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Season 9 Episode 26: The Undergraduate

By David Faustino | May 21, 1995

Kelly’s new secret admirer turns out to be a wealthy, spoiled, and immature 12-year-old boy, named Robbie Bennett, who blackmails her into accompanying him to his junior prom at his elementary school. Bud also crashes the prom disguised as a music DJ to taunt Kelly until she finally cries out…

Season 9 Episode 25: Shoeless Al

By David Faustino | May 14, 1995

An insurance agent is assigned to make sure Al is afraid to wear shoes to collaborate his lawsuit against the mall that claims he is afraid of shoes after being tied up by a burglar while at work. But Al must decide between the money from the settlement or winning…

Season 9 Episode 24: Radio Free Trumaine

By David Faustino | May 7, 1995

In this pilot for a proposed new TV series, set on Trumaine University’s radio station, W.H.I.P., DJ’s Oliver Cole and Mark Campbell host several hours of unconventional and overlooked programming. After a probing interview, divulging the past of Trumaine’s new dean of students, Steve Rhoades, both Oliver and Mark are…

Season 9 Episode 23: Pump Fiction

By David Faustino | April 30, 1995

When Kelly and Al collaborate and make a short documentary film about shoes for Kelly’s acting class in the Larry Storch School of Acting, they win a grant of $10,000 from the National Endowment of the Arts to make another movie: “A Day in the Life of a Shoe Salesman.”

Season 9 Episode 22: User Friendly

By David Faustino | April 9, 1995

Bud gets hooked on a virtual reality sex experiment to revitalize his sex life with Amber, while she and Kelly discover what Bud is up to and plan to get him off it. Meanwhile, Al’s week long vacation takes a turn when he becomes obsessed with an electrical switch that…

Season 9 Episode 21: And Bingo Was Her Game-O

By David Faustino | March 26, 1995

Peggy gets invited to the Bingo Invitational Final. To their horror, Al and Jefferson hear that the new spokes-model for their official No Ma’am club beer, Girlie Girl Beer, is Yoko Ono. Therefore, No Ma’am must select a new official beer.

Season 9 Episode 20: Something Larry This Way Comes

By David Faustino | March 12, 1995

Kelly gets a big break while attending the Larry Storch School of Acting when she and Larry Storch are to appear on stage in a part of the show “Phantom of the Opera.” But when the shoe store owner, Gary, knocks out Larry Storch himself, whom she holds a personal…

Season 9 Episode 19: Ship Happens (2)

By David Faustino | February 26, 1995

The Bundys ocean cruise takes a turn for the worse when their ship sinks and they are stranded on a life raft in the middle of the ocean with the D’Arcys, a fat woman, and comedian Gilbert Gottfried. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud endure the media circus that comes to their…

Season 9 Episode 18: Ship Happens (1)

By David Faustino | February 19, 1995

Peg wins a cruise but decides to take Al and the Darcys along with her, leaving the kids at home with Wolfman Jack, but as always, misfortune follows.

Season 9 Episode 17: 25 Years and What Do You Get?

By David Faustino | February 12, 1995

On their 25th wedding anniversary, Peggy goes out with Marcy to a posh health spa where Peggy gets conned out of all her money by a gift shop employee selling cheap beauty items. Meanwhile, Al is in trouble when the old and senile Buck buries in the back yard the…