Only fans of Married with Children would ever get the joke. Plenty of people who grew up while it was running didn’t necessarily see it though.
Only fans of Married with Children
Where do I subscribe?
Unfortunately, it only has pictures of Bud in his underwear.
You want nudes from married paedophiles?
I’m 35 and got the joke
I’m 25 and did not
Incase you still don’t, it’s referencing a late 80s to mid 90s sitcom Married with Children. It’s surprisingly good. Katey Segal who voices Leela played one of the main characters, Peggy.
i recognized all the characters, but my TIL was that they were preformed by the same actress 🤯
Well I didn’t get it at first but I certainly watched married with children. Mainly because there wasn’t anything else to watch at the time on TV.
He’s missing his hand down his pants but otherwise perfect
In a toga, that changes the audience age rating.
I had to explain it to my husband. :(
😂
tbh, still driving around looking for the punchline
Ain’t Katey Sagal the voice of Leela in Futurama?
Oh no way!
The woman from Sons of Anarchy?
Yes, which is why this joke exists.
Nonsense. Cultural history transferrence is a thing, I did not have to have watched Gilligan’s Island or the Honeymooners to get the references in every 80s tv show, it became clear from the context and its own meta joke.
So no, just like a GenX-er did not need to have been a Baby Boomer to undestand the “One of these days Alice, Bang! Zoom! Straight to the moon!” reference, a Gen Z-er can quite easily get references about Gen X series from the frequency and context they encounter them.
I can confirm this. I am a huge fan of Mystery Science Theater 3000. I am Gen X. They were self-described “post-boomer(s).” I didn’t get some of the references to pop culture older than me, but often the delivery made it funny anyway. And people much younger than me who love the show feel the same way.
Tbh one of the coolest parts to me is that I can learn about other old movies and stuff that they reference, and then when I rewatch the mst3k ep I get other jokes that didn’t hit for me watching the first time.
My mom (border of gen x and boomer) explained all the references to me when I was a kid watching Futurama for the first time. Honestly, Futurama and seeking out information related to the references (either my parents would tell me or I’d look it up in the 2010s when I really started having access to the internet) is probably the biggest way I learned about past culture. At this point I’m explaining the references to my kid but he really is just so far removed from it. Because they’re from like 4 generations ago and have been referenced so much since. Still interesting but I do feel like it, “hits different” as the teens say.
Not to mention, streaming services are just about everywhere. If you look at the right time, sometimes you can even find entire seasons of shows on YouTube.
Do some of the people from older generations commenting suddenly forget about the rest of the internet or what? Lol
Some of us also have parents who collect DVD, CDs, Blu-Rays and more. I find it hard to believe that an entire generation would just be unaware especially with how all over the place media is
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Peggy was so hot!
Multiple generations.
I guess it depends on how restrictive your parents were with TV access, Millennials born between 1990 and 1995 could have easily seen Married with Children and then Futurama and understood the reference from a young age, but Gen Z wouldn’t be very likely to see Married with Children at all, and I dispute the existence of a Gen Alpha yet because there is no way Gen Z are old enough to have kids with opinions in any sizeable demographic so therefor it isn’t a generational gap.
I am refiering to generation alpha. (2010 on since there is not really an agreed on date.)
To be Gen Alpha you must be the child of Gen Z who had to be the child of Millennials.
So if you agree that a millennial was born in 1980 and had kids at 18 who then had a kid at 18 then a Gen Alpha would be like 6 or 7 years old maximum.
Yes, as I have nephews that are gen alpha, that is how that works. You have kids now that are not gen Z and are around 10 that never knew MWC. Just because someone is young does not invalidate their status as people (yet, don’t give them any ideas).
The problem is there are people in the comments who seem to think they’re Gen Alpha, Millennial, or Gen Z without realizing they skipped generations in their calculation.
Yes and yet you are the only person that seems to think this is how generations work, that somehow you can skip at all.
I think you’ve replied to the wrong person. I’m the one saying that you cannot skip.
To be Gen Alpha you must be the child of Gen Z who had to be the child of Millennials.
This is not true. I’m a millennial (1989) but my parents are boomers (1950s), not Gen X, as are the vast majority of my friends. Not everyone has kids in their early 20s, infact the average age to have your first kid in the UK is 29.
Listen if there is no generational gap between you and boomers, then you’re just a Gen X, mate. One generation to the next, no skipping.
Literally not how it works at all. Generations are defined on the year you were born, not who you were born to.
Mick Jagger was born in 1943, making him part of the Silent Generation. When his wife had their latest kid, in 2016, Jagger was 73. That child is not a baby boomer.
