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{{short description|American sitcom (1987–1997)}}
{{use mdy dates|date=November 2021}}
{{Infobox television
| image                = Married … With Children (Sony Pictures Television series logo).svg
| caption              = 
| genre                = {{Plainlist|
*[[Sitcom]]
*[[Surreal humour]]
*[[Satire]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.slashfilm.com/1092238/how-married-with-children-paved-the-way-for-the-simpsons-massive-success/ | title=How Married with Children Paved the Way for the Simpsons' Massive Success | date=November 13, 2022 }}</ref>
}}
| creator              = {{Plainlist|
* [[Michael G. Moye]]
* [[Ron Leavitt]]
}}
| showrunner           = {{Plainlist|
* Ron Leavitt {{small|(seasons 1–7)}}
* Michael G. Moye {{small|(seasons 1–6; 8–9)}}
* Richard Gurman
* [[Kim Weiskopf]] {{small|(both; season 10)}}
* [[Pamela Eells O'Connell|Pamela Eells]] {{small|(season 11)}}
}}
| starring             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Ed O'Neill]]
* [[Katey Sagal]]
* [[David Garrison]]
* [[Amanda Bearse]]
* [[Christina Applegate]]
* [[David Faustino]]
* [[Ted McGinley]]
}}
| theme_music_composer = {{Plainlist|
* [[Sammy Cahn]]
* [[Jimmy Van Heusen]]
}}
| opentheme            = "[[Love and Marriage]]"<br />by [[Frank Sinatra]]
| endtheme             = "Love and Marriage"<br />(instrumental)
| composer             = [[Jonathan Wolff (musician)|Jonathan Wolff]]
| country              = United States
| language             = English
| num_seasons          = 11
| num_episodes         = 259
| list_episodes        = List of Married... with Children episodes
| executive_producer   = {{Plainlist|
* Ron Leavitt
* Michael G. Moye
* Katherine Green
* Richard Gurman
* Kim Weiskopf
* Pamela Eells
}}
| producer             = {{Plainlist|
* Barbara Blachut Cramer
* John Maxwell Anderson
}}
| camera               = [[Videotape]]; [[Multi-camera setup|Multi-camera]]
| runtime              = 22–23 minutes
| company              = {{Plainlist|
* [[ELP Communications]]{{efn|Credited as [[Embassy Communications]] (seasons 1–2)}}
* [[Columbia Pictures Television]] <small>(seasons 2–11)</small>
}}
| network              = [[Fox Broadcasting Company|Fox]]
| first_aired          = {{Start date|1987|4|5}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|1997|6|9}}
| related              = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[Top of the Heap]]''
* ''[[Vinnie & Bobby]]''
}}
}}

'''''Married... with Children''''' is an American television [[sitcom]] created by [[Michael G. Moye]] and [[Ron Leavitt]] for the [[Fox Broadcasting Company]],<ref>{{Cite news |last=Mclellan |first=Dennis |date=February 12, 2008 |title=Co-creator of 'Married . . . With Children' |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-feb-12-me-leavitt12-story.html |access-date=March 23, 2022}}</ref> broadcast from April 5, 1987,<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642348/reference/?ref_=ttep_ep_1 |title="Married... with Children" Pilot (TV Episode 1987) - IMDb |access-date=2025-04-26 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> to June 9, 1997.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642246/reference/?ref_=ttep_ep_24 |title="Married... with Children" Chicago Shoe Exchange (TV Episode 1997) - IMDb |access-date=2025-04-26 |via=www.imdb.com}}</ref> It is the longest-running live-action sitcom ever aired on Fox. ''Married... with Children'' was the first primetime series broadcast on the new Fox network. The series' run ended with the episode broadcast on May 5, 1997.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3wRsf9NAVw | title=MWC fox promo - Desperate Half Hour & How To Marry A Moron | date=April 27, 2022 | publisher=[[YouTube]] |access-date=2 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642293/mediaviewer/rm2176877569/?ref_=tt_md_9 | title=Fox May Events: Married with Children Series Finale | publisher=[[IMDb]] |access-date=2 July 2023 }}</ref> Two previously unaired episodes were broadcast on June 9, 1997, and June 18, 2002.

The show is set in [[Chicago]] and follows the lives of [[Al Bundy]], a former high school football player turned hard-luck women's shoe salesman; his lazy wife [[Peggy Bundy|Peggy]]; their pretty, but dim-witted daughter [[Kelly Bundy|Kelly]]; and their smart-aleck son [[Bud Bundy|Bud]]. The show also features their neighbors [[Steve Rhoades|Steve]] and [[Marcy D'Arcy|Marcy]] Rhoades, both of whom Al finds annoying, and who feel the same way about him. Later in the series, Marcy marries [[Jefferson D'Arcy]], a white-collar criminal who becomes her "trophy husband" and Al's sidekick.

The series is one of the longest-running sitcoms in American television history, covering 11 seasons with 259 episodes in its run. Its theme song is "[[Love and Marriage]]" by [[Sammy Cahn]] and [[Jimmy Van Heusen]], performed by [[Frank Sinatra]]. Critical reception was mixed during its original run, and the show's sexually charged humor and depiction of a dysfunctional family were in stark contrast to family sitcoms of the era.

The first two seasons were videotaped in front of a studio audience at [[The Prospect Studios|ABC Television Center]] in the [[Los Feliz, Los Angeles|Los Feliz]] section of [[Los Angeles]], with seasons 3 through 8 recorded at [[Sunset Gower Studios]] in Hollywood, and seasons 9 through 11 at [[Sony Pictures Studios]] in [[Culver City]]. The series was initially produced by [[Embassy Communications]]. Starting halfway through the second season, it was produced by ELP Communications under the studio [[Columbia Pictures Television]].

In 2008, the show made the top 100 on ''[[Entertainment Weekly]]''{{'s}} "New TV Classics" list, placing number 94.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The New Classics: TV|url=https://ew.com/article/2007/06/18/new-classics-tv/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=February 21, 2012|date=June 18, 2007|archive-date=October 20, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121020093840/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0%2C%2C20207339%2C00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In May 2022, an animated revival was in the works.<ref name=animatedseries>{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2022/05/married-with-children-animated-series-original-cast-revival-1235023019/ |title='Married… With Children' Animated Series With Original Cast Heats Up TV Marketplace |last=Andreeva |first=Nellie |date=May 13, 2022 |website=[[Deadline Hollywood]] |publisher=Penske Media Corporation |access-date=May 13, 2022}}</ref>

== Cast and characters ==
{{Main|List of Married... with Children characters}}
{{unreferenced section|date=May 2017}}
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;"
|- "
! Actor !! Role !! Years !! Seasons !! Appearances
|-
| [[Ed O'Neill]] || [[Al Bundy]] || style="text-align:center;"| 1987–1997 || style="text-align:center;"| 1–11 || style="text-align:center;"| 259
|-
| [[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
|-
| [[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
|-
| [[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
|-
| [[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
|-
| [[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
|-
| [[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
|}

* [[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}}

==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}}

==Reception==
===Critical response===
For season 1, [[Metacritic]] calculated an average of 58 out of 100 based on 5 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/tv/married-with-children/season-1|title=Married with Children - Season 1 Reviews|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=March 21, 2023}}</ref> Reviews of the debut episode were mixed. In 1987, [[Howard Rosenberg]] of the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' praised the casting of the Bundys, found the character development of the Rhodes lacking, and warned viewers: "The satire is heavy-handed."<ref>{{cite web|last=Rosenberg|first=Howard|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-04-ca-1111-story.html|title=2 new Fox series--plainly no vanilla|date=April 4, 1987|website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|access-date=March 21, 2023|url-access=limited|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20230321194741/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-04-04-ca-1111-story.html|archive-date=March 21, 2023|url-status=live}}</ref> Conversely, also in 1987, [[Tom Shales]] of ''[[The Washington Post]]'' called the debut episode "nasty-minded, overacted and poorly cast".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1987/04/04/the-day-of-the-fox/e25de9ce-e4cb-424a-84d3-aba64e22f905/|title=The day of the fox|last=Shales|first=Tom|author-link=Tom Shales|date=April 4, 1987|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=March 21, 2023|url-access=subscription}}</ref> For ''The New York Times'', [[John J. O'Connor (journalist)|John J. O'Connor]] described it as "loud, coarse and life-of-the-party vulgar".<ref name="OConnor 1987">{{cite web|last=O'Connor|first=John J.|authorlink=John J. O'Connor (journalist)|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/03/arts/tv-weekend-2-shows-in-fox-prime-time-debut.html|title=2 Shows in Fox Prime-Time Debut|work=The New York Times|date=April 3, 1987|access-date=September 1, 2024|page=C30|url-access=subscription|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20150524203530/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/03/arts/tv-weekend-2-shows-in-fox-prime-time-debut.html|archive-date=May 24, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> O'Connor also compared ''Married...'' unfavorably to other family shows like ''[[The Life of Riley]]'' and ''[[All in the Family]]'', describing the show as "pure blue-collar shtick, dressed up with the usual sexual-potency and bathroom jokes".<ref name="OConnor 1987"/>

