Joseph D. Reitman
Peggy takes up self-defense and gets promoted to the advanced class, which Al treats as a crisis. Kelly’s plan is to lure her out on class night with a romantic movie. It ends with Peg flattening a mugger on local news while Al watches.
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.
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.
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.