Product Description

America's most outrageous family comes to DVD! Married With Children, featuring the delightfully dysfunctional Bundys--Al (Ed O'Neill), Peg (Katey Sagal), Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Bud (David Faustino)--changed the face of television comedy with its bawdy humor and campy characters. Volume 1 is a collection of the show's wildest episodes sure to offer hours of hilarious domestic bliss! (Includes the infamous "Lost Episode," deemed too raunchy for TV!)

Includes the following hysterical episodes: A Dump of My Own, You Better Shop Around Part 1, You Better Shop Around Part 2, No Chicken No Check, I'll See You In Court (The Lost Episode).

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #28759 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-02-04
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 114 minutes

Customer Reviews

"Ah, home sweet hell!"
First I'd like to say that I certainly understand why all the low ratings for this DVD. The stars don't go towards the show itself, but more towards the fact that this isn't a complete season and a lot of people were hoping for that. I understand and I admit I'm disappointed as well. However, I love the show and have absolutely no problem getting these DVDs for the meantime until they finally (and I know they will at some point) release the entire seasons.

Despite the obvious complaints, I was still able to enjoy this collection of Married with Children episodes. This really brings back the old memories, being that I used to watch this all the time when I was little. Now it's even more funnier being that I'm older and am now able to understand all of the jokes. And hey, who couldn't love Al Bundy?? The man rocks!

The DVD includes 5 episodes, 1 of them being a lost one that was deemed "too raunchy" for TV. The episodes are as follows: A Dump of My Own, You Better Shop Around Parts 1 and 2, No Chicken No Check, and I'll see you in Court. All of them are funny as hell, but my favorites have to be the two shopping episodes where the Bundy Family actually LIVE in the supermarket since it is a MUCH cheaper way of staying cool. (In fact, I would've paid the price just for those 2 episodes alone!) But they're all great, as far as I'm concerned. And they're not in any order, so some of the shows are older while others aren't as old.

The DVD really doesn't have much to offer, other than the picture looking very good for being television shows. There's a few bonus trailers, but even those aren't that spectacular. And, I wished that they would've included a few more episodes. 5 just isn't enough.

All in all, the "Married with Children Vol. 1" DVD is a pretty nice package, although it would've been much better if more episodes were included. Hopefully they will start releasing complete seasons soon. That really is the way to go. Again, I understand why the low ratings. The only reason why I'm not giving it a low rating as well is because I enjoyed it and have no problem of buying the complete seasons when they finally decide to release them. For now, these will have to do. If you really want to wait for the seasons to come out, then do so. I'm sure they will eventually release them. If you can spare a few bucks and would like some quality entertainment despite the problems mentioned, then this is something worth thinking about it.

SHOULD BE SEASON 1 BOX
As said by everyone who is smart enough to know that this is the greatest sitcom of all time: THIS SHOW NEEDS SEASON BY SEASON SETS.
Now, while greedy executives and foul bureaucrats do push these lame "best of" collections in the hopes of squeezing more blue-collar blood out of our wallets, these "best ofs" also serve another purpose.
Yes, this is an attempt to get more bread out of us. It's the George Lucas trick (first release Star Wars, then Star Wars with extra footage, then Star Wars in widescreen with extra footage, then Star Wars with even more footage just made up, then Star Wars with everything plus a plush toy of George Lucas with money in his hands and going "yippie-yippie").
However, these "best ofs" also serve to test out the market for this title. If MWC "best ofs" sell well then the fat cats will release season boxes because they will see that it is profitable. Sure, we fans known it would sell, we recall that MWC was a huge sucsess, but these producers have short memories, they only understand the profitability of immediate trends. They have no respect for classics the way that we do.
So we have a catch 22 here. Buy it and you are giving in to marketing ploys. Don't buy it and you may be dooming the world's MWC collections to home-recorded television reruns only.
In all likelyhood this show, and every show that was ever sucsessfull, will eventually come out in season by season sets.
But for now this is what we get (and Most Outrageous Volume 2 is in the works as I write this).
As for the disc itself, it does feature very little, but the episodes themselves are well picked. They are some of the greatest, funniest MWC episodes ever. I will at least give the DVD that.
You'll just have to decided for yourself about this purchase.
Because I am a lunatic for this show I will likely buy it as soon as it becomes available. I hate to be a tool of corperate opression, but I cannot resist MWC memorabilia. The show means too much to me, I am at it's command.
Three stars because it's MWC (which always deserves ten stars) but it's just a stupid collection (one star) when the fans and the series deserve more respect.

im only giving it one star because you have to...
ok..to the "brilliant" people who made this...just like most of the MWC fans on here ive been waiting for a season set of MWC...i hear about this piece ...and i thought "hey! they finaly released MWC on DVD woooooo!!!!!"and come to find out..ITS ONLY 5 EPISODES!!! ON ONE DVD TO TOP IT!!!!!
i have to agree..why is it that they can release shows like "buffy" and "freinds" but they cant release MWC!!
it just proves that alot of these companys dont want to spend time on real classic tv shows..i mean sure theres seasons of the simpsons,M*A*S*H,hogans heros,etc..but theres more "modern" seasons then there are clasics..they wont even spend time on a wonder years dvd collection!
but they will for "freinds"!
so people...please save your money! hope that we will see a season of MWC on dvd..NOT 5 MEEZLY EPISODES!
this is a piece of garbage..you (the fans) want a season...not this 5 episode piece of jargon!

"lets rock!" al bundy