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List Price: $39.95 | | Label: Sony Pictures
Salesrank: 7597
Released: March 16, 2004 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
America's favorite dysfunctional family strikes back in MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON compiling all 13 hilarious episodes from the show's classic sophomore season remastered on DVD for the first time. Called "too hot for TV" during its original run (1987-1997) see why this Emmy and Golden Globe®-nominated hit series is even raunchier trashier and more outrageous fun than you remember! There goes the neighborhood all over again as Al (Ed'ONeil) Peg (Katey Segal) Kelly (Christina Applegate) Bud (David Faustino) and neighbors Marcy and Steve (Amanda Bearse David Garrison) discover the flipside of domestic bliss. Launching upstart Fox TV while revolutionizing sitcoms forever let this collector's two-disc set take you back to those crazy cynical '80s - "til death do us part" was never supposed to be like this!System Requirements:Starring: Ed O'Neil Katey Segal Christina Applegate David Faustino Amanda Bearse David Garrison Running Time: 509 Min. Copyright Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396028432 Manufacturer No: 02843
Description of Married with Children - The Complete Second Season:
Perhaps the definitive episode of Married... with Children is near the end of the second season, when Al and Peg Bundy (Ed O'Neill and Katey Segal), pretending to be their recently married neighbors, go on a game show that tests how willing each newlywed is to torture their spouse. This episode has everything: The cascade of blithe insults, the cheerful shredding of all dignity, the outright celebration of humanity's worst instincts-- everything that has led self-satisfied arbiters of "culture" to proclaim Married... with Children the most sordid, distasteful sitcom in the history of mankind. In short, it's sheer genius.
As the petty, miserable, conniving, yet perversely vital Bundy family, O'Neill, Segal, Christina Applegate, and David Faustino give performances that walk a fine line between outrageous satire and painful truth. It's the anti-Cosby; family breeds contempt. Children scoff at their parents, parents resent their children, husbands and wives eye each other with suspicion and disdain. Episodes hinge on neutering their oversexed dog, fighting the phone company, and trying to humiliate a high school nemesis in a bowling tournament, but it's all an excuse for squalid delirium. This is not an ironic description of the show; Married... with Children is both ruthless and deeply funny. (Though created by men, Married... with Children was frequently produced, written, and directed by women, which is unusual in the sitcom world. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with its sense of humor, but its eagerness to skewer and roast sacred cows is shared by such women-driven shows as Roseanne and Absolutely Fabulous.) The jokes are like blunt instruments, yet delivered with a unique panache that got honed to razor sharpness in the second season. If you've never experienced the Bundy clan, this is an excellent place to start. --Bret Fetzer
Married with Children - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
Getting better. 
2009-07-03 - Married with Children - The Complete Second Season really got my attention after the short, but clever first season. Season 2 is more outrageous, racy, and comical. Ed O'Neill and Katy Sagel are the perfect dysfunctional married couple, their kids Kelly and Bud are completely inane. I like season 1-6, after that the show really became lame and foul. Buy season 2, you'll love it!
Five Stars, but... watch out for that HYENA that got loose in the studio
2009-01-29 - I LOVE Married With Children, this is not a review of the show so much as an expression of the most annoying peripheral thing of Season 2 I could find.
In far too many episodes, someone in the audience is WHOOPING LIKE A HYENA, WOOHOOHOOWOOHOOHOOWOOHOOHOO at every zinger that it breaks my enjoyment of the show. I can't tell if it's a man, woman, or an actual HYENA in a cage back there somewhere, but goodness it's annoying. If it's a real person, I think they work for Vonage now.
I would pay an extra $5 dollars to have that dubbed out of the audio, it is that bad. I'm such a fan, I've watched it so much that I can pick out different members of the audience by the sound of their laughs and can tell which episodes they attended filming. They say my meds should kick in soon and I won't notice stuff like this so much anymore, but what has been heard cannot be unheard.
The video transfer on this season's DVD is not that great, a bit pixelated. They really should have remastered it since it was filmed in the 80's, but since when has Sony cared what it's customers want? Ho hum and a bottle of rum.
LOVE the show, you will too, buy it anyway despite the HYENA terrorizing the attention span of the cast with that mating call.
Another smashing season!
2009-01-08 -
Al Bundy (Ed O'Neil) with his dysfunctional family clan Peg (Kathy Sagal), Kelly (Christina Applegate), Bud (David Faustino) and Buck the dog are still having many adventures through life even if it's fighting each other and insulting other people including their annoying neighbors (David Garrison and Amanda Bearse).
The second season from late 1987 to may 1988 has 22 complete episodes here in this DVD boxset completely uncut and without commercials! the first episode is "Buck Can Do It" has some of the neighbors complaining that Al's dog is impregnating some of their dogs and demands to be neutered. "Poppy's by The Tree" is a 2 part episode that deals with The Bundys on vacation to a cheap hotel as they are being stalked by a crazed homicidal maniac, next "If I were a Rich Man" has Al being accused of stealing a million dollars, "For Whom The Bell Tolls" has Al getting charged big time by the phone company as he plots revenge. "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" is a 2 part episode about Peg and Marcy having their own girls night out at a male strip club where they want naughty fun. "Born to Walk" has Al's license experied as now he now flunks the test for now he rides a bike to work until he can get the DMV test ride, "Alley of the Dolls" deals with Steve trying to fit in with the Bundy family to win a bowling tornument. "The Razor's Edge" is about Steve whom just grown a rugged beard as he refuses to shave it off but his wife doesn't like it for he temporary stays with the Bundys, then "How Do You Spell Revenge" has Al, Bud and Peggy as part of a softball team as Peggy wants to improve her skills or else she is off the team. "Earth Angel" has Bud bringing home a sexy homeless lady into the house for he has fallen in love with her, "You Better Watch Out" has Santa Claus crash landing in the Bundys's backyard as he died but Al decided to play Santa for the neighborhood kids. "Guys and Dolls" deals with Al and Steve selling Marcy's old doll collection as they are requested to get them back despite the store that they sold the dolls too being robbed. "Build a Better MouseTrap" has Al with a mouse problem in the house as he joins with Steve to exterminate the vermin in their own way, "Master the Possibilities" has the dog Buck mistakenly gets a credit card with his name written on it with Al and Peg going wild on a shopping spree. "Peggy Loves Al, Yeah Yeah Yeah"! is a Valentine's Day episode has love is in the air for the family except for Al whom he wants to get her the right gift or card, "The Great Escape" is about how the Bundy spends the night in Al's shoe department in the mall when their house is being sprayed for bugs. "Impo-Dent" has Marcy whom accidently bents her husband's new car and trys to cover it up, "Just Married....With Children" has our two married couple who sneeks into the mail of Steve and Marcy as they pose as them to be on the game show "How Do I Love Thee". "Father Lode" is about Al who just won some cash as he is so greedt that he hides it from the family and finally "All In The Family" has Peggy's relatives coming over for the weekend makes Al's ideal weekend into hell.
This show is still as trashy, funny and braver then before with this season. There is some 13 hidden easter eggs and interviews with the cast, for more raunchy fun and good laughs i highly recommend getting this season even to hardcore fans of the show.
Married with Children Season9
2008-11-23 - I recieved my order on time as promised and mint condition. It was bought for a Christmas gift. I would buy from this dealer again. Thank you Paula
Good comedy 
2008-11-18 - I love this series. May be their raw humor. And they got better with time. Looking forward to own season 3
