on the script was "not the cosby show." how great. i mean, you know, you have to love that. they just were taking the piss out of american families. fun, great fun. hurry up bud. never wanted to get married, i'm married. never wanted to have kids, i got two of them. how the hell did this happen? the bundys were almost like a purposeful reaction to the perfection of the huxtables. and it was funny because, you know, you had this wonderful, perfect black family and these horrible, miserable white people. and each show worked on its own terms because you could find things to relate to in both. howdy neighbor. yeah, yeah, yeah. [ whispers ] i hate these people. why don't we sit down? there was a lot of fun to be had in, you know, al and peg bundy. bianculli: after fox introduces "married with children," it does very, very well, then back on abc, they came up with another major hit, "roseanne." you think this is a magic kingdom where you just sit up here on your throne. oh yeah? yeah! and you think everything gets done by some wonderful wizard. oh, poof, the laundry's folded. poof, dinner's on the table.