It's a Bundyful Life

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"It's a Bundyful Life" is a two-part episode of the television sitcom, Married... with Children, based on the Frank Capra movie It's a Wonderful Life. It is episode 12 and 13 of season four.

First Aired: December 17, 1989, on FOX.

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

1 Plot
2 Cast
3 Trivia
4 Episode guide

[edit] Plot

Unable to buy his family any presents, thus ruining another Christmas, Al is visited by a guardian angel who shows him what life would be like if he were never born. To his horror, Al sees that Peggy is cooks, cleans, does housework, and is married to a man named Norman Jablonsky, Kelly is a virgin and a straight-A college student, and Bud is one of the popular kids and respects women. Out of spite, Al decides to have everything go back to the way it was, and the angel receives his wings.

[edit] Cast

Kate Romero — Midge
Don Sparks — Santa Horowitz
Tim Eyster — Franklin/Damon
Ann Nelson — Elderly Woman
Kristeen Buxton — Denise
Thomas Ian Nicholas — Bobby
Eve Smith — Mom
Sam Kinison — Angel
Ted McGinley — Norman Jablonsky

[edit] Trivia

Ted McGinley make a guest appearance here as Norman Jablonsky before becoming a cast member as Jefferson D'Arcy.

Sam Kinison was actually considered for the role of Al Bundy when the show was in pre-production, but producers felt he would be too controversial.

One of the few times that the title is spoken in the series-- in the first part of this episode when Al tells children a mangled-version of It was the Night Before Christmas. He ends it with "And Santa Claus spoke, as he broke wind with glee, when you're married with children....you'll never be free!" He then starts to tell them of the "Red-haired Grinch (Peggy) who Stole Uncle Al's Chances For Success." Another time was when Al told a woman 'I'm married.. with children.'