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Article: The Bundys meet the censors at Fox. ('Married with Children' television program; Fox Broadcasting Co.)(Cover Story)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- September 11, 1995
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Roland McFarland races across town in his black Aurora toward Sony Pictures Entertainment. He arrives at Stage 24 just minutes before the cameras start rolling for the season premiere of "Married ... With Children." Upstairs in the greenroom, the 52-year-old vice president of broadcast standards at Fox Broadcasting--the person who in simpler times was known as the censor--joins about a dozen writers, producers and network executives facing a wall of video monitors.
It isn't long before "Married ... With Children," the longest-running sitcom on the air today, lives up to its reputation for raunchiness. In the first scene, Peggy Bundy, the first lady of dysfunctional ...