We just saw the original Married… With Children cast reunite to help fete Katey Sagal as she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. There may have been a business reason why we saw the MWC cast specifically and not Sagal’s costars from Sons of Anarchy. (Did you see the SOA premiere yet? I doubt I’ll keep watching it, it was way too violent and random for me. I must have just forgotten what the show is like, I’ve been watching it up until now.)
Apparently there’s potentially a Married… With Children spinoff in the works featuring perverted little brother, Bud Bundy. Executives are pitching the idea now. This could be funny but it really depends on how it’s executed of course. Here’s the news from E!’s Watch With Kristen:
A Married…With Children spinoff show is in the works!
Sony Pictures Television is taking out a pitch for a new series based on David Faustino’s character, Bud Bundy, sources confirm exclusively to E! News. Sony TV has not yet commented.
So far, there is no network deal in place, as pitch meetings are just beginning, but it certainly seems a promising idea…Right?
When we caught up with the whole former cast at Katey Sagal’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony earlier this week,
Christina Applegate teased something might be happening. “We’re going to do something with Dave maybe. I don’t know if it will be in character,” she spilled. “But I don’t really know. I don’t know what that’s going to be. I don’t know if I’m allowed to speak on that at all. So I should probably stop talking about it right now!”
As Kristen states, Ed O’Neil is busy with Modern Family but Katey Sagal might have some time now that SOA is wrapping up. This is only a pitch so far, but I would love to see an episode or two to catch up with these characters. Michael K at DListed pointed out that Marcy D’Arcy was missing from the Married… With Children reunion. She wouldn’t have a reason to be in the spinoff… unless Bud never moved out of his parent’s house. That’s a totally believable scenario.
The last I heard about David Faustino, he was running a medical marijuana clinic and had been busted for pot possession. He also starred in several straight to DVD pot comedies in the early ‘aughts. He’s since done a lot of voice and TV work and seems to be cleaning up his act a bit. I’m game for a MWC spinoff. I’m all about nostalgia, as long as it doesn’t wreck my childhood memories.
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no
Capital NO
FFS, Leave stuff alone Hollywood!
Bold NO. And ditto to the leave stuff alone HW.
What did he do to his face!? Is that Botox?
How about a Skippy Handelman spinoff?
Kimmy Gibbler
I’m all over the Skippy Handleman spinoff! I so crushed on him. Mallory was an idiot.
If it involved all of them then maybe…and that’s a BIG maybe. But just a show centered around Bud? Mmmmmmm…..no.
I would totally watch that. Even though Al Bundy is busy on Modern Family, surely he could find time for a cameo?
I would watch it too! It was a silly harmless show. That was always funny. But I like the humor of this kind of show. Like I loved “My name is Earl”. They somehow offend people who like to harp about the trashy humor. Yet, they were are funny harmless shows.
And yea.. I could believe Bud never moved out from the basement.
No. The show was good for its time, but these days it won’t hold. And i’ve only seen the show because it’s the only thing that isn’t an infomercial at 4:30am when I can’t get back to sleep.
If they get a good writer,this good be really good.
i would. i used to love that show. then again, it prob would be crap, which would ruin my childhood memories for me.
I couldn’t care less about MWC. But Katey Segal KILLS it as Gemma on SOA. I don’t believe I have ever hated a fictional character so much in my life. I will miss SOA but can’t wait to see how it ends.
Yes completely kills it as Gemma. She brings something to that character that no other actress could ( or I can’t imagine could). Yes the 1st ep back was violent, I found I didn’t have enough hands to cover my eyes and ears. But that has been a theme during the serious. I think kurt suttler went in hard for the intro, as it’s the last season. I liked the first ep but a friend thought it was a let down.
Katey is awesome as Gemma. I hate Gemma with a passion. You have to be a damn good actress to make people hate a character so much.
Fascinating, Mimi. I felt the exact same way about Clay. I has a visceral hatred for him. It was so bad that I was relieved when he was put down. I realized the reason in the fifth session: he played his job so well that he reminded me of someone I hated terribly as a kid. I wonder if your reaction was so strong because it was just as personal as mine.
Nah. I watched the show primarily for the other characters. Besides, there’s something to be said for leaving the past in the past.
Am I the only one that hated the original? Didn’t get it. Didn’t like it. I just found it insufferable.
Gawd – I HATED that show too. What I remember is being in the dating scene when the show was popular, and if/when I’d discover my date really loved the show . . . well – it disturbed me. That’s what I remember about MWC.
I watched it once and it just didn’t interest or entertain me enough to ever watch it again.
A lot of people didn’t like the show, but I liked it because it was the exact opposite of the goody goody Cosby show.
I liked the earlier seasons, but it became too nasty toward the end. Nasty as in, just really gratuitously mean-spirited and skeevy.
I love MWC, but a series about just Bud and whatever other new cast? It sounds as lame as the Joey spin-off from Friends. The cast as an ensemble was entertaining, but take just one character & using only him isn’t as interesting, imo.
Didn’t watch then, sure as shit won’t watch now
I used to like this show but it feels outdated now , so no.
Well, if it’s an attempt to re-hash the original, no, because the format doesn’t hold up anymore. But if it’s a modern-day, single-camera, no live audience family sitcom where the audience already knows the main character, Bud, grew up in the dysfunctional Bundy family, then… maybe?
I’d LOVE to see a spinoff with Steve and Marci. OMG, they were hilarious. But then again, part of the hilarity was Al insulting Marci. So who knows.
Maybe make it “Unmarried…With Children”. I could see Bud still living in the same house, having been saddled with the 5 mortgages that Al had to take out and unable to sell it. Al would have passed away having been beaten down by the decades at the shoe store. Bud could talk to Al in the mirror of the bathroom in the garage that Al built. Peggy would have moved back home to Wanker County and could call in every week. The children would come from Kelly, who has 3 kids by 3 dead-beat ex-husbands but finally gets a role on a TV show and drops the kids off with Uncle Bud while moving to Hollywood, never lets the kids move back in with her but does come for an occasional visit. Bud and the kids watch Kelly’s show together every week. The kids don’t like any of Bud’s rare girlfriends and none of their new friends believe that Kelly is really their Mother. And Peggy would REFUSE to be called Grandma. Bud was the only one of the bunch to ever finish college and to have dreams that would take him away from Bundydom, but he finds himself slowly being beaten down by responsibilities that no one else accepts, just like his Dad. And with the massive mortgage payments, Bud is still driving the Dodge. Done correctly, it could work.
I’d watch what you just described, ahah.
You’re goooooood!
Yep! I’d watch that!
Wow – that was awesome, I would so watch that. Seriously, you should pitch that to the powers that be!
Probably not.
The last few seasons of the program were almost unbearable, and I think I disliked Bud more than everyone else to begin with. He really grew into an unlikable sleazebag.
I LOVE MWC, but I wouldn’t watch it. Bad idea.