Bud’s Episode Vault

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

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…

Season 3 Episode 3: Poke High (aka The Red Grange Story)

November 27, 1988

A young football player, named Matt, from Polk High where Kelly and Bud go to school is threatening two Bundy records. One held by Al for the most touchdowns in one season, and the other by Kelly for refusing her advances. So, Kelly resorts to becoming a cheerleader for Polk…

Season 3 Episode 2: I’m Going to Sweatland

November 20, 1988

When a perspiration stain on one of Al’s shirts resembles a silhouette of The King of Rock & Roll, the Bundy household becomes a hot spot for Elvis Presley fanatics to visit.

Season 3 Episode 1: He Thought He Could

November 6, 1988

Al discovers a library book that was due in 1957. He must return it to the library and face up to his worst, childhood fear: the librarian.

Season 2 Episode 22: All in the Family

May 1, 1988

Al’s quiet three-day weekend plans to watch his favorite John Wayne movie “Hondo” are ruined when Peggy’s eccentric relatives come to visit the Bundy household. They include her unseen, obese mother, two feuding uncles; the hulking Irwin and the effeminate Otto, as well as a singing and dancing triplet of…

Season 2 Episode 21: Father Lode

March 13, 1988

After going with Steve to the racetrack, Al is reluctant to reveal that he won $1,200, because he knows that Peggy and the kids will take the money for themselves. While Al tries to throw off Peggy’s suspicions with sex, Steve asks for increasingly exuberant bribes of Al’s racetrack winnings…

Season 2 Episode 20: Just Married… with Children

March 6, 1988

While secretly going through Steve and Marcy’s mail, Al and Peggy fill out an application to a TV game show called “How Do I Love Thee” where the objective is a Bundy natural: surviving physical torture from one’s spouse. Al and Peggy appear on the show pretending to be Steve…

Season 2 Episode 19: Im-Po-Dent

February 28, 1988

Marcy regrets denting Steve’s new car when he claims that she’s made him impotent.

Season 2 Episode 18: The Great Escape

February 21, 1988

The Bundy’s stay at the shoe store after their house is tented for termites. A grounded Kelly plots to escape and go to a rock concert.

Season 2 Episode 17: Peggy Loves Al, Yeah Yeah, Yeah

February 14, 1988

On Valentines Day, Kelly hauls in a load of Valentines, while Steve plans to give Marcy a trip to Hawaii. When Marcy finds out from Peggy, she plans to give Steve his Valentine present by jumping out of a life-size cake. Meanwhile, Bud holds a vigil by the mailbox waiting…