“Hooters, hooters, yum, yum, yum. Hooters, hooters on a girl that’s dumb.”

Life according to Al Bundy is what “Married with Children” meant to the world.

Like the ringmaster in a failing three-ring circus, Al took ahold of the reigns of life and drove it into the ground.

Yet, he did it with flying colors.

In 1987, FOX released “Married with Children” to the viewing audience. Living by the phrase “Not the Cosbys,” (“Married with Children’s” working title) life with the Bundys was sobering.

The facts of life? No, it was more like the cracks in life. “Married with Children” showed TV land a new, more realistic family. An imperfect American family.

“Married with Children” had every politically incorrect point of view one could think of, yet it didn’t discriminate. “Married with Children” made fun of everyone and everything equally.

Marital discord was commonplace among the Bundys.

It was common for Al to say things like, “I had a dream last night. A big, red-haired mosquito in tight pants was hovering over me sucking money out of my wallet,” referring to his wife Peggy.

Or, “We all have to live with our disappointments … I have to sleep with mine.”

On “Married With Children,” even fatherly advice was constructed around a sad truth more than a false reality.

“Son, let this be a lesson to you: Never do tequila shooters within a country mile of a marriage chapel,” Al said.

Other “Married With Children” characters balanced out the dysfunctional family motif.

Kelly, the hot blonde bimbo, and Bud, the horny teenage thief, teamed up as the family’s dynamic anti-duo. They satirically prophecized a future generation of idiots raised by idiots.

And who can forget the wife, Peg? Peg was a stereotype of everything wrong with women, and she glorified it.

Trouble with bills, neighbors and the law was never anything new. Every struggle brought the audience closer to Bundy’s point of view.

The whole underlining motif in the life of the Bundys was one simple thing: They were heroes for every underprivileged American family – pure, unlucky, white-trash heroes.