceci n'est pas une display name (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 11 March 2010 09:26 (fourteen years ago) link
They're running marathons of this now
Hard to imagine a live action show this politically incorrect airing today
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
how so
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I haven't, but I'd love to see them.
Agreed for the most part, thought I'm less a fan of the No Ma'am stuff, because a) it took Al away from the family too much, and that is where the heart of the show is (and also, Jefferson <<<<<< Steve), and b) that was around the point the show started running on fumes.
Bearse's behind-the-scenes involvement interests as me as well for a somewhat less definable reason: while the show was unquestionably, however cheerfully, trashy, its treatment of minorities granted them visibility without the pious condescension that was de rigueur at the time. I'm thinking of the episode where Peggy goes out dancing and starts regularly meeting up with a man who (unbeknownst to her) is actually gay. When the man's partner (played by Dan Castellaneta!) tracks down Al to let him know what's going on, the man ends up cooking Al a meal and watching football with him, at which point Al feels it necessary to track down and tell off his partner for going out every night (with Peg) when he has a wonderful man who loves to cook and watch football, i.e. - everything that Al would want in a partner, minus the "big 'uns." Yes, that is probably horribly retrograde in its own way, and yes, the episode does end with the punchline of Al breaking it to Peg that the man she thought wanted her "was a homo," but I kind of appreciate the show's lowbrow take on sexual politics compared to the "lets have a gay character to teach everyone about acceptance" mode that was the standard of the day.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 01:49 (six years ago) link
https://image.ibb.co/d3cFFH/Screenshot_20180318_204818.png
― just sayin, Sunday, 18 March 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
bit I always loved...
Mailman: Are you that NO MA'AM guy on the news?
Marcy: He's also Arnold the pig on Green Acres.
Mailman: All of these letters are from guys that support your cause.
Marcy: How would you know that?
Mailman: We open them.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 December 2019 04:57 (four years ago) link
it's literally the foundation of every sitcom ever
if the other weren't so funny they wouldn't be the other
― j., Friday, 13 December 2019 05:44 (four years ago) link
I fucking hate this show so much
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 December 2019 14:07 (four years ago) link
lol you're such a marcy
― j., Friday, 13 December 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
was this show the beginning of the "all zingers all the time" sitcom format? idk what before this really compares but there are definitely a lot of modern sitcoms that try (and fail) to replicate what this show did
― frogbs, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
Two and a Half Men, Big Bang Theory, Lorre shit is descended from this
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:57 (four years ago) link
or any of those CBS sitcoms I only ever know because of commercials during football
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:59 (four years ago) link
Remember seeing the father playing Popeye Doyle in something years ago.
― Stevolende, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:01 (four years ago) link
Dutch
― Dingle Kringle (Neanderthal), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:02 (four years ago) link
I've seen a few episodes of Two & a Half Men and I definitely think its the spiritual successor to this show, except its a lot less funny
― frogbs, Monday, 23 December 2019 14:38 (four years ago) link
eh i think one was a show when you were a kid and one wasn't
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 23 December 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
true but MWC does still make me laugh today
tbf the early seasons of 2.5 men (when the kid was still little) were kinda funny
― frogbs, Monday, 23 December 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link