:Married... with Children

{{Main|List of Married... with Children characters}}

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• File:Married With Children Bundy Family 1987.jpgAl Bundy (Ed O'Neill) – A misanthrope, afflicted by the so-called "Bundy curse" that consigns him to an unrewarding career selling women's shoes and a life with a family that mocks and disrespects him, who still enjoys the simple things in life. He constantly attempts to relive his high-school football days, when he was an "All State Fullback". His most noted achievement was having scored four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High. His favorite things in life are the local nudie bar, his collection of BigUns magazine, his Dodge car with more than {{convert|1|e6mi|e6km|abbr=unit}} on the odometer, and a television show called Psycho Dad.{{Citation|title=Married with children, Physco dad compilation which includes Physco mom|url=https://www.bitchute.com/video/o3McdK5HyTZJ/|language=en|access-date=2021-08-30}} Despite his family's antipathy for him, and his for them, Al is always ready to defend his family and the Bundy honor.
• Peggy Bundy (née Wanker) (Katey Sagal) – Al's wife who is always pestering him about money and refuses to do any housework or get a job. Peggy is a lazy redhead who spends most of her time watching talk shows such as Oprah or stealing Al's limited funds to go shopping; she frequently mocks Al about his unglamourous job, his meager earnings, his hygiene, and his poor sexual abilities. Her careless spending on things like clothes and male strip clubs has run Al into debt on numerous occasions. A recurring joke in the series is Al's and Peggy's regrets of having married each other, although on occasion they will show affection towards one another. Peggy's best friend is Marcy, with whom Peggy occasionally heads into trouble. Peggy's side of the family is a backwoods clan of hillbillies whom she often forces the other Bundys to endure, especially her morbidly obese mother, whom Al finds intolerable.
• Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) – the Bundys' firstborn; a dumb blonde who is often derided as promiscuous and dates guys who irritate Al to the point that he wants to physically assault them. Her stupidity manifests in many ways, from forgetting ideas on the spot to mispronouncing or misspelling simple words. She and her brother Bud generally get along, but enjoy belittling one another.
• Budrick "Bud" Franklin Bundy (David Faustino) – the younger Bundy offspring, and sometimes the more level-headed family member, although his preoccupation with sex sometimes leads to inevitable failures with women. He and older sister Kelly constantly taunt each other, but when Kelly is in a legitimate bind he will support her, much like Kelly does for him under similar circumstances.
• Marcy Rhoades, later Marcy D'Arcy (Amanda Bearse) – the Bundys' next-door neighbor, Al's nemesis and Peggy's best friend; an educated banker, but also a feminist and environmentalist who often protests Al's schemes with his NO MA'AM (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood) group. Marcy is the founder and leader of an anti-man support group called "FANG" (Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys). Marcy and Al constantly bicker and do not get along. For the first few seasons of the show, Marcy is married to Steve Rhoades. After Marcy and Steve divorce and he leaves during the fourth season, Marcy meets and marries Jefferson D'Arcy, giving her the name Marcy D'Arcy.
• Steven "Steve" Bartholomew Rhoades (David Garrison) is Marcy's first husband, a stuffy banker who finds himself frequently entangled in Al's schemes. Steve's most prized possession is his Mercedes-Benz, which he does not even let Marcy drive. Although very much in love at the beginning of the series, Steve and Marcy grow apart and he leaves her during the fourth season to become a forest ranger at Yosemite National Park. He later comes back in "The Egg and I" episode to try and reclaim his old life with Marcy, but finds trouble with Jefferson, Marcy's second husband. Steve later has another job as the dean of Bud's college, after blackmailing the previous one he worked under as a chauffeur.
• Jefferson Milhouse D'Arcy (Ted McGinley), a pretty-boy scammer to whom Marcy wakes up one morning and discovers she has married. Unlike Steve, Jefferson is more of a free spirit, likes to have fun, is constantly unemployed, has no money of his own, and uses Marcy for financial purposes. Marcy is aware of this, but whenever Jefferson gets into trouble with her, he distracts her by working his charm and resorting to sexual bartering. In several episodes, Jefferson is implied, but never confirmed, to have had a past life as a former spy/CIA operative.

In the show's pilot episode, actors Tina Caspary and Hunter Carson played the roles of Kelly and Bud Bundy, respectively. Before the series aired publicly the roles for the two Bundy children were re-cast. Ed O'Neill and the show's producers worried about a lack of chemistry with the parents and the original actors cast as the children. A re-casting was done and all of the scenes in the pilot with Carson and Caspary were re-shot with David Faustino and Christina Applegate playing Bud and Kelly Bundy.{{Cite web|url=https://www.directexpose.com/married-with-children-facts/|title=Facts About Married… With Children That Will Surprise You|first=Eric|last=Sumner|date=August 26, 2018|access-date=January 1, 2020|archive-date=January 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101073406/https://www.directexpose.com/married-with-children-facts/|url-status=dead}}

