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TV Shows and Real Life     TV shows are probably the primary source of entertainment for theaverage Ameri dirty dog. more or less of them run from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. with reruns startingat 5 p.m. We postdate them because they give us something to do, a way to relax,something to help pass the time. We all watch different shows, some people like"Married...with Children", some are repulsed with it, but like to watch "HomeImprovement", what draws embark onicular crowds to certain shows? How do these shows introduce the average American, or do they portray average Americans at all?These are questions many writers have attempted to answer, at least one editorialin almost every newspaper is dedicated to this topic. I think the people liketo see shows that portray them, or what theyd like to be.     "Married...with Children" runs on blur 29 on Mondays at 830 p.m., it hasbeen on air for a long time, and has passed its 200th episode last season. Themain characters of the show is womens raiment salesman Al Bundy, his wife Peg,dorky son Bud, and slutty daughter Kelly. Al loves to watch TV, bowl with hisbuddies, drink and go to the "nudy bar". Marcie and Jefferson, are the Bundysneighbors and also determine an active part in the show. Most shows consist of Algoing somewhere or doing something and everyone else making fun of him when hefails miserably. Al is someone you can hardly announce a father to his kids, hesdoesnt take care of them and he does absolutely nothing father-like for them orwith them. Al is constantly complaining about his marriage, he says that if hewas alter that night, none of this would have happened. He calls his childrenaccidents and the only good memory he has, is of him being a great high schoolfootball player, which he would take to the next level had all his dreams notbeen crushed by Peg. The only living thing Al really likes on the show is hisdog, Buck, to which he c an relate as they are both dirty and nasty. Every showit is the same kind of thing, over and over again. Peg is trying to convince Alto have sex, Al blames Peg for his failure in life, Kelly is screwing some guyin the back seat of a car, and Bud is looking at "nudy magazines". Last Monday,the 27, Al decided to join the Army Reserve in order to escape his family. JohnOzersky writes in his article entitled "TVs Anti-Families Married.