Married With Children was basically a reaction to Family Matters and the Jeffersons by people who said that the real black family in America looked nothing like that, and looked more like what they presented. Even back then, Fox knew they'd never be able to air it with a black cast that had a over-glamorized bitch wife, an angry failed husband who's best years existed in a single foot ball game, with a dufus and criminal son, with a whore of a daughter. The producers white-washed the family to see if the show could run, and it did, and became wildly popular... particularly among Black Americans.