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Season 1
Season 1, Episode 0: Unaired Pilot
Original Air Date: ????Season 1, Episode 1: Pilot
Original Air Date: 5 April 1987In the very first episode of this widely successful, ribald sitcom, Al Bundy has a chance of getting front row seats to the basketball game, but Peggy makes him stay home and meet their new yuppie neighbors, Marcy and Steve Rhodes.
Season 1, Episode 2: Thinnergy
Original Air Date: 12 April 1987Marcy introduces Peg to a new energetic diet to improve her marriage. Al, meanwhile, wants to part of it but learns if he tries the diet, he can persuade Peg to quit. He must then swallow his pride and admit to Peggy he loves her no matter what.
Season 1, Episode 3: But I Didn't Shoot the Deputy
Original Air Date: 19 April 1987There has been a rash of burglaries in the area, and the Rhodes' house is robbed and Al's car stereo is ripped off, both families seek alternatives: Steve and Marcy buy a guard dog that won't stop barking, and Al purchases a fire arm. One fateful night, the two methods of home defense butt heads, and it's not a pretty picture.
Season 1, Episode 4: Whose Room Is It Anyway?
Original Air Date: 26 April 1987Steve and Marcy plan to add a new room onto their house using their tax refund money. Al convinces Steve to make it into a billiards room while Peggy convinces Marcy to make it into an exercise room, which leads to an all-out battle of the sexes to see who will win.
Season 1, Episode 5: Have You Driven a Ford Lately
Original Air Date: 3 May 1987Al and Steve buy a beat up Ford Mustang off of one of Kelly's boyfriends. Soon they form a tight friendship while fixing it up like new. The only problem is they are neglecting their wives now that they spend every free minute with the car. Marcy gets to experience something in the backseat of the Mustang that she has always wanted to do and when Al finds out about it, he won't let her forget it.
Season 1, Episode 6: Sixteen Years and What Do You Get
Original Air Date: 10 May 1987It's the Bundys' 16th wedding anniversary. Al plans to buy Peggy a very fancy watch, but unfortunately, his credit card gets declined. Dare he show up at the party without a present?
Season 1, Episode 7: Married... Without Children
Original Air Date: 17 May 1987Steve and Marcy decide that once is enough after they volunteer to watch Kelly, Bud, and the family dog Buck, after Al and Peggy go away for the weekend to a seedy motel in Wisconsin where Al wants to watch a boxing match on the cable TV system.
Season 1, Episode 8: The Poker Game
Original Air Date: 24 May 1987Al takes Steve one evening to watch a poker game with his poker playing friends. Steve gets the feel of the game and sits in for one of the men, but he ends up losing his paycheck to Al. From then on, Steve tries to avoid Marcy to avoid telling her the truth about losing their mortgage payment money while Al plans to use his $300 winnings to buy a new fishing rod.
Season 1, Episode 9: Peggy Sue Got Work
Original Air Date: 31 May 1987To get the money to purchase a new VCR that Al won't buy her, Peggy takes a job in a department store of selling clocks, which takes the "fun" out of the Bundy marriage as a result of her absence, and Kelly and Bud getting stuck with Al for the evenings.
Season 1, Episode 10: Al Loses His Cherry
Original Air Date: 7 June 1987Al gets a first-hand look at Luke's swinging bachelor life when he takes refuge at Luke's apartment after work rather than return home to finish an argument with Peggy over visiting her relatives for the weekend. Luke invites two women over at his place where one of them, an attractive but dim-witted airplane stewardess, temps Al.
Season 1, Episode 11: Nightmare on Al's Street
Original Air Date: 14 June 1987While Steve is out of town for the week on business, Marcy starts having dreams involving a romance-minded Al which turns her dreams into nightmares, and turns off her sexual urges, prompting her to look into the source of her nightmares, while a clueless Steve asks Al for advice on Marcy's sudden lack of sexual needs.
Season 1, Episode 12: Where's the Boss?
Original Air Date: 21 June 1987Season 1, Episode 13: Johnny Be Gone
Original Air Date: 28 June 1987Personal problems and crises delay Al and Peggy's departure to the going out of business party of their favorite hamburger joint, "Johnny Be Goods," which range from Kelly being stood up from going to a party, Bud wanting to finish a remote-controlled car for a model car festival, to Marcy stranded at the Bundys wearing only a towel after staining her dress.
Season 2
Season 2, Episode 1: Poppy's by the Tree: Part 1
Original Air Date: 27 September 1987The Bundys take a vacation to near-beautiful Dumpwater, Florida and stay in a cut-rate motel where an ax murderer that hates tourists, shows up every five years since 1967, and redneck locals begin to make bets on who the psycho will strike next.
Season 2, Episode 2: Poppy's by the Tree: Part 2
Original Air Date: 27 September 1987After a hair-raising encounter with the maniac, Al decides to get the family out of town. But they realize that they are trapped at the motel by a storm and the locals are unwilling to help them. Then things take a turn when Peggy is taken hostage by the ax murderer in a room and Al must rescue her.
Season 2, Episode 3: If I Were a Rich Man
Original Air Date: 4 October 1987Steve takes Al to the vault at the bank where Steve works for a secret after-hours card game, and the next day, one million dollars is reported missing. Al is then treated like a king by Peggy and the kids as well as hostility from Steve and Marcy all of whom mistakenly think Al stole the money.
Season 2, Episode 4: Buck Can Do It
Original Air Date: 11 October 1987Season 2, Episode 5: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Part 1
Original Air Date: 18 October 1987While Al and Steve are occupied by a female employee who fixes the Bundy's refrigerator, Peggy invites Marcy to a strip club with the girls.
Season 2, Episode 6: Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Part 2
Original Air Date: 18 October 1987Season 2, Episode 7: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Original Air Date: 25 October 1987Al gets heated up over the large phone bill and refuses to pay it, which results in the disconnection of the Bundy phone line, making him the target of hostility from Peggy, the kids and the Rhoades who now take the Bundys phone calls on their phone, especially the ones from Peggy's mother. To make matters worse, there's a streetlight that is also bothering Al which is keeping him awake every night.
Season 2, Episode 8: Born to Walk
Original Air Date: 1 November 1987Al flunks his written drivers test the same day that Kelly passes hers, leading him confined to the house and unable to get to the racetrack to bet on an important horse race.
Season 2, Episode 9: Alley of the Dolls
Original Air Date: 8 November 1987Victory seems assured when Steve agrees to join the Bundys for a family team bowling match against Peggy's arch rival from high school, Mimi, and her obnoxious family. But Bud reveals that he doesn't know how to bowl because he has squandered his bowling lesson money, prompting Steve to coach Bud on the pointers of bowling.
Season 2, Episode 10: The Razor's Edge
Original Air Date: 15 November 1987Steve returns home having grown a beard from a week-long rafting trip. He and Marcy get into a huge argument over his reluctance to shave it off, leading him to move in with the Bundys.
Season 2, Episode 11: How Do You Spell Revenge?
Original Air Date: 22 November 1987Al, Peggy and Bud are part of a shopping mall softball team playing other mall teams. After losing a few too many games, Al demands that Peggy improve her softball skills or she is off his team. Meanwhile, Kelly's new boyfriend, Brian, asks her to prove her love to him by getting a tattoo.
Season 2, Episode 12: Earth Angel
Original Air Date: 6 December 1987There's a new light in the neighborhood when Bud brings home an attractive, free spirited, 21-year-old artist named Tiffany on her way to art school in New York and everyone likes her, except Marcy for Tiffany steals the attentions of Steve as well.
Season 2, Episode 13: You Better Watch Out
Original Air Date: 20 December 1987The Bundys' Christmas is rudely interrupted when a parachuting mall Santa crash-lands into their backyard, attracting the neighborhood kids.
Season 2, Episode 14: Guys and Dolls
Original Air Date: 10 January 1988When starting a baseball card collection, Al and Steve sell Marcy's old Barbie doll. They must get it back, but they learn the shop they sold it to was robbed, so they would have to search downtown Chicago and ask every bum on the street.
Season 2, Episode 15: Build a Better Mousetrap
Original Air Date: 24 January 1988Al's attempts to get rid of a rodent in the Bundy house end badly.
Season 2, Episode 16: Master the Possibilities
Original Air Date: 7 February 1988Al, under the impression that you don't have to pay for anything you didn't order, takes Peggy and Bud on a wild spending spree, and goes with Peggy to a fancy hotel for a weekend getaway when the mailman accidentally leaves a new credit card addressed to Buck the dog.
Season 2, Episode 17: Peggy Loves Al - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Original Air Date: 14 February 1988On Valentines Day, Kelly hauls in a load of Valentines, while Steve plans to give Marcy a trip to Hawaii. When Marcy finds out from Peggy, she plans to give Steve his Valentine present by jumping out of a life-size cake. Meanwhile, Bud holds a vigil by the mailbox waiting for his first Valentine, while Peggy ponders over the decision on whether or not she'll get the gift she wants from Al for him to say "I Love You."
Season 2, Episode 18: The Great Escape
Original Air Date: 21 February 1988The Bundys stay at the shoe store after their houses is tented for termites. A grounded Kelly plots to escape and go to a rock concert.
Season 2, Episode 19: Im-Po-Dent
Original Air Date: 28 February 1988Marcy regrets denting Steve's new car when he claims that she's made him impotent.
Season 2, Episode 20: Just Married... with Children
Original Air Date: 6 March 1988While secretly going through Steve and Marcy's mail, Al and Peggy fill out an application to a TV game show called "How Do I Love Thee" where the objective is a Bundy natural: surviving physical torture from one's spouse. Al and Peggy appear on the show pretending to be Steve and Marcy and they easily win many prizes. But when Steve and Marcy find out, they appear at the end of the show pretending to be Al and Peggy, and the husband that survives the most torture in an electric chair wins a new car.
Season 2, Episode 21: Father Lode
Original Air Date: 13 March 1988After going with Steve to the racetrack, Al is reluctant to reveal that he won $1,200, because he knows that Peggy and the kids will take the money for themselves. While Al tries to throw off Peggy's suspicions with sex, Steve asks for increasingly exuberant bribes of Al's racetrack winnings so he will keep his mouth shut about the money.
