Married... with Children - The Complete Third Season

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Summary: Married with Children: Third Season: ADDICTIVE
Review: I just finished my Married with Children marathon (the first 3 season and I am completly laught out, you can not enjoy this show!).

This first thing you notice in this set is that different theme song, but let me tell you after hearing it 22 times during the 3rd season episodes, you do not really miss the other (well ok you do, but this one is as catchy as the other but without lyrics).

If you watch the 3 seasons back to back you will notice a lor of improvments in season 3, more towards how the show wil become in its better years: Al being more anti-sex, Peggy being more lazy and desperate for some afecction to the very extreme, Marcie and her monologues that crack you up, Steve more as Al's second buddy and teh Bundy children look more grow up the the first 2 season, a lot different: Bud as more hornt teenager and Kelly as more attractibe and defenetly more dumb.

This season has a lot of great episodes, amomng my favorites:
1. The Camping Show (All the women of the episodes have their period at the same time during vacation)
2. The Gypsy Cried (A gypsy fortuneteller predicts disaster for Marcy)
3. Eatin' out (The Bundys go to eat to a funcy restaurant)
4. The House that Peg Lost (Steve and Marcy's house got lost)

and the very famous lost Episode;

5. I'll see you in court (Pegyy and Al discover that they and Marcy and Steve were videotaped in a hotel room, so they sued)

Overall a very solid season that you will enjoy watcing again and again...



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Summary: my favorite show by far
Review: i just got this set and all the episodes are hillarious.. the new theme song is awful though, but just fast forward through it and enjoy the episodes. concerning how funny the episodes are,.. this set is easily 5 stars

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Summary: Excellent! Who cares about theme song???
Review: I'll start by addressing the absence of the theme song, "Love and Marriage".

First of all, brilliant job by Columbia Tristar in substituting it with music that closely resambles "Love and Marriage", yet not similar enough to cause a legal action. :)

Second, if you really miss that song after hearing it 2234342344 times, I strongly suggest you record it separately on a CD, then pop it into the CD player and keep playing it in "loop" mode during the opening credits, which you just have to see for the 2234342344th time. Perhaps, because 2234342344 is your lucky number. Perhaps, so is every other number higher/lower than 2234342344.

I think that even Columbia realizes now that "Easter Eggs" (or hidden clips of the re-union show) was a pretty dumb idea. But, I bet, we'll see more of this in the coming releases, simply because they have to finish what they started. I hope they will eventually do what they should've done in the first place - either release the re-union show separately or inlcude it as a bonus DVD, with the last season's DVD set. Regardless, they have to bring the other seasons out soon. The fans have been waiting long enough!!!

On to the actual content. Clearly, the show improves during its 3rd season. The acting is better and the writing is better. I still think that the best episodes are yet to come... This season, however, features some great ones. The two episodes that I really like are "Requiem For A Dead Barber" (where Al's long-time barber passes on, and he resigns himself to a future of beauty salon haircuts) and "The Dateless Amigo" (where Bud can't find a date and resorts to the next best thing: a mannequin). The lost episode, "I'll See You In Court" (which I haven't seen before), is quite funny too. But then which one of them isn't funny?..

The picture quality is good, no complaints here. The long-time fans will enjoy watching this season. 5 stars. Bring on season 4! and 5... and 6... and 10.

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Summary: Al Bundy Is my Hero
Review: If someone refuses to buy this DVD set simply because there is a new opening song, then they are not a true MCW fan. To say it ruins the show is just plain nuts. This is the greatest show ever and they can't put season 4 out soon enough for me! With or without "Love and Marriage"

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Summary: Married with children Rocks
Review: Married with children is the coolest show ever. You just cannot stop laughing. So what that the theme song is not included. I skip it anyway. Third season is really when the series is at its peak with its trashier and trashier jokes. And this is what makes the show so special. If you are a true fun of the show you MUST have this DVD set. No excuses!!

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Summary: The new theme does matter--It sucks!
Review: The song "Love and Marraige" is indelibly written in my psyche as the theme for Married With Children and the substitution of this
bit of musical drivel is really offputting.
Which is why I gave this issue only 4 stars, instead of five.
Next time, pay the two dollars and put the old theme back where it belongs.

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Summary: Riotously funny. A must-own, theme or no theme
Review: This is the year the show fully found itself, and did it ever take off. Wickedly funny, and pushed the envelope like no one since All In The Family (MWC even appropriated Archie Bunker's mispronounciation of his clergyman's name, the Reverend Felcher into an episode). The greatest change fom the first two seasons is the development of Christina Applegate and David Faustino into absolutely gifted comic actors and their increased roles in the episodes. No one has really done live-action satire like this since, and everyone involved looks like they're having the time of their lives doing it. As to the new theme song, it's not bad at all, it definitely captures the giddy , sacred-cow tipping tone of the series, and it's well in keeping with the show's attitude to tell the publisher where to go. Here's to the studio for keeping these releases coming, let's have 'em all, because there isn't anything this good of this type on the networks anymore, and maybe won't ever be again if the FCC has its way.

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Summary: The best "Married With Children" DVD set so far
Review: This season aired between November 1988 and May 1989. Some very memorable and classic episodes, including the "Lost Episode."

Episode 36) "He Thought He Could" - Al returns "The Little Engine that Could" to the same libarian that checked the book to him in 1957.

37) "I'm Going to Sweatland" - Peg thinks she might have seen Elvis at the mall and Marcy notices a pit stain shaped like him on Al's shirt. Elvis fans come flocking around just to see it.

