Amanda Bearse
Larry Storch turns up as Kelly’s acting coach and Al, a lifelong F Troop fan, loses his composure. Al and Griff are meanwhile working a midnight madness sale dressed as wolves. When Storch is injured, Al takes his part in the play.
Kelly needs to learn archery for an audition, and Bud agrees to coach her because Amber finds supportive brothers appealing. Al, meanwhile, has bought an owl costume and is sitting in the backyard tree to scare off a bird. The two plots meet.
The baseball strike cancels the season, so NO MA’AM starts its own league with sponsorship from the only businesses willing to pay. Griff is initiated into the group. Six real major leaguers appear as themselves, and Joe Morgan interviews Al.
Bud’s community service placement has him staffing a hotline for young women trying to stay chaste, which is the one subject he is least equipped to advise on. Kelly spends the episode prank calling him. Then he has to make a house call.
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.
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.
Kelly’s boyfriend burns down Peg’s couch while the parents are away, and only two were ever made. Finding the other one means a trip into the woods to deal with the man who built it. The parents come home a week early.
Christmas Eve at the Bundys, in real time and entirely on the property. Kelly and Bud spend the episode trying to smuggle a jukebox into the house. Al and Peg spend it fighting over the remote, with Al refusing to watch It’s a Wonderful Life.
Buck walks out and ends up in the dog pound, where an older dog explains the situation and an employee has a schedule. The Bundys do not notice he is gone until very late. Cheech Marin voices Buck and Dom DeLuise voices his cellmate.
A burglar breaks in, Al knocks him out, and Al becomes a neighborhood hero with sponsorship patches. Then the burglar sues him for his injuries and the family is back in court, with Kelly acting as her father’s attorney. Randall Tex Cobb plays the burglar.