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The working title of Married... with Children was Not the Cosbys, as a mockery of family sitcoms that were common on primetime television in the mid-1980s such as The Cosby Show.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vREzBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22married+with+children%22+%22Not+the+cosbys%22&pg=PA165|title=The American Family on Television: A Chronology of 121 Shows, 1948-2004|last=Brooks|first=Marla|place=Jefferson, North Carolina|publisher=McFarland|year=2005|isbn=9780786420742|pages=165–166|via=Google Books}}{{cite book|last=Kimmel|first=Daniel M.|title=The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television|date=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4N5XAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22married+with+children%22+%22Not+the+cosbys%22&pg=PA66|place=Chicago|publisher=Ivan R. Dee|isbn=9781566639514}}{{rp|66}} Creators Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye were told by Garth Ancier and other Fox executives "to be as outrageous as they could be, doing the sort of material the Big Three would never allow on the air", wrote Daniel M. Kimmel in 2004.{{rp|66}} However, Fox CEO Barry Diller had initial doubts that Married... with Children would be successful.{{rp|66}}

For season 1, Metacritic calculated an average of 58 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/married-with-children/season-1|title=Married with Children - Season 1 Reviews|website=Metacritic|access-date=March 21, 2023}} 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 Rhodes lacking, and warned viewers: "The satire is heavy-handed."{{cite web|last=Rosenberg|first=Howard|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-04-ca-1111-story.html|title=2 new Fox series--plainly no vanilla|date=April 4, 1987|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=March 21, 2023|url-access=limited|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230321194741/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-04-ca-1111-story.html|archive-date=March 21, 2023|url-status=live}} Conversely, also in 1987, Tom Shales of The Washington Post called the debut episode "nasty-minded, overacted and poorly cast".{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/04/04/the-day-of-the-fox/e25de9ce-e4cb-424a-84d3-aba64e22f905/|title=The day of the fox|last=Shales|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Shales|date=April 4, 1987|newspaper=The Washington Post|access-date=March 21, 2023|url-access=subscription}} For The New York Times, John J. O'Connor described it as "loud, coarse and life-of-the-party vulgar".{{cite web|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|authorlink=John J. O'Connor (journalist)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/03/arts/tv-weekend-2-shows-in-fox-prime-time-debut.html|title=2 Shows in Fox Prime-Time Debut|work=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1987|access-date=September 1, 2024|page=C30|url-access=subscription|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150524203530/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/03/arts/tv-weekend-2-shows-in-fox-prime-time-debut.html|archive-date=May 24, 2015|url-status=live}} O'Connor also compared Married... unfavorably to other family shows like The Life of Riley and All in the Family, describing the show as "pure blue-collar shtick, dressed up with the usual sexual-potency and bathroom jokes".

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Despite the show's enduring popularity and fanbase, Married... with Children was never a major ratings success. Part of the reason was that Fox, a startup network, did not have the affiliate base of the Big Three television networks, thus preventing the series from reaching the entire country. In an interview for a special commemorating the series' 20-year anniversary in 2007, Katey Sagal stated that part of the problem the series faced was that many areas of the country were able to get Fox only through low-quality UHF channels well into the early 1990s, while some areas of the country did not receive the new network at all, a problem not largely rectified until the launch of Foxnet in June 1991 and later the network's acquisition of National Football League rights which led to several stations across the United States changing affiliations. For instance, Ed O'Neill's hometown of Youngstown, Ohio did not have its own Fox affiliate until CBS affiliate WKBN-TV signed on WFXI-CA/WYFX-LP in 1998, one year after the show went off the air (the area was served by WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh and Cleveland's Fox affiliates—initially WOIO, then WJW—as default affiliates on cable), so many of O'Neill's friends and family mistakenly thought he was famous for beer commercials during this time.

Another problem lay in the fact that many of the newly developed series on Fox were unsuccessful, which kept the network from building a popular lineup to draw in a larger audience. In its original airing debut, Married... with Children was part of a Sunday lineup that competed with the popular Murder, She Wrote and Sunday-night movie on CBS. Fellow freshman series included Duet, cancelled in 1989, along with It's Garry Shandling's Show and The Tracey Ullman Show, both of which were canceled in 1990. The success of The Simpsons, which debuted on The Tracey Ullman Show in 1987, helped draw some viewers over to Fox, allowing Married... with Children to rank in the Nielsen Top 50 from Season 4 through Season 8, peaking at No. 37 in Season 6. Although these ratings were somewhat small in comparison with the other three networks, they were good enough for Fox to keep renewing the show. In its prime in the early 1990s, the show was averaging over 20 million viewers each week.

While the series did not end on a cliffhanger, it was expected to be renewed for a 12th season (which would have been the final season) and thus did not have a proper series finale when Fox decided to cancel it in 1997. With Fox announcing the cancellation publicly before informing the cast and crew, most if not all of them found out about the series cancellation from fans and low-level employees instead of from network executives. Katey Sagal stated that she constantly felt that the series was neglected by Fox despite helping bring the fledgling network on the map (Married... with Children having been on even before The Simpsons); for his part, Ed O'Neill attributed possible neglect of the series by Fox to constant turnover of some of the top positions at the network.{{Cite episode|series=E! True Hollywood Story|title=Married... with Children|network=E!|date=August 26, 2001|season=5|number=36}} In a 2013 interview, O'Neill stated that he felt TV stations who owned syndication rights to the series put pressure on Fox and Sony Pictures Television to end the series since the show had nearly three times the episodes needed for syndication and the production of more episodes would have resulted in higher rights fees.

