Or did you despise it with the power of 1,000 suns like I did? It grew so tiresome to hear the audience ooooh and ahhh and scream and holler like they did after somebody walked through the door or make a joke etc.

I didn't think there was anything wrong with it. Your basic, typical sitcom type of participation. What more do you want?

I thought it was pretty cool. In the early seasons, they never cheered when Al walked in the door. But once the show hit big time, they started cheering. Sometimes it got annoying when the audience would cheer when a pretty girl entered the room.

the audience was very loud in this show, but it didn't bother me... I liked the audience partecipation in the sitcoms!

It's the reason we stopped watching.

It started with the fifth season. At first, I thought it was annoying, but when the timing of it got better, it went along great with the show and made it better.

It started with the fifth season. At first, I thought it was annoying, but when the timing of it got better, it went along great with the show and made it better.

Your millage may of course vary, but pre-Jefferson, the audience didn't act like drunk goons and start hooting and screaming. And get this, they only laughed at jokes that were actually funny!

Yeah, that's a big reason I prefer the earlier seasons. Even in the early years, the audience participation was annoying, but I could deal with it. In the later years, however, it became unbearable. Basically, the audience itself went through a Flanderization. It's a shame, because I like just about everything else about the show.

Remember the time when Steve made a return appearance, and the audience literally cheered for minutes straight?

The audience of this show was The Big Bang Theory's audience of its day.

The studio audience on this show was annoying, in later seasons. I don't mind the earlier episodes, but the later years had so much hooting and hollering that it interrupted the show. When any character walked in the door, the viewers had to wait about a minute for the studio audience to settle down. After a few years, I stopped watching.

Yeah, I used to watch this show all the time back in the 90's. I'm not sure how I tolerated the audience participation back then.

Never bothered me.

No worst than the Happy Days crowd.

Seems like a silly thing to be annoyed over. It was an over the top, shocking sitcom with a mass following--of course the audience is going to go nuts. It became part of the show. A lot of the jokes and bits wouldn't have worked without the loud reactions. I see no problem with it.

The studio audience on this show was annoying, in later seasons. I don't mind the earlier episodes, but the later years had so much hooting and hollering that it interrupted the show. When any character walked in the door, the viewers had to wait about a minute for the studio audience to settle down. After a few years, I stopped watching.

The problem in later seasons wasn't the audience, it was the writing. The show had run its course IMO by season 7. When they brought that annoying Seven kid into the fray that's when the show jumped the shark. I still watched and there were some funny moments, esp between Al and Marcy, but overall the show ran out of ideas by season 7. It happens to all sitcoms, though.

When a live action show that revolves around shock toilet humor and dirty jokes that runs more than six years it's going to get stale but as mentioned before when compared to the obnoxiousness of the Happy Days trying to get themselves over the MCW audience was at least considerate and the actors didn't have to yell their lines.

Ed O'Neill in an interview for Archive for American Television (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXsoZn9_RE&t) said that the members of the United States Marine Corps. were invited to be apart of the studio audience. And they were often the most rowdy (especially during the early, live shows). It was all of the hooting and hollering that messed with the actors' timing.

Of all the people to bitch about he goes after the servicemen.

Ed O'Neill in an interview for Archive for American Television (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQXsoZn9_RE&t) said that he members of the United States Marine Corps. were invited to be apart of the studio audience. And they were often the most rowdy (especially during the early, live shows). It was all of the hooting and hollering that messed with the actors' timing.

So, I guess that explains it.

That's not to say that the show shouldn't have used a studio audience at all. They should have just toned it down a bit.

Or just use canned laughter.

The audience participation was especially bad (https://moviechat.org/tt0092400/Married-with-Children/58c748d16b51e905f672d775/The-show-became-unwatchable-when-the-audience-started-cheering) because it made the show feel a bit like a caricature of itself. MWC when it started was way more low-key and cynical feeling instead being an out and out cartoon. Ed O'Neill pretty much said it best that somebody could simply say "boobs" and the audience would immediately howl and holler.

Another thing that I meant to add is that Married...with Children started as a biting satire. But the older that it got the more uncomfortable it got, because the viewers enjoyed things like NO'MAM way too much in a non-satirical or non-ironic way. This pretty much goes hand in hand to the increased audience participation. They didn't seem to understand that what we're watching is a satire and took things way to heart.