Married with Children
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jriddle73 — 7 years ago(April 19, 2018 05:02 AM)
MARRIED WITH CHILDREN, and it isn't even close. I haven't seen neo-ROSEANNE but the original was terrible–borderline unwatchable. MWC was witty and nutty and anarchistic and could do everything from really intelligent humor to plain old lowbrow fart jokes.
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Fugazi — 7 years ago(April 19, 2018 05:07 AM)
Roseanne. MWC feels a little edgelord. They remind me of the Gamergate crowd. Just the same tired blonde, woman, etc. jokes. It's not offensive to me at all. It's just boring.
Roseanne feels more real, as someone who grew up in a working class family. They'e not cheap stereotypes, but realistic characters. The mix of comedy and a tiny bit of drama balance the show out. -
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— 7 years ago(April 19, 2018 02:34 PM)Look, I love Married…with Children, but there’s no comparison between it and Roseanne. Roseanne is an Emmy-winning show with great writing. They’re on different levels. MwC also lacked continuity between episodes. Roseanne was realistic, McW wasn’t, like the episode where Bud discovered Al has the lowest salary in the world, And how Al would make sexist remarks to his customers about their weight yet never got fired. Roseanne actually dealt with things like job loss and financial struggles where Married with Children tended to ignore it, just focusing on slapstick humor and gags. They didn’t have one serious episode.
MwC had gags like where Kelly was running from tornado, Or when Al would get electrocuted and his whole body would be burned and you’d see his shoes on the ground with smoke coming out of them. You wouldn’t see unrealistic gags like that in Roseanne.
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Platonic_Caveman — 7 years ago(April 23, 2018 02:45 AM)
"Married with Children" is far better. "Roseanne" tried to get socially conscious too often. We had to delve into the snot-nosed kids' adolescent dilemmas. MWC never took itself too seriously.
"Roseanne" also did the perfunctory lovey dovey scenes between husband and wife. MWC you knew they loved each other but they never felt the need to show it ad nauseum.
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Bongo — 7 years ago(April 23, 2018 02:59 AM)
IMO, this type of poll would almost always be more valid/fun if it were set up as…
Which show about white trash do you enjoy/like more: Married with Children or Roseanne?
That way all this childish "my pick is better than yours because blah, blah, blah" wouldn't be blowing up all over the place.
Similar polls about music, bands, singers, and singer/songwriters would be better if they were set up the same way.
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Platonic_Caveman — 7 years ago(April 23, 2018 03:04 AM)
I disagree. When you ask which is better it opens up a critique of styles.
If you ask which you enjoy, that's purely subjective and there is no room for analysis. If someone enjoys it they enjoy it, there's no debate about style.
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Bongo — 7 years ago(April 23, 2018 03:30 AM)
I see what you mean, but people would certainly feel free to say
why
they like their pick over the other.
For instance, "I really laughed hard when seeing Al Bundy's shoes on the ground with smoke coming out of them, but I appreciate the writing in Roseanne that provides a wide range of humor and I picked it as my favorite because of the two shows, I enjoy the way they work in the realistic snarky dialogue in Roseanne more than the slapstick and ridiculous over-the-top humor and situations in the storylines of MWC."
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— 7 years ago(April 23, 2018 03:19 AM)They're not even in the same league. You can't call MwC a show about "white trash" because it never dealt with real issues stemming from being poor.
Roseanne is like Good Times, they both dealt with problems facing poverty the lower middle class, using humor while not drifting away from realism.
MwC is slapstick, Three Stooges style humor.
Al harassed his own customers in his shoe store calling them fat and pigs. Yet he was able to maintain his job.
Peg's mother was so large, Jabba the Hut large, that she made the house shake when she walked, and you only heard her voice offscreen.
Or when Al was driving around his old Dodge to get up to 999,999 miles, to win a new Dodge, only to accidentally reset it back to 0000001 before making it to the dealer.
When Al and his "No'Mam" crew were hanging on the roof to get away from their wives, and a large bird took one of them away because he got to close to his egg. You wouldn't see a cartoon gag like that in Roseanne or Good Times.
The ongoing reoccurring joke that the family never ate. And quite literally, never ate.
Roseanne was a realistic portrayal of a housewife who cooked dinner for her kids every night, and attended parent/teacher conferences, while Peg didn't cook and smoked cigarettes and ate Bon Bons watching Oprah. MwC was going for pure unrealistic silliness except for maybe the early episodes of the first season.
It was referenced that they were "poor" through jokes, but there wasn't any episode where Al pondered how he's going to make the house payment that month. Al would be shown crying paying the bills, while Peg was apathetic and racked up more debt at the department store. Roseanne was at least involved in the family's financial crisis. MwC was reduced to Al being the only one who cared about how broke they were while his stupid wife would be laughing about it.
Kelly was a slut, but her parents never had a serious talk about teen pregnancy. We didn't wonder either.
And MwC lacked continuity. Each episode started a new adventure that lasted 22 minutes. They didn't carry over events from previous episodes that made a storyline like Roseanne did.
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