The sexual humor and depiction of family life on Married... with Children were controversial from its debut. Daniel M. Kimmel reflected on the show in 2004: "It had achieved a cult status as a somewhat tasteless family sitcom that was so well written and acted that some actually saw it as dark satire of modern suburban life rather than simply an unending stream of sex jokes."{{rp|66}} In 2007, Time TV critic James Poniewozik, in ranking the show among the 100 greatest of all time, called it "a twisted mirror of TV's instant-gratification culture...suitable for a medieval morality play." Poniewozik concluded about the characterization of the show: "Zestily lowbrow and sex-obsessed, Married was dedicated to the classical ideal that unhappy families were more interesting than happy ones... and a lot funnier." Reviewing Sony's original DVD release of the first season in 2003, Aaron Belerle of DVD Talk reflected that the show's humor "doesn't seem so edgy anymore".{{cite web|last=Belerle|first=Aaron|title= Married with Children - The Complete First Season |publisher=DVD Talk|date=November 7, 2003|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/8210/married-with-children-the-complete-first-season/|access-date=September 1, 2024|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20040101114701/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=8210|archive-date=January 1, 2004|url-status=dead}}

In 1989, Terry Rakolta from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, attempted to lead a boycott{{cite magazine|last=Poniewozik |first=James |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652601,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026140557/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652601,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 26, 2007 |title=Married ... With Children The 100 Best TV Shows Of All Time |magazine=Time |date=2007-09-06 |access-date=2012-03-14}} of the show after viewing the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over".{{cite web|url=http://www.bundyology.com/hpg/306.html |title=Bundyology—Episode "Her Cups Runneth Over" |publisher=Bundyology.com |access-date=2012-03-14}} Offended by the images of an old man wearing a woman's garter and stockings, the scene in which Steve touches the pasties of a mannequin dressed in S&M gear, a homosexual man wearing a tiara on his head (and Al's line "...and they wonder why we call them 'queens{{' "}}), and a half-nude woman who takes off her bra in front of Al (and is shown with her arms covering her bare chest in the next shot), Rakolta began a letter-writing campaign to advertisers, demanding they boycott the show.

Rakolta's campaign resulted in Gillette, Warner–Lambert, and Coca-Cola ending sponsorships; ironically, Coca-Cola owned the studio that produced the show, Columbia Pictures Television.{{rp|68}} Fox pulled the episode titled "I'll See You in Court" (in which the Bundys attempt to improve their love life by having marital relations in a different setting). This episode became known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on FX on June 18, 2002, with some parts cut.{{cite web|url=http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?26509|title=Censored 'Married ... with Children' to Air on FX|work=Zap2it|date=June 17, 2002|access-date=August 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030212064318/http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?26509|archive-date=February 12, 2003|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title= The Illustrated Lost Show Transcript|url=http://www.bundyology.com/lost1.html|work=Bundyology|date=November 25, 2002|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20071219184320/http://www.bundyology.com/lost1.html|archive-date=December 19, 2007|access-date=August 17, 2024|url-status=dead}} The episode was packaged with the rest of the third season in the January 2005 DVD release (and in the first volume of the Married... with Children Most Outrageous Episodes DVD set) with the parts cut from syndication restored.

Viewers' curiosity over the boycott and over the show itself led to a drastic ratings boost.{{rp|68}} Rakolta has been alluded to twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl",{{Cite web |url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s04e15|title=Married with Children s04e15 Episode Script |website=Springfield! Springfield!|access-date=2019-08-25|archive-date=2014-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909161100/http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s04e15|url-status=dead}} in which a newscaster mentions the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot to Pease In",{{Cite web|url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s09e09|title=Married with Children s09e09 Episode Script|website=Springfield! Springfield!|access-date=2019-08-25 |archive-date=2014-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909161041/http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s09e09|url-status=dead}} in which a television show is made about the Bundy family and then cancelled because, as Marcy stated, "some woman in Michigan didn't like it."

Socially conservative criticisms of the show were not limited to Rakolta. The Media Research Center named Married... with Children the worst show of the 1995–96 television season, calling it the "crudest comedy on prime time television" for "lewd punch lines".{{cite web|title=Top 10 Best and Worst Primetime TV Shows|url=http://townhall.com/mrc/entertainment/topten.html|publisher=Media Research Center|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/19961129110404/http://townhall.com/mrc/entertainment/topten.html|archive-date=November 29, 1996|access-date=August 16, 2024|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/married-with-children-wrestling-episode-king-kong-bundy/|title=The Wrestling Episode: The Battle Of The Bundys On 'Married … With Children'|last=Stroud|first=Brandon|work=Uproxx|date=April 26, 2018|access-date=August 16, 2024}} Republican U.S. Senator Jesse Helms called the show "trash".{{cite web |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |title=Ron Leavitt-co-created 'Married…With Children' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Leavitt-co-created-Married-With-3227123.php |website=San Francisco Gate |date=February 13, 2008 |access-date=9 August 2022}} Fellow Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) also strongly criticized the sitcom, after having walked in on his stepson and young daughter watching an episode one evening in late 1993. In an interview many years later, Lieberman would specifically cite Married...With Children as the impetus for his becoming a vocal opponent of pop culture and the entertainment industry throughout his Senate career.{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/08/lieberman-versus-hollywood/34114372-56bf-47f8-8cbd-5d4b09fd44bd/ |title=

Lieberman Versus Hollywood |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Farhi |first=Paul |date=December 8, 2003 |access-date=January 17, 2024}}{{cite web | url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/10/16/congressmen-ask-fox-to-show-married-with-children-later/ | title=Congressmen ask Fox to show "Married with Children' later |work=Tampa Bay Times |date=October 16, 1996 |access-date=January 17, 2024 }}

However, the show was recognized for giving women prominent roles behind the scenes. Producers decided to rewrite the sixth season storyline of Peggy's pregnancy, which coincided with Sagal's actual pregnancy, as a dream that Al had. This was done to prevent Sagal from suffering further trauma by having her character Peggy interact with a new baby, when Sagal's pregnancy ended with her going into premature labor and the baby being stillborn.{{Cite web|url=https://www.throwbacks.com/married-with-children-pregnancy/|title=The Heartbreaking Tragedy That Changed An Entire Season Of 'Married With Children'|website=Throwbacks|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=2021-02-21}}

Bearse also became one of the first mainstream actresses to publicly come out as lesbian, which she did during the series run and received positive recognition for doing so.

