married with children dodge

[73-charger-383]

This has been bothering me for awhile now.  Does anyone remember the tv show Married with Children?  --They had a dodge that was always kind of supposed to be a joke, but did they ever show it??  If they did, what kinda of car was it.

[Charge It!]

Dodge Dart,( I think it was a Duster) and it was pictured a couple times.
Here is a snipet from the show:
Al Bundy drives a brown (later red), '74 Dodge that he loves more than anything else in the world, and he wouldn't cange it against any other car (except a Dodge Viper). The Dodge premiered In episode 409, "Oh what a feeling". In this episode, Al bought several cars, but the Dodge was the only one, Al hadn't to push into his garage. In episode 917, "Get the Dodge out of hell" the Dodge got a new color: red. After runnig it through a car wash, it turns out it was really red, all the dirt was washed away. After that, Al mentioned that he really bought a red Dodge once, but this can't be true: already in episode 409 (Al buies his Dodge) the Dodge was brown. Bud said, it mainly consisted of chewing gum and paper clips to keep it from falling apart, the Dodge is composed of other dead Dodges and even was buried in Al's garden when it died. Mr. Shimokava, Marcies boss, mentioned that most of these Dodges were recalled to the factory, the other part disintegrated in the rain, making it a rarity.
From another site:
Al Bundy's Dodge - Rusty Dodge with optional black vinyl top owned by shoe salesman Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) on the sitcom MARRIED...WITH CHILDREN/FOX/1987-97. One of Al's few possessions included a bronze-colored 1974 Dodge Dart automobile with close to one million miles on the odometer. He starts the car with a screwdriver as the key. Al once got rid of this car in an attempt to get a better one. At the time it had 99,000 miles on the odometer. Al then bought a maroon-colored AMC Pacer and later a lime-green AMC Hornet. Unfortunately, both these cars were lemons. Frustrated, Al returned to the used car lot and purchased a Dodge Dart with only 18,000 miles. Unfortunately, this car was Al's original blue Dodge Dart that had been painted bronze and had its odometer illegally advanced to read 18,000 miles. Mechanically speaking, the Bundy Dodge couldn't reach 60 mph even if you dropped it out of a plane. The Dodge also sported all its original equipment including the seats, the oil and an 8-track player that cranked out such classics albums as "Born to Be Wild," "Meet the Four Seasons," "Meet the Supremes," and "The Four Seasons Meet the Supremes." Once when someone stole the car, Al's neighbor Marcy chastised him for leaving the car out on garbage day.

On the series' 200th episode "Get the Dodge outta Hell," the Dodge went into a car wash and came out with a brilliantly polished red finish (supposedly, the original color). It was so clean that Al thought the car had disappeared. Fortunately, the car was found and so were the precious mementos that he kept locked in the trunk, namely his copies of Big-Uns, a nudie magazine and a framed portrait of his family. Al once proclaimed "Dodge says something special about you." Peg (Katey Sagal) his wife countered "Damn right. 'I failed.'"

When Al could no longer maintain his car, (he needed a hard-to-find fuel pump) he buried his faithful car in the backyard. In the meantime, Al bought a red 1997 Testica 2000 convertible from Cal Stevens Motors. The Testica turned out to be a lemon. Working behind the scenes during his Testica troubles, Al's wife spent her spare time digging up the Dodge (she was offered $10,000 for the engine) while Al's next-door neighbor Jefferson Darcy (Ted McGinley), a former spy/commando used his connections with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro to scrounge up a fuel pump so that Al could resurrect his Dodge automobile. The Illinois license plates seen on the Bundy's car were 61CMS2;  2 RPH 72 and F3B359. Al's driver's license number reads 2C1835.

TRIVIA NOTE: Some inconsistencies included the facts that Al mentioned he had his car in high school in 1966 even though on two different occasions he says the car is a 1971 and a 1974 model. Also the car is obviously a 1970s model Plymouth Duster although referred to as a Dodge ("I don't want a Plymouth, Peg, I want my Dodge, dagnabbit!") Both Plymouth and Dodge were manufactured by Chrysler. Todd on BEAVIS AND BUTT-HEAD drives a 1973 Plymouth Duster. On the fantasy drama THE X-FILES/FOX/1993-2002 FBI agent Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) trailed a mutant killer named Leonard Betz who fed off the cells of those with cancer. Speaking on the man's special nature, Mulder commented "How evolved can a man be when he drives a Dodge Dart."

