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Married With Children Season 5

post #1 of 28
6/22/06 at 10:52pm
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This is one of those shows that I liked well enough when it was first on but never really had much need for on DVD. But when I took a glance at the episodes from this season I could not resist. If you only want one season of this show, which is probably enough, this is the one to go with.

So far I've been through Al being visited by aliens, who need his socks to fuel their spaceship. From there it was Al trying to recover his stolen High School football championship trophy from the clutches of his old rival Bubba Smith. Both just insanely funny.

Watching HBO's new show "Lucky Louie," which after 2 episodes is very hit or miss, makes me wish it would take a page from "Married's" book. Drop the "realistic" look at a lower income family and just go the absurd route.
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post #2 of 28
6/23/06 at 1:13am
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So far I've been through Al being visited by aliens, who need his socks to fuel their spaceship.
I loved that. So funny.
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post #3 of 28
6/23/06 at 1:25am
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"Help me. Moon men have my socks. Over."
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post #4 of 28
6/23/06 at 1:31am
"And that man's name is...AL...BUNDY!!"
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post #5 of 28
6/23/06 at 1:56am
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti
From there it was Al trying to recover his stolen High School football championship trophy from the clutches of his old rival Bubba Smith. Both just insanely funny.
I liked the one where he has to get his football back from some unsavory high school sweetheart. Or some such thing.

I definitely need to buy some of those sets, but I'm not sure which are the best seasons. I love Steve, but I think the first one or two seasons where the kids are really young aren't that hot. And then later things start to fall apart when Bud goes to college and those lame NO MA'AM guys start showing up almost every episode.
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post #6 of 28
6/23/06 at 2:05am
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That's why I think this season is the one to go with. The first few are okay and then the stuff towards the end, or what I remember of it, is crap. But the fifth one is right in the middle and there are a ton of whacked out episodes.

This set has the one where Al is bumped off his softball team in favor of some Swedish lunkhead. Then at the show's close they do a perfect parody of the end of EIGHT MEN OUT with Al playing softball in some small town. It's just not the sort of movie you'd see a sitcom spoof but it's done perfectly.
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post #7 of 28
6/23/06 at 2:15am
Do they have the episode with Robert Englund (Freddy Krueger) as the devil in this season? I remember they did a two part finale where the Bundys vacation in England or something.

And yeah, I agree most of the NO MA'AM episodes were lame.
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post #8 of 28
6/23/06 at 2:20am
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Those ones aren't on here. I don't recall Englund appearing so that must have been toward the end of the run.

The big 2-parter in this batch is when the family tried to beat the summer heat by living in the frozen food aisle of the supermarket.
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post #9 of 28
6/23/06 at 2:33am
Damn. Couldn't you have started this thread while Deep Discount's sale was still going? I haven't had an Al fix in quite a while. Not to mention Kelly.
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post #10 of 28
6/23/06 at 2:44am
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This set just came out Tuesday. I think DDD's sale was done by then. But it's $28 there, same as it is (this week at least) at Best Buy. Pretty fair price for 25 eps even if one is essentially the pilot to a lame spinoff that starred Matt Leblanc and Joey Lauren Adams.
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post #11 of 28
6/23/06 at 12:22pm
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti
The big 2-parter in this batch is when the family tried to beat the summer heat by living in the frozen food aisle of the supermarket.
That was a great episode! And, for some reason, it was one of the most commonly re-run in syndication; I must have seen it at least a dozen times.

The England two-parter was CRAP! When Married With Children sucked, it did it with a vengeance.

While we're reminiscing, I think the first Christmas episode was genius (and it featured an appearance by Ted McGinley years before Jefferson), and there was a later episode where Al lost his car at the carwash that I remember thinking was fantastic. I don't think either of those have anything to do with season 5, however.
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post #12 of 28
6/23/06 at 12:38pm
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I wish that Christmas "It's a Wonderful Life" episode was in this set. Sam Kinison was great as Al's angel.
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post #13 of 28
6/23/06 at 1:43pm
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I definitely need to buy some of those sets, but I'm not sure which are the best seasons. I love Steve, but I think the first one or two seasons where the kids are really young aren't that hot. And then later things start to fall apart when Bud goes to college and those lame NO MA'AM guys start showing up almost every episode.
Married With Children really went downhill when Steve left, and was replaced by that Jeffrey Darcy.

