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== Cast and characters ==
{{Main|List of Married... with Children characters}}
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! Actor !! Role !! Years !! Seasons !! Appearances
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| [[Ed O'Neill]] || [[Al Bundy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 1987–1997 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 259
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| [[Katey Sagal]] || [[List of Married... with Children characters#Peg Bundy|Margaret "Peggy" Bundy]]|| style="text-align:center;" | 1987–1997 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 247
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| [[Christina Applegate]] || [[List of Married... with Children characters#Kelly Bundy|Kelly Bundy]]|| style="text-align:center;" | 1987–1997 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 256
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| [[David Faustino]] || [[List of Married... with Children characters#Bud Bundy|Bud Bundy]]|| style="text-align:center;" | 1987–1997 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 257
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| [[Amanda Bearse]] || [[List of Married... with Children characters#Marcy B. Rhoades/D'Arcy|Marcy Rhoades/D'Arcy]]|| style="text-align:center;" | 1987–1997 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 236
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| [[David Garrison]] || [[List of Married... with Children characters#Steve Rhoades|Steve Rhoades]]|| style="text-align:center;" | 1987–1990, 1992–93, 1995 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–4, guest 6–7, 9 || style="text-align:center;"| 73
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| [[Ted McGinley]] || [[List of Married... with Children characters#Jefferson D'Arcy|Jefferson D'Arcy]]|| style="text-align:center;" | 1989, 1991–97 || style="text-align:center;"| Guest 4, main 5–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 166
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* [[File:Married With Children Bundy Family 1987.jpg|thumb|The cast of ''Married... with Children'' in 1987. From left to right: Katey Sagal, Ed O'Neill, David Faustino and Christina Applegate.]]Al Bundy ([[Ed O'Neill]]) – A [[misanthropy|misanthrope]], afflicted by the so-called "Bundy curse" that consigns him to an unrewarding career selling women's shoes and a life with a family that mocks and disrespects him, who still enjoys the simple things in life. He constantly attempts to relive his high-school football days, when he was an "All State Fullback". His most noted achievement was having scored four touchdowns in a single game for Polk High. His favorite things in life are the local [[Strip club|nudie bar]], his collection of [[pornographic magazine|''BigUns'' magazine]], his [[Dodge]] car with more than {{convert|1|e6mi|e6km|abbr=unit}} on the odometer, and a television show called ''Psycho Dad''.<ref>{{Citation|title=Married with children, Physco dad compilation which includes Physco mom|url=https://www.bitchute.com/video/o3McdK5HyTZJ/|language=en|access-date=2021-08-30}}</ref> Despite his family's antipathy for him, and his for them, Al is always ready to defend his family and the Bundy honor.
* Peggy Bundy ([[née]] Wanker) ([[Katey Sagal]]) – Al's wife who is always pestering him about money and refuses to do any housework or get a job. Peggy is a lazy redhead who spends most of her time watching talk shows such as ''[[The Oprah Winfrey Show|Oprah]]'' or stealing Al's limited funds to go shopping; she frequently mocks Al about his unglamorous job, his meager earnings, his hygiene, and his poor sexual abilities. Her careless spending on things like clothes and male strip clubs has run Al into debt on numerous occasions. A recurring joke in the series is Al's and Peggy's regrets of having married each other, although on occasion they will show affection towards one another. Peggy's best friend is Marcy, with whom Peggy occasionally heads into trouble. Peggy's side of the family is a backwoods clan of [[hillbilly|hillbillies]] whom she often forces the other Bundys to endure, especially her morbidly obese mother, whom Al finds intolerable.
* Kelly Bundy ([[Christina Applegate]]) – the Bundys' firstborn; a [[Blonde stereotype|dumb blonde]] who is often derided as promiscuous and dates guys who irritate Al to the point that he wants to physically assault them. Her stupidity manifests in many ways, from forgetting ideas on the spot to mispronouncing or misspelling simple words. She and her brother Bud generally get along, but enjoy belittling one another.
* Budrick "Bud" Franklin Bundy ([[David Faustino]]) – the younger Bundy offspring, and sometimes the more level-headed family member, although his preoccupation with sex sometimes leads to inevitable failures with women. He and older sister Kelly constantly taunt each other, but when Kelly is in a legitimate bind he will support her, much like Kelly does for him under similar circumstances.
* Marcy Rhoades, later Marcy D'Arcy ([[Amanda Bearse]]) – the Bundys' next-door neighbor, Al's nemesis and Peggy's best friend; an educated banker, but also a [[feminism|feminist]] and environmentalist who often protests Al's schemes with his NO MA'AM (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood) group. Marcy is the founder and leader of an anti-man support group called "FANG" (Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys). Marcy and Al constantly bicker and do not get along. For the first few seasons of the show, Marcy is married to Steve Rhoades. After Marcy and Steve divorce and he leaves during the fourth season, Marcy meets and marries Jefferson D'Arcy, giving her the name Marcy D'Arcy.
* Steven "Steve" Bartholomew Rhoades ([[David Garrison]]) is Marcy's first husband, a stuffy banker who finds himself frequently entangled in Al's schemes. Steve's most prized possession is his [[Mercedes-Benz]], which he does not even let Marcy drive. Although very much in love at the beginning of the series, Steve and Marcy grow apart and he leaves her during the fourth season to become a forest ranger at [[Yosemite National Park]]. He later comes back in "The Egg and I" episode to try and reclaim his old life with Marcy, but finds trouble with Jefferson, Marcy's second husband. Steve later has another job as the dean of Bud's college, after blackmailing the previous one he worked under as a [[chauffeur]].
* Jefferson Milhouse D'Arcy ([[Ted McGinley]]), a pretty-boy scammer to whom Marcy wakes up one morning and discovers she has married. Unlike Steve, Jefferson is more of a free spirit, likes to have fun, is constantly unemployed, has no money of his own, and uses Marcy for financial purposes. Marcy is aware of this, but whenever Jefferson gets into trouble with her, he distracts her by working his charm and resorting to sexual bartering. In several episodes, Jefferson is implied, but never confirmed, to have had a past life as a former spy/CIA operative.

=== Pilot episode ===
In the show's pilot episode, actors Tina Caspary and [[Hunter Carson]] played the roles of Kelly and Bud Bundy, respectively. Before the series aired publicly the roles for the two Bundy children were re-cast. Ed O'Neill and the show's producers worried about a lack of chemistry with the parents and the original actors cast as the children. A re-casting was done and all of the scenes in the pilot with Carson and Caspary were re-shot with David Faustino and Christina Applegate playing Bud and Kelly Bundy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.directexpose.com/married-with-children-facts/|title=Facts About Married… With Children That Will Surprise You|first=Eric|last=Sumner|date=August 26, 2018|access-date=January 1, 2020|archive-date=January 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101073406/https://www.directexpose.com/married-with-children-facts/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

=== Recurring characters ===
{{Main|List of Married... with Children characters#Recurring_characters|l1=List of Married...with Children recurring characters}}