On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in commemoration of its 25th anniversary.{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/11/fox-will-rebroadcast-the-series-premiere-of-married-with-children-to-celebrate-the-networks-25th-anniversary-sunday-april-22/128662/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412050718/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/11/fox-will-rebroadcast-the-series-premiere-of-married-with-children-to-celebrate-the-networks-25th-anniversary-sunday-april-22/128662/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 12, 2012|title=Network TV Press Releases FOX Will Rebroadcast the Series Premiere of 'Married...With Children' to Celebrate the Network's 25th Anniversary Sunday, April 22|last=Bibel|first=Sara|date=April 11, 2012|work=TV by the Numbers|access-date=April 11, 2012}}

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During its 11-season run on the Fox network, Married... with Children aired 258 episodes. A 259th episode, "I'll See You in Court" from season 3, never aired on Fox, but premiered on FX and has since been included on DVD and in syndication packages. Three specials also aired following the series' cancellation, including a cast reunion.

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has released all 11 seasons of Married... with Children on DVD in Regions 1, 2, and 4. On December 12, 2010, Sony released a complete series set on DVD in Region 1.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-The-Complete-Series/14661 |title=Married... with Children DVD news: Date Change for Married... with Children - The Complete Series |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2007-05-25 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121180356/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-The-Complete-Series/14661 |archive-date=2011-11-21 }}

In December 2007, the Big Bundy Box—a special collection box with all seasons plus new interviews with Sagal and David Faustino—was released.{{cite web|url=http://blog.albundy.net/?p=108 |title=Big Bundy Box Released |publisher=Blog.albundy.net |access-date=2012-03-14}} This boxset was released in Australia (Region 4) on November 23, 2009.{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/809613 |title=Married With Children - The Big Bundy Box 1-11 (34 Disc Box Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2009-11-23 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411101837/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/809613 |archive-date=2011-04-11 }}

The Sony DVD box sets from season 3 onward do not feature the original "Love and Marriage" theme song in the opening sequence. This was done because Sony was unable to obtain the licensing rights to the song for later sets.{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children/2711 |title=Married... with Children DVD news: Want to hear the alternate theme song for Season 3 DVDs? |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2007-05-25 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121181550/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children/2711 |archive-date=2011-11-21 }} Despite this, the end credits on the DVDs for season 3 still include a credit for "Love and Marriage."

On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment{{Cite web |title=Mill Creek Entertainment {{!}} The Leader in Value Entertainment |url=https://www.millcreekent.com/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Mill Creek Entertainment |language=en}} had acquired the home media rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including Married... with Children{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News-Mill-Creek-Sony-License-Deal/18902 |title=Mill Creek Entertainment Signs Deals With Sony Pictures Home Entertainment To Expand Their Distribution Partnership |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2013-08-27 |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006134321/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News-Mill-Creek-Sony-License-Deal/18902 |archive-date=2014-10-06 }} with the original theme song "Love and Marriage" sung by Frank Sinatra. They have subsequently re-released the 11 seasons on DVD. The Mill Creek Entertainment version (along with the versions available for streaming and downloading) include scenes that are normally edited in syndication and most of the licensed music that's dubbed over or deleted due to copyright issues.{{cite web |url=http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-1-and-2/19184 |title=Mill Creek Provides Bundy Box Art for Their 'Seasons 1 & 2' Set |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2013-11-15 |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428211546/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-1-and-2/19184 |archive-date=2014-04-28 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-3-and-4/19543 |title=Short Delay plus Box Art for Mill Creek's 'Seasons 3 & 4' DVDs |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2014-06-03 |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509002548/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-3-and-4/19543 |archive-date=2014-05-09 }}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-5-and-6/20218|title=Box Artwork Now Available from Mill Creek for 'Seasons 5 & 6'|access-date=October 27, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027225349/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-5-and-6/20218|archive-date=October 27, 2014}}{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-7-and-8/20417|title=Mill Creek Schedules Re-Releases for the 7th and 8th Seasons|access-date=October 30, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028041634/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-7-and-8/20417|archive-date=October 28, 2014}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/more/dvd-calendar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326221641/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-9-and-10/20894|url-status=dead|title=DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic|archive-date=March 26, 2015|website=Metacritic}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/more/dvd-calendar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430182438/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Season-11-and-The-Complete-Series/21033|url-status=dead|title=DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic|archive-date=April 30, 2015|website=Metacritic}} A Complete Series DVD set was re-released on July 7, 2015, in Region 1. All seasons of Married... with Children are now available for online download and streaming through Amazon, Apple iTunes, Peacock, Hulu, and Vudu.

