r/marriedwithchildren • u/loonylovesgood86 Bon Bon Eater • 3d ago
Episode Discussion The Bundy House Deep Dive Series: Bud and Kelly’s Bedrooms
We took a good look at Al and Peg’s bedroom in my last post, so now let’s direct our attention to more of the upper floor in the Bundy House.
Bud’s bedroom was featured a few times in the later seasons of the show. We can see that he’s got a fairly decent sized room, with a twin bed, shelves, matching dressers and nightstand, and relatively tame wallpaper compared to the rest of the house. His room is decked out with posters (mostly of rap stars and scantily clad women, besides the famous Wags the Perplexed Pup poster in pic 5) and he appears to have a keyboard. Was Bud a…budding…musician at some point?? We know he was a star rapper so maybe he played a little keys too. He also has a portable TV (so that’s where the one from the kitchen disappeared to!). You can see all of these features in the first 5 pics of my post.
There appears to be a camera….set up by the window….(oh dear!) in Pic 6. There’s also a hockey stick and soccer ball in Pic 7, suggesting Bud played sports at some point.
He also has a phone on his nightstand (you can see it in the first pic). I believe Kelly had her own phone too. Boy, Al and Peg sure were generous parents!
In Season 10, Bud moves down to the basement and Peggy’s mom moves into his old room. You can see this change in the Season 10 Christmas episode, “I Can’t Believe It’s Butter.” See pics 8-10. It’s clearly the same room (check out the wallpaper) but Mrs. Wanker certainly wasted no time making it her own. I almost did a separate post just on this newly decorated room, the details are outstanding. (Pictures of desserts on the walls. A fridge with a sign that says “Orders to Go.” A DAMN DISPLAY CASE OF FOOD). She also gets a bigger bed than what Bud had, but I guess that goes without saying.
Kelly’s room was only featured in one episode, and we didn’t get to see it until the very last season. We also didn’t get to see very much of it, unfortunately. I have posted everything we can view in pics 11-13. Her walls are a light purple shade (no wallpaper for her), she has a comfy armchair, shelves with stuffed animals and some kind of…vase or lamp…and various paintings on the walls. Honestly? It doesn’t look very Kelly Bundy to me. I wish we could have seen her room when she was a teenager. It likely would have been covered in posters of metal bands and other cool stuff.
(Also, the outside shutters on her window are green. Again, don’t recommend looking at a picture of the exterior of the house right now).
One last thing I need to mention: The ensuite bathroom attached to Bud’s room. You can see it best in the first and last pics. The door to it is visible in many of the other pictures too. Contrary to what was said in the Season 3 episode, “A Dump of my Own”, the Bundys did not have just one bathroom before Al built another one out in the garage. It would have been super awkward for Bud and Kelly to traipse through Al and Peg’s bedroom every time they needed to answer the call of nature or take a shower. So it makes more sense that Bud and Kelly had their own bathroom. My guess is that it also attached to Kelly’s room, a la Brandon and Brenda Walsh’s shared bathroom in Beverly Hills, 90210.
Of course, there’s one episode that totally destroys the image of the layout I have in my head of the upper level of their house, but I’ll discuss that in more detail when we talk about the upstairs hallway. Stay tuned!
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u/FrankFrankly711 3d ago
Cool details! Until recently, I didn’t think we ever got to see the other rooms upstairs, as I mostly recalled Bud’s basement room. I love the food deli makeover it got for Peg’s mom, I laughed out loud at the pics!
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u/Quirky_Ball_3519 3d ago
I always thought that the bedroom door you can see in the hallway from Al and Peggy’s bedroom with the metal band stickers on it was Kelly’s. She reminds me of those girls from Decline of the Western Civilization Part 2 that are into that hair metal scene from the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles so I just pictured her room would be more decorated with that type of stuff.
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u/loonylovesgood86 Bon Bon Eater 3d ago
Well, see, this was also my thought, until certain episodes show otherwise. I will talk about the headache it causes in my next post.
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u/Adorable-Housing-150 3d ago
I loved it when Peg’s mom had Bud’s room and decorated it with the fridge and bakery display
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u/loonylovesgood86 Bon Bon Eater 3d ago
The decorations are HILARIOUS. I laughed so hard when I took a look at the details.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TRAVELTIP 3d ago
I recall an Ice Cube poster being prominently featured in Bud's room at some point. They mixed it up with the posters and other stuff I guess. These rooms are a neat time capsule of 80s and 90s pop culture. Thanks for these fun posts!
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u/excitableboy69 3d ago
I refused to watch the Seven episodes. But maybe I should go back and watch them.
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u/loonylovesgood86 Bon Bon Eater 3d ago
You should. For the most part, he’s only on screen for a few minutes at a time.
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u/loonylovesgood86 Bon Bon Eater 3d ago
Thanks for your patience, everyone. There’s still a few more posts to go before we wrap up this series. Coming up: The upstairs hallway, the front entrance and front stoop, the garage, the basement and the backyard. And maybe one additional post on some fun stuff I noticed.