This episode is one of the funniest of the show. Katey Sagal is the best in this episode showing more character range with Peg Bundy showing that deep down she could actually be loving and domesticated. The jokes in this episode are raunchy as usually but very unexpected. What i mean here is the delivery catches you off guard. I started rewatching the series after a few years and this show has help up well and is still hilarious, and season 11 mainly this episode and live nude peg hold up there with the first 5 seasons.
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Katey Sagal shines.
PWNYCNY6 August 2009
What a wonderful episode. Katey Sagal shows that she is a great actress. She really stars and her transformation from a mean, vicious, nasty shrew to a generous, supportive and modest wife was impressive, even astounding. It's just too bad that the writers chose not to further develop the new Peg which was a much more attractive, enjoyable and amusing character than the grumpy, scowling, old Peg. The gag is that Al somehow brainwashed Peg into believing that she is a generous, giving person who puts family first. The question is: who is the real Peg? The disgusting, self-centered, dumbo or the giving, caring, and far more attractive paragon of virtue?
What would have been so terrible if the writers had kept the new Peg? Better yet, what about if there was a scene where Peg is in one of her more irritable and nasty moods, giving Al a really hard time, mocking him mercilessly, belittling his manhood, deriding him for being a shoe salesman, and then, while in the middle of her latest tirade, she suddenly stops, lapses into a stupor, snaps out of it and undergoes a complete change of personality that no one else notices at first but which soon becomes apparent. Might have made for an interesting episode, or perhaps a spin off.
What would have been so terrible if the writers had kept the new Peg? Better yet, what about if there was a scene where Peg is in one of her more irritable and nasty moods, giving Al a really hard time, mocking him mercilessly, belittling his manhood, deriding him for being a shoe salesman, and then, while in the middle of her latest tirade, she suddenly stops, lapses into a stupor, snaps out of it and undergoes a complete change of personality that no one else notices at first but which soon becomes apparent. Might have made for an interesting episode, or perhaps a spin off.
The perfect Peggy.
BA_Harrison15 January 2023
Al's dreams come true when Peggy hits her head and suffers from amnesia: he is able to reprogram her to becomes the perfect wife who loves to cook and clean but who doesn't enjoy sex. Al has his NO MA'AM pals over for an evening of TV wrestling (complete with very sexy ring girl), but Al finds himself turned on by his perfect wife and takes her upstairs. While having sex, Peggy's memory comes back.
This one is okay - no classic, but sporadically funny (I particularly enjoyed the bat in the kitchen cupboard). It's nice to see Peggy actually doing something other than sitting on the couch eating bon bons, but her perfect housewife persona is destined to come to an end. At least Al was happy for a while.
Meanwhile, Bud is amused that his stupid sister thinks that a mirror in the bathroom is a window and that there is a blonde next door who smiles back at her. At the end, it turns out that there IS a girl next door, and that she is Kelly's doppelganger.
This one is okay - no classic, but sporadically funny (I particularly enjoyed the bat in the kitchen cupboard). It's nice to see Peggy actually doing something other than sitting on the couch eating bon bons, but her perfect housewife persona is destined to come to an end. At least Al was happy for a while.
Meanwhile, Bud is amused that his stupid sister thinks that a mirror in the bathroom is a window and that there is a blonde next door who smiles back at her. At the end, it turns out that there IS a girl next door, and that she is Kelly's doppelganger.
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