Michael Faustino
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.
Kelly takes a job waitressing at a diner, which horrifies Peg, who raised her daughter specifically never to have to work. Kelly is terrible at it and then, gradually, good at it. Meanwhile the family is quietly living off the leftovers she brings home. Brian Doyle-Murray plays her boss.
Bud rents his father out to the neighborhood as a professional woodsman to raise concert money, and sends him into the woods with a party of local children. Al knows nothing about camping. Back home, Peggy hosts the women’s answer to season one’s poker game.
The series’ first Christmas episode opens with a content warning. A parachuting mall Santa lands fatally in the Bundys’ back yard on Christmas Eve, and the neighborhood children start arriving with questions. David Faustino has called it one of his favorites.