• Pig Out with Peg: Secrets from the Bundy Family Kitchen, by Linda Merinoff and Peg Bundy, Avon Books, November 1990, {{ISBN|0-380-76431-8}}
• Bundyisms: The Wit and Wisdom of America's Last Family, Boulevard Books, May 1997, {{ISBN|1572972513}}
• The Complete "Married... with Children" Book: TV's Dysfunctional Family Phenomenon, by Denis Noe, Bear Manor Media, August 2017, {{ISBN|1629331899}}
• Married... with Children vs. the World, by Richard Gurman, Permuted Press, April 2024, {{ISBN|9781637588314}}

Married... with Children was adapted into a comic book series by NOW Comics in 1990.{{cite web |url=http://bundyology.com/comics.html |title=Married... with Children Comics |publisher=Bundyology.com |date=2001-01-21 |access-date=2012-06-23 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318121153/http://www.bundyology.com/comics.html |url-status=dead }}

• Married with Children: Act Like...Think Like...Be Like a...Bundy was released in 1990 by Galoob.{{cite web|url=http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10366/married-with-children-act-like-think-like-be-l |title=Married With Children: Act Like...Think Like...Be Like a...Bundy |publisher=Boardgamegeek.com |access-date=2012-06-23}}

Two series (10 in all) of 8" action figures were produced by Classic TV Toys in 2005 and 2006.{{cite web|url=http://www.classictvtoys.com/search.aspx?find=married+with+children |title=Married With Children 8 inch Action Figures |publisher=Classictvtoys.com |access-date=2012-06-23}}

In 2018, Funko produced figures of Al, Kelly, Bud and Peggy as a part of their Funko POP! line.{{cite web|url=https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2018/08/30/funko-launches-married-with-children-pop-figures/|access-date=2019-03-10|title=Funko Launches 'Married with Children' Pop Figures|date=August 30, 2018 }}

That same year, Funko also released a Married... with Children action figures box set.{{Cite web |url=https://tvweb.com/married-with-children--funko-new-york-comic-con-exclusives/toys |title=Not found! |access-date=March 10, 2019 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803172900/https://tvweb.com/married-with-children--funko-new-york-comic-con-exclusives/toys |url-status=dead }} In 2018 and 2019, Mego released Target exclusives of Al, Peggy and Kelly in 1/9 scale.{{Cite web |url=https://www.target.com/s?sortBy=relevance&Nao=0&category=5xtb0&searchTerm=bundy |title=Mego Married with Children Bundy Action Figure 8 |access-date=September 24, 2020}}

An Armenian remake was made in 2016, called The Azizyans. The Azizyans is an Armenian sitcom television series developed by Robert Martirosyan and Van Grigoryan. The series premiered on Armenia TV on October 31, 2016. However, the series was not available to the public until Armenia TV started airing the sitcom from October 10, 2017. The series takes place in Yerevan, Armenia. The Azizyans sitcom is starred by Hayk Marutyan. He embodies the character of Garnik Azizyan – a clothes store seller, who is the only one working in the family. Mrs. Ruzan Azizyan is lazy enough to perform the duties of a housewife.

The problems of the father of the family do not bother his 3 children – his daughter, who is internet-addicted and is active in all social networks; his unemployed eldest son, who is a complete loser, and his youngest son, who is a schoolboy. The roles in this sitcom, created for family watching, are played by Ani Lupe, Satenik Hazaryan, Ishkhan Gharibyan, Suren Arustamyan and other popular Armenian actors. The project is directed by Arman Marutyan. In the second season of the sitcom, the Azizyan family continues to survive thanks to the meager salary of Garnik.

The wife of Garnik – Ruzan, remains in the status of a housewife, without even thinking about finding a job. The elder son of Garnik and Ruzan – Azat, continues to look for a new job, a young man appears in the life of Marie, who is trying to win the girl's heart. Their younger son Levon, continues to live his own life and does not understand what he has in common with this family. And their neighbors Irina and Alik continue to be friends with the family, which the Azizyans do not quite approve. The only bright spot in the life of the family is their house, which Garnik inherited from his grandfather.

An Argentine remake was made by Telefe in 2005, called Casados con Hijos. Two seasons were made (2005 and 2006), totaling 215 episodes and it became a smashing success during the replaying. More than fifteen years after the release, it is still aired on Saturdays at 7:30 pm.{{cite web |title=Casados con hijos |url=http://www.telefe.com/programas/casados-con-hijos/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530050452/http://www.telefe.com/programas/casados-con-hijos/ |archive-date=May 30, 2012| language=es}} The series has been also shown by local channels in Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru.

The character names are: José "Pepe" Argento (based on Al, played by Guillermo Francella), Mónica "Moni" Argento (based on Peggy, played by Florencia Peña), Paola Argento (based on Kelly, played by Luisana Lopilato), Alfio "Coqui" Argento (based on Bud, played by Darío Lopilato), Dardo and María Elena Fuseneco (based on Jefferson D'Arcy, Steve Rhoades and Marcy; played by Marcelo de Bellis and Érica Rivas).