Season 2, Episode 22: All in the Family
Original Air Date: 1 May 1988Al's quiet three-day weekend plans to watch his favorite John Wayne movie "Hondo" are ruined when Peggy's eccentric relatives come to visit the Bundy household. They include her unseen, super-obese mother, two feuding gay uncles; the hulking Irwin and the transvestite Otto, as well as a singing and dancing triplet aunts whose show biz career is threatened by Al's bad advice to them. Al then interrupts and ruins a romantic evening between Steve and Marcy to confine with his problems.
Season 3
Season 3, Episode 1: He Thought He Could
Original Air Date: 6 November 1988Al discovers a library book that was due in 1957. He must return it to the library and face up to his worst, childhood fear: the librarian.
Season 3, Episode 2: I'm Going to Sweatland
Original Air Date: 20 November 1988When a perspiration stain on one of Al's shirts resembles a silhouette of The King of Rock & Roll, the Bundy household becomes a hot spot for Elvis Presley fanatics to visit.
Season 3, Episode 3: Poke High
Original Air Date: 27 November 1988A young football player, named Matt, from Polk High where Kelly and Bud go to school is threatening two Bundy records. One held by Al for the most touchdowns in one season, and the other by Kelly for refusing her advances. So, Kelly resorts to becoming a cheerleader for Polk High's team in order to catch Matt's attention during a big season ending game.
Season 3, Episode 4: The Camping Show
Original Air Date: 11 December 1988The Rhoades and the Bundys head out to the Rhoades cabin in the woods, but the merriment is halted by Kely's PMS. The men leave for a bit to go out fishing, and return to all three women menstruating and hostile. When a bear attacks the car, Al hilariously attempts to stop him.
Season 3, Episode 5: Dump of My Own
Original Air Date: 8 January 1989Al decides to build a spare bathroom when the upstairs toilet floods one too many times.
Season 3, Episode 6: Her Cups Runneth Over
Original Air Date: 15 January 1989Al must go to a far-off lingerie outlet store to buy a discontinued brassiere for Peggy.
Season 3, Episode 7: The Bald and the Beautiful
Original Air Date: 29 January 1989Desperate Al and Steve put their heads together seeking solutions to impending baldness when Steve begins to notice his receding hairline, whereas Al doesn't care at all. After unsuccessfully trying some hair tonic for themselves, Steve tries joining a club for bald men called Bald American Dudes (BAD) and brings Al along with him who holds their latest meeting at the shoe store.
Season 3, Episode 8: The Gypsy Cried
Original Air Date: 5 February 1989Marcy receives information from a gypsy that she's going to die on a plane crash.
Season 3, Episode 9: Requiem for a Dead Barber
Original Air Date: 12 February 1989Season 3, Episode 10: Eatin' Out
Original Air Date: 19 February 1989The Bundy's go out to a fancy restaurant to spend a great windfall, an inheritance check for $237 from a late uncle of Peggy's. But it becomes apparent that the fine dinning in public is not a part of the dysfunctional Bundy lifestyle, which makes matters worse when Al forgets to bring the check.
Season 3, Episode 11: My Mom, the Mom
Original Air Date: 26 February 1989Kelly invites Peggy to her school as part of a presentation for career day.
Season 3, Episode 12: Can't Dance, Don't Ask Me
Original Air Date: 18 March 1989After Kelly gets in trouble at school, the only way she can get out of punishment if she joins a tap dance class.
Season 3, Episode 13: The Harder They Fall
Original Air Date: 25 March 1989While driving Peggy back from the video store, Steve gets cut off in traffic and Peggy gives the driver "the finger." Steve then asks the Bundys to come over at his and Marcy's house to watch some videos as protection when he's afraid of a violent reprisal when he is followed home by the man. When there's a knock on the front door, Al convinces Steve to take the first punch... and Steve ends up knocking down a midget.
Season 3, Episode 14: A Three Job, No Income Family
Original Air Date: 2 April 1989Al finally convinces Peggy to contribute to the household income but feels emasculated when Peggy starts bringing home huge "commish" checks from her cosmetics sales job, earning more money than Al, himself. Even Al's new part-time job as a crew member at Burger Trek can't put him back in the lead as family breadwinner. Things go from bad to worse when Al finds the book containing the names of Peggy's customers.
Season 3, Episode 15: I'll See You in Court
Original Air Date: February 1989In the infamous 'lost episode', Al and Peg learn they have been video taped getting intimate at a sleazy motel. The same thing has also happened to Steve and Marcy. They decide to take the matter to court.
Season 3, Episode 16: The House That Peg Lost
Original Air Date: 9 April 1989After asking the Bundys to watch their house for the day, Marcy and Steve return to find a big hole where their house once stood. It seems that Peggy had earlier that day mistakenly told a wrecking crew looking to demolish Steve's Road House and she directed them to Steve 'Rhoades' house instead. So the Rhoades are forced to spend the night at the Bundy house. Meanwhile, Kelly throws a slumber party for four of her girlfriends, but Bud ends up disrupting it and turns it into a "cat-fight" riot.
Season 3, Episode 17: Married... with Prom Queen: Part 1
Original Air Date: 23 April 1989Peggy spends $2,800 of Al's hard earned money ($2,000 on phone bills, $500 on a new dress, and $300 on makeup) when she decides to attend hers and Al's high school reunion dance at Polk High, where Peggy makes a desperate effort to get herself elected prom queen. But she may be outdone by her old rival, Connie Bender. Also, Connie's husband, Jack, an old rival of Al's, eyes a possible fistfight they never had in school.
Season 3, Episode 18: Married... with Prom Queen: The Sequel
Original Air Date: 30 April 1989Peggy stands to lose the crown to Connie, until Al finally decides to stand up to Connie's husband Jack. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly crash the party to pig out on some real food since they are never fed at home, where Peggy takes advantage of the fight between Al and Jack outside to get the kids help in rigging the election.
Season 3, Episode 19: The Dateless Amigo
Original Air Date: 7 May 1989After his two best friends find dates for themselves, Bud is desperately seeking Susan, or any girl that will date him. So, Bud resorts to getting a life-size mannequin to pose as his date for the evening. Meanwhile, Al comes up with a million dollar invention for a shoe salesmen's convention that looks desperate, called "Shoe Lights"; he takes the headlights and battery out of the car and straps them on Kelly's shoes.
Season 3, Episode 20: The Computer Show
Original Air Date: 14 May 1989The Bundys buy a computer, which serves no purpose other than a hat wrack. But what nobody knows is that the computer can talk. But only to Al.
Season 3, Episode 21: Life's a Beach
Original Air Date: 21 May 1989The Bundy's spend a day at the beach.
Season 3, Episode 22: Here's Looking at You, Kid
Original Air Date: 27 August 1989Season 4
Season 4, Episode 1: Hot off the Grill
Original Air Date: 3 September 1989On Labor Day, the gender roles are reversed when Al becomes the loafing one while he forces Peggy to prepare the backyard barbecue for his creation of the famous "Bundy Burgers." But one of the secret ingredients to them are the ashes of Marcy's dead aunt which was stolen by Kelly from the Rhodes house.
Season 4, Episode 2: Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics
Original Air Date: 10 September 1989A TV aerobics instructor tries to get the Bundys in shape, but instead he becomes sedentary and dies of a heart attack after eating junk food.
Season 4, Episode 3: Buck Saves the Day
Original Air Date: 24 September 1989Kelly and Bud need to raise money for concert tickets for themselves, so Bud sells Al as a camping guide, and Kelly cheats at a poker game with Peggy's friends. With Steve and Bud along for the ride, Al has to take a bunch of kids camping and they end up stranded in the woods and only Buck can save them.
Season 4, Episode 4: Tooth or Consequences
Original Air Date: 1 October 1989A toothache forces Al to see Marcy's dentist, a divorced man that devotes as much of his time to his work as he does to his young female dental assistant, who's ironically named T.C. At the same time, Al pressers Peggy to cook a square meal for him for just one day.
Season 4, Episode 5: He Ain't Much, But He's Mine
Original Air Date: 8 October 1989Season 4, Episode 6: Fair Exchange
Original Air Date: 29 October 1989Kelly brings home a female foreign exchange student where she starts taking away Kelly's popularity away.
Season 4, Episode 7: Desperately Seeking Miss October
Original Air Date: 5 November 1989When a Playboy playmate walks into Al's shoe store, he's eager to get home and look up her October 1987 issue. But Al is a broken man when he finds out that Peggy has sold his entire Playboy collection to get money to buy a good luck charm to win the lottery. The ghost of Al's father later appears and convinces him to get some self-respect.
Season 4, Episode 8: 976-SHOE
Original Air Date: 12 November 1989Al decides to open a shoe emergency hot-line with help from Steve in the form of a $50,000 loan. But typically, Al's get-rich-quick scheme backfires when nobody phones in. When Marcy gives Al a second $50,000 loan to repay the original loan, the Bundys and the Rhoades join together in a downward spiral of failure when Al instead sinks the second $50,000 into his failing shoe hot-line, which results in Steve losing his job at the bank, Marcy getting demoted, and Al ending up being the loser as always.
Season 4, Episode 9: Oh, What a Feeling
Original Air Date: 19 November 1989When the Dodge finally gives its death rattle, Al digs up his secret car-fund shoe box and trades the Dodge for a ride to the local dealership. When Bud opens the shoe box, he finds not $5,000, but a mere $800... and a red hair. Al spends the rest of the episode trying to buy something that goes "vroom!"
Season 4, Episode 10: At the Zoo
Original Air Date: 26 November 1989Newly unemployed Steve decides he doesn't really want to work, so he fritters away his days with the Bundys, visiting zoos and taking fishing trips. The strain this puts on Steve's relationship with Marcy who ends up going out with Al to a local bar where they swap stories about their failing marriages. But the conversation between Al and Marcy reaches its peak when Marcy has to decide whether to use the $25,000 reward she earned by foiling a bank robbery, sustaining a gunshot wound in the process, to buy a new car or to bail out Steve, who has been arrested for "rescuing" Bosco the tortoise from the local zoo.