In the 1960s, the Dodge Girls, a bevy of beautiful spokes-models in white cowboy hats, appeared in the car company's ad campaign. They included Conny Van Dyke, Jeanne Wilson, Pamela Austin (1966-68); Joan Anita Parker (1968-70); and Cheryl Lynn Miller (1970-71) as well as other regional models like Daphne Harrington and Patricia A. Savage-Aranda who posed as Dodge girls in regional spots. Daphne Harrington, for example, served as the Regional Dodge Girl for a national advertising agency in the six-state region surrounding Oklahoma. The girls often touted the catchphrase "The Dodge Rebellion Wants You!". In later spots, a little fat sheriff named JW (played by Joe Higgins) shouted "You're in a heap of trouble boy!" in a series of successful ad spots for Dodge. 

[73-charger-383]

there's an old duster i'm supposed to go look at in a week.........maybe a MWC clone....lol

[bull]

I remember them calling it a Dart but it was a Duster.

[B5 Charger]

Looks like a Dart Sport to me.   

[Old Moparz]

I had a Dart Sport & a couple of Dusters, Bundy's car was definitely a Duster.

[Arthu®]

Yeah definitly is a Duster, I like the episode where kelly is tinting the windows on it and to get the bubbles out of the foil she uses a hammer. Hilarious.

Arthur

[bull]

Yeah definitly is a Duster, I like the episode where kelly is tinting the windows on it and to get the bubbles out of the foil she uses a hammer. Hilarious.

Arthur

Was that the one where she stuck it to Bud's face?

[Arthu®]

Yep that's the one... Dunno which episode it was.

[70charginglizard]

Married with children was awsome.

Remember the one where the dodge deal was going to give Al a viper when his dusters odometer went over 1 million miles. He drove it continously for days just to get it up to 999999 and something happened that screwed the whole deal. remeber....Classic!

[B5 Charger]

I think somebody moved it before they could show it to the Dodge people and it rolled over to all 0's again.  Poor Al.

[mikepmcs]

in the episode "Frat Chance"
they show it big time
just watched it 5 minutes ago on FX and it was that episode. sweet
by the way i love christina applegate
v/r
Mike

[Brightyellow69rtse]

yup definatly a duster im a huge married fan. damn shame its off the air but thats a different story forma different day. they car was never really bad they just made fun of dodge as much as possible.

one of my favorite episodes i dont know the name but als all worried the dodge is dying has running in and out of the garage ina panic and they show inside the garage and the cars hooked up to what appears to be life support for a car and its idling and running like crap. the car finally flatlines and he starts crying and they have a funeral to bury in in the yard and during the precession he jumps in the hole with her. awasome episode that should be seen by all imo......Mike

[Brock Samson]

A classic TV Show and Christina Is Yummie!   

[Ponch ®]

Married with children was awsome.

Remember the one where the dodge deal was going to give Al a viper when his dusters odometer went over 1 million miles. He drove it continously for days just to get it up to 999999 and something happened that screwed the whole deal. remeber....Classic!

once he gets the odometer to 999,999 he gets all paranod that something is gonna happen to the car, so he decides to stay up all night and guard it. He falls asleep while on the driver's seat and his arm accidental pushes the column shifter into "drive" and the car rolls down the driveway past 1,000,000 miles. Classic episode.

[JimShine]

I wonder if the red one was the same car or a replacement.

[THE CHARGER PUNK]

classic duster for a nice daily driver, did it ever specif the engine? im guessing a slant/6 or maybe a 318, but i dont think theres anyway its 340 eh?-MATT

[TheGhost]

classic duster for a nice daily driver, did it ever specif the engine? im guessing a slant/6 or maybe a 318, but i dont think theres anyway its 340 eh?-MATT

I don't think the writers of the show really cared what engine was in the Duster.

[Drache]

Some channel here on Canadian Cable has the episodes rerunning all the time. Can't remember which channel though, been without cable for months now