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"Help me. Moon men have my socks. Over."
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post #14 of 28
6/23/06 at 2:09pm
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Married With Children really went downhill when Steve left, and was replaced by that Jeffrey Darcy.
I disagree on the Steve/Jefferson debate. I liked Ted Mcginley more because he was such a weasel with that role. When the show started to blow he was usually one of the few good things about it.

Thanks for that pic. What I just discovered from the credits of that episode was that one of the aliens was Tony Cox, AKA "Bad Santa's" little helper. That is awesome on so many levels.
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post #15 of 28
6/23/06 at 7:02pm
I prefer Steve, but Jefferson has his own appeal. Marcy however goes way downhill once he shows up.
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post #16 of 28
6/23/06 at 7:17pm
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I enjoyed the one in here when Al, Peg, Marcy, and Jefferson decide to spend an evening watching videos, especially when the wives suggest they watch BEACHES.

"We can watch it until they reach 30. Then we can watch Breast Monsters."
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post #17 of 28
6/23/06 at 8:36pm
Married with Children is my secret mysogynist outlet.

There was an episode that made me cry but I can't remember which one. Al had so much bad luck he seemed like Peter Parker, and near the end the audience was only going "aaaaw!!!", which is saying a lot for a Married with Children audience. This was filmed in front of a live audience, right? Sure, must be, what with the whooting and hollering going on for so long that the actors have to pause their lines.
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post #18 of 28
6/23/06 at 8:45pm
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Sometimes the constant yelling in the audience got annoying. Everytime Christina Applegate would enter a room you'd have thought Japan just surrendered to the allied forces.
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post #19 of 28
6/23/06 at 8:53pm
I dunno, I think it's charming and part of the Married with Children vibe. Especially when Al makes his first appearance in any episode.
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post #20 of 28
6/23/06 at 8:56pm
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Those weren't quite as bad, especially since they were usually followed by some glorious tale about Al's day in the battlefield of the shoe store. But when Bud started to get 15 second ovations I had to shake my head a bit.
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post #21 of 28
6/23/06 at 8:59pm
You know what was annoying? The aroused hollering whenever Marcy said something "hot", or god forbid wore something "hot". I can buy such reactions on Kelly or maybe even Peggy, but Marcy? What the hell?
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post #22 of 28
6/23/06 at 9:15pm
I can't remember, did Marcy ever actually come out on the show?
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post #23 of 28
6/23/06 at 9:49pm
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I don't know, that would have been after I stopped watching the program. I recall when "Ellen" had the big outing that some were saying "Married" beat them to the punch. Not sure though.
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post #24 of 28
6/23/06 at 10:38pm
Remember when Ellen had Bruce Campbell? That was cool that they had Bruce Campbell.
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post #25 of 28
6/24/06 at 12:36pm
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I can't remember, did Marcy ever actually come out on the show?
I think the actor who plays Marcy is a lesbian, but i dunno if her character ever came out on the show.
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post #26 of 28
6/24/06 at 1:42pm
The actress that played Marcy came out like two years or more before Ellen went public, and not long after that she played a dual role on the show where here cousin or some other type of relation was a lesbian.
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post #27 of 28
6/25/06 at 1:05am
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Originally Posted by Moltisanti
Those weren't quite as bad, especially since they were usually followed by some glorious tale about Al's day in the battlefield of the shoe store.
"A fat woman clip-clopped her way into the store today, and asked 'Do you have something that fits me?' I said, 'How about Wyoming?' Now, I don't know when they started letting women carry nunchucks, but. . ."
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post #28 of 28
7/1/06 at 5:49pm
I don't think that show was filmed before a live studio audience. I think that was a laugh track inserted by Fox.
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