Steve Susskind
Al goes looking for the last real man alive, a recluse named Ironhead Haynes who lives on the tallest mountain in Illinois. NO MA’AM waits at the bottom for the plan of action he brings back down. What he gets instead is a one-word song and some advice about dinosaurs. Waylon Jennings guest stars.
The women get their own bowling night and the nudie bar becomes a coffeehouse, so Al founds NO MA’AM. This is the organization’s first appearance, with Jerry Springer guesting as himself, and the only episode to feature its Five Demands.
Al is dropped from his own softball team for the championship, by unanimous vote, with his wife and both children voting against him. A better player takes his place, gets injured, and Al goes in. It is the last appearance of the New Market Mallers and the last time the Bundys play together.
Al’s barber dies, which leaves him with nowhere to get his hair cut but a salon. The episode’s editor was nominated for an Emmy for it. It is also one of only three episodes in which Peggy turns Al down.
Bud brings home an aspiring artist on her way to art school, and the whole household takes to her. Marcy does not, because the attention she gets is attention Marcy is used to having. It is also where Al establishes that Thursday is his bowling night.
Al invites Steve to poker and Steve loses his whole paycheck to him, which Marcy wants back. It is the only episode of the series without Bud, and the first without Kelly. It also introduces Al’s friends, one of whom lasts long enough to become a NO MA’AM member.