Product: Married... with Children: The Complete Third Season (1987)
Rating: 5.0
Riotously funny. A must-own, theme or no theme
This is the year the show fully found itself, and did it ever take off. Wickedly funny, and pushed the envelope like no one since All In The Family (MWC even appropriated Archie Bunker's mispronounciation of his clergyman's name, the Reverend Felcher into an episode). The greatest change fom the first two seasons is the development of Christina Applegate and David Faustino into absolutely gifted comic actors and their increased roles in the episodes. No one has really done live-action satire like this since, and everyone involved looks like they're having the time of their lives doing it. As to the new theme song, it's not bad at all, it definitely captures the giddy , sacred-cow tipping tone of the series, and it's well in keeping with the show's attitude to tell the publisher where to go. Here's to the studio for keeping these releases coming, let's have 'em all, because there isn't anything this good of this type on the networks anymore, and maybe won't ever be again if the FCC has its way.