The Naked and the Dead, But Mostly the Naked was the 14th episode of Season 9 of Married... with Children, also the 197th overall series episode. Directed by Sam W. Orender, and written by Michael G. Moye, the episode originally aired on FOX, premiering on January 8, 1995.
Synopsis[]
Peggy and her friends join their husbands for a visit to the local nudie bar, in order to find out why the men spend so much time there. Meanwhile, Kelly gets booked to advertise a weight-loss shake...which, it turns out, tastes bad enough to make anyone tremble at the prospect of dieting.
Storyline[]
Al, Jefferson, Bob Rooney (E.E. Bell), Charlie (Barry Shabaka Henley), and their fellow NO MA'AM members hope to satisfy their complaining and curious wives... by letting the "better halves" accompany them to The Jiggly Room on a Thursday night. Since Thursday is "A-Cup Night", when smaller-busted feature-dancers appear, the guys normally go bowling then. Now the wives can see what "really" happens at strip clubs, and why men spend so much time there.
An ogling Charlie checks out the enormously busted feature dancer "Rocki Mountains", much to the displeasure of wife Helen.
Disaster strikes when the Jiggly Room's owner Iqbal (Iqbal Theba) introduces the enormously-endowed Rocki Mountains (Letha Weapons), who Iqbal said "normally appears on Saturdays, but is appearing tonight because she's getting married tomorrow...to me." All mouths are wide open, and eyes agape, as she begins her act! Taking off her star-spangled brassiere, the torpedo-busted Rocki coyly asks her audience "Who's man enough to climb The Rockies?". Bob Rooney and the other men are unable to keep their composure in front of their wives. Bob gets particularly aroused: "I can't take it anymore! It's PARTY TIME!" When Charlie wonders aloud whether their wives will ever let them come back here again, Al assures him that "This is where they'll dump the bodies, after they mutilate us in our sleep."
Kelly gets selected to appear in a weight loss shake commercial in the episode.
Meanwhile, Kelly gets a job in another TV commercial...this time for a weight-loss shake named "Waist-Away". However, she loses her job to nepotism: the obese daughter of the president of "Waist-Away Incorporated" is selected because of her connections; they superimpose the girl's head onto Kelly's body!
Recurring Cast/Regulars[]
- Amanda Bearse as Marcy D'Arcy
- Ted McGinley as Jefferson D'Arcy
- Buck the Dog as Buck Bundy
- E.E. Bell as Bob Rooney
- Dan Tullis, Jr. as Officer Dan
Guest starring[]
- Tom McCleister as Ike
- Barry Shabaka Henley as Charlie (as Shabaka Barry Henley)
- Mother Love as Helen (as JoAnne Hart)
- Leland Orser as Mark, TV commercial director
- Alix Elias as Louise
- Carol Ann Susi as Frannie
- Brandy Ledford as Brandi (as Brandy Sanders)
- Michael Caldwell as Peter, the makeup artist
- Fuminori Shishido as Mai Lin (as Fumi Shishino)
- Letha Weapons as Rocki Mountains
- Iqbal Theba as Iqbal
- Judy Carmen as Diane Graham
- Kevin Schon as Stage Manager
- Risa Benson as Nurse Stripper (uncredited)
- Kevin Curran as Voice of Buck (uncredited)
Quotes[]
- Al: Ladies, while it may seem that the nudie bar is a place where men go to watch surgically-altered hooters sway oddly to bad music. In reality, it is a place where men go to relax and unwind and [pauses] ...watch surgically-altered hooters sway oddly to bad music, Peg.
- [Al and the NO MA'AM members are sitting in the Bundy garage, with several tires and suitcase around them to form a barrier, and talking quietly]
- Al: Now, listen! I got this thing all worked out. We're going to take them on Thursdays.
- Charlie: Thursday night? That's our bowling night!
- Al: [chuckling] And why do we go bowling on Thursday night? Because at the Jiggly Room, its always... [points outward to get a response]
- Bob Rooney: "A-cup night"! [the group applaud and cheer at the realization]
- Jefferson: [smiles, puts his hand on Al's shoulder] There's not a doctored yummy in the house!
- Al: Hence, we won't get excited.
- Bob Rooney: But, what if we do?
- Al: Well, then, try to imagine Jefferson's wife up on stage with no clothes on. [the guys burst into laughter] And if that doesn't work, try to picture Jefferson up on stage with no clothes on. [the guys laugh out loud again]
- Ike: What if that doesn't work?
- [everyone immediately stops laughing and stares oddly at Ike]
- Al: [awkwardly] ...Then you're out of the club.
- [Al and the rest of NO MA'AM have arrived at the Jiggly Room and take a seat near the stage]
- Peg: Gee, Al, I can't believe you spend time in places like this. I mean, what kind of example is this for our son?
- [A short distance away, Bud is sitting on a chair with a dollar bill sticking out of his mouth, while a stripper in green lingerie named Brandi is kneeling on the floor in front of his lap, dancing and stroking him. He then looks over and sees Al, causing him to feel awkward]
- Bud: [awkwardly] Uhm, I gotta go.
- Brandi: [smiling] Another emergency bypass, Dr. Bundy?
- Bud: Uhm, Yes. Yes, it appears my beeper has just gone off...
