Outside of Martin, Married with Children was the goat comedy tv sitcom

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In 1989, Terry Rakolta, from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, led a boycott[3] of the show after viewing the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over".[4] Offended by the images of an old man wearing a woman's garter and stockings, the scene where Steve touches the pasties of a mannequin dressed in S&M gear, a homosexual man wearing a tiara on his head (and Al's line "...and they wonder why we call them 'queens'"), and a half-nude woman who takes off her bra in front of Al (and is shown with her arms covering her bare chest in the next shot), Rakolta began a letter-writing campaign to advertisers, demanding they boycott the show.

After advertisers began dropping their support for the show and while Rakolta made several appearances on television talk shows demanding the show's cancellation, Fox executives refused to air the episode titled "I'll See You in Court".[citation needed] This episode would become known as the "Lost Episode" and was aired on FX on June 18, 2002, with some parts cut. The episode was packaged with the rest of the third season in the January 2005 DVD release (and in the first volume of the Married ... With Children Most Outrageous Episode DVD set) with the parts cut from syndication restored.

Ironically, viewers' curiosity over the boycott and over the show itself led to a drastic ratings boost, which Rakolta has since acknowledged. She has been referenced twice on the show: "Rock and Roll Girl",[citation needed] when a newscaster mentioned the city Bloomfield Hills, and "No Pot to Pease In",[citation needed] when a television show was made about the Bundy family and then was cancelled because (according to Marcy) "some woman in Michigan didn't like it".

The conservative Parents Television Council named Married... with Children the worst show of both the 1995–96 and 1996–97 television seasons in its first two years in operation.[5][6] In 1996, the organization called the show the "crudest comedy on prime time television...peppered with lewd punch lines about sex, masturbation, the gay lifestyle, and the lead character's fondness for pornographic magazines and strip clubs."

And this was back then..just imagine if MWC was on FOX nowadays..People would have a fit
 

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They actually sell these jawns. I need to pick one up
:wow:
 

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Married With Children & Martin tied at GOAT for me in terms of live sitcoms. The Simpsons first 9 seasons is probably my all time GOAT. Fresh Prince up there too.
 

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I concur.

The shyt they got away with on Married With Children especially wouldn't fly today.

You ain't never lied which is so amazing. The shyt they did on shows like married with children, All in the family, in living color and the Jeffersons they could never ever do today.

Remember the episode on MWC when they were gonna take buck to get fixed and buck has a dream they were trying to cut his balls off with a chainsaw....:mjlol::russ::wow:

Network tv ain't got the balls (pun intended) to show shyt like that now. shyt cable and streaming tv couldn't pull it off without using tons of profanity either. These old shows were doing this shyt when the most they could say was damn and hell.
 

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How so? It wasn't groundbreaking. There weren't any larger than life characters. It wouldn't even make a top 5 for CBS sitcoms.
King of Queen was a milquetoast, Wonder bread ass show compared to MWC.
 

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Show is definitely in GOAT conversation, I was just watching this episode the other day
Al vs Spare Tire Dixon


Breh I am one of those old souls who loves old tv shows. shyt I will watch some show from the 50s, 60s or 70s before I watch 95% of the bull shyt that is on tv now. But IMO can't shyt fukk with late 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s tv.

But I got to say this. The episode that you just posted with the great bubba Smith is one of the GREATEST comedy episodes that I have ever seen in my life.

shyt was pure genius. Especially when those dudes were comparing socks and how their life sucks being married.

When Al took his shoe off to show how fukked up his sock was I almost died laughing.
 
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