===Ratings===
{{more citations needed section|date=September 2014}}
Despite the show's enduring popularity and fanbase, ''Married... with Children'' was never a major ratings success. Part of the reason was that Fox, a startup network, did not have the affiliate base of the [[Big Three television networks]], thus preventing the series from reaching the entire country. In an interview for a special commemorating the series' 20-year anniversary in 2007, Katey Sagal stated that part of the problem the series faced was that many areas of the country were able to get Fox only through low-quality [[UHF television broadcasting|UHF channels]] well into the early 1990s, while some areas of the country did not receive the new network at all, a problem not largely rectified until the launch of [[Foxnet]] in June 1991 and later the network's acquisition of [[National Football League]] rights which led to [[1994 United States broadcast TV realignment|several stations across the United States changing affiliations]]. For instance, Ed O'Neill's hometown of [[Youngstown, Ohio]] did not have its own Fox affiliate until [[CBS]] affiliate [[WKBN-TV]] signed on [[WYFX-LD|WFXI-CA/WYFX-LP]] in 1998, one year after the show went off the air (the area was served by [[WPGH-TV]] in [[Pittsburgh]] and [[Cleveland]]'s Fox affiliates—initially [[WOIO]], then [[WJW (TV)|WJW]]—as default affiliates on cable), so many of O'Neill's friends and family mistakenly thought he was famous for beer commercials during this time.

Another problem lay in the fact that many of the newly developed series on Fox were unsuccessful, which kept the network from building a popular lineup to draw in a larger audience. In its original airing debut, ''Married... with Children'' was part of a Sunday lineup that competed with the popular ''[[Murder, She Wrote]]'' and Sunday-night movie on CBS. Fellow freshman series included ''[[Duet (TV series)|Duet]]'', cancelled in 1989, along with ''[[It's Garry Shandling's Show]]'' and ''[[The Tracey Ullman Show]]'', both of which were canceled in 1990. The success of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', which debuted on ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' in 1987, helped draw some viewers over to Fox, allowing ''Married... with Children'' to rank in the Nielsen Top 50 from Season 4 through Season 8, peaking at No. 37 in Season 6. Although these ratings were somewhat small in comparison with the other three networks, they were good enough for Fox to keep renewing the show. In its prime in the early 1990s, the show was averaging over 20 million viewers each week.

While the series did not end on a [[cliffhanger]], it was expected to be renewed for a 12th season (which would have been the final season) and thus did not have a proper [[series finale]] when Fox decided to cancel it in 1997. With Fox announcing the cancellation publicly before informing the cast and crew, most if not all of them found out about the series cancellation from fans and low-level employees instead of from network executives. Katey Sagal stated that she constantly felt that the series was neglected by Fox despite helping bring the fledgling network on the map (''Married... with Children'' having been on even before ''The Simpsons''); for his part, Ed O'Neill attributed possible neglect of the series by Fox to constant turnover of some of the top positions at the network.<ref name="E!">{{Cite episode|series=[[E! True Hollywood Story]]|title=Married... with Children|network=[[E!]]|date=August 26, 2001|season=5|number=36}}</ref> In a 2013 interview, O'Neill stated that he felt TV stations who owned syndication rights to the series put pressure on Fox and [[Sony Pictures Television]] to end the series since the show had [[100 episodes|nearly three times the episodes needed for syndication]] and the production of more episodes would have resulted in higher rights fees.

{| class="wikitable" width="100%"
|+Ratings overview
|-
! Season
! Episodes
! Timeslot ([[Eastern Time Zone|EDT]])
! Premiere
! Finale
! style="background:#ffdead;"| TV season
! style="background:#ffdead;"| Rank
! style="background:#ffdead;"| Rating
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 1 (1987)|1]]
| align="center"| 13
| align="center"| Sunday 8:00 PM
| align="center"| {{Start date|1987|4|5}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1987|6|28}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1986–87 United States network television schedule|1986–87]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#142'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''–'''
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 2 (1987–88)|2]]
| align="center"| 22
| align="center"| Sunday 8:00 PM {{small|(September 27 – October 18, 1987)}}<br /> Sunday 8:30 PM {{small|(October 25, 1987 – May 1, 1988)}}
| align="center"| {{Start date|1987|9|27}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1988|5|1}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1987–88 United States network television schedule|1987–88]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#115'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''4.7'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1987-88-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1987-88 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 3 (1988–89)|3]]
| align="center"| 22
| align="center"| Sunday 8:30 PM 
| align="center"| {{Start date|1988|11|6}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1989|5|21}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1988–89 United States network television schedule|1988–89]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#63'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''10.5'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/written-protesting-program-preemptions.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1988-89 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 4 (1989–90)|4]]
| align="center"| 23
| rowspan="7" align="center"| Sunday 9:00 PM 
| align="center"| {{Start date|1989|9|3}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1990|5|13}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1989–90 United States network television schedule|1989–90]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#41'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''12.9'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1989-90-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1989-90 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 5 (1990–91)|5]]
| align="center"| 25
| align="center"| {{Start date|1990|9|23}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1991|5|19}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1990–91 United States network television schedule|1990–91]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#41'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''12.4'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/written-torn-between-cosbys-simpsons-by.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1990-91 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 6 (1991–92)|6]]
| align="center"| 26
| align="center"| {{Start date|1991|9|8}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1992|5|17}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1991–92 United States network television schedule|1991–92]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#37'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''12.5'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1991-92-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1991-92 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 7 (1992–93)|7]]
| align="center"| 26
| align="center"| {{Start date|1992|9|13}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1993|5|23}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1992–93 United States network television schedule|1992–93]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#43'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''11.4'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/2020/03/1992-93-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1992-93 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 8 (1993–94)|8]]
| align="center"| 26
| align="center"| {{Start date|1993|9|5}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1994|5|22}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1993–94 United States network television schedule|1993–94]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#46'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''10.8'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1993-94-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1993-94 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 9 (1994–95)|9]]
| align="center"| 26
| align="center"| {{Start date|1994|9|4}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1995|5|21}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1994–95 United States network television schedule|1994–95]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#66'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''9.5'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1994-95-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1994-95 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 10 (1995–96)|10]]
| align="center"| 26
| align="center"| {{Start date|1995|9|17}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1996|5|19}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1995–96 United States network television schedule|1995–96]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#78'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''8.2'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1995-96-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1995-96 Ratings History }}</ref>
|-
! [[List of Married... with Children episodes#Season 11 (1996–97)|11]]
| align="center"| 24
| align="center"| Saturday 9:00 PM {{small| (September 28 – October 12, 1996)}}<br />Sunday 7:30 PM {{small| (November 10 – December 29, 1996)}}<br />Monday 9:30 PM (January 6–27, 1997)<br />Monday 9:00 PM (February 24 – June 9, 1997)
| align="center"| {{Start date|1996|9|28}}
| align="center"| {{End date|1997|6|9}}
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| [[1996–97 United States network television schedule|1996–97]]
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''#97'''
| style="background:#fc9; text-align:center;"| '''6.7'''<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.thetvratingsguide.com/1991/08/1996-97-ratings-history.html | title=The TV Ratings Guide: 1996-97 Ratings History }}</ref>
|}

