Married ... with Children (Married with children in Spain, Peru, Venezuela and Chile; Married with children in Colombia and Argentina) is a comedy of situations that was first broadcast in the United States on April 5, 1987 by FOX and which, thanks to its success, has been broadcast and adapted in various parts of the world. In the United States, during the first five years, it had impressive audiences.Married with Children (dubbed for Spain, Peru, Ecuador and Chile as Married with children and Argentina, Uruguay and Colombia as Married with children) is a North American sitcom originally broadcast on FOX Network for 10 years and totaling 264 episodes, which made it the longest running series on the channel behind The Simpsons.
The series describes the lives of the Bundys, a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois, made up of Al (Ed O'Neill), Peggy (Katey Sagal), Kelly (Christina Applegate), Bud (David Faustino), and Buck (named Devourer, in the Peruvian version; Fénix, in the Colombian version and Fatiga, in Argentina), his dog. It reflected the American family of the 1980s: A husband (Al) who cared little for his family and longs for his years at university, where he was a football hero; Mrs. (Peggy), an impulsive buyer and sexually frustrated; the daughter (Kelly), who was the stereotype of "beautiful and dumb blonde"; and the son (Bud), a loser who seeks to be attractive to the opposite sex. Later they would join the family Seven (an adoptive son) and Lucky (Lucky,
Then there are the neighbors: Marcy, married in the first instance to Steve Rhoades, a hard-working and honest man sporadically corrupted by her neighbor Al. Steve leaves Marcy and then she marries Jefferson D´Arcy a play boy impersonation who does not work and He spends all his time at home doing nothing or with Al and the misogynist group NO MA'AM (National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood).The series reached its greatest success after the controversy called "The Rakolta Boycott". This happened in 1989, when a Bloomfield Hills, Michigan housewife named Terry Rakolta staged a massive crusade against the show after watching the sixth episode of the series titled "Her Cups Runneth Over," in which she claimed to view offensive images for the time it was broadcast. At first, he managed to get sponsors to withdraw from the program, in addition to canceling the broadcast of an episode, but thanks to that, the audience of the series increased, due to the high number of curious people who decided to see him motivated by the controversy. Legend has it that the creators of the series, Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye, send Rakolta a fruit basket each Christmas, along with a note that says: Thank you ..
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