Married....With Children: The Animated Series!

Sony is planning on rebooting Married.... With Children as an animated series.

Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Christina Applegate and David Faustino will reprise their roles for a reboot of the classic controversial sitcom. Ron Leavitt and Michael G. Moye created the series which was a hit on Fox.

Sony Television Entertainment confirms that Married... With Children is returning to the television as an animated series.

Did you know this sitcom was one of the longest running?

Did you know the cast were drawn into a series of comic book (mis)adventures?

The Bundys, the misfits of suburban Chicago who long fought for at least one good moment were on Fox for 11 seasons.

Ed O'Neill played Al Bundy, the protagonist and everyday man who worked at a women's shoe store struggling to please his wife and two children. Bundy is a born loser who constantly laments a lot in life, he nevertheless stands by his family, displaying wit, self-sacrifice, and resilience in times of crisis. Bundy is a simple, working-class man, forever regretful of the turns his life has taken since the end of high school. He was a star running back on the Polk High School football team. However, marriage to his high-school sweetheart (having gotten her pregnant) and a broken leg prevented him from attending college on a football scholarship.

Katey Sagal played Peg Bundy, is a lazy, self-indulgent wife. She refuses to work, cook or clean the house (although Peg occasionally displays an ability for domestic aptitude). She cites her laziness as family tradition, getting upset with Kelly when she gets a job. She claims that Wanker women never work, and in old pioneer days, "Wanker women were getting their hair done while Wanker men got theirs scalped." During the day, she likes to watch daytime talk shows, sit on the living room couch, and eat copious amounts of ice-cream BonBons (without ever gaining weight). Peg is a redhead (brunette in the first two seasons) with a bouffant hairdo and she usually wears combinations of modern-day 1980/1990s and dated 1960s-styled fashions with skin tight Spandex pants and shirts, and stiletto heels, which make her walk in a unique way. Peg smoked cigarettes in the first four seasons but then quit. 

The cast of Married.... With Children.

Christina Applegate played Kelly Bundy, the oldest child in the Bundy family. She is sarcastic and rebellious, dense and provocative, and typically dressed in more skimpy outfits. Despite being generally portrayed as a dullard, the show occasionally hints at Kelly's ironic intrinsic intellectual ability, which only exhibits itself on those rare occasions when she is not preoccupied with her social status or men. It has been demonstrated that she can absorb a limited amount of information very well, but will forget something that she learned in the past once her limit is reached. Kelly is also known to display excellent hand/eye coordination when playing pool or performing archery. She shows some characteristics of an idiot savant. One episode showed a flashback to when she was a toddler, showing her as a child prodigy, until a knock to the head caused the change of personality that Kelly would be better known for.

David Faustino played Bud Bundy, the youngest child in the Bundy family. He is depicted as a bratty socially inept loser. He is considered an antagonist, who especially enjoyed annoying his sister to the point of her extreme frustration. In subsequent seasons, he morphed into an unpopular, socially inept outcast, prone to self-serving schemes — many of which tended to involve attempts to impress girls. Bud regularly tries to boast himself to be attractive, sexy, and smooth, but is frequently rejected and/or caught in humiliating scenarios. Bud tries to attract girls with the help of various alter egos, including street rapper "Grandmaster B" — a persona often ridiculed by his family, who call him everything from "Bell-Ringer B" to "Bed-Wetter B." Another alter-ego is "Cool Bud," Bud's sexual, suave side with whom he eventually "merges," prompting him to become more "cool." Like his parents and sister, Bud is a surprisingly adept fighter, exhibiting a talent for generally besting an adversary, no matter their size, and has no qualms about using chairs or tables to even the odds. Of the Bundys, Bud seems to be the most self-conscious and easily embarrassed of them; he often pretends not to know his family, even scheming against them on occasion. Throughout the series, Bud shares an adversarial sibling rivalry with Kelly, with both regularly mocking, insulting and taunting the other. Often, however, they will collaborate in schemes that are mutually beneficial, and will come to the other's defense when an outside entity threatens one of them. Toward the end of the series, Bud becomes Kelly's agent.

The Bundys were in comics.

The series was considered too raunchy for television and earned the ire of a far right activist. 

Now if the idea is greenlight, it may show up on streaming or a network in 2023.

Alex Carter, a co-executive producer on “Family Guy,” is writing the animated version of the beloved sitcom and will serve as executive producer and showrunner. Sony Pictures Television is the studio, with Sony owning and distributing the original series.

Now Katey will be busy this year. She is set to reprise her role as Leela on Futurama.

Hulu is set to revive the series with 20 new episodes.