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Summary: disappointing
Review: i enjoy watching the show nowadays on fx, and find it hilarious and compelling. Needless to say, i don't think the earlier episodes are anywhere near as funny. While al and peggy are still hilarious in this first season, bud and kelly, still young, are pretty uninteresting. this makes this dvd a show composed of essentially two characters, with a few lines from some othersalso, when purchasing this dvd, i ignored the warnings of 'poor picture quality.' well, after watching the episodes, i can say that the picture quality is pretty atrocious. at the worst moments, the picture is fuzzy, and unclear. overall, while there were many funny moments, there weren't enough to merit truly comedic 30 minute episodes. Also, the lack of picture quality drmatically inhibits the dvd's presentation. not worth it.
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Summary: show
Review: Wow I remember all the hubbub people were speaking of when this show debuted. I was way too young to watch but since everyone was like this must be banned I just HAD to. And I did. Its a hilarious show about a family that's just poor and dysfunctional, can't you relate to that?
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Summary: Whoa, Bundy!!!!!!
Review: This has to be one of the best sitcoms of the last decade or so. I have been waiting so long for this to come out on DVD...and now I finally own it! I have spent all weekend watching....and all the memories keep flooding back along with the laughs! The first season was not the best by far, but it was the beginning of something great to come! You could tell that everyone on the cast was having a good time with the show...and the ideas were fresh and new. The beauty of owning it on DVD is that there are no commercials and you can play all of the episodes at once!!! I am anxiously awaiting Season 2...which will be out soon! If you rent/buy one DVD box set today, make sure it's MWC Season 1...you (and your funny bone) will be glad you did!
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Summary: Married...With Children - Season 1
Review: I've enjoyed watching reruns of this show for several years. Unlike some shows out there, this show is very funny, has great actors, and doesn't get tiresome to watch, no matter if you've seen the episodes before. As for the DVD, it's pretty good for a first season. The actors took awhile to figure out how they wanted to portray the characters (Al's accent in the first few episodes comes to mind), but once they did, the results were hilarious. The DVD is lacking a bit in special features, but the sound and picture quality is good, considering how old the episodes are. Can't wait for Season 2!
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Summary: veiwer from lubbock texas
Review: this is a great dvd for the married with children fans. i love this show and hope they come out with the 2 second season of the box set soon. i like the fact that it has the reunion speical on it. hope there is more to come this is a great dvd collection to have!!
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Summary: The Bundy Bunch
Review: The date was April 5, 1987. The day that TV and the way we see TV families was changed. At this point, we had 35 years or so of family comedies that showed us parents who had good jobs, always had a word of advice, upstanding kids, a nice car, a nice house, and had good neighbors in a nice neighborhood. Not that that is bad, 'cause I love some of those myself, but viewers were in need of a change. A show called "Married With Children" came along and showed us how the other half lived. The head of the household was dad Al, who was played by Ed'O'Neill. Al
was a schlumpy loser in life who has a dead end job working in a women's shoe store. Spent his time daydreaming of his glory back in his youth. Wife Peg(Katey Sagal)consisted of big red hair, spandex, bon bons, and an addiction to Oprah and the couch. The kids were Kelly(Christina Applegate), a blonde airhead who flunked lunch and gave out her special kind of love all over the town. Son Bud(David Faustino)was the closest to normal of the bunch. Smart, did well in school, but was sly and sneaky and a loser in love. The neighbors were Steve And Marcy(David Garrison and Amanda Bearse), uppity ups who both worked in banks. And thus, the show was set in motion. This collection has the 13 episodes from the show's first season, which was a mid season replacement kind of thing. The pilot is basically a set up of The Bundy's meeting the new neighbors(and by the way, Garrison left during the 4th season after getting a role in a stage play), and displaying the show's nasty brand of humor. There were a lot of great moments in season one, but it was the first season, and you can tell they were trying to find their feet and their way. "Thinnergy" sees Peg going on a diet and her trying to get the rest of the family to join in. "But I Didn't Shoot The Deputy", one of the best first season eps, sees The Bundy's and The Rhoades getting a gun and a dog after a series of break ins, which leads to an unfortunate accident. "Whose Room Is It Anyway?" is a forgetful episode about Al and Peg picking what room they want Steve and Marcy to add onto their house. "Have You Driven A Ford Lately?" has Al and Steve restoring a 1965 Mustang, and ignoring the wives in the process. Al and Peg celebrate their anniversary in "Sixteen Years And What Do You Get", and leave the kids with Steve and Marcy(uh oh) in the season one stand out ep, "Married...Without Children". A good one. "The Poker Game", "Peggy Sue Got Work", and "Al Loses His Cherry", all fine episodes, but nothing earth shattering. Another season one classic is "Nightmare On Al's Street", which finds Marcy having sexual fantasies about Al while Steve is out of town. "Where's The Boss" is a file and forget it episode about Al's never seen boss, and the season ends with the episode, "Johnny Be Gone", a one long scene episode dealing with Al and Peg trying to get to their favorite food joint before it closes forever, but the kids' problems keep getting in the way and stalling them. The show did a lot of things really well and they never got some of the credit they deserved. Ed 'O'Neill was a fine comedic actor, and he did some nice character work with Al over the years. However, you can easily tell from the start of this season that Al was a tad different. 'O'Neill spoke in the first episode or two like Al was some tough guy from the Bronx. Sagal was a teriffic comedic actress as well. Same goes for Applegate and Faustino. The Bundy's were a family that never held anything in. I think that was one of the founding reasons the world embraced them. They spoke and acted in ways that maybe we have thought of doing ourselves but never did. It was a great show to watch to get away from the world and watch characters who let it all out and didn't care. They may of been a little too extreme at times to be like any real family, but they addressed people all over the world who didn't have the perfect family and the greatest of upbringings. The show, throughout the years, always stayed on top of the times and made it seem like it could last forever. Anyways, season one is a wonderful beginner's guide to the world of The Bundy clan from Chicago. The special features are dysmal and kind of ruin what really is a great collection. You get the reunion special that they had a year or so ago and that's about it. This collection still gets the full five stars because I'm reviewing the show. Great show with good to great episodes and is truly wonderful. The full five stars there, but one and a half stars for the special features.
