These ‘Real American’ Sitcoms Are More Socially Relevant Than Roseanne

Married… With Children Is About American Desperation

Married… With Children premiered one year before Roseanne and ran two years longer. The show followed the Bundys, a family living in poverty who often stole what they needed to survive. Behind the crass jokes and sexist gags, the show portrayed an all too real segment of America not shown since.

Where Roseanne fails to tell a story about a family with no money, Married… With Children focuses on this aspect of the Bundy’s. During one season a storyline focused on whether Bud, a straight-A student, would be able to go to college because the family couldn’t afford to send him.