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Lauren is one of Kelly Bundy's friends who attended her slumber party in the Season 3 episode, "The House That Peg Lost".

She is played by actress Allison Barron.

Background[]

Lauren and the rest of Kelly's friends are first shown arriving at the Bundy Residence. Kelly and the other girls appear to be unaware of Steve Rhoades and his wife Marcy were sleeping on the couch after Peggy Bundy accidentally allowed the Rhoades residence to be taken away and turned into a chicken restaurant. After a moment, the girls realize that the couple are sitting there before asking if they are Kelly's parents. Kelly tells them that they are actually her neighbors and that they live in a now-empty dirt lot.

After the Rhoades leave the living room and sleep in Al and Peggy's bedroom, the girls continue to party the night away and gossip behind each other's back. Kelly's brother, Bud Bundy, decides to stop by, despite being banned from the living room for the night by Kelly and their parents. He enters the room dressed as Hugh Hefner, and suggest that they "step up to pleasure, step up to Club Bud".

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Lauren laughing with the other girls at Bud after making him kiss Buck

Lauren decides to have some fun with Bud by touching and cuddling with him on the couch while offering him "something special". She makes him close his eyes and the other girls gleefully watch and put a hair clip on him, as Kelly brings Buck Bundy over. Bud believes that he is going to make out with Lauren and eagerly waits for her kiss. He eventually realizes that he had been making out with Buck instead and is laughed at by the girls. As he is about to leave, he decides to inform Kelly of some messages that he wrote down for her. He tells her a "Dan Peterson" called and that their date behind the 7-11 tomorrow would be fine.

Lauren becomes upset as Dan Peterson happens to be her boyfriend. Kelly then tries to get Bud to stop and insist that the girls don't need to hear about the other messages, but he continues on with the next message from Greg Barnett, who has a date with Kelly the following Tuesday and suggested that she wear something really skimpy. Tasha, another friend of Kelly's hears this just as she returned from the bathroom and becomes upset as well. He then asks if any of the girls are dating "Bobby Brucatto", to which both Karen and Charlene admit are dating. Sensing that something big is going to happen, he gleefully smiles and tells the girls that they have some stuff to work out as he heads back upstairs.

The girls come up to Kelly and demand to know for sure if she is dating their boyfriends, but Kelly tells them that she didn't intend to keep them. Upset by this news, Lauren and Tasha throw several insults at Kelly, before Lauren lets out the worst one: "Bundy". Upon hearing this, Kelly gets mad and punches Lauren, knocking her over the couch, while Tasha, Karen, and Charlene get into their own little fight, leaving one other girl to just sit and file her nails. Meanwhile Bud watches the fight from the staircase and takes pictures, smiling at the chaos that he has created.

Lauren is last seen for a moment as she and Kelly try to choke each other out behind the couch. Al and Peg, who became annoyed with Steve and Marcy's lovey-dovey talk, decided to go and sleep in the empty lot. Before they go out in the rain, Peg says good night to the girls and reminds Kelly that no boys are allowed. Kelly tries to reassure her mother that she understands as Lauren's hands are on her throat. Kelly then gets back to punching Lauren as the adult Bundys exit out into the pouring rain.

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Trivia[]

  • Allison Barron, who played Lauren, would later appear on MWC in the Season 7 episode, "You Can't Miss" as Tania, one of the three girls that visits Bud after he is humiliated on television and suggest that he choose her.
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