Just Married...with Children is the twentieth episode of Season 2 of the FOX sitcom Married... with Children, as well as the 33rd overall episode in the series. Written by Ellen L. Fogle, the episode was directed by Linda Day and premiered on FOX on March 6, 1988.
Synopsis[]
Al and Peg pose as Steve and Marcy Rhoades to get on a sadistic game show called "How Do I Love Thee?", but find themselves facing off against Steve and Marcy (who are on the game show themselves as Al and Peg Bundy).
Plot[]
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Cast[]
Regular Cast[]
- Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy
- Katey Sagal as Peggy Bundy
- Christina Applegate as Kelly Bundy
- David Faustino as Bud Bundy
- Amanda Bearse as Marcy Rhoades
- David Garrison as Steve Rhoades
- Buck the dog as Buck Bundy (uncredited)
Guest Stars[]
- David Leisure as Bink Winkleman
- Catherine Rusoff as Mona Squab
- Geoff Pierson as Roland Squab
- Jessie Scott as The Lovely Zelda
Quotes[]
- [Al and Peg sort through Steve and Marcy's mail that the mailman accidentally left with them]
- Al: What else did we get?
- Peg: [picks up a green envelope] Well, here's a letter from Steve's friend in West Germany that he plays chess with. [turns letter over] Oh look, its Steve's turn! Let's see, I think I'll move the queen over here, [uses a pencil to fill in the corresponding move] where no one else is. I know that's where I'd like to be.
- Al: Since you're doing your life, why don't you lay the king down and have those two horse run back and forth over him.
- [Zelda is asked to take the husbands to the next game. Al, pretending he is Steve Rhoades, puts his arms around Zelda while keeping Roland away]
- Roland: Bink, Steve won't let me touch the Lovely Zelda!
- Bink: Well, then you won't be at the clinic getting a shot.
- Bink: Okay, Lovely Zelda. Would you like to show our ladies what they will be competing for?
- Lovely Zelda: It's this lovely watch.
- [the dim-witted Zelda holds up her right wrist, which has nothing on it. She eventually notices and holds up her left wrist which has the wristwatch on it and then quickly exits]
- Bink: You gotta wonder what she would do if it was a lovely hat.
- Bink: Alright, now that you've wished each other good luck... Gentlemen, to your electric chairs!
- [Al's eyes widen as the curtain pulls back, revealing the Lovely Zelda standing between two electric chairs. As the theme song plays, Al marches over to the chair and takes a seat]
- Al: I welcome death!
- Marcy: [nervously] Uh, Steve, I didn't know they'd have electric chairs.
- Steve: Doesn't matter Marcy. Juice me till I'm ash, they're not getting that car. [marches to the other chair and puts the headpiece on , then gives Al a dirty look] See you on the other side, "Rhoades"!
- [Al and Steve are strapped in and being electrocuted, with Bink keeping track of the power level, starting with Steve]
- Bink: We have 30 here, [turns to Al] 35 here. [turns back to Steve] Do I hear 40?
- Marcy: [nervously] I don't think I can.
- Steve: [shaking] A woman's place is in the home.
- [Marcy immediately becomes angry and cranks it up, sending the dial to 80]
- Steve: AHH! GOOD! GOOD!
- Bink: 80! Audience, look at him twitch! [Steve continues twitching in agony ]
- Marcy: I won't go any higher!
- Bink: [turns to Peg] Will you?!
- Al: [looking at Peg in horror while twitching] NOOO!
- Peg: Aw, come on honey! It's for a car!
- [Peg cranks the knob hard, causing Al to twitch in agony as the dial quickly reaches 110]
Notes[]
Title[]
- The title is a combination of the saying "Just Married" and a play on the title of the show itself, Married... with Children.
Trivia[]
- As revealed in this episode, Steve and Marcy have been married for thirteen months, and Peggy and Al for sixteen years.
- Geoff Pierson, who plays Roland Squab, would later play Jack Malloy, a character very similar to Al Bundy, on the WB sitcom, Unhappily Ever After, which was created by MWC co-creator, Ron Leavitt.
- Catherine Rusoff, who plays Mona Squab in this episode, is the real life wife of Ed O'Neill.
Cultural References[]
- Bink Winkleman is an obvious parody of Wink Martindale, the host of Gambit, a gameshow that ran from 1972 to 1976 on CBS.
- Steve mentions that he went to work wearing a Nehru jacket, a hip length tailored jacket with a mandarin collar. It became a popular fashion piece among men in Europe and the U.S. during the late 1960s and 1970s, with bands The Monkees and The Beatles also wearing it.
- Peggy calls Al "Machiavelli" after he suggested that they throw away the Rhoades' invitation to How Do I Love Thee? instead of Peggy's suggestion to lie and go as their neighbors. This is in reference to Niccolò Machiavelli, an Italian author and philosopher whose name is often associated with performing unscrupulous acts that is depicted in his book, The Prince and name of the personality trait "Machiavellianism".
- Peggy asks Bink if he knows Bob Barker, a retired game show host who at the time this episode originally aired, hosted The Price is Right.
- The Lovely Zelda is likely modeled after TPIR model Holly Hallstrom. Holly was known for her bloopers on the show.
- While Al and Peggy search through Marcy and Steve's mail, Steve receives a correspondence chess game from a friend in West Germany. At the time this episode originally aired, the European country of Germany was split into West Germany and East Germany. with East Germany as a communist country as the Soviet Union administered it after World War II while the west was administered by a coalition lead by the United States. The East German city of Berlin was split into two with a wall that divided the city. The same coalition would control the city with the Soviets controlling East Berlin. A year after this episode originally aired, the Berlin Wall came down which eventually led to the reunification of Germany in 1990.
Locations[]
Sets[]
- Bundy Living Room/Kitchen
- How Do I Love Thee? Studio
Goofs[]
- When Al spins Peg on the wheel to win the bowling ball, in the long shots, it can be seen that a dummy is used in her place.
- When Peggy gets the full figured girls to sit on the bed, one by one they sit and the scale can be seen rising approx. 300 or more pounds per girl as they sit. When it gets to 3 girls on the bed, the scale is stopped at 927 lbs. But when they all sit on the bed (at least 7 girls), the scale stops at 1071 lbs. The scale is way off, it should be at least double if not more, since all the women in that scene pretty much have the same proportions.
External Links[]
Just Married... with Children at the Internet Movie Database- Just Married...with Children on Bundyology
- Just Married...with Children - Transcript on albundy.net
- #33 Just Married...with Children - MWC Podcast on Horrorphilia
