She also wasted every dime he ever made on useless crap and spawned 2 morons that she did nothing to actually raise despite not working. We might frick peg in a second but lets not pretend she's the perfect spouse outside of honeymoon moments
She definitely did not unconditionally love him. They do explain why they stay together but they both fantasized about other people and Peg apparently frequented strip clubs with the other neighborhood women and sexually harrassed the strippers for years until Al forbade her from continuing it. She was also essentially a NEET who sat around and did nothing to take care of the house.
Yeah but they're both more blatant about it and do it in front of each other as a way to humiliate each other. That's why Al's watching porn in the living room and ignoring Peggy and why Peggy goes to strip clubs where she wasted her husband's money on hunky men.
These characters are late boomers (1955-1965). That generation was encouraged to get married right out of high school like their parents. The issue is that they missed the economic boom of those decades and ended up coming of age during the cultural degeneration of the 60s and economic slump of the 70s.
They were told to do things "the right way" and got shafted by social change. Suddenly they're 40 with even less than their parents could afford on the same salary and a wife that hit the wall.
the whole idea of married with children was to have a show that's intentionally the opposite of all the squeaky clean family shows that were on tv at the time.
taking everything at face value is what brought us great writing like fallout, fricking hell.
Because it was a generation of people who had basically fallen ass backwards into unwarranted success and financial stability, while taking basically no time to think about why they just did exactly what their parents did with the rat race, or who the people were they were commiting to living their whole lives with and creating new people from.
Al is the prototypical boomer. He's a shoe salesman who somehow landed this absolute babe, afforded this great house, and still can keep things running with two teenaged kids, and all he can think about is how cheated he is by life. How dumb and horny his wife is. How dumb and prostituteish his daughter is. How dumb and useless his son is. It's this warped lil reality of what the moron who's got it all thinks of everyone around him.
>absolute babe
She was supposed to be played by a frumpier actress but the fact that she's so well-kept makes it funnier how much he loathes having sex with her. She also feeds the dog better than she does him. >great house
He could barely afford the bills and was in mountains of debt, plus it was a rat-infested shithole with intentionally destroyed appliances and a barely functioning car. >two teenaged kids
Who bleed him dry as much as his wife does, since he's the only guy in the house with a salary. But he's also expected to do all kinds of shit for everyone else when he's not working a job he hates.
>Ahhh! Gross. Why would I want to have sex with my beautiful in shape wife. >I know what's better, watching football! I can watch big buck Black folk play a game and cheer them on from my couch! >Hey, Peg! What if I just let one of these big football Black folk frick you while I watch the game? Sounds win-win to me!
It was a different time, nowadays a show like that would look like this: >father is a neet living off welfare >mother is a cheating prostitute >daughter is drug addict prostitute >son is a she
>Looks up what the actress of Peggy now 70 years old looks like compared to the actress of Marcy now 65 years old
Oof
And Al is supposed to pretend he somehow lost at life
I thought my ex GF was cool as shit when we first went out because she seemed to know everyone and had a bunch of friends. This was great because I'm not some jealous guy or anything so I figured I can go out with her a couple of times a week and then just tell her to hang with her friends. She moved in. Turns out they all fricking hated each other and had like four separate chats with some of the girls missing so they can talk shit about them.
My ex stayed home more, changed her WFH schedule to match mine (which I quickly said it was mandatory for me to come on those days and switched my days around), didn't do much. Ended it around there because I ended up going outside way more than my gf ever did soi I guess in one way she made me overcome social anxiety hard, because I was for sure going to bars and shit and trying to make a night out of anything just so i wouldn't have to go home and hear her b***h about her friends that she hates.
>NEET incels arguing about the inner workings of social dynamics they have never known >NEET incels basing their pro and con arguments on a fricking television show
how is this combination of smug self assurance and complete lack of self awareness even possible
White culture seems to wanna be down in the dumps, like stuff gets better and they look for something to get annoyed at. Its weird. Look at fight club, so its not just a boomer thing. Even now, look at roch white college kids, they will find something to complain about, cant teally focus on the positive. Left, right, doesn't matter.
