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Summary: Thank The Lord........Finally A Good Season Set!!!!!!!!!
Review: Finally They Have Decided To Release A Good Season Set On DVD! I Have To Say This Is By Far The Best Show To Have Ever Been On The Air. This Dysfunctional Family Made My Days Brighter. I Don't Know One Person Who Has Seen This Show And Not Laughed. What's not to like. The First Season Consists of 13 Hilarious Episodes. Here They Are:
0101 - PILOT - Steve & Marcy visit the Bundys for the first time.
0102 - THINNERGY - Peggy & Al make a diet.
0103 - SIXTEEN YEARS AND WHAT DO YOU GET - Al & Peggy's 16th anniversary.
0104 - BUT I DIDN'T SHOOT THE DEPUTY - Steve & Marcy buy a guard dog.
0105 - HAVE YOU DRIVEN A FORD LATELY - Al & Steve buy a Ford Mustang.
0106 - WHOSE ROOM IS IT ANYWAY - Steve & Marcy want to build a new room.
0107 - AL LOSES HIS CHERRY - Al wants to sleep at Luke's. Last episode with Luke.
0108 - PEGGY SUE GOT WORK - Peggy gets a job in a watch department store.
0109 - MARRIED... WITHOUT CHILDREN - Steve & Marcy take care of Bud & Kelly.
0110 - THE POKER GAME - Steve loses his paycheck to Al in a poker game.
0111 - WHERE'S THE BOSS - Al quits his job as his boss doesn't want to meet him.
0112 - NIGHTMARE ON AL'S STREET - Marcy dreams of Al.
0113 - JOHNNY BE GONE - The last day of "Johnny B. Good's" diner. The Pilot And Thinnergy were not the best episodes but it got a lot better........The show got a lot better when they replaced Steve with Jefferson. But all of them were great......So I would recommend everyone to buy this dvd. It will be the best 23 dollars you have ever spent. And If you don't have a dvd player, Buy one just to get this show. LONG LIVE THE BUNDY'S!
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Summary: Definitely not the Cosbys!
Review: Being a child of the 80's, it was hard to miss all the wonderful sitcoms on television. I still vividly remember watching "Married...With Children" every Sunday night, and I feverishly looked forward to each new episode. In the years since then, I have seen all the episodes many times in reruns, and I am now glad to own them (at least the first season) on DVD. It is one of the few shows I have never gotten tired of. The first season is rarely the strongest in the series, but the first season of "Married..." has quite a few gems. The second episode, "Thinnergy", has Peggy putting the family on a crash diet, with Al obviously disapproving. The dinner scene always cracked me up, especially Al's sarcasm when he tosses out the salad. Another excellent episode was "Where's The Boss", where Al threatens to quit his job at the shoe store unless his boss meets him and commends him on his work. It has the first of the classic "fat woman" jokes ("Madame, when Shamu needs a mate...you'll be there!"). But my favorite episode is the season finale, "Johnny B. Gone", where the kid's problems prevent Al and Peggy from going to the closing of their favorite restaurant. Seeing Marcy in a towel and Al making fun of her ("Here's a mystery...what's holding that towel up?") never dulls.
The first season contained 13 episodes, which you'll go through pretty quickly. My hope is that the second and third seasons find their way onto DVD soon. The DVD package is light on the extras (most TV show DVD sets are), but there is one main attraction. The much-lauded "Reunion" special in 2003 is included here, which is a must have for fans. While is provides nothing of real substance, it is fun to see the cast out of their element, reminiscing about their experiences on the show. The only drawback to this is that very little is touched upon about the show's cultural impact in the 80's, which was not inconsiderable for the series. It is just a fun reunion of the cast, nothing more. Sadly, they did not include the E! True Hollywood Story that was done on the show. It would have been a prize addition to the set. While better episodes were to come in later seasons, the first season is still very solid, and should satisfy fans of the series waiting for a proper release. And with the addition of the Reunion Special, it is a must have for fans of the series. Add this to your collection along with the two "Most Outrageous Episodes" DVDs that are already out.
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Summary: About time!
Review: This release came after the 2 "wackiest episodes" releases. I was dissapointed with those previous releases as I felt there were much better episodes, but that is okay. The first season was hit or miss on a few episodes, but has some of the best episodes as well. Yes, the picture quality isn't enhanced but so what? its still the show, and it is better than a vhs dub that you make off of fx or whatever channel has it in syndication. I hope that these releases are successful, because seasons 3,4, and 5 are also chalk full of classics. The best on these disc's has to be the one where Al and Peggy are trying to go to the closing of Al's favorite burger joint. The part where Al is helping Bud fix his remote control car is classic! Pick these releases up because they are just some of the best television moments in history. Wooooo Bundy!!!
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Summary: Picture quality: horrible and intrusive!!!
Review: Why oh why did they have to do this so badly? Married With Children deserved better, much better. The picture quality is horrible - full of compression artifacts, riddled with grain and blur. A disgrace, really, when you consider how much of a HUGE hit this show was, and the massive loyal fan base. I bought this DVD, even after hearing about the bad image quality, and still hoped that it would be average looking. It turned out worse than I expected. It's so distracting. Just tonight I was trying to watch that episode where Al and Peggy are trying to get to Johnny Be Good's before it closes forever. But the terrible visual quality kept distracting me. Instead of me being involved in the story and laughing, every so often my brain would hiccup at the terrible grain and blur. Come on, this is outrageous. I also just received Season Two (I had to, I'm a die hard Bundy fan!), and that's done in the same cheap way. Dark and blurry and grainy. [...]
