Tony Singletary
Peg and Marcy drag their husbands to a Jeffersons stage reunion, so Al and Jefferson pay Bud and Kelly to sit in for them and sneak off to a new sports bar. Joe Namath is behind the counter. An argument about a beer commercial turns into a brawl.
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.
The Grim Reaper arrives at the Bundy house wearing Peggy’s face and gives Al until midnight: if one family member says they need him, he lives. His family is next door, bribed into impersonating the Village People at Marcy’s charity party. The real Village People do eventually arrive.
Bud and Kelly buy a car together and immediately have to share it, since both have dates the same night. Al insures it as a farm vehicle, which means a claim is only valid if there is a chicken aboard at the time of the accident. Meanwhile all the food in the house disappears.
Marcy overcomes her fear of public speaking by imagining herself having sex instead, and the resulting performance at the bank launches a new career. Al is in the audience, which leaves him temporarily impotent.
Al goes on a run of good luck and is certain it is a trap, because he has a theory about his own life that does not permit it. Jefferson tries to cash in before it expires. Everything collapses at the end, and Al is the only one who is relieved.
Bud’s country and western makeover fails badly enough that he retires from dating entirely and moves into the basement. Then he starts building a portal, and something comes through it. Al, meanwhile, is fighting an automated phone system over a car part. The clip reel of Bud’s past failures is the highlight.
Al and Peg take a second honeymoon at a city motel, where Peg has firm plans. Then an old friend asks Al to deal with a young man running her neighborhood, so Al rounds up the surviving Polk High Panthers and goes to confront him. Nicholas Brendon turns up uncredited in the gang.
Al and Peg go to the NBA All-Star game and swap seats, which puts Peg in the chair drawn for a ten thousand dollar halftime free throw contest. Kelly turns up on the cheerleading squad. Vlade Divac, Clyde Drexler and Xavier McDaniel appear as themselves.
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.