=== Controversy and legacy ===
The sexual humor and depiction of family life on ''Married... with Children'' were controversial from its debut. Daniel M. Kimmel reflected on the show in 2004: "It had achieved a cult status as a somewhat tasteless family sitcom that was so well written and acted that some actually saw it as dark satire of modern suburban life rather than simply an unending stream of sex jokes."<ref name="Kimmel 2004"/>{{rp|66}} In 2007, ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' TV critic [[James Poniewozik]], in ranking the show among the 100 greatest of all time, called it "a twisted mirror of TV's instant-gratification culture...suitable for a medieval morality play."<ref name="Time 2007"/> Poniewozik concluded about the characterization of the show: "Zestily lowbrow and sex-obsessed, ''Married'' was dedicated to the classical ideal that unhappy families were more interesting than happy ones... and a lot funnier."<ref name="Time 2007"/> Reviewing Sony's original DVD release of the first season in 2003, Aaron Belerle of [[DVD Talk]] reflected that the show's humor "doesn't seem so edgy anymore".<ref name="DVD Talk">{{cite web|last=Belerle|first=Aaron|title= Married with Children - The Complete First Season |publisher=DVD Talk|date=November 7, 2003|url=https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/8210/married-with-children-the-complete-first-season/|access-date=September 1, 2024|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20040101114701/http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=8210|archive-date=January 1, 2004|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1989, [[Terry Rakolta]] from [[Bloomfield Hills, Michigan]], attempted to lead a boycott<ref name="Time 2007">{{cite magazine|last=Poniewozik |first=James |url=http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652601,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026140557/http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1651341_1659192_1652601,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 26, 2007 |title=Married ... With Children The 100 Best TV Shows Of All Time |magazine=Time |date=2007-09-06 |access-date=2012-03-14}}</ref> of the show after viewing the episode "[[Her Cups Runneth Over]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundyology.com/hpg/306.html |title=Bundyology—Episode "Her Cups Runneth Over" |publisher=Bundyology.com |access-date=2012-03-14}}</ref> Offended by the images of an old man wearing a woman's garter and stockings, the scene in which Steve touches the pasties of a mannequin dressed in S&M gear, a homosexual man wearing a tiara on his head (and Al's line "...and they wonder why we call them 'queens{{' "}}), and a half-nude woman who takes off her bra in front of Al (and is shown with her arms covering her bare chest in the next shot), Rakolta began a letter-writing campaign to advertisers, demanding they boycott the show.

Rakolta's campaign resulted in [[Gillette]], [[Warner–Lambert]], and [[The Coca-Cola Company|Coca-Cola]] ending sponsorships; ironically, Coca-Cola owned the studio that produced the show, [[Columbia Pictures Television]].<ref name="Kimmel 2004"/>{{rp|68}} Fox pulled the episode titled "[[I'll See You in Court]]" (in which the Bundys attempt to improve their love life by having marital relations in a different setting). This episode became known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] on June 18, 2002, with some parts cut.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?26509|title=Censored 'Married ... with Children' to Air on FX|work=Zap2it|date=June 17, 2002|access-date=August 17, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030212064318/http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?26509|archive-date=February 12, 2003|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=  The Illustrated Lost Show Transcript|url=http://www.bundyology.com/lost1.html|work=Bundyology|date=November 25, 2002|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20071219184320/http://www.bundyology.com/lost1.html|archive-date=December 19, 2007|access-date=August 17, 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref> The episode was packaged with the rest of the third season in the January 2005 [[DVD]] release (and in the first volume of the ''Married... with Children Most Outrageous Episodes'' DVD set) with the parts cut from syndication restored.

Viewers' curiosity over the boycott and over the show itself led to a drastic ratings boost.<ref name="Kimmel 2004"/>{{rp|68}} Rakolta has been alluded to twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl",<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s04e15|title=Married with Children s04e15 Episode Script |website=Springfield! Springfield!|access-date=2019-08-25|archive-date=2014-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909161100/http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s04e15|url-status=dead}}</ref> in which a newscaster mentions the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot to Pease In",<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s09e09|title=Married with Children s09e09 Episode Script|website=Springfield! Springfield!|access-date=2019-08-25 |archive-date=2014-09-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140909161041/http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=married-with-children&episode=s09e09|url-status=dead}}</ref> in which a television show is made about the Bundy family and then cancelled because, as Marcy stated, "some woman in Michigan didn't like it."

Socially conservative criticisms of the show were not limited to Rakolta. The [[Media Research Center]] named ''Married... with Children'' the worst show of the 1995–96 television season, calling it the "crudest comedy on prime time television" for "lewd punch lines".<ref name="MRC 1996">{{cite web|title=Top 10 Best and Worst Primetime TV Shows|url=http://townhall.com/mrc/entertainment/topten.html|publisher=Media Research Center|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/19961129110404/http://townhall.com/mrc/entertainment/topten.html|archive-date=November 29, 1996|access-date=August 16, 2024|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/married-with-children-wrestling-episode-king-kong-bundy/|title=The Wrestling Episode: The Battle Of The Bundys On 'Married … With Children'|last=Stroud|first=Brandon|work=Uproxx|date=April 26, 2018|access-date=August 16, 2024}}</ref> Republican U.S. Senator [[Jesse Helms]] called the show "trash".<ref>{{cite web |last=McLellan |first=Dennis |title=Ron Leavitt-co-created 'Married…With Children' |url=https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Ron-Leavitt-co-created-Married-With-3227123.php |website=San Francisco Gate |date=February 13, 2008 |access-date=9 August 2022}}</ref> Fellow Senator [[Joe Lieberman]] (D-CT) also strongly criticized the sitcom, after having walked in on his stepson and young daughter watching an episode one evening in late 1993. In an interview many years later, Lieberman would specifically cite ''Married...With Children'' as the impetus for his becoming a vocal opponent of pop culture and the entertainment industry throughout his Senate career.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2003/12/08/lieberman-versus-hollywood/34114372-56bf-47f8-8cbd-5d4b09fd44bd/ |title=
Lieberman Versus Hollywood |newspaper=The Washington Post |last=Farhi |first=Paul |date=December 8, 2003 |access-date=January 17, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/10/16/congressmen-ask-fox-to-show-married-with-children-later/ | title=Congressmen ask Fox to show "Married with Children' later |work=Tampa Bay Times |date=October 16, 1996 |access-date=January 17, 2024 }}</ref>

However, the show was recognized for giving women prominent roles behind the scenes. Producers decided to rewrite the sixth season storyline of Peggy's pregnancy, which coincided with Sagal's actual pregnancy, as a dream that Al had. This was done to prevent Sagal from suffering further trauma by having her character Peggy interact with a new baby, when Sagal's pregnancy ended with her going into premature labor and the baby being stillborn.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.throwbacks.com/married-with-children-pregnancy/|title=The Heartbreaking Tragedy That Changed An Entire Season Of 'Married With Children'|website=Throwbacks|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=2021-02-21}}</ref> 

Bearse also became one of the first mainstream actresses to publicly [[Coming out|come out]] as [[lesbian]], which she did during the series run and received positive recognition for doing so.<ref name="E!" /> 

On April 22, 2012, Fox re-aired the series premiere in commemoration of its 25th anniversary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/11/fox-will-rebroadcast-the-series-premiere-of-married-with-children-to-celebrate-the-networks-25th-anniversary-sunday-april-22/128662/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412050718/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/04/11/fox-will-rebroadcast-the-series-premiere-of-married-with-children-to-celebrate-the-networks-25th-anniversary-sunday-april-22/128662/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 12, 2012|title=Network TV Press Releases FOX Will Rebroadcast the Series Premiere of 'Married...With Children' to Celebrate the Network's 25th Anniversary Sunday, April 22|last=Bibel|first=Sara|date=April 11, 2012|work=[[TV by the Numbers]]|access-date=April 11, 2012}}</ref>

== Episodes ==
{{Main|List of Married... with Children episodes}}
{{:List of Married... with Children episodes}}

During its 11-season run on the Fox network, ''Married... with Children'' aired 258 episodes. A 259th episode, "[[I'll See You in Court]]" from season 3, never aired on Fox, but premiered on FX and has since been included on DVD and in syndication packages. Three specials also aired following the series' cancellation, including a cast reunion.

== Home media ==
[[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment]] has released all 11 seasons of ''Married... with Children'' on DVD in Regions 1, 2, and 4. On December 12, 2010, Sony released a complete series set on DVD in Region 1.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-The-Complete-Series/14661 |title=Married... with Children DVD news: Date Change for Married... with Children - The Complete Series |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2007-05-25 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121180356/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-The-Complete-Series/14661 |archive-date=2011-11-21 }}</ref>

In December 2007, the Big Bundy Box—a special collection box with all seasons plus new interviews with Sagal and David Faustino—was released.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.albundy.net/?p=108 |title=Big Bundy Box Released |publisher=Blog.albundy.net |access-date=2012-03-14}}</ref> This boxset was released in Australia (Region 4) on November 23, 2009.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/809613 |title=Married With Children - The Big Bundy Box 1-11 (34 Disc Box Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2009-11-23 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110411101837/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/809613 |archive-date=2011-04-11 }}</ref>

The Sony DVD box sets from season 3 onward do not feature the original "Love and Marriage" theme song in the opening sequence. This was done because Sony was unable to obtain the licensing rights to the song for later sets.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children/2711 |title=Married... with Children DVD news: Want to hear the alternate theme song for Season 3 DVDs? |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2007-05-25 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111121181550/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children/2711 |archive-date=2011-11-21 }}</ref> Despite this, the end credits on the DVDs for season 3 still include a credit for "Love and Marriage."

