Gerry Cohen
NO MA’AM’s wrestling night collapses when the wives turn up to watch a romantic miniseries on the only television. Meanwhile Bud’s NO MA’AM initiation requires a photo with King Kong Bundy, so he gets into the ring with him dressed as a bumblebee.
A beer-tax hike leaves NO MA’AM drinking something called “Yeast ‘N Stuff,” so the group incorporates as a church to dodge taxes, with Al installed as reverend. Donations roll in from men across the country until Marcy breaks the story on the local news.
The Bundys come home from Buck’s twelve-hundred-dollar funeral and immediately start arguing about a replacement. A séance, a smuggled cockatoo and a hungry mother-in-law follow. Buck’s last episode, and the first appearance of Lucky, with Don Novello guesting as Father Guido Sarducci.
Bud is fired from the Department of Vehicle Services and ends up apprenticing as a chimney sweep. Al, meanwhile, talks Gary into opening an aerobics studio next door and drills peepholes through the shoe store wall. The clientele is not what he had in mind.
Bud finally moves out of 9764 Jeopardy Lane, and Al throws a party to celebrate. The independence lasts about a day. The season ten premiere sends Bud to the basement for good and moves Peg’s mother in upstairs, with Tim Conway guesting as Ephraim Wanker.
A backdoor pilot set at Trumaine’s campus radio station, where two student DJs interview the new dean of students, Steve Rhoades, and are expelled for it. Bud is in the next studio competing for a girl with a live microphone open.
Kelly’s film school assignment becomes a short called Shoes, which Al helps make and which wins ten thousand dollars of arts funding. His follow-up is cast entirely with bikini models. Marcy brings an alderman to the shoe store to stop it.
The cruise ship sinks and the survivors share a lifeboat with Gilbert Gottfried, whose job is to keep morale up. Al sets off alone for help. Back home the press has filled the Bundy living room and Bud discovers what an exclusive is worth.
Peg wins a cruise and Wolfman Jack delivers the tickets, then stays at the house with Bud and Kelly while the Bundys and Darcys go to sea. The ship turns out to have one clientele by day and another by night. Part one of two.
The Dodge vanishes while the family is at a car wash on the way to Wanker County, and nobody there can account for it. Marcy is at the same car wash trying to get Jefferson a job when Steve Rhoades walks in. The series’ 200th episode.