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- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl 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.9/10.
Season 4, Episode 8.
Al: I came home. How good could it have been? - 1987–199723mTV-PG8.6 (763)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl 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 manager to buy something otherwise they will be sent to the county jail. Al decides to purchase a stick of gum and as he approaches the checkout line, sees Marcy. He decides to cut in front of Marcy and becomes the one millionth customer winning a shopping spree worth $1,000.8+/10.
Season 5, Episode 21. - DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl is loath to have Buck the dog neutered despite being threatened with lawsuits from numerous neighbors regarding Buck's "nocturnal carnal activities" resulting in "stupid, ugly puppies" from their dogs. Reacting to pressure from Peggy and a bizarre dream he has involving Buck becoming upright and articulate, Al makes a decision.8+/10.
Season 2, Episode 4. - DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe near death of the playboy owner of Al's shoe store starts Al wondering why he's never visited the store. Feeling unappreciated Al decides to take drastic action.8+/10.
Season 1, Episode 12. - 1987–199723mTV-PG8.1 (684)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl 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.8/10.
Season 4, Episode 18.
Kelly: The prostitution rests.
Kelly: Let me tell you the difference between men and women: we're liars and you're all idiots. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAfter 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.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 11. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseNow 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.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 6. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseWhen 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.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 9.
Al: I'm married... with children. - 1987–199723mTV-PG8.0 (656)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonWhen a serial peeper is on the loose, Al makes the ultimate sacrifice to alleviate Peggy's despair about being the only one not fall victim. Bud must tutor Kelly so she can pass to the next grade, unfortunately in order to make room, new information pushes out old basic knowledge.8/10.
Season 3, Episode 22.
Al: Could you show us what he saw? - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonKelly 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.8/10.
Season 4, Episode 21. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseA 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.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 25. - 1987–199723mTV-PG8.3 (804)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonWhile 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.8/10.
Season 2, Episode 20. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe Bundys' latest money making scam is to host a foreign exchange student in their garage. But the French beauty proves to be so popular that she ends up stealing all of Kelly's boyfriends.8/10.
Season 4, Episode 6. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe 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 dining in public is not a part of the dysfunctional Bundy lifestyle, which makes matters worse when Al forgets to bring his wallet.8/10.
Season 3, Episode 11. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseTired of Al escorting her dates out through the doorway, "grown-up" Kelly gets her own apartment.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 10. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearsePeggy 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.8/10.
Season 4, Episode 23. - 1987–199723mTV-PG7.7 (638)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonWith 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.8/10.
Season 4, Episode 17. - 1987–199723mTV-PG7.6 (868)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonIt'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?8/10.
Season 1, Episode 6.
Al: "My Partner. My Wife. My Life". My God. - 1987–19971hTV-PG8.4 (743)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonHis 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.8/10.
Season 4, Episode 12. - 1987–199723mTV-PG7.6 (887)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl 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.8/10.
Season 1, Episode 5.
Steve: Come on, honey. After all, I was a guy before I met you.
Al: We'll pretend these are our mothers.
*Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild* - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAfter a drinking binge at a bankers party, Marcy discovers herself to be married to a mysterious hunk named Jefferson D'Arcy, whom Al unearths as a gigolo and con artist. To make Marcy feel better about this unexpected change in her life, Peggy decides to throw a formal wedding ceremony for Marcy and Jefferson in the Bundy's back yard, a ceremony in which nothing goes as planned.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 12. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonKelly invites Peggy to her school as part of a presentation for career day.8/10.
Season 3, Episode 12. - 1987–199723mTV-PG8.3 (697)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl 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.8/10.
Season 5, Episode 17. - 1987–199723mTV-PG8.2 (797)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAfter Kelly gets in trouble at school, the only way she can get out of punishment if she joins the school's tap-dance club.-8/10.
Season 3, Episode 13.
Al: You're looking less ugly tonight. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl decides to build a spare bathroom when the upstairs toilet floods one too many times.-8/10.
Season 3, Episode 5. - 1987–199723mTV-PG7.5 (688)TV EpisodeDirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonOn 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."-8/10.
Season 2, Episode 17.
Al: How come, when I said "Hi Bud", he said "I don't need your pity!".
Al: Witholding sex from me, Peg? Oh, no! - 1987–19971hTV-PG7.4 (801)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAfter 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.-8/10.
Season 2, Episode 2. - 1987–19971hTV-PG7.6 (838)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe 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.-8/10.
Season 2, Episode 1. - 1987–199723mTV-PG7.7 (962)TV EpisodeDirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThere 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.-8/10.
Season 1, Episode 3.
Al: Naaaah, just going to have a little sex with the wife. What the heck, there's always next month. - DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe Bundy's stay at the shoe store after their house is tented for termites. A grounded Kelly plots to escape and go to a rock concert.-8/10.
Season 2, Episode 18.
Bud: Ciao, baby!
Al: Suicide, reason. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl 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.-8/10.
Season 3, Episode 1. - DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe Bundys buy a computer, which serves no purpose other than a hat rack. But what nobody knows is that the computer can talk. But only to Al.-8/10.
Season 3, Episode 20.