Who was in the wrong here?

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MadStan said:
I think Peggy’s character is misunderstood. She landed a shoe salesman as a husband and probably got pregnant before they were married. It was probably a shotgun wedding.

She is there side by side is misery with her husband enjoying the few victories life throws at them (getting one-up on their own kids, or winning a baseball game.)

But she got shoes for life and that’s her payoff for her own lousy mistakes. But she loves him and he loves her when the chips are down.

And that’s about (usually) as good as it gets in a real marriage. Or when you have children and they drain the life and goodness out of your life as you slave to raise these ungrateful little cunts that will in 16 years beg you to babysit while they go out drinking.

And she’s smoking. Leggy. Crazy hair and sometimes even gets laid by her own husband.

If you aren’t married with kids you won’t get it that she is a near perfect house wife.
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Nah dude, if your children need to dumpster dive to find food while you eat bonbons then you fail as a human being.
 
Fun fact, one of the Russian channels bought a license for adaptation of the show in early 2000s
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UnKillShredDur said:
I honestly don't remember lol. But the actress is a dyke irl so that makes it funnier.
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Steve grew a pair of balls and took off. So Marcy ended up marrying Jefferson during a bender and was horrified to find out she was now Marcy Darcy. :lol:
Jefferson was a lazy metrosexual. He leeched off of Marcy but since he was easier to manipulate than Steve she didn't seem to mind too much.
 
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MadStan said:
I think Peggy’s character is misunderstood. She landed a shoe salesman as a husband and probably got pregnant before they were married. It was probably a shotgun wedding.
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It's explain in the show but yep, that's exactly what happened.

The backstory is that in high school, Al was the star quarterback, Peggy a cheer leader, and the shoe store was just meant to be a summer job before Al went off to college. But then Peggy got pregnant with Kelly and Al was forced into marrying her, and couldn't get a better job so the shoe store became his career.

It's funny watching the early seasons where they do clearly love each other, they've just been beaten down. Peggy is just a lazy house wife who can't cook or clean, while Al's a burnt out cynic. And then Al became more bitter and angry while Peggy became more reckless with money, driving them deeper and deeper into debt, wasting money on trash she lost interest in quickly. Whenever they had money, they went back to lovey dovey and cared for each other.

To answer the thread question... Peggy moreso. Al could have tried to get a better job, but Peggy was the idiot wasting every penny they had on her whims and refusing to accept her own flaws. Yeah, she was a hot wife, but with all the shit she put him through, I can see why Al hated her and had no interest in sex after a while.
 
BradeRunna said:
No. That's just how young they were early on. The show started airing in 1987. It was on TV for 11 years.
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Also, when you rewatch tv shows or movies you saw as a child, the kid characters look way younger than you remember.
 
Dysnomia said:
Steve grew a pair of balls and took off. So Marcy ended up marrying Jefferson during a bender and was horrified to find out she was now Marcy Darcy. :lol:
Jefferson was a lazy metrosexual. He leeched off of Marcy but since he was easier to manipulate than Steve she didn't seem to mind too much.
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There was no such thing as metrosexuals in the 90's though.
Arthur Morgan said:
It's explain in the show but yep, that's exactly what happened.

The backstory is that in high school, Al was the star quarterback, Peggy a cheer leader, and the shoe store was just meant to be a summer job before Al went off to college. But then Peggy got pregnant with Kelly and Al was forced into marrying her, and couldn't get a better job so the shoe store became his career.

It's funny watching the early seasons where they do clearly love each other, they've just been beaten down. Peggy is just a lazy house wife who can't cook or clean, while Al's a burnt out cynic. And then Al became more bitter and angry while Peggy became more reckless with money, driving them deeper and deeper into debt, wasting money on trash she lost interest in quickly. Whenever they had money, they went back to lovey dovey and cared for each other.

To answer the thread question... Peggy moreso. Al could have tried to get a better job, but Peggy was the idiot wasting every penny they had on her whims and refusing to accept her own flaws. Yeah, she was a hot wife, but with all the shit she put him through, I can see why Al hated her and had no interest in sex after a while.
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Peggy isn't even that attractive. She is mid at best. Al should have kept his dick in his pants. He would have been better off.
 
millais said:
The show was remade in other countries. I think the most famous and popular remake is the Russian one.
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The Middle-Eastern one was good but never got past the pilot because the first time she spoke back to her husband he performed an honor killing.
 
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Arthur Morgan said:
It's explain in the show but yep, that's exactly what happened.

The backstory is that in high school, Al was the star quarterback, Peggy a cheer leader, and the shoe store was just meant to be a summer job before Al went off to college. But then Peggy got pregnant with Kelly and Al was forced into marrying her, and couldn't get a better job so the shoe store became his career.

It's funny watching the early seasons where they do clearly love each other, they've just been beaten down. Peggy is just a lazy house wife who can't cook or clean, while Al's a burnt out cynic. And then Al became more bitter and angry while Peggy became more reckless with money, driving them deeper and deeper into debt, wasting money on trash she lost interest in quickly. Whenever they had money, they went back to lovey dovey and cared for each other.

To answer the thread question... Peggy moreso. Al could have tried to get a better job, but Peggy was the idiot wasting every penny they had on her whims and refusing to accept her own flaws. Yeah, she was a hot wife, but with all the shit she put him through, I can see why Al hated her and had no interest in sex after a while.
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So true! Al had the best fat jokes of all time, too. There’s a YouTube video of his greatest slants and they are golden.

I wouldn’t call Al the catch of the century either and I doubt even if Peggy hadn’t blown the money it would have gone to a better cause. Kids are vacuum cleaners with money. The more there is, the faster they suck it up.
 
MadStan said:
So true! Al had the best fat jokes of all time, too. There’s a YouTube video of his greatest slants and they are golden.

I wouldn’t call Al the catch of the century either and I doubt even if Peggy hadn’t blown the money it would have gone to a better cause. Kids are vacuum cleaners with money. The more there is, the faster they suck it up.
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Couple of compilations, but here's a good one.

 
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