Married With Children

Marcy and Jefferson announce that they are expecting a baby, sending Al into pearls of laughter saying that it's the end of Jefferson's life, until Peggy announces the same. Al begins to lose his hair at an accelerated rate, thinking it's the end of the world for him. Kelly and Bud aren't pleased with the news either and take it out on Al.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye, Stacie Lipp

Peggy and Marcy's constant demands for belly rubbing and expensive baby accessories drive Al crazy, prompting him to make a run for it. He and Jefferson end up at a bar connected to the bus station and watch semi-nude dancing girls while talking about a new and better life without their wives.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Kevin Curran, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

When Al unearths his father's old hammer, he decides to turn the garage into his own private room to escape his pregnant wife. All goes well, until Jefferson and the guys crash in. Even worse, it's only a matter of time before their own pregnant spouses find out.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Kevin Curran, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

Kelly earns a quick $1,000 at hustling pool to buy a gown for the local Miss Cheese competition, and a suspicious Al is out for blood, mistakenly thinking that Kelly is into prostitution. Al is then out of blood when he sells his to get Kelly and manager Jefferson the money for a major pool game bet.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Brian Scully, Allan Davis, Michael G. Moye

While Peggy is away helping Marcy recover her precious childhood belongings that Jefferson abandoned in a storage locker to be auctioned off in which he pocked and gambled away the money, Al, Kelly, and Bud hold an anti-baby meeting and makes plans for a new "Bundy World Order" that includes food, clean clothes and a huge hooter-ed oriental maid to replace the "pegzilla" Peggy.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Stacie Lipp, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

While Jefferson suffers through a sympathetic pregnancy, Peggy is upset that Al is immune. Even worse, Buck is listless and getting all the attention due to Peggy.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Ellen L. Fogle, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Al keeps barely avoiding minor accidents, so Bud and Kelly try to convince him to get glasses, but he keeps insisting that his vision is perfect.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Amanda Bearse
Writer(s): Gabrielle Topping, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

After Al falls out of his bedroom window and passes out, he claims he saw God's shoes. He decides to make and sell these shoes in order to make it big. Jefferson wants to join in and invests in Al's project with Marcy's money.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Ellen L. Fogle, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Al finally gets cable TV installed in the Bundy household, but he cannot find anything good to watch. All that changes when Kelly, gibed out of an appearance on a public access TV by her modeling school teacher, gets her own talk show on the air with just $35 from her girlfriends. "Vital Social Issues N' Stuff With Kelly," features an all girl band and some of her friends discussing subjects such as "mens butts" and "the slut of the week."

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Larry Jacobson, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

Al, Kelly, and Bud travel to Hollywood after Kelly's talk show becomes a hit with the TV networks in which Al tries to get into show business with his lame TV show ideas, Bud tries to score with some of the actresses, and Kelly is happy to be a star.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Larry Jacobson, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Al dreams he's a detective on the verge of a big case.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Larry Jacobson, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

Peggy sends Bud and Kelly to spy on Al at the shoe store for the day to confirm her suspicion that Al's recent giddiness is the work of an extramarital affair rather than Al's claim that he's only been flirting with a "shoe groupie" at the shoe store.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Stacie Lipp, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Al tries to retrieve his game ball from a former girlfriend after he takes stock of his life and finds he has nothing.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Katherine Green, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

As Grandmaster B, Bud does his coolest best while all over a girl who takes him out to non-traditional Bundy things such as rafting and sky diving. Meanwhile, Al and Peggy invite Marcy and Jefferson over to play a new board game called "Ethical Dilemma."

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Kevin Curran, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

Al is asked to appear in an athletic shoe commercial. Al, being Polk High's 1966 all city running back and shoe salesman, is glad to reclaim his glory days. But he ends up being a punching bag by Ed "Too Tall" Jones, Steve Carlton, and Sugar Ray Leonard for the commercial.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Lisa Chernin, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

It's Bud's 18th birthday, but everyone still treats him like a little boy. Does he stay at home for his birthday party with a pony and a clown or does Al have something else in mind for his "adult" son?

