Ellen L. Fogle
Al takes a bad knock to the head and starts seeing small green aliens who are stealing his socks. The socks, it turns out, are fuel, and the aliens need them to prevent a disaster on a cosmic scale. Al saves several worlds including this one without ever understanding that he did.
Kelly is about to graduate, and Peg gets nostalgic enough to open her own yearbook, where she discovers that she never actually graduated herself. She failed home economics. Her solution is to enroll in the same class her daughter is currently taking, which goes about as well as that sounds.
Bud sets out to get even with the girl who humiliated him in sixth grade, played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen a few months before Saved by the Bell made her famous. Al, meanwhile, has been asked to address the homecoming dance and uses the platform to warn teenagers off marriage entirely.
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.
Peggy has Bud and Kelly rig the prom queen ballot while Al settles things with his high school rival in the parking lot. The episode finally dates the four-touchdown game: November 17, kickoff at 4:40 in the afternoon.
Peggy wants the prom queen title she never won, and her old rival turns up to spoil it. This is the episode that gives Peggy her maiden name — Wanker — which Britain’s Sky One cut out of every broadcast because of what the word means there.
Al and Peggy apply to a sadistic game show as Steve and Marcy, only to find that Steve and Marcy have applied as Al and Peg. Both couples have to compete under each other’s names. It is the second season’s best-built farce.
Kelly is grounded over her grades, and the house is being fumigated, so the whole family decamps to the shoe store. Kelly has a concert to get to. The episode aired the same night Christina Applegate guest-starred on 21 Jump Street.
Bud brings home an aspiring artist on her way to art school, and the whole household takes to her. Marcy does not, because the attention she gets is attention Marcy is used to having. It is also where Al establishes that Thursday is his bowling night.
Steve returns from a rafting trip with a beard and refuses to shave it, which ends with him moving in next door. Al is delighted to have a houseguest who cooks. It is also the first episode directed by Gerry Cohen, who went on to direct more of the series than anyone.
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