Married... With Children: The Complete Eleventh Season
Starring: Ed O'Neill, Christina Applegate, Katey Sagal, David Faustino, Ted McGinleyDirector: Amanda Bearse, Arlando Smith, Gerry Cohen, Mark K. Samuels, Richard Correll
Studio: Sony Pictures
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 530 minutes
DVD Release: October 6th 2009
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User Reviews
The last adventures of the Bundys and the D'Arcys - Rating: 4/5
Just before this eleventh and final season of Fox's MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN ended,the series just celebrated its tenth premiere anniversary as well as the Fox network's launching. By then,not only was this Fox's very first series,but the longest-running(later surpassed by still-going THE SIMPSONS). Here,Ed O'Neill,Katey Sagal,Christina Applegate,David Faustino,Amanda Bearse and latecomer Ted McGinley please their fans for one last season. Joining MWC enroute to television heaven is another long-running Emmy-winner,ABC's ROSEANNE(ironically,Roseanne Barr was originally chosen to play Sagal's role of Peggy Bundy). Post-MWC,O'Neill continued making theatrical and television films and guest-starred on one episode of Sagal's later sitcom 8 SIMPLE RULES. Applegate retuned to series television in fall 1998 for the short-lived JESSE and last year for SAMANTHA WHO?. Earlier this year,she was diagnosed with breast cancer and is reportedly functioning well. Faustino now owns and operates a nightclub in Los Angeles. Applegate even makes theatrical films today with various supporting and co-starring roles. In 2003,the MWC overall cast,including original cast member David Garrison,reunited for a TV special. That was not the first time the cast discussed their cherished moments and favorite episodes with each other. Long live the Bundys! And Chicago!
Season 11...Finally!! - Rating: 5/5
The single greatest sitcom of all time's final season is finally here. This is the show that launched the Fox network. Yes, long before the Simpsons existed, Married with Children started in 1987 and put Fox on the map. No sitcom since has even come close to this masterpiece. Even the best today: Family Guy, doesn't even come close to the brilliance of this show. For a show to outshine such greats as All in the Family, Sanford and Son, and Happy Days is saying something. And no, the Simpsons doesn't even belong in the same league as Married with Children or Family Guy...period!!! Al Bundy is far and away the greatest fictional character in TV history. Not many shows can say they made it through 11 great seasons. Some shows start off good with their first season or two and just stink afterwards. Married with Children was magnificent from season 1 to season 11 with out question. Any DVD collector should definitely have every season of the greatest sitcom ever in their library. This show will live on forever!!!
At Long Last - Rating: 5/5
I was beginning to think that I would be dead and buried before Sony had all eleven seasons of Married With Children out(knock on wood that I make it to October). We fans have had a long, long journey getting here. Star Trek came and went in all it's incarnations. Jessica started later and got her tenth season out prior to this (Murder She Wrote). So I am happy to be able to complete the collection with some of the best shows they did, even tho Fox had dumped them in spirit long before this and the show was beginning to show it's age. The "Al goes to Hell" episode with Robert Englund alone is worth the whole season. So to all of us who have been in the "Hell-evator, going down!", lo these many years...we finally have our floor in sight and we will at long last be in Married With Children Heaven with Buck.
THE BUNDYS FAREWELL SEASON - Rating: 5/5
It's about time that Sony released this 1996-97 Season of the Bundy's out on DVD since I've been waiting for the longest time to have the Bundy's final season on DVD, especially since Sony already has the first 10 seasons of the Bundy's on DVD along with the fact that the Bundy's 11th Season was one of my favorite seasons and the season when I think the sexy, but airheaded Kelly(Christina Applegate)was looking her best along with the fact that this was the show that made Christina Applegate a star and very popular to this very day.
The Bundy's Eleventh Season also has some of its best episodes like when Kelly gets an acting gig as a princess on a kids show that eventually ends up faltering when Kelly becomes snotty and too controlling.
Another is the episode when the lowlife perverted Al(Edward O'Neill)gets to be on the show COPS riding along with Chicago P.D. and Kelly gets a commercial gig as the Virgin Olive Oil girl.
Another is the Series Finale episode when Kelly is about to get married and move out of the Bundys house and then finds out on her wedding day that her fiancee was being unfaithful to her all along and ends up calling off the wedding leaving us no real explanation on whether Kelly still moved out or stayed living at home or what, but chances are Kelly was still living at home after the disaster on her wedding day.
However I was kind of surprised that MARRIED WITH CHILDREN lasted this long and I'm sure it was time for the Bundy's to move on and say goodbye since this show was getting burned out and the Bundy's were obviously getting tired, especially Christina Applegate(Kelly) and Edward O'Neill(Al).
This season also takes me back to memory lane to when FOX had temporarily moved this show to Saturday nights in September of 1996 showing the Bundy's after COPS & AMERICA'S MOST WANTED, but was eventually moved back to Sundays, due to scheduling conflicts and then the Bundys were moved to Mondays in January of 1997 before this shows cancellation in the Spring of 1997 after FOX had the Bundy's Series Finale episode in May of 1997.
In the meantime, I can hardly wait till they finally release the Bundy's 11th Season on DVD this Fall, which is scheduled to be released on Tuesday October 6th, 2009. Yipee!
