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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:~~1_22_1556~~1 22 1556.jpg\|link=Keeping Up Appearances\|right]] {{quote\|"''Take my wife.'' '''Please!'''"}} Line 8: ''[[Married... with Children]]'' was probably the first time this trope was seen on American television, but it's been a mainstay of [[British Telly Tropes\|British shows]] since [[The Fifties]]. The name, for those who don't get it, is a reference to the line of the traditional wedding vows, "~~Lawful~~lawful wedded ~~life.~~wife". {{examples}} ~~== Comedy ==~~ * Too often a source of jokes in stand-up comedy. ~~== Comic Strips ==~~ * ''[[The Lockhorns]]'', though thankfully the eponymous couple apparently doesn't have kids.▼ * ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' since going into reprints/new-runs seems to spend a lot of time dwelling on how John is an insensitive dolt and the children have nothing better to do than make Elly's life harder. Perversely, the strip ''also'' implies that anyone who doesn't settle down and live the same kind of life is irresponsible, childish and a bad person.▼ == Live-Action TV == * The form reached its pinnacle of perfection in the sitcom ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]''.{{context}} * ''[[The King of Queens]]''{{context}} * ''[[Mad About You]]'' became this in the later years. * ''[[Curb Your Enthusiasm]]''{{context}} * The husband is the frigid one, but ''[[Married... with Children]]'' fits otherwise. * ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)\|Home Improvement]]'' occasionally slipped into this.{{context}} * As did ''[[Family Matters]]''.{{context}} * ''[['Til Death]]'' is somewhat of a [[Deconstruction]] in that the better you know Joy, the slobbier she seems, and the better a match for Eddie. * ''[[My Family]]''{{context}} * ''[[Keeping Up Appearances]]'' ~~-- Poor~~—Poor Richard deserves a sainthood for putting up with Hyacinth for all those years. * Any time a married couple is seen in ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'', it falls square into this. == Newspaper Comics == ▲* ''[[The Lockhorns]]'', though thankfully the eponymous couple apparently doesn't have kids. ▲* ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' since going into reprints/new-runs seems to spend a lot of time dwelling on how John is an insensitive dolt and the children have nothing better to do than make Elly's life harder. Perversely, the strip ''also'' implies that anyone who doesn't settle down and live the same kind of life is irresponsible, childish and a bad person. == Recorded and Stand Up Comedy == * Too often a source of jokes in stand-up comedy, going back at least as far as Henny Youngman's [[Catch Phrase]] "Take my wife. Please!" == Western Animation == * Done in plenty of old ~~cartoons -- examples~~cartoons—examples include ''[[Porky Pig\|Porky's Romance]]'',{{context}} ''[[Donald Duck\|Donald's Diary]]'',{{context}} and ''[[Daffy Duck\|His Bitter Half]]''.{{context}} {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Awful Wedded Life~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Marriage Tropes]] [[Category:Just for Pun]] [[Category:Show Genres]] ▲[[Category:Awful Wedded Life]]