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Kelly Does Hollywood (Part 1) is the 9th episode of season 6 of Married... with Children, also the 114th overall episode in the series. Directed by Gerry Cohen, and written by Larry Jacobson, the episode premiered on the FOX network, airing on November 10, 1991.

Synopsis[]

Part one of two-part story. Al finally gets cable TV at home and watches Marcy on the Public-access television cable TV channel. Kelly then starts her own talk show on the public-access channel, that gets picked up by a major Hollywood network.

Storyline[]

This episode, the first of a two-part episode story arc, finds the Bundys with an unexpected star in their midst - Kelly, whose public cable show is getting lots of attention, even from a network. Al finally gets cable TV installed in the Bundy household, but he cannot find anything good to watch. All that changes when Kelly, gibed out of an appearance on a public access TV by her modeling school teacher, gets her own talk show on the air with just $35 from her girlfriends. "Vital Social Issues N' Stuff With Kelly", features an all girl band and some of her girlfriends discussing such interesting subjects such as "Men's Butts" and "The Slut of The Week"!

Recurring cast/Guest stars[]

Regular cast

Guest starring[]

  • Matt LeBlanc as Vinnie Verducci
  • Dinah Lenney as Talk Show Host
  • Heather Grimes as Roberta
  • Donna Eskra as Cyndy
  • Georgi Irene as Samantha
  • Lisa Fuhrman as Jeannie
  • Kari Wuhrer as Joanie

Quotes[]

  • [Al, Bud, Kelly, and Jefferson just finished watching Marcy appearance on a public access show and reveal Jefferson's intimacy issues]
  • Kelly: Hey, how'd she get on TV anyway?
  • Jefferson: [bitterly] It's public access. Anyone with 35 dollars and a pack of lies to tell about her husband can get on it.
  • Al: [defeated] Here we go...
  • Kelly: [eagerly] Daddy, can I have 35 dollars to be on TV please??
  • Al: Honey, we're not millionaires. [Kelly sulks] Now honey, I know you're disappointed, but if this counts for anything, you'll always be my little girl and I'll always have time for you.
  • Kelly: [cheers up] Oh, daddy...
  • [Kelly immediately leans in to give him a hug, but Al suddenly looks at the television and avoids her hug]
  • Al: Now that's a hooter! [Al, Bud, and Jefferson drops down to the coffee table and gawk in amazement]

  • [Kelly eagerly runs into the Bundy house, as her show is about to come on]
  • Kelly: Am I on yet? Am I on yet? [sits next to Al on the couch] Is that me?
  • Al: It's a cartoon, honey.
  • Kelly: Oh. Ooh, it's coming on! It's coming on! You know, everyone expected just a piece of fluff, but we wanted to do something important. Something that the youth of America could relate to. You know, issue stuff.

  • [After Kelly reveals that she is getting her own show, Bud is holding a clapperboard in front of Al's face, with the text "AL BUNDY AUDITION" and "Director: BUD BUNDY" on it.]
  • Bud: [sighs] Dad's dramatic reading in a pathetic attempt to get on Kelly's show, [pauses] take 6.
  • [Bud claps the clapper and moves away. Al looks up with nobility and begins speaking in a dramatic style.]
  • Al: Duke... Duke, Duke... Duke of Earl. Duke, Duke... Duke of Earl. Duke, Duke... When I hold you... in my arms, you... are my duch-ESS... of Earl.
  • [Kelly's lips begin to quiver as she continues staring at Al and his dramatic performance]
  • Al: And when I walk... [opens his arms up and does a slight shuffle dance before resuming his original pose] through my Dukedom, Paradise... [singing slightly] we will share-air-air! You -

Notes[]

Title[]

Trivia[]

  • In the season 9 special, My Favorite Married, Christina Applegate said that "Kelly Does Hollywood Part I" was one her favorite episodes of the series.
  • This episode marks the final appearance of Matt LeBlanc as Vinnie Verducci on MWC. The character was brought back for this episode after the first MWC spin-off Top of the Heap was cancelled in May 1991.
  • Matt LeBlanc was credited as a special guest star in this episode, as he reprised the role of Vinnie Verducci in anticipation of the Spring 1992 launch of his retooled series, Vinnie & Bobby. However, the premiere of the show was delayed until the summer of 1992 and was cancelled after only seven episodes.
  • Marcy implies that Jefferson has intimacy issues while on public television. In the Season 7 episode, "T-R-A-Something-Something Spells Tramp" again implied that he had intimacy issues.
  • Kari Wuhrer, who plays Joanie the band leader, was previously a VJ on MTV during the early 1990s and later released an album in 1999.
  • Katey Sagal does not appear in this episode as Peggy. Peggy's absence in this episode is explained simply as she went shopping.

