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'Married' was a satire from day one, and apparently a
lot of people were too humorless or, frankly, dim-witted to understand that simple fact.

Whether the show "jumped" or not can be answered like this: The show did jump with Seven and all the episodes where Peg and Marci are pregnant, but it jumped BACK after all that happened. Seven was there for one season, and then he was gone and the show was funny again. Peg was pregnant for a season, but then the miscarriage happened and they hit the reset button and pretended it was a dream and she was never pregnant (ok, I know how that could be annoying to some viewers, but some people will hit their heads over the wall because of continuity errors, and that will never change), and they went back to how things were in the previous seasons. They found out who their audience was and what the audience wanted, and went back to it. That's actually the GREAT thing about Married With Children - the people behind the scenes knew they screwed up, and so they went back to how things were before the sharkjump occurred. Why do you blame them and criticize them for that? What, would you rather they keep Peg pregnant, and keep Seven around? So sue them for trying to keep their viewers happy.

And to people that whine about the NO MA'AM stuff: that was some of the funniest stuff in the show's entire history. And actually, it can be seen as the culmination of very long-brewing storylines, like Al's anti-woman stance that he had since, oh, season 2.

And Jefferson was better than Steve, there I said it.

Love this show. Only problem was that it was on for too long and the writing got worse. They should've had an actual sendoff, though.

a great programme. Al always suffered through it. And they always stuck together against outsiders. They had family togetherness.

Ted McGinley made this show better. He was absoulutely hliarious, like some sort of a "trophy husband" to a yuppie Marcy. Although there were a great deal of changes with the cast, it remained very funny and improved with age. I loved the news reporter in the last season or two, Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinal. Genius! This show dared to show what some families are really like, trashy suburbinite slobs, not the touchy-feely sitcom families that are (lamentably) more of a rarity in real life. This show also is probably the only one in history to survive the "New Kid in Town" jump.

For the record, having Peg's pregnancy be a dream was a way of explaining Katy Segal's real-life miscarriage.

Usually, as a show gets older, the characters morph slowly into wiser, mellower, more mature people. Not here. Only Peggy stayed pretty much the same. The rest of the cast went WAY too far to the left. Marcy went from being a sweet, almost naive neighbor to a brash militant pain, Bud first did that Grandmaster B crap and later with the ridiculous beard and I-think-I'm-a-ladies-man mystique. Kelly cut her hair and in the same swoop, went from adorable to just kind of a brat/snot, and Al was the worst going from loveable, misunderstood, I-give-up loser to just being a nelligerent old grouch, especially with that group of dinguses (No Ma'am), featuring every sterotypical character (fat guy, henpecked husband, black guy, etc.). Overall, seasons 1-4 were great, after that don't even watch it.

To whoever said "Al and Peg never taught their kids family values", they were never supposed to! Married With Children was the pure antithesis of the (at the time) typical sitcom which preached family values. In fact, the working title of the show was "Not The Cosbys".

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I think Married with Children jumped in its final season. The series finale was a great disappointment because each character was to go through their rite of passage like Kelly was to be mature when she was about to get married even though she broke off the engageement to the kidnapper. She reverted to her old ways like behaving like a slut. Al and Peggy Bundy were without a doubt the worst parents because they did not teach their children important social and family values which unfortunately lead tv today to askew those values with new shows and some people have the nerve to slam the Disney channel because they still remained to their family oriented shows that still have these values. Jefferson was an excellent addition to the show because he was so charming and funny. I also had a huge crush on Ted Mc Ginley. You should be ashamed of yourselves to think that he is the patron of shark jumping because he is a fine actor.

I don't get it. How is this show on the list of shows that 'never jumped' when it has three times as many votes for the new kid scenario?

did anyone see the true hollywood story on e! for MWC? The actor who plays Ed Bundy gave me the impression that he felt the show jumped a long time before it was cancelled.

He says he was not surprised when he found out the show was canceled.

Ted McGinley, i've got your back.

As far as character changes go, the Steve to Jefferson was not what jumped the shark on this show. Jefferson and Steve, while two totally different characters, were able to play off Al very well.

I will say it, SEVEN carried the show down with him. Cute new kid = arsenic to the livelyhood of any tv show, and MWC fell right into that trap.

They should have flushed him down Al's Ferguson.

I love this show. The jokes became recycled towards the end and the introduction of No Ma'am was when I remember it started going downhill. MY favorite episode is probably the one with 'Scary Mary' that was hillarious! It seemed like whoever they had writing it towards they end must have thought the audience were idiots, they just didn't seem to really get it which is probably why people stopped watching.

To whoever said "puberty was unkind" to Bud... that's ridiculous. I was delighted to see over the years how a rather unattractive kid turned into a really cute hairy teenager with a beard... a real rarity on TV. What's wrong with that?!? What TV-land does not need, is yet another slick-chested smoothfaced twinkie boy, as if that's some kind of ideal for all young men, thereby causing millions of boys to feel ashamed of themselves and scrape themselves smooth all over like a girl. I was proud of David Faustino for being just who he is, and of the show for letting him be that way. I even used to feel a bit sorry for him because of all the endless puberty jokes they made him go through on the show, when no doubt he was going through all the same stuff in real life. But he handled it very well.

It was a travesty the way they just brushed over Katey Segal's tragic miscarriage by deciding that it was all just part of a "dream" Al had. Stupid stupid stupid. Not funny at all.

And as much as Seven annoyed me, what annoyed me even more was the cheesy, half-assed, and if you ask me, tasteless and perverted way that they "phased" out his character. I think the last time he was even remotely mentioned, you saw his picture on the side of a milk carton. The audience barely laughed at all, and rightly so. That was just NOT funny. It was DISGUSTING. In today's society where children are getting snatched, raped, and murdered every five minutes, that is just plain NOT funny.