By the final one it was painfully clear they were completely out of gas. The tornado, Al and Peg get separated, Al joins the army, Al plays Robert Englund in football, etc.
shareYes. It was a live-action cartoon at this point.
shareLets just say that they could have replaced the Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage" intro with Bugs Bunny's theme music.
shareI didn't think it was that bad.
I loved the episode where he sells his soul to Englund's Devil.
The tornado episodes were very funny too.
I disliked the ones where they broke up though, too drawn out.
The show went on a bit too long, but most successful sitcoms do.
It ended about the right time.
I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.
The episode with the tornado was just one, the season opener.
shareYes it was that bad. In fact, the last two or three seasons were pretty bad. The show really started to go downhill around '95 or '96.
shareWell, the main problem was they had new producers and writers come in, so the tempo of the show changed. You didn't have as many episodes with the recurring characters, for example, which helped support the show. The main thing also was Kelly was too stupid. I don't know how Christina Applegate could've not read the scripts and go, "Oh, come on, already!!!!! My character can't be like that!" There were funny moments, I'll admit, but the show was near the end of the road. How long can a show go on anyway? It had been on 11 seasons by then and usually at that point, the show is out of gas. By the way, I think the season opener with the tornado was an attempt to cash in on the summer film Twister, which was *beep* to begin with.
shareLast season proved that there were no more stories that made sense for these nonsensical characters; no new jokes for these broadened-to-comedic-abstraction characterizations. Even with a host of new writers (led by a new Executive Producer with no prior time on this series, Pamela Eells, whose past credits included Mad About You and The Nanny), Season Eleven isn’t able to shake the creative malaise that plagued the majority of the year before. (Note that three-quarters of the scripts this season are credited to writers in their debut/only year.) Not only are the stories naturally labored (from years of damage done to the players and obvious complications stemming from longevity), but these new voices also exacerbate issues of unrecognizability, for without years of experience understanding the characters’ evolutions, these writers have had to derive their knowledge purely from watching.
https://forum.dvdtalk.com/tv-talk/458361-why-married-children-cancelled.html#post6836166
https://www.slugmag.com/arts/film-arts/film-reviews/married-with-children-season-11/
Does anyone know the story behind the first few episodes being aired on Saturday nights? Can't imagine too many people were home to watch it
shareIn the 90s, Saturday nights were still being programmed regularly with scripted, so it's not that unusual.
With that said, I think Fox saw that the show was running out of steam and wanted to move it out of the cushy Sunday 9PM slot to launch a new show there. But the entire scheduling of season nine is a mess and a half.
They moved the show to Saturday night that fall because Fox might've felt they wanted to get people to stay home and look at that. There have been shows that aired on Saturday nights that were hits. When it didn't work, they moved it again.
shareI could be mis remembering -- but when Fox just started they didn't have regular programming every night...and I believe they showed an evening's block of shows multiple times during the week. They could have aired MWC on multiple nights including Saturday?
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