In Brazil Rede Bandeirantes made a remake in 1999 with the name A Guerra dos Pintos (The War of The Pintos). 52 episodes were recorded but only 22 aired before cancelation.{{cite web |url=http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/tele/guerradospintosb.asp |title=A Guerra dos Pintos |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140414104236/http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/tele/guerradospintosb.asp |archive-date=April 14, 2014 |language=pt-BR}}

In Bulgaria a remake is aired from March 26, 2012, with the name Женени с деца в България (Zheneni s detsa v Bulgaria) (Married with children in Bulgaria).{{cite web|url=http://novatv.bg/zheneni|publisher=novatv.bg|title=Official site of Married with children in Bulgaria|access-date=March 26, 2012 |language=bg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327155957/http://www.novatv.bg/zheneni |archive-date=March 27, 2012}}

In Croatia a remake called Bračne vode was broadcast from September 2008 until November 2009 on Nova TV channel. The characters based on the Bundys were called Zvonimir, Sunčica, Kristina and Boris Bandić while the ones based on Marcy and Steve were called Marica and Ivan Kumarica.{{cite web|url=http://www.index.hr/xmag/clanak/pala-prva-klapa-hrvatskih-quotbracnih-vodaquot-ala-ce-glumiti-damir-loncar/399776.aspx |title=Pala prva klapa hrvatskih "Bračnih voda": Ala će glumiti Damir Lončar |access-date=August 30, 2013 |date=August 26, 2008 |website=Index.hr |language=hr}}

In Germany, the 1992 remake Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt, broadcast in the prime time, reached double the audience of the original (broadcast in the early fringe time). This, however, was not enough to maintain the series, so it was cancelled after one season with 26 episodes. The remake used the exact translated scripts of the original series (which already substituted localised humour and in-jokes for incomprehensible references to American TV shows not shown in Germany, as well as some totally different jokes) and just renamed places and people according to the new setting.{{Cite web |author=Hendrik Ternieden, Oliver Trenkamp |url=https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/20-jahre-al-bundy-in-deutschland-a-947496.html |title=Al Bundy in Deutschland: Die Hand in der Hose |website=spiegel.de |date=February 23, 2012 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |language=de}} It had a rerun twice on Super RTL in 1996 and 1997.{{Cite web |author=Christian Richter |url=https://www.quotenmeter.de/n/32542/der-fernsehfriedhof-hilfe-meine-familie-spinnt |title=Der Fernsehfriedhof: "Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt" |website=quotenmeter.de |date=January 15, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |language=de}}

{{lang|de|Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt}} was aired from March to December 1993 for 26 episodes.{{Cite web |url=http://www.tvsi.de/comedyserien/hilfe_meine_familie_spinnt.php |title=Hilfe meine Familie spinnt! |website=tvsi.de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113121222/http://www.tvsi.de/comedyserien/hilfe_meine_familie_spinnt.php |archive-date=November 13, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |language=de}}

In 2006, Hungarian TV network TV2 purchased the license rights including scripts and hired the original producers from Sony Pictures for a remake of the show placed in a Hungarian environment. It was entitled {{lang|hu|Egy rém rendes család Budapesten}}:hu:Egy rém rendes család Budapesten {{in lang|hu}} (in English: Married with children in Budapest, loan translation: A gruesomely decent family in Budapest). The main story began with the new family called the Bándis inheriting an outskirt house from their American relatives the Bundys. They filmed a whole season of 26 episodes, all of them being remade versions of the plots of the original first seasons. It was the highest budget sitcom ever made in Hungary. First it was aired on Tuesday nights, but was beaten by a new season of ER, then placed to Wednesday nights. The remake lost its viewers, but stayed on the air due to the contract between Sony and TV2.{{Cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/media/bundy7904/ |title=Budapestre jön a rém rendes család |first=Szabó |last=Zoltán |date=August 4, 2006 |website=index.hu |language=hu}}{{Cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/media/mc5808/ |title=Megverte a Vészhelyzet a magyar Rém rendest |date=October 18, 2006 |website=index.hu |language=hu}}{{Cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/media/rem486/ |title=Magyarország a magyar tahóké! |first=Szabó |last=Zoltán |date=October 17, 2006 |website=index.hu |language=hu}} Also the Hungarian critics have strongly condemned the copyright infringement of the original series. They also criticized the lack of quality and the dilettante forcing of the American cliches in Eastern European (Hungarian) environment.{{Cite web |url=https://www.origo.hu/teve/20061018bandi.html |title=Bemutatkozott a magyar Al Bundy |website=origo.hu/ |date=October 18, 2006 |language=hu}}

The complete American series aired in Israel in the 1990s, with reruns of it ever since. There has also been an Israeli remake to the show titled Nesuim Plus (Married Plus) that aired its two seasons from 2012 to 2017.

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In May 2023, Sony Pictures Television announced a Mexican remake for Sony Channel.{{cite web |title=SPT anuncia el protagonista de la versión mexicana de Casados con Hijos |url=https://www.todotvnews.com/spt-anuncia-el-protagonista-de-la-version-mexicana-de-casados-con-hijos/ |website=todotvnews.com |access-date=18 September 2024 |language=es |date=24 May 2023}} The series premiered on 8 May 2024 and stars Adrián Uribe and Sandra Echeverría.{{cite web |last1=Baños |first1=Sughey |title="Casados con hijos": Adrián Uribe y Sandra Echeverría encabezan versión mexicana de "Married with children" |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/casados-con-hijos-adrian-uribe-y-sandra-echeverria-encabezan-version-mexicana-de-married-with-children/ |website=El Universal |access-date=18 September 2024 |language=es |date=4 May 2024}}