On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mill Creek Entertainment {{!}} The Leader in Value Entertainment |url=https://www.millcreekent.com/ |access-date=2024-02-20 |website=Mill Creek Entertainment |language=en}}</ref> had acquired the home media rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library including ''Married... with Children''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News-Mill-Creek-Sony-License-Deal/18902 |title=Mill Creek Entertainment Signs Deals With Sony Pictures Home Entertainment To Expand Their Distribution Partnership |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2013-08-27 |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006134321/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Site-News-Mill-Creek-Sony-License-Deal/18902 |archive-date=2014-10-06 }}</ref> with the original theme song "[[Love and Marriage]]" sung by [[Frank Sinatra]]. They have subsequently re-released the 11 seasons on DVD. The Mill Creek Entertainment version (along with the versions available for streaming and downloading) include scenes that are normally edited in syndication and most of the licensed music that's dubbed over or deleted due to copyright issues.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-1-and-2/19184 |title=Mill Creek Provides Bundy Box Art for Their 'Seasons 1 & 2' Set |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2013-11-15 |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140428211546/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-1-and-2/19184 |archive-date=2014-04-28 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-3-and-4/19543 |title=Short Delay plus Box Art for Mill Creek's 'Seasons 3 & 4' DVDs |publisher=TV Shows On DVD|date=2014-06-03 |access-date=2014-07-17 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140509002548/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-3-and-4/19543 |archive-date=2014-05-09 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-5-and-6/20218|title=Box Artwork Now Available from Mill Creek for 'Seasons 5 & 6'|access-date=October 27, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141027225349/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-5-and-6/20218|archive-date=October 27, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-7-and-8/20417|title=Mill Creek Schedules Re-Releases for the 7th and 8th Seasons|access-date=October 30, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141028041634/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-7-and-8/20417|archive-date=October 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/more/dvd-calendar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150326221641/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Seasons-9-and-10/20894|url-status=dead|title=DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic|archive-date=March 26, 2015|website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/feature/more/dvd-calendar|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150430182438/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Married-Children-Season-11-and-The-Complete-Series/21033|url-status=dead|title=DVD Calendar Feature Articles - Metacritic|archive-date=April 30, 2015|website=[[Metacritic]]}}</ref> A Complete Series DVD set was re-released on July 7, 2015, in Region 1. All seasons of ''Married... with Children'' are now available for [[online]] download and streaming through [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] [[iTunes]], [[Peacock (streaming service)|Peacock]], [[Hulu]], and [[Vudu]].

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%;"
|-
! rowspan="2"|DVD name !! rowspan="2"|Ep # !! colspan="3"|Release dates !! rowspan="2"|DVD special features
|-
! Region 1!!Region 2!!Region 4
|-
|| Season One || style="text-align:center;"|13 || October 28, 2003<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-First-Season/dp/B0000C9JFQ/|title=Married...with Children: The Complete First Season (1987)|website=Amazon |date=October 28, 2003 |access-date=February 11, 2012}}</ref> || April 7, 2004 || October 25, 2005<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/781729 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 1st Season (2 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2005-10-25 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017205746/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/781729 |archive-date=2009-10-17 }}</ref> 
| Married with Children reunion
|-
|| Season Two || style="text-align:center;"|22 || March 16, 2004<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Second-Season/dp/B00000F5W8/ Married...with Children: The Complete Second Season (1987)]. Amazon.com Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || October 26, 2004 || September 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800932 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 2nd Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022132100/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800932 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
| Clips from the 2003 reunion 
|-
|| Season Three || style="text-align:center;"|22 || January 25, 2005<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Third-Season/dp/B0006J27WY/ Married...with Children: The Complete Third Season (1987)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || February 10, 2005 || September 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800933 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 3rd Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022195140/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800933 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
| Clips from the 2003 reunion 
|-
|| Season Four || style="text-align:center;"|23 || August 30, 2005<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Fourth-Season/dp/B0009YCLBS/ Married...with Children: The Complete Fourth Season (1987)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || December 22, 2005 || September 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800934 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 4th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091006072307/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800934 |archive-date=2009-10-06 }}</ref>
|None 
|-
|| Season Five || style="text-align:center;"|25 || June 20, 2006<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Fifth-Season/dp/B000FBH3WM/ Married...with Children: The Complete Fifth Season (1987)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || June 27, 2006 || September 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800935 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 5th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022131944/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800935 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
|Promos for other TV shows
|-
|| Season Six || style="text-align:center;"|26 || December 19, 2006<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Sixth-Season/dp/B000JBWWQK/ Married...with Children: The Complete Sixth Season (1987)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || August 17, 2006 || September 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800936 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 6th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022193754/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800936 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
|Promos for other TV shows
|-
|| Season Seven || style="text-align:center;"|26 || September 18, 2007<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Seventh-Season/dp/B000SSQ7J2/ Married...with Children: The Complete Seventh Season (1987)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || October 5, 2006 || September 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800937 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 7th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-09-22 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091005204042/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/800937 |archive-date=2009-10-05 }}</ref>
|None
|-
|| Season Eight || style="text-align:center;"|26 || March 18, 2008<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Eighth-Season/dp/B00127RAFS/ Married...with Children: The Complete Eighth Season (2010)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || December 19, 2006 || October 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/802232 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 8th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-10-21 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022182020/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/802232 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
|None
|-
|| Season Nine || style="text-align:center;"|26 || August 19, 2008<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Ninth-Season/dp/B001APMD1I/ Married...with Children: The Complete Ninth Season]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || February 20, 2007 || October 22, 2008<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/802233 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 9th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2008-10-21 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022142154/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/802233 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
|None
|-
|| Season Ten || style="text-align:center;"|27 || March 17, 2009<ref>[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Tenth-Season/dp/B001OXLGIM/ Married...with Children: The Complete Tenth Season (2010)]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || March 20, 2007 || March 11, 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/804377 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 10th Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2009-03-10 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022133104/https://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/804377 |archive-date=2009-10-22 }}</ref>
|None
|-
|| Season Eleven || style="text-align:center;"|24 || October 13, 2009<ref name="S11R1DVD">[https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Eleventh-Season/dp/B002FU8JTM/ Married...with Children: The Complete Eleventh Season]. Amazon.com. Retrieved February 11, 2012.</ref> || May 8, 2007 || March 11, 2009<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/804378 |title=Married With Children - The Complete 11th & Final Season (3 Disc Set) |publisher=Ezydvd.com.au |date=2009-03-10 |access-date=2012-03-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017210507/http://www.ezydvd.com.au/item.zml/804378 |archive-date=2009-10-17 }}</ref>
|Promos for other TV shows
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|The Big Bundy Box
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|December 3, 2008<ref>{{Cite web|title=Married with Children- Bundy Box Collection|url=https://www.sanity.com.au/products/2118968/Married-with-Children--Bundy-Box-Collection|access-date=2020-12-20|website=Sanity|language=en}}</ref>
|style="text-align:left;"|Seasons 1–9 with room for 10 & 11.<br />Special features same as individual seasons.
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|| The Complete Series || style="text-align:center;"|259 || October 13, 2009<ref name="S11R1DVD"/><br />July 7, 2015 (re-release)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Married with Children: The Complete Series|url=https://www.amazon.com/Married-Children-Complete-Ed-ONeill/dp/B00WV7TQDW/|access-date=January 16, 2021|website=Amazon}}</ref>|| November 22, 2009 ||November 23, 2009<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.booktopia.com.au/married-with-children/dvd/9317731072529.html|title=Married With Children, The Big Bundy Box Complete Collection (Seasons 1 - 11) by Katey Segal &#124; 9317731072529 &#124; Booktopia|via=www.booktopia.com.au}}</ref><br />June 17, 2020 (re-release)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/married-with-children-the-big-bundy-box-1-11-1987-dvd|title=Married With Children - The Big Bundy Box 1-11|website=JB Hi-Fi|access-date=June 8, 2020|archive-date=June 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200608021201/https://www.jbhifi.com.au/products/married-with-children-the-big-bundy-box-1-11-1987-dvd|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|style="text-align:left;"|Married with Children reunion (2003)<br>Clips from the 2003 reunion<br>David Faustino interview<br>Katey Sagal interview<br>Promos for other TV shows<br>Bonus wall poster
|}

== Merchandise ==

=== Books ===
* ''Pig Out with Peg: Secrets from the Bundy Family Kitchen'', by Linda Merinoff and Peg Bundy, Avon Books, November 1990, {{ISBN|0-380-76431-8}}
* ''Bundyisms: The Wit and Wisdom of America's Last Family'', Boulevard Books, May 1997, {{ISBN|1572972513}}
* ''The Complete "Married... with Children" Book: TV's Dysfunctional Family Phenomenon'', by Denis Noe, Bear Manor Media, August 2017, {{ISBN|1629331899}}
* ''Married... with Children vs. the World'', by Richard Gurman, Permuted Press, April 2024, {{ISBN|9781637588314}}

