Post: #26

(04-06-2019 07:11 PM)RIslander Wrote:  Fat chick: How dare you say that to my face?!

Al: I'd say it behind your back but my car only has half a tank of gas!

Ah... beat me to it.

One of the greatest comebacks of all time!

Post: #27

Marcy had the potential to be hot if she got her teeth fixed and kept her hair long

Post: #28

Is this where we post our favourite bits of MWC?





Her name is Devin DeVasquez. Playboy's Playmate of the Month, June 1985.

God save us from people who mean well. -storm

Post: #29

I like the direction this thread is going in. MWC was fucking awesome.

Post: #30

Fast forward thiry years , and Al has a younger and way hotter wife on modern family. But his son in law is a cuck, and his son is in a gay marriage with an adopted Asian daughter. What a mess.

Post: #31

Al Bundy is a fucking hero.

His daughter is a little slut.

His son is a total shitlord.

And his wife is both a little slut and total shitlord.

One of the funniest episodes was when there was a peeping tom in the neighborhood.

And he had peeped everyone except Peggy (Al's wife). She was feeling left out. "No one has peeped me!!" - says a lot about women right there, but you know...

So Al decides he doesn't want Peggy being all cranky because she hasn't been 'peeped', so he gets his ladder out to 'peep' Peggy.

All of a sudden, the police swoop and catch their man. They have found the serial 'peeper' and it's Al Bundy. He tries to explain and reason his way out of it, but they aren't having any of it.

Once again, a husband trying to please the non-logical whims of his wife gets him in to trouble.

Peggy even turns on him, believing him to actually be the real serial 'peeper' - "Al, how could you? - after all these years..."

It's fucking hilarious. It's a multi-strata statement about gender politics, but it manages to be funny as fuck as well.











Polk High for the win!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Bundy

Post: #32

Another great one is where Al admits defeat in life. Fuck it, he's just a lowly shoe salesman getting negged by uppity little bitches, but he's still got his life, he has his health, things aren't so bad. So he rationalises...

What could a man in his position get to make him happy?

A Ferguson! The creme de la creme of all toilets. They don't come cheap as far as crappers go, but by god, his father had a Ferguson and his father before him.

It's a way to keep the lineage going and to prove to himself that he isn't a total failure in life (which he knows all to well he really is).





The writers of this show were both comedy geniuses and political satirists in one broad stroke.


I want a Ferguson!

Post: #33

It's amazing how Western society can go to totally shit in just 30-40 years just after 'no fault' divorce!

Comedy today is hate speech! The new generation are brought up to be triggered by everything cause there's no man in the house to toughen them up and grow mentally.

Post: #34

My favourite clip from the show, with a certain Miss Anderson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMadwc0LO4o

Post: #35

I love this show! Al Bundy V. 1.0! He's back in 'Modern Family'. Al Bundy V. 2.0!

Post: #36

Some good laughs on that show but I think revering Al Bundy as some kind of hero or role model is falling into a trap.

Al Bundy is the earlier versions of the pathetic chauvinist loser white male caricature sold to us through humor that we have been subjected to for decades in media and advertising. As we've accepted it, its only gotten worse.

Al to me represents a demoralized, unhealthy nihilistic man with a dysfunctional family he cares little for. His daughter is a raging slut.
His son a lost loser with no guidance or male role model to aspire. Basically the engineers of cultural Marxism wet dream on the modern family.

As for Peg the wife. Its funny that the obesity levels in today's women and other disgusting shit they do to themselves have changed the sexual market scale so much that Peg would be considered a catch by today's standards. Peg wouldn't need Al's validation and have thousands of Tinder matches of men willing to 'man up'.

Post: #37

(04-10-2019 05:36 AM)Man of Truth Wrote:  Some good laughs on that show but I think revering Al Bundy as some kind of hero or role model is falling into a trap.

Al Bundy is the earlier versions of the pathetic chauvinist loser white male caricature sold to us through humor that we have been subjected to for decades in media and advertising. As we've accepted it, its only gotten worse.

Al to me represents a demoralized, unhealthy nihilistic man with a dysfunctional family he cares little for. His daughter is a raging slut.
His son a lost loser with no guidance or male role model to aspire. Basically the engineers of cultural Marxism wet dream on the modern family.

As for Peg the wife. Its funny that the obesity levels in today's women and other disgusting shit they do to themselves have changed the sexual market scale so much that Peg would be considered a catch by today's standards. Peg wouldn't need Al's validation and have thousands of Tinder matches of men willing to 'man up'.

I absolutely loved MWC, but you're absolutely right unfortunately. This doesn't negate anything that's been said before, it's just the other side of the coin. The red-pill elements were still there alongside, but the marxists ignored them and pushed the (as you say) 'demoralized, unhealthy nihilistic man' aspects forever-more in adverts etc. using good ol' Al as a template. The shitheads ignored the good and ran with the bad.

Post: #38

It's odd. It's another one of those razor's-edge comedy approaches where it caters to two separate audiences simultaneously.

Seinfeld was like this too. On the one hand you have the sniveling types who identify with the degenerate character(s) and in essence knowingly laugh at themselves. On the other hand you have the types that are above that behavior but still find it wildly amusing because it rings so true, often about who they used to be.

I remember vividly the switch in mentality between my first and second viewings of Seinfeld.

When I first watched it I identified with a lot of the sniveling behavior the characters demonstrated but on the second viewing I was mostly laughing at the half-formed adult I used to be.

Post: #39

^^
'Til Death Us Depart' (or 'All In The Family' in the US?) works in a similar fashion. Don't know if anyone outside of the UK saw it or can remember it. But the central character Alf Garnett (according to Wikipedia) was a 'white working-class man who holds racist, prejudiced and anti-socialist views'.

Much like you say Leonard, about 'catering to two separate audiences simultaneously', Alf Garnett appealed to the nasty bigots who saw him as their poster-boy, but also just as much to the 'right-on' types who saw the whole thing as making fun of those who held his views.

Quote:The series became an instant hit because, although a comedy, in the context of its time it did deal with aspects of working-class life comparatively realistically. It addressed racial and political issues at a difficult time in British society. Mitchell imbued the character of Alf Garnett with an earthy charm that served to humanise Alf and make him likable. According to interviews he gave, the fact that some viewers overlooked Alf's racist views and regarded him as a rough diamond disappointed Speight.

Post: #40

Al had his faults, but you have to remember that this show launched in 1987. Al and crew were a breath of fresh air, in an Archie Bunker kind of way. The other TV shows of 1987 were complete shit, fake, ridiculous bullshit. Here are the top 10 TV shows of 1987:

1 The Cosby Show NBC 27.8
2 A Different World 25.0
3 Cheers 23.4
4 The Golden Girls 21.8
5 Growing Pains ABC 21.3
6 Who's the Boss? 21.2
7 Night Court NBC 20.8
8 60 Minutes CBS 20.6
9 Murder, She Wrote 20.2
10 ALF NBC 18.8

I loved the show, and Kelly was awesome. I was intrigued by Al's disdain/disgust with Peggy because her body was smoking hot, like an Amazonian sexpot. Only now that I am older and married myself have I come to see the genius in Al's disgust.

Post: #41

Keep in mind that Ed O'Neil was a very talented actor in his own right. He reprised the role of Popye Doyle in the French Connection II. Not many actors can take over from the likes of Gene Hackman.