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When the Bundys start having good luck, Al remembers the Bundy Curse and realizes he is doomed.

In this pilot we meet Al and Peg Bundy, a very dysfunctional Chicago family. In the pilot, Al and Peg, who have no friends, meet their new neighbors Steve and Marcy Rhoades. Steve and Marcy are a very happily married couple until they learn from the Bundys.

On their way to W* County, the Bundys stop at the car wash, where their Dodge disappears.

Al doesn't mind Peggy going out with Marcy every night to a ballroom dance hall and dance the night away with a handsome man named Andy, until another man, named Pete, tells Al that Peggy is stealing someone's husband - his.

Al buys a cheap old air conditioner which leads to a massive blackout in the entire neighborhood, forcing the Bundy's to move into a supermarket.

Steve Rhoades returns to reclaim his wife, but is shocked to find out that Marcy remarried. The Bundys argue whether friendship is more important than money when they find out that Steve is on the run from the police for stealing a rare egg from a national park.

Having filled in an application for the Rhoades' to be on a game show, Al and Peg appear on the game show for newlyweds - "How Do I Love Thee", portraying Steve and Marcy.

Al become the neighborhood stud when some women see him move a couch.

The Bundys and the D'Arcys face off to see who can spend the $1,000 shopping spree first. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly bother celebrity Jerry Mathers who judges the contest.

Al gets a visit from a guardian angel and discovers what the Bundy household would look like if he was never born.

Al goes crazy trying to remember the name of a song he heard on the radio.

Bud juggles two women at once, one being Miss McGowen, his English teacher. Meanwhile, the family ignores Peggy when she is sick and Al gets free pizza by attending children's birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese.

Al makes a pact with the devil and gets to play for the Chicago Bears.

Al convinces Bud to make a calendar with beautiful women in order to win a rivalry.

Al's lack of performance in the bedroom makes him the laugh of the town, so Al sets his mind on getting back in shape.

Marcy gives Peggy the book "Thinnergy", which is a book about health. Very inspired by the book, Peggy goes on a diet and tries to convince the family to join in, but they refuse. When the diet makes Peggy really annoying, Steve convinces Al to join the diet, and persuades Peggy to quit.

Al's Dodge starts sputtering so he sends the rest of the family to find a fuel pump for it while he recalls the good old days in his Dodge.

Al gets a job as a security guard at Polk High, but gets fired after the championship trophy is stolen by Al's old nemesis.

Women take over the nudie bar and the bowling alley, so Al starts an organization called ""NO MA'AM.""

When Peggy gets amnesia, Al turns her into the perfect wife, which makes everyone happy, except Marcy.

Al and Steve draw closer together when they try to restore a 1965 Mustang. Peg and Marcy on the other hand can't stop from despising their husbands.

When all the women in the neighborhood gets peeped on except Peggy, she gets really jealous and eventually puts out a ladder, milk, and cookies for the him. Meanwhile Al convinces Bud to stop fooling Kelly and actually help her with her studies.

The Bundys get stuck in traffic on Labor Day.

Steve is away on business and Marcy is having sexual fantasies with Al involuntarily. Marcy becomes so disgusted and she tells Peg, who tries to give her tips on how to avoid them.

Al spends some time at Luke Ventura's apartment after running out from a fight with Peg.

A fight with Marcy about his newly grown beard makes Steve spend a few nights at the Bundy household, which everyone is happy about, except Peggy and Marcy.

In order to earn money for a competition, Kelly hustle men for money by playing pool.

Al buries the Dodge and leases a new sports car. Meanwhile, Peggy digs up the Dodge so she can sell the engine.

A dispute over whether an apple tree belongs to the D'Arcys or the Bundys leads to a feud between the two families.

Al ends up being circumcised after the surgeons misread the doctor's instructions.

Al's softball team wants to bench him before the big championship, but Peggy, Kelly and Bud hold three of the required votes to omit him. Peggy is swayed by the hunk who will replace Al, while it takes food to get the kids' votes.

Bud's pen-pal from prison and her boyfriend pay a visit to the Bundy household and takes the family hostage, but Kelly ends up falling in love with the boyfriend.

Bud has until 5:00 PM to finish the video, but Kelly keeps having fights with the other person in the video. Meanwhile, Peggy and Marcy think Al and Jefferson can't figure out the satellite dish, but they are really hiding from their wives on the roof.

