Season 4
Traci Lords joins the Bundy Breakdown live on Zoom this Thursday, October 1st at 6 PM Pacific! We are breaking down her two classic Married with Children guest appearances: “Tooth or Consequences” (Season 4, Episode 4) and “Al Bundy, Shoe Dick” (Season 6, Episode 11). Do not miss this one.
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Look, if there’s one episode that sums up the Bundy family experience, it’s “Hot off the Grill.” Season 4, Episode 1. The one where Dad’s Labor Day BBQ goes from bad to catastrophic, which, if you know the Bundys, is basically just a Tuesday. Here’s the setup: Dad fires up the grill for a neighborhood…
She was already legendary when she guest starred. The queen of Whitesnake videos walked onto our set and absolutely crushed it as a fitness instructor who chose Al as the person least likely to survive her class.
Al finds out Peg has spent years buying other people’s yard sale junk, so the family holds a sale of their own to get rid of it. Nobody comes. It is the season 4 finale, the last episode in which Peggy smokes, and the source of Al’s Bigger Idiot Theory of commerce.
Marcy falls asleep on the Bundy couch and Kelly talks her brother into lying down beside her, so that Marcy wakes convinced something happened. Al, who has been having nightmares about feet for a fortnight, is meanwhile recruited to judge a beauty pageant. Kelly engineered the entire thing and watches it land from the stairs.
Kelly needs an internship to graduate and ends up on local television as the weather girl, then as the station’s self-described meterlolologist. Al picks the same week to finally ask for a raise. One of them succeeds. The episode also contains one of the warmest scenes Peg and Kelly ever share.
Kelly is about to graduate, and Peg gets nostalgic enough to open her own yearbook, where she discovers that she never actually graduated herself. She failed home economics. Her solution is to enroll in the same class her daughter is currently taking, which goes about as well as that sounds.
Al has one last chance to break his friend Puggy Weaver’s alley record before Puggy moves away, and he brings the children along to film it for posterity. Then Peg starts bowling strikes and will not stop. The episode is where Al first articulates the Bundy Curse, which became the family’s explanation for everything.
Bud sets out to get even with the girl who humiliated him in sixth grade, played by Tiffani-Amber Thiessen a few months before Saved by the Bell made her famous. Al, meanwhile, has been asked to address the homecoming dance and uses the platform to warn teenagers off marriage entirely.