Married... with Children

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Married... with Children (1987-1997) is a US network sitcom created by Michael G. Moye and Ron Leavitt for FOX. Ed O'Neill plays Al Bundy, an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman who hates his job and resents his life, while Katey Sagal plays his lazy wife Peggy Bundy, Christina Applegate plays their dim witted daughter Kelly, and David Faustino plays their dysfunctional son Bud, who struggles with women. Amanda Bearse and David Garrison play the Rhoades, the neighbors who serve as a more polished foil to the Bundys. The engine of the show is simple: Al schemes for small victories, Peg avoids every chore, and the kids chase their own petty goals, and the collisions among them fill each episode. The series runs eleven seasons and 258 episodes as a multi camera sitcom with a studio audience, set in a modest Chicago suburb in the late 1980s and 1990s. Its tone is cynical, crude and irreverent, with deadpan asides and broad slapstick, and its theme is the comic pleasure of a family that refuses to be better than it is. Fans of Roseanne, Everybody Loves Raymond and The Simpsons will find resonance in its blue collar bickering and sardonic outlook.

Audiences broadly regard the sitcom as a sharp, irreverent comedy about a dysfunctional family, with consistently positive ratings across its run.

• Roseanneshared sardonic working class family sitcom tone and dysfunctional household comedy
• Everybody Loves Raymondshared multi-camera domestic comedy built on a bickering dysfunctional family and deadpan patriarch
• B"ilk"shared irreverent sitcom tone and crude slapstick family humor
• The Simpsonsshared blue collar patriarch comedy with a cynical, put upon father at the center

Created by

Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Release Date

1987-04-05

Episode runtime

22 min

Rating

8.1 / 10 (1283)

What is Married... with Children about?

A failed shoe salesman and his lazy wife and dim children squabble through life in a rundown Chicago suburban home.

What is Married... with Children like to watch?

Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Married... with Children as brisk, its intensity as mild and its storytelling as simple.

Is Married... with Children violent?

No — Ember's analysis finds no violence in Married... with Children.

What did critics think of Married... with Children?

Audiences broadly regard the sitcom as a sharp, irreverent comedy about a dysfunctional family, with consistently positive ratings across its run.

Which shows are like Married... with Children?

Shows with a similar feel include Roseanne, Everybody Loves Raymond, B"ilk", and The Simpsons.

How long is Married... with Children?

Married... with Children: 11 seasons, 258 episodes.

Is Married... with Children still running?

No, Married... with Children has ended.

Where can I watch Married... with Children?

In United States, Married... with Children streams on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Tubi TV.