Bud’s Episode Vault
Season 9 Episode 6: Business Still Sucks (2)
Al loses the breastfeeding fight on the law, so he converts Gary’s into a men’s shoe store. Then Gary announces an inspection, and Al paints the men’s stock to pass it off as women’s. Gary turns out to be a woman. Conclusion of two.
Season 9 Episode 5: Business Sucks (1)
Al and Griff throw a nursing mother out of the shoe store, and Marcy turns up the next day with her and a grievance. It escalates into duelling protests outside the store with news cameras present. Peg, meanwhile, cannot get a train home. Part one of two.
Season 9 Episode 4: Naughty But Niece
Bud needs quiet to study for a scholarship exam and cannot find any, first at the shoe store and then at home. Then Marcy’s nineteen-year-old niece arrives from Los Angeles and takes an interest in him. This is the episode that introduces Griff.
Season 9 Episode 3: Kelly Breaks Out
Kelly gets a beer commercial and then her first pimple, and the home remedy from Wanker County costs her her hair and gives her a goatee. Marcy’s group is picketing the same commercial. Al and Jefferson are waiting on a set of Avengers tapes.
Season 9 Episode 2: Driving Mr. Boondy
Al’s driving licence has lapsed and he has to sit the test again. The examiner turns out to be Bud, who has taken a job at the licensing office and has a grudge to settle. Kelly loses the Verminator gig and ends up advertising a bank in a bikini.
Season 9 Episode 1: Shoeway to Heaven
Al and Jefferson gut the shoe store and restock it with 1970s platform shoes to cash in on nostalgia, complete with a press appearance and a fashion show. It does not survive the fashion show. Season 9 premiere.
Season 8 Episode 26: Kelly Knows Something
The Bundy television dies, so Al tries out for a sports trivia show with a ten thousand dollar prize and is rejected for having no personality. He enters Kelly instead and coaches her himself. The catch is that every new fact pushes an old one out.
Season 8 Episode 25: Al Goes Deep
Jefferson has spent Marcy’s tax refund, so Al bets it on a college football game and then has to protect the star player from his own daughter. Meanwhile Peg is making bonbons at home, using an entire jar of Tang. Al has to eat one.
Season 8 Episode 24: Assault and Batteries
Al needs batteries for a flashlight so he can fix the basement step before Hondo starts, and ends up locked inside a closed supermarket. Bud and Kelly throw Buck a birthday party he does not want. Broadcast in 3-D as part of FOX’s sweeps stunt.
Season 8 Episode 23: The Legend of Ironhead Haynes
Al goes looking for the last real man alive, a recluse named Ironhead Haynes who lives on the tallest mountain in Illinois. NO MA’AM waits at the bottom for the plan of action he brings back down. What he gets instead is a one-word song and some advice about dinosaurs. Waylon Jennings guest stars.