Peg meets and old rival from high school and their two families face off at a bowling match to see who the real loser is. With the Bundy team being one player short, Steve has to step in to help.

A Playboy model visits the shoe store and Al wants to find out which issue she is in, but Peggy sold his Playboy collection and Al has to convince her to get the magazines back.

The Bundys lets a foreign exchange student live in their home for the weekly $500 that the government will pay them, but the french girl ends up ruining Kelly's social life.

Bud meets a 21 year old art student in the park and brings her to the Bundy household. Everybody seems to like her but Marcy, who plans to get rid of her.

Al tries to help a young man forget the idea of marriage. Meanwhile, Kelly gets stung by bees and becomes crazy.

Al will get a new Viper for his Dodge if he lets people film a video of the Dodge crossing the 1 million mile mark. Meanwhile, Kelly tries to find Waldo.

Al and Peggy try to have another baby after a dead relative promised $500,000 to the couple who provide an heir named after him.

Al gets a visit from small green aliens who steal his socks.

Al tries to keep his race track winnings a secret, while Peg starts taking money from Al's wallet.

Bud tries to get revenge on a girl who humiliated him years ago.

Marcy dents Steve's new Mercedes and heavily regrets it. Revenge brings Steve to claim she made him impotent and he uses her as his personal servant.

Bud wins a ""Dinner with Anthrax"" contest and sends away Al and Peg on a timeshare vacation to Florida while Anthrax visit the house.

Al and Kelly pretend to be sick so they can avoid going with Peggy and Bud to Wanker County, but Kelly ends up really getting sick and Al has to care for her for the entire week which interrupts Al's fantasies of being with two beautiful women.

Steve risks his job when Al takes a $50,000 loan from Steve's bank to start a shoe hotline.

Kelly reveals a bit too much about her family when she auditions for a part in a sitcom, and the producers base the new sitcom on the Bundy household.

During Spring Break, Kelly and friends seduce Bud and friends' airline tickets and hotel reservations at Fort Lauderdale. Al, Jefferson, and Griff go to Fort Lauderdale to judge a bikini contest. When Marcy sees Jefferson and Al on a Spring Break TV special, she heads out to Fort Lauderdale with Bud and friends.

Peggy thinks Al is having an affair, so she sends the kids to spy on him.

Thanks to Jefferson, Al gets to talk to the U.S. Senate about Psycho Dad's cancellation.

Marcy wakes up after a drunken night and finds herself married to Jefferson.

Steve and Marcy convince Peggy to buy a computer for the family, but nobody uses it.

Al and Steve head off to a fancy boutique to get Peggy a new bra for her birthday.

Kelly has to tap dance at a dance recital because of a prank she pulled.

Marcy tries to do her best to stop it when her bank wants to dedicate a scoreboard at Polk High... to Al.

Al and Kelly make a short film about shoes, and they end up getting $10,000 dollars to produce another one.

Al plans a special evening for Peggy's birthday by taking her out to the Bowlarama where he hopes to finally beat his arch rival's high game score. Al beats the score, but minutes later, Peggy bowls a perfect game, destroying Al's self-esteem.

The Bundys and the D'Arcys face the effects of greed as they discover a gold mine in the desert.

While researching for her new part of playing a scientist, Kelly discovers the new color bleen. Al finds that bleen grows hair.

Bud is suspicious when Kelly is invited to a party for smart people.

When Al finds that the bikini competition Jefferson is judging has a $10,000 prize, he has Kelly enter and Griff and him become judges to pick Kelly. When, Marcy, Bud, and friends finally arrive at Fort Lauderdale, she tries to ruin Al's scheme.

Kelly moves out after Al beats up yet another of her boyfriends. This upsets Peggy, who becomes an overprotective mom, to Bud's dislike.

Al and Griff start a barter to get a massage chair. Meanwhile, Kelly gives massages to Bud.

On their anniversary, Jefferson plans to surprise Marcy with a tattoo, but the tattoo artist accidently writes ""I LOVE MARY"".

Kelly must learn how to fire a bow in order to get a part in a commercial.

Steve and Marcy ask Peggy to look over their house, but when a moving company asks for "Steves Roadhouse", Peggy allows the company to tow away the Rhoades' home, and they have to spend a night at the Bundys - where Kelly is having a slumber party.

Al is unable to purchase a gift for Peg on their 16th wedding anniversary as his credit card seemed to be maxed out.