Because boomers loathe having to love their family or provide for them. Their resentment turns to passive aggressive rage. They may be unironically more happy if it was in the past and they could beat their wives but the combination of the sexual liberation and an economic boom gives them more freedom then ever while simultaneously chaining them to the old fashioned values of getting married as soon as possible and working your entire life for your family. They resent being married and resent having to spend money on anyone but themselves and they HATE women having freedoms - yes to be a c**t and a bawd, but freedom nonetheless - they can’t do anything about it.
Al’s life actually sucked.
He had a wife who unconditionally loved him and wanted to be around him and have sex with him.
This. 90% of young men today would KILL to be in his position.
She also wasted every dime he ever made on useless crap and spawned 2 morons that she did nothing to actually raise despite not working. We might frick peg in a second but lets not pretend she's the perfect spouse outside of honeymoon moments
You're supposed to discipline your wife
Peg isn't a goat Ahmed that isn't how they do things in America
your loss then. just don't be surprised when your wife cucks you with Tyrone
>your wife cucks you with Tyrone
An ever present fear when your wife has 4 legs I suppose
She definitely did not unconditionally love him. They do explain why they stay together but they both fantasized about other people and Peg apparently frequented strip clubs with the other neighborhood women and sexually harrassed the strippers for years until Al forbade her from continuing it. She was also essentially a NEET who sat around and did nothing to take care of the house.
>they both fantasized about other people
that's literally every married couple ever
Yeah but they're both more blatant about it and do it in front of each other as a way to humiliate each other. That's why Al's watching porn in the living room and ignoring Peggy and why Peggy goes to strip clubs where she wasted her husband's money on hunky men.
That is literally the joke, their genders are just reversed. No wife really wants either of those.
you never watched the show
These characters are late boomers (1955-1965). That generation was encouraged to get married right out of high school like their parents. The issue is that they missed the economic boom of those decades and ended up coming of age during the cultural degeneration of the 60s and economic slump of the 70s.
They were told to do things "the right way" and got shafted by social change. Suddenly they're 40 with even less than their parents could afford on the same salary and a wife that hit the wall.
Married With Children was a contrarian show on a contrarian, new TV network.
You're dumb.
Funny to think too that Fox owes its entire existence to that show.
The show aired in 1988. I dont think Al was supposed to be in his early 30s
They were standard issue, buy a huge house at 24 boomers
>The show aired in 1988
*1987
As the old saying goes: you don’t know whatcha got till it’s gone
because it’s funny
Try living with an adult woman that isn’t your mom before asking this question.
This. They're annoying as shit sometimes but what are you going to do, be a homo?
>what are you going to do
Leave them
>It'a anoter Cinemaphileirgins come out and talk about marital relationships and human bonding episode
0/10
the whole idea of married with children was to have a show that's intentionally the opposite of all the squeaky clean family shows that were on tv at the time.
taking everything at face value is what brought us great writing like fallout, fricking hell.
Because it was a generation of people who had basically fallen ass backwards into unwarranted success and financial stability, while taking basically no time to think about why they just did exactly what their parents did with the rat race, or who the people were they were commiting to living their whole lives with and creating new people from.
Al is the prototypical boomer. He's a shoe salesman who somehow landed this absolute babe, afforded this great house, and still can keep things running with two teenaged kids, and all he can think about is how cheated he is by life. How dumb and horny his wife is. How dumb and prostituteish his daughter is. How dumb and useless his son is. It's this warped lil reality of what the moron who's got it all thinks of everyone around him.
>absolute babe
She was supposed to be played by a frumpier actress but the fact that she's so well-kept makes it funnier how much he loathes having sex with her. She also feeds the dog better than she does him.
>great house
He could barely afford the bills and was in mountains of debt, plus it was a rat-infested shithole with intentionally destroyed appliances and a barely functioning car.
>two teenaged kids
Who bleed him dry as much as his wife does, since he's the only guy in the house with a salary. But he's also expected to do all kinds of shit for everyone else when he's not working a job he hates.
