Least Successful Married…With Children Alumnus Claims a Revival Is Happening
Katey Sagal went on to Sons of Anarchy and Futurama. Ed O’Neill is still on Modern Family. Christina Applegate currently stars in the Vacation re-quel.
And David Faustino? He’s been producing rap albums, not unlike his character Bud Bundy might. But with shows like Full House making comebacks, he’s caught the bug too, and appears to be going full-Richard Hatch.
“The whole cast, including Christina, is down to do little bits in it,” Faustino said, adding, “The idea would be a pilot for a spinoff. That’s all I can say right now. It involves me and few other people.”
He said this at the premiere of Vacation – it honestly sounds to me like they’re just being polite and humoring him.
The primary joke in Married…With Children was that a jock who peaked in high school went on to have an absolutely miserable family life, and was mainly happy making other people feel worse, in a sitcom that inverted the then-common happy-ever-after formula. Bud Bundy was a miserable failure from day one – seeing him still be one as an adult just doesn’t have the same humor factor. And sitcoms have been deconstructed to death since Married was last on the air. Faustino is literally the only one who stands to benefit, which is why I think it will never happen.
Would you want it to?