Type Cast as Al Bundy - Serious roles don't work

"John From Cincinnati" was probably the best work he's done since Married With Children and that was an extremely serious role. You forget that he was Al Bundy within 2 minutes. He was also very good in Spartan. Ed is a great actor, and if the material is good enough, he works just fine. The problem I think is if he does "serious" stuff that isn't written to a high quality. If the writing just isn't there, then the audience loses interest and then starts remembering its Al Bundy.

It's ironic bc originally the producers from MWC didn't think he'd make a good al bundy because he Was more of a serious actor before he was cast and look how that turned out.

I first saw him in 'Cruising' and then later when I saw him in 'Married With Children' I knew I had seen him from someone, and also as Al he would use that same line they used in Cruising, 'You know what you have to do.'