Bud’s Episode Vault
Season 1 Episode 8: The Poker Game
Al invites Steve to poker and Steve loses his whole paycheck to him, which Marcy wants back. It is the only episode of the series without Bud, and the first without Kelly. It also introduces Al’s friends, one of whom lasts long enough to become a NO MA’AM member.
Season 1 Episode 7: Married … Without Children
Steve and Marcy take Bud and Kelly for a weekend expecting to be a good influence, and the house does not survive it. Al and Peggy, meanwhile, have the best weekend of their marriage in a cheap motel. It is also the first time the series shows Peggy cleaning anything.
Season 1 Episode 6: Sixteen Years and What Do You Get
Al and Peggy agree to skip anniversary gifts and neither can stick to it. Peggy buys one anyway. Al’s credit card is declined at the jeweler’s, so he comes home with nothing. The series ran the same story again nine years later for their twenty-fifth.
Season 1 Episode 5: Have You Driven a Ford Lately
Al and Steve buy a 1965 Mustang to restore, and the project consumes both of them entirely. Peggy and Marcy find their own common ground in hating it. Al’s dream sequence about escaping in the car gets undercut a week later, when the license plate turns out to be Peggy’s.
Season 1 Episode 4: Whose Room is It Anyway?
Steve and Marcy have a tax refund and want to add a room, so Al lobbies for a pool room while Peggy and Marcy want an exercise room. Four people spend the episode negotiating over a room no Bundy will pay for. It is one of the series’ two bottle episodes.
Season 1 Episode 3: But I Didn’t Shoot the Deputy
A robber is working the neighborhood, so the Rhoades get a guard dog and Al buys a gun. Both defenses are tested on the same night and the dog comes off worst. It aired the same night The Simpsons first appeared on television, as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
Season 1 Episode 2: Thinnergy
Marcy gives Peggy a diet book meant to improve her love life, and Peggy puts the whole family on it. The episode is really about withholding, the weapon both Bundys would use on each other for eleven seasons. It is also the first time the show goes upstairs.
Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot
The episode that opened FOX’s first night of prime time, on April 5, 1987. Al has to choose between a basketball game and meeting the new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades. Nancy becomes the first of the shoe store’s oversized customers, and Kelly gets the series’ first line.
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