Bud’s Episode Vault
Season 7 Episode 8: Kelly Doesn’t Live Here Anymore
Kelly takes a job waitressing at a diner, which horrifies Peg, who raised her daughter specifically never to have to work. Kelly is terrible at it and then, gradually, good at it. Meanwhile the family is quietly living off the leftovers she brings home. Brian Doyle-Murray plays her boss.
Season 7 Episode 7: The Chicago Wine Party
A two cent tax on beer is on the ballot, and Al Bundy becomes a political activist for the first and only time. Marcy runs her own campaign by giving the Bundys lawn signs for causes she opposes. Jefferson explains his qualifications to be First Lady. The tax passes anyway.
Season 7 Episode 6: Frat Chance
Bud founds a fraternity in the Bundy garage to improve his social standing, and it works only after Kelly tells him what to say. Jefferson wants to go to a reunion with his old frat brothers and Marcy says no, so the four adults try to pick a movie instead. It does not go well for anyone.
Season 7 Episode 5: What I Did for Love
Peg buys a series of increasingly expensive outfits to get Al’s attention, and Al holds out for a steak dinner instead. Bud spends the episode loitering in a lingerie shop talking to a mannequin. Best remembered for two minutes on the couch where Al and Jefferson invent a dessert.
Season 7 Episode 4: Al on the Rocks
Peg quarantines the house for a sick Seven and puts Bud and Kelly out in the cold. The money for the doctor is gone because she took it out of the mortgage envelope, so Al takes a second job bartending at a club where the bartender is the topless one. Jefferson eventually joins him there.
Season 7 Episode 3: Every Bundy Has a Birthday
Nobody knows when Seven’s birthday is, so the Bundys pick one and take the party to the park, which a rich family has rented for their own son’s party. Meanwhile Bud, Kelly and Al agree that Seven has not suffered enough to deserve the family name. Al ends up in a fight with the boy’s father.
Season 7 Episode 2: T-R-A-Something-Something Spells Tramp
Kelly’s date abandons her on a dark road for refusing him, and calls her a tramp on his way out. Walking home she meets other girls left there for the same reason. Al and Peg try to save their marriage by talking, and Bud gets a date with a girl who has measles.
Season 7 Episode 1: Magnificent Seven
Peg’s cousins Zemus and Ida Mae arrive with their son Seven, step out for cigarettes and never come back. Peg is thrilled to have another child to mother. Al is not, and tries to give the boy to Marcy. Linda Blair and Bobcat Goldthwait guest star.
Season 6 Episode 26: England Show (3)
Al and Bud finally notice the nooses behind them, and Kelly gets them off the gallows. The chase ends at the border between the two villages, where both mobs want the Bundys to die on their own side. The dispute is settled by a joust. Conclusion of three.
Season 6 Episode 25: England Show (2)
The Bundys run up a bill at the Savoy on the village’s money and take in the sights, then head out to Lower Uncton without Kelly, who stays in London. She finds out her family is in danger and has to reach a village nobody has heard of. Part two of three.