Shark Bytes

I love the early seasons of the show, but it did stay on for too long . The first signs of the show jumping to me was not long after Steve left. The writting started getting too cartoonish after a certain time as well. Personally i think as the show started to gain in popularity it started it's decline. This is mainly because of how the audience started getting louder and louder each week and started to sound more and more stupid. Anytime one of the cast would walk in the room we were treated to whooping and hollering for long periods of time before the actor/actress could say anything. Those are the moments when the show jumped the shark as far as I am concerned.

However I will agree that the addition of Seven is the lowest point of the show's long run.

It's FUNNY, people!

Who's the guy who kills for fun?!? PSYCHO-DAD, pscho dad, psycho DAAAAD!

Help me with these lyrics, am I right?:
D is for the many things you gave me
A is for the apple of my eye
D is for the dish you baked the pie in
D is for the apple of my eye
Y because we love you
Put it all together and what do you get? (make me feel it) "DAAADDD-EEE!"

Gotta love Al Bundy..and if you don't, well I'm sorry for you!

Hey Bundo~ do you actually have a no ma'am t-shirt?? OH COOL! I, too, think all their meetings were quite entertaining to watch. They hated breat-feeding, yet LOVED hooters. Loved the idea of sex, but not with their wives. Remember Mr. Empty Pants? That was hilar.I also agree that the new dog was a poor replacement for old Buck. They shoulda let Buck's memory be enough instead of bringing in a new dog. Although the one Buck episode I did NOT like was when Buck had Cheech Marin's voice and was out prowling and met that poodle and called her a bitch. That was stupid. Other than that, I like the way Buck just lays around and wonders how he ever ended up with this oh so dysfunctional family, the Bundys.

As I sit here typing this, all the while wearing my NO MA'AM shirt...The only 'jump the shark' moment I can think of is the dog switch. They should have never brought another dog in.

in 11 years the show had a bad season. The writers brought in a character most didn't like or want, and then phased that character out.

HOW they phased out Seven goes with the entire theme of the show, crass trashy humor. Most of the time that humor worked, a few times it fell flat...ooooooh.

overall this show is a classic for a reason. It showed people like that tight-arsed b**** in Michigan that the rest of the world pretty much thought she should lighten up and realize it's TV. If you don't want to watch, change channels. As for me...the re-runs are coming on FX right now and it's time to call this meetin of NO MA'AM to order. Hasta

'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?