{"id":282216,"date":"2023-06-29T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T04:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/?p=282216"},"modified":"2023-06-29T00:01:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T04:01:40","slug":"married-with-children-remains-a-breath-of-fresh-stale-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2023\/06\/29\/married-with-children-remains-a-breath-of-fresh-stale-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Married…With Children Remains a Breath of Fresh Stale Air"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was with some trepidation that I returned to Married…With Children<\/em>. It\u2019s a show that I watched quite a bit when I was a kid, in the early 1990s, when I was arguably too young for it. Married\u2026With Children<\/em> felt like a door into being older than I was in a way I wanted, kind of like hanging out with my older brother and his friends. The jokes were often crass, and the whole thing was rough around the edges, but at the time something about this felt subversive.<\/p>\n

I wondered if that would be the case watching the show again now, as I really haven\u2019t seen it since those days when it was airing, and didn\u2019t even keep up with it until the end. In some ways the high school version of myself already viewed the humor provided by the Bundys as too juvenile, or something like that, even as I\u2019d become a big fan of South Park<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

But each of the Bundys got embedded in my mind from a young age, serving as almost an archetype. Here was Al (Ed O\u2019Neill) with his hand down his pants, Peggy (Katey Sagal) in a leopard print with her hair done up chirping on about something, Kelly (Christina Applegate) as a promiscuous ditz, and Bud (David Faustino) as a skeevy teenager who was really too horny for his own good.<\/p>\n

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Surely in retrospect this all must be problematic, as the kids say, and you could certainly make that argument at length if you wanted to. But I think you\u2019d be missing something.<\/p>\n

The Bundys were never people to look up to, and even as that kid who felt Married\u2026With Children<\/em> offered a kind of portal to the adult, I never looked up to any of them. I never wanted to be any of them. And returning to the show now with some distance, it\u2019s clear that this was always part of the point.<\/p>\n

You might empathize with Al Bundy. You might relate to him. But the man\u2019s a sad sack stuck in a deadend job selling shoes. He makes jokes about hating his life, and even jokes about killing himself, but he plugs on. And even if he and Peggy squabble frequently, at the root of things they love each other, and Married\u2026With Children<\/em> continually strikes that chord.<\/p>\n

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I should maybe note at this point that I did not (re)watch the whole series before setting out to write this essay. I watched the first three episodes, and then the last three. So I\u2019m still working from memory with regard to that huge chunk that comes in the middle, where the archetypes are really formed and settle in.<\/p>\n

In the beginning, they\u2019re more nascent, and the love between Al and Peggy is perhaps most palpable in those early episodes. They fight, mind you, but their relationship has a sweetness to it that\u2019s certainly gone by the time the series ends. Indeed, by that final run of episodes, the characters have gotten to feel a bit like caricatures of themselves—the archetypes are overblown and the humor is becoming stale.<\/p>\n

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Everything is a step too ridiculous when the family is held hostage by Bud\u2019s pen pal Starla (Tricia Cast) after she escapes from prison. He remains hot for her the whole time. Peggy ends up crying over a destroyed remote control. Al remains fixated on his disrupted plans to watch Death Wish 6<\/em> (which doesn\u2019t exist<\/a>). And Kelly immediately falls in love with Starla\u2019s boyfriend Lonnie (Chip Esten) seemingly because of their shared stupidity.<\/p>\n

In what would come to be viewed as the series finale (the show was unceremoniously cancelled by Fox and the network actually aired another episode last<\/a>), Kelly and Lonnie\u2019s wedding is ultimately called off after Lonnie makes a move on Marcy (Amanda Bearse), and we get a little speech from Al about the importance of marriage that could actually serve as a nice capstone for the series. But instead we end with Kelly going off to be consoled by the multitude of men she\u2019s previously slept with, who had been crying at the prospect of her getting married. And I don\u2019t want to seem like I\u2019m judging the sexual politics of that, because I\u2019m not, but it does feel a bit over the top, besides being meant to end Season 11 and not the series as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Overall, the sexual politics of Married\u2026With Children<\/em> are something of a mixed bag. \u201cHow to Marry a Moron\u201d plays on a fairly offensive trope in having Bud pursued by an overweight young woman he’s disgusted by, and certainly any number of comments and incidents over the course of the series tread close to misogyny. Certainly some are across the line, though I\u2019m not trotting out examples so much as ceding that point.<\/p>\n

Mostly, though, things are a bit more complicated.<\/p>\n

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In S11E21, \u201cLez Be Friends,\u201d we meet Marcy\u2019s cousin Mandy, who is also played by Amanda Bearse, and the plot ultimately centers on the fact that Mandy is gay. Bearse herself is a lesbian (openly so since 1993), and I think it\u2019s fair to say that the show was trying to be progressive with this episode. It\u2019s clunky, and there are some comments that might make us cringe a bit, but fundamentally neither Al nor anyone else on the show takes a truly homophobic position.<\/p>\n

Kelly\u2019s promiscuity is generally played for laughs, and many of those come at her expense, but I don\u2019t think Married\u2026With Children<\/em> ever really encourages us to judge her for it. Certainly, when it comes down to it, her family doesn\u2019t. They just give her a hard time about, because giving everyone a hard time about everything is kind of their deal.<\/p>\n

And I think this gets to the spirit of Married\u2026With Children<\/em> better than any screed about its problematic aspects could—the series fundamentally withholds judgment. There is no moralism in this show.<\/p>\n

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You could argue that at times, there should be. I was a little shocked, for instance, by how casually everything\u2019s played in S1E3, \u201cBut I Didn\u2019t Shoot the Deputy,\u201d when Al accidentally shoots and kills the neighbors\u2019 dog. You could take a lesson about gun violence from this, but if it\u2019s there, the Bundys certainly don\u2019t learn it.<\/p>\n

So, to be clear, I\u2019m not interested in defending Married\u2026With Children<\/em> any more than I am in attacking it. I think what\u2019s worth thinking about is elsewhere. And it\u2019s not even exactly in the show\u2019s lack of moralism, though that\u2019s a part of it. It\u2019s more in its portrayal of a kind of suburban ennui.<\/p>\n

The characters in this show make no progress. Al\u2019s selling shoes at the beginning and Al\u2019s selling shoes ten years later at the end. But more than that, no one really grows us a person.<\/p>\n

\"Al
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Moreover, no one in this show is really happy. They may find moments of joy, but mostly they\u2019re stuck in the ruts of their lives. At the same time, though, they lack real aspirations, and don\u2019t really view those ruts as ruts. It\u2019s just life.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s something refreshing about this. I think it was refreshing when the series originally aired, and I think it\u2019s refreshing now, though a lot of the social parameters that inform a viewing have shifted. There isn\u2019t an agenda here, so much as Married\u2026With Children<\/em> asks us to relate to people we might prefer to pretend we don\u2019t relate to. And to laugh with them.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s talk of reviving the show as an animated series<\/a>, and while it would be nice if this provided us with some closure, I hope they take advantage of the animated form\u2019s possibilities to keep the characters relatively stagnant. The closure Married\u2026With Children<\/em> deserves is thematic. Don\u2019t go giving anyone a happy ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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