I mean…kind of? It was created because the creators of Married with Children were told some of their ideas were not ok to put on Fox. So they sold the WB on the idea of making a new show for their network that was exactly like Married with Children, using all the ideas that Fox told them they couldn’t use. In essence, the “real” version of the show they wanted to make.
It would be like if Futurama had just been called “Life in Hell”, and instead of a futuristic setting, it was exactly like the Life in Hell comics he made 40 years ago, now in animated form, and people thinking Life in Hell art style is ripping off The Simpsons.
It was a blatant rip-off
I mean…kind of? It was created because the creators of Married with Children were told some of their ideas were not ok to put on Fox. So they sold the WB on the idea of making a new show for their network that was exactly like Married with Children, using all the ideas that Fox told them they couldn’t use. In essence, the “real” version of the show they wanted to make.
It would be like if Futurama had just been called “Life in Hell”, and instead of a futuristic setting, it was exactly like the Life in Hell comics he made 40 years ago, now in animated form, and people thinking Life in Hell art style is ripping off The Simpsons.