Twenty-five years ago, the new Fox Network began airing their first prime time sitcom, Married... with Children. The show, about a dysfunctional working-class family in Chicago, ran for eleven seasons until 1997. The series went into syndication beginning in 1991 and reruns can still be seen.
But just because the series went out of production in 1997 in the United States doesn't mean it's passé. The concept, characters, and even scripts from the original Fox series have been remade in countries all over the world.
BULGARIA
The newest version is called Zheneni s deca v Balgaria, which translates to Married with Children in Bulgaria. You can watch the entire first episode at YouTube (and you'll find other episodes if you can read the titles). The series debut last month inspired redditor sudurjalimonovsok to post a picture of the TV family. The resulting thread had redditors from all over the world showing us their countries' versions of the show.
ARGENTINA
The Argentine version called Casados con Hijos debuted in 2005, and is broadcast to Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Peru. Only two seasons were filmed, but they were so popular they still air in reruns.
CHILE
The Chilean version is named Casados con hijos, the same as the Argentine show.
COLOMBIA
Casados con hijos is also the show's name in Colombia. What does it mean? Married with Children.
CROATIA
This Croatian show is titled Bracne Vode, which means The Waters of Marriage. Two seasons were produced, in 2008 and 2009.
GERMANY
The German show Hilfe, meine Familie spinnt only ran for 26 episodes during 1993. The publicity still makes it look pretty grim.
HUNGARY
The Hungarian show Egy rém rendes család Budapesten aired for 26 episodes in 2006-07. The name is supposed to mean Married with Children in Budapest, but a literal translation is A gruesomely decent family in Budapest.
POLAND
Redditor karmazon says the Polish version is awesome, and has been airing since 1999. The title is Swiat wedlug Kiepskich, which translates to The World According to the Kiepskis. You can tell by the picture that this production strayed a bit from the original formula instead of trying to clone the American sitcom. The family is purely Polish, and so is the production. However, the series takes its inspiration from both Married... with Children and The Simpsons.
RUSSIA
Russia aired the American series for years, then did their own version called Shastlivy Vmeste, which means Happy Together. It uses translated scripts from the original Fox episodes.
SPAIN
In Spain, the name of the show is Matrimonio con hijos.
TURKEY
The show seen in Turkey is titled Evli ve Çocuklu. It has been on air since 2004.
UNITED KINGDOM
The series Married For Life was a remake of Married... with Children produced in 1996. Only seven episodes were produced, and from what I've heard, even fewer were seen by any measurable number of people.
AUSTRALIA
Yeah, it's a joke.
(All images were gathered from the reddit thread)
1) Ridicule those in power, i.e. politicians or the boss
2) Give ordinary people something or somebody out-of-the-ordinary to talk about, e.g. celebrity gossip
3) Let people laugh at characters who are clownish, but take themselves seriously, e.g. the characters in Fraser
4) Allow people to laugh at characters who share their own less-than-desirable qualities as in Roseanne
5) Present characters who are such losers that almost anyone can feel superior to them, e.g. the Bundys
All are time honored formulas.
Like what they did was Journalism... Get real dude (or dudette)!
a link to the face book page of the show:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9D-%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%A1-%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9C/212249562160259
p.s the original is still on reruns in israel
UK was on my list, right before the last entry of Spain. I'm not surprised though as you don't strike me as one who knows how to verify their claims.
I'm the 7th post on the page with 178 upvotes. If you didn't see my post you're either lying or incompetent. Seeing how your idea of "Journalism" is stealing reddit thread content and reposting it on your little blog, well I guess you're telling the truth.
As far as I can tell, you didn't upload, download, or research any of this. You found the comments that had pictures and relisted the links. I found those comments and downloaded the pictures. Then I looked up each show, got some information on them, and posted source links. And gave credit to reddit. Several times.
I had a couple more items in my list than you did ...like the UK show and the porn parody picture, but dropped the porn parody because I didn't want to research it, and any source links wouldn't be right for Neatorama.
If you want to update your list, http://img.mako.co.il/2012/04/17/mj5431_c.jpg
source (in Hebrew): http://www.mako.co.il/entertainment-tv-media/tv/Article-cbe18e405dfb631006.htm&sCh=3d385dd2dd5d4110&pId=237936823
Google-translated: http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mako.co.il%2Fentertainment-tv-media%2Ftv%2FArticle-cbe18e405dfb631006.htm%26sCh%3D3d385dd2dd5d4110%26pId%3D237936823
Couldn't help but notice you just took my list and put it up as a blog post. Please contact me so we can discuss my share of the ad revenue this generates!
http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/rg2tc/my_country_is_remaking_married_with_children_here/c45pz3t
Now they seem relatively normal.
A fat lady hippoed into the store today...
I am curious as to why the Chilean version decided to add a parrot.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjLE5m3Vlpg
They also made a "Who's The Boss". I can't think a good reason why. WHY? I mean... the network at the time (1999) had the rights for "Mad About You" and other better shows. I hate TV Networks executives.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eine_schrecklich_nette_Familie