First Impression
Ed O’Neill got the role of Al Bundy mainly because of the casting directors’ first impression of him. Initially, Ed had been invited to come in for a reading since an executive at Fox had remembered the performance he did as Lenny on ‘Of Mice & Men’ – that is, its stage production. Turning up for the audition, Ed breathed deeply, hunched his shoulders, and walked lazily to the place where the show’s casting judges had been seated. He had become Al Bundy without being even aware of it!
First Impression
Not The Cosby’s
Before it was Married…With Children, the producers were seriously considering calling the show “Not The Cosby’s.” For people who hasn’t been witness to the clever comedy of Bill Cosby as well as the Huxtable family – they were wholesome, hardworking, fairly wealthy family who lived in suburban New York. In short, the Bundys were actually the anti-Cosbys. However, we don’t think there was a need for a name so obvious that it would intentionally point out that fact. The Bundys and the Cosbys were clearly not cut from the same cloth.
Not The Cosbys
