Firmly established as the fledgling Fox network's most successful (and most outrageous) sitcom, Married...With Children sails into its second season with more misadventures of the boorish Bundy family and their long-suffering neighbors, the Rhoadeses. As farcical and far-out as the plotlines had been in season one, the series' "real-life" quotient is virtually nonexistent in season two. In the two-part season opener, the Bundys take a vacation to Florida, where Peg (Katey Sagal) is kidnapped by an axe murderer and Al (Ed O'Neill) exerts the least possible energy to save her. Later episodes revolve around the sexual promiscuity of the Bundys' dog, Buck, Peg's revealing (in more ways than one) night out with neighbor Marcy (Amanda Bearse) at a male strip club, daughter Kelly (Christina Applegate) amazing one and all by actually passing her driver's test, 12-year-old son Bud's (David Faustino) tentative fling with a 21-year-old art student, the demise of Santa Claus on the Bundy property, and the first signs of marital disfunction in the Rhoades household. The most talked-about episode of season two was "Peggy Loves Al, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," in which the Fox network conducted a telephone poll during the original telecast (on February 14, 1988) to find out if the viewers really wanted Al to get off his chauvinistic high horse and tell Peggy that he really loves her. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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