Dan Tullis Jr
Hey Bundy Club family, Surprise Surprise! This Thursday, August 6th, we are bringing in one of the most consistently funny recurring characters in Married… with Children history. Dan “Officer Dan” Tullis Jr. is joining us live. If you know the show, you already know the man. The donut-loving Chicago cop who somehow manages to be…
The women get their own bowling night and the nudie bar becomes a coffeehouse, so Al founds NO MA’AM. This is the organization’s first appearance, with Jerry Springer guesting as himself, and the only episode to feature its Five Demands.
Al goes on a run of good luck and is certain it is a trap, because he has a theory about his own life that does not permit it. Jefferson tries to cash in before it expires. Everything collapses at the end, and Al is the only one who is relieved.
The Dodge is stolen and the Bundys inflate the insurance claim to twenty-five thousand dollars. While it processes, Al takes a series of expensive cars out on extended test drives. Then the police find the Dodge with the trunk still sealed. Kelly proposes paying for a Mercedes by collecting the letter K.
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.
Steve Rhoades returns to reclaim Marcy and finds she has remarried, which puts both her husbands in the same room. He is also on the run from the police, so the Bundys have to decide whether friendship beats the reward money.
Kelly becomes the Weenie Tot spokesmodel and the family receives a year’s supply, which turns out to include a winning fifty thousand dollar sweepstakes card. The catch is that employees and their families are ineligible. So Al and Peg draft Marcy and Jefferson into claiming it for them.
Al tells the family to start earning their own money, so Kelly takes a job dancing in a music video and Bud appoints himself her agent. Peg’s contribution is to set up a toll booth. This is David Garrison’s final appearance as a regular, and the first of Bud’s many stints managing his sister’s career.
Steve is out of work after the hotline disaster and has been filling his days taking Peg and the kids to the zoo instead of job hunting. Marcy, now demoted to drive-up teller and working fifty hours a week, finds out. The episode is unusual for giving Al and Marcy a genuine scene as friends.
Al decides the world needs a shoe advice hotline and asks Steve for fifty thousand dollars to build one. Steve approves the loan to win a sales contest, and the decision ends up costing him his job at the bank and getting Marcy demoted. It is the most expensive thing Al does to the Rhoades in the entire series.