Kelly Doesn't Live Here Anymore was the eighth episode of Season 7 of Married... with Children that aired on FOX on November 8, 1992, also the 139th overall episode in the series. The episode, directed by cast member Amanda Bearse, was written by Gabrielle Topping.
Synopsis[]
Kelly gets a job as a diner waitress, which upsets Peg, who raised her daughter to get by in life on her looks instead of having to work. In spite of the initial hitches, Kelly starts doing the job well. Michael Faustino guests.
Storyline[]
Al decides that another Bundy must get a job and the ax falls on Kelly. This breaks Peggy's heart since no Wanker woman has ever worked before. After taking a job at a greasy spoon diner, Kelly must experience the wonderful world of waitressing prior to her true calling as Kelly Bundy: Philosopher/Waitress.
Guest stars/Recurring cast[]
- Cast regulars
- Amanda Bearse as Marcy D'Arcy
- Ted McGinley as Jefferson D'Arcy
- Buck as Buck Bundy
- Shane Sweet as Seven
Guest starring[]
- Brian Doyle-Murray as Wayne (Kelly's boss at the diner)
- Charlotte Booker as Miss Parker
- Lisa Robin Kelly as Carol
- Aubree Mazzola as Sandy
- Bert L. Cook as Customer
- Michael Faustino as Kid
- Jasper Cole as Max (Uncredited)
- Gita Isak as Customer (Uncredited)
- Derek Sellers as Customer (Uncredited)
Quotes[]
- Wayne: Well, uh, listen, I just want to tell you, you're the stupidest girl I've had working here. And that says a lot. That says an awful lot. In fact, you are one whopping moron. So, uh... wanna go out with me later?
- Kelly: [offended] I would rather stick my nose in the deep fryer... That is if there's enough room for it with the mouse in there.
- Wayne: Hey, I worked an hour to get half of it out of there. Besides, the people seem to like it. We call them "Cajun Fries". [Kelly begins to look nauseous] Oh, by the way, we're almost out. Could you set a couple of traps? And set them on "Stun", they stay fresher.
- [A female teacher enters the diner with a group of female high school students]
- Miss Parker: Ah, children, this is the last stop for our school program, "Scared Smart", in which we learn that being cool in high school does not mean success. To demonstrate, I give you the former queen of our high school. She was soooo pretty and soooo popular and she dated all the male teachers, and my husband, and my boyfriend, who was only 16, but God did he earn that "A". Anyway, she learned nothing in 5 years of high school, and you worshipped her for it! You used to know her as "Kelly Bundy", but now she's answer to the name she'll carry for the rest of her life... [turns over her shoulder and yells] HEY, WAITRESS!
- [Kelly immediately spins around, dropping food from the two plates in her hands and then grimaces, causing the girls to scream in horror]
- Sandy: It is Kelly Bundy! I've got to get to the library!
- [the entire group of girls bolt out of the cafe as Miss Parker walks up to the counter]
- Miss Parker: [smugly] Well, Miss Bundy, now that you're a "waitress", I'd like to give you a tip: [angrily] Stay away from my new husband! He's 18 and still peaking!
- Kelly: Well, he'd have to peak. He wouldn't want to look at it dead on!
- [An exhausted Kelly is sitting on the couch while the rest of the family is pigging out on the food that she brought home from the diner]
- Kelly: Daddy, I'm thinking of quitting my job.
- Al: [horrified, with a mouth full of food] PUMPKIN, NO!
- [Al quickly walks over to the couch with some food in his hand and takes a seat next to her]
- Al: You can't quit your job! And I say that, not because I'm giddy with nutrients and [points down to his foot before lifting it up] starting to get some feeling back in my right foot. It goes much deeper than that!
- Kelly: Well, then why?
- Al: For one reason, pumpkin: Because Bundys are losers, not quitters! And I'd like to think... that I recognize [smiles, as he extends his pinky finger out and playfully taps Kelly on the nose] a little bit of loser in you!
