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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404939608
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404939601
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Running Time: 302 minutes
Sales Rank: 7476
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1987
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Domestic bliss was never like this! Get ready for those outrageous Bundys in MARRIED WITH CHILDREN: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON featuring all 13 hilarious episodes from the show s groundbreaking debut season introducing everybody s favorite dysfunctional household. This taboo-shattering hit series was often deemed too hot for TV bringing a blue-collar brand of raunchy humor to America s idyllic 80s TV family where father definitely doesn t know best! Remastered and available on DVD for the first time ever this collector s favorite lets you get reacquainted with this middle-class clan of lovable losers hard-working lug Al (Ed O Neill) his couch-potato wife Peg (Katey Sagal) sexy teen daughter Kelly (Christina Applegate) hopelessly horny son Bud (David Faustino) and prudish neighbors Marcy and Steve (Amanda Bearse David Garrison) as they try to get along without getting on each other s nerves! For better or worse the Bundys may be broke but this is one family that s rich in delightfully demented attitude wild characters and racy humor!System Requirements:Starring: Ed O'Neill Katey Sagal Christina Applegate David Faustino Running Time: 302 Min. Copyright Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396016514 Manufacturer No: 01651
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When Married... with Children debuted on Fox TV on April 5, 1987 (followed by The Tracey Ullman Show a half-hour later), the grungy sitcom became an instant flagship for Rupert Murdoch's upstart network. The program's much-publicized working title, Not the Cosbys (a dismissive reference to the cheerful vitality of Bill Cosby's hugely popular television clan on NBC's The Cosby Show) was a dead giveaway. Married... with Children was going to be a trashier, raunchier, and far more cynical view of the American nuclear family. But it turned out the series actually fell into other caustic-domestic entertainment traditions, notably the Don Ameche and Frances Langford radio comedy series from the 1940s, The Bickersons, and Jackie Gleason's TV classic, The Honeymooners.
The jokes were savage, key relationships were marked by ennui and indifference, and the Bundy family name couldn't help but make one think of America's most notorious, real-life serial killer at the time. Yet the show had a hint of Golden Age Hollywood gloss, a retro-screwball feel that one could detect in the snappy verbal warfare between husband Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) and wife Peggy (Katey Sagal). The characters, and the show, eschewed sentimentality, which certainly opened the floodgates to comic cynicism but also kept a door ajar for moments of genuine sweetness. A decade later, however, by the time Fox cancelled the increasingly expensive series, Married... with Children's first-season tone would be considerably different, replaced by a stronger reliance on running jokes and character stereotypes, particularly concerning Bundy children Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Bud (David Faustino).
That evolution makes watching Married... with Children's first 13 episodes, once again, quite instructive. Those programs are all on this two-disc set, including the startling pilot, in which Al and Peggy lock horns over marital politics and enlist naive new neighbors Steve (David Garrison) and Marcy (Amanda Bearse) in a battle of the sexes. There's also the classic 'Whose Room Is It, Anyway,' concerning the Bundys' competition to connive Steve and Marcy into building a recreation room, and 'Thinnergy,' a very funny piece about a diet that supposedly boosts sexual interest. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Disappointing Respect and Appreciation Shown for Fans With Lack of Special Features
Married With Children was my favourite show as a kid and today would still rate in my top five of all time. My rating of this first season DVD is not of the show itself by any means, it is of the poor overall DVD package. We fans deserve better than what those who owned the rights to this show have delivered. They rely on the fact that this show has a huge fan base and that we will buy this DVD regardless of the fact that it comes with no commentaries or any special features except for the Married With Children Reunion Special which was filmed a substantial number of years before this was put on DVD I might add. We also only get half of that special anyway, David Garrison (who played Steve) tells us we'll be right back after the break only that is when it ends, they don't come back at all. You can't help but feel a little bit, well a lot ripped off!
How hard of expensive would it have been to grab at least one of the actors for each episode to commentate with some behind the scenes person as well? I don't think I've even watched a DVD with a TV show's pilot that doesn't at least have commentary for that episode. It would not have cost or taken much time but those who owned the rights couldn't be bothered. For shame! Viewers might as well have taped these when they aired on TV and watch them on your old video player as there's no advantage to owning the DVD.
Season one aired with 13 episodes and even though most classic Bundy moments come from later seasons, season ... Read More
Rating:  - Classic
Start Of A Classic And All Time Favorite Of Mine Its Timeless Best Of All Funny
Rating: - HILARIOUS!
My favorite show. Al Bundy is an American Legend up there with John Wayne. This show was unstoppable and always will be. Every family should give this one a try and laugh some.
Rating: - Married...With Children
One of the greatest sitcoms in T.V. history, "Married...With Children" lives on through DVD releases (the 5th Season is the most recent releases); Here we have the first season which first introduced the infamous Bundy clan.
They are:
1. Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill)-Father, shoe salesmen, who despises his wife, his kids, and his life.
2. Peg Bundy (Katey Segal)-Mother, unemployed. Despises her husband, loves her T.V.
3. Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate)-Daughter, alleged slut. Really stupid and hates her family.
4. Bud Bundy (David Faustino)-Son. Smartest member of family.
And their next door neighbors Marcy (Amanda Bearse) and Steve (David Garrison) who hate the family...The feelings mutual. Chances are you know all that stuff by now. Anyway, this first season is first rate. The episodes itself, I'm not referring to the bonus features. All episodes are great (some are better than others though), the picture and sound quality is great...Any fan of Married With Children should be quite pleased. Here's the episodes and some comments:
1. Pilot-The pilot episode is great. It introduces the Bundy family and the neighbors Marcie and Steve nicely. It's hilarious.
2. Thinergy-Another great episode, although they're still spending time on character development.
3. Sixteen Years and What Do You Get-Has some great one-liners, but it's not one of my favorite episodes.
4. But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy-Very funny. Al accidentally shoots Marcie's dog. ... Read More
Rating: - The funniest show ever
I just finished watching the Married...With Children Season 1 DVD set. And honestly, it has to be the funniest show ever to air on TV. Or, at least one of the funniest. I would say the top ones are Futurama, Family Guy (the original 4 seasons), and the Simpsons (the original episodes). What do all of these shows have in common? They are all comedy sitcoms. Al Bundy is the classic get-rich quick guy, who will verbally scorn anyone, but loves them dearly. I wish this show was still produced. Actually, no I don't. Because it would probably go the way of the new Family Guy's (nowhere).
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