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Ilunga Adell, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Steve returns to try and reclaim his estranged wife unaware that she has remarried to a younger man.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Ellen L. Fogle, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

It's Al and Peggy's 20th wedding anniversary, but Peggy only wants one thing from Al....S-E-X. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud win the "My Dinner With Anthrax" contest which means a house party for the thrash metal band. But there will be no party unless they can get rid of mom and dad first. The answer? Tricking them into taking a Florida vacation that turns out to be a time share sales scam where the salesman won't leave them alone. Back home, the house party gets dull with no food in the house and 10 feet of snow outside.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Larry Jacobson, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Al is a broken man after the Bundys can no longer afford to buy a weekly TV Guide. When Jefferson arrives at their house with a fistful of cash, Al discovers that he has been running a psychic phone scam called "Madame Zelda." To keep him quiet about his scam, Jefferson decides to let Al in on the deal. But Al soon takes over the whole operation and the rest of the family joins in. When Al decides to unite the five psychic bosses of Chicago, he insults the feared Madame Inga, who decides to throw a curse on the Bundys.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Amanda Bearse
Writer(s): Calvin Brown Jr., Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

An invitation to join the high intelligence Alpha club, is issued to Kelly and not Bud. When they discover the real reason behind the gathering, Kelly and Bud decide to handle things with the usual Bundy charm (and violence). Meanwhile, Al buys a new "Handyman's Workbench 5000" that has some assembly required. This challenge requires the combined skills of Al and Jefferson while Peggy and Marcy watch and enjoy the show by taking pictures and counting the number of times the men injure themselves.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Steve Crider, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

Bud's belief that his 40-year-old teacher is romantic interested in him is greeted by laughter from everyone. But another student smells the smoke and wants the fire for herself. Meanwhile, Peggy has a cold which prompts Al to keep his distance by going out every night to a Chuck-E-Cheese restaurant for some free pizza by crashing little kids birthdays parties. Can Bud keep two girls or will he suffer from a humiliating Bundy defeat?

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Katherine Green, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

When Kelly's modeling school suddenly closes down, she gets a new job as a greeter at the TV World theme park. When this is threatened by her low performance ratings, Kelly gets switched into Commercial Land where she plays "the Verminator" who hunts down roaches, like Bud. Meanwhile, Al takes his annual "Bundy World Tour,": a week-long trip around the world by himself, in the Bundy living room.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Stacie Lipp, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

When Al can't pay his bill at the gas station, he is forced to don a uniform, complete with 'Habib' name tag and work at the station. He spends the day being hounded by motorists, as well as Peg and the kids.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt, Stacie Lipp

Lower Uncton, England 1653-- Seamus McBundy makes the mistake of insulting a witch who casts an evil spell upon the land, shading the town in darkness forever--as long as a male Bundy lives. In present day, 1992 Lower Uncton, still in darkness, the townspeople have successfully killed all male Bundy descendants of Shamus McBundy, except for Al and Bud. The head of the historical society, Winston, and his cohort Igor, conspire to lure the Bundys to England and dispose of them, ending the curse. But getting them to Lower Uncton would be easier said than done.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Ellen L. Fogle, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt

The Bundys delight in their comped trip to England, spending here, spending there. All the while, the town of Upper Uncton conspires to kill the Bundys outside Lower Uncton, so the curse will remain and Upper Uncton can still rake in profits as a tourist town: the town beside the town in darkness. Finally, Winston and Igor bring the Bundys to Lower Uncton. The execution was imminent. Al and Bud would meet certain doom. Their only hope (unfortunately) was Kelly.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Stacie Lipp, Ron Leavitt, Michael G. Moye

The Bundys are cornered by both towns. Upper Uncton wants them dead so they can continue to profit as a tourist trap while Lower Uncton wants them dead so they can end the curse. Al moves to defend himself and soon finds himself in a medieval joust opposite Igor. Who will emerge triumphant? And will the curse ever be lifted? The fate of all rests in the hands of the lowly shoe salesman from America.

Stars: Ed O'Neill, Katey Sagal, Amanda Bearse
Director(s): Gerry Cohen
Writer(s): Kevin Curran, Michael G. Moye, Ron Leavitt