A rabbit destroys Al's fantasy of having a vegetable garden.

The Bundys and D'Arcys go on a Caribbean cruise.

The Bundys' and D'Arcy's Caribbean cruise is ruined when the ship sinks.

Al is annoyed when the mall hangs a billboard sized picture of Peggy next to the shoe store.

The Bundys go to the movie theater for Kelly's birthday and they see her boyfriend with another woman.

When the mailman delivers a credit card pre-approved for Buck the Dog, the Bundys go on a spending spree.

In an attempt for a spinoff, we follow the lives of DJs Oliver Cole and Mark Campbell at a local radio station at Bud's college. Oliver and Mark risk being expelled for revealing the truth about dean Steve Rhoades' past.

Peggy gets jealous of Buck when the family pay him all the attention, and she flees home to W* County.

Al is shocked about having another kid when Peggy's relatives leave their five-year-old son Seven in the Bundy home.

Buck brings a female dog into the house, and feels neglected when the family only care about the new dog.

Al and Bud go hunting with Peggy's dad so that he well get back together with her mother.

Kelly and Bud finds that Peggy's new boyfriend will force them to work if he marries Peggy.

Peggy discovers that Seven does not know when his birthday is, and the family decides to celebrate him... on Al's birthday.

Kelly guest appears on a kiddie show, but ends up taking over the entire show. Al and Peggy get twin beds.

Peg thinks she might have seen Elvis at the mall and Marcy notices a pit stain shaped like him on Al's shirt. Elvis fans come flocking around just to see it.

Al is excited when Bud decides to move out, but a bit disappointed when Bud moves back in to the basement, and even more horrified when Peg's mother comes to live with them after splitting up with Peg's father.

After having a vision of God, Al starts building the perfect shoes.

Jefferson lets Al in on his psychic phone scam but the Bundys soon take over the business.

Al's high school plays a football game against their rival school.

Al and Griff are fired during the holidays and have to take small jobs in the mall. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud swipe biblical figures from the D'Arcys' nativity scene and Peggy enters the neighborhood Christmas decoration contest.

Kelly goes to Hollywood, but her show gets slaughtered by the censors.

Bud gets a huge money grant to go to college, but Al and Peggy spend it all on items for themselves.

Peg's hillbilly relatives from W* County pay a visit. Fighting uncles, singing triplet aunts, whose showbiz career is threatened by Al's inputs, and Al is trying all he can to watch the John Wayne film "Hondo."

After Peggy lied on the Bundy taxes, Al has to find a quick way to raise money for the audit, and when a couple offers good money for Peggy's hair, Al must find a way to convince her.

Al becomes a priest when NO MA'AM forms its own church to avoid a beer tax.

Al and Griff blackmail Gary, because of a bad promotion contest, when they find the shoes from the shoe store are made by children in sweatshops. Meanwhile, Peggy wins a microwave and Kelly and her try to hide it from Al.

Kelly gets a job at an amusement park. Meanwhile, Al takes a personal vacation - in the Bundy living room.

Seeking regular meals, Al and Griff join the army, but end up having to help with a garbage strike.

Al goes to look for his aunt's pie, but finds she is dead.

Bud tries to find an old valentine, whose letter Kelly forgot to give him years ago. Meanwhile, Al shops for Valentine's Day gifts to give to Peggy.

Marcy and Peggy discover they are both pregnant, to Jefferson's joy and Al's horror.

Peggy wins $10,000 playing Bingo. Meanwhile, NO MA'AM chooses their official beer.

Peggy and Marcy go out on a journey to buy back all of Marcy's childhood furniture, which Jefferson sold.

Al moves into a room in the airport. Meanwhile, Peggy finds a new boyfriend.

When Al suggests an aerobics studio for the open lot next door, he puts peep holes in the wall, but all of the students are fat.

To join NO MA'AM, Bud must get his picture taken with wrestler King Kong Bundy.

In the second season opener, the Bundys go to a sleazy, dumpy motel in Dumpwater Florida. Trouble head their way when an axe murderer, who hates tourists, arrives.

Al has to choose whether to spend his money on Bud's visit to the White House or letting Kelly enter a Miss Weenie Tot contest.

A man offers the Bundys $10,000 if they allow Buck to breed with his dog.

Marcy gets Jefferson a membership to the health club and he becomes a spectacle there. Meanwhile, Bud directs when Al and Kelly star in a commercial for the shoe store.

