PREVIEW - #231 - The Moral Minority

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2021

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PATREON EPISODE - https://www.patreon.com/posts/50787521 It's time for another selection from our Superdelegate patron tier, and boy, they picked a doozy. On this episode, we shack up with the Bundys and dive into MARRIED... WITH CHILDREN (1987-1997), the raunchy family sitcom that became a flashpoint in the culture war. We discuss the show's bleak worldview, try to make sense of several of the most famous episodes, and discuss how conservative moral-panics like the one that greeted this show have changed in the decades since.

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0:00.0	Well, it's another superdelegate episode. Every month, the Michael and us super delegate class
0:05.8	do a multi-round series of votes in which all the superdelegates are allowed to suggest a topic,
0:12.5	and then through process of elimination, we finally select one.
0:16.4	We settle on the candidate that is the perfect compromise between pharma, health insurance, and real estate.
0:22.3	As we know, democracy always fails, and boy, did it ever on this episode, because we watched the, I was going to say classic, but I'm not going to say classic, the old sitcom from the 90s, Married with Children.
0:39.3	No man has suffered more than Al Bundy.
0:42.3	I don't know about you, but I'm horny as hell.
0:44.9	Well, so am I, but you don't see me bothering you with it.
0:47.9	Now, I had never seen a single second of Married with Children before yesterday.
0:53.8	I know that it was on when I was a kid,
0:57.3	and I also know that I was not allowed to watch it. There were several shows that my parents forbade me
1:03.8	to watch, and I probably wouldn't have watched them anyway. So I grew up, though, with a certain tantalizing allure around married with
1:12.5	children. But yeah, I mean, went into this. The listener who suggested it offered us some
1:18.2	recommended episodes to watch, so I think I watched four or five of them. Didn't know what to
1:23.1	expect. Didn't know if it was just going to be kind of mediocre or if it was just going to be really bad or
1:29.0	you know maybe maybe it was even great who knows lots of people love rosanne for example lots of
1:34.3	people say that's a great show this show married with children i was kind of aghast it's almost
1:40.6	refreshing in a way to see a tv show this bad they just don't make them this bad we should we should be careful because you know it's almost refreshing in a way to see a TV show this bad. They just don't make them this bad.
1:45.6	We should be careful because, you know, it's like, I don't know. Like, do people have fun
1:49.9	memories of that? I mean, there was, people were very keen to hear us talk about this. And was that
1:53.8	just because they, they wanted us to, like, they wanted to subject us to a show that they understood to be bad or is it because like
2:01.3	people have fond feelings about it i mean for what it's worth the listener who originally advocated
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