After 10 years of starring as Al Bundy on Married… with Kids, Ed O’Neill came upon the present was being canceled the identical means most viewers did: from a stranger on the road.
On the most recent episode of the podcast MeSsy with Christina Applegate & Jamie-Lynn Sigler, O’Neill, 78, sat down with the co-hosts to debate his time taking part in Applegate’s father on the collection and the way he discovered it was coming to an finish.
“I used to be again in my hometown, and I used to be at this little mattress and breakfast … and it was a gorgeous day. It was within the spring, and I got here out[side] … and so they had the gardens, you already know, and it was such a pleasant day,” O’Neill recalled to Applegate, 52, and Sigler, 43, setting the scene.
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“A automobile pulled in with the ‘Simply Married’ issues hanging off the again, you already know, the tin cans … and I assumed, ‘Oh, they, you already know, simply married.’ So I used to be standing there, and so they bought out of the automobile, and it was the husband and spouse,” the Trendy Household star recalled.
He continued, “She was within the robe, and he was within the tux. And he mentioned, ‘Oh my god. It is Al Bundy, in Ohio.’ And I mentioned, ‘Yeah. Congratulations. You bought married.’ ”
It didn’t take lengthy for the festivities to show into an uncomfortable second. “The girl mentioned, ‘We’re so sorry about your present,’ ” O’Neill mentioned. “And I mentioned, ‘What do you imply?’ And the man mentioned, ‘Oh my god. He would not know. It is on the radio. You bought canceled.’ ”
Regardless of the stunning second, O’Neill mentioned he nonetheless joined the comfortable couple for some champagne to have a good time their marriage. “They mentioned, ‘Oh, we’re so sorry,’ and I mentioned, ‘I might quite hear it from you.’ So yeah. I got here inside. I really like champagne.”
Married… with Kids adopted the working class, marital and coming-of-age struggles of a suburban Chicago household, which included Al Bundy (O’Neill), his spouse Peggy (Katey Sagal), their daughter Kelly (Applegate) and son Bud (David Faustino).
Applegate additionally remembered being blindsided by the information. “I came upon from a man who knew a man who labored for my assistant on the time. That is how I came upon. They by no means known as us,” she chimed in.
Including to his disappointment, O’Neill mentioned he by no means obtained his “final present present” from the community. “I mentioned, ‘I assumed The Golden Women bought Mercedes-Benzes once they did their final present,’ which they did,” the actor mentioned. “By no means bought a present.”