The Married with Children Podcast is beyond thrilled to talk to Ritch Shydner this week who played Luke Ventura, Al's original co-worker at the shoe store in Season 1! Ritch is originally from Pennsville, New Jersey and has made numerous guest appearances on late-night TV as a comic since 1979. Besides playing Al Bundy’s co-worker on Married with Children, he has worked as a writer and producer. He has appeared in Designing Women, Roseanne and feature films such as Beverly Hills Cop II. Ritch ha...
Jul 06, 2022•1 hr 33 min
On May 13, 2022, Deadline.com announced that an animated revival of Married with Children was in the works with the involvement of all four of the original Bundy family actors signed on to do their character voices. To say that many fans were in shock is an understatement! The Married with Children Podcast hosts of Alex, Luigi, Annabel, Stephen, Matt, and Chris got together to talk about this concept. We discussed our concerns, hopes, and desires for this animated revival. Tune in to hear what w...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 46 min
Your favorite podcast team wraps up Season 10 of the Married with Children Podcast! Retrospectives on our unbelievable interviews with Michael G Moye, Rose Jackson Moye, Lisa Picotte, Harold Sylvester, and Jennifer Lyons. Top 3 favorite episodes, 3 least favorite episodes, hottest girls of season 10 (and there were a lot!), and an in-depth look at the actors who portray your favorite dysfunctional family! Everything you can think of and MUCH MORE! Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/...
Jun 01, 2022•2 hr 24 min
While Griff faces the death penalty due to a NO MA'AM prank, Al plans to get married to an old flame. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarriedWithChildrenPodcast
May 25, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 10Ep. 235
There's a radio contest open to all (except Al), where the winner will get to carry the Olympic torch through the city. Griff wins it and becomes a local hero. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarriedWithChildrenPodcast...
May 18, 2022•2 hr 16 min•Season 10Ep. 234
Marcy will not let Jefferson back in the house until he finds a job, so he hangs around at the Bundys. Bud gets Kelly a part in a Romantic Roast coffee commercial and when Kelly's co-star fails to perform up to expectations, Bud gets Jefferson the part. Jefferson's character Lance wins him legions of female fans which upsets Marcy but also ensures that two more commercials will be made with Kelly and Jefferson. But how will Al react when the script demands that Kelly and Jefferson kiss? Facebook...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 46 min•Season 10Ep. 233
With finals at Trumaine coming, Bud must pull some good grades to graduate. The only problem is, Bud is going out with a new girl and sex is getting in the way of his studies. They make a pack of celibacy until finals are over. But Bud can't concentrate at home for Al has subscribed to the new Big Uns channel, so he goes to the college library. The librarian allows Bud to use a private room, but all the books he has conjure up sexual images. He can't take it anymore and "takes care of business."...
May 04, 2022•1 hr 48 min•Season 10Ep. 232
This week the Married with Children Podcast is honored to interview Jennifer Lyons who played Bud's girlfriend Ariel in two episodes of Season 10 and one episode of Season 11! Luigi and Stephen talk to her about her life, her family, her love of and early career in dance, how she got into acting and of course her appearances on Married with Children. Chris drops in for a little bit as well at the end! Since the mid-1990s, Jennifer has enjoyed an over 3 decade long career in Hollywood on both tel...
Apr 27, 2022•1 hr 34 min
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, a group of "friends" live in a sometimes peaceful co-existence. Tom is a handsome deliveryman living with his gorgeous girlfriend Shannon, his stepsister Maria, and their lazy friend Jackson. Tom is on the rocks with Shannon again over their flirtations with other people. When Tom meets Kelly Bundy while delivering a package to the Bundy house, he asks her out for the evening. To make Tom jealous, Shannon asks out a handsome millionaire named Henry and the...
Apr 20, 2022•2 hr 26 min•Season 10Ep. 231
Al decides to build a dog house for Lucky. But when he makes an absurd amount of noise in the back yard, Marcy bribes a building inspector to inspect Al's work just to harass him. When the inspector tells him that the house is not up to its "code," Al, with Kelly's wealthy boyfriend Carlos, tear it down and rebuild it again and again to get it right. Meanwhile, Kelly desperately tries to get Carlos's attention. She spends a lot of Al's money (which he swindles from Carlos) to go to the salon to ...
