Season 2: Episode 9 - Alley of the Dolls



Synopsis: Peggy meets an old high-school rival, Mimi, in the bowling alley, and a challenge ensues, which the Bundys vs a family of nerds. They are hoping that Al and Bud (who has apparently been taking bowling lessons) will carry them through, as Peggy and Kelly stink at bowling. However, Bud hasn't been taking his lessons (he's spent the money on a lifetime pass for the Purple Pussycat Theater), and needs some extra coaching. They also bring in Steve as a ringer...


6.5/10 Not a bad one at all, with lots of amusing lines and physical comedy involving bowling, and it's great to see Al in his element at the bowling alley, where he's not such a big loser all the time.



First: First instance of a 'Whoooooaaaaa Bundy' cheer. First time Kelly is deliberate jailbait material, when she takes off her coat to reveal a very short leather skirt - she waggles her ass at one point to distract a nerd bowler.


Dialogue
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Steve: Listen Bud, are your folks in? I wanted to ask them if I can be an adopted Bundy. That would help explain my hygiene, grammar and full set of teeth.
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Peggy: My husband is better than your husband more than you're better than me.
Mimi: Oh yeah? But my kids are better than your kids better than I'm better than you.
Peggy: Yeah well, you're aging badly.
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Mimi: Peg, so life hasn't been too good to you, huh?
Peggy: I don't work.
Mimi: Well, I don't work either.
Peggy: I don't do anything.
Mimi: Neither do I. I have a maid.
Peggy: Not me. My house is a sty and I don't care

hey diebitter,

this is youre best thread evar imo. good read

ok bitter, I watched the episode where Peggy and Marci go to the strip club. I thought it was pretty LOL. Especially when Al gets his hands on Marci's wedding ring and can't wait to tell Steve.

Was it Peggy who was riding piggy back on that one guy? Pretty crazy. Can't imagine ever being quite that drunk. All I can say is those actors must have had the time of their life filming that show.

Katy,

Marcy was certainly on one guy's back, and I think Peggy was too. Pretty raunchy show, eh?


So glad someone else is watching at least some of these!

Watching P and M go crazy over the strippers was pretty amusing. I'm amazed at how funny this show is after all these years. And it will still be funny 30 yrs from now. I'll try to watch another episode when i get home.

Not sure if anyone's mentioned it but Spike TV is having a M...wC marathon from like 7 AM - 6 PM eastern all week. I just watched the entire first season in one day and am already up to episode 8 in season 2.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Razor's Edge




Synopsis: Steve's been away on a river rafting trip, and comes back with a beard, which Marcy demands he shave off. He refuses, and moves in with the Bundys. Whilst he's there, he cleans, cooks, does homeowrk with the kids, and makes it a happy home. Peggy can't stand this and tells Marcy she needs to be slutty as Steve is horny, and Steve is about to cave, but Al saves him by showing him a picture of Peg's mom.

However, as Al himself says, God gave men the urge and women the answer, so the inevitable happens.



7/10 - This is a pretty good one, with fairly adult jokes and content, and I laughed at Peg getting more and more peeved as Al starting acting more and more like Steve was his wife.

First: The Bundys have a decent homecooked meal.

Dialogue:
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Marcy: Oh Peggy! What am I gonna do? I don't know how much longer I can hold out. But I will not give up my principles for an hour and a half of pleasure.
Peggy: Look, you don't have to give up any...An hour and a half? If you add up all the sex Al and I have ever had it STILL doesn't come to an hour and a half. At least not of pleasure.
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Marcy: I'm so excited! Steve has been gone for five days. That's the longest we've been apart since we've been married. Well you know how it is Peg. What would you do if Al was gone for five days?
Peggy: Cash in his insurance policy, give the kids to my mother, and travel.
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Al: Steve, I'm going to give you a gift. A special gift to make you stop thinking about Marcy. I didn't want to do this until it was absolutely necessary, so sit down. Clear your mind. Think of Marcy. Now, take a look at this photo of... my mother-in-law!
Steve Rhodes: AHHHHHHHHHH!
Al Bundy: Everybody says that. Yep, look at her in a two-piece bathing suit, bending over at the beach on the shore of Lake Michigan to pick up her sunglasses, the summer of '71. Notice the perspiration perculating in the folds of her stomach. You'll also notice that her upper arms are blurry. Why you ask? Well, there was a breeze and the camera caught them in mid-flap.
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Al: Peg, you know those little brown potatoes that Steve makes? Can you do that?
Peggy: Al, you know about making love for an hour and a half, like Steve does? Can you do that?
(They look at each other for a while.)
Al: Burger king?

Season 2: Episode 11 - how do you spell Revenge?



Synopsis: Al needs to try and get Peg off the softball team because she sucks at it, whilst Kelly is in a quandry as her latest boyfriend wants the two of them to get tattooed with each other's names.


7/10: This one's sort of all over the place sotrywise, but straightens up by the end by focussing on Kelly's problem - however Al gets in some great zingers, and overall a pretty enjoyable episode.


