Gabrielle Topping
Kelly takes a job waitressing at a diner, which horrifies Peg, who raised her daughter specifically never to have to work. Kelly is terrible at it and then, gradually, good at it. Meanwhile the family is quietly living off the leftovers she brings home. Brian Doyle-Murray plays her boss.
Al’s eyesight is going and he refuses to admit it, even after losing a hundred dollar prize to Jefferson because he could not read the number on the screen. Bud and Kelly talk him into glasses. Seeing his own life clearly turns out to be worse than not seeing it.
Al and Kelly both fake illness to avoid visiting Peg’s mother, which leaves the two of them alone in the house for a week. Then Kelly actually gets sick and Al has to look after her. Pamela Anderson appears in one of Al’s fantasies, and the four touchdowns get mentioned for the first time.
A Labor Day barbecue, and the premiere inverts the marriage entirely: Peggy does housework, Al finds it arousing, and she spends the episode trying to decline. It is also the first time “Bad to the Bone” is used as Al’s anthem.
Peggy makes an obscene gesture at another driver while riding with Steve, and the driver gets a good look at Steve. He invites the Bundys to stay for protection. They move in, and the episode becomes an inventory of what they take.
Kelly’s punishment for an incident on the school bus is the tap-dance club, which she has no interest in. Her partner is the school janitor, which she does. Both actors in those roles were trained dancers, which the audience was never told.