One of the most popular remade shows was Married With Children, renamed Schastlivy Vmeste(“Happy Together”). The writers mostly kept the show’s general vibe while recontextualizing the jokes about sad, hungry Americans for sad, hungry Russians. For example, in one scene, Gena tells his wife Dasha to take off her clothes. Dasha is thrilled they’re going to finally have sex, but then Gena says, “No, Dasha, I’m simply dying of hunger, and hope that that will take away my appetite.” It’s not all that different from the original Married With Children’s dark humor about poverty, but there’s a real Russian bent to the phrase “I’m simply dying of hunger.”