And Bingo Was Her Game-O was the 22nd episode in Season 9 of Married... with Children, and was also the 205th overall episode. Directed by Amanda Bearse and written by Alison Taylor, the episode originally aired on FOX, premiering on March 26, 1995.
Synopsis[]
Peg drags Marcy along with her to a bingo competition on the bad side of town. Meanwhile, Al and his NO MA'AM buddies taste-test new beers when their old brand spokesperson turns them off. Peggy wins $10,000, but ends up spending all of it for a cab ride home.
Storyline[]
In this episode, After Peg gets invited to the Bingo Invitational Final, she takes Marcy along with her to the competition, which is on the bad side of town. Meanwhile, Al and his NO MA'AM buddies taste-test new beers when the brand spokesperson of their new club official beer Girlie Girl Beer, is the same as the one of their old beer, which turns out to be Yoko Ono, which again, turns them off. Peggy wins $10,000 from the Bingo Invitational, but ends up spending all of it for a safe cab ride home!
Recurring Cast/Regulars[]
- Amanda Bearse as Marcy D'Arcy
- Ted McGinley as Jefferson D'Arcy
- Buck the dog as Buck Bundy
- Harold Sylvester as Griff
- E.E. Bell as Bob Rooney
- Tom McCleister as Ike
Guest starring[]
- Jean Speegle Howard as Ceil
- Clint Howard as Mullen
- Rusty Schwimmer as Babs
- Peter Spellos as Elmo
- Vick Sabitjian as Abdula
- Pat Crawford Brown as Bingo Caller
- Julia Kato as Yoko Ono (voice only)
Quotes[]
- [Al and Jefferson are on the Bundy living room couch, with a beer in their hands and watching television, just as Marcy and Peggy come down the stairs]
- Al: Look at it, Jefferson. The elegance, the form, the sheer grace of motion.
- Jefferson: Mmm. The triumph of the human spirit.
- [Peg and Marcy are now standing behind the couch, looking at the television with the guys]
- Television Announcer: [voice over] And now, on Monster Trucking! Tyrannosaurus Wreck will attempt to mow over nine flaming prison buses! [Marcy and Peggy shake their heads in disapproval]
- Peg: [to Marcy] Boy, PBS has really changed since the Republicans took over.
- [Peg has left to go shopping with Marcy for a new outfit for the Bingo invitational, while Al and Jefferson continue watching television]
- Jefferson: Bingo invitational. Jeez, the things that excite women.
- Television Announcer: [v.o.] And now a word from our sponsor, Girlie Girl Beer.
- [Al and Jefferson become giddy with excitement and clink their beer cans together]
- Jefferson: The official beer of NO MA'AM.
- Al: I hope this where the girls are washing their cars and they turn their hoses on each other.
- Jefferson: Oh, I hope it's the one where the girls are studying at the library and then they turn the hoses on each other.
- [both of them smile and begin to chuckle, but then stop upon hearing a woman with an Asian accent beginning to talk]
- Yoko Ono: Hi, I'm Yoko Ono, the new spokeshuman for Girlie Girl Beer. [Al and Jefferson's smiles quickly vanish and begin to cringe as she continues to talk] Because we care about the environment, Girlie Girl Beer will donate one nickel per case to save our vanishing rain forests. And now, a song I've written.
- Al: Jefferson, give me the remote. [receives the remote just as Ono begins to sings horribly off-key]
- Yoko Ono: Ahhh Ahhh Ahhh...
- [Al and Jefferson begin to wince in pain as her singing gets worse and higher pitched. Al finally flings the remote through the television set ]
- Jefferson: It wasn't enough breaking up the Beatles. Now she's ruined our beer.
- [After Peggy's victory, she and Marcy are sitting in the now empty church hall while waiting for Al, as Mullen, the church's janitor is cleaning up]
- Peggy: Well, staying true to his performance in bed I think it's safe to say that Al has let me down again. Unfortunately, in this case I can't just reach into the night stand and get myself home.
