Besides, it starred the amazingly cute William Ragsdale from Fright Night. Coincidentally or not, his costar on Fright Night, Amanda Bearse, the most visible lesbian on tv before Ellen, was on Married...with Children. And the cast included two of the voice actors from another Fox show, The Simpsons.
Besides, the phrase "Herman's Head" sounds dirty.
There were even had some queer elements.
The premise: a young man negotiates the various crises of his job, his friends, and his hetero-romances.
The gimmick: we can see inside his mind, a room stocked with various memories, anxieties, and hopes, where four aspects of his personality argue over his various schemes. Each is trying to one-up the other and steer Herman toward their preferred outcome.
2. Animal (Ken Hudson Campbell, center), his drinking, belching, crude-joke-making side, concerned with partying. And getting laid.
3. Genius (Peter Mackenzie, left), his logical, intellectual side, concerned with career advancement.
One wonders if the components of Herman's psyche also have sentient components in their psyches, so it's little rooms full of arguing beings all the way down.
Occasionally other components appear, such as Jealousy (Bobcat Goldthwait).
God appears in the guise of Leslie Nielsen (well, what does your image of God look like?)
In the final episode, Herman is dying (1990s sitcoms often had tragic endings) and his soul makes an appearance to say goodbye to the components, as he is the only one who will live on.
A lot -- A LOT of attention is paid to Herman's love life. He screws around more than Jerry Seinfeld, over on NBC: his amours include Heddy, Louise, Mr. Bracken's daughter, Mr. Bracken's niece, Crawford's girlfriend, two supermodels, a Playboy playmate, a rock star, a female executive at the company, a female senator, a visiting princess, guest star Maureen McCormick, Eve (as in the Biblical Adam and Eve), and about a dozen regular girlfriends.
Come on, William Ragsdale isn't that cute. But neither was Seinfeld.
No beefcake, no gay characters except for one of Herman's exes, now a lesbian who wants him to be a sperm donor.
But the fastidious Genius is gay-coded, and having a woman play part of Herman's psyche gave the show a queer feel. It was rather fun to listen to Angel promoting various dating shenanigans: "I want that woman. I want that woman bad."
Not a bad way to spend the half hour of downtime between Married..with Children and bed.
See also: Married..with Children.