Bud’s Episode Vault

Al desperately tries to fix the house’s leaking roof during the weekend of a long rainstorm. But each time Al falls off the roof, it makes Peggy and the kids wonder if he’s too stupid or too cheap to call a roofer to do the job. Meanwhile, Steve lands another…

Al has finally saved up a lot of cash to buy his family a ton of presents they want this year. Unfortunately, a mob of late customers in the shoe store prevents him from getting to the bank and retrieving the money he needs.

His 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.

Newly unemployed Steve decides he doesn’t really want to work, so he fritters away his days with the Bundys, visiting zoos and taking fishing trips. The strain this puts on Steve’s relationship with Marcy who ends up going out with Al to a local bar where they swap stories about…

When the Dodge finally gives its death rattle, Al digs up his secret car-fund shoe box and trades the Dodge for a ride to the local dealership. When Bud opens the shoe box, he finds not $5,000, but a mere $800… and a red hair. Al spends the rest of…

Al 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…

When a Playboy playmate walks into Al’s shoe store, he’s eager to get home and look up her October 1987 issue. But Al is a broken man when he finds out that Peggy has sold his entire Playboy collection to get money to buy a good luck charm to win…

The 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.

Peggy begins to suspect that Al is cheating because he seems to have a lot of different excuses on why he is coming home later than usual. Peggy meets Ginger at her beauty salon. Ginger is a young woman who admits she is sleeping around with another woman’s husband and…

A toothache forces Al to see Marcy’s dentist, a divorced man that devotes as much of his time to his work as he does to his young female dental assistant, who’s ironically named T.C. At the same time, Al pressers Peggy to cook a square meal for him for just…