- Marcy: Well, thank goodness we're in the comfort of a church.
- Mullen: Ladies, I gotta lock up. Get out.
- Marcy: I thought this was a sanctuary.
- Mullen: Yeah, until 11. After that, it's just another crime scene.
- Marcy: You don't understand. We don't have a ride home and we're carrying $10,000 in cash. Now, if you make us leave, there's no telling what will happen to us.
- Mullen: Oh, I know exactly what would happen to you! [puts his mop handle against the wall and walks over to the ladies] But luckily, doctors today can reattach almost anything. Take me. Would you believe this isn't my real... [begins to unbutton his pants before Marcy cuts him off mid sentence]
- Marcy: Peggy! [they both get up and walk to the other side of the room] I think we should call a cab.
- Mullen: You'll never get a cab this time of night. [walks over to the ladies, who are hiding their faces] You could get one in the morning if you wouldn't mind shacking up with me. [smiles] I got a hot plate and some macaroni and cheese.
Notes[]
Title[]
- The title of this episode is a reference to the folk song "Bingo" (also known as "And Bingo Was His Name-O" which is from one of the lines in the song) as well as the American game of chance known as Bingo that Peggy plays and eventually wins.
Trivia[]
- Two of the guest stars in this episode, Jean Speegle Howard and Clint Howard, are the mother and brother of American director/actor Ron Howard.
- Jean Speegle Howard, who plays Ceil, previously appeared on MWC as Sylvia, the lady who sits next to Peggy on the train in "Business Sucks (Part 1)" and as the lady with the row of carts who cuts in front of Al in "Assault and Batteries".
- Starting with this episode, Christina Applegate has a noticeably shorter haircut, which appears to be a chin length bob cut and keeps it until the next season. She had previously cut her long hair to a shoulder length bob at the beginning of season 9.
- David Faustino appears to have shaved his facial hair off in this episode. His facial hair returns in the next episode.
- During the credits, instead of listing actress Julia Kato as the voice of Yoko Ono, the credits list her as "Celebrity Impersonation by Julia Kato".
Cultural References[]
- As Peggy and Marcy come down the stairs and hear that Al and Jefferson are watching Monster Trucking, Peggy says "Boy, PBS has really changed since the Republicans took over." This is in reference to the 104th United States Congress, in which the Republican party took control of both the House and Senate, during Democratic U.S. President Bill Clinton's 3rd and 4th year in office.
- As Peggy noted, during this time, Republican leaders were proposing to eliminate federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (the group responsible for PBS and NPR) and make it private instead, with the joke that the Republicans would put something as mindless as Monster Trucking, instead of educational shows such as Sesame Street and Mister Roger's Neighborhood on the network if it were to be privatized. It would also leave those in more rural areas with less programming to watch and listen to if it were to be defunded.[1][2]
- On the other hand, some have noted that the reason why Republicans want to eliminate funding for PBS and NPR is due to CPB receiving government money during times of budget deficits (around 1995, it was receiving over $200 million from the government, and in more recent years has received over $400 million). Another argument is that it is inefficient, due to the public's modern consumption of media, and that privatized broadcasting would lead to more innovations without bureaucratic intervention. In more recent times, additional arguments have been made because of PBS and NPR having liberal bias and politicizing its programs, despite its objective of trying to being fair and balanced. [3][4][5]
- Another argument for eliminating the CPB is the fact that there are more educational type cable channels available. The Discovery Channel, A&E, and The History Channel were among those new channels.
- When NO MA'AM decides to go with American beer finally, Jefferson says the first one is Dos Equis. Dos Equis is a real brand of beer from Mexico, brewed by Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma Brewery.
- Technically, Dos Equis is an American beer because Mexico is part of North America. Plus the company headquarters is located in the northeast side of the country, close to Texas.
- Some of the beer cans that can be seen at the meeting include Coors, Old Milwaukee and Budweiser.
