Al Bundy
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Al Bundy's classic couch pose |
Al Bundy is a
fictional character from the U.S. television series
Married... with Children, played by
Ed O'Neill.
The series never specified what name "Al" was short for, but the creators of the show said it was short for "Albert" or just been named "Al" (it should be noted that in the episode dealing with the over due library book, the librarian called him Alfonse Bundy). He is a slovenly character who finds himself constantly downtrodden by life and forever regretful of the turns his life has taken since the end of
high school, when an injury prevented him from playing
college football, and he got married. The character was so popular that it has left O'Neill somewhat typecast since the series ended production.
Al Bundy is married to
Peg Bundy, a shopping-crazed housewife who is unemployed, and does not cook or clean. He mistakenly asked her to marry him after he got
drunk and was forced to follow through by her shotgun-wielding father (Peg may have been pregnant at the time). He has two children:
Kelly, a promiscuous, dumb (bleached) blonde, and
Bud, a perpetually horny nerd. He is a proud driver of a '73
Dodge Dart, built back in the era of American automotive T-Rex cars, and lives in Chicago. He works as a minimum-wage shoe salesman at the fictional Gary's Shoes and Accessories in the fictional New Market Mall. Al hates his job, loses it several times throughout the series, yet always ends up coming back to it.
Despite being a somewhat phlegmatic and slow person, Bundy has a very dry sense of humor, and a definite love for his family, though that can still be traded for a fair amount of money.
He hates fat women, his job, the prospect of having sex with his wife, his
feminist neighbor
Marcy D'Arcy, and the French. He loves dirty magazines, free beer, "nudie" bars, and often cherishes the glory moment of his past - scoring four
touchdowns in one game while playing for the fictional Polk High School football team. His favorite movie is
Hondo, favorite sitcom -
Psycho Dad.
Bundy and his friends founded "NO MA'AM," the "National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood". Its purpose is to fight the increasing power of women all over society.
A prime example of an
antihero, Bundy symbolizes the dissatisfying existence of an average low-paid
working class American male; no matter the circumstances or however hard he tries, he never comes out on top.
* Shoe Salesman
* Kelly's agent
*
Garbage Man*
Fast Food Employee
* Department Store
Santa*
Gas Station Attendant
* Male
Erotic Dancer at a Women's Bar
* Founder of NO MA'AM
*
Security Guard of Polk High
* NO MA'AM President
* Calendar model
*
Policeman on
COPS*
Hotel Bellhop* Go away, Peg
* Behind every successful man is a woman who didn't marry me
* I'm the only guy in the world who has to wake up to have a nightmare
* Pretty women make us wanna BUY beer. Ugly women make us wanna DRINK beer.
* A man's home is his coffin.
* "Marriage is like insurance. You pay and pay, you never get anything back."
* Home, sweet Hell!
* Let's Rock.
* Women. Can't live with them. The End.
* Hooters, hooters, yum yum yum. Hooters, hooters on a girl that's dumb.
* Let there be baseball, let there be life!
Bud: I've got bad news.
Al: The traditional Bundy greeting.
Al: I want you to fan out and if you find mommy, or something daddy likes a little better, give the Bundy yell.
Bud: I wanna die?
Al: That's the one.
Peggy: I want sex.
Al: So do I, but I see no reason to drag
you into it.
Fat Woman: I don't understand. Before aerobics, I used to fit in a size 6. I guess all that jumping expanded my feet.
Al: I see you've must've fallen on you butt a time or two.
Fat Woman: How dare you say that to my face!
Al: Well, I'd say it behind your back, but my car's only got a half tank of gas!
Al: Hello,
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms? I have an alcohol question: Who was in the very first Lite Beer commercial? I say it was
Bubba Smith but I have a friend who thinks it was... Hello?
*
Married... with Children*
Bundyology*
A tribute to Al's Ferguson
