Bud’s Episode Vault

Season 3 Episode 13: Can’t Dance, Don’t Ask Me (aka Kelly’s Dance)

By David Faustino | March 19, 1989

After Kelly gets in trouble at school, the only way she can get out of punishment if she joins a tap dance class.

Season 3 Episode 14: A Three Job, No Income Family

By David Faustino | March 19, 1989

Al finally convinces Peggy to contribute to the household income but feels emasculated when Peggy starts bringing home huge “commish” checks from her cosmetics sales job, earning more money than Al, himself. Even Al’s new part-time job as a crew member at Burger Trek can’t put him back in the…

Season 3 Episode 12: My Mom, the Mom

By David Faustino | February 26, 1989

Kelly invites Peggy to her school as part of a presentation for career day.

Season 3 Episode 11: Eatin’ Out

By David Faustino | February 19, 1989

The Bundy’s go out to a fancy restaurant to spend a great windfall, an inheritance check for $237 from a late uncle of Peggy’s. But it becomes apparent that the fine dining in public is not a part of the dysfunctional Bundy lifestyle, which makes matters worse when Al forgets…

Season 3 Episode 9: Requiem for a Dead Barber

By David Faustino | February 12, 1989

After the death of his longtime barber, Al lets his hair down rather than tolerate a visit to a stylist or a salon… staffed by women. When Al backs down and goes to a salon, he gets a really bad hairstyle that makes him look like a woman.

Season 3 Episode 8: The Gypsy Cried

By David Faustino | February 5, 1989

After a birthday party fortune teller predicts luck for everyone else but doom for Marcy, she insists the Bundys fly with her on her business trip where she confronts her rude boss.

Season 3 Episode 7: The Bald and the Beautiful

By David Faustino | January 29, 1989

Desperate Al and Steve put their heads together seeking solutions to impending baldness when Steve begins to notice his receding hairline, whereas Al doesn’t care at all. After unsuccessfully trying some hair tonic for themselves, Steve tries joining a club for bald men called Bald American Dudes (BAD) and brings…

Season 3 Episode 6: Her Cups Runneth Over

By David Faustino | January 15, 1989

Al must go to a far-off lingerie outlet store to buy a discontinued brassiere for Peggy.

Season 3 Episode 5: A Dump of My Own

By David Faustino | January 8, 1989

Al decides to build a spare bathroom when the upstairs toilet floods one too many times.

Season 3 Episode 4: The Camping Show (aka A Period Piece)

By David Faustino | December 11, 1988

The Rhoades and the Bundys head out to the Rhoades cabin in the woods, but the merriment is halted by Kelly’s PMS. The men leave for a bit to go out fishing, and return to all three women menstruating and hostile. When a bear attacks the car, Al hilariously attempts…