38) "Poke High (aka The Red Grange Story)" - A High School boy dating Kelly is getting to break Al's football record at Polk High. The boy calls Al Red Grange, confusing Al with another local football hero.

39) "The Camping Show (aka A Period Piece)" - The alternate title "Period Piece" was thought to be too crude and had to be changed to the former. The story is about the Rhodes and the Bundy's going camping and the women get their periods at the same time and make the trip miserable for the men.

40) "A Dump of My Own" - Al begins work on his own "office" by building a bathroom just for him in the garage with a special "Furgeson" toilet.

41) "Her Cups Runneth Over" - To suprise Peggy with a birthday gift Al and Steve go bra buying at "Francine's of Hollywood."

*This is the episode that a women decided to attack "Married With Children" and push Fox to remove it off TV because she didn't like it. The alternative to not liking a show would be to turn it off, but she was able to gain media exposure this way.

42) "The Bald and the Beautiful" - Al and Steve get worried about male baldness, and join a hair club.

43) "The Gypsy Cried" - Al, Peggy, and Steve have to go to a business conference with Marcy because a psychic convinced her that she has bad luck and their luck is good.

44) "Requiem for a Dead Barber" - Al's barber dies and this causes him to grow out his hair.

45) "I'll See You in Court (aka The Lost Episode)" - The Bundys and Rhodes are video taped while making love in a sleazy motel. The families sue the motel, but only the Rhodes get money.

*Called the "The Lost Episode" because this show never aired thanks to the women noted above who tried to have the series taken off the air because she didn't like it. Fox was afraid that the show might upset people so it was shelved, but eventually aired after Reunion show in 2002.

46) "Eatin' Out" - The Bundy's finally get to eat out after the family inherits $237. The family argues about what to do with the money, but then the Bundy's decide to go to a restaurant. Al forgets the at home and Kelly and Bud sneak out to the concert they wnated ot go after having to go home for the money. Al and Peg are stuck at the restaurant with no money and Peg tries to slip out on the bill.

47) "My Mom, the Mom" - For Mother-Daughter career day Kelly takes Peggy where she becomes popular by teaching who to steal their husband's wallet, and watch TV. Meanwhile Bud is taught responsibility by Al for breaking the Rhodes' window.

48) "Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me (aka Kelly's Dance)" - After Kelly gets into trouble at school for playing a prank on Polk High's tap dancing club, she is given a choice of expulsion or to join the tap dance club.

49) "A Three Job, No Income Family" - Peggy gets a job selling "Patty Girl" cosmetics and has a higher income than Al. Al gets a job at the "Burger Trek" - a fast food place- to prove himself a wage earning man.

*Episode includes a young Paully Shore.

50) "The Harder They Fall" -While driving Peggy back from the video store, Steve gets cut off traffic and Peggy gives the driver "the finger." Steve then asks the Bundys to come over at his and Marcy's house to watch some videos as protection when he's afraid of a violent reprisal when he is followed home by the man. Al convinces Steve to take the first punch, and he ends up knocking down a dwarf.

51) "The House That Peg Lost" - The Rhodes leave to New York on business and have the Bundy's watch their house. After a simple mistake with a constructon, the Rhodes' home gets a hole put through it and they are forced to spend a night with the Bundy's.

52) "Married ... with Prom Queen (1)" - Al and Peggy go to their high school reunion. Peggy battles Connie Bender for Prom Queen while Al and Jack are reminded of their High School disagreements and are ready to fight.

53) "Married ... with Prom Queen (2)" - Peggy finds out that she is three votes short of winning Prom Queen and fixes the election in her favor. Meanwhile Bud and Kelly find out about free food at the reunion and ask Marcy and Steve about the sixties to dress up as hippies and crash the reunion.

54) "The Dateless Amigo" - Bud is stuck dateless as his two friends are occupied with women. Determined not to be alone, Bud finally gets a "women," but has trouble when she starts leaking air.

55) "The Computer Show" - The Bundy's enter the computer age against Al's wishes. Al finds no use for the computer and the family fails to use the computer after the Rhodes set it up for them, so Al takes his frustration out on the machine.

56) "Life's a Beach" - When the family visits the beach, Al meets an ex-girlfriend and Bud and Kelly both look for dates.

57) "Here's Lookin' at You, Kid" - All the women in the neighborhood get peeped on except Peggy, but she gets jealous and eventually puts out a ladder, milk, and cookies for the him.

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Summary: MWC STILL GOING STRONG
Review: This series is one of the funniest shows ever, through season 6, then the quality drops off drastically.

Season three has some of the funniest shows so far, and you can't go wrong buying this set. Peggy's bra show, and the dinner show are tops, but all the episodes are very good.

The new theme song sounds pretty awful, but maybe that's cause the original theme is so ingrained in our memories.

The great thing about DVD's is you can just hit the skip button, and the show begins. This is no reason not to buy this great set.

I'm making this short, no need to repeat all the glowing reports, they're all true. I've seen every episode many times, and still laugh. I can't wait for Sam Kinison's Christmas episode in a future release. Enjoy!!!

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Summary: 5 if it had the original theme!
Review: True, I didnt' think it would be that big of a deal if it didn't have the theme, but it is a crappy theme that they replaced it with. Im sure fox has the money to shell out, so its a shame they were big cheapskates about it.
The show is awesome. Season Three definetly is where the highlights come. Especially when Al and Peggy go to their high school reunion (2 part episode), and where Al's barber dies. The DVD packaging is the best of the three series being released so far, and its also pretty cheap. Pick it up, and I hope they don't take a year for season 4 to come out.