Gerry Cohen
A neighbor offers ten thousand dollars to breed his prize briard with Buck, and Al throws himself into preparing the dog for the job. What comes home is a bill rather than a check. Meanwhile Bud tries to attract women by dressing like a fop. Season 5 finale territory.
Al and Jefferson’s gold expedition actually strikes gold, and the discovery turns both families against each other almost immediately. Then they learn what the mine really is: a tourist attraction salted with fool’s gold. The season 5 finale, with Pamela Anderson in Al’s fantasy sequence.
The Bundys drive to Los Angeles for a shoe convention and break down in a tiny New Mexico town full of ancient prospectors. One of them hands Al a map to a gold mine, and Al talks Jefferson into financing the dig. Part one of the season finale.
Kelly becomes the Weenie Tot spokesmodel and the family receives a year’s supply, which turns out to include a winning fifty thousand dollar sweepstakes card. The catch is that employees and their families are ineligible. So Al and Peg draft Marcy and Jefferson into claiming it for them.
Al cannot stop thinking about a song he heard on the radio and can hum but not name, and nobody will help him. Meanwhile Kelly brings home a new boyfriend, Vinnie Verducci, along with his father Charlie. This is the episode that introduced Matt LeBlanc to the series.
Al takes an overnight job as a school security guard and loses the football trophy on his watch, which costs him the job. Getting it back means confronting Spare Tire Dixon, the rival lineman he beat on the goal line in 1966. Bubba Smith guest stars.
Peg signs up for an interior design course and her first assignment is to redecorate one room of the house. She picks the one bathroom Al considers his own, and she does it in pink. Al faints, regroups, and launches a campaign to take it back.
Buck runs off and comes home with a female dog who immediately sets about replacing him as the household pet. Al, meanwhile, is hunting down the chef behind his favorite cherry cheesecake. Cheech Marin voices Buck for the first time, and B.B. King turns up as a street musician.
Kelly starts dating a city councilman, which makes Al a man with influence, and he uses it exactly as you would expect — to settle scores and be addressed with respect. Peggy’s interest in the arrangement is strictly financial.
Marcy wakes up after a banking convention married to a stranger named Jefferson D’Arcy, and Al offers to arrange the wedding so he can profit from it. Ted McGinley joined here on terms uncertain enough that his billing was held in the closing credits.