Bud’s Episode Vault
Season 5 Episode 9: Do Ya Think I’m Sexy
A new neighbour calls Al cute after he moves her couch, and the women on the street start requesting his handyman services and then admiring the handyman. Al becomes obsessed with his own appearance. It is the last appearance of Jade, the shoe store customer who had been propositioning him since season 2.
Season 5 Episode 8: Wabbit Season
Al has a breakdown at the shoe store after sixteen straight hours of a midnight madness sale, and takes up gardening to calm down. A rabbit starts eating his carrots. The response escalates to flooding the burrow with a hose, which floods the street and the house next door as well.
Season 5 Episode 7: Married … with Aliens
Al takes a bad knock to the head and starts seeing small green aliens who are stealing his socks. The socks, it turns out, are fuel, and the aliens need them to prevent a disaster on a cosmic scale. Al saves several worlds including this one without ever understanding that he did.
Season 5 Episode 6: Kelly Bounces Back
Kelly has graduated and is doing nothing, so Al tries to get her working, and she lands on modelling. Her rival is played by Tia Carrere and the casting agent by Tina Louise from Gilligan’s Island, which matters because Al spent years telling anyone who would listen that Ginger was the one.
Season 5 Episode 5: The Dance Show
Peg takes up dancing and meets a handsome man at a club, flirting with him without working out that he is married to another man. Al, meanwhile, meets the husband, who cooks him an actual meal. Dan Castellaneta and Sam McMurray guest, both billed as special guest stars.
Season 5 Episode 4: The Unnatural
Al is dropped from his own softball team for the championship, by unanimous vote, with his wife and both children voting against him. A better player takes his place, gets injured, and Al goes in. It is the last appearance of the New Market Mallers and the last time the Bundys play together.
Season 5 Episode 3: Sue Casa, His Casa
Bud gets his licence, immediately crashes the Dodge into a Mercedes, and the Mercedes owner sues for a million dollars. Al has no insurance worth the name, so the family counter-sues for a jillion and builds a case out of neck braces and Marcy’s testimony. Dr. Joyce Brothers presides as the judge.
Season 5 Episode 2: Al … with Kelly
Al and Kelly both fake illness to avoid visiting Peg’s mother, which leaves the two of them alone in the house for a week. Then Kelly actually gets sick and Al has to look after her. Pamela Anderson appears in one of Al’s fantasies, and the four touchdowns get mentioned for the first time.
Season 5 Episode 1: We’ll Follow the Sun
The season opens with the Bundys trapped in a traffic jam on the way back from a trip, going nowhere for the entire episode. Kelly has her diploma, Bud is a senior, and Marcy has her bank manager job back by a method she describes in detail. Almost all of it happens in one stationary car.
Season 4 Episode 23: Yard Sale
Al finds out Peg has spent years buying other people’s yard sale junk, so the family holds a sale of their own to get rid of it. Nobody comes. It is the season 4 finale, the last episode in which Peggy smokes, and the source of Al’s Bigger Idiot Theory of commerce.