- Kelly: Awww, Daddy! [smiles and leans in to hug Al as he lets out a chuckle] So that's it then? I'm a waitress... Oh, God! [breaks down and puts her face into her palms]
- Al: [puts his hand on her shoulder] So, pumpkin, you always thought you were meant for something more, didn't you?
- Kelly: [pouting] Yes!
- Al: Me too! [pats Kelly on the back] But we weren't! HAHAHA!
- [Kelly puts her face back into her palms and cries, while Al hugs her and happily eating a piece of chicken]
Notes[]
Title[]
- The title of this episode is a reference to the 1974 movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, which centered around a waitress at a diner and was the basis of the long-running sitcom Alice.
Trivia[]
- Lisa Robin Kelly, who plays Carol, one of the girls who say Kelly was her idol in high school and asks her for advice, would later play Heather Talrico, Kelly's acting and boxing rival in the season 11 episode, "Breaking Up Is Easy to Do (Part 1)".
- She would later go on to star in the FOX sitcom, That 70's Show for its first six seasons, before being replaced by Christina Moore, who also appeared on MWC in the Season 11 episode "Twisted" as Gorgeous Woman.
- Amanda Bearse does not appear in this episode, as she directed it.
- Michael Faustino, the brother of David Faustino appears in this episode in a non-speaking role as a customer sitting at the counter when Wayne tries to understand what Kelly wrote down for the orders.
- MWC production staff member Bert L. Cook appears in this episode as the customer who asks Kelly where his food is at before she tells him to drop dead as she talks to Peggy.
- Since she was shown cleaning tables, Kelly was technically a busser (or waiter's assistant/commis de débarrasseur) too.
Cultural References[]
- When Jefferson enters the diner with a camera, the owner asks him if he taken his picture while on a pleasure cruise and he quickly denies it. Ted McGinley actually played a cruise ship photographer, Ashley "Ace" Covington Evans, on the TV show The Love Boat during its final three seasons.
- After telling Wayne that he wasn't on The Love Boat, Jefferson mistakenly calls Al "Captain" and "Fonzie", referring to the fact that Ted McGinley was on both The Love Boat and Happy Days in its later seasons during the 1980s.
- The "Scared Smart" program that Miss Parker mentions to her students is a parody of the "Scared Straight!" juvenile rehabilitation program, which sends juvenile delinquents to prison, where a group of prisoners serving life sentences lecture and scare the teens from wanting to continue living a criminal lifestyle and ending in prison for life like they did.
- The program was previously referenced in the Season 6 episode, "Rites of Passage" and in the Season 8 episode, "Scared Single".
Music[]
- The song that plays during Kelly's first day as a waitress and again at the end of the episode is the 1985 song "Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves" by the Eurythmics featuring Aretha Franklin.
- Peggy recites the opening lines of the spiritual hymn, "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen" after declaring that she no longer has a daughter.
Locations[]
- Bundy Residence
- Diner
Sets[]
- Bundy Living Room / Kitchen
- Diner
Goofs[]
- As Al starts to choke and the family taps him on the back, his cup has about half full. The camera does a close up on him as he says "Must have been a washer" and his cup is now only a quarter full.
- Also, in the same scene, Seven's cup and the magazines change position after Bud says "Lucky Duck" and Bud's cup goes from almost full to complete during the scene change. Then when Kelly finally arrives and Bud suggests that he and Seven leave, the glasses on the table are now almost full again.
- Peggy points out that throughout history, Wanker women have never worked in their lives and later in the episode implies that Kelly is dead to her after she starts to work at the diner. Yet, both Peg and Kelly had worked jobs in previous seasons, such as Kelly being The Verminator and the Weenie Tots spokesmodel as well as a brief stint as a waitress at Bill's Hilltop Drive-In and Peggy working at Muldin's Clock Department and making hamburgers at Burger Trek.
- Seven tells Bud that he's only six years old, yet how would he have known his age if didn't even known his own birthday, as he claimed in "Every Bundy Has a Birthday".
- Al tells Kelly to get a job even though earlier and future episodes featured her as The Verminator, as well as a spokesmodel for Weenie Tots and even as a Video Slut.