The show depicted Al Bundy, a formerly glorious football
player turned shoe salesman; his wife Peggy, a tartish,
uneducated, sex-hungry homemaker; and their two children:
Kelly, their slutty, airheaded daughter (she attended
high school at the start of the series), and Bud, their
dweebish, unpopular and girl-crazy son (he attended junior
high school at the start of the series). The show's theme
song is Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage."
The show has been in heavy syndication ever since its
first run. The show first aired in 1987 to very negative
press. It was considered very low-brow comedy that centered
entirely around toilet humor and sex farce. Critics noted
that the characters were mainly one-dimensional parodies
of actual people. However, viewers quickly embraced the
show because despite its obvious shortcomings it reflected
a huge part of the populace that was not represented on
television.
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