Season 4, Episode 11: It's a Bundyful Life: Part 1
Original Air Date: 17 December 1989Al has finally saved up a lot of cash to buy his family a ton of presents they want this year. Unfortunately, a mob of late customers in the shoe store prevents him from getting to the bank and retrieving the money he needs.
Season 4, Episode 12: It's a Bundyful Life: Part 2
Original Air Date: 17 December 1989His guardian angel decides pay Al a visit and shows him what life is like without him born. The Jablonskys are a perfect family and The Rhoades are more like the Bundys except without Al.
Season 4, Episode 13: Who'll Stop the Rain
Original Air Date: 7 January 1990Al desperately tries to fix the house's leaking roof during the weekend of a long rainstorm. But each time Al falls off the roof, it makes Peggy and the kids wonder if he's too stupid or too cheap to call a roofer to do the job. Meanwhile, Steve lands another job at a pet store in which Marcy suffers side affects after getting bitten by a venomous guinea pig.
Season 4, Episode 14: A Taxing Problem
Original Air Date: 14 January 1990Season 4, Episode 15: Rock and Roll Girl
Original Air Date: 4 February 1990When Al challenges the selfish and ungrateful family members to earn a dollar of their own, Peggy tries scamming money from others because of her loath for working. Meanwhile, Bud appoints himself as Kelly's agent a lands her a job as a 'rock video slut'.
Season 4, Episode 16: You Gotta Know When to Hold Them: Part 1
Original Air Date: 11 February 1990After Steve abandons Marcy, Peggy decides to make her feel better by going to Las Vegas with Al's money.
Season 4, Episode 17: You Gotta Know When to Fold Them: Part 2
Original Air Date: 18 February 1990With Al and the kids discovering that Peggy took all the money, they go to Vegas where both Peggy and Marcy are broke and need a way to come up with money.
Season 4, Episode 18: What Goes Around Came Around
Original Air Date: 25 February 1990Al is all excited when he's asked to speak at his high school reunion dance at Polk High. At the dance, while Al rambles on and on about the unhappily married man, Peggy finds herself being wooed by a teacher, Kelly trying to please two dates, and Bud plotting revenge against his date, Heather McCoy, who humiliated him years earlier by running his underwear up a flagpole.
Season 4, Episode 19: Peggy Turns 300
Original Air Date: 25 March 1990Al tries to ditch Peggy on her birthday until she catches him in the act and tags along with the family.
Season 4, Episode 20: Peggy Made a Little Lamb
Original Air Date: 15 April 1990Peggy tries to earn her G.E.D. with Kelly in night school.
Season 4, Episode 21: Rain Girl
Original Air Date: 29 April 1990Kelly chooses to be a weather girl rather than go to school which makes the Bundy's happy since she'll be making more money than Al.
Season 4, Episode 22: The Agony of De-Feet
Original Air Date: 6 May 1990Al is having nightmares about feet which is keeping him awake every night. Then, Al is overjoyed when he volunteers to be a judge for a beauty contest at the shoe store which ends his nightmares... so it seems. Meanwhile, Kelly successfully tricks a drunken Marcy and a love-starved Bud into thinking that they slept with each other.
Season 4, Episode 23: Yard Sale
Original Air Date: 13 May 1990Peggy will buy anything at a yard sale, so when she brings home a boar's head, there's no more room in the garage to put it. So, Al decides enough is enough and he decides to have his own yard sale, despite Peggy's protests. But the stuff he is selling is stuff only Peggy would be stupid enough to buy. Al's next idea is to create "Bundyland, the happiest place on Earth," which is a collection of all the junk items Peggy bought in their own back yard.
Season 5
Season 5, Episode 1: We'll Follow the Sun
Original Air Date: 23 September 1990The Bundys decide to go for a drive--on Labor Day. They spend the better part of the holiday sitting in traffic, arguing with one another, and picking fights with neighboring motorists.
Season 5, Episode 2: Al... with Kelly
Original Air Date: 30 September 1990Al and Kelly feign illness to avoid going to Wanker County with Peg and Bud. Al looks forward to his quiet and peaceful weekend, until Kelly gets sick.
Season 5, Episode 3: Sue Casa, His Casa
Original Air Date: 7 October 1990Season 5, Episode 4: The Unnatural
Original Air Date: 14 October 1990Al is cut from the neighborhood softball team just before the big game. When his all-star replacement is knocked out in the last inning, however, his team and family have to come crawling back.
Season 5, Episode 5: Dance Show
Original Air Date: 21 October 1990Peggy goes out dancing with Marcy, and becomes taken with a handsome man-about-town named Andy. At home, however, Al gets confronted by Andy's wife, Pete.
Season 5, Episode 6: Kelly Bounces Back
Original Air Date: 28 October 1990Now an aspiring model, Kelly invents a maneuver called "The Bundy Bounce" for her first audition as spokesperson for the new Allente car. But Bud's big mouth gives the idea to another model, so Kelly must take things into her own hands and remove the competition. Meanwhile, Peggy goes on a strike with housework because Al think's she's useless.
Season 5, Episode 7: Married... with Aliens
Original Air Date: 4 November 1990After Al returns home from work with a bump on the head, he sees (or thinks he sees) six little green aliens coming down to Earth and stealing his smelly socks to use as fuel for their spaceships. The only problem is no one sees them but Al, so everyone think's he's crazy when he tells others that he saw them.
Season 5, Episode 8: Wabbit Season
Original Air Date: 11 November 1990Al decides to grow a vegetable garden, but soon faces off against an all-out war with a rabbit who steals his carrots and other vegetables.
Season 5, Episode 9: Do Ya Think I'm Sexy
Original Air Date: 18 November 1990When Al moves a sofa off a neighbor's lawn without a shirt on, he unexpectedly gains a reputation as a "stud" among the neighborhood women. Uplifted, he starts taking showers and wearing elegant clothes, and his performance at work improves dramatically, as does his popularity with the ladies. Needless to say, Peggy is both jealous and unsettled - her husband is acting very unlike-Al.
Season 5, Episode 10: One Down, Two to Go
Original Air Date: 25 November 1990Tired of Al escorting her dates out through the doorway, "grown-up" Kelly gets her own apartment.
Season 5, Episode 11: And Baby Makes Money
Original Air Date: 16 December 1990After Al's bachelor uncle dies, he leaves $500,000 to the first of his relatives to produce a newborn baby named after him. Al overcomes his usual aversion to sex with Peg. Unknown to him, she is secretly staying on the pill, to keep Al wanting sex with her, and having decided that no amount of money is worth going through pregnancy a third time.
Season 5, Episode 12: Married ... with Who
Original Air Date: 6 January 1991After a drinking binge at a bankers party, Marcy reveals herself to be married to a mysterious hunk named Jefferson D'Arcy, whom Al finds out to be a gigolo and con artist. To make Marcy feel better to this unexpected change in her life, Peggy decides to throw a formal wedding ceremony for Marcy and Jefferson in the Bundy's back yard, in which nothing goes a planned.
Season 5, Episode 13: The Godfather
Original Air Date: 3 February 1991Al becomes the boss of the neighborhood after Kelly starts dating an influential city councilman.
Season 5, Episode 14: Look Who's Barking
Original Air Date: 10 February 1991Told from the point of view of Buck, he runs away from the house feeling neglected. Behind a diner, he picks up a female dog, whom he brings home. He quickly regrets it, as the new dog gets all the attention from Bud and Kelly. Meanwhile, Al is obsessed with getting a taste of his favorite cherry cheesecake from a restaurant in Wisconsin.
Season 5, Episode 15: A Man's Castle
Original Air Date: 17 February 1991Peg takes an interior design course and her first assignment is to redecorate one room in her house. Unfortunately for Al, she chooses his spare bathroom.
Season 5, Episode 16: All-Nite Security Dude
Original Air Date: 24 February 1991When a second floor aerobics studio, full of terribly overweight women, collapses into the shoe store, Al is laid off while the store is being repaired. Al then gets a night job as a security guard at his old high school, Polk High. This prompts his former high school rival, Spare Tire Dixon, to steal his prized trophy which leads to a brutal showdown.
Season 5, Episode 17: Oldies But Young 'Uns
Original Air Date: 17 March 1991Al is haunted by a tune on the radio he can hum but not name, and he gets no help from Peggy or the D'Arcy's. Al similarly haunts Kelly's new boyfriend, Vinnie Verducci, the son of his fellow lowlife friend, Charlie Verducci, when Al warns Vinnie to only look and not touch, which is not easy for Vinnie.
Season 5, Episode 18: Weenie Tot Lovers & Other Strangers
Original Air Date: 24 March 1991Al forgoes giving money to Bud for a class trip to Washington DC in order to give to Kelly who's going to an audition for the Miss Weenie Tot spokesperson. When Kelly lands the spot, Al gets a year's supply of his favorite mock food: Weenie Tots. But since uncooked tots rapidly disintegrate upon contact with the air, Peggy manages to spoil every single box while searching for a winning lottery ticket. When Al discovers that he's not eligible for the lottery money since Kelly is now an employee of the Weenie Tot Company, he asks Marcy and Jefferson to accept the money for him.
Season 5, Episode 19: Kids! Wadaya Gonna Do?
Original Air Date: 31 March 1991Al and Peggy go over to watch a video at Marcy and Jefferson's house and proceed to take over the place. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly seek gainful jobs for themselves, but only Bud gains with his first girlfriend, while Kelly babysits a family of seven kids from Hell.
Season 5, Episode 20: Top of the Heap
Original Air Date: 7 April 1991Al Bundy's childhood pal, Charlie Verducci, and the guy's dumb son Vinnie, attend a high society fund raiser in this pilot for the short-lived TV series, 'Top of the Heap.'
Season 5, Episode 21: You Better Shop Around: Part 1
Original Air Date: 14 April 1991Al cannot afford to buy an air conditioner for the hot summer. After an attempt to install an old experimental model, (which results in a neighborhood blackout) Al moves his family into the local supermarket. After a while, they are told by the owner to buy something or they will be kicked out. After doing so, Al cuts in front of Marcy and becomes the one millionth customer to leave the store. The prize is a shopping spree worth $1,000.
