Bud’s Episode Vault
Season 5 Episode 20: Top of the Heap
The hundredth episode, and Al appears in it for about a minute. It is a backdoor pilot for Top of the Heap, starring Joseph Bologna and a pre-Friends Matt LeBlanc, and five of the six regular cast members do not appear at all.
Season 5 Episode 18: Weenie Tot Lovers & Other Strangers
Kelly becomes the Weenie Tot spokesmodel and the family receives a year’s supply, which turns out to include a winning fifty thousand dollar sweepstakes card. The catch is that employees and their families are ineligible. So Al and Peg draft Marcy and Jefferson into claiming it for them.
Season 5 Episode 17: Oldies But Young ‘Uns
Al cannot stop thinking about a song he heard on the radio and can hum but not name, and nobody will help him. Meanwhile Kelly brings home a new boyfriend, Vinnie Verducci, along with his father Charlie. This is the episode that introduced Matt LeBlanc to the series.
Season 5 Episode 16: All Night Security Dude
Al takes an overnight job as a school security guard and loses the football trophy on his watch, which costs him the job. Getting it back means confronting Spare Tire Dixon, the rival lineman he beat on the goal line in 1966. Bubba Smith guest stars.
Season 5 Episode 15: A Man’s Castle
Peg signs up for an interior design course and her first assignment is to redecorate one room of the house. She picks the one bathroom Al considers his own, and she does it in pink. Al faints, regroups, and launches a campaign to take it back.
Season 5 Episode 14: Look Who’s Barking
Buck runs off and comes home with a female dog who immediately sets about replacing him as the household pet. Al, meanwhile, is hunting down the chef behind his favorite cherry cheesecake. Cheech Marin voices Buck for the first time, and B.B. King turns up as a street musician.
Season 5 Episode 13: The Godfather
Kelly starts dating a city councilman, which makes Al a man with influence, and he uses it exactly as you would expect — to settle scores and be addressed with respect. Peggy’s interest in the arrangement is strictly financial.
Season 5 Episode 12: Married … with Who
Marcy wakes up after a banking convention married to a stranger named Jefferson D’Arcy, and Al offers to arrange the wedding so he can profit from it. Ted McGinley joined here on terms uncertain enough that his billing was held in the closing credits.
Season 5 Episode 11: And Baby Makes Money
Uncle Stymie Bundy dies and leaves half a million dollars to whichever Bundy is first to have a child born in wedlock. Suddenly Al is very interested in his wife. Peg, who has been turned down for years, is enjoying this far too much to simply go along with it.
Season 5 Episode 10: One Down, Two to Go
Kelly turns eighteen, announces she can now do whatever she likes, and moves out. Al’s farewell to her new boyfriend involves a chokehold, a banister and a measured throw out the front door. The episode aired on Christina Applegate’s nineteenth birthday.