Bud’s Episode Vault
Season 10 Episode 20: Turning Japanese
Marcy needs one perfect dinner to land a promotion, so she pays Al to leave the neighborhood and hires an actor to play him. The plan survives until her boss hears the real Dodge outside and decides he wants it. Pat Morita guests, and Jefferson does karaoke.
Season 10 Episode 19: Spring Break (2)
Marcy’s Mercedes dies in Tennessee and the geeks end up at the mercy of a mechanic with no tow truck. In Florida, Al discovers the bikini contest has a hundred-thousand-dollar prize and rigs the panel. Griff turns out to be the weak link.
Season 10 Episode 18: Spring Break (1)
Kelly and her friends talk Bud and his friends out of their spring break tickets and hotel room. Al, Griff and Jefferson are already in Fort Lauderdale judging a bikini contest. Then Marcy sees her husband on a spring break TV special.
Season 10 Episode 17: The Agony and the Extra C
Bud and Kelly find Jefferson in a hospital bed, and the episode flashes back to explain. It starts with NO MA’AM mounting a rescue on the D’Arcys’ anniversary and ends with a misspelled tattoo. Peggy checks in from Paris, still nominally looking for her father.
Season 10 Episode 16: Calendar Girl
Bud builds a calendar of Trumaine women for his marketing class, and the cover girl will not commit for reasons she cannot say out loud. The reveal arrives during her TV interview. This is also the episode that sends Peggy out of town for the rest of the season.
Season 10 Episode 15: The Hood, the Bud and the Kelly (2)
Bud’s exercise video is behind schedule, his two stars will not work together, and Vito’s enforcer Gino is on set with a deadline and a laptop full of organ recipients. Meanwhile the NO MA’AM wives start taking bets on which husband falls off the roof next.
Season 10 Episode 14: The Hood, the Bud and the Kelly (1)
Al and Jefferson install a satellite dish themselves and spend the episode falling off the roof. Downstairs, Kelly has fired Bud as her agent, so he pitches an exercise video to win her back. Every bank says no, so he borrows the money from the mob.
Season 10 Episode 13: I Can’t Believe It’s Butter
Griff falls for a phone sex operator called Butter, and Al discovers Butter is Peg’s mother, working from the upstairs phone. Her earnings are paying for the family’s Christmas. Then Griff decides he wants to ask her out.
Season 10 Episode 12: Love Conquers Al
Marcy and Jefferson return from a marriage retreat with Jefferson’s personality removed, which Al fixes with a magazine. Then Al and Peggy take her parents to the same compound to patch up the marriage and get her mother out of the house. Ephraim leaves with somebody else’s wife.
Season 10 Episode 11: Bearly Men
To get Peg’s mother out of the house, Al has to convince Ephraim Wanker he is man enough to take her back, which somehow requires a bear hunt. Al and Bud return with a bear they think is dead. It is hibernating, and it wakes up in the living room.