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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…

Season 2 Episode 16: Master the Possibilities

February 7, 1988

Al, under the impression that you don’t have to pay for anything you didn’t order, takes Peggy and Bud on a wild spending spree, and goes with Peggy to a fancy hotel for a weekend getaway when the mailman accidentally leaves a new credit card addressed to Buck the dog.

Season 2 Episode 15: Build a Better Mousetrap

January 24, 1988

Al’s attempts to get rid of a rodent in the Bundy house end badly.

Season 2 Episode 14: Guys and Dolls

January 10, 1988

When starting a baseball card collection, Al and Steve sell Marcy’s old Barbie doll. They must get it back, but they learn the shop they sold it to was robbed, so they would have to search downtown Chicago and ask every bum on the street.

Season 2 Episode 13: You Better Watch Out

December 20, 1987

The Bundys’ Christmas is rudely interrupted when a parachuting mall Santa crash-lands into their backyard, attracting the neighborhood kids.