Season 5, Episode 22: You Better Shop Around: Part 2
Original Air Date: 21 April 1991Season 5, Episode 23: Route 666: Part 1
Original Air Date: 28 April 1991While on their way to Los Angeles for a "Shoe Convention," the Bundy's car breaks down in the small town of Lucifer, New Mexico where they meet an old prospector who gives them a map to an old gold mine in the area in exchange for their car. They phone Marcy and Jefferson who come to the rescue, thinking that the kids are dying. But it turns out that Al and Peggy want their money for the mine deal. Then the six of them go off in search for the gold...
Season 5, Episode 24: Route 666: Part 2
Original Air Date: 5 May 1991Al, Peggy, Kelly, Bud, Jefferson, and Marcy find the gold mine in the desert. Al discovers the first gold nugget and everyone but the feeble-minded Kelly winds up with a bag full of gold. Al and Peggy have two separate fantasies of how to spend it. But after three days of digging, it's revealed that they're stuck in a tourist attraction seeded with fools gold for the tourists to find. The Bundys and D'Arcys aren't pleased with this turn of events, until they notice the gold watches, rings, and earrings the tourists are wearing...
Season 5, Episode 25: Buck the Stud
Original Air Date: 19 May 1991A man offers the Bundy's $10,000 if Buck will breed with his champion dog, Lady Bird. So, Al has to coach Buck into knowing the varieties of breeding with other dogs the proper way. But needless to say it goes wrong and Al is stuck with the bill. Meanwhile, Kelly becomes Bud's fashion counselor and dresses him up in medieval costumes.
Season 6
Season 6, Episode 1: She's Having a Baby: Part 1
Original Air Date: 8 September 1991Marcy and Jefferson announce that they are expecting a baby, sending Al into pearls of laughter saying that it's the end of Jefferson's life, until Peggy announces the same. Al begins to lose his hair at an accelerated rate, thinking it's the end of the world for him. Kelly and Bud aren't pleased with the news either and take it out on Al.
Season 6, Episode 2: She's Having a Baby: Part 2
Original Air Date: 15 September 1991Peggy and Marcy's constant demands for belly rubbing and expensive baby accessories drive Al crazy, prompting him to make a run for it. He and Jefferson end up at a bar connected to the bus station and watch semi-nude dancing girls while talking about a new and better life without their wives.
Season 6, Episode 3: If Al Had a Hammer
Original Air Date: 22 September 1991When Al unearths his father's old hammer, he decides to turn the garage into his own private room to escape his pregnant wife. All goes well, until Jefferson and the guys crash in. Even worse, it's only a matter of time before their own pregnant spouses find out.
Season 6, Episode 4: Cheese, Cues, and Blood
Original Air Date: 29 September 1991Kelly earns a quick $1,000 at hustling pool to buy a gown for the local Miss Cheese competition, and a suspicious Al is out for blood, mistakenly thinking that Kelly is into prostitution. Al is then is out of blood when he sells his to get Kelly and manager Jefferson the money for a major pool game bet.
Season 6, Episode 5: Lookin' for a Desk in All the Wrong Places
Original Air Date: 6 October 1991While Peggy is away helping Marcy recover her precious childhood belongings that Jefferson abandoned in a storage locker to be auctioned off in which he pocked and gambled away the money, Al, Kelly, and Bud hold an anti-baby meeting and makes plans for a new "Bundy World Order" that includes food, clean clothes and a huge hooter-ed oriental maid to replace the "pegzilla" Peggy.
Season 6, Episode 6: Buck Has a Belly Ache
Original Air Date: 13 October 1991Season 6, Episode 7: If I Could See Me Now
Original Air Date: 27 October 1991After barely avoiding a few minor accidents, Bud and Kelly finally convinces Al to get some glasses. Will he cave in to his kids request or keep insisting his vision is perfect?
Season 6, Episode 8: God's Shoes
Original Air Date: 6 November 1991Season 6, Episode 9: Kelly Does Hollywood: Part 1
Original Air Date: 10 November 1991Al finally gets cable TV installed in the Bundy household, but he cannot find anything good to watch. All that changes when Kelly, gibed out of an appearance on a public access TV by her modeling school teacher, gets her own talk show on the air with just $35 from her girlfriends. "Vital Social Issues N' Stuff With Kelly," features an all girl band and some of her friends discussing subjects such as "mens butts" and "the slut of the week."
Season 6, Episode 10: Kelly Does Hollywood: Part 2
Original Air Date: 17 November 1991Al, Kelly, and Bud travel to Hollywood after Kelly's talk show becomes a hit with the TV networks in which Al tries to get into show business with his lame TV show ideas, Bud tries to score with some of the actresses, and Kelly is happy to be a star.
Season 6, Episode 11: Al Bundy, Shoe Dick
Original Air Date: 24 November 1991Al dreams he's a detective on the verge of a big case.
Season 6, Episode 12: So This Is How Sinatra Felt
Original Air Date: 1 December 1991Peggy sends Bud and Kelly to spy on Al at the shoe store for the day to confirm her suspicion that Al's recent giddiness is the work of an extramarital affair rather than Al's claim that he's only been flirting with a "shoe groupie" at the shoe store.
Season 6, Episode 13: I Who Have Nothing
Original Air Date: 22 December 1991Season 6, Episode 14: The Mystery of Skull Island
Original Air Date: 5 January 1992As Grandmaster B, Bud does his coolest best while all over a girl who takes him out to non-traditional Bundy things such as rafting and sky diving. Meanwhile, Al and Peggy invite Marcy and Jefferson over to play a new board game called "Ethical Dilemma."
Season 6, Episode 15: Just Shoe It
Original Air Date: 19 January 1992Al is asked to appear in an athletic shoe commercial. Al, being Polk High's 1966 all city running back and shoe salesman is glad to reclaim his glory days. But Al ends up being a punching bag by Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Steve Carlton and Sugar Ray Leonard for the commercial.
Season 6, Episode 16: Rites of Passage
Original Air Date: 9 February 1992Season 6, Episode 17: The Egg and I
Original Air Date: 16 February 1992Steve returns to try and reclaim his estranged wife unaware that she has remarried to a younger man.
Season 6, Episode 18: My Dinner with Anthrax
Original Air Date: 23 February 1992It's Al and Peggy's 20th wedding anniversary, but Peggy only wants one thing from Al....S-E-X. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud win the "My Dinner With Anthrax" contest which means a house party for the trash metal band. But there will be no party unless they can get rid of mom and dad first. The answer? Tricking them into taking a Florida vacation that turns out to be a time share sales scam where the salesman won't leave them alone. Back home, the house party gets dull with no food in the house and 10 feet of snow outside.
Season 6, Episode 19: Psychic Avengers
Original Air Date: 1 March 1992Al is a broken man after the Bundys can no longer afford to buy a weekly TV Guide. When Jefferson arrives at their house with a fistful of cash, Al discovers that he has been running a psychic phone scam called "Madame Zelda." To keep him quiet about his scam, Jefferson decides to let Al in on the deal. But Al soon takes over the whole operation and the rest of the family joins in. When Al decides to unite the five psychic bosses of Chicago, he insults the feared Madame Inga, who decides to throw a curse on the Bundys.
Season 6, Episode 20: High I.Q.
Original Air Date: 22 March 1992An invitation to join the high intelligence Alpha club, is issued to Kelly and not Bud. When they discover the real reason behind the gathering, Kelly and Bud decide to handle things with the usual Bundy charm (and violence). Meanwhile, Al buys a new "Handyman's Workbench 5000" that has some assembly required. This challenge requires the combined skills of Al and Jefferson while Peggy and Marcy watch and enjoy the show by taking pictures and counting the number of times the men injure themselves.
Season 6, Episode 21: Teacher Pets
Original Air Date: 5 April 1992Bud's belief that his 40-year-old teacher is romantic interested in him is greeted by laughter from everyone. But another student smells the smoke and wants the fire for herself. Meanwhile, Peggy has a cold which prompts Al to keep his distance by going out every night to a Chuck-E-Cheese restaurant for some free pizza by crashing little kids birthdays parties. Can Bud keep two girls or will he suffer from a humiliating Bundy defeat?
Season 6, Episode 22: The Goodbye Girl
Original Air Date: 19 April 1992When Kelly's modeling school suddenly closes down, she gets a new job as a greeter at the TV World theme park. When this is threatened by her low performance ratings, Kelly gets switched into Commercial Land where she plays "the Verminator" who hunts down roaches, like Bud. Meanwhile, Al takes his annual "Bundy World Tour,": a week-long trip around the world by himself, in the Bundy living room.
Season 6, Episode 23: The Gas Station Show
Original Air Date: 26 April 1992When Al can't pay his bill at the gas station, he is forced to don a uniform, complete with 'Habib' name tag and work at the station. He spends the day being hounded by motorists, as well as Peg and the kids.
Season 6, Episode 24: England Show I
Original Air Date: 3 May 1992Lower Uncton, England 1653-- Shamus McBundy makes the mistake of insulting a witch who casts an evil spell upon the land, shading the town in darkness forever--as long as a male Bundy lives. In present day, 1992 Lower Uncton, still in darkness, the townspeople have successfully killed all male Bundy descendants of Shamus McBundy, except for Al and Bud. The head of the historical society, Winston, and his cohort Igor, conspire to lure the Bundys to England and dispose of them, ending the curse. But getting them to Lower Uncton would be easier said than done.
Season 6, Episode 25: England Show II: Wastin' the Company's Money
Original Air Date: 10 May 1992The Bundys delight in their comped trip to England, spending here, spending there. All the while, the town of Upper Uncton conspires to kill the Bundys outside Lower Uncton, so the curse will remain and Upper Uncton can still rake in profits as a tourist town: the town beside the town in darkness. Finally, Winston and Igor bring the Bundys to Lower Uncton. The execution was imminent. Al and Bud would meet certain doom. Their only hope (unfortunately) was Kelly.
Season 6, Episode 26: England Show III: We're Spending as Fast as We Can
Original Air Date: 17 May 1992The Bundys are cornered by both towns. Upper Uncton wants them dead so they can continue to profit as a tourist trap while Lower Uncton wants them dead so they can end the curse. Al moves to defend himself and soon finds himself in a medieval joust opposite Igor. Who will emerge triumphant? And will the curse ever be lifted? The fate of all rests in the hands of the lowly shoe salesman from America.