Al makes Kelly get a job, so she becomes a waitress.

Al is all excited when Kelly's acting instructor Larry Storch is coming to the house.

Al's carpool, consisting of him and three models, is chosen to promote a campaign to clean up Chicago.

Peggy talks to a woman at a beauty parlor, and becomes convinced that Al is cheating on her, with that woman.

The Bundys vote against a two cent beer tax.

Peggy tries to make Al more interested in having sex with her by purchasing new dresses, unsucessfully.

Peggy and Marcy ruin Al's fishing trip by constantly fighting. Meanwhile, Jefferson and the kids spend Marcy's money.

When Al and Peggy go to a basketball game, Peggy switches seats with Al and her seat is chosen for a $10,000 free throw contest.

Al runs off to a bus station to escape Peggy's constant demands, and Jefferson does the same by running away from Marcy.

Al gets to star in an athletic shoe commericial.

NO MA'AM counter-protests against Marcy and company when Al banishes a customer for nursing her baby. Meanwhile, train accidents delay Peggy's trip home.

Al has to take a job as a topless bartender to pay for Seven's doctor bill, but Peggy fears that Bud and Kelly might make Seven sick, and kicks them out of the house.

Kelly and Bud buy a car to share, but sharing a car leads to fighting, and the Bundy children has to double date.

A twelve year old boy with a crush on Kelly gets her to go to his junior prom with him.

Peggy and Kelly both enter a singing contest when they are on vacation in Missouri.

Al tries to scam the insurance company when the Dodge is stolen.

Kelly becomes a rock and roll singer with Bud as her agent.

One of the Bundys neighbors threaten to sue when Buck the dog mates with their dog, and asks the Bundys to neuter Buck, which Al refuses to do.

Al's in trouble when Buck buries his anniversary gift for Peggy in the backyard.

Al and Jefferson's fishing lodge is taken away by a famous actress, but Jefferson plots revenge, and a small fortune, when they find out that they unknowingly took a nude picture of the actress. Kelly and Bud try to get Lucky a part in a dog food commercial.

Steve spends time at the zoo with the Bundys instead of looking for a job, which upsets Marcy.

Al grows his hair when his barber dies, and fears he is turning into a "sissy" just because he has to go to salons.

Peggy must convince Al to come home for a “nooner” in order to win a big radio contest. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly wait in a very long line to buy concert tickets.

The family thinks Bud is insane when they overhear him talking to himself in his room.

Al has to joust for his and his family's life in a medieval tournament in Lower Uncton.

When the national baseball league go on a strike, NO MA'AM organizes their own league sponsored by nudie bars.

The Bundy car breaks down in New Mexico and they have to call Marcy and Jefferson for help.

Marcy tries to convince Al to sell his Dodge to Marcy's boss, a big collector of classic cars.

Peg goes to Kelly's school for mother-daughter day and talks about the joy of being a housewife, meanwhile Bud has to learn the value of a dollar after breaking the Rhoades' window.

Bud dates an extreme sporter and the D'Arcys play a relationship board game with Peggy and Al.

Al buys a cemetery plot so that he will be buried next to a western movie star and a mule. But Peggy feels excluded.

Kelly and Bud try to sneak a jukebox, their Christmas present for Al and Peggy, into the house on Christmas Eve while Al and Peggy argue over channel surfing.

While Al and Peggy are away at a family reunion, Kelly's boyfriend ruins Peggy's couch. Bud and Kelly have to find a new couch similar to the one they had.

Bud borrows money from the mob for Kelly's exercise video, but when she has a disagreement with the male lead in the video the mob says they will kill Bud if the video isn't finished. Meanwhile, Al and Jefferson try to install a satellite dish.

Al helps Griff win a trip to Atlanta for the Olympic games by helping him answer questions on a radio sports quiz.

Sex gets in the way of Bud studying for his finals, and he risks being expelled when he is caught in the school library.

Bud appears on a game show for single men. Meanwhile, Al and Peg don't sleep for days and Kelly fears that there is a conspiracy against her.

Al and Peggy split up after seeing a marriage counselor. Kelly must learn to box to get a part in a movie.

Al must work at a gas station after Peggy and the kids buy too much junk food, which Al cannot pay for, so he has to work off his debt.

The phone company cuts off the phone service to the Bundy household after Al refuses to pay for a phone call he did not make. This annoys Peggy, Kelly, and the rest of the neighborhood.