Gerry Cohen
Al takes his yearly vacation, which means sitting on the couch with rented videotapes and a series of hats, pretending to be abroad. Kelly gets a job at a television history park and becomes an on-site bug-killing personality called The Verminator. Jefferson, meanwhile, keeps being mistaken for someone children have seen on The Love Boat.
Bud insists his substitute teacher has a crush on him and nobody believes him, which turns out to be their mistake. Juggling her and a girl his own age wears him down, so he asks Al for advice. Peg has the flu and receives no sympathy from anyone.
Kelly is invited to a party for geniuses and does not realize that the guests have each been asked to bring the dumbest date they can find. Meanwhile Al and Jefferson try to assemble a workbench, a project involving a blowtorch and a lighter held at the same time.
Bud and Kelly win a contest to have Anthrax come to the house, so they ship their parents off to Florida on what turns out to be a timeshare pitch. It is also Al and Peg’s twentieth anniversary, and Peg wants romance. Back home, the band eats Peg’s Mystery Pack.
Steve Rhoades returns to reclaim Marcy and finds she has remarried, which puts both her husbands in the same room. He is also on the run from the police, so the Bundys have to decide whether friendship beats the reward money.
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.
A sneaker company is casting former athletes for a commercial, and Al presents his 1966 championship record as credentials. He gets the job and finds himself on set with Steve Carlton, Ed Too Tall Jones and Sugar Ray Leonard. There is a boxing ring, and Al gets in it.
Bud falls for a woman who is only attracted to men who do dangerous things, which lands him in an airplane he does not want to jump out of. Back at the house, Al is being forced to play a relationship board game called Ethical Dilemma with Peg and the Darcys.
The death of a relative forces Al to take stock of what he actually owns, and the list runs to two items. He sets out to recover the football from his 1966 championship game, which means dealing with the cheerleader he gave it to and then dumped. Wendie Jo Sperber guest stars.
Al comes home happy three days in a row, which Peg finds alarming. The cause is a woman who has been flirting with him at the shoe store all week. Peg sends Bud and Kelly to spy on him, and Al is forced to choose. Jessica Hahn guest stars.