Married With Children
Richard Gurman noticed something wild rewatching the pilot: Ed O’Neill’s thick Chicago accent completely vanished by episode three or four. David Faustino breaks down how Ed naturally evolved Al Bundy from a raw, angry South Side guy into the universal everyman we all know.
When Married with Children started shooting in 1987, the kid actors had a schoolroom on the lot. Mine was down the hall from Alyssa Milano’s, where she was filming Who’s the Boss. I was 13, already a fan, and the first time she walked by I went full tongue-tied. Vicious and unrequited.
Folks, this is one of those stories I never get tired of telling, mostly because every time I tell it I can still hear Sam Kinison’s voice ringing through the phone. If you were around for season 4 of Married with Children, you remember the two-part Christmas episode It’s a Bundyful Life Part 1 and…
A fan who was actually in the Sunset Gower audience asked two of the all-time great Married with Children questions on the latest watch party. What really happened to the Next Gen Bundy spinoff? And what was the one episode Fox banned? I took the first one. Richard Gurman, who wrote the show, took the second. Here’s both stories.
David Faustino and Amanda Bearse on what 10 years filming Married with Children was really like, why the Bundy cast is still extremely close today, and the Ed O’Neill phone call that David’s wife has learned to hide the phone from.
Harold Sylvester (Griff) tells me about being the first African American scholarship athlete at Tulane, going up against Pete Maravich at LSU, and walking off the court into Sounder, An Officer and a Gentleman, and Uncommon Valor before he ever sat down with No Maâam.
The No Maam reunion gets honest: one of the guys grew up dreaming of being a wacky sitcom neighbor and MWC made it real. Plus me getting roasted by fans for claiming Ed never broke the fourth wall.
David Faustino and the No Ma’am guys reveal the hilarious backstory of ‘How Bleen Was My Kelly,’ including Amanda Bearse’s custom crayons gift and the writers’ room secret behind Kelly’s greatest invention.
David Faustino on the early Mad TV sketch where he played a coke dealer in a Three Stooges takeoff at the Wilshire Ebell Theater, powder flying everywhere, when Mad TV was still throwing big budget money at single-location bits.
David Faustino on January 17, 1994 — coming home from the club, riding out the Northridge quake on the epicenter, and how Married with Children went dark for two weeks.