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Sounds familiar? Well, it should.

''[[Happy Together]]'' is a [[Foreign Remake|Russian remake]] of ''[[Married ~~With~~ Children]]''. What makes it particularly notable is that the remake not only covered all of the original episodes, but is [[Overtook the Series|currently airing with completely new episodes]], some of which are co-written by the original ''[[Married ~~With~~ Children]]'' writers, kind of a semi-official continuation of the beloved series.

''[[Happy Together]]'' is a [[Foreign Remake|Russian remake]] of ''[[Married... with Children]]''. What makes it particularly notable is that the remake not only covered all of the original episodes, but is [[Overtook the Series|currently airing with completely new episodes]], some of which are co-written by the original ''[[Married... with Children]]'' writers, kind of a semi-official continuation of the beloved series.

Anyways, [[There Is No Such Thing As Notability]].

Anyways, [[There Is No Such Thing as Notability]].

As of October 2010, three American seasons worth of brand new episodes were aired, and more are to come.

The character's are:

* Gennadiy "Gena" Bukin, the bitter shoe salesman. Based on [[Married ~~With~~ Children|Al Bundy]].

* Gennadiy "Gena" Bukin, the bitter shoe salesman. Based on [[Married... with Children|Al Bundy]].

* Evdokiya "Dasha" Bukina, the red-haired bonbon-eating lazy "housekeeper" from a crazy family. Based on Peggy Bundy.

* Svetlana "Sveta" Bukina, the blonde [[The Ditz|ditz]]. Based on Kelly Bundy.

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** Dasha's fat mother's voice is heard from upstairs a few times before the episode where she moved in was aired.

** Just like in the parent show, the [[Series Finale]] (in this case, a [[Series Fauxnale]]) was aired as the penultimate episode.

* [[Playing Gertrude]]: The actors who play adults in their fourties are actually in their thirties or even late twenties. Sadly, it shows, and thus them being old borders on [[Informed Ability]]. But their good portrayal of the characters and (except for Tolik/Jefferson) their resemblance to the original cast rescue them from the [[WTH Casting Agency]].

* [[Playing Gertrude]]: The actors who play adults in their fourties are actually in their thirties or even late twenties. Sadly, it shows, and thus them being old borders on [[Informed Ability]]. But their good portrayal of the characters and (except for Tolik/Jefferson) their resemblance to the original cast rescue them from the [[WTH? Casting Agency]].

* [[Pragmatic Adaptation]]: the producers chose not to adapt some of the episodes because the result wouldn't be good. Some of the episodes were rewritten to fit in the [[Setting Update|new setting]], the most egregious example being the remake of "The House That Peg Lost", which nevertheless managed to stay good.

* [[Race Lift]]: Griff's counterpart Danila is white, and so is Officer Dan's counterpart Officer Petrov ([[Justified Trope|justified]], as there are very few African people in Russia).

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* [[Celebrity Paradox]]: Subverted. Dasha becomes extremely obsessed with a new soap opera, where the main actress looks exactly like her, though nothing really says the actress in the soap is in-universe the actress who in reality portrays Dasha, as there's [[No Name Given]].

* [[Continuity Nod]]: In an episode, Gena gets kidnapped (actually, rescued) by aliens, who thank him for giving them his socks a few years back.

* [[Cursed ~~With~~ Awesome]]: Roma is revealed to have no sense of smell because of a toy stuck in his skull, just behind the nose (which explains why Bud/Roma always asked Kelly/Sveta to smell his perfume before going on a date). Once it's extracted, he develops an amazing sense of smell. But he decides to put the toy back in when he can't go out with an attractive girl who wears too much perfume.

* [[Cursed with Awesome]]: Roma is revealed to have no sense of smell because of a toy stuck in his skull, just behind the nose (which explains why Bud/Roma always asked Kelly/Sveta to smell his perfume before going on a date). Once it's extracted, he develops an amazing sense of smell. But he decides to put the toy back in when he can't go out with an attractive girl who wears too much perfume.

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: the Bukins finally resolve to stealing in one episode. At the end, the angry neighbors take back the stolen goods and then some more, leaving the Bukins' house completely empty.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]: The new owner of the shoe store seems to have become this.