Shhhh, the past good, current year bad
Did Al own the shoe store or just work there? Because there’s no way a guy making AT MOST $7/hr could support a family like that.
>Did Al own the shoe store or just work there?
If I recall, the owner was a fat woman who despised Al.
I thought it was just banter.
Married with children was a parody of family sitcoms
>Ahhh! Gross. Why would I want to have sex with my beautiful in shape wife.
>I know what's better, watching football! I can watch big buck Black folk play a game and cheer them on from my couch!
>Hey, Peg! What if I just let one of these big football Black folk frick you while I watch the game? Sounds win-win to me!
It was a different time, nowadays a show like that would look like this:
>father is a neet living off welfare
>mother is a cheating prostitute
>daughter is drug addict prostitute
>son is a she
>Why did boomer shows push "family life is BAD" narrative?
Because you're a fricking moron who's too autistic to understand that you, the audience, is suppose to laugh at the absurdity of it.
>Raised in a israeli family in Brooklyn, Leavitt began his television career in the 1970s
Could shoemen really afford a house, wife and two kids in that era?
By taking out hundreds of loans and maxing your credit cards, yes.
Where does the money to pay all those bills come from? Interest and payments cost more than the initial purchase
>Looks up what the actress of Peggy now 70 years old looks like compared to the actress of Marcy now 65 years old
Oof
And Al is supposed to pretend he somehow lost at life
only virgins are unable to relate to Al, I haven't been happier since I kicked my girlfriend out and started living alone again
I turned my girlfriend's sexual advances down for a year before I finally just broke up with her.
Media literacy
>flushing intensifies
it was a reaction to all the sugary sweet sitcoms of the 80s
They didn't, this show was an exception. Also, it's simply being truthful.
Live with a woman. You slowly feel the same way.
I thought my ex GF was cool as shit when we first went out because she seemed to know everyone and had a bunch of friends. This was great because I'm not some jealous guy or anything so I figured I can go out with her a couple of times a week and then just tell her to hang with her friends. She moved in. Turns out they all fricking hated each other and had like four separate chats with some of the girls missing so they can talk shit about them.
My ex stayed home more, changed her WFH schedule to match mine (which I quickly said it was mandatory for me to come on those days and switched my days around), didn't do much. Ended it around there because I ended up going outside way more than my gf ever did soi I guess in one way she made me overcome social anxiety hard, because I was for sure going to bars and shit and trying to make a night out of anything just so i wouldn't have to go home and hear her b***h about her friends that she hates.
>NEET incels arguing about the inner workings of social dynamics they have never known
>NEET incels basing their pro and con arguments on a fricking television show
how is this combination of smug self assurance and complete lack of self awareness even possible
Konchalkwa, my brother.
Do amerimutts boomer or coomer think themselves or just whatever TV or current narrative say
White culture seems to wanna be down in the dumps, like stuff gets better and they look for something to get annoyed at. Its weird. Look at fight club, so its not just a boomer thing. Even now, look at roch white college kids, they will find something to complain about, cant teally focus on the positive. Left, right, doesn't matter.
If you actually watched the fricking show instead of referencing it because of memes you'd know what you're saying is complete horseshit.
You have never been in a long term relationship.
Who nose?
israeli producer "the show is about white trash"
Many marriages end up like this. There's a reason couples get divorced.
It's all about the executives who green-lit the show. And their early lives. Connect the dots.
Because boomers loathe having to love their family or provide for them. Their resentment turns to passive aggressive rage. They may be unironically more happy if it was in the past and they could beat their wives but the combination of the sexual liberation and an economic boom gives them more freedom then ever while simultaneously chaining them to the old fashioned values of getting married as soon as possible and working your entire life for your family. They resent being married and resent having to spend money on anyone but themselves and they HATE women having freedoms - yes to be a c**t and a bawd, but freedom nonetheless - they can’t do anything about it.
This sounds like some reddit tier psychoanalysis tbh
Okay now but was Al supposed to be a particularly smart character? I think they were all just really selfish and rude to eachother