Frank Lloyd
The season opens with the Bundys trapped in a traffic jam on the way back from a trip, going nowhere for the entire episode. Kelly has her diploma, Bud is a senior, and Marcy has her bank manager job back by a method she describes in detail. Almost all of it happens in one stationary car.
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’s barber dies, which leaves him with nowhere to get his hair cut but a salon. The episode’s editor was nominated for an Emmy for it. It is also one of only three episodes in which Peggy turns Al down.
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.
Al invites Steve to poker and Steve loses his whole paycheck to him, which Marcy wants back. It is the only episode of the series without Bud, and the first without Kelly. It also introduces Al’s friends, one of whom lasts long enough to become a NO MA’AM member.
A robber is working the neighborhood, so the Rhoades get a guard dog and Al buys a gun. Both defenses are tested on the same night and the dog comes off worst. It aired the same night The Simpsons first appeared on television, as shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show.
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