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Peg's Mom

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Peg's Mom (also referred to as Grandma Wanker) is the wife of Ephraim Wanker, and mother of Peggy Bundy. She is known for her gigantic size.

She is an unseen character who was voiced by actress Kathleen Freeman during Season 10.

Description[]

Television Series[]

A running gag throughout the series, and in particular season 10 of Married with Children, was that she was enormously overweight. An exact figure was never given (to allow for comic gags), but it is suggested to be beyond 1,000 pounds. However, in the season 2 episode, "Buck Can Do It", Al stated that she is 200 pounds and was the reason that the backyard fence broke, noting that she also had a keg of beer underneath each arm. Then, in the season 6 episode "The Gas Station Show" Peggy tells Al that her mother has weighed 374 lbs. since high school and now weighs 380. In "All in the Family", Peggy stated that her mom rode in a horse trailer to the Bundy residence, as that is the only way for her massive body to be transported anywhere.

Comic Book[]

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Grandma Wanker as depicted in the comic book, Bahama Mama

In the comic book, she is shown to wear glasses and has a red bouffant like Peggy, but with a vertical grey streak in the middle. In the first issue of the "Flashback" series, when Al tells the story of his first date with Peg, she shown to be a short and stocky woman with a hunchback and bug eyed. When Peggy decides to tell the actual story, she is shown to be just slightly shorter than Al and overweight, but still relatively normal compared to how she is described in the television series.

The other issues depict her as extremely obese, looking even larger than the customers at Gary's Shoes & Accessories for Today's Woman, with a few tattoos on her forearms.

Background[]

While not much information has been given about her during the show's run, she is depicted as a massive woman from Wanker County, Wisconsin. She appears to be able to consume large amounts of alcohol, as Al mentioned that she holds the record for "Keg Sucking" at a beer fest in Milwaukee. He also mentioned that when their backyard fence broke, she had a keg of beer underneath each arm.

She is also known for eating living animals, as Al noted in "Al... with Kelly" that he did not believe that her full grown pet dog, Rusty, managed to wrap itself in bacon and fall into a microwave oven with its mouth tooth picked shut. She also managed to eat Kelly's pet bird, Tweety in "Requiem for a Dead Briard".

In the comic and television series, she is also shown to be extremely protective of Peggy, to the point where she and Al have physically attacked each other. In "The Harder They Fall", Al mentions to Steve Rhoades that he got into a fist fight with her in order go on a date with Peg. He then lamented that he lost because she horned him in the ribs. In the second issue of the Flashback comic, she tried to intimidate Al as he was about to go on a date with Peg by staring them down while holding a large serrated knife, warning him not to do anything inappropriate with Peg since they are not married.

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