{"id":40789,"date":"2015-07-29T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-30T01:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40789"},"modified":"2020-07-16T21:54:28","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T01:54:28","slug":"oh-god-please-not-married-with-children-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40789","title":{"rendered":"Oh god please not Married&#8230; With Children too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-40790 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Grandmaster_b-e1438283123609.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Grandmaster_b-e1438283123609.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Grandmaster_b-e1438283123609-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/07\/29\/entertainment\/david-faustino-married-with-children-feat\/index.html\">TL:DR<\/a>: David &#8220;Bud Bundy&#8221; Faustino claims to be working on a spin-off of\u00a0<em>Married&#8230; With Children<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">First it was\u00a0<em>Girl Meets World<\/em>\u00a0and then it was\u00a0<em>Fuller House<\/em>. \u00a0But please god no, not Married&#8230; With Children too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">And of course it&#8217;s Bud Bundy who has his name all over this likely debacle. \u00a0Ed O&#8217;Neill has\u00a0<em>Modern Family<\/em>\u00a0under his belt, Katey Segal has a decade of\u00a0<em>Futurama\u00a0<\/em>money rolling in, and Christina Applegate actually has somewhat of a movie career. \u00a0David Faustino has basically done nothing since MWC, and it&#8217;s of absolutely no surprise at all that he&#8217;s the one behind making a possible spin-off of what made him anything at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Needless to say, this has &#8220;disaster&#8221; written all over it. \u00a0I mean, what could a possible spin-off possibly be about? \u00a0If it&#8217;s anything like any of the other shows that are underway with spin-offs, it&#8217;s going to basically be a modernized re-telling of the original shows, peppered with cameos from original cast members, but more or less the same songs and dances.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">That being said,\u00a0<strong>Disaster&#8230; With Children<\/strong>\u00a0is basically going to be about a grown-up Bud Bundy, who has a vapid and lazy wife that he will claim ruined his life and that he hates, but actually loves unconditionally, who feels the same way, a son and a daughter who are both underachievers, and two meddling neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">But in light of changing things up so that the show doesn&#8217;t come under too much fire for trying to rip off the original formula, changes will be made; like instead of the wife pining for sex all the time, it will be Bud, being the sex-starved Bud of old, who will always be wanting sex, while his wife will find a million ways and one-liners to shoot him down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Women&#8217;s shoe salesman might have been a denigrating job back in the 80s, but Bud will have to be with the times and be something like, a call center guy or something thankless and mundane, like a graphic designer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The son will be the older child this time, but the dynamic probably won&#8217;t change that much, and the daughter will still be attractive and promiscuous, likely played by an actress who will hope to use the show as a vehicle for future stardom while hoping to not get typecast. And Bud Jr. will be as big of a loser as his dad is\/was, naturally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">The neighbors will probably be portrayed by a mixed ethnicity couple, but no less obnoxious and meddling. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to go out on a limb and say that the new D&#8217;arcys will be like fairly successful start-up company founders at first, but then flounder around into a variety of occupations throughout the &#8220;duration&#8221; (read: 5 episdoes before it gets the axe) of the series. \u00a0Instead of old gripes like stealing newspapers and siphoning their Mercedes&#8217;s fuel, they will barge into the scenes, complaining that the New Bundys are stealing their wifi, or that they don&#8217;t like Bud&#8217;s wife&#8217;s passive-aggressive Facebook posts about obviously them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Ultimately, this theoretical sitcom is destined for failure, and frankly I&#8217;d rather the MWC franchise stay dead with what ironic integrity it had, than to be resurrected, and trotted out for a public shaming before being killed again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Then again, considering the fact that David Faustino is steering this sinking ship, and it likely to star Bud Bundy, it&#8217;s kind of fitting that the least successful member of the franchise, both as a character and an actor, is behind it all.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TL:DR: David &#8220;Bud Bundy&#8221; Faustino claims to be working on a spin-off of\u00a0Married&#8230; With Children. First it was\u00a0Girl Meets World\u00a0and then it was\u00a0Fuller House. \u00a0But please god no, not Married&#8230; With Children too. And of course it&#8217;s Bud Bundy who has his name all over this likely debacle. \u00a0Ed O&#8217;Neill has\u00a0Modern Family\u00a0under his belt, Katey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40789\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh god please not Married&#8230; With Children too<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,129,15,69,49],"class_list":["post-40789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-nostalgia","tag-og","tag-television","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40791,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40789\/revisions\/40791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}