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I was watching the Christmas special where sam kinison played al's guardian angel yesterday.
1 posted on 05/13/2022 11:58:36 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Trillian

Al was one of the all-time great philosophers.


2 posted on 05/14/2022 12:02:55 AM PDT by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: Trillian

WHY do it? I can understand Bud he needs a paycheck.


3 posted on 05/14/2022 12:04:45 AM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Trillian

“hot off the grill” is my favorite episode...


5 posted on 05/14/2022 12:25:19 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... šŸ˜)
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To: Trillian

I’ve watched it a time or two, the original. It is NOT funny. It has a darkness in it, a sinister overtone.


7 posted on 05/14/2022 12:34:06 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2022 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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At a cursory level, “Modern Family” could be considered an alternative universe spinoff of “Married With Children”. Al gets divorced from Peggy, somehow becomes wealthy in a pedestrian sales job and marries a trophy wife. Rebellious daughter settles down and starts a family, academically gifted but socially awful son turns out to be gay.

Given how much broadcast television wouldn’t accept in the original series now, I think Modern Family pushes the boundaries enough to make that view satisfying.

I don’t know how an updated take on the original series works for a woke-minded TV network without making Al the constant focus for either hatred or humiliation for the entire series (and Ed O’Neil likely has too much money for that degradation). I know if they ignore the woke folk, it would make money, there’s a craving for content that rejects the modern sensibilities. At least there are still people trying, whatever that means.


9 posted on 05/14/2022 12:53:46 AM PDT by jz638
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To: Trillian

Dead to Me is a man hating misandrist show.


10 posted on 05/14/2022 12:54:13 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Trillian

I loved that show

Sam died before his time.


11 posted on 05/14/2022 12:54:57 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Trillian
Loved ā€œMarried With Childrenā€
A cartoon version would be great, as long as they don't go woke.
Al Bundy was totally politically incorrect. That's what made the show great. They make it woke and it will fall.
15 posted on 05/14/2022 1:57:49 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Family Guy executive producer Alex Carter wrote the revival and will serve as showrunner.

Not a choice that is going to make me an eager viewer. Family Guy has become nothing but a leftist mouthpiece, IMO.

17 posted on 05/14/2022 2:10:14 AM PDT by Gaffer
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There is a great scene in that episode where Sam went off script and pinched Peggy’s ass. Classic.


20 posted on 05/14/2022 3:18:23 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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The first day I took my daughter to a Catholic kindergarten, the principal told us parents to be careful what we let our kids watch on TV. Shows like Married with Children are just awful, she said. At that time, my daughter and I watched Married together at least an hour each night. I looked at my daughter and we both giggled just like Al and Kelly. Yea, right.


21 posted on 05/14/2022 3:25:01 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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What? No Ted Bundy? I hated this pathetic portrayal of a dysfunctional family then and I will hate it now. The attempt to revive a seriously flawed comedy about a ridiculously degenerate family will be a shortlived waste of time and money.


22 posted on 05/14/2022 3:59:07 AM PDT by scottiemom (As a retired Texas public school teacher, I highly recommend private school. (Written in 2015))
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Kelly Bundy was hotter than Rachel (AKA Jennifer Aniston) ever dreamed of being.


23 posted on 05/14/2022 4:30:10 AM PDT by lewislynn ((Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020?)
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Al tells Peg on Saturday he saw a woman's panties when he was fitting her with shoes,

Peg: "What's wrong with that"?
Al: "They said Tuesday"

25 posted on 05/14/2022 4:37:19 AM PDT by lewislynn ((Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020?)
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Liked the show, Cartoon version? Nope. Cartoons are for kids. Re-runs will do.

Imagination to create new things is dead so they go back to the past.

If this show is like the real one, it won’t last without wokey crap because someone will be offended.


30 posted on 05/14/2022 5:25:37 AM PDT by dforest (We have to put a stop to this now.)
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ping


32 posted on 05/14/2022 5:29:48 AM PDT by windcliff
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I have a friend who is Al Bundy personified. He even looks a lot like him.


34 posted on 05/14/2022 7:25:38 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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In its prime, Married With Children was the funniest show on TV.

But like many TV shows, it went past its sell-by date. The last few seasons became repetitive, mostly T&A fests, and not particularly funny.

35 posted on 05/14/2022 7:31:40 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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If thy did an animation of Biden what would they call it?.

have at it


37 posted on 05/14/2022 8:10:13 AM PDT by Vaduz ( )
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Not sure how this will workā€¦

PC/Cancel culture will take away 80-90% of the standard comedy that made up this show.


38 posted on 05/14/2022 8:17:13 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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