21 Secrets Producers Hid From Fans On Married With Children

Christina Applegate kickstarted her acting career with her role as Kelly on Married… with Children. Of course, by now we already know that she went on to take many other big time TV and film roles after the sitcom went off the air. In fact, she was so in demand that she juggled being on the show and working on the 1999 film Nowhere, which required her to dye her hair red so she had to wear a wig during filming for Married… with Children. Interestingly, her co-star Katey Sagal had to wear a red wig when filming as Peggy.

Even early on, Pamela Anderson makes quite an impression. She first appeared on Married… with Children at 23 in 1990 during the 5th season of the show. She played Yvette, a bodacious and beautiful blonde in the show’s sexy dream sequences. Sounds just perfect for her, doesn’t it? She returned to the show the following year as a character named Cashew. As we already know, Pam’s career skyrocketed after that when she took roles in Home Improvement and Baywatch. More recently in 2010 and 2012, she competed in Dancing with the Stars. Now, the model-turned-actress is turning 50 in July and is busy being an activist for PETA, being a mom to her two boys and, more recently, being remarried to her ex-husband Rick Salomon.

Christina Applegate may be a huge Hollywood star now, but she was first known as Al and Peggy’s promiscuous blonde bombshell daughter Kelly on Married… with Children. After the series ended, she starred as a single mom on Jesse, played the lead in Samantha Who? (where she was also an executive director), and took more movie roles in hit movies like the Sweetest Thing and Anchorman movies. Amid her career struggles, she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Fortunately, her cancer was detected early and wasn’t the life-threatening kind. Just two weeks after her condition was announced to the public, she had a double mastectomy and was declared cancer free. It was interesting how she has become a spokesperson for and has helped raise millions for breast cancer awareness five years earlier. Since then, she has become more of an activist and even found her own charitable organization, Right Action for Women, dedicated to breast cancer screening.

Despite the obvious difficulty in casting young actors in TV shows, the producers of Married… with Children took a shot with David Faustino for the role of Bud Bundy. Fortunately, the child star ended up growing up with the show and did a total of 259 episodes. It later led to him bagging the role of the character Mako in the cartoon, Legend of Korra.

The Bundy family showed quite a contrast compared to the Cosby, despite the shows airing in the same TV sitcom era. While the Cosby played the fun-loving and proper family, the Bundys’ reputation was tainted with onscreen raunchiness and displeasing character traits. Of course, in real life, it was Bill Cosby who ended up having legal issues in real life.