Synopsis

Al Bundy is an unsuccessful middle aged shoe salesman with a miserable life and an equally dysfunctional family. He hates his job, his wife is lazy, his son is dysfunctional (especially with women), and his daughter is dim-witted and promiscuous.

Moye were told by Garth Ancier and other Fox executives "to be as outrageous as they could be, doing the sort of material the Big Three would never allow on the air", wrote Daniel M.

During the show's development Christina Applegate had turned down the role of Kelly, so in the show's pilot episode, Tina Caspary played the role.

During the show's first season, 15 year old Applegate was paid $20,000 per episode.