==== Comic books ====
''Married... with Children'' was adapted into a comic book series by [[NOW Comics]] in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://bundyology.com/comics.html |title=Married... with Children Comics |publisher=Bundyology.com |date=2001-01-21 |access-date=2012-06-23 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318121153/http://www.bundyology.com/comics.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

=== Toys ===

==== Board game ====
*''Married with Children: Act Like...Think Like...Be Like a...Bundy'' was released in 1990 by [[Galoob]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/10366/married-with-children-act-like-think-like-be-l |title=Married With Children: Act Like...Think Like...Be Like a...Bundy |publisher=Boardgamegeek.com |access-date=2012-06-23}}</ref>

==== Action figures ====
Two series (10 in all) of 8" action figures were produced by Classic TV Toys in 2005 and 2006.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.classictvtoys.com/search.aspx?find=married+with+children |title=Married With Children 8 inch Action Figures |publisher=Classictvtoys.com |access-date=2012-06-23}}</ref>
In 2018, [[Funko]] produced figures of Al, Kelly, Bud and Peggy as a part of their Funko POP! line.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://comicbook.com/tv-shows/2018/08/30/funko-launches-married-with-children-pop-figures/|access-date=2019-03-10|title=Funko Launches 'Married with Children' Pop Figures|date=August 30, 2018 }}</ref>
That same year, Funko also released a ''Married... with Children'' action figures box set.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tvweb.com/married-with-children--funko-new-york-comic-con-exclusives/toys |title=Not found! |access-date=March 10, 2019 |archive-date=August 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200803172900/https://tvweb.com/married-with-children--funko-new-york-comic-con-exclusives/toys |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2018 and 2019, [[Mego Corporation|Mego]] released [[Target Corporation|Target]] exclusives of Al, Peggy and Kelly in 1/9 scale.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.target.com/s?sortBy=relevance&Nao=0&category=5xtb0&searchTerm=bundy |title=Mego Married with Children Bundy Action Figure 8 |access-date=September 24, 2020}}</ref>

== International remakes ==
=== Armenia ===
An Armenian remake was made in 2016, called ''[[The Azizyans]]''. The Azizyans is an Armenian sitcom television series developed by Robert Martirosyan and Van Grigoryan. The series premiered on [[Armenia TV]] on October 31, 2016. However, the series was not available to the public until Armenia TV started airing the sitcom from October 10, 2017. The series takes place in [[Yerevan]], [[Armenia]]. The Azizyans sitcom is starred by [[Hayk Marutyan]]. He embodies the character of Garnik Azizyan – a clothes store seller, who is the only one working in the family. Mrs. Ruzan Azizyan is lazy enough to perform the duties of a housewife.

The problems of the father of the family do not bother his 3 children – his daughter, who is internet-addicted and is active in all social networks; his unemployed eldest son, who is a complete loser, and his youngest son, who is a schoolboy. The roles in this sitcom, created for family watching, are played by Ani Lupe, Satenik Hazaryan, Ishkhan Gharibyan, Suren Arustamyan and other popular Armenian actors. The project is directed by Arman Marutyan. In the second season of the sitcom, the Azizyan family continues to survive thanks to the meager salary of Garnik.

The wife of Garnik – Ruzan, remains in the status of a housewife, without even thinking about finding a job. The elder son of Garnik and Ruzan – Azat, continues to look for a new job, a young man appears in the life of Marie, who is trying to win the girl's heart. Their younger son Levon, continues to live his own life and does not understand what he has in common with this family. And their neighbors Irina and Alik continue to be friends with the family, which the Azizyans do not quite approve. The only bright spot in the life of the family is their house, which Garnik inherited from his grandfather.

=== Argentina ===
An Argentine remake was made by [[Telefe]] in 2005, called ''[[Casados con Hijos (Argentine TV series)|Casados con Hijos]]''. Two seasons were made (2005 and 2006), totaling 215 episodes and it became a smashing success during the replaying. More than fifteen years after the release, it is still aired on Saturdays at 7:30 pm.<ref>{{cite web |title=Casados con hijos |url=http://www.telefe.com/programas/casados-con-hijos/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120530050452/http://www.telefe.com/programas/casados-con-hijos/ |archive-date=May 30, 2012| language=es}}</ref> The series has been also shown by local channels in [[Uruguay]], [[Paraguay]], and [[Peru]].

The character names are: José "Pepe" Argento (based on Al, played by [[Guillermo Francella]]), Mónica "Moni" Argento (based on Peggy, played by [[Florencia Peña]]), Paola Argento (based on Kelly, played by [[Luisana Lopilato]]), Alfio "Coqui" Argento (based on Bud, played by [[Darío Lopilato]]), Dardo and María Elena Fuseneco (based on Jefferson D'Arcy, Steve Rhoades and Marcy; played by [[Marcelo de Bellis]] and [[Érica Rivas]]).

=== Brazil ===
In Brazil [[Rede Bandeirantes]] made a remake in 1999 with the name ''A Guerra dos Pintos'' (The War of The Pintos). 52 episodes were recorded but only 22 aired before cancelation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/tele/guerradospintosb.asp |title=A Guerra dos Pintos |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140414104236/http://www.teledramaturgia.com.br/tele/guerradospintosb.asp |archive-date=April 14, 2014 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

=== Bulgaria ===
In Bulgaria a remake is aired from March 26, 2012, with the name ''Женени с деца в България'' (Zheneni s detsa v Bulgaria) (Married with children in Bulgaria).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://novatv.bg/zheneni|publisher=novatv.bg|title=Official site of Married with children in Bulgaria|access-date=March 26, 2012 |language=bg |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120327155957/http://www.novatv.bg/zheneni |archive-date=March 27, 2012}}</ref>

=== Croatia ===
In Croatia a remake called ''Bračne vode'' was broadcast from September 2008 until November 2009 on [[Nova TV (Croatia)|Nova TV]] channel. The characters based on the Bundys were called Zvonimir, Sunčica, Kristina and Boris Bandić while the ones based on Marcy and Steve were called Marica and Ivan Kumarica.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.index.hr/xmag/clanak/pala-prva-klapa-hrvatskih-quotbracnih-vodaquot-ala-ce-glumiti-damir-loncar/399776.aspx |title=Pala prva klapa hrvatskih "Bračnih voda": Ala će glumiti Damir Lončar |access-date=August 30, 2013 |date=August 26, 2008 |website=Index.hr |language=hr}}</ref>

=== Germany ===
In Germany, the 1992 remake ''[[Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt]]'', broadcast in the [[prime time]], reached double the audience of the original (broadcast in the [[dayparting|early fringe]] time). This, however, was not enough to maintain the series, so it was cancelled after one season with 26 episodes. The remake used the exact translated scripts of the original series (which already substituted [[Language localization|localised]] humour and in-jokes for incomprehensible references to American TV shows not shown in Germany, as well as some totally different jokes) and just renamed places and people according to the new setting.<ref>{{Cite web |author=Hendrik Ternieden, Oliver Trenkamp |url=https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/20-jahre-al-bundy-in-deutschland-a-947496.html |title=Al Bundy in Deutschland: Die Hand in der Hose |website=spiegel.de |date=February 23, 2012 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |language=de}}</ref><ref name="quotenmeter.de" /> It had a rerun twice on [[Super RTL]] in 1996 and 1997.<ref name="quotenmeter.de">{{Cite web |author=Christian Richter |url=https://www.quotenmeter.de/n/32542/der-fernsehfriedhof-hilfe-meine-familie-spinnt |title=Der Fernsehfriedhof: "Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt" |website=quotenmeter.de |date=January 15, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |language=de}}</ref>

''{{lang|de|Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt}}'' was aired from March to December 1993 for 26 episodes.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tvsi.de/comedyserien/hilfe_meine_familie_spinnt.php |title=Hilfe meine Familie spinnt! |website=tvsi.de |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091113121222/http://www.tvsi.de/comedyserien/hilfe_meine_familie_spinnt.php |archive-date=November 13, 2009 |access-date=March 19, 2023 |language=de}}</ref>

