8 TV Shows That Owe Their Longevity To Boobs

4. Married...With Children

Raunchy humor and bleak depictions of a miserable everyman, Married With Children may have initially caught on with home audiences because of its unique, darkly comic attitude, but as the show progressed, its teeth were worn down into nubs...and turned into mammaries. The first couple of seasons, the sexiness was just as inauspicious as its leading man.

But by Season 6, entire episodes were centered around trips to the strip club or hiring a new shoe saleswoman because of her lavish rack. And that's nothing compared to how often they started showcasing Christina Applegate's assets, while making sure to keep Katey Sagal's tops as low-cut as censors would allow. If the show had remained truer to its black comedy core, there's no doubt it would have been shoved off the air well before it completed seven seasons.

But by making Al Bundy a more family-friendly curmudgeon and increasing the number of classic sitcom elements (yeah, that includes toeing the line of "tasteful cleavage"), it was able to join the ranks of Frasier and Cheers as one of the longest-running sitcoms in American television.