The Ted McGinley Curse: Fact or Fiction?

[@jeffreystreger2026]

Great video as usual. By the way, Ted McGinley currently has a supporting role on the Apple TV Plus series “Shrinking” and he’s quite good there also.

[@jamesbonnen]

I would say definite NO on Married With Children I enjoyed his character better than the other guy

[@jacobtoadstool492]

100% agreed. That was his best TV Series Ted has ever been on.

[@SarahsKnight0]

3:09 - Yeah, maybe, but honestly the season right after that, 8, is my favorite one on MWC.

[@B0rikua787]

Nah look up Michael Ealy and see how many one season show he has been in or how many shows get canceled after he joined the show

[@pedrorivera4564]

He is always brought later to shows so is hard to pin it on him.

[@writeralbertlanier3434]

A video about Ted McGinley aka The Show Kiĺller- interesting. He said in an Interview that when he did guest spots on TV shows, he tended to have lots of ideas- probably too many- and casts and others would usually tell him to just "slow down " just "Show up" and do the part. I think McGinley is a recurring / guest star actor who just didn't understand where his place was.

[@kali3665]

False, IMO. McGinley was on Married With Children for half its run, when it really became wild and crazy, and The Love Boat for at least two years, and I can't recall McGinley driving a storyline like the rest of the cast. Happy Days was already dying when McGinley joined, though it really looked funny to always see him in a full suit. Can't blame McGinley for the fall of these guys. I don't think his presence on Love Boat or Happy Days really "jumped the shark" because THAT boat, so to speak, already sailed earlier. As for Married, well, it was already starting to get weird before McGinley joined as Jefferson Darcy, but after he joined, he did alter the balance of the show, but I don't think it was to Married's detriment. Before, Steve and Marcy were the straitlaced, recently married couple serving as the contrast to the unconventional Bundys. Before the fourth season began, David Garrison had already announced he was planning on leaving the series, and the writers began to utterly destroy his character to set up his departure. Never liked Garrison on the show anyway - he was like Dick Sargent on Bewitched: the unfunny contrast to the insanity of the Bundy family. But the show REALLY went insane after Garrison left. When Jefferson came on board, Al had an ally he never had with Steve, and their relationship quickly began to define the show (not to mention the shift with Marcy becoming a wee bit strange over time). Then, Al created the NO MA'AM group which I thought was an interesting shift in the show's dynamics, and you have to admit the show actually got funnier. I actually liked the show more with Jefferson -- and NO MA'AM -- because the show was more entertaining once the writers gave up on any sense of reality whatsoever. Even when Steve came back off and on over the rest of the series, he himself had become a caricature of what he once was, and the show was funnier for it. So, no, Ted McGinley did not destroy Married - he opened Married up so that it could become the Gong Show of sitcoms, and it worked. Now, adding Seven to the series, that's an eff-up the show had a lot of trouble recovering from, but that's another story.

[@dukenaughton]

Finally, SOMEONE has the balls to ask this question.

[@BAKER22-l4u]

STOP SMOKING CRACK

[@dukenaughton]

@@BAKER22-l4u Gotcha. Writing that down immediately.

[@joecserna]

I mean, he was no Cousin Oliver.

[@Lorenzo-Sandoval-Fine-Art]

I honestly would love to watch him in movies. He should stick with what he’s good at.

[@alfonsogreen2722]

I say he still a pretty good actor