Season 4
Al serves a customer at the shoe store and recognises her as a Playboy centrefold, which sends him home to dig out the issue and prove it. The magazines are gone. Peg sold the whole collection to buy a good luck charm called Tubro, the fat Panamanian god of money, and Al makes her get every last one back.
The Bundys take in a French exchange student for one reason only, which is the five hundred dollars a month that comes with her. Yvette settles in quickly and then starts outshining Kelly at school, which nobody in the house had budgeted for. Played by a thirteen-year-old Milla Jovovich, years before anyone knew the name.
Peggy decides that a customer at the salon is having an affair with Al and starts behaving strangely. Al is covering a colleague’s shift and has no idea any of it is happening. The episode opens and closes with Peggy throttling him in his sleep.
Al has a toothache, and the dentist he ends up with is in the middle of a bitter divorce and has a patient who cannot answer back. The episode also does the arithmetic on Al’s week: ten hours a day, six days, one day off.
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.
Peggy wins two weeks of training with a television aerobics instructor and accidentally kills him, by introducing him to cigarettes, Bundy food and Bundy afternoons. The episode ends with a dedication to the cockroach.
A Labor Day barbecue, and the premiere inverts the marriage entirely: Peggy does housework, Al finds it arousing, and she spends the episode trying to decline. It is also the first time “Bad to the Bone” is used as Al’s anthem.
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