- [Bud suddenly looks down at his pants, with an embarrassed look, implying that he just ejaculated into his pants]
- Bud: [embarrassed] ...also. I'll see you tomorrow.
- [Kelly lets out a high pitched whine and begins to cry onto Al's chest after seeing that the Waist Away commercial was edited to use a different woman's face over Kelly's body]
- Al: [patting Kelly's shoulder] Now, now, pumpkin, you know that life is full of little setbacks.
- [Al puts his hand on her forehead and gently pushes her over to Jefferson, as she continue to whine and cry]
- Jefferson: [holding Kelly] Now You You just have to stand tall and And learn to face them with courage and And dignity, huh?
- [As Kelly begins to sit upright and calm down, Peggy and Marcy enter the living room, each holding a pink shopping bag and showing a seductive grin]
- Peg: [smiling, in a seductive tone] Oh, Al, look what we got at the Hungry Undie?
- Marcy: [smiling, in a seductive tone] Your favorite, Jefferson. [pulls up a piece of lingerie from the bag] Butterscotch.
- [Al and Jefferson let out a high pitched whine and begin to cry as they place their heads on Kelly's shoulders]
Notes[]
Title[]
- The title of the episode is a reference to the 1948 novel of the same name that was later turned into a film in 1958.
Trivia[]
- This episode is the first of three MWC episodes featuring Leland Orser as a cynical director and Kelly starring in his newest project.
- Leland Orser, who plays Mark, would work with MWC cast member Ed O'Neill again in the crime thriller The Bone Collector four years later in 1999, although they don't share any screen time.
- Orser plays Richard Thompson, the serial killer who tries to kill Denzel Washington's character, Lincoln Rhyme, but is killed by Officer Ameila Donaghy (Angelina Jolie), while O'Neill plays Detective Paulie Sellitto, a friend and colleague of Rhyme's.
- In this episode, it is the first time that "The Jiggly Room" is mentioned by name and seen, along with its owner, Iqbal. In prior episodes, it is referred to as "The Nudie Bar".
- As seen three episodes earlier in "A Man for No Seasons" it is mentioned that the guys go to a nudie bar owned by Akbar Johnson, which would imply that any strip club that Al and his friends go to is simply called "The Nudie Bar" prior to this episode.
- The houses of Bob Rooney, Ike, Charlie and The D'Arcys are shown for the first time.
- The rerun airing on ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks (such as Logo TV and Pluto TV) does not include the opening scene with Peggy bringing out a cake that her friends devour in mere seconds and Buck commenting that he's glad that he is not made of buttercream. Instead, it starts at the scene were Kelly enters the house to tell Peggy about her new commercial job.
Cultural References[]
- After complaining about why the women are allowing their husbands go to a strip club and the message it sends, Marcy notices a picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. and rips it out of the newspaper. She then jumps up and down before appearing to have an orgasm.
- John F. Kennedy Jr. was an actor, lawyer and magazine publisher, known to many as the son of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy. At the time, he was known for his attractive looks and being in various relationships before getting married a year after this episode aired.
- The logo on the ice cream tub that Louise ate from appears to be from Albertsons, a national supermarket chain primarily based in California that operates under different banners in the Mid-West and East Coast.
- After Marcy and Peggy asks Al to be serious about why the guys go to the strip club, he turns towards Marcy and tells Peggy "Aw, c'mon now Peg, don't let Foghorn Leghorn here make an issue out of this".
- Foghorn Leghorn is a Warner Bros. cartoon character, depicted as a tall rooster who speaks with a Southern accent and is somewhat bombastic and unrefined.
- Kelly confesses the idiom "Is the Pope Catholic? And a does bear shit in the woods?" with "Is a bear Catholic?". The idiom is typically used to point out that the answer to a question that was just asked should obviously be "Yes".
- Al asks the guys "Ginger or Mary Ann?", followed by "Gilligan or Mrs. Howell?" in reference to the characters from the 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island.
- Tina Louise, who played Ginger on Gilligan's Island previously guest starred on MWC in the season 5 episode "Kelly Bounces Back" as Miss Beck
- In several past episode, it was mentioned that Al was a fan of Ginger, though in this episode, the guys voted for Mary Ann
- When the men decide to go onstage and dance with the stripper, Bob Rooney imitates the iconic dance moves of the character Vincent Vega from the 1994 film, Pulp Fiction.
Locations[]
- Bundy Residence
- Sound Stage
- The Jiggly Room
Sets[]
- Bundy Living Room / Kitchen
- Bundy Veranda
- "Waist Away" Commercial Set
- Hair / Make up area
- Jiggly Room Dance Stage / Bar
Goofs[]
- At the beginning of the episode, Louise is seen eating an ice cream tub from supermarket chain, Albertsons. Albertsons at the time existed primarily in the Western United States. Although the company was expanding across the U.S. during the 1990s, it did not move into Illinois / the Mid-West until 1999, where it operates under the Jewel-Osco banner.
- In this episode, the entire front of the D'Arcy's house is shown, but it doesn't match what is typically shown as their front door / driveway. In season 1's "Married... without Children", the opening credits for season 4 as well as in the season 11 episode, "The Stepford Peg", the D'Arcy's front door is green and directly faces their driveway, along with a yellowish exterior. The one shown in this episode has white doors and exterior, is underneath an awning and look similar to how the exterior of the Bundy Residence looks.