Gerry Cohen
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.
Peggy signs Al up to sell cosmetics door to door, then hears what the perks are and takes the job herself. Al ends up at Burger Trek in a uniform, working for a manager played by Pauly Shore, eating a toothpaste sandwich.
Kelly picks Peggy for Mother-Daughter Career Day, so Peggy brings her couch, her side table and her remote control into the classroom and demonstrates her actual working life. Al, meanwhile, puts Bud to work at the shoe store.
A modest windfall sends the Bundys out to a proper restaurant, and then they realize the money is still at home. Nobody will admit it to the staff, so the meal goes ahead while the arithmetic gets steadily worse.
A psychic predicts good fortune for Al, Peggy and Steve and disaster for Marcy, so Marcy insists the lucky three accompany her on a flight to New York as insurance. Al’s skepticism lasts precisely as long as the prediction flatters him.
Peggy’s favorite bra is discontinued on her birthday, so Al and Steve set out across Wisconsin to find one. This is the episode that triggered the Terry Rakolta advertiser boycott, which ended up handing the show the biggest audience it had ever had.
The upstairs toilet floods once too often and Al finally builds his own bathroom in the garage, realizing an ambition from season one. It is also the first appearance of the Ferguson toilet, which he stayed proud of for the next eight years.
A men-only fishing trip collapses when everybody’s wife invites herself, and then all three women turn out to be menstruating at once. FOX’s censors delayed the episode, which had been written as the season premiere. TV Guide covered the hold-up.
A Polk High player is about to break Al’s four-touchdown record, so Al sets out to stop him. Kelly wants a date with him and Bud has been told to tutor him. It was the first FOX broadcast ever to draw a Nielsen audience share above 25.
A sweat stain on Al’s shirt looks like Elvis, and the Bundy house becomes a destination for pilgrims. Peggy and Marcy treat it as genuine. Al cannot understand why anyone would drive across town to look at his perspiration.