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Summary: Great content, poorly packaged
Review: While I have been anticipating the release of this DVD for quite some time, I was slightly disappointed in the manner it was presented. The DVD is littered with trailers for the new Norm McDonald show and some Cameron Diaz movie in the "special features" along with other shameless promotions. The Reunion Special, which aired earlier this year on FOX, is cut in half and leaves out the more revealing parts like Sagal's terminated pregnancy and Bearse coming out of the closet. Also the complete first season is somewhat misleading because there are only 13 episodes here (Seasons 2 & 3 had 22 each). As for the episodes, it may seem like a different show to those of you used to the NO MA'AM episodes. There's actually an understated tenderness between Al and Peg that makes them seem more human and less like parodies. The writing was on point for this season and some of the best episodes include "Al Loses His Cherry" and "Johnny Be Gone". Let's just hope they release all 11 seasons, especially the 3rd.
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Summary: GREAT EPISODES.......HORRIBLE PICTURE QUALITY
Review: TO SUM THIS REVIEW UP......I THINK THAT THE EPISODES A VERY FUNNY BUT I WAS BLOWN AWAY ON HOW HORRIBLE THE PICTURE QUALITY IS!!! ALL THE REVIEWS ARE TRUE!!! I THOUGHT EVERYONE WAS JUST PICKY BUT I WAS WRONG! THE QUALITY LOOKS LIKE AN OLD VHS TAPE OR A LOCAL STATION ON TV!! IF YOU DON'T MIND PICTURE QUALITY THEN BUY IT.......BUT IF YOU DO .....RENT IT FIRST SO YOU CAN SEE FOR YOURSELF!!!
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Summary: Buy it because it's the best show ever
Review: ... But not because of the set.
While I'm not going to criticize the quality of the picture, I will mention that this set lacks any sort of "amenities" that make DVD's so much better than their VHS counterparts. The only real bonus included with the Season 1 set is an interview with the cast - one too short. There is really no reason to buy this set other than for its face value - that it has the funniest, most original show of its time, with humor that is still relevant now.
I'm ecstatic that MWC finally made it onto DVD, but it's disheartening to see it get such shabby treatment.
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Summary: Not sure why people complain about picture quality...
Review: I ordered the MWC Seasons I and II because I've been the fan of the show since the first time I saw it in the mid 90's.
I was a little worried about the DVD picture quality due to the number of negative reviews, but, to my surprise, the picture quality is great so far. I watched about 7-8 episodes of Season I. The picture is clean and sharp.
Not sure why other reviewers found it so bad... May be it has to do with equipment they use. I have a SONY KV27FS100 TV and a SONY DVPNS575PS DVD player. As far as the content of the DVDs goes, the funniest (in my opinion) episodes are yet to come in the subsequent seasons, but there are quite a few good laughs in these early episodes. The fans of the show will enjoy them for sure.
A message to Columbia Tristar: Do not... I repeat... do not make us wait too long for the rest of the seasons... Over...
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Summary: Love & Marriage
Review: "Love & marriage go together like a horse and carriage." sang the late Frank Sinatra in his 1955 hit song LOVE & MARRIAGE. On April 5,1987,the Fox network was born and this megahit sitcom premiered. Not only that,the first 3 episodes of "Married...With Children" aired. The first three episodes of "The Tracey Ullman Show",which premiered the same night,followed each MWC episode one by one. Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal are Al and Peg Bundy with two children named Kelly and Bud(Christina Applegate and David Faustino). The Bundys are nothing like the Bunkers,the Bradys,the Huxtables or even the Conners. Al is a shoe salesman in a shopping mall and Peg is a housewife with on-and-off employment. Kelly is a fifteen-year-old attractive high-schooler who is dyslexic and incredibly dumb. Thirteen-year-old Bud still has not lost his boyish vocals. Kelly and Bud are often vocally at war with each other and Bud often teases Kelly. The Bundys' neighbors are newlyweds Steve and Marcy Rhoades(David Garrison and Amanda Bearse). They occasionally frown upon Al just like Peggy,Kelly and Bud. This ... family became so popular they delighted viewers for another 10 years. Garrison left MWC in 1990 and was replaced by Ted McGinley of "Happy Days" fame. When McGinley joined,Steve and Marcy were divorced and Marcy would later marry McGinley's character,Jefferson D'Arcy,who stuck with her through the series' demise. This series was created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt who also created NBC's short-lived "It's Your Move",which Garrison was also on.
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Summary: Episodes are gems, but quality of picture is poor
Review: MWC is far and away the best sitcom I have ever seen (yes that includes the Simpsons). However, this DVD's picture quality is awful. It has the same resolution and clarity of broadcast tv, certainly nowhere near the capability of the DVD media it is recorded on. I watch this on a 42" plasma so the large screen makes the low-quality even more noticeable and bothersome. That said, I still do recommend it - the only other alternative is to record each episode when it is rebroadcast. Let's hope Season 2 is better.
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