=== Hungary ===
In 2006, Hungarian TV network [[TV2 (Hungarian TV channel)|TV2]] purchased the license rights including scripts and hired the original producers from Sony Pictures for a remake of the show placed in a Hungarian environment. It was entitled ''{{lang|hu|Egy rém rendes család Budapesten}}''<ref>[[:hu:Egy rém rendes család Budapesten]] {{in lang|hu}}</ref> (in English: ''Married with children in [[Budapest]]'', loan translation: ''A gruesomely decent family in Budapest''). The main story began with the new family called the Bándis inheriting an outskirt house from their American relatives the Bundys. They filmed a whole season of 26 episodes, all of them being remade versions of the plots of the original first seasons. It was the highest budget sitcom ever made in Hungary. First it was aired on Tuesday nights, but was beaten by a new season of ''[[ER (TV series)|ER]]'', then placed to Wednesday nights. The remake lost its viewers, but stayed on the air due to the contract between Sony and TV2.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/media/bundy7904/ |title=Budapestre jön a rém rendes család |first=Szabó |last=Zoltán |date=August 4, 2006 |website=index.hu |language=hu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/media/mc5808/ |title=Megverte a Vészhelyzet a magyar Rém rendest |date=October 18, 2006 |website=index.hu |language=hu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://index.hu/kultur/media/rem486/ |title=Magyarország a magyar tahóké! |first=Szabó |last=Zoltán |date=October 17, 2006 |website=index.hu |language=hu}}</ref> Also the Hungarian critics have strongly condemned the [[copyright infringement]] of the original series. They also criticized the lack of quality and the dilettante forcing of the American cliches in [[Eastern Europe]]an (Hungarian) environment.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.origo.hu/teve/20061018bandi.html |title=Bemutatkozott a magyar Al Bundy |website=origo.hu/ |date=October 18, 2006 |language=hu}}</ref>

=== Israel ===
The complete American series aired in Israel in the 1990s, with reruns of it ever since. There has also been an Israeli remake to the show titled ''Nesuim Plus'' (Married Plus) that aired its two seasons from 2012 to 2017.

=== Mexico ===
{{Main|Casados con hijos (Mexican TV series)}}
In May 2023, Sony Pictures Television announced a Mexican remake for [[Sony Channel (Latin American TV channel)|Sony Channel]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SPT anuncia el protagonista de la versión mexicana de Casados con Hijos |url=https://www.todotvnews.com/spt-anuncia-el-protagonista-de-la-version-mexicana-de-casados-con-hijos/ |website=todotvnews.com |access-date=18 September 2024 |language=es |date=24 May 2023}}</ref> The series premiered on 8 May 2024 and stars [[Adrián Uribe]] and [[Sandra Echeverría]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Baños |first1=Sughey |title="Casados con hijos": Adrián Uribe y Sandra Echeverría encabezan versión mexicana de "Married with children" |url=https://www.eluniversal.com.mx/espectaculos/casados-con-hijos-adrian-uribe-y-sandra-echeverria-encabezan-version-mexicana-de-married-with-children/ |website=[[El Universal (Mexico City)|El Universal]] |access-date=18 September 2024 |language=es |date=4 May 2024}}</ref>

=== Russia ===
{{Main|Happy Together (Russian TV series)}}
The Original ''Married... With Children'' ran on [[TV-6 Russia]] in the late 1990s and early 2000s (before the closing of the channel) in prime-time basis, broadcasting the episodes from seasons 1–11. The show later aired on DTV and Domashniy TV. A Russian adaptation, titled ''[[Happy Together (Russian TV series)|Happy Together]]'' (Schastlivy Vmeste; ''Happy Together''), was broadcast on [[TNT (Russian TV channel)|TNT]] across the country in 2006.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/10/world/europe/10sitcom.html?em&ex=1189656000&en=53663b3615f7d656&ei=5087%0A |work=The New York Times |title=Still Married, With Children, but in Russian |first=Clifford J. |last=Levy |date=September 10, 2007 |access-date=May 12, 2010 |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://schastlivyvmeste.tnt-online.ru/ |script-title=ru:Счастливы вместе : ТНТ |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120701101059/http://schastlivyvmeste.tnt-online.ru/ |archive-date=July 1, 2012}}</ref>

The character names are: Gena Bukin (based on Al, played by Viktor Loginov), Dasha Bukina (based on Peggy, played by [[Natalya Bochkareva]]), Sveta Bukina (based on Kelly, played by [[Darya Sagalova]]), Roma Bukin (based on Bud, played by [[Alexander Yakin]]), Elena and Anatoliy Poleno (based on Marcy and Jefferson D'Arcy, played by [[Yulia Zaharova]] and [[Pavel Savinkov]]), Evgeniy Stepanov (based on Steve Rhoades, played by [[Aleksey Sekirin]]), Sema Bukin (based on Seven, played by [[Ilya Butkovskiy]]), and Baron Bukin (based on Buck and Lucky, played by Bayra).<ref>{{cite news|title= Still Married, With Children, But Trading Insults in Russian|newspaper= The New York Times|date=September 10, 2007|url= http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00611F93B540C738DDDA00894DF404482&fta=y&incamp=archive:article_related|access-date=January 15, 2011|first=Clifford J.|last=Levy |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== Turkey ===
A remake was aired in Turkey in 2004 for one season under the name ''Evli ve Çocuklu'' (Married and with Children), featuring Ege Aydan and Yıldız Kaplan in the roles of Niyazi (based on Al) and Jale (based on Peg) Tonguç.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.medyapim.com/productions/evli-ve-cocuklu/ |title=Evli ve Çocuklu (2004) |date=May 15, 2004 |access-date=July 3, 2021 |language=tr}}</ref> The producer, Med Yapım, has published 10 episodes on YouTube in 2018.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/uU5Ncky1ZrU Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20201204225636/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5Ncky1ZrU Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU5Ncky1ZrU&list=PLu7IcF0M-30YNYyFMKNXk2NRo6fKOBjc7 |title=Evli ve Çocuklu – Bölümler |date=December 8, 2018 |publisher=Med Yapım |language=tr}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

=== United Kingdom ===
{{Main|Married for Life}}
[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] had been screening the original ''Married... with Children'' since 1988. In 1996, the British production company [[ITV Central|Central Television]] and [[Columbia Pictures Television]] ([[Columbia TriStar Television|Columbia TriStar Central Productions]]) produced a British version called '''''Married for Life''''', which lasted for one series with seven episodes.<ref>{{cite news|first=Thomas |last=Sutcliffe |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/in-search-of-intelligent-life-on-planet-sitcom-1340823.html |title=In search of intelligent life on Planet Sitcom &#124; News |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |date=March 8, 1996 |access-date=March 3, 2016 |language=en-UK}}</ref>

== Spin-offs ==
''[[Top of the Heap]]'' was a sitcom starring [[Matt LeBlanc]]. The show was about Vinnie Verducci (played by LeBlanc) and his father Charlie (played by [[Joseph Bologna]]) always trying [[get rich quick]] schemes. The Verduccis were introduced in an earlier episode where Vinnie dated Kelly Bundy, and Charlie was introduced as an old friend of Al Bundy's. The end of the pilot episode shows Al breaking into their apartment and stealing their TV to replace the one he lost betting on Vinnie in a boxing match. However, the show did not last long and was ultimately cancelled. It had its own spin-off/sequel called ''[[Vinnie & Bobby]]'' a year later, which was also cancelled.

Also, an attempt was made to make a spin-off out of [[David Garrison]]'s Steve Rhoades character which took place on Bud's Trumaine University. The spin-off was called ''Radio Free Trumaine'' where Garrison played the Dean.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0642354/|title="Married with Children" Radio Free Trumaine (TV Episode 1995)|work=IMDb}}</ref> ''Enemies'' was another spin-off, but played to be a spoof on the TV series ''[[Friends]]''. Meanwhile, a proposed series focusing on the NO MA'AM group without Al Bundy was outright rejected by Fox over fears of [[misogyny]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://splitsider.com/2011/06/the-lost-roles-of-married%E2%80%A6-with-children|title=The Lost Roles of Married… with Children - Splitsider|work=Splitsider|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141214102028/http://splitsider.com/2011/06/the-lost-roles-of-married%E2%80%A6-with-children/|archive-date=2014-12-14}}</ref>

On September 11, 2014, it was announced that a spin-off was in the works, centered on the character of Bud Bundy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/married-children-spinoff-works-732268|title='Married ... With Children' Spinoff in the Works|last=Goldberg|first=Lesley|date=September 11, 2014|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|access-date=September 25, 2014}}</ref> Ed O'Neill revealed plot details for the proposed spin-off in 2016: "Bud is now grown up and living in the old house with some of his buddies, but they're all bust-outs, they aren't working. His ex-wife is living in one of the bedrooms with Bud's best friend [...] Peg and Al are retired and living in Vegas; they won the lottery."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.albundyquotes.com/blogs/news/185319879-ed-o-neill-explains-fizzled-plot-of-married-with-children-reunion-says-the-bundys-are-done|title=Ed O'Neill Reveals the Fizzled Plot of 'Married with Children' Reunion, Says the Bundys Are Done|date=June 13, 2016|work=[[Zap2it]]|access-date=May 17, 2024}}</ref>

