― 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Bundys = Simpsons (but still hide-bound to outdated notion of live-action bodies --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
"lol @ the other" is still a pretty standard lowbrow sitcom tactic
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
man i gotta say every time i tune into a new mtv sitcom/drama i am 0_o at how explicit they are. not in a THIS CHANNEL IS DESTROYING THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY kinda way. just amazement at how much they can get away with now.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, August 1, 2011 7:00 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i guess that is true across the board, tv-wise, but still.
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, August 1, 2011 7:02 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^^OTM
at this point I fully expect to see a TV show about highly fashionable baby-raping zombies by the time I'm in my dotage
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
absolutely, but I always thought MWC had a different type of bleakness that struck me as a lot more cruel than something like, say, 2 and a half men.
there aren't really many sitcoms out there that show a husband and wife that actively hate each other the way they do on this show.
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:19 (twelve years ago) link
i hate this show so much.
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:22 (twelve years ago) link
matt, no!
― king of torts (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:23 (twelve years ago) link
this show is not really funny, yet for some reason I still have fond feelings about it and will periodically watch it if I'm channel flipping
― Richard Nixon's Field of Warmth (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
sorry man, too grim for me and not even funny grim like seinfeld
― om nom nom nnamdi asomugha (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
MWC is amazing, i loved it when i was a kid. i dont normally judge people by what they like, but i do sorta think anyone who doesnt love it is a ninny
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i_qxQztHRI (Princess TamTam), Monday, 1 August 2011 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, I used to get pissed when people who hated the show constantly made fun of it...the show really makes fun of itself, so what's the point
― frogbs, Monday, 1 August 2011 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
I took 3 months to think about this, and realized that it's not a lowbrow sitcom tactic, it's literally the foundation of every sitcom ever
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 14:37 (twelve years ago) link
The NEEeeewwWW Allante'!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGZ42g0kR28We still do this to cars with names remotely like Allante'
― andrew m., Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
PSYCHO DAD
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
the one where FOX makes a show based on the Bundys was pretty classic and so incredibly meta-everything
― frogbs, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
Married WIth Children cast photos from around the world
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
Bulgaria...
http://uploads.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/bundyBulgaria-500x359.jpg
(and the episode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYZ5ZIBq8tk
― Reality Check Cashing Services (Elvis Telecom), Thursday, 26 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/era7dgJ.jpg
― Cunga, Saturday, 16 February 2013 19:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xad-StH-7BY
the fuck
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:03 (ten years ago) link
ugh
― free dong commissioner (haitch), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 07:21 (ten years ago) link
the original theme song for this show is so perfect that i feel like changing it would actually kind of ruin the show. like, it may very well be the best and most appropriate theme song ever.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 18:44 (ten years ago) link
indignant over this
― j., Tuesday, 31 December 2013 19:42 (ten years ago) link
that UK remake mentioned the article linked to above is jaw-dropping
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpsXJeV9E08
― ferret is followed! (soref), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 20:04 (ten years ago) link
New theme song is really horrible and making me reconsider watching this again at all. Eff you, copyright lawyers, for ruining a GREAT thing!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 22:34 (ten years ago) link
it's an institute you can't disparage
― socki (s1ocki), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Apparently you can. For a second i was sort of hoping they would just have someone else singing it but no, it's completely instrumental!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 22:41 (ten years ago) link
The audience applause in this is all-time. All-time best use of the form.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 31 December 2013 22:55 (ten years ago) link