Loud-mouthed. Obnoxious. More vulgar than ever. We wouldn't have them any other way. Make room on the couch for Married With Children: The Complete Fourth Season, another hilarious helping of demented domestic dysfunction ... more »as only as the comically crude Bundys can deliver. Loaded with 23 envelope-pushing episodes on a three-disc collector's set, this deluxe collector's edition features uproarious classics like "Hot Off the Grill," "Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics," and special two-parter "It's A Bundyful Life," as Al, Peg, Kelly and Bud manage to turn domestic bliss into a battlefield, while nosy neighbor Steve finally leaves Marcy and the 'burbs for good! Starring Katey Sagal ("8 Simple Rules"), Christina Applegate (Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy), and Ed O'Neill (Spartan) and sexy guest stars like Traci Lords, Tiffany Amber Thiessen, and Ted McGinley, Married With Children: The Complete Fourth Season reminds us why those darn Bundys are too hot to handle after all these years!« less
Ned | Eldersburg, Maryland United States | 07/06/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"During the 4th season Steve leaves the show as a regular. We hear Bucks talks for the first time. This set contains all 23 episodes on 3 disks.
1) Hot Off the Grill - At Al's Labor Day barbeque, Marcy's dead aunt's ashes wind up in the grill.
2) Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics - Peggy wins a week with Jim Jupiter, the healthiest man in Chicago.
3) Buck Saves the Day - Bud and Kelly attempt to raise money to attend a concert.
4) Tooth or Consequences - Excruciating pain has Al going to Marcy's dentist and finds out that he likes his assistant.
5) He Ain't Much, But He's Mine - Peggy thinks Al is more attractive after a visit to the beauty parlor.
6) Fair Exchange - Al and Peggy get $500 to house a foreign exchange student and Kelly becomes jealous of her popularity.
7) Desperately Seeking Miss October - Peggy sells Al's Playboy collection.
8) 976-SHOE - Al gets a $50K loan from Steve so he can have his shoe hot-line (Dr. Shoe), it turns out to be a bust and Steve gets fired.
9) Oh, What A Feeling - Al is looking to buy a new car and has been saving and hiding his money in the backyard. When he looks in the box his money almost gone and he finds a "red" hair.
10) At the Zoo - Steve is supposed to be looking for a job but he is spending his time at the zoo and the aquarium.
11 & 12) It's a Bunduful Life (Part 1 & 2) - In this 2 part episode, Al can't get to the bank in time to get money to buy Christmas presents and in an "It's A Wonderful Life" type scenario, Al finds out what it would be like if he had never been born.
13) Who'll Stop the Rain - Al fix the leak in his roof.
14) A Taxing Problem - Al has IRS problems after Peggy's creative tax preparations.
15) Rock and Roll Girl - Kelly becomes a Rock & Roll singer and Bud is her agent.
16 & 17) You Gotta Know When to Fold `Em (part 1 & 2) - Steve has left Marcy and Peggy talks her into going to Las Vegas and lose 5K of Al's money. Al finds out and he and the kids head to Vegas
18) What Goes Around Comes Around - Al is asked to speak at his Polk High reunion.
19) Peggy Turns 300 - Peggy bowls a 300 games and Al can't stand it.
20) Peggy Made a Little Lamb - Peggy finds out she didn't graduate from High School and has to take home economics to get her diploma.
21) Raingirl - Kelly gets a high paying job as a weather girl.'
22) The Agony of Defeet - Al is selected to be a beauty judge little does he know but he will be judging feet.
23) Yard Sale - Al has a yard sale but no one will buy all the stuff that Peggy has been buying.
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Set contains 7 Syndicated episodes
M. J Krankka | New London,MO | 08/26/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"Well Sony blew it with this set.7 episodes are the syndication episodes-Edited! Yes i'm planing on buying this set,because not all the episodes will be cut,just 7-I would not mind if it was 1 or 2 episodes,but 7!! that is dumb! 5 stars for the show,3 stars for this DVD release.
Update-go to tvshowsondvd.com to find out why Sony use Syndicated episodes on the 7 episodes.Also if you bought the 2 best of sets of Married...with Children keep it, as it contains the uncut episode of Raingirl,one of the episodes that gets the syndication treatment in the season 4 set."
7 of these episodes are syndicated versions
S. Frank | knoxville, TN United States | 08/29/2005
(1 out of 5 stars)
"I was getting ready to place an order for this season set, but fortunately I found a review that informed me that 7 of the episodes are the shorter syndicated versions with missing footage. I can watch this for free on cable TV. I would no more buy a DVD set with missing footage than I would buy a book with missing pages."
They're really testing our paitence...
Big Joe '83 | Melbourne, VIC Australia | 08/31/2005
(3 out of 5 stars)
"I thought there was no way they could top themselves with the release of the Third Season DVD by changing the opening and closing credits music. However, I've got to hand it to them, they managed to figure out a way to make us hate them even more... Syndicated episodes! Seven syndicated episodes that have been edited down and they include;
0402 - Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics
0403 - Buck Saves the Day
0410 - At the Zoo
0414 - Rock and Roll Girl
0416 - You Gotta Know when to Hold 'Em, Part 1
0421 - Peggy Made a Little Lamb
0419 - Rain Girl "
Excellent Show, Horrible Rip-Off DVD set
Kris | Palm Bay, FL United States | 08/30/2005
(2 out of 5 stars)
"I love this show more than most people should love a show. I'm a hardcore fan with No Ma'am and Property of Polk High t-shirts and a framed Christina Applegate poster from 1990. I love this show and that is why I am so appalled at how seven of the episodes in this set (including the Christmas classic It's a Bundyful Life) are cut episodes, aka syndicated cut shows!
SHAME ON SONY!
I am outraged that this set claims to be the complete fourth season when it is edited. Edited and complete are f**king antonyms!!!! This is flagrant false advertising!
Sure, it's good that the set didn't get the royal flush job that ROSEANNE did, a set that contains nothing but syndication butchered episodes, but nonetheless this is a let down. The other MWC sets, though seriously lacking in special features, at least contained the complete seasons (minus the opening theme on set three). Even the insipid little "Most Outrageous Episodes" discs contained uncut episodes, some of which re-appear on the season four set in cut form. What the heck is that?!?!?!
It's been explained that since Sony can no longer afford/are to cheap to afford to the rights to the "Love and Marriage" song, they've had to dig deep to search for various audio tracks, including dialouge tracks from the originals that were lost. They did, however, have the cut reruns tracks, so they used them. Rather than piece together a mix with new music, they just left the scenes out. They didn't even include them as rough deleted scenes in a bonus section. Well this is a stretch for me. How come the episode "Raingirl" is in uncut form on the "Most Outrageous" disc two but is cut on the season set? And "Love and Marriage" isn't playing in the course of the episode either, so that isn't the problem. Also, FOX aired the uncut versions of "It's a Bundyful Life part I and II" around Christmas of 2003. So apparently the tracks were not "lost" a year and a half ago. Sounds to me like Sony is making bad excuses for a job poorly done.
Bottomline is: this is bull!
While the set is still worth getting because this is likely the best season the show ever had, I am sickened by this current trend of murdering classic shows like this and cheapening the whole idea of what DVD entertainment is about. If things don't change DVD will go back to the boring format of featureless, frilless blah which was VHS.
To add injury to insult, the discs are also of poor quality, much poorer than the other sets, and even have digital skips, little lines that appear and sudden, though slight, blotches. These are very light smudges in the image, but they are there, and this is shameful.
Sony needs to redem themselves with the release of season five, otherwise I'm done buying these sets, and anything else from sony entertianment, as any self-respecting consumer would be."