David Castro
Kelly’s film school assignment becomes a short called Shoes, which Al helps make and which wins ten thousand dollars of arts funding. His follow-up is cast entirely with bikini models. Marcy brings an alderman to the shoe store to stop it.
NO MA’AM fly to Washington to testify before a Senate committee about getting Psycho Dad reinstated, having each told their wives a different lie about where they are going. Back home, Bud and Kelly throw a party that makes the national news.
Bud needs quiet to study for a scholarship exam and cannot find any, first at the shoe store and then at home. Then Marcy’s nineteen-year-old niece arrives from Los Angeles and takes an interest in him. This is the episode that introduces Griff.
Al needs batteries for a flashlight so he can fix the basement step before Hondo starts, and ends up locked inside a closed supermarket. Bud and Kelly throw Buck a birthday party he does not want. Broadcast in 3-D as part of FOX’s sweeps stunt.