Editing Married... with Children (section)

==Development==

The working title of ''Married... with Children'' was ''Not the Cosbys'', as a mockery of family sitcoms that were common on primetime television in the mid-1980s such as ''[[The Cosby Show]]''.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vREzBwAAQBAJ&dq=%22married+with+children%22+%22Not+the+cosbys%22&pg=PA165|title=The American Family on Television: A Chronology of 121 Shows, 1948-2004|last=Brooks|first=Marla|place=Jefferson, North Carolina|publisher=McFarland|year=2005|isbn=9780786420742|pages=165–166|via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Kimmel 2004">{{cite book|last=Kimmel|first=Daniel M.|title=The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television|date=2004 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4N5XAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22married+with+children%22+%22Not+the+cosbys%22&pg=PA66|place=Chicago|publisher=Ivan R. Dee|isbn=9781566639514}}</ref>{{rp|66}} Creators [[Ron Leavitt]] and [[Michael G. Moye]] were told by [[Garth Ancier]] and other [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]] executives "to be as outrageous as they could be, doing the sort of material the [[Big Three (American television)|Big Three]] would never allow on the air", wrote [[Daniel M. Kimmel]] in 2004.<ref name="Kimmel 2004"/>{{rp|66}} However, Fox CEO [[Barry Diller]] had initial doubts that ''Married... with Children'' would be successful.<ref name="Kimmel 2004"/>{{rp|66}}