Season 7
Season 7, Episode 1: Magnificent Seven
Original Air Date: 13 September 1992The Bundys have another mouth to feed when Peggy's cousin Zemus and his wife, Ida Mae, pay a quick visit and leave behind their five-year-old son Seven, who's captivating to Peggy (and only Peggy). She sees this as her chance to be a "great mother," or at least try.
Season 7, Episode 2: T-R-A Something, Something Spells Tramp
Original Air Date: 20 September 1992Season 7, Episode 3: Every Bundy Has a Birthday
Original Air Date: 27 September 1992When Peggy discovers that no one knows Seven's birthday, she picks one at random, Al's. He is understandably not pleased when he has lost his birthday to the new kid. Peggy decides to have a small party for Seven's 6th birthday at a local park. But the party fizzles when a snobbish rich parent arrives and declares the park private for his own son's party.
Season 7, Episode 4: Al on the Rocks
Original Air Date: 4 October 1992When Peggy uses up the monthly mortgage to pay Seven's doctor bill, Al is forced to take a second job bar-tending at a topless bar, but its a male strip club where the bartender and all other men are topless. Al enjoys his job, but when Jefferson covers for Al for one day, he takes Al's job. Meanwhile, Peggy starts banning Kelly and Bud from the house to protect Seven from their germs.
Season 7, Episode 5: What I Did for Love
Original Air Date: 11 October 1992The way to a man's heart may be through his stomach, but it's not the heart that's sought by Peggy who's tired of being ignored by Al in the bedroom. So she tries a variety of exciting new outfits in an attempt to wet the appetite of a starving Al. But the only thing Al wants is a cooked steak for dinner.
Season 7, Episode 6: Frat Chance
Original Air Date: 25 October 1992To meet girls, Bud starts his own community college fraternity, "Alpha Gunna Get em," with the only members being Hindu convenience store clerk Achmed, geek Francis, and retiree Gus. But the premier toga party, (in the Bundy garage) lacks fun and women.
Season 7, Episode 7: The Chicago Wine Party
Original Air Date: 1 November 1992On Election Day, all of the Bundys (minus Seven) hit the voting booths united to defeat political correctness, and a new two cent beer tax. When their causes loses at the polls, the Bundys hit the streets for some good old fashion pillaging.
Season 7, Episode 8: Kelly Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Original Air Date: 8 November 1992Al decides that another Bundy must get a job and the ax falls on Kelly. This breaks Peggy's heart since no Wanker woman has ever worked before. After taking a job at a grease spoon diner, Kelly must experience the wonderful world of waitressing prior to her true calling as Kelly Bundy: Philosopher/Waitress.
Season 7, Episode 9: Rock of Ages
Original Air Date: 15 November 1992When his paycheck is taken by bill collectors, Al decides to do something with his non-life: he enters a shoe selling contest and wins. The prize is a first class ticket to Hawaii which the family turns into four stand-bys. After dumping Seven off with the D'Arcys, the Bundys travel to Chicago's O'Hara Airport where in an surprising twist, Al masquerades as an aging 1960s rock star, named 'Axel Bundy' from the group 'Shoes and Socks' in which they hob-nob into the first class lounge with six famous musicians, Richie Havens, Spencer Davis, John Sebastian, Robby Krieger, Peter Noone, and Mark Lindsay.
Season 7, Episode 10: Death of a Shoe Salesman
Original Air Date: 22 November 1992Season 7, Episode 11: The Old College Try
Original Air Date: 13 December 1992Thanks to a college grant of $25,000, Bud is ready to leave home and start the good life at college, until Al and Peggy discover the money. Being the selfish petty criminals they are, they grant the money for themselves, and go on a wild spending spree in just one day that leaves Bud with zero.
Season 7, Episode 12: Christmas
Original Air Date: 20 December 1992In the company of his peers at a bar with other Santas, mall Santa Al recalls Christmases past when he managed to avoid getting gifts to Peggy, Kelly, and Bud by turning them against each other (shown in a pseudo flashback to 1974). But this year the family shows a united front when they give Al his present, the jobs he has to work to get the money he needs to buy presents for Peggy and the kids. One job for Al is playing Santa Claus at the mall where Marcy and Jefferson get another opportunity to taunt and browbeat Al.
Season 7, Episode 13: Wedding Show
Original Air Date: 10 January 1993The Bundys are going to a family wedding for Al's cousin. But Peggy can't decide what to wear, so while she dresses (and redresses) Al waits and daydreams. Meanwhile, Kelly color coordinates with two fellow bridesmaids, deciding that tight black leather is always best, and Bud gets to know the young bride to be much better than he should!
Season 7, Episode 14: It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This
Original Air Date: 24 January 1993It's no vacation for Al when Peggy and Marcy join him on his winter fishing trip and make him referee to their constant bickering. Meanwhile, Kelly, Bud and Seven, left behind with no food or money, help Jefferson spend all of Marcy's money.
Season 7, Episode 15: Heels on Wheels
Original Air Date: 7 February 1993Working at the diner is getting to Kelly, so she decides to rebel by getting a motorcycle which Peggy deems as too dangerous, until Peggy tries it for herself and gets some good vibrations. But it's Al who really takes to the new bike and imagines himself as an "easy rider,"... at least until an untimely head-on meeting with the Dodge.
Season 7, Episode 16: Mr. Empty Pants
Original Air Date: 14 February 1993Peggy decides to take up a hobby by drawing Al and in so doing, creates her own magazine cartoon of Al makes him famous: the hapless shoe salesman titled "Mr. Empty Pants". Al would prefer the fame to be fleeting, until another magazine (Playgirl) declares him to be a sex symbol.
Season 7, Episode 17: You Can't Miss
Original Air Date: 21 February 1993After one too many dateless Saturdays, Bud appears on a new TV dating game show called "You Can't Miss" for the less experienced, but not quite with the expected results. Meanwhile, the low IQ Kelly believes that there's a conspiracy to keep her from knowing what day it is.
Season 7, Episode 18: Peggy and the Pirates
Original Air Date: 28 February 1993Peggy narrates her own pirate fantasy to Seven as a bedtime story. In the story, Peggy plays Princess Scarlett. Al is Captain Courage, her pirate captor and Jefferson is Prince Paco her savior. Rounding out the cast is Bud playing the hunchback first mate Fluvio; Kelly as the dim-witted ship's navigator; Marcy playing the cabin boy/girl; and in a surprise appearance, Marcy's ex-husband Steve Rhodes playing the villainous Rubio the Cruel who's feared for his terrible singing of show tunes.
Season 7, Episode 19: Go for the Old
Original Air Date: 14 March 1993Season 7, Episode 20: Un-Alful Entry
Original Air Date: 28 March 1993After Al knocks out and captures a burglar that breaks into his house one night while he's sleeping on the couch after an argument with Peggy, he becomes a neighborhood hero. But the tables soon turn when the burglar sues Al for injuring him and the Bundys must go to court once again.
Season 7, Episode 21: Movie Show
Original Air Date: 11 April 1993After Kelly's boyfriend dumps her, Al and the family treat her to the movies where each member has a different agenda.
Season 7, Episode 22: 'Til Death Do Us Part
Original Air Date: 25 April 1993Al's poor bedroom performance makes him the laughingstock of the entire town after another night with Peggy, even though the only person she tells about it is Marcy. Al then decides to get in shape for the real deal to get his self-confidence back.
Season 7, Episode 23: 'Tis Time to Smell the Roses
Original Air Date: 2 May 1993Al takes a $12,000 offer for early retirement from the shoe store, but Peggy finds the money and spends all of it in one hour by shopping. Al is forced to go back to work where he hears opportunity knocking with a chance to buy a shoe store called "Home Plate Athletic Shoes." Meanwhile, Charlene Tilton visits the Bundy house trying to sell them an "Abdomenizer."
Season 7, Episode 24: Old Insurance Dodge
Original Air Date: 9 May 1993One morning, Al discovers that his Dodge has been stolen. At Jefferson's behest, Al decides to cheat the insurance company and enjoys renting a loaner Lincoln Town Car...Until the police find his beloved heap.
Season 7, Episode 25: The Wedding Repercussions
Original Air Date: 16 May 1993Season 7, Episode 26: The Proposition
Original Air Date: 23 May 1993Season 8
Season 8, Episode 1: A Tisket, a Tasket, Can Peg Make a Basket?
Original Air Date: 5 September 1993When Al manages to get two prime tickets to a charity all-star basketball game, Peggy spoils his fun by insisting she come along. Things turn even worse for Al when she trades seats with him just before his former seat is chosen for a $10,000 free-throw contest. Meanwhile, Kelly tries to get herself basketball player Vlade Divac.
Season 8, Episode 2: Hood in the Boyz
Original Air Date: 12 September 1993Al is thrilled when his childhood girlfriend asks for his help in dealing with a young thug and his gang who have been harassing her at the inner city convenience store where she now works. But how does Al explain it to Peggy? Simply put: Al checks himself and Peggy into a local hotel near the rough neighborhood and sneaks out to confront the thug Ray-Ray and his gang, only to get beaten up by the youths again and again.
Season 8, Episode 3: Proud to Be Your Bud?
Original Air Date: 19 September 1993The other Bundys think Bud has flipped out when they overhear his basement conversion with his 'cool' alter-ego who arrives from another universe and shows Bud the tactics on picking up women. Meanwhile, Al has a personal battle of his own with a voice-over phone service to order a purchase for a new spare part for the Dodge.
Season 8, Episode 4: Luck of the Bundys
Original Air Date: 26 September 1993When Al's luck starts turning good, as well as the rest of the Bundys, (Bud being accepted to a prestigious college, Kelly quitting her waitress job for an acting career, and Peggy wining a lot of money at Bingo) he knows that sooner or later he is doomed thanks to the Bundy curse for everything will turn bad.
Season 8, Episode 5: Banking on Marcy
Original Air Date: 3 October 1993Marcy tries to overcome her fear of public speaking by fantasizing that she's elsewhere (having sex in the bedroom), which is a real treat for the audience. But the only people that are turned off by Marcy's simulated lovemaking skills are an embarrassed Jefferson, a shocked Peggy, and a disgusted Al who's hooked on rap videos.
