History Awesome / MarriedWithChildren

* In "If Al Had A Hammer, Bud takes up a fake bad boy rapper persona (a la an expy of ''The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air'') to pick up chicks and he actually manages to win over one gorgeous babe for his girlfriend. Later, he performs an impromptu improvised rap for her about his DarkAndTroubledPast before going in for a smooch. All this lasts until he is humiliated by his (pregnant) mother, sister and late grandfather's magic hammer.

** He was actually 18 at that point, but the awesomeness is still there due to the at least 20 year age difference.

* When Al laments to his space alien buddies that his life is worthless and nothing he does seems to matter, little does know that his rank, dirty socks provided starship fuel that enabled the little green men to destroy a comet that was going to destroy Earth and a hundred other inhabited worlds. BizzaroEpisode it may be, but Al ''saved the galaxy''. And he'll never know.

** Peg also gets a Crowning Moment of her own when she uses the distraction provided by Al to fix the vote for Reunion Queen in her favor, beating out her own hated rival, who just happens to be Jack's wife. The two share a dance together as the Prom King and Queen (interupted only by Al's complaints about the injuries he got in the fight).

* In the seventh season episode "Movie Show", on her birthday, Kelly breaks off a date with her boyfriend (played by Creator/DavidBoreanaz so that she can go to the movies with her family (which she was reluctant to do - as were they, in fact). She finds her boyfriend with another girl, but she seems to take it well... until she rejoins the rest of her family.

* The climax of the episode "Damn Bundys", which involves Al selling his soul to Satan and ending up in Hell, followed by the rest of his family, and then Marcy and Jefferson, has the cast taking on Satan's LegionOfDoom in a touch football game (consisting of Genghis Khan, Brutus, Eric The Red, Attila The Hun and Goliath). To no surprise, they get their asses handed to them at first, becoming increasingly demoralized. However, in a last ditch effort, the cast manages to evade Satan's team through trickery (Bud even takes down Goliath using a classic stone sling), and Al is about to score the winning field goal... only for Satan to freeze time and offer to send him back to Earth without his family, along with three gorgeous demon girls, if he forfeits the goal. Al briefly considers it... [[AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachother only to shrug and catch the ball, sending him and his family back to Earth]]. Al wakes up in his living room, clutching can of Pringles instead of the football, the episode seemingly AllJustADream... except in his pocket, [[OrWasItADream he finds the Red Hots Satan gave him before]].

* Al Bundy's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyLmSAnoR6g response to a librarian mocking him]] for being a loser who failed at life cuts to the core of his character and the show in general:
-->'''Al:''' So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, and a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered-down Tang and my still-frozen Pop Tart. I get in my car with no upholstery, no gas, and six more payments. To fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes onto the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would. I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman. And I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. Because, despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be, are still out there being what we don't want to be, forty hours a week, for life. ''And the fact that I haven't put a gun in my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner''!
** Then, he tops it off by taking the tray of sugar that the wench had always put in her tea, to dump in her gas tank, a promise he had made to himself when he was 8.

* Al smashing the computer at the end of "The Computer Show" is this to people who have ever wanted to do the same. Then he demands Buck get him his slippers, he wisely obliges.

* The epic battle between Al and Spare Tire Dixon (played by Bubba Smith) over Polk High's stolen football trophy.

* In "The Unnatural", Al has had a rough time of it, so he is replaced by his baseball team with a younger, stronger player. However, before the championship game is over, Marcy the Umpire (constantly trying to spice up her calls with movement) accidentally slugs the new player and knocks him out cold. The team has no one else to fill in, so Al milks that they now need him - first making Peg, Kelly and Bud sing his praises. At bat, he purposefully racks up two strikes, but then points to the outfield ''à la'' Babe Ruth. He hits a winning home run, but refuses to cross the plate until he gives a Lou Gehrig-type speech.

* One episode sees the Bundys stuck on the freeway in traffic. Al tries to bolster their spirits with an annoying song, only for a father in a nearby car to start cussing him out. First, everyone joins in the song just to further irritate the guy, but when he threatens to get violent, Al says "[[TranquilFury Peg, take the wheel]]" and gets out. The other man continues trash talking, and Al uses the opportunity to grab him by the throat and ''pummel him against the hood of the Dodge.'' Peg and the man's wife get out and try to get them to stop...but the other woman [[BerserkButton makes a fatal mistake]] when she calls Al a "moron." Cue Peg backhanding the woman to kingdom come, and beginning her ''own'' brawl. The man's family leaps out of the car to help, but Kelly and Bud are ready for them: Kelly takes out the daughter with a series of mean right hooks, while Bud treats the son to a few patented Bundy pile-drivers.

** Even better, following this, Al turns the tables on him and sues him for hurting his hand on his face and can't sell shoes as a result.

** In "To Build A Better Mousetrap" Al relays a story of how he scores a point against the biggest linebacker in the state with a plan CrazyEnoughToWork, he plowed right through him. He was right he was definitely a winner that day.
** In "Al Goes Deep" Al considers filling in for Kelly's new boyfriend in a college football game, but thinks he can't due to his advanced age and having eating Peg's massive bon-bon. When he has no choice but to after the boyfriend breaks his arm, he not only wins but sets a new collegiate record.
** In "All-Nite Security Dude" Al's trophy gets stolen by his old rival "Spare Tire" who he had won against and caused his life to go downhill. In this episode, the credibility of his achievement was called into question by both Bud and Spare Tire. Al not only proves to Spare Tire he peaked far worse than Spare Tire ever did, but he wins the showdown proving his knee only ''nearly'' touched the ground so that last touchdown did still count.

* Creator/GilbertGottfried gets in two moments for the season 10 episode "Ship Happens". The first is, Meta-wise, that he was a ''really'' good sport with the characters in-universe (save for Jefferson) treating him as a hack comedian. The other was in the episode itself after they are all stranded at sea and a ThreateningShark starts circling their lifeboat, which prompts him to start doing a Creator/JerryLewis impression ti scare it away. It ''works''.
* A meta version for Ed O'Neil: when he auditioned for the role of Al, the "scene" he was acting had him coming home from work. Right at the start of the scene, before he even opened the "door", he gave this sigh of total, deflated defeat, then walked into the scene with a sickened scowl on his face. In a retrospective special on the show years later, the showrunners said THAT was the moment they knew Ed was Al Bundy, before he'd even spoken one word of dialogue.

* In [[EpisodeOnAPlane "The Gypsy Cried"]], Marcy has been scared shitless by a prediction that she will die on the plane and she's driven nuts by the turbulence and [[BadBoss her boss making an excessive amount of demands]] and the demand that she fetch a pillow for him is [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the straw that broke the camel's back.....]] and the [[TookALevelInBadass moment she stops acting like a doormat]].

* In the seventh season episode "Movie Show", on her birthday, Kelly breaks off a date with her boyfriend (played by [[{{Series/Angel}} David]] [[Series/{{Bones}} Boreanaz]]) so that she can go to the movies with her family (which she was reluctant to do - as were they, in fact). She finds her boyfriend with another girl, but she seems to take it well... until she rejoins the rest of her family.

'''Al:''' And that's why cable will never replace the moviegoing experience. ''(puts his arms around Peg, Bud, and Kelly's shoulders)''