Friday, January 15, 2010

In Married With Children, why were the Bundys such a dysfunctional family?

I mean the father has a lame job, the mother does nothing all day, and the kids are such brats. I don't understand why they were like that.In Married With Children, why were the Bundys such a dysfunctional family?
Well, they got paid to be that way by the tv producers... But in a real family like that, all the love is gone. One does wonder why?





The Bundys were just the comic flipside of ';Love and Marriage - goes together like a horse and carriage....'; How many people get married only to find that 10 or 20 years later they married a stranger - they don't know who this person is... And they don't particularly like the person they married - don't value them - don't care what happens to them.





It's all a big puddle of unhappiness! The world is full of it. Unloved children are grabby and crabby.





I say: Stay unmarried, then you can always idealize marriage.In Married With Children, why were the Bundys such a dysfunctional family?
The working title for Married with Children was ';Not the Cosbys';...that says a lot. While the Cosby show was about teaching high morals and values, with a stable home setting...the Bundys on Married with Children created the opposite...dysfunction and unhappiness. Why? I guess that was just that show's story line? It's like an anti- show...anti the perfect home life, like the Simpson also created that same feel.
Does it really matter why?





The fact is that show had actors who played their parts well %26amp; it had a satirical sense of humour - that's enough reason to enjoy watching the show.





And contrary to what others might think, there was some love portrayed in the show. It might not be the traditional kind, but when any family members were at risk, the family were prepared to look out for each other.


Take for example Al %26amp; Kelly. She might have gone out late at night, but Al stood his ground with any boyfriend's visiting her at home.


And deep down, Al %26amp; Peggy did love each other.
Because of how they grew up. Al was a football player and Peg was a Redhead who was easy they got married and had two kids, She knows nothing about cooking smokes continuously and He works at a Women's Shoe store

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