History Recap / MarriedWithChildren

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS7E15HeelsOnWheels Heels on Wheels]]": Kelly buys a motorcycle after fearing that she may be getting too old to have fun, but Peg is more interested in it for [[ADateWithRosiePalms sexual reasons]] and Al is interested in it after a transsexual shoe store customer leaves him questioning his manhood. Meanwhile, Bud gets a job posing nude for art classes at an all-girls' school.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS11E18DamnBundys Damn Bundys]]": In this fantasy episode (that premiered around the time that the Jim Carrey movie ''Film/TheMask'' was airing on FOX, so expect a lot of cheap, late-1990s style special effects), Al's wish to play professional football comes true when The Devil (played by Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund) offers Al to sell his soul to him, but when Al won't pay up, he ends up dead and in Hell -- along with his family and neighbors.

#"What Goes Around Comes Around": Bud tries to make amends with a girl (played by ''Series/SavedByTheBell'''s Creator/TiffaniThiessen) who humiliated him in sixth grade. Meanwhile, Al prepares a speech for a high school dance, warning teens of the dangers of marriage.

#"Pilot": A down-on-his-luck shoe salesman named Al Bundy, unhappily married to his former party girl girlfriend, Peggy, with two children (a brainy, yet dateless son named Bud and a promiscuous bimbo named Kelly), is forced to choose between goings to a basketball game or joining his lazy wife in meeting their new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades (two bankers who are the very epitome of 1980s greed, conservative politics, and social-climbing).

#"The Agony and the Extra C": Bud and Kelly visit Jefferson in the hospital, who tells the story of how a botched butt tattoo led to this.

#"Spring Break" (two-part episode): During spring break, Kelly and friends seduce Bud and friends out of their airline tickets and hotel reservations at Fort Lauderdale, and Al puts Kelly in the bikini contest to win $100,000.

#"Something Larry This Way Comes": Long-time comic actor and voiceover artist Larry Storch guest stars as Kelly's acting coach, whom Al must cover for when Larry can't make it to Kelly's performance.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS1E13JohnnyBeGone Johnny Be Gone]]": A BottleEpisode in which Al and Peggy delay going to a closing of their favorite hamburger joint when Bud and Kelly need them to solve their own problems.

#"[[[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E6HerCupsRunnethOver Her Cups Runneth Over]]": In this controversial episode (one that made a stay-at-home mom from Michigan write in to complain), Peg becomes depressed on her birthday when her favorite bra is discontinued. While Al and Steve discover that Peggy's favorite bra is still being sold at a risqué lingerie store called Francine's of Wisconsin, Marcy gets Peg a male stripper.

#"Poppy's By The Tree" (two-part episode): The Bundys go on vacation in Dumpwater, Florida, where an axe murderer is on the loose and has his sights on Peggy.

#"Her Cups Runneth Over": In this controversial episode (one that made a stay-at-home mom from Michigan write in to complain), Peg becomes depressed on her birthday when her favorite bra is discontinued. While Al and Steve discover that Peggy's favorite bra is still being sold at a risqué lingerie store called Francine's of Wisconsin, Marcy gets Peg a male stripper.

#"Tooth or Consequences": Al gets a toothache and goes to a dentist, who is bitter over his wife divorcing him.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E4TheCampingShow The Camping Show"]] [[CensoredTitle(a.k.a "A Period Piece")]]: A guys-only fishing trip with Al, Bud and Steve turns sour when Steve invites Marcy who then invites Peg and Kelly on the trip — and things get worse when all three of the women have their periods simultaneously.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E4TheCampingShow The Camping Show" (a.k.a "A Period Piece")]]: A guys-only fishing trip with Al, Bud and Steve turns sour when Steve invites Marcy who then invites Peg and Kelly on the trip — and things get worse when all three of the women have their periods simultaneously.

#[[CensoredTitle "The Camping Show" (a.k.a "A Period Piece")]]: A guys-only fishing trip with Al, Bud and Steve turns sour when Steve invites Marcy who then invites Peg and Kelly on the trip — and things get worse when all three of the women have their periods simultaneously.

#"Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E18TheHouseThatPegLost The House That Peg Lost]]": While the Rhoades are away on vacation, the Bundys are called to house-sit for them, leading to the Rhoades' house being taken away by a man looking for a roadhouse. Meanwhile, Kelly has a slumber party with her best friends, which leads to chaos when Bud reveals that Kelly slept with her best friends' boyfriends.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS2E17AImpoDent Impo-Dent]]": While Steve is away, Marcy drives Steve's new Mercedes (without his permission) and crashes it. When Steve finds out, he becomes impotent and fails to satisfy Marcy in bed.

#"[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS2E20AllInTheFamily All In The Family]]": Peg's deranged hillbilly relatives come over for a visit.

#"Shoeway To Heaven": After finding a box of old shoes, Al and Jefferson turn the