{{Main|Happy Together (Russian TV series)}}

The Original Married... With Children ran on TV-6 Russia in the late 1990s and early 2000s (before the closing of the channel) in prime-time basis, broadcasting the episodes from seasons 1–11. The show later aired on DTV and Domashniy TV. A Russian adaptation, titled Happy Together (Schastlivy Vmeste; Happy Together), was broadcast on TNT across the country in 2006.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/world/europe/10sitcom.html?em&ex=1189656000&en=53663b3615f7d656&ei=5087%0A |work=The New York Times |title=Still Married, With Children, but in Russian |first=Clifford J. |last=Levy |date=September 10, 2007 |access-date=May 12, 2010 |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=http://schastlivyvmeste.tnt-online.ru/ |script-title=ru:Счастливы вместе : ТНТ |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701101059/http://schastlivyvmeste.tnt-online.ru/ |archive-date=July 1, 2012}}

The character names are: Gena Bukin (based on Al, played by Viktor Loginov), Dasha Bukina (based on Peggy, played by Natalya Bochkareva), Sveta Bukina (based on Kelly, played by Darya Sagalova), Roma Bukin (based on Bud, played by Alexander Yakin), Elena and Anatoliy Poleno (based on Marcy and Jefferson D'Arcy, played by Yulia Zaharova and Pavel Savinkov), Evgeniy Stepanov (based on Steve Rhoades, played by Aleksey Sekirin), Sema Bukin (based on Seven, played by Ilya Butkovskiy), and Baron Bukin (based on Buck and Lucky, played by Bayra).{{cite news|title= Still Married, With Children, But Trading Insults in Russian|newspaper= The New York Times|date=September 10, 2007|url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00611F93B540C738DDDA00894DF404482&fta=y&incamp=archive:article_related|access-date=January 15, 2011|first=Clifford J.|last=Levy |language=en-US}}

A remake was aired in Turkey in 2004 for one season under the name Evli ve Çocuklu (Married and with Children), featuring Ege Aydan and Yıldız Kaplan in the roles of Niyazi (based on Al) and Jale (based on Peg) Tonguç.{{cite web |url=https://www.medyapim.com/productions/evli-ve-cocuklu/ |title=Evli ve Çocuklu (2004) |date=May 15, 2004 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |language=tr}} The producer, Med Yapım, has published 10 episodes on YouTube in 2018.Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/uU5Ncky1ZrU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201204225636/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5Ncky1ZrU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5Ncky1ZrU&list=PLu7IcF0M-30YNYyFMKNXk2NRo6fKOBjc7 |title=Evli ve Çocuklu – Bölümler |date=December 8, 2018 |publisher=Med Yapım |language=tr}}{{cbignore}}

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ITV had been screening the original Married... with Children since 1988. In 1996, the British production company Central Television and Columbia Pictures Television (Columbia TriStar Central Productions) produced a British version called Married for Life, which lasted for one series with seven episodes.{{cite news|first=Thomas |last=Sutcliffe |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/in-search-of-intelligent-life-on-planet-sitcom-1340823.html |title=In search of intelligent life on Planet Sitcom | News |newspaper=The Independent |date=March 8, 1996 |access-date=March 3, 2016 |language=en-UK}}

Top of the Heap was a sitcom starring Matt LeBlanc. The show was about Vinnie Verducci (played by LeBlanc) and his father Charlie (played by Joseph Bologna) always trying get rich quick schemes. The Verduccis were introduced in an earlier episode where Vinnie dated Kelly Bundy, and Charlie was introduced as an old friend of Al Bundy's. The end of the pilot episode shows Al breaking into their apartment and stealing their TV to replace the one he lost betting on Vinnie in a boxing match. However, the show did not last long and was ultimately cancelled. It had its own spin-off/sequel called Vinnie & Bobby a year later, which was also cancelled.

Also, an attempt was made to make a spin-off out of David Garrison's Steve Rhoades character which took place on Bud's Trumaine University. The spin-off was called Radio Free Trumaine where Garrison played the Dean.{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642354/|title="Married with Children" Radio Free Trumaine (TV Episode 1995)|work=IMDb}} Enemies was another spin-off, but played to be a spoof on the TV series Friends. Meanwhile, a proposed series focusing on the NO MA'AM group without Al Bundy was outright rejected by Fox over fears of misogyny.{{cite web|url=http://splitsider.com/2011/06/the-lost-roles-of-married%E2%80%A6-with-children|title=The Lost Roles of Married… with Children - Splitsider|work=Splitsider|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214102028/http://splitsider.com/2011/06/the-lost-roles-of-married%E2%80%A6-with-children/|archive-date=2014-12-14}}

On September 11, 2014, it was announced that a spin-off was in the works, centered on the character of Bud Bundy.{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/married-children-spinoff-works-732268|title='Married ... With Children' Spinoff in the Works|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|date=September 11, 2014|work=The Hollywood Reporter|access-date=September 25, 2014}} Ed O'Neill revealed plot details for the proposed spin-off in 2016: "Bud is now grown up and living in the old house with some of his buddies, but they're all bust-outs, they aren't working. His ex-wife is living in one of the bedrooms with Bud's best friend [...] Peg and Al are retired and living in Vegas; they won the lottery."{{cite web|url=https://www.albundyquotes.com/blogs/news/185319879-ed-o-neill-explains-fizzled-plot-of-married-with-children-reunion-says-the-bundys-are-done|title=Ed O'Neill Reveals the Fizzled Plot of 'Married with Children' Reunion, Says the Bundys Are Done|date=June 13, 2016|work=Zap2it|access-date=May 17, 2024}}

