Gene LeBell
Kelly admits she never gave Bud a Valentine’s card from six years ago, sent by a girl who is now a famous singer. Bud goes to her hotel to explain. Al, meanwhile, discovers what a dozen roses costs on February 14th.
Peggy reads Seven a pirate story and the episode becomes it, with the cast recast into the book’s roles on the most elaborate set the series ever built. David Garrison returns as the villain, which gave him a chance to sing.
It is Bud’s eighteenth birthday and his family has booked a pony and a clown. Al decides to honor the real Bundy tradition instead and takes him to a strip club, where Bud gets his first bar fight. Both of them come home in pieces.
Al, Bud and Kelly fly to Las Vegas to retrieve Peg and Marcy, who lost everything at the tables and cannot get home. To raise the fare, Al is entered into a wrestling match against a professional. Peg’s objection is not that he is being beaten, but that the children are watching.
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.