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Summary: Hilarious; poor picture quality; no extras
Review: Summary:
'Married With Children' was a hit comedy on Fox beginning in the late 1980s. The series is about the incredibly dysfunctional Bundy family, Al (Ed O'Neill), Peggy (Katey Sagal), Kelly (Christina Applegate), and Bud (David Faustino), who, despite typifying everything marriage pundits claim is wrong with families today, somehow make things work. The first season does a good job of introducing the Bundys, as well as their neighbors, the D'Arcys, Marcy (Amanda Bearse) and Jefferson (Ted McGinley), and Al's womanizing co-worker, Steve (David Garrison). I'd like to say the season advances some over-arching storyline, but that just wouldn't be accurate. Not unlike many sitcoms that have followed in its wake, Married With Children has no pretense of an over-arching story. This is just about the Bundy family's daily life, which, in itself, is funny enough to watch again and again. My Comments:
I remember watching this show when I was in my teens and thinking it very funny then. But watching it now, in my mid-twenties, with a little more life experience under my belt and after having been married for 4 years, I have to admit I find the series much funnier. The only humor I really got when I first watched this episode came from Kelly and Bud, who really develop their humor in later seasons. But with my new perspectives, Al and Peggy are really the best part of the show. I also had no idea there were so many sexual innuendos; boy was I naive! As far as the acting goes, in this first season, Christina Applegate and David Faustino aren't very good. Admittedly they were very young at the beginning; the numerous years spent working on the show is probably what helped them improve over time. Also not very good in these first episodes was Amanda Bearse. I'm inclined to think she improved over the course of the series as well. Ed O'Neill and Katey Sagal are pretty good. I think they also improved, but they definitely started out several notches above everyone else. Of course, part of me being impressed with them probably has to do with the fact I understand more of their jokes now than I used to, but even so, I was impressed. The only real problem I have with this DVD is the very poor picture quality. Whoever made the decision to put all 13 episodes (at 23+ minutes a piece, that's well over 120 minutes per disc) on 2 discs must not have taken into consideration that this would mean compressing the footage quite extensively. The result is a blocky picture - compression artifacts galore! Also, there is no attempt to improve the sound quality as the series is only in Dolby Digital 2.0. And, there are zero special features. Even with the picture and sound problems and no special features, this isn't a bad package because of the content. It would have been nice to have remastered footage and sound and some commentaries or other extras, but I guess it wasn't meant to be.
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Summary: Married with Children
Review: As soon as I foud out that Married with Children is comming out on DVDs I preordered it. I usualy don't buy and sitcoms on DVDs specialy a long runners like Cheers (11 seasons). To much of a pain to try to get all 11 seasons and then find a place for them. But with Married with Children its different. Same 11 seasons, but I don't care. In fact I wish there were more of them. Some say that the last few seasons were weak. Not true. The show changed. It became different but it didnot get worst. So this is season 1. That's where everything started and we meet the Bundies and the Darsies. Lets the fun times begin.
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Summary: Let's ROCK....
Review: Cosby was what everyone thinks they should be. Bundy was what everyone was glad they're not - at least not quite as bad. The episodes' sound and video are fantastic. The "extra's", especially the comedy preview (i.e. commercials), are weak. True Bundy fans won't care as long as we brought every last seasons..... Let have a "whoaaa BUNDY!"
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Summary: When life gets you down...put in one of these...
Review: Thank you to whomever proposed the long-awaited idea to put Married...With Children on DVD. A great set that I impatiently wait for the next season. The reunion episode is great for those who haven't seen it (like myself) and the whole set is a welcome change from the seriously degraded video-taped episodes I glomed from Fox reruns in 1993. There is nothing finer than coming home after a horrible day, downtrodden about life and putting one of these DVDs in - Al will make you feel better about your own crappy life after 20 minutes.
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