Bud’s Episode Vault

Season 10 Episode 10: Dud Bowl II

By David Faustino | November 26, 1995

Polk High is getting a new scoreboard dedicated to its greatest football legend, and Al assumes it is him. Marcy, who sits on the bank’s committee, is given twenty-four hours to find someone better. She comes back with Terry Bradshaw.

Season 10 Episode 9: The Two That Got Away

By David Faustino | November 19, 1995

Al and Jefferson lose their fishing lodge reservation to Shannon Tweed, who insults Jefferson on the way past. His revenge is a photograph, and the tabloid auction that follows is held in the Bundy living room. Bud and Kelly try to get Lucky into a dog food commercial.

Season 10 Episode 8: Blonde and Blonder

By David Faustino | November 5, 1995

Kelly’s five-year high school reunion brings back Eric Waters, the taped-glasses nerd she once sent to the top of the Hancock tower stripped to the buff. He has done well for himself and he remembers. At home, Marcy’s toys-for-guns drive arms Al and Peggy.

Season 10 Episode 7: Flight of the Bumblebee

By David Faustino | October 29, 1995

NO MA’AM’s wrestling night collapses when the wives turn up to watch a romantic miniseries on the only television. Meanwhile Bud’s NO MA’AM initiation requires a photo with King Kong Bundy, so he gets into the ring with him dressed as a bumblebee.

Season 10 Episode 6: The Weaker Sex

By David Faustino | October 22, 1995

Peggy takes up self-defense and gets promoted to the advanced class, which Al treats as a crisis. Kelly’s plan is to lure her out on class night with a romantic movie. It ends with Peg flattening a mugger on local news while Al watches.

Season 10 Episode 5: How Bleen Was My Kelly

By David Faustino | October 15, 1995

Kelly accidentally invents a brand-new color called “Bleen,” and Al discovers the same formula grows hair. He tries it before anyone tests for side effects. The side effects turn out to involve paying his wife compliments, which horrifies him more than baldness ever did.

Season 10 Episode 4: Reverend Al

By David Faustino | October 8, 1995

A beer-tax hike leaves NO MA’AM drinking something called “Yeast ‘N Stuff,” so the group incorporates as a church to dodge taxes, with Al installed as reverend. Donations roll in from men across the country until Marcy breaks the story on the local news.

Season 10 Episode 3: Requiem for a Dead Briard

By David Faustino | October 1, 1995

The Bundys come home from Buck’s twelve-hundred-dollar funeral and immediately start arguing about a replacement. A séance, a smuggled cockatoo and a hungry mother-in-law follow. Buck’s last episode, and the first appearance of Lucky, with Don Novello guesting as Father Guido Sarducci.

Season 10 Episode 2: A Shoe Room with a View

By David Faustino | September 24, 1995

Bud is fired from the Department of Vehicle Services and ends up apprenticing as a chimney sweep. Al, meanwhile, talks Gary into opening an aerobics studio next door and drills peepholes through the shoe store wall. The clientele is not what he had in mind.

Season 10 Episode 1: Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

By David Faustino | September 17, 1995

Bud finally moves out of 9764 Jeopardy Lane, and Al throws a party to celebrate. The independence lasts about a day. The season ten premiere sends Bud to the basement for good and moves Peg’s mother in upstairs, with Tim Conway guesting as Ephraim Wanker.