History Characters / MarriedWithChildren

[[caption-width-right:350: The original cast[[note]]From left: [[DumbBlonde Kelly]], [[DoNothingHousewife Peg]], [[JadedWashout Al]], [[CasanovaWannabe Bud]], [[OnlySaneMan Steve]],[[StrawFeminist Marcy]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The original cast[[note]]From left: [[DumbBlonde Kelly]], [[CasanovaWannabe Bud]], [[DoNothingHousewife Peg]], [[JadedWashout Al]], [[OnlySaneMan Steve]],[[StrawFeminist Marcy]].[[/note]]]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The original cast[[note]]Clockwise from left: [[ApatheticPet Buck]], [[DumbBlonde Kelly]], [[DoNothingHousewife Peg]], [[CasanovaWannabe Bud]], [[OnlySaneMan Steve]], [[JadedWashout Al]], [[StrawFeminist Marcy]].[[/note]]]]

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[[caption-width-right:350: The original cast...[[note]]Clockwise from left: [[ApatheticPet Buck]], [[DumbBlonde Kelly]], [[DoNothingHousewife Peg]], [[CasanovaWannabe Bud]], [[OnlySaneMan Steve]], [[JadedWashout Al]], [[StrawFeminist Marcy]].[[/note]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350: ...and the later cast.[[note]]Clockwise from top left: [[StrawFeminist Marcy]], [[DoNothingHousewife Peg]], [[DumbBlonde Kelly]], [[CampStraight Jefferson]], [[JadedWashout Al]], [[CasanovaWannabe Bud]]. In front: [[TalkingAnimal Lucky]]. [[/note]]]]

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* MasturbationAsSexualFrustration: There are multiple jokes about how Peg uses vibrators and other "toys" to cope with Al's pop-gun performance in the bedroom.

* InformedDeformity: Okay, ''seriously'', you'd think this woman was some ugly hag the way people talk about her looks, despite the attractive actress playing her. For example, in the episode "The Egg and I", she shows off her body in lingerie; Al screams "I'm blind! My eyes, my eyes!" but the studio audience [[WolfWhistle Wolf Whistles]].

* FullNameBasis: Everyone always refers to him by his full name.

** Al tends to be disgusted out by Bud's rubber sex dolls and the fact that Bud masturbates instead of scoring with a real woman - which is quite hypocritical given Al often regrets marrying a materialistic gold-digger and goes out to nudie bars. He also vehemently objects to Bud dating his forty-year-old teacher, suggesting [[JailbaitTaboo that would be beneath his standards to him too.]]

* RealMenEatMeat: Al's preference for food is everything meat, which he rarely ever has. Vegetables are considered inferior by Al.
-->'''Al''': I'm so hungry I could eat a vegetable.

** Al tends to be {{Squick}}ed out by Bud's rubber sex dolls and the fact that Bud masturbates instead of scoring with a real woman - which is quite hypocritical given Al often regrets marrying a materialistic gold-digger and goes out to nudie bars. He also vehemently objects to Bud dating his forty-year-old teacher, suggesting [[JailbaitTaboo that would be beneath his standards to him too.]]

* BigSisterBully: To Bud. She regularly insults and physically assaults him through punches and slaps. She's also not above having her many group of friends bully him as well.

* DysfunctionalFamily: They're the TropeCodifier. It is safe to say their household income is divided as 99-1 with Peg getting the upper percentage while Bud and Kelly combined get the lower one. That leaves Al with nothing. The kids are divided on which parent is the LesserOfTwoEvils, sometimes going with mom because Al can be a bit of a ControlFreak at times especially if he demands family time, and the other times with Al himself since Peg is a lazy, negligent mother who won't feed them at all. The viewer usually only sees the kids warming up to Al, with Peg out of the picture.

* PerpetualPoverty: The Bundy family are doomed to perpetual squalor no matter how many schemes or jobs they get into.

* TooHungryToBePolite: They're usually shown as literally fighting each other over everything on the table because they're almost always on the brink of starvation due to their PerpetualPoverty and Peggy's refusal to cook. One episode where they get an inheritance check and use it to buy a meal at a restaurant, Kelly and Bud scarf down their meals without using their utensils.

* DogFoodDiet: The Bundys have eaten Buck's dog food a few times. In fact, in one episode, Al had eaten so much dog food that he started acting like a dog.

* NutritionalNightmare: The Bundys' diets vary between high-caloric fast food, scraps of whatever they can find (sandwiches made of Tang powder or toothpaste, restaurant condiments, toaster crumbs, etc.), anything they can steal from other people (e.g. neighbors or coworkers), things normally considered inedible (mice and other vermin, soup made from boots, etc.), or simply nothing at all.

* EatTheDog: Since they're usually malnourished, the Bundys sometimes try to eat Buck.