Cultural References[]

  • Vinnie Verducci makes a reference to the 1991 Disney film The Rocketeer, referring to the fact that a motorcycle helmet resembles the helmet the Rocketeer wore. He also points out that the film failed at the box office, as it only earned $46 million on a $40 million budget.
  • During his search for good cable programming, he stops on a channel featuring Sally Struthers and starving children. This in reference to the actress who frequently appears in commercials for Christian Children's Fund, pleading with viewers to donate to help starving children in developing countries.
  • One of the songs heard in the episode is the theme song to The Facts of Life, which was written by MWC guest star Alan Thicke.
  • Al screams in horror when he hears Cagney & Lacey is coming up next. Cagney & Lacey was a police procedural drama featuring two female detectives as the leading characters than ran from 1982 to 1988 on CBS.
  • One program that Al and Bud come across is Roger Ebert's Dance Party, in reference to the Chicago based film critic, who at the time, was known for his television program, Siskel & Ebert.
  • Bud jokes about whether Kelly will be having a "scholarly discussion of Ezra Pound's poetry or getting her hair stuck in her mouth and chasing it around the way a dog chases it tail" when talking about what Kelly's new show will be about with Al.
  • Bud mentions the Energizer Bunny when he and Al discuss about what to say to Kelly after seeing her show.
  • After doing a dramatic reading of "Duke of Earl", Al asks Kelly if he should do "The Girl from Ipanema" again.
  • During Al's speech about not knowing much, he mentions that he doesn't "know anything about Siegfried & Roy's home life", in reference to the Las Vegas based German-American duo magicians and entertainers.
  • When Kelly and her friends discuss men with the cutest butts, they all scream out the name of actor Mel Gibson and his 1987 film Lethal Weapon as his character shows his bare buttocks.
    • Gibson had been mentioned several times on MWC, usually by Peggy who mentions having sexual fantasies with him and even has a showerhead nozzle shaped like his face.
    • At the time this episode originally aired, Gibson was already filming Lethal Weapon 3.

Music[]

  • Al does a dramatic reading of the lyrics to the 1962 song "Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler.
  • The song that plays when Bud starts to flex in front of a horrified Kelly is Richard Strauss's "Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30", which is best known for is use in the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey"
  • The theme song to the 1980s sitcom, The Facts of Life is heard during Al's search for good cable programming.

Locations[]

Sets[]

Goofs[]

  • Al gets a new remote for his TV, the Channel Master 2000 and uses it right away without any coding. Unless the remote was made specifically for his exact TV model, he would need to program it for it to work. Also, it would have to be programmed to work on the D'Arcys' TV as well, assuming he knew the exact TV brand and model they have in their living room.
  • When Al decides to use the Channel Master 2000 to mess around with the D'Arcys' TV set, he aims his remote straight out the door, which would indicate the D'Arcys live across the street rather than next door to the Bundys.
    • It is possible that the Channel Master 2000 was coded for the cable box.
  • Al hates "The Facts of Life" theme song in this episode, even though he was enjoying it in the episode "If I Could See Me Now".

External Links[]

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She's Having My Baby (Part 1)She's Having My Baby (Part 2)If Al Had a Hammer
Cheese, Cues and BloodLooking for a Desk in All the Wrong PlacesBuck Has a Belly Ache
If I Could See Me NowGod's ShoesKelly Does Hollywood (Part 1)Kelly Does Hollywood (Part 2)
Al Bundy, Shoe DickSo This is How Sinatra FeltI Who Have NothingThe Mystery of Skull Island
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Teacher PetsThe Goodbye GirlThe Gas Station ShowEngland Show (Part 1)
England Show (Part 2)England Show (Part 3)
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