Season 8, Episode 6: No Chicken, No Check
Original Air Date: 10 October 1993Convinced they can share, Kelly and Bud pool their money together so they can buy a car for themselves, which both want, but neither will surrender, for a time alone in the car with their drive-in movie dates. Meanwhile, Al is happy after he intimidates Peggy into buying him some meat from the supermarket.
Season 8, Episode 7: Take My Wife, Please
Original Air Date: 24 October 1993On Halloween night, the Grim Reaper (in the form of a dark-haired, pasty-faced Peggy) finally answers Al's inadvertent long cried call for death and won't leave him until one of his family members say that they need him. Meanwhile, Marcy convinces Peggy, Bud, Kelly and Jefferson to impersonate the Village People at a party she's hosting honoring female spouse murderers.
Season 8, Episode 8: Scared Single
Original Air Date: 7 November 1993Al hires Aaron, a recent Polk high school graduate to work in his shoe store for the summer. Aaron sees Al as a hero and when he announces of his decision to marry, Al takes full advantage by giving the boy the benefit of wisdom not to ever marry and become like him and millions of other long-suffering married men: losers. Meanwhile, while working as the Verminator, Kelly accidentally gets a face-full of bug spray which causes her to start behaving very strangely.
Season 8, Episode 9: No Ma'am
Original Air Date: 14 November 1993When Al and his friends gets fed up with the women taking over their Giggly Room and their bowling night, thanks to both Jerry Springer and Marcy D'Arcy. They form a secret organization called No MA'AM and hold him hostage in his own show in an audience filled with men donning the No MA'AM shirts. They intend to perform television's first sexorcism which includes them forcing him in watching hours of pro-wrestling. They'll also force him to wear a stinky, yellow undershirt and a pair of boxers with the words "It's All Me" until the women who took over their Giggly Room and their bowling night comply to their demands.
Season 8, Episode 10: Dances with Weezy
Original Air Date: 21 November 1993Al bribes Kelly and Bud into posing as him and Jefferson to accompany Peg and Marcy at The Jeffersons Moving On Up Tour live, while they go to a newly opened sports bar.
Season 8, Episode 11: Change for a Buck
Original Air Date: 28 November 1993Lacking attention, Buck decides to run away from home and the rest of the family doesn't discover that he's gone until a week later which is the time limit for dogs at the pound where Buck winds up. Al is then torn between going with the family to look for Buck and going to the nudie bar with Jefferson for a "Wrestle Till You Raw" night.
Season 8, Episode 12: A Little Off the Top
Original Air Date: 12 December 1993Al is injured playing baseball with his friends, and ends up in the hospital needing surgery. Due to a mix-up at the hospital, however, Al ends up receiving a circumcision.
Season 8, Episode 13: The Worst Noel
Original Air Date: 19 December 1993On Christmas Eve, Kelly and Bud try to sneak in a jukebox to give to their parents who spend the entire show sitting in front of their TV set arguing with each other over the proper speed for channel switching. Also, Marcy and Jefferson throw a wild Christmas party next door and do not tell Al about it.
Season 8, Episode 14: Sofa So Good
Original Air Date: 16 January 1994With Al and Peggy away for a family reunion with her family in Wanker County, Wisconsin (where everyone's last name is Wanker and is relative), the Bud lets Kelly have the house for Saturday night. When her date accidentally destroys the family couch, Kelly must travel to the far corners of Illinois to find the crazed, hermit-like, former maker of the couch to ask for a replacement before her parents come home.
Season 8, Episode 15: Honey, I Blew Up Myself
Original Air Date: 23 January 1994On Al's 45th birthday, Peggy decides to give him a sexy photo of herself to hang in the shoe store. But the photographer decides to hang it in a huge blow up version of the same photo on a giant billboard in the mall outside the store. Naturally, this cannot be tolerated so Al enlists the help of Marcy's feminist group FANG (Feminists Against Neanderthal Guys), NO MA'AM's rival counterpart, to destroy the offending image. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud can't seem to get the right gift for Al.
Season 8, Episode 16: How Green Was My Apple
Original Air Date: 6 February 1994Season 8, Episode 17: Valentine's Day Massacre
Original Air Date: 13 February 1994Al battles other husbands at a store for last-minute Valentine's Day shoppers. Meanwhile, Bud gets physically and sexually abused when trying to find in a hotel his long-lost valentine girl, who is now a famous pop star.
Season 8, Episode 18: Get Outta Dodge
Original Air Date: 20 February 1994When Al decides to sell his old car, the people at the Dodge Corporation inform him that if he can get his Dodge's odometer up to all 9's, the car will take part in a commercial, breaking the 1,000,000,000 miles and Al will be awarded a brand Dodge Viper. But can Al and his Dodge survive 24 hours until the film crew can arrive? Meanwhile, Bud sends the dim-witted Kelly out to find "Waldo."
Season 8, Episode 19: Field of Screams
Original Air Date: 27 February 1994Al opposes the proposed destruction of his old high school football field to build a new auto plant by chaining himself to the arch. Meanwhile, Buck and Bud suffer from unusual side affects after Kelly the Verminator sprays them with a new pesticide called "Springtime in Baghdad."
Season 8, Episode 20: The D'Arcy Files
Original Air Date: 20 March 1994Jefferson reveals his secret past to Marcy when he tells her that he is a ex-CIA spy in a witness relocation program. Meanwhile, Al gets conflicting emotions when he is offered a $50,000 reward by a certain Walter Traugott, a shady thug who is looking for Jefferson. Elsewhere, Peggy has a toothache from a broken tooth, and Kelly and Bud dress up as bums at the mall to acquire more cash for themselves.
Season 8, Episode 21: Nooner or Later
Original Air Date: 10 April 1994While Al is busy at the shoe store with his new temp, Dexter, Peggy must coerce Al into an act over the phone to win a prize on a radio call-in show hosted by Rick Dees. One act for Al is to come home to have a nooner with Peggy. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud wait in line in the mall outside the shoe store for rock concert tickets.
Season 8, Episode 22: Ride Scare
Original Air Date: 24 April 1994Al opposes a forced car pooling until he learns that three lingerie models are in the group. But Al realizes the models are full-figured. Al and his group are then chosen to promote a campaign by the local health board to appear in commercial advertisements to clean up over polluted Chicago. But when Al and the ladies are asked to picket outside a chemical plant where Kelly works as the Verminator spokes model, Al must decide whether or not to help close down the plant and make Kelly lose her job, or give up his fame and fortune. Meanwhile, no one seems to care after Bud announces that he has made the Dean's List at college.
Season 8, Episode 23: The Legend of Ironhead Haynes
Original Air Date: 1 May 1994When another complaint from a fat woman at the shoe store results in Al losing his parking space and being reprimanded not to insult anymore fat women, he, Jefferson and the rest of his mens club NO MA'AM seek out a legendary guru macho man to teach them how to battle political correctness. Meanwhile, Peggy, Kelly and Bud hide a secret refrigerator full of food from Al.
Season 8, Episode 24: Assault and Batteries
Original Air Date: 8 May 1994Al rushes to finish fixing the basement step before his favorite movie, "Hondo" comes on TV. But, in an attempt to get some new batteries for his flashlight, he finds himself locked inside the store. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly attempt to celebrate Buck's birthday, much to Buck's dismay.
Season 8, Episode 25: Al Goes Deep
Original Air Date: 15 May 1994Using their tax refund money, Jefferson and Al bet heavily on a college football game that they are guaranteed to win. But that's before Trumaine's prized, not-so-bright quarterback Chad, who is being tutored by Bud, falls in love with Kelly, whom she pleasantly distracts from his training. Al must find a way to keep them apart at all costs after he finds out that other shady parties have also bet heavily on the game as well.
Season 8, Episode 26: Kelly Knows Something
Original Air Date: 22 May 1994When the Bundy TV set blows its condenser, Al decides to try out for a place on a new sports trivia game show, hoping to win a new TV set as the first prize. But when he is denied because of his lack of personality, Al tries to transfer his knowledge of sports to Kelly to win the show for him. But for each fact that she takes in, another falls out.
Season 9
Season 9, Episode 1: Shoeway to Heaven
Original Air Date: 4 September 1994Al and Griff decide to cash in on 1970s nostalgia by selling shoes from that period.
Season 9, Episode 2: Driving Mr. Boondy
Original Air Date: 11 September 1994Al has to renew his driver's license and is upset to learn that Bud will be his Examiner.
Season 9, Episode 3: Kelly Breaks Out
Original Air Date: 18 September 1994Kelly has a big zit on the day of her commercial, Ice Beer and Peg offers her a solution. Her uncle Sticky Wanker's zit removing potion will cure it. Al is ecstatic of her being in the commercial, despite his upset over not having tapes of Emma Peel. The Home Shopping Network offered him a compromise, endless first edition volumes of The Three Stooges, which he also loves. His real problem is with Marcy and her feminist group. They recently filed a lawsuit against Ice Beer for not hiring average and unattractive women. It goes nowhere as the jury ruled with the company and FANG is forced to protest against the commercial.
Season 9, Episode 4: Naughty But Niece
Original Air Date: 25 September 1994Bud's intense studying for a scholarship exam makes him periodically nod off and fantasize about making out with beautiful women. So, is a passionate encounter between him and Marcy's visiting, sexually aggressive, 19-year-old niece, Amber, a dream or real?
Season 9, Episode 5: Business Sucks: Part 1
Original Air Date: 2 October 1994When Al banishes a nursing mother for breast feeding her baby in the shoe store, Marcy and FANG holds a protest against Gary's Shoe Store in order to have him lift the ban.
Season 9, Episode 6: Business Still Sucks: Part 2
Original Air Date: 9 October 1994Al and No MA'AM decides to hold a counter protest in the favor of banning breast feeding from the shoe store.
Season 9, Episode 7: Dial B for Virgin
Original Air Date: 16 October 1994Bud's community service assignment for college is the one he is least suited for: consulting virgins on the brink of temptation, while he has to wrestle with temptation himself when he has to go to one's house to talk her out of it. Meanwhile, Al and Peggy go to the video store to find a movie they both can watch together.
