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It's fitting that the producers of Married...With Children--The Complete Fourth Season were too cheap to pay for the rights to the show's classic theme song, the jaunty Sinatra tune "Love & Marriage," replacing it with some crappy instrumental. Not because the season is lousy--on the contrary, the show's crass and cynical wit is in full bloom--but because if the Bundys themselves were putting this out, they'd blow off the theme song as well. One of the longest-running sitcoms ever, Married...With Children portrayed American domestic life as bitter, sleazy, and perpetually hungry, yet bound together by the loyalty of the mutually damned. Emasculated shoe salesman Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill, Dutch, Spartan), his lazy and unsatisfied wife Peg (Katey Sagal, 8 Simple Rules), his dimwitted slut of a daughter Kelly (Christina Applegate, Anchorman, View from the Top), and his horny, conniving son Bud (David Faustino, The Trouble with Frank) all bicker and scheme to achieve any meagre improvement of their lives. For example, Peg wants to buy an idol of Tubro, the fat Panamanian god of money, hoping that good luck will help her win the lottery; so she sells Al's beloved Playboy collection, launching Al into the depths of despair until he musters the shreds of his manhood and orders her to retrieve them. Or when Al, feeling suicidal on Christmas, gets a glimpse of how happy his family would be if he'd never been born and decides to live to keep their lives as awful as his has been. But it's not simply the parade of suburban atrocity that makes the show funny--it's the zest of the cast, who wallow in their white trash characters with gusto and commitment. Their glee gives the show a sardonic bite that transforms the squalor into something strangely giddy and transcendent, a vivisection of human pettiness that an 18th century novelist like Thackeray would appreciate. The fourth season features a startling array of guest stars, including Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element), Joe Flaherty (SCTV), Tiffani-Amber Thiessen (Beverly Hills 90210), screaming comedian Sam Kinison, and former porn starlet Traci Lords. --Bret Fetzer
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The Bundys are a stereotypical "white trash" American family. Al is a shoe salesman who is fond of frequently reliving his doubtful 15 seconds of fame on the football field. Al is terrified of the all-too-frequent amorous advances of his ditsy wife Peggy, a woman who must spend most of Al's wages at the salon and the mall. They have two children: Kelly, the stunning but superficial party animal, and Bud, who is too wrapped up in himself to realize his goal of "scoring" with a girl.
Episodes:
1. Hot off the Grill
2. Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics
3. Buck Saves the Day
4. Tooth or Consequences
5. He Ain't Much, But He's Mine
6. Fair Exchange
7. Desperately Seeking Miss October
8. 976-SHOE
9. Oh, What a Feeling
10. At the Zoo
11. It's a Bundyful Life: Part 1
12. It's a Bundyful Life: Part 2
13. Who'll Stop the Rain
14. A Taxing Problem
15. Rock and Roll Girl
16. You Gotta Know When to Hold Them: Part 1
17. You Gotta Know When to Fold Them: Part 2
18. What Goes Around Came Around
19. Peggy Turns 300
20. Peggy Made a Little Lamb
21. Rain Girl
22. The Agony of De-Feet
23. Yard Sale
Episodes:
1. Hot off the Grill
2. Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics
3. Buck Saves the Day
4. Tooth or Consequences
5. He Ain't Much, But He's Mine
6. Fair Exchange
7. Desperately Seeking Miss October
8. 976-SHOE
9. Oh, What a Feeling
10. At the Zoo
11. It's a Bundyful Life: Part 1
12. It's a Bundyful Life: Part 2
13. Who'll Stop the Rain
14. A Taxing Problem
15. Rock and Roll Girl
16. You Gotta Know When to Hold Them: Part 1
17. You Gotta Know When to Fold Them: Part 2
18. What Goes Around Came Around
19. Peggy Turns 300
20. Peggy Made a Little Lamb
21. Rain Girl
22. The Agony of De-Feet
23. Yard Sale
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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All twenty three episodes from classic sitcom married with childrens fourth year are presented here in one dvd box, spread across three discs.
Married with children is loved for having a more realistic view of family life than some. Al Bundy was seemingly destined for great things after scoring four touchdowns in a single game of football. But life didn't work out and he works for minimum wage selling ladies shoes to support his family, lazy grasping wife peg, bimbo daughter kelly and would be ladies man bud.
Full of sharp writing, strong character based comedy, and painfully real situations, it's a classic of it's kind.
Each episode runs approx twenty five minutes.
The theme tune - the song love and marriage - couldnt be put on the dvds due to rights issues so be aware that they have different opening music to what you may be used to from tv showings.
As with previous seasons this is the region one dvd converted straight over to region two thus the trailers for new movies and shows on it are a bit out of date.
The show does also see a cast change late on in the season when actor David Garrison, who plays next door neighbour Steve, decided to move on. He gets written out without being seen and with a quick word of explanation at the beginning of one episode. Actor Ted McGinley who would later replace him as Jefferson in later years of the show appears in this season in part two of the story it's a bundyful life, but he's playing a totally different character to the one he'd play later.
Dvd language tracks: English hungarian french german.
Subtitles: English Dutch French German Hungarian.
A very welcome release for some classic comedy. Here's hoping the remaining seasons will come to region two soon.
Married with children is loved for having a more realistic view of family life than some. Al Bundy was seemingly destined for great things after scoring four touchdowns in a single game of football. But life didn't work out and he works for minimum wage selling ladies shoes to support his family, lazy grasping wife peg, bimbo daughter kelly and would be ladies man bud.
Full of sharp writing, strong character based comedy, and painfully real situations, it's a classic of it's kind.
Each episode runs approx twenty five minutes.
The theme tune - the song love and marriage - couldnt be put on the dvds due to rights issues so be aware that they have different opening music to what you may be used to from tv showings.
As with previous seasons this is the region one dvd converted straight over to region two thus the trailers for new movies and shows on it are a bit out of date.
The show does also see a cast change late on in the season when actor David Garrison, who plays next door neighbour Steve, decided to move on. He gets written out without being seen and with a quick word of explanation at the beginning of one episode. Actor Ted McGinley who would later replace him as Jefferson in later years of the show appears in this season in part two of the story it's a bundyful life, but he's playing a totally different character to the one he'd play later.
Dvd language tracks: English hungarian french german.
Subtitles: English Dutch French German Hungarian.
A very welcome release for some classic comedy. Here's hoping the remaining seasons will come to region two soon.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Married with Children is the funniest American sitcom ever, it has everything, I'd even say that it rates in my opinion as one of the funniest sitcoms ever, be it British or American, other American shows of a higher profile don't even come close too being as funny, no other word comes to mind except Brilliant
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Very funny series, however, as reported by other reveiwers, the title music 'Love and Marriage' has been replaced by a disappointing generic track. In my case this does, unfortunately, affect my overall experience of the programme, but everyone would have their own view on that.
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