Peg Bundy was arguably the ultimate challenge to the domestic goddess trope. Get the hankies ready as we delve into tragic details about the cast of "Married… With Children." Katey Sagal’s dad died in a tragic accident These beloved stars are resilient to say the least. Some of the show’s actors struggled with financial woes and drug misuse, while others faced harrowing loss. But the entertainment industry is nothing if not fickle and while a number of the aforementioned stars have enjoyed prosperous post-"Married… With Children" careers, fame and riches were not everlasting for others. As a result, the series made stars out of the Bundy family’s four main players: Ed O’Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate, and David Faustino. Proving extremely popular with the public, it remained one of Fox’s highest rated shows. The show dispelled notions of the idealized all-American nuclear family and each week gave its viewers a glaring message: the Protestant work ethic doesn’t, well, work. "Married… With Children," on the other hand, omitted all sentiment and pathos from the plot. While a show like "The Simpsons" was renowned for sardonic observations in its ’90s heyday, the storylines still relied heavily on sentimentality and traditional family values (both shows came out on the fledgling Fox Network). Love and marriage go together like a horse and carriage: such was the ironic mantra of irreverent ’80s and ’90s sitcom "Married… With Children," one that was pivotal in popularizing cynicism within mainstream comedy narratives. The box set, the second volume of RCA's Elvis retrospective, covers his recording career from the first post-Army records in the early '60s through the 1969 "comeback" sessions that produced "Suspicious Minds.The following article contains references to suicide, addiction, and death. "I think the point is once you remove the movie music and you're just dealing with the music Elvis made in the studio, you actually see a much wider range than what he made in the 1950s," said critic Peter Guralnick, who wrote the liner notes for Elvis: From Nashville to Memphis, a five-record boxed set that compiles the King's nonmovie '60s music. Buried under the schlocky soundtracks - sometimes as many as three a year - were songs as good, or even better, than his famous hits of the previous decade. The Rolling Stones sang "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" the King offered "(There's) No Room to Rhumba in a Sports Car."īut did Elvis really go soft after getting out of the Army? Some think his downfall had as much to do with marketing as it did with music. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Presley was filming Clambake. To be an Elvis Presley fan in the 1960s could be as awkward as defending Frankie Avalon. Boxed set covers Elvis from early to late '60s
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