Season 9, Episode 8: Sleepless in Chicago
Original Air Date: 23 October 1994Jefferson learns that the Barbie doll he bought for Marcy on her birthday at an auction is worth a small fortune of $50,000. So he asks Al a big favor: sleep next to Marcy for the night while he goes out to exchange dolls. In return, Al gets to keep a prized first addition of the magazine "Big Uns" that he bought at the auction with Jefferson's money.
Season 9, Episode 9: No Pot to Pease In
Original Air Date: 6 November 1994Season 9, Episode 10: Dud Bowl
Original Air Date: 13 November 1994After the funeral of a former football teammate at the Bullpen Sports Bar, an old rival, named Jack Franklin, challenges Al and his former team from Polk High into a grudge football match between them. But Al ends up being turned into a tackling dummy by ringers Bubba Smith, Laurence Taylor, Ken Stabler and John Reynolds on the opposing team.
Season 9, Episode 11: A Man for No Seasons
Original Air Date: 27 November 1994When Major League Baseball goes on a strike, NO MA'AM organizes their own league sponsored by nude bars.
Season 9, Episode 12: I Want My Psycho Dad: Part 1
Original Air Date: 11 December 1994Al launches his group NO MA'AM in a protest outside the local TV station after Marcy's group FANG gets NO MA'AM's favorite TV show "Psycho Dad" canceled. But in a blizzard, no one takes notice. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud try to convince Al to have them throw a house party for their friends.
Season 9, Episode 13: I Want My Psycho Dad: Second Blood: Part 2
Original Air Date: 18 December 1994Al and his friends from NO MA'AM who include Griff, Officer Dan, Ike and Bob Rooney travel to Washington D.C. where thanks to Jefferson's pull, being a former CIA agent, Al and the group gets to address the U.S. Senate about Psycho Dad being put back on the air.
Season 9, Episode 14: The Naked and the Dead, But Mostly the Naked
Original Air Date: 8 January 1995To check out their husbands claim of "totally innocent fun" Peggy, Marcy and their friends accompany their husbands Al, Jefferson, Charlie, Ike and Bob Rooney to the Jiggly Room strip club. Afraid of the ladies responses, Al and the group take them on a Thursday night where it's A-cup night so the men won't get excited by the small breasted dancers. Everything goes well at first, until the unexpected arrival of a huge breasted stripper named "Rocky Mountains." Meanwhile, Kelly lands a part in a weight loss commercial and must drink various un-drinkable protein shakes.
Season 9, Episode 15: Kelly Takes a Shot
Original Air Date: 15 January 1995Season 9, Episode 16: Best of Bundy
Original Air Date: 5 February 1995Season 9, Episode 17: Get the Dodge Outta Hell
Original Air Date: 5 February 1995Al's Dodge mysteriously disappears during a family visit to a local car wash while on their way to Wanker county. Meanwhile, Marcy's ex-husband Steve Rhoades mysteriously reappears at the car wash to show her his new life while she is trying to get the lazy Jefferson to work there.
Season 9, Episode 18: 25 Years and What Do You Get?
Original Air Date: 12 February 1995On their 25th wedding anniversary, Peggy goes out with Marcy to a posh health spa where Peggy gets coned out of all her money by a gift shop employee selling cheap beauty items. Meanwhile, Al is in trouble when the old and senile Buck buries in the back yard the anniversary gift necklace he plans to give Peggy, which prompts him, Bud and Kelly to literally dig up the entire back yard looking for the necklace.
Season 9, Episode 19: Ship Happens: Part 1
Original Air Date: 19 February 1995Peg wins a cruise but decides to take Al and the Darcy's along with her, leaving the kids at home with Wolfman Jack, but as always, misfortune follows.
Season 9, Episode 20: Ship Happens: Part 2
Original Air Date: 26 February 1995The Bundys ocean cruise takes a turn for the worse when their ship sinks and they are stranded on a life raft in the middle of the ocean with the D'Arcys, a fat woman, and comedian Gilbert Gottfried. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud endure the media circus that comes to their house asking about their missing parents.
Season 9, Episode 21: Something Larry This Way Comes
Original Air Date: 12 March 1995Kelly gets a big break while attending the Larry Scorch School of Acting when she and Larry Scorch are to appear on stage in a part of the show "Phantom of the Opera." But when the shoe store owner, Gary, knocks out Larry Scorch himself, whom she holds a personal grudge against, Al must leave the midnight madness sale at the shoe store, leaving Griff solo, to go to Kelly's rescue at the theater.
Season 9, Episode 22: And Bingo Was Her Game-O
Original Air Date: 26 March 1995Peggy gets invited to the Bingo Invitational Final. To their horror, Al and Jefferson hear that the new spokes-model for their official No Ma'am club beer, Girlie Girl Beer, is Yoko One. Therefore, No Ma'am must select a new official beer.
Season 9, Episode 23: User Friendly
Original Air Date: 9 April 1995Bud gets hooked on a virtual reality sex experiment to revitalize his sex life with Amber, while she and Kelly discover what Bud is up to and plan to get him off it. Meanwhile, Al's week long vacation takes a turn when he becomes obsessed with an electrical switch that has an unknown function.
Season 9, Episode 24: Pump Fiction
Original Air Date: 30 April 1995Season 9, Episode 25: My Favorite Married...
Original Air Date: 30 April 1995Season 9, Episode 26: Radio Free Trumaine
Original Air Date: 7 May 1995In this pilot for a proposed new TV series, set on Trumaine University's radio station, W.H.I.P., DJ's Oliver Cole and Mark Campbell host several hours of unconventional and overlooked programming. After a probing interview, divulging the past of Trumaine's new dean of students, Steve Rhoades, both Oliver and Mark are kicked off the air and expelled from the college. Marcy arrives and upon hearing the news, she tries to get revenge against her ex-husband by leading a feeble on-air protest against their expulsion. But their protest doesn't attract much attention. Meanwhile, Bud is dating April Adams, a fellow student and intern from Marcy's bank, who is also being pursued by Nickolai Pushkin, a rugged, handsome basketball star from Russia. When Bud desperately attempts to seal April's affections away from Nickolai, Mark happens by and secretly broadcasts the conversation over the station and calls it "Hot Talk With April." Mark, Oliver and their new show become so popular that dozens of people turn out for the protest, in which Steve backs down and lets them stay on the air and at the college. April ends up rejecting both Bud and Nickolai, as well as a job at Marcy's bank to remain with Mark and Oliver at their radio station.
Season 9, Episode 27: Shoeless Al
Original Air Date: 14 May 1995An insurance agent is assigned to make sure Al is afraid to wear shoes to collaborate his lawsuit against the mall that claims he is afraid of shoes after being tied up by a burglar while at work. But Al must decide between the money from the settlement or winning a bowling championship when he's not allowed to bowl barefoot.
Season 9, Episode 28: The Undergraduate
Original Air Date: 21 May 1995Kelly's new secret admirer turns out to be a wealthy, spoiled, and immature 12-year-old boy, named Robbie Benson, who blackmails her into accompanying him to his junior prom at his elementary school. Bud also crashes the prom disguised as a music DJ to taunt Kelly until she finally cries out for help, and Bud saves her by contacting Robbie's father. But no one expects it when Robbie's father begins to eye Kelly too.
Season 10
Season 10, Episode 1: Guess Who's Coming to Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Original Air Date: 17 September 1995Mama Wanker moves in with the Bundys after fighting with her husband.
Season 10, Episode 2: A Shoe Room with a View
Original Air Date: 24 September 1995Al and Griff convinces Gary to use the extra space for an aerobic's studio in the hopes that it'll attract pretty women. When it attracts fat women instead, Kelly convinces her father's boss to hire Ramone. It turns the tide against Feminist Marcy.
Season 10, Episode 3: Requiem for a Dead Briard
Original Air Date: 1 October 1995Buck the dog dies; in Heaven, he is sent back to Earth as the Bundys' new dog, Lucky.
Season 10, Episode 4: Reverend Al
Original Air Date: 8 October 1995Al and his mens group NO MA'AM decide to form their own church in order to avoid paying beer tax. When Marcy and her women's group FANG expose Al's plan to the public, NO MA'AM surprisingly receives sympathy and donations from thousands of long-suffering married men in America which makes it possible for them to open their church. Al becomes a televangelist and preaches the NO MA'AM way of life.
Season 10, Episode 5: How Bleen Was My Kelly
Original Air Date: 15 October 1995Kelly has unknowingly created a new color chemical called Bleen and Al quickly finds out that she has created a new formula that grows hair.
Season 10, Episode 6: The Weaker Sex
Original Air Date: 22 October 1995Peggy takes up a self-defense class. What's worse, she is soon promoted to the advanced class. This makes Al feel emasculated. To make Peg drop the self-defense class, Kelly suggests Al take Peg out on a romantic date to see the Director's Cut of The Bridges of Madison Country.
Season 10, Episode 7: Flight of the Bumblebee
Original Air Date: 29 October 1995In order to join Al's group NO MA'AM, Bud must go through a intuition process where he must crash a televised wrestling match in order to get an photograph taken of him with pro-wrestler King Kong Bundy. Bud not only gains backstage access by dressing in a Bumblebee outfit, but thank to Kelly's big mouth, he lands in the ring facing the star wrestler as well.
Season 10, Episode 8: Blonde and Blonder
Original Air Date: 5 November 1995Marcy organizes a "Toys for guns" campaign to get kids something else to play with than toy guns. Kelly has a post-graduation five-year re-union and is shocked to learn that the nerd she once stood up has grown into a handsome and rich man...
Season 10, Episode 9: The Two That Got Away
Original Air Date: 19 November 1995Season 10, Episode 10: Dud Bowl II
Original Air Date: 26 November 1995Season 10, Episode 11: Al Bundy Sports Spectacular
Original Air Date: 26 November 1995Season 10, Episode 12: Bearly Men
Original Air Date: 3 December 1995Season 10, Episode 13: Love Conquers Al
Original Air Date: 10 December 1995To go out with hot guy Carlos, Kelly buys the reluctant Bud to keep company for Carlos's cousin Esmeralda by offering Bud a date with Fawn. Fortunately for Bud, Esmeralda turns out to be quite hot. Al and Peg take Peg's parents to a marriage retreat.