- After the guys finally start drinking, Ike and Bob Rooney starting fighting over Claudia Schiffer, a German fashion model and Pamela Anderson, a former Playboy Playmate who had previous appeared on MWC during Al's fantasies in season 5.
- It is revealed that Girlie Girl Beer's new spokeswoman is Yoko Ono, an artist and singer, who became best known for her involvement with British musical group, The Beatles, when she began dating and later, marrying one of the band members, John Lennon.
- Jefferson mentions that Ono first ruined the Beatles and now their beer. This in reference to accusations that Yoko Ono was responsible for the group's breakup in 1969 following her budding relationship with Lennon.
- Later, Peg calls Al and his NO MA'AM brothers "The Flab Four", in references to the Beatles nickname, "The Fab Four".
- The janitor character, Mullen (played by Clint Howard), calls Marcy D'Arcy "bucko". This is most likely an in-joke towards Clint Howard's real-life brother Ron Howard.
- Very frequently on the 1970s sitcom, Happy Days, Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard) would use the word "Bucko" when addressing people.
- When Marcy and Peggy ride in the first cab with Elmo and threaten to report him, Marcy reads the name on his taxi license as "Dan Rostenkowski".
- Dan Rostenkowski was a democratic politician who served as a U.S. Representative for Chicago from 1959 to 1995 and became one of the most powerful legislators in Congress.
- At the time this episode originally aired, his political career came to an abrupt end, due to him being indicted on corruption charges relating to his role in the Congressional Post Office Scandal, as well as being narrowly defeated for reelection by Republican Michael Patrick Flanagan.
- When Marcy confronts Al about not picking her and Peggy up, which left them with only a few dollars, she yells out that it was due to them having to fight their way north via the Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves starting in the 1780s who were trying to escape to free states and eventually into Canada.
Locations[]
- Bundy Residence
- Church Hall
- Chicago backroads
Sets[]
- Bundy Living Room / Kitchen
- Bundy Garage
- Bingo Championship / Church Hall
- Taxi cab / backroads
Goofs[]
- As the bingo announcer is yelling out "N 33", Peg is marking an "O" number and yells out, "Bingo!"
- It could be likely that Peggy spotted a number that was previously called by the bingo caller, but the numbers that were called out before "N 33" were "N 41" and "G 58".
- It would also be somewhat odd for an experienced player like Peggy to miss a number, especially with that amount of time in-between the called numbers and then suddenly mark it just as a different number is called.
- When Kelly mentions to Bud that Buck was giving the guys from NO MA'AM sleigh rides, a close up of Buck is shown sitting with some beer can antlers on top of his head. Later, when Al jokes about Peg being too heavy to lift, Bucks antlers are missing.
- As Peggy asks Al for a ride to the Bingo game, he asks if she can just hitch a ride on Marcy's poultry wagon and her arms are hanging down by her hips. The camera immediately switches angles and now her arms are suddenly crossed by her chest as she tells Al that its in a very dangerous neighborhood.
- When Ceil knocks the bingo marker out of Marcy's hand, the bingo sheet underneath her moves. In the next shot, after Ceil tells Marcy that she'll be eating out of a straw, the bingo sheet is back to where it was.
- Jefferson mentions that Marcy told him that she had a cat named Gringo and that it lived up to the age of 100. The oldest cat on record lived up to the age of 38.
References[]
- ↑ Defunding Public Media: Disaster Or Opportunity?. WBEZ Chicago.
- ↑ Video: Public Broadcasting Funding Part 1 (January 19, 1995). C-SPAN.
- ↑ If You Love Something, Set It Free: A Case for Defunding Public Broadcasting. The Cato Institute.
- ↑ Video: Public Broadcasting Funding Part 2 (January 19, 1995). C-SPAN.
- ↑ Weakened US public broadcasters will fight for their lives in 2025. Semafor (December 9, 2024). Retrieved on December 14, 2024.