At least Al Bundy had a family that stayed together & was part of pretty based organizations (heh).
I think Married with Children was more of a social commentary that it wasn’t the 60s anymore but there was still time for Boomers “make it” in the world even while it was changing. Same with Uncle Buck.
One of the funniest things I read about it was that Married with Children was a social commentary on black families. Fox wouldn't broadcast it because it was too spicy for the Bundy's to have been all black, and that degenerate.
It would have been a total reversal of "The Cosby Show", "Family Matters", and "The Jeffersons" which had been on television for a long time. The man who originally proposed the show was also black, and was actually annoyed that all of these SitComs never actually represented what Black Families had actually been like.
I think it shows an interesting cultural class divide between middle-class and lower-class blacks that had emerged after the 60's.
At least Al Bundy had a family that stayed together & was part of pretty based organizations (heh).
I think Married with Children was more of a social commentary that it wasn’t the 60s anymore but there was still time for Boomers “make it” in the world even while it was changing. Same with Uncle Buck.
One of the funniest things I read about it was that Married with Children was a social commentary on black families. Fox wouldn't broadcast it because it was too spicy for the Bundy's to have been all black, and that degenerate.
It would have been a total reversal of "The Cosby Show", "Family Matters", and "The Jeffersons" which had been on television for a long time. The man who originally proposed the show was also black, and was actually annoyed that all of these SitComs never actually represented what Black Families had actually been like.
I think it shows an interesting cultural class divide between middle-class and lower-class blacks that had emerged after the 60's.