[post_page_title]Ed’s First Impression[/post_page_title]
Ed O’Neill got the part of Al Bundy largely due to the first impression he made on the casting directors. Initially, he had been called in to do a reading after a Fox executive had remembered his performance as Lenny in a stage production of ‘Of Mice & Men.’
When Ed showed up to the audition, he took a deep breath, slumped his shoulders, lazily walked to where the casting judges were seated. He had embodied Al Bundy without even knowing it!
[post_page_title]”Not The Cosby’s”[/post_page_title]
Before it was Married… With Children, the producers were seriously considering calling the show “Not The Cosby’s.” For anyone who missed out on the clever humor of Bill Cosby and the Huxtable clan – they were a wholesome, hard-working, fairly wealthy family who lived in the suburbs of New York.
The Bundy’s were the anti-Cosby, although, I don’t think we needed such an obvious name for the show that would deliberately point that out. The Bundy’s were clearly a different breed.