Dialogue
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Peggy: Well, look at that Al. He has my name tattoed on his arm. You never did that.
Al: Well, maybe that's because I'm not insane like old Jimbo over there. Well Buddy, thanks for stopping by. Uh listen, next time you wanna mutilate some part of your body, just swing by and show it to us.
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Al: If god had wanted women to play ball, he'd have made them men.
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Peggy: So, what's his name?
Kelly: Brian. Oh Mom, I love everything about him. His hair, his lips, his breath...
Peggy: His breath? Really? [glances at Al] Well, there goes the old myth of a girl wanting a guy just like her father.
Al: Peg, I wonder why you never went after a guy like your father. Or weren't there any chronically unemployed social parasites the month you were in your prime?
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Peggy: I know, I know. I stink. But it was close!
Al: We lost to nuns.
Peggy: I have never been so humiliated. In front of everyone, you told Sister Mary Alice: "bless this, honey".
Al: Hey, I might not know all the religious gestures, but I recognized the one she gave to me!

DB, you'll be glad to know that after I finally relinquished control of the TV remote (the nascar race was over) to Fishette, she looked around for something to watch and ended up on Married with Children!

Couldn't tell you the episode but they are darn near all funny!!

Season 2, Episode 12 - Earth Angel



Synopsis: Peg and her friends are whining about not getting any, and get all rampant when Marcy boasts she's getting it every 36 hours, except at the weekend 'when we catch up'. She asks Peg for a cigarette as Steve gets turned on when she looks trashy, so the girls borrow cigarettes and crash the bowling alley where the guys are having a bowling night....

Then Bud brings home a 21-year old girl who has nowhere to stay. Once the guys start seeing her, all the girls start getting it regularly, except Marcy (Steve keeps hanging around the Bundy house). Marcy plots to get rid of her.

7.5/10 - This is a great one, where we see some of the gang Peggy hang around with again (saw them in the earlier episodes where they go to 'Troys' and Marcy loses her wedding ring down Zorro's undies. Some great zingers, and great sight gags (One of the girls complains her husband doesn't find her attractive any more, then starts eating cake off her plate like a dog; Al blows a dog-whistle, and one of the women looks around). And when Tiffany leaves, and Peg asks Al upstairs because now he knows doing it more than once won't kill him, and he doesn't want to, you gotta feel sorry for poor Peg.


Dialogue
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Peggy: Al, what are you doing home so early?
Al: Peg, you should have seen it. There was a riot at the alley. Your friends showed up, stinking of chocolates and cigarettes. They started yelling 'Take me I'm trash'. Nobody did but then the riot started. It was ugly Peg, men screaming, running for the exits. I didn't quite understand what they were saying but something big is happening in 36 hours. Do we have any canned goods, Peg? This could be it.
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Al: Did you hear something on the news?
Peg: Yes as a matter of fact, they said that the sun was going to supernova and we should have sex before the end comes.
Al: I got no time Peg, I gotta go looting!

Tell me a bit about it, I can probably ident it for you

Season 2, episode 13: you better watch out



Synposis: Al's mall is now pretty much deserted, with shoppers flocking to the new Lakeside Mall. However, a publicity stunt for the new mall goes wrong, and the Bundys find a dead Santa with an unopened parachute on the premises. Assorted trauma and profiteering follow.


7/10 - A great episode, and one I watch on its own every Christmas (along with one from a later series). The gleeful ghoulishness the writers put into this one is tip-top, and I just love the scene where Al has to pretend to be Santa for the neighbourhood kids. The jingle bell noises whenever they move Santa's corpse also cracks me up.


Firsts: First 'Christmas' Episode of Married with Children, first episode with a specific warning, in this case: "The following depicts a Bundy Christmas. It could be upsetting to small children and others. Parental guidance is suggested".


Dialogue:
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Al: Well, you know how, uh... even when we didn't have too much we could always look at the poor people who were less fortunate than us and feel better. Well, lets find a mirror.
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Coroner: Uh-oh!
Al: What? Did the Easter Bunny hang himself in our front yard?
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Carl: I wanna know why you came to old man Bundy's house?
Al: Well, I came to bring him special presents, 'cause he sells women's shoes, and he's cursed with a foul wife and has ungrateful kids. But he still goes on.
Carl: But he's a butthead.
Al: No! No he's not. He's the nicest man on the block.
Carl: Wow, you must be Santa!
Al: I told you I was. What do you want?
Al: I want a real live horse.
Al: Hmm... Your mom's the one who makes pies for everyone in the neighborhood but those nice Bundys, isn't she? [Carl nods] All right, Santa will leave you a horse tonight under your tree, but if it's not there in the morning it's because your mommy chased it away and killed it!
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Peggy: Come on Marcy, these things happen.
Marcy: WHEN has this ever happened? A guy dressed as Santa Claus goes skydiving, his parachue doesn't open, and he lands right in your back yard?
Peggy: Cheer up. It could have been worse. He could have landed on the picket fence.
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Coroner: Pizza, it always reminds me of my first day on the job.

Was it the one where Al shoots Steve and Marcy's new guard dog? I watched this on tv the same day that you and Fishette said you caught MWC on one of your channels. The one I saw was "But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy". Great episode.

Honestly I am not sure, I was in the middle of doing something and wasn't really paying all that much attention. It just made me smile when I saw the choice ended up being MWC and it made me think of this thread.

Ok, I've watched this one and "How Do You Spell Revenge". Have to say that I much prefer The Razer's Edge. I love the idea that Steve makes a great wife and the Bundy's dig his cooking. Too funny. What a great idea for an episode.

And the photo of Peg's mother (Why does Al even have a picture of her? lol.)

Anyway, this is one of my favorite MWC episodes so far. Turns out I really like the ones with Steve and Marcy. I'm not as interested in the ones with Kelly and Bud.