On May 13, 2022, Deadline reported that an animated revival of the series was currently in the works with the original cast attached to return. It was further revealed that Sony Pictures Television had been working on the animated series for over a year and waited until they had closed deals with the cast before presenting it to networks and streamers. It was felt that an animated revival worked best due to the original cast's busy schedule. Applegate confirmed in a 2023 Vanity Fair interview that she, O'Neill, Sagal, and Faustino remained attached to the revival and were just waiting.{{Cite web |date=2023-05-04 |title=Christina Applegate on MS and Its Toll on Her Life and Iconic Career: "It F--king Sucks" |last=Shaw |first=Jessica |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/christina-applegate-on-ms-and-its-toll-on-her-life-and-iconic-career-it-f-king-sucks |access-date=2023-05-07 |work=Vanity Fair |language=en}}

A sample clip of the animated series leaked onto the internet on May 14, 2024, along with a synopsis and presentation web site.

{{Cquote|After a string of misfortunes, the Bundys move to the cheapest home in Dumpwater, FL – a small house with a sinkhole front yard. As they get to know their Latin neighbors, war with HOA snobs, & yuck it up at their community pool, Al is desperate to be a big shot but continually gets fleeced in Florida – where the weather is sunny, but the people are shady. Adapted from the series Married... with Children.|author=Animated series synopsis from Sony Pictures{{cite web|url=http://www.marriedwithchildren.com |title=Married With Children |publisher=Marriedwithchildren.com |accessdate=May 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520005531/https://www.marriedwithchildren.com/ |archive-date=2024-05-20 |url-status=unfit}}}}

In April 2024, a memoir, Married... with Children vs. the World, written by Married... with Children writer and producer Richard Gurman, was published by Permuted Press. In it, Gurman gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the show and his time working on it. The show's cast also contributed to the book.{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=New Book Offers 'Inside Account' into Married… With Children and the Challenges of Bringing it to TV |last=Speakman |first=Kimberlee |url=https://people.com/new-book-offers-inside-account-into-sitcom-married-with-children-8579259 |access-date=2024-04-23 |work=People |language=en}}

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Distributed by Columbia Pictures Television Distribution, later Sony Pictures Television since 2002, Married... with Children debuted in off-network syndication in the fall of 1991. The series later began airing on cable on FX from September 1999 until September 2008. In June 2002, FX became the first television network to air the controversial, previously banned episode "I'll See You in Court", albeit in an edited format. The full version of "I'll See You in Court" can only be seen on the DVD release Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes Volume 1 and the Mill Creek Entertainment complete series collection. The version found on the Third Season DVD set under Sony is the edited-for-TV version. In 2008, the Spike network reportedly paid US$12 million for broadcast rights to every episode including the unedited version of the infamous episode "I'll See You in Court".[https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/married-set-for-spike-run-1117983581/ 'Married' set for Spike run] . Variety, April 6, 2008.

Following its acquisition by Nexstar Media Group and rebrand to NewsNation, the network indicated it would start rolling off its non-news programming as those contracts expire to expand news coverage.{{cite news|title=Chicago cable network WGN America changing its name to NewsNation, going all-in on news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-wgn-cable-newsnation-name-change-20210125-ufqsqaueqvgq7d2l57gujozhsu-story.html|first=Robert|last=Channick|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 25, 2021}}{{cite web|title=WGN America To Rebrand As NewsNation, Expanding Nightly Programming|url=https://deadline.com/2021/01/wgn-america-rebrands-newsnation-expands-nightly-programming-1234679613/|first=Dade|last=Hayes|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=January 25, 2021}} In November 2018, the entire 11-season run became available to watch through Hulu.{{cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/every-episode-of-married-with-children-hits-hulu|title=Cuddle Up with Al and Peggy This Weekend|website=CNET|date=2018-11-08|access-date=2018-11-28}} On September 17, 2018, GetTV began airing the show and continued until around 2020 or 2021.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} In July 2024, Cozi TV acquired the rights to the show along with The King of Queens and began airing on August 5, 2024.{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2024 |title=Cozi TV Acquires Rights To 'Married…With Children' & 'The King Of Queens' |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/cozi-tv-acquires-rights-married-with-children-the-king-of-queens/ |access-date=August 17, 2024 |website=TV News Check}}

Married...with Children has also been a ratings success in other countries around the world.

The opening footage comprises views of Chicago, opening with a shot of Buckingham Fountain in Grant Park. The aerial downtown shot was taken from the Lake Shore Drive section north of the Loop. The expressway entrance shot was taken from the 1983 movie National Lampoon's Vacation featuring the Griswolds' green family truckster with a northeastward view of the Dan Ryan/Stevenson junction southwest of the Loop. The exterior shot used for the Bundys' house was taken in a subdivision in Deerfield, Illinois.{{Cite web|last=Locations|first=Global Film|date=2018-01-04|title=Married With Children – House Location|url=https://globalfilmlocations.net/2018/01/04/married-with-children-house-location/|access-date=2020-08-20|website=Global Film Locations|language=en-US}} Non-English versions might differ, e.g. the dubbed German version always includes the expressway shot.{{cite web|url=http://www.bundyology.com/opening.html |title=Opening Credits |publisher=Bundyology |date=2003-02-16 |access-date=2012-03-14}}

• Modern Family, a show where Ed O'Neill also plays a family man.
• Star-ving, a web series created by David Faustino, where the original cast was reunited.
• Unhappily Ever After, another show created by Ron Leavitt, treating similar themes.

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