You can read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation#List_of_named_generations
Do you know what the word Generation means? Literally in no other context is it defined that way, but you’re using Wikipedia as a source so clearly I don’t expect you to have any learning capacity at this point. Maybe you really are Gen Alpha at your mommy’s tablet.
I’m only 27, not American and I had never heard of married with children before. I can remember watching fresh Prince of Bel air and friends (repeats) and some other shows. Plus I’m on the oldest end of gen z and if I’d had a kid at 16/17 then they’d certainly be old enough to have opinions.
They’d be 10 so probably not opinions that matter, no. But if you were born in 1995 then I don’t think your parents were millennials, were they?
Married With Children would have ended when millennials were somewhere between 16 and 1.
It doesn’t really matter how strict your parents were with TV. Most millennials weren’t really in the target demographic for it when it was airing; they’d have been more likely to be watching Rugrats, Power Rangers, All That, Dragon Ball Z or whatever if left to their own devices.
They’d have watched it if it were something their parents watched. I literally never deliberately turned on Friends or Will And Grace, but since my parents watched them, I saw a bunch of them. Married With Children wasn’t a show my parents followed, though, so the Futurama episode would have gone over my head.
It really seems like a reference aimed mostly at the oldest millennials, gen X, and boomers.
As someone who watched rugrats and dbz, All that, and a Lil power rangers…YOURE FLIPPING WRONG! I also watched the heck out of MWC and also Roseanne.
- Older Mellinial
I tell you what, I didn’t exactly stick to age appropriate television from a young age. I could be an outlier, I guess.
I’ve been drawn to Futurama because of Katey Sagal. I’m a huge fan of MWC. Watched both of them dozens of times.
I mean I am like 30+ and I didn’t get this joke.
Leela’s voice actress played Peggy Bundy on Married with Children. Ed O’Neill played Al Bundy and is playing the shape shifter pretending to be one of Leela’s supposed alien race (she’s not an alien, but she didn’t know that yet then). They are re-enacting the look and dynamic of Married with Children in this scene.
EDIT: I was mistaken, the voice actor is not Ed O’Niell, as kindly pointed out below.
Is that Ed O’Neill? Shit I never made that connection, he sounds way different.
Futurama, Modern Family, Wayne’s World. Guy is an American national treasure.
It was not Ed O’Neill. He was voiced by David Herman, who also voiced Scruffy and Leela’s father.
They should have used the voice of Ed O’Neill. Then the joke would be PERFECT!
To my knowledge, Ed O’Neill has never voiced in a Simpsons or Futurama episode. Which seems kinda weird since he was a fellow Fox alumni.
Okay, I’m not crazy. Thanks for the info!
Oh, thanks for the correction. I thought that was the Joke but it was just Leela doing Peg again then.
Oh wow, my mind immediately went to Amy Winehouse when I saw that hair
Show us your true form!
That’s form 11-C, you can pick one up at the central bureaucracy
Well, I now need rule34 of Leela as Peggy, specifically those clothes with the top pulled down.
bonk
If you find one on your travels please feel free to share ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I never understood why Al acts like having sex with his hot wife is a chore. Boomers sure are different.
Al Bundy spends all day working on his hands and knees for women only to come home to more demands from a woman he’s not emotionally attracted to.
It’s supposed to be ironic that he can’t derive joy from the one bright spot in his life, a sexy wife who’s DTF.
It’s also a nod to sooooo many married couples who got together for all the wrong reasons
Al nailed Peg because she was hot, not because he actually liked her. Peg got knocked up
Suddenly, Al, who was a star at the time and had many gals, is stuck with one annoying chick he only liked when he was drunk at a party.
In other words he found himself married, with children
DTF?
Down to fuck
Dancing the Fandango
It seems his skin was sweet as mango
When last I held him to my breast
But now we dance this grim fandango
And will four years before we rest.
Drugs, Tobacco, Firearms
Alright, alright, alright!
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Deriving the Formula.
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Doomed To Fail
Driven To Fornicate
Yes please!
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The whole show is peek boomer “haha wife bad/annoying” humour.
Not everyone has, or keeps their desire for sexual activity
As a millennial who is now the same age as Al, I get it a lot more. When you are 40, come home from a job you hate that doesn’t pay enough, and are physically and mentally exhausted, yeah, sex isn’t as appealing, even if married to Katey Sagal. You just want to plop down on the couch, turn off your brain, and be left alone. Peggy being horny is just a reminder that his wife refuses to work (neither outside nor inside the home) and has more energy.
But also remember they originally offered the role to Rosanne Barr, which would have been even more understandable.
Rosanne Barr would have absolutely ruined the show and it would never have been as popular.
No matter how hot an individual may be, somebody, somewhere, is tired of fucking them.
