The Bullpen Sports Bar is a sports bar that Al Bundy, Jefferson D'Arcy and Officer Dan visit.
The bar is seen in Season 8 and Season 9.
Description[]
The bar's name is in reference to the NBA team, the Chicago Bulls and there are various references to the team and its mascot. There are also references to Chicago's two MLB teams, the Chicago Cubs and the Chicago White Sox.
Other sports teams that are referenced include the Anaheim Ducks, Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints, Washington Redskins, Edmonton Oilers, and Philadelphia Eagles.
From what can be seen, there are various sports memorabilia on display. Some of the ones mentions or seen including:
- Professional boxer Muhammed Ali's boxing gloves
- MLB player Mickey Mantle's baseball cleats
- NBA player Michael Jordan's putter and #23 jersey
- NBA player Shaquille O'Neal's basketball shoe
- A hand print of tennis player Martina Navratilova
There is a large wall with nine televisions display several sporting events simultaneously, such as football, basketball, and bikini wrestling.
There are a few arcade games as well, including a foosball table and a basketball style game called "Hoop Shoot".
Background[]
The bar is first shown in the Season 8 episode, "Dances with Weezie". Al and Jefferson are excited to visit the bar on its opening night, but their wives, Peg and Marcy, reveal that they have other plans for them: they will accompany them to "The Jeffersons' Moving On Up" tour, as the women are huge fans of the show. The two eventually come up with a plan, where they will go with their wives, but as soon as the lights go out, they will sneak out and have Al's kids, Bud and Kelly, fill their seats.
Upon arriving at the bar, they quickly get out of their suits and gaze in wonder at the sports memorabilia and running into retired MLB players Ernie Banks and Johnny Bench, as well as retired NFL player Joe Namath, who is working as a bar keep. Later, they greet Officer Dan, who arrive with two fellow officers who also escaped from "The Jeffersons' Moving On Up" tour. He reveals that he would have been at the bar sooner, but his kid ran late to fill his seat.
Trivia[]
- The set used for the Bullpen Sport Bar that Al and Jefferson go to would later be reused for the WB sitcom Unhappily Ever After, in the episode, "Eating Hollywood", where it is turned into a restaurant called "House of Hollywood". The episode also featured previous MWC guest stars Derek Sellers and Aaron Lustig.