Amanda Bearse
Gary pits Al against Griff in a sales contest with a raise for the winner. Al discovers Gary is running an illegal sweatshop and decides blackmail beats selling shoes. Peggy, meanwhile, wins a microwave and sets about discovering what it is for.
A practical joke war between Al and Jefferson leaves Al unable to tell whether the woman flirting with him in his own house is real or a setup. Griff, meanwhile, spends his NO MA’AM anniversary in jail mistaken for a serial killer. Peggy comes back and settles things.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Kelly’s secret admirer turns out to be a wealthy and very spoiled twelve-year-old, who uses a jeans commercial as leverage to make her attend his junior prom. Bud crashes the dance disguised as the DJ. Season 9 finale.
Al is tied up in the stockroom overnight during a robbery and sues the mall for four million dollars, claiming he can no longer be near shoes. Then the bowling championship comes up, and bowling requires shoes.
Peg qualifies for a bingo invitational in a neighbourhood she will not drive to alone, so she brings Marcy. She wins ten thousand dollars and then has to get home with it. Al and Jefferson, meanwhile, discover their beer has a new spokesperson.