Season 10, Episode 14: I Can't Believe It's Butter
Original Air Date: 17 December 1995During the Christmas season, Griff becomes quite fond of a phone sex partner named "Butter," whom Al discovers is really Peg's mother.
Season 10, Episode 15: The Hood, the Bud & the Kelly: Part 1
Original Air Date: 7 January 1996Season 10, Episode 16: The Hood, the Bud & the Kelly: Part 2
Original Air Date: 14 January 1996Season 10, Episode 17: Calendar Girl
Original Air Date: 4 February 1996Al wants to beat the rival shoe shop owner, Babcock, in something and puts his faith in Bud who's in the same entrepreneurial studies class in Trumaine than Little Floyd, Babcock's son. They both have to come up with a product and a his marketing campaign for it. Al sees that he will have his revenge if Bud's project gets a higher grade than Little Floyd's project. Kelly brings home a boy calendar and Bud gets an idea: he'll make a Girls of Trumaine calendar. Unfortunately, he does not know the personal secret of the stunning cover girl, Crystal Clark. Meanwhile, Peg is on the road, searching for her dad in order to save her parents' marriage.
Season 10, Episode 18: The Agony and the Extra C
Original Air Date: 11 February 1996It is Marcy and Jefferson's wedding anniversary, but Jefferson is in hospital, recovering from a physical trauma. Kelly and Bud visit Jefferson and he recounts the events that led to his being hospitalized, starting with the party that the other members of No Ma'am threw at him in the nude bar.
Season 10, Episode 19: Spring Break: Part 1
Original Air Date: 18 February 1996Bud and his three "frat bros" are set to leave for Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale in hopes of scoring some drunken babes. They have the tickets and the hotel reservation. That is, until Kelly, the naughty Fawn, the steamy Ashley and the nerdy Natalie make them believe that they want to spend Spring Break with Bud and his pals. The girls say that in order to cheat their boyfriends with Bud and his pals they need the tickets and reservation in order to "send away the boyfriends" and the con succeeds. Al and Griff sell a lot of shoes for girls leaving for Spring Break and wish they also could go. Jefferson lets slip that he's going to Fort Lauderdale to act as a judge in a beauty contest, behind Marcy's back, of course. Al and Griff then realize they can spend the money to go to Fort Lauderdale. Marcy arrives at the Bundys to find the boys still waiting for the girls to arrive. Together, they witness the girls, Al, Griff and Jefferson on TV at Fort Lauderdale. Marcy and the boys decide to go after them to get revenge.
Season 10, Episode 20: Spring Break: Part 2
Original Air Date: 25 February 1996Al, Jefferson and Griff are having the time of their lives at Fort Lauderdale - Al even finds a new way to earn money by collecting empty cans! The girls are prepping Kelly for the beauty competition. Marcy and the boys experience some car problems on the way from Chicago to Fort Lauderdale and have to bow to the demands of a pervy car mechanic in order to get new wheels. The girls bump into Al and his pals. Al doesn't want Kelly to take part in some sleazy contest - that is until he learns that the prize is $100,000...
Season 10, Episode 21: Turning Japanese
Original Air Date: 17 March 1996Marcy is up for a promotion, but to get promoted, she needs to impress her Japanese boss, Mr. Shimokawa, by serving him dinner and presenting him her grateful neighbors, the Japanese Bundys! Of course, she needs to bribe the real Bundys to stay out of sight for the duration of the visit. However, it just happens that Mr. Shimokawa hears the sound of Al's Dodge 1971 - a car missing form his collection. To ensure her promotion, Marcy needs the car for Mr. Shimokawa. But what will it take to get Al to give up his car?
Season 10, Episode 22: Al Goes to the Dogs
Original Air Date: 24 March 1996Season 10, Episode 23: Enemies
Original Air Date: 14 April 1996In this pilot for a proposed TV series, a group of "friends" live in a sometimes peaceful co-existence. Tom is a handsome deliveryman living with his gorgeous girlfriend Shannon, his half-sister Maria, and their lazy friend Jackson. Tom is on the rocks with Shannon again over their flirtations with other people. When Tom meets Kelly Bundy while delivering a package to the Bundy house, he asks her out for the evening. Shannon, just to make Tom jealous, asks out a handsome millionaire named Henry and the four of them end up at the local grease spoon diner in the inner city, which is run by the kindly cook George. The evening gets more X-rated when both Tom and Shannon try to outdo each other with their dates.
Season 10, Episode 24: Bud Hits the Books
Original Air Date: 28 April 1996Bud has invited not-too-bright student Ariel to play the "Strip Study" game, to prepare for upcoming exams he has to pass in order to graduate. Despite years of not ending up getting some, Bud gets lucky but falls asleep and realizes that in order to be able to concentrate on studying, he has to give up everything that reminds him of sex. This proves to be quite difficult. In order to find a place where nothing turns him on, Bud goes to the library. Surely he can forget about sex there?
Season 10, Episode 25: Kiss of the Coffee Woman
Original Air Date: 5 May 1996Marcy will not let Jefferson back in the house until he finds a job, so he hangs around at the Bundys. Bud gets Kelly a part in a Romantic Roast coffee commercial and when Kelly's co-star fails to perform up to expectations, Bud gets Jefferson the part. Jefferson's character Lance wins him legions of female fans which upsets Marcy but also ensures that two more commercials will be made with Kelly and Jefferson. But how will Al react when the script demands that Kelly and Jefferson kiss?
Season 10, Episode 26: Torch Song Duet
Original Air Date: 19 May 1996There's a radio contest open to all (except Al), where the winner will get to carry the Olympic torch through the city. Griff wins it and becomes a local hero.
Season 10, Episode 27: The Joke's on Al
Original Air Date: 26 May 1996While Griff faces the death penalty due to a NO MA'AM prank, Al plans to get married to an old flame.
Season 11
Season 11, Episode 1: Twisted
Original Air Date: 28 September 1996Bud has discovered that Ariel gets turned on by life-threatening situations and has decided to stage a fake tornado in order to get some from Ariel while they seek shelter in the Bundys' basement. Peg confirms that danger does in deed turn women on. However, a real twister appears in Chicago and the rest of the Bundys and the Jeffersons also have to seek shelter in the Bundys' basement. Which also means that Peg and Marcy get turned on...
Season 11, Episode 2: Children of the Corns
Original Air Date: 5 October 1996Gary declares a sales contest between Al and Griff - the winner gets a raise. However, an appearance of an immigrant child who works in Gary's illegal sweatshop gives Al a better idea than selling shoes.
Season 11, Episode 3: Kelly's Gotta Habit
Original Air Date: 12 October 1996In order to get a $20,000 contract of a model for a national olive oil brand, Kelly has to sign a Morals Clause, which requires that she remain chaste. This proves to be a difficult task. Meanwhile, Al hears that Officer Dan is appearing in Al's favorite TV show Cops and blackmails him to become his partner.
Season 11, Episode 4: Requiem for a Chevyweight: Part 1
Original Air Date: 10 November 1996Al's beloved Dodge is fading away. Through a frantic "emergency operation", Al manages to "stabilize" the Dodge's condition, but it still needs constant "life support". Al is unwilling to let the Dodge go because he has fond memories of his father and the car (cue flashbacks). Al calls for a car doctor, who sees that the Dodge needs a fuel pump "transplant". Since those fuel pumps are a rarity, the doctor suggests that the car be "harvested" for spare parts instead, which would sell for a high price. This, of course, is completely unacceptable to Al. While he fights to keep the Dodge "alive" and looks for a new fuel pump, Peg and the kids already start auctioning the spare parts...
Season 11, Episode 5: Requiem for a Chevyweight: Part 2
Original Air Date: 17 November 1996Al buries his "dead" Dodge in his backyard and has a funeral ceremony for it. The collectors still desire the spare parts and Peg still intends to sell them. At Bud's request, Marcy goes through Al's financial records and declares that Al can't afford a new car. Al decides to prove her wrong and goes to a car dealer. Meanwhile, Jefferson's secret past helps him to locate a fuel pump for Al's old Dodge...
Season 11, Episode 6: A Bundy Thanksgiving
Original Air Date: 24 November 1996It's Thanksgiving. In Al's childhood, it was a tradition to eat aunt Maddie's potato pie on Thanksgiving, so Al takes a trip with Griff to see aunt Maddie in order to buy some pie. Unfortunately it turns out that she's just died. Jefferson can't find a turkey for Marcy because they've sold out. Then a stray turkey just happens to follow Kelly home. Will Kelly let the others eat it?
Season 11, Episode 7: The Juggs Have Left the Building
Original Air Date: 1 December 1996Peg take a holiday in Branson, Missouri, but Al says he can't afford it. The prospect of all-fried food and only twin beds available, however, make him change his estimate. Lucky has to stay behind, in the care of the D'Arcy-Jeffersons. Then Marcy feels the urge to act out a dirty fantasy at the Bundys. In Branson, the Bundys get a room at the Deliverance Inn (yes, just like that movie). Peg and Kelly take part in a country music talent contest.
Season 11, Episode 8: God Help Ye Merry Bundymen
Original Air Date: 22 December 1996It's Christmas. Al doesn't want a Christmas tree, the rest of the family do. Marcy is determined to win the neighborhood decorating contest. Gary hires two young guys, Hal and Biff, to help Al and Griff at the shoe store. Someone (actually Bud and Kelly) kidnaps Mary and Joseph from Marcy's Nativity Scene and demand $500 in ransom. Hal and Biff turn out to be such good workers that Gary decides to replace Al and Griff with them, permanently.
Season 11, Episode 9: Crimes Against Obesity
Original Air Date: 29 December 1996When Al goes too far with insulting the overweight women for the final time. The fat women, who he insulted over the years, puts him on trial for excessive crimes against obesity.
Season 11, Episode 10: The Stepford Peg
Original Air Date: 6 January 1997Al is planning a get-together for the guys - they'll be watching Wrestling from cable. Al wants Peg to help but she declines. Then Peg has an accident where she hits her head and gets amnesia. Kelly, Bud and Al are then amazed to see Peg cooking, cleaning and doing other housework. They decide to milk the situation for all it's worth.