Gerry Cohen
NO MA’AM fly to Washington to testify before a Senate committee about getting Psycho Dad reinstated, having each told their wives a different lie about where they are going. Back home, Bud and Kelly throw a party that makes the national news.
Psycho Dad is cancelled, so NO MA’AM mounts a protest outside the television station in brutal cold and then leaves to get warm before the news cameras arrive. With nobody in Chicago paying attention, they decide to take it to Washington. Part one of two.
A teammate’s funeral brings the old Polk High Panthers together, and a rival half back turns up to demand they finally play the championship game that was cancelled in 1966. Both sides recruit, and the other team’s ringers include four real NFL players.
Kelly’s sitcom audition turns into an interview about her family, and the producer builds a show out of it. The Bundys then have to watch a thinly disguised version of themselves on television every week. Jefferson is not happy with his portrayal.
Al loses the breastfeeding fight on the law, so he converts Gary’s into a men’s shoe store. Then Gary announces an inspection, and Al paints the men’s stock to pass it off as women’s. Gary turns out to be a woman. Conclusion of two.
Al and Griff throw a nursing mother out of the shoe store, and Marcy turns up the next day with her and a grievance. It escalates into duelling protests outside the store with news cameras present. Peg, meanwhile, cannot get a train home. Part one of two.
Bud needs quiet to study for a scholarship exam and cannot find any, first at the shoe store and then at home. Then Marcy’s nineteen-year-old niece arrives from Los Angeles and takes an interest in him. This is the episode that introduces Griff.
Kelly gets a beer commercial and then her first pimple, and the home remedy from Wanker County costs her her hair and gives her a goatee. Marcy’s group is picketing the same commercial. Al and Jefferson are waiting on a set of Avengers tapes.
Al’s driving licence has lapsed and he has to sit the test again. The examiner turns out to be Bud, who has taken a job at the licensing office and has a grudge to settle. Kelly loses the Verminator gig and ends up advertising a bank in a bikini.
Al and Jefferson gut the shoe store and restock it with 1970s platform shoes to cash in on nostalgia, complete with a press appearance and a fashion show. It does not survive the fashion show. Season 9 premiere.