Apr 13, 2022•1 hr 37 min•Season 10Ep. 230
Marcy is up for a promotion, but to get promoted, she needs to impress her Japanese boss, Mr. Shimokawa, by serving him dinner and presenting him her grateful neighbors, the Japanese Bundys. Of course, she needs to bribe the real Bundys to stay out of sight for the duration of the visit. However, it just happens that Mr. Shimokawa hears the sound of Al's Dodge 1971, a car missing form his collection. To ensure her promotion, Marcy needs the car for Mr. Shimokawa. But what will it take to get Al ...
Apr 06, 2022•2 hr 8 min•Season 10Ep. 229
Al, Jefferson, and Griff are having the time of their lives at Fort Lauderdale; Al even finds a new way to earn money by collecting empty cans. The girls are prepping Kelly for the beauty competition. Meanwhile, Marcy and the boys experience some car problems on the way from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale and have to bow to the demands of a purvey Tennessee car mechanic in order to get new wheels. The girls bump into Al and his pals at their hotel suite during a party. Al doesn't want Kelly to take ...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 38 min•Season 10Ep. 228
Bud and his three "frat bros," Hindu Achmed, fatso Hummer, and nerdy Barney, are set to leave for Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale in hopes of scoring some drunken babes. They have the tickets and the hotel reservation. That is, until Kelly, the naughty Fawn, the steamy Ashley, and the nerdy (but minus the headgear) Natalie, make them believe that they want to spend Spring Break with Bud and his pals. The girls say that in order to cheat on their boyfriends with Bud and his pals they need the tic...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Season 10Ep. 227
It is Marcy and Jefferson's wedding anniversary, but Jefferson is in the hospital, recovering from a physical trauma. Kelly and Bud visit Jefferson and he recounts the events that led to his being hospitalized, starting with the party that the other members of No Ma'am threw at him in the nude bar. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.appl...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 20 min•Season 10Ep. 226
Al wants to beat rival shoe-shop owner Babcock in something and puts his faith in Bud, who's in the same entrepreneurial-studies class at Trumaine as Babcock's son Little Floyd. Each boy must come up with a product and a marketing campaign for it Al sees that he'll get his revenge if Bud's project gets a better grade than Little Floyd's. When Kelly brings home a sexy-guys calendar, Bud decides to make a Girls of Trumaine calendar. All goes well, especially with stunning cover girl Crystal Clark-...
Mar 09, 2022•2 hr 3 min•Season 10Ep. 225
Vito's hatchet man, Gino, tells Bud that he has until 5:00pm to finish the exercise video or he will be sleeping with the fishes. Kelly and Rafael's continuing arguments over which one of them will star in the video has Bud sweating. But things take an unexpected turn when Bud unwittingly videotapes Gino talking to another mob associate incriminating evidence against Vito. Meanwhile, Peggy, Marcy, and their friends think that their husbands are totally useless as they count the number of times t...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Season 10Ep. 224
Al buys a satellite dish from a discount store and he and Jefferson insist on installing it themselves. Bud is turned down for a loan at every bank in Chicago and borrows money from Vito, a mobster. He uses the money to finance an exercise video staring Kelly and a Latino hunk named Rafael. But, Kelly and Rafael get into a fight over who will star in the video, prompting them to storm off to their dressing rooms. Meanwhile, Bud learns that Vito is dangerous and needs the video completed on time....
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 10Ep. 223
In another epic interview, the podcast team was honored to have the great Harold Sylvester join us in the nudie bar! Harold, as you all know, played Al's sidekick Griff from seasons 9 through the end of season 11. Chris, Tyler, and Matt spent over two hours going through his 50 year career in television and film. Not only is Harold an actor, but he is also a writer and producer. His filmography includes roles in such films as Inside Moves, An Officer and a Gentlemen, Uncommon Valor, Vision Quest...
Feb 16, 2022•2 hr 26 min
During the Christmas season, Griff becomes quite fond of a phone sex partner named "Butter," whom Al discovers is really Peg's mother. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarriedWithChildrenPodcast...
Feb 09, 2022•1 hr 41 min•Season 10Ep. 222
To go out with hot guy named Carlos, Kelly bribes the reluctant Bud to keep company for Carlos's cousin Esmeralda by offering Bud a date with Fawn. Fortunately for Bud, Esmeralda turns out to be quite hot. Meanwhile, Al and Peg take Ephraim and Peggy's unseen mother to a marriage retreat. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/p...
Feb 02, 2022•1 hr 32 min•Season 10Ep. 221
Al and Bud go on a bear hunt in the woods to prove they're as manly as Peggy's father, Ephraim, so he can take back Peggy's unseen mother. Al and Bud bring back what they think is a dead bear they found in the woods, but they are in for a big surprise when the bear wakes up from hibernation and wreaks havoc on them and the city. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple ...
Jan 26, 2022•1 hr 52 min•Season 10Ep. 220
Marcy's bank, Kyoto National, plans to donate a new scoreboard to Polk High and name it after Polk High's famous football alumni. Al, having scored four touchdowns in a single game, assumes it's him, but Marcy hates Al and is determined to find another football star just to spite him. When she learns that NFL all-star Terry Bradshaw attended Polk High for two months, she think she has found her man. While Kelly tries to talk to Bradshaw about letting Al have the title, Al, Jefferson, and Bud con...
Jan 19, 2022•1 hr 35 min•Season 10Ep. 219
Al and Jefferson go away for the weekend to a fishing lake in upstate Wisconsin. But when they arrive at the fishing lodge, they are rudely told to leave when Shannon Tweed, a famous B-movie actress and former Playboy Playmate, has taken their reservation. But when the guys arrive home, they discover that Jefferson had inadvertently snapped a photo of Shannon seducing the lodge owner in a hot tub as the reason why they were kicked off the property. As payback, Al and Jefferson decide to throw a ...
Jan 12, 2022•2 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 218
This week the podcast is honored to interview Lisa Picotte who played Kelly's friend Mindy in 3 episodes of Season 10, starting with last week's episode of Blonde and Blonder! Stephen and Chris talk to Lisa about her appearance on Married with Children along with her over 3 decade long career in Hollywood. Lisa's husband, David Kaufman, is also an actor and they have been married for over 30 years and have acted together many times. Not only that, their children Grace and Henry are also in the b...
Jan 05, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Marcy organizes a "Toys for Guns" campaign to get kids something else to play with than toy guns. Kelly has a post-graduation five-year reunion and is shocked to learn that the nerd she once stood up has become handsome and rich. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute...
Dec 29, 2021•1 hr 56 min•Season 10Ep. 217
Bud takes on wrestler King Kong Bundy as his initiation into "No Ma'am. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarriedWithChildrenPodcast
Dec 22, 2021•1 hr 29 min•Season 10Ep. 216
Peggy takes up a self-defense class. What's worse, she is soon promoted to the advanced class. This makes Al feel emasculated. To make Peg drop the self-defense class, Kelly suggests Al take Peg out on a romantic date to see the Director's Cut of The Bridges of Madison Country. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marr...
Dec 15, 2021•2 hr 22 min•Season 10Ep. 215
Kelly has unknowingly created a new color chemical called Bleen and Al quickly finds out that she has created a new formula that grows hair. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarriedWithChildrenPodcast...
Dec 08, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 214
Al and his men's group NO MA'AM decide to form their own church in order to avoid paying beer tax. When Marcy and her women's group FANG expose Al's plan to the public, NO MA'AM surprisingly receives sympathy and donations from thousands of long-suffering married men in America which makes it possible for them to open their church. Al becomes a televangelist and preaches the NO MA'AM way of life. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https:/...
Dec 01, 2021•1 hr 32 min•Season 10Ep. 213
Buck the dog dies; in Heaven, he is sent back to Earth as the Bundys' new dog, Lucky. Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/marriedwithchildrenpodcast/ YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLa92MNmau7upQzNNU1DoGw Subscribe in Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/married-with-children-podcast/id1534577841 Contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/MarriedWithChildrenPodcast
Nov 24, 2021•2 hr 2 min•Season 10Ep. 212
