In the final Christmas episode of the long-running season, they make an effort in proving a hilarious episode. First, Janet Carroll's Gary, Al and Griff's boss, hires two young men, Hal and Biff, who are like younger versions of Al and Griff. Then she fires Al and Griff where they find last minute jobs. Al is the Elf who drives the Christmas train around the mall with the little kids and wears and Elf suit. Griff gets a job as Blitzen, the reindeer, and gets to play with Prancer. While Al is busy at the mall, Peggy creates a gingerbread house and a neighborhood. The kids, Bud and Kelly have decided to kidnap Jefferson and Marcy's Joseph and Mary statues which were imported from Europe for money. Marcy wants desperately to win the annual Christmas decoration contest in the neighborhood.
Married... with Children (TV Series)
God Help Ye Merry Bundymen (1996)
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BA_Harrison15 January 2023
This seasonal episode of Married With Children feels like it is just going through the festive motions: Al and Griff lose their jobs to younger, more eager salesmen, and so they find even worse ways to make ends meet (Al gets a job as driver of a Christmas train for kids and Griff is a reindeer); Peggy has discovered a love for making gingerbread houses; and Kelly and Bud kidnap Mary and Joseph from the D'Arcys nativity display, demanding $500 for their return. There's no single, strong storyline, just a lot of unremarkable Christmas-themed shenanigans that delivers mediocre gags.
At the end of the episode, Al scares off the new salesmen by telling them that they are destined to become like him; Gary gives Al and Griff their jobs back and Al gets to take home the shop's Christmas tree. When Kelly and Bud confess that they stole Mary and Joseph and have accidentally decapitated them, Marcy is angry and forces them take the place of the broken statues; she is even more furious when first place in the Christmas decorations competition is awarded to Peggy for her gingerbread neighbourhood.
Kelly does a remarkably good impression of a '30s movie gangster (Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar?).
At the end of the episode, Al scares off the new salesmen by telling them that they are destined to become like him; Gary gives Al and Griff their jobs back and Al gets to take home the shop's Christmas tree. When Kelly and Bud confess that they stole Mary and Joseph and have accidentally decapitated them, Marcy is angry and forces them take the place of the broken statues; she is even more furious when first place in the Christmas decorations competition is awarded to Peggy for her gingerbread neighbourhood.
Kelly does a remarkably good impression of a '30s movie gangster (Edward G. Robinson in Little Caesar?).
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