History Series / HappyTogether

Coincidentally enough, in 2023 among rumors of an animated SequelSeries to ''Married With Children'', a live-action one for ''Happy Together'' simply titled ''The Bukins'' has been announced, with the actors portraying the titular family reprising their roles after a TimeSkip, with Gena and Dasha living in a new half-renovated house in a gated community with Gena buying out the shoe store, Roma running his own go-karting business that gets ruined in the first episode and Sveta marrying a wealthy businessman.

Coincidentally enough, in 2023 among rumors of an animated SequelSeries to ''Married With Children'', a live-action one for ''Happy Together'' simply titled ''The Bukins'' has been announced, with the actors portraying the titular family reprising their roles after a TimeSkip.

* Baron, the dog. Based both on Buck and Lucky.

''Happy Together'' is a [[ForeignRemake Russian remake]] of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' which aired on the Russian network [=TNT=] between 2006 and 2013. What makes it particularly notable is that the remake not only covered (almost) all of the original episodes, but also had over a hundred new episodes, some of which were co-written by the original ''Married...with Children'' writers, kind of a semi-official continuation of the beloved series.

* ForWantOfANail: A season 6 episode explores an alternate timeline in which Gena never landed his hat-trick, thus never attracting the attention of Dasha.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* DemotedToExtra: Sema was made this (instead of being completely [[BrotherChuck Brother Chucked]] out of the show like Seven).

* PlayingGertrude: The actors who play adults in their fourties are actually in their thirties or even late twenties. Sadly, it shows, and thus them being old borders on InformedAttribute. But their good portrayal of the characters and (except for Tolik/Jefferson) their resemblance to the original cast rescue them from the WTHCastingAgency.

* CutAndPasteTranslation: Done whenever possible, thus preserving most of the gags intact, and adding some new ones. LuckyTranslation helps a lot.
* UsefulNotes/{{Dacha}}: The Bukins win one in a lottery (next to Poleno's dacha), and the remake of "How Green Was My Apple" takes place there.

* AbsenteeActor: A lot of earliest new episodes don't feature either Dasha or Sveta. Some of latest episodes don't feature Gena (read WhamEpisode below to find out why) .

* HollywoodNerd: Gera, Sveta's steady boyfriend in season 4.

Not to be confused with the South Korean talk show of the same name.

** AdaptationExpansion: ''Happy Together'' has ''over 100 more'' episodes than ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'', many set after the equivalent original episodes.

''Happy Together'' is a [[ForeignRemake Russian remake]] of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' which aired on the Russian network [=TNT=] between 2006 and 2013. What makes it particularly notable is that the remake not only covered (almost) all of the original episodes, but also OvertookTheSeries with over a hundred new episodes, some of which were co-written by the original ''Married...with Children'' writers, kind of a semi-official continuation of the beloved series.

* AdaptationExpansion: One might not realize how much time waiting for the live audience to laugh and calm down actually takes. Since this show didn't have a live audience, they could squeeze some more stuff in their versions of some episodes.
** The remake of "Where's the Boss" was given an additional subplot where Gena and Zhenya try to get rid of an aggressive bum living in their staircase.
** The remake of "How Green Was My Apple" has new scenes at the beginning (see UsefulNotes/{{Dacha}} below) .
** The series started having cold opens very early on, and sometimes, when a scene could not be conveniently chopped off the rest of the episode to serve as such, they wrote a new one.
** A new RunningGag has been added ever since Sema disappeared from the show: he either popped up in unexpected places doing jobs no child of his age should be doing, or a family member mentioned his absence and someone else provided an (often weird) explanation as to why he's not here at the moment.

* OvertookTheSeries: ''Happy Together'' has ''over 100 more'' episodes than ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.

''Happy Together'' is a [[ForeignRemake Russian remake]] of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''. What makes it particularly notable is that the remake not only covered (almost) all of the original episodes, but also OvertookTheSeries with over a hundred new episodes, some of which were co-written by the original ''Married...with Children'' writers, kind of a semi-official continuation of the beloved series.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At one point, Lena works in a bank whose name, abbreviated, is BDSM.

* Marina Torotorkina, a reporter with a very strange accent. Based on Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinal.

* RussianNamingConvention: of course. Subverted with Dasha though. Dasha is a diminutive for Daria, not for Evdokiya, which for her is an EmbarrassingFirstName.

* SeriesContinuityError: As previously stated (see RussianNamingConvention): Dasha can't stand her actual first name, Evdokiya, so she goes by Dasha, which is the Russian diminutive for Daria. In the final season however, everyone, including her family, seems to think that Daria is her real legal first name.

* CompletelyDifferentTitle: for the show and for each episode.

->'''Gena''': They feed us with their damn burgers and cola, and they think we're all bears playing balalaikas.

For more details, read [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Together_(2006_TV_series) here]]. Reading [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} our Useful Notes on Russia]] might help you enjoy the series. Now has a [[Recap/HappyTogether recap]] page.

* CreatorProvincialism: the Bukins and the Stepanovs/Polenos live in apartments on the top floor of a small building in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

* IdiosyncraticWipes: Between scenes, depending on where the next scene is about to take place, either the Bukins' building or the city filmed from above is shown, with some weird purple bubbles. Once one gets used to it, it's not as bad as it sounds. Latest episodes tend to privilege [[{{Wipe}} normal wipes]].

* OutOfOrder: mostly averted, but obvious on two occasions:
** Dasha's fat mother's voice is heard from upstairs a few times before the episode where she moved in was aired.
** Just like in the parent show, the SeriesFinale (in this case, a SeriesFauxnale) was aired as the penultimate episode.
* PlayingGertrude: The actors who play adults in their fourties are actually in their thirties or even late twenties. Sadly, it shows, and thus them being old borders on InformedAbility. But their good portrayal of the characters and (except for Tolik/Jefferson) their resemblance to the original cast rescue them from the WTHCastingAgency.
* PragmaticAdaptation: the producers chose not to adapt some of the episodes because the result wouldn't be good. Some of the episodes were rewritten to fit in the [[SettingUpdate new setting]], the most egregious example being the remake of "The House That Peg Lost", which nevertheless managed to stay good.

* AdaptationExpansion: one might not realize how much time waiting for the live audience to laugh and come down actually takes. Since this show does not have a live audience, they could squeeze some more stuff in their versions of some episodes.

** The series started having cold opens very early on, and sometimes, when a scene could not be conveniently chopped off the rest of the episode to serve as such, they wrote new ones.

** Several bits of dialogue that have been cut from completed ''[[MarriedWithChildren]]'' episodes due to time constraints have been reinstated here.