Anthrax COMPLETELY DESTROYED This TV Family’s House...

Описание: The story of Anthrax on Married with Children.

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In the early 90s, one of television’s most dysfunctional families invited some very unexpected guests into their home. Not a quirky relative or nosey neighbor, but one of the biggest thrash bands on the planet. This is the real story of how Anthrax ended up inside a sitcom living room for one of the strangest crossover episodes in TV history—and what actually happened when they trashed the place.

By 1992, Married... with Children was a full-blown cultural force, the crude, miserable answer to the wholesome family sitcoms of the 80s. Al, Peg, Kelly, and Bud were broke, bitter, and beloved. At the same time, Anthrax were thrash royalty, fresh off Persistence of Time, massive tours, and arena stages. So how did these two worlds collide?

Weirdly, it started with The Simpsons. Anthrax were huge fans, and someone at their label kept bugging Fox for a cartoon cameo. When the network finally called back, it wasn’t about animation. A producer on Married... with Children needed a real metal band for an episode. The guys were already fans of the show and had met the cast at a charity softball game, so their answer was instant: yes.
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The episode, “My Dinner with Anthrax,” aired February 23, 1992. Bud and Kelly win a contest to have the band come party at their house, but it clashes with Al and Peg’s 20th anniversary. So the kids do what any good Bundy would do: they lie. They trick their parents into a “free” Florida vacation that turns out to be a miserable timeshare scam hosted by 70s heartthrob Edd “Kookie” Byrnes.

Back home, a snowstorm hits. No guests can make it. It’s just Bud, Kelly, neighbor Marcy, and Anthrax, bored and hungry. When the promised dinner doesn’t show, the band raids the fridge and discovers Peg’s infamous foil-wrapped “mystery pack” — a legendary lump of food even Al refuses to touch. They eat it anyway.

What follows is pure sitcom mayhem. The band starts hallucinating, colors warp, and they launch into “In My World” right in the living room. Guitars swing, furniture shatters, and the Bundy set gets annihilated. When Al and Peg finally return, the place is destroyed and an Environmental Protection Agency agent informs them Anthrax has to stay quarantined in the house for six months because of what they ate.

That half-hour of chaos took a full week to shoot at Sunset-Gower Studios. The cast reportedly made Anthrax feel at home, and drummer Charlie Benante later called the experience a career highlight. Scott Ian has said that playing yourself sounds easy until you’re reading someone else’s jokes, and he credited Ed O’Neill with coaching them through their lines.
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The week wasn’t all work. One night, the band took David Faustino, who played Bud, to a Metallica show at the Forum. He had a great time, but rolled into set late and rough the next morning, and producers gently suggested there be no more metal field trips until filming wrapped.
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There was almost an even wilder moment. Early drafts reportedly had Kelly leading Scott Ian upstairs, heavily implying they were going to sleep together. By the table read, it was gone. Christina Applegate asked for the scene to be cut, allegedly saying, “I know my character’s a slut, but she’s not that much of a slut,” drawing a line even Kelly Bundy wouldn’t cross.
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The TV chaos even had a real-life prequel. In 1989, MTV’s Headbangers Ball ran a contest where the grand prize was having Anthrax “redecorate” your house. The winner, Lori Gutman from New Jersey, watched as the band sawed into her home and spray-painted her new Jeep on camera. That real destruction became the blueprint for the fake disaster in the Bundys’ living room.
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The episode ended up capturing a specific moment in time. Not long after it aired, vocalist Joey Belladonna was fired, closing a classic era of the band. But their night in that dingy TV living room has lived on as one of the strangest, loudest, and most entertaining collisions of metal and network television.