The Bundy Family
Last update February 26, 2006
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Important Basic Facts
The Bundys are a chaotic white trash family. They live in a one-family house in Chicago.
Al is married to
Peggy for years. They have two children: Kelly and
her younger brother Bud. They also have a dog. The
Bundys live next to Marcy and her husband. Ostensibly the Bundys don't really
like each other, but they will always stay together, or as Al
says: "Love, hate, look, we're a family, what's the difference?" (episode 501).
Their life is dominated by failure, but their lives go on, or as Al says: "Bundys are losers,
not quitters" (episode 708). Peggy and the kids blame their miserable life to Al. Therefore Peggy asks
Bud & Kelly to thank their father in an ironic way if something bad happens, and they go "thanks Dad".
But the Bundys also enjoy each other's failures.
However, they also have joyful moments where they like to do the Bundy cheer.
Their family car is an early 70s Dodge.
Useless Additional Facts
Al, Peggy and the kids went to the "James K. Polk High School". Terry Bradshaw visited Polk High for two
months in 1965 (1009). They played on the "New Market Mallers" softball team, which is part of the twenty-store and
under mall league. The correct Bundys' home address is "9764 Jeopardy Lane" (112, 211, 402, 513, 514, 517, 519,
521, 524, 608, 609, 620, 621, 625 (on a suitcase), 704, 713, 714, 720 (on Al's drivers license), 721, 722, 725,
804, 807, 811, 815, 824, 912, 922, 1007, 1011, 1022, 1106, 1117, 1122, 1123, The Tonight Show on April 29, 1996)
in Chicago, Illinois (720). At certain times, the house number was also shown the wrong way as "9674" (episodes 404,
408, 413, 414, 501, 503, 509 and 510), but in the opening credits from 402 to 415, "9674" is the number of the
Rhoades house (which is actually 9766). There's a theory about the two Bundy house numbers: Kelly accidentally
knocked down the middle figures and put them up the wrong way; the error was discovered later. The Bundys don't eat
vegetables (0313). Their phone
number is 555-2878 (episode 304). Al and Peggy married about 1971, on a 23rd of a month (110).
Their wedding song was "We've Only Just Begun" (515). "Their" song is "War" by Edwin Starr (103). The pilot of
the show was shot on December 12, 1986, with
other actors as Kelly and Bud. Then the producers looked for more
charismatic actors for the Bundy offspring, and all the scenes with Kelly and Bud had to be done again.
Many thanks to "Access Denied", Sagy Neumann, StuartM, Christian Zelger, Anders Johansson and
Konstantin Volkmann.
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