nicholls_les The only reason this got 9 instead of 10 is because it didn't always work, especially the last series. But over all this is what all comedies should be .... funny! Married with Children is laugh out loud funny and some of the episodes are classics. Ed O'Neill proves to be a brilliant comedy actor as Al Bundy, surely Al is one of the best comedic characters ever created? Christina Applegate provides some of the series funniest lines as the pretty but less than intelligent Kelly Bundy. She is laugh out loud funny at times. Katey Sagal creates a unique comedy classic character as Peggy and although Bud is probably the weakest family character, David Faustino does it brilliantly. It is hard to find fault with any of the cast in this series. Amanda Bearse as Marcy D'Arcy is very funny. Her interactions with Al are comedy genius. Ted McGinley who replaced Steve Rhoades as her husband is also very funny.But what makes this series so funny is it is politically incorrect and goes back to a time when what mattered in comedies was that they make people laugh. So many so called modern comedies and comedians are just not funny and resort to bad language which for some strange reason makes some people laugh.Some Al Bundy scenes in the shoe shop are just some of the most hilarious I have seen.Love this show and sad it ended the way it did.

gracjanski I saw all the episodes, some even twice or three times. I laughed not only loudly but so often like in no other sitcom. The good is, you forget many jokes, so you can see an episode again and laugh again after some time. In addition it is so funny to watch many episodes after another, you get as funny as Al Bundy and invent your own jokes. There are so many classic scenes in this sitcom: little boy standing near his fat mom and complaining: "Mom, I want to have a balloon", Ed: "You got one already" :D. There are 11 seasons out there and I really would like to have more. Congrats to Ed 'o Neill, he is the best in this series. The sad thing is, that this series contains so many truths about life and how family life can end, if you don't take care.

Dark_Lord_Mark Sitcom are made with females in mind. But Married with Children(MWC) was on of the rare sitcom guys love because of the relateablity of the characters, the adult toilet humor, and the great cast acting. There was someone for everyone to latch on to, Al was the loser husband, peg was his wife who has no job and does nothing and only wants sex from Al, bud was a dateless virgin loser who had a rubber woman and Kelly was the Sexy airhead sister who sleeps with anything. His neighbors hated Al and his family and Al did not care. He's a man's man.THat's why guys love it. While other shows (Seinfeld) jokes were helped GREATLY by the processed laugh track and has held up terribly over time, Friends not very well written minimal jokes that was laugh track crazy, MWC is STILL funny and refreshing and well written. It's one of the few sitcoms that were made for guys in a market dominated by the female audience.It made fun of every subject, from sex to penis size, to sluttiness to virginity....nothing was safe. Ethnic neighborhoods, gays, straights; nothing was off limits. A show that because of its edginess was and always will be funny.It's a guys comedy 10 out of 10.....MWC is a funny, well written and considered the best sitcom ever by men.

giantsfan456 I found this series funny with all the one-liners that the characters would fling at each other,mainly Al vs. Marcy, Al vs. Peggy,and the like,but I found a few things unrealistic,but then again,maybe that was the whole point.First off,and I'm sure I'm not the only one that noticed this,but with how sexy-looking Peggy Bundy was,why didn't Al find her even the least bit sexy and attractive? How did they have two children if Al was so petrified with,over,or towards having sex with Peggy? Second,if Al's job paid him a mere pittance and Peggy didn't work,how did they afford such a nice,big house in a middle-class suburban neighborhood? I make more than Al supposedly made in his shoe salesman job and yet if it weren't for my parents still supporting me,I'd be out in the street,with a park-bench for a bed.Granted that this was over 20 years ago,but come on,houses in suburban neighborhoods weren't that cheap back then,but again,maybe that was the whole point,that this was all just tongue-in-cheek,that this wasn't to be taken seriously,and that: of course Al wasn't as petrified of sex with Peggy if he and her could birth two kids and of course Al couldn't afford such a nice house in the suburbs on 2 bucks an hour,but I found those things totally unrealistic,but otherwise,I really enjoyed this series even in reruns all these years later.