== Animated revival ==
On May 13, 2022, ''[[Deadline Hollywood|Deadline]]'' reported that an animated revival of the series was currently in the works with the original cast attached to return. It was further revealed that Sony Pictures Television had been working on the animated series for over a year and waited until they had closed deals with the cast before presenting it to networks and streamers.<ref name="animatedseries"/> It was felt that an animated revival worked best due to the original cast's busy schedule.<ref name="animatedseries"/> Applegate confirmed in a 2023 ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]'' interview that she, O'Neill, Sagal, and Faustino remained attached to the revival and were just waiting.<ref name="vanityfair">{{Cite web |date=2023-05-04 |title=Christina Applegate on MS and Its Toll on Her Life and Iconic Career: "It F--king Sucks" |last=Shaw |first=Jessica |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/05/christina-applegate-on-ms-and-its-toll-on-her-life-and-iconic-career-it-f-king-sucks |access-date=2023-05-07 |work=[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]] |language=en}}</ref>

A sample clip of the animated series leaked onto the internet on May 14, 2024, along with a synopsis and presentation web site.

{{Cquote|After a string of misfortunes, the Bundys move to the cheapest home in Dumpwater, FL – a small house with a sinkhole front yard. As they get to know their Latin neighbors, war with HOA snobs, & yuck it up at their community pool, Al is desperate to be a big shot but continually gets fleeced in Florida – where the weather is sunny, but the people are shady. Adapted from the series ''Married... with Children''.|author=Animated series synopsis from Sony Pictures<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.marriedwithchildren.com |title=Married With Children |publisher=Marriedwithchildren.com |accessdate=May 17, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520005531/https://www.marriedwithchildren.com/ |archive-date=2024-05-20 |url-status=unfit}}</ref>}}

== Memoir ==
In April 2024, a memoir, ''Married... with Children vs. the World'', written by ''Married... with Children'' writer and producer Richard Gurman, was published by Permuted Press. In it, Gurman gives a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the show and his time working on it. The show's cast also contributed to the book.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-02-13 |title=New Book Offers 'Inside Account' into Married… With Children and the Challenges of Bringing it to TV |last=Speakman |first=Kimberlee |url=https://people.com/new-book-offers-inside-account-into-sitcom-married-with-children-8579259 |access-date=2024-04-23 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |language=en}}</ref>

== American syndication and international airings ==
{{refimprovesect|date=July 2024}}
Distributed by [[Columbia Pictures Television|Columbia Pictures Television Distribution]], later [[Sony Pictures Television]] since 2002{{efn|As Sony Pictures Television Studios since 2024}}, ''Married... with Children'' debuted in off-network syndication in the fall of 1991. The series later began airing on [[cable television|cable]] on [[FX (TV channel)|FX]] from September 1999 until September 2008. In June 2002, FX became the first television network to air the controversial, previously banned episode "I'll See You in Court", albeit in an edited format. The full version of "I'll See You in Court" can only be seen on the DVD release ''Married... with Children: The Most Outrageous Episodes Volume 1'' and the Mill Creek Entertainment complete series collection. The version found on the Third Season DVD set under Sony is the edited-for-TV version. In 2008, the [[Paramount Network|Spike]] network reportedly paid US$12 million for broadcast rights to every episode including the unedited version of the infamous episode "[[I'll See You in Court]]".<ref>[https://variety.com/2008/scene/markets-festivals/married-set-for-spike-run-1117983581/ 'Married' set for Spike run] . ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', April 6, 2008.</ref>

Following its acquisition by [[Nexstar Media Group]] and rebrand to [[NewsNation]], the network indicated it would start rolling off its non-news programming as those contracts expire to expand news coverage.<ref>{{cite news|title=Chicago cable network WGN America changing its name to NewsNation, going all-in on news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-wgn-cable-newsnation-name-change-20210125-ufqsqaueqvgq7d2l57gujozhsu-story.html|first=Robert|last=Channick|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|date=January 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=WGN America To Rebrand As NewsNation, Expanding Nightly Programming|url=https://deadline.com/2021/01/wgn-america-rebrands-newsnation-expands-nightly-programming-1234679613/|first=Dade|last=Hayes|website=Deadline Hollywood|publisher=Penske Media Corporation|date=January 25, 2021}}</ref> In November 2018, the entire 11-season run became available to watch through [[Hulu]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnet.com/news/every-episode-of-married-with-children-hits-hulu|title=Cuddle Up with Al and Peggy This Weekend|website=[[CNET]]|date=2018-11-08|access-date=2018-11-28}}</ref> On September 17, 2018, [[GetTV]] began airing the show and continued until around 2020 or 2021.{{Citation needed|date=August 2024}} In July 2024, [[Cozi TV]] acquired the rights to the show along with ''[[The King of Queens]]'' and began airing on August 5, 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 10, 2024 |title=Cozi TV Acquires Rights To 'Married…With Children' & 'The King Of Queens' |url=https://tvnewscheck.com/programming/article/cozi-tv-acquires-rights-married-with-children-the-king-of-queens/ |access-date=August 17, 2024 |website=TV News Check}}</ref>

''Married...with Children'' has also been a ratings success in other countries around the world.
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 | [[Brazil]]
 | '''Um amor de Família'''<br />(''A Lovely Family'')
 | Dubbed<br />Subtitled
 | [[Sony Channel (Latin America)|Sony Entertainment Television]]<br />[[PlayTV]]
 | The show runs on [[Sony Channel (Latin America)|Sony Entertainment Television]] and Comedy Central Brasil (since 2012 February) with original sound and subtitles (source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20111114105829/http://www.comedycentral.com.br/programas/married-with-children/]), the dubbed version runs on [[PlayTV]]. 57 dubbed and subtitled episodes are now available on the Brazilian version of Netflix.
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 | [[Bulgaria]]
 | '''Женени с деца'''<br />(''Married with Children'')
 | Dubbed
 | [[BTV (Bulgaria)|bTV]]<br />[[Fox life]]<br />[[Diema]]
 | Airing on [[bTV Comedy]].
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 | [[Canada]]
 | '''''Married...with Children'''''
 | None
 | [[CMT (Canadian TV channel)|CMT]]<br />[[Global Television Network|Global]]<br />[[Paramount Network|Spike]]<br />[[DejaView]]<br />[[TVtropolis]]<br />[[OMNI.1|CFMT]]<br />[[Much (TV channel)|Much]]<br />[[MTV (Canadian TV channel)|MTV]]
 | Broadcasting on [[Paramount Network|Spike]], [[DejaView]], [[Much (TV channel)|Much]], and [[MTV (Canadian TV channel)|MTV]]. Episodes available to stream for free (with ads) on the [[CTV Television Network|CTV]] app.
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 | [[Chile]]
 | '''''[[Casado con hijos (Chilean TV series)|Casado con hijos]]'''''<br />(''Married... with Children'')
 | Subtitled
 | Sony Entertainment Television
 | Today the show runs on Sony Entertainment Television.
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 | [[Colombia]]
 | '''''[[Casados con hijos (Colombian TV series)|Casado con hijos]]'''''<br />(''Married... with Children'')
 | Subtitled
 | ''[[Cadena 1]]''<br />[[Sony Entertainment Television]]<br />[[Comedy Central]]
 | The original series aired in Colombia presented by Cinevision on Channel 1 from 1992 to 1994. Reruns on the original language aired on basic cable channels Sony and Comedy Central. The Colombian remake ''Casados con hijos'' airs on Teleantioquia (2000–2005), [[Caracol Television|Caracol Channel]] (2004–2006, 2011–2012) and [[Citytv Bogotá|CityTv]] (2014–2016).
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 | [[Croatia]]
 | '''Bračne vode'''<br />(''Marriage Waters'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[Hrvatska radiotelevizija|HRT]]<br />[[RTL Televizija]]<br />[[Nova TV (Croatia)|Nova TV]]<br />[[Fox Life]]
 | The show runs on [[Nova TV (Croatia)|Nova TV]] and [[Fox Life]].
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 | [[Czech Republic]]
 | '''Ženatý se závazky'''<br />(''Married with commitments'')
 | Dubbed
 | [[Prima televize|TV Prima]]<br />[[TV Nova (Czech Republic)|TV Nova]]<br />[[Nova Cinema (Czech Republic)|Nova Cinema]]<br />[http://smichov.nova.cz/ Smíchov]
 | The show runs weekly from Monday to Friday on TV Smíchov.
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 | [[Denmark]]
 | '''Vore værste år'''<br />(''Our Worst Years'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[TV3 (Denmark)|TV3]]<br />[[Comedy Central]]<br />
 |
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 | [[Dominican Republic]]
 | '''Casado con Hijos'''<br />(''Married with Children'')
 | Dubbed
 | Telesistema Canal 11
 |
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 | [[Estonia]]
 | '''Tuvikesed'''<br />(''Loveydoves'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[Kanal 12]]
 | Broadcast before midnight on [[Kanal 12]], episodes rerun on the next weekday morning.
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 | [[Finland]]
 | '''Pulmuset'''<br />(''Loveydoves'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[MTV3]]<br />[[Nelonen (television)|Nelonen]]<br />TV5
 | Being rerun on TV5.
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 | [[France]]
 | '''Mariés, deux enfants'''<br />(''Married, Two Children'')
 | Dubbed
 | [[M6 (TV channel)|M6]]<br />[[Comédie!]]
 | Runs on the cable channel [[Comédie!]].
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 | [[Germany]]
 | '''Eine schrecklich nette Familie'''<br />(''An Awfully Nice Family'')
 | Dubbed
 | [[RTL (German TV channel)|RTL]]<br />[[ProSieben]]<br />[[Kabel1]]<br />[[Comedy Central Germany|Comedy Central]]<br />[[kabel eins classics]]<br />[[RTL Nitro]]
 | It first ran from 1992 on [[RTL (German TV channel)|RTL]] ("RTLplus" at that time), moving to [[ProSieben]] for the final 51 episodes, ending in 1997. It airs two episodes a day Monday-Friday on RTL Nitro, with an additional two episodes on Thursday night.
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 | [[Greece]]
 | '''Παντρεμένοι με παιδιά'''<br />(''Married with Children'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[ANT1]]<br />[[Mega Channel]]<br />[[Makedonia TV]]
 | The series returned on January 9, 2016, for reruns, airing every weekend at 10:40&nbsp;p.m., starting from season 1, on [[Mega Channel]] which initially aired just the last seasons.
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 | [[Hungary]]
 | '''Egy rém rendes család'''<br />(''A gruesomely decent family'')
 | Dubbed
 | TV3<br />[[RTL Klub]]<br />[[Viasat 3]]<br />CoolTV<br />Humor+
 | A cable television called CoolTV airs 3 episodes and PrizmaTV 2 episodes each day.
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 | [[Italy]]
 | '''{{ill|Sposati...con figli|it|Sposati... con figli|vertical-align=sup}}'''<br />(''Married...with Children'')
 | Dubbed
 | Canale 5<br />Sky Show
 |
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 | [[Norway]]
 | '''Bundy'''<br />(''Bundy'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[TV3 (Norway)|TV3]]<br />[[Viasat 4]]
 | Originally named ''Våre verste år'' (''Our worst years''), but was later renamed ''Bundy''. It had its on run on TV3, and now in reruns after midnight every day except weekends on TV3. Reruns have also been shown on TV3's sister channel Viasat 4.
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 | [[Poland]]
 | '''Świat według Bundych'''<br />(''The World According to the Bundys'')
 | Voice-over
 | [[Polsat]]
 | The show was aired many times on [[Polsat]] and is still broadcast on that channel. The series' success brought about a local TV show ''[[Świat według Kiepskich]]'' (''The World According to the Kiepskis'') that paraphrased the Polish title of ''Married... with Children''; however, the premise of the Polish show is significantly different from that of the American original (e.g. has got other characters only similar to the original ones and satirises Polish, not American reality), which is why it is usually not considered a remake. In the book "Świat według Kiepskich. Zwariowana historia kultowego serialu" (''The World According to the Kiepskis. A crazy story of the cult TV series) by Jabłonka and Łęczuk, a producer of Świat według Kiepskich- Tomasz Kurzewski says that Polsat wanted to create a brand new sitcom and announced a competition for the best idea and Kurzewski was advised to make a Polish version of the most popular Polsat sitcom, which was Married... with Children and competitive ideas were not connected with Married... with Children, so the American TV series is only an inspiration of the Polish one, not an original version of a remake. Świat według Kiepskich was not made under the American licence.'' 
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 | [[Romania]]
 | '''Familia Bundy''' (''The Bundy Family'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[Pro TV]]
 | The show was aired in the 1990s, multiple times.
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 | [[Russia]]
 | '''Женаты... с детьми''' (''Married... with Children''), [[Happy Together (Russian TV series)|'''Счастливы вместе'''<br />(''Happy Together'')]]
 | Voice-over (original)
 | [[TV-6 (Russia)|TV-6]], DTV, Domashniy TV (original)<br />[[TNT (Russian TV channel)|TNT]] (remake)
 | The Russian remake of the show, Счастливы вместе, has been broadcast since March 2006 on [[TNT (Russian TV channel)|TNT]] every weekday. The series was cancelled in 2013.
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 | [[Serbia]]
 | '''Брачне воде / Bračne vode'''<br />(''Marriage Waters'')
 | Dubbed (Season 1)<br />Subtitled
 | [[Fox televizija]]<br />[[Fox Life]]
 | Fox televizija aired season 1 dubbed, by the studio "Prizor". The show aired on Fox Life too, with all of its seasons in subtitles only.
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 | [[Spain]]
 | '''Matrimonio con hijos'''<br />(''Marriage with Children'')
 | Dubbed
 | [[TVE2]]<br />SET en VEO
 | The original series was a classic that ran for a decade in the public national channel [[TVE2]]. The Spanish TV channel [[Cuatro (TV channel)|Cuatro]] did a remake of the original series under the name ''Matrimonio con Hijos''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cuatro.com/programas/series/matrimonioconhijos/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080801165322/http://www.cuatro.com/programas/series/matrimonioconhijos/ |archive-date=2008-08-01 |title=Cuatro.com |date=2008-08-01 |access-date=2012-03-14}}</ref> In [[Catalonia]], the Catalan dub was aired on the [[Digital Terrestrial Television|DTT]] channels [[Canal 300]], while in [[Valencian Community|Valencia]] the full series was aired with a dub of their own.
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 | [[Sweden]]
 | '''Våra värsta år'''<br />(''Our Worst Years'')
 | Subtitled
 | [[TV3 (Viasat)|TV3]]<br />[[ZTV (Sweden)|ZTV]]<br />[[TV6 (Sweden)|TV6]]
 | The name "Våra värsta år" is a pun on the name "Våra bästa år" ("Our best years") as ''Days of Our Lives'' is called in Swedish.
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 | [[Ukraine]]
 | '''Одружені... та з дітьми''' (''Married... with Children'')<br />'''Щасливі разом''' (''Happy Together'')
 | Voice-over
 | TET, [[1+1 (TV channel)|1+1]] (original)<br />[[Novyi Kanal]] (Russian remake)
 | The show aired on TET (first two seasons) in 2009 and on 1+1 (all seasons) in 2011–2012.<br />The Russian remake of the show, ''Счастливы вместе'', is being shown on Novyi Kanal (New Channel) every Sunday from 12:20–14:20.
There was also a Ukrainian version of Polish Świat według Kiepskich which was called Nepruhi and was aired in 2010.
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== Locations ==
The opening footage comprises views of [[Chicago]], opening with a shot of [[Buckingham Fountain]] in [[Grant Park (Chicago)|Grant Park]]. The aerial downtown shot was taken from the [[Lake Shore Drive]] section north of the Loop. The expressway entrance shot was taken from the 1983 movie ''[[National Lampoon's Vacation]]'' featuring the Griswolds' green family truckster with a northeastward view of the [[Dan Ryan Expressway|Dan Ryan]]/[[Interstate 55 in Illinois|Stevenson]] junction southwest of the Loop. The exterior shot used for the Bundys' house was taken in a subdivision in [[Deerfield, Illinois]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Locations|first=Global Film|date=2018-01-04|title=Married With Children – House Location|url=https://globalfilmlocations.net/2018/01/04/married-with-children-house-location/|access-date=2020-08-20|website=Global Film Locations|language=en-US}}</ref> Non-English versions might differ, e.g. the dubbed German version always includes the expressway shot.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bundyology.com/opening.html |title=Opening Credits |publisher=Bundyology |date=2003-02-16 |access-date=2012-03-14}}</ref>

== See also ==
*''[[Modern Family]]'', a show where [[Ed O'Neill]] also plays a family man.
*''[[Star-ving]]'', a web series created by [[David Faustino]], where the original cast was reunited.
*''[[Unhappily Ever After]]'', another show created by [[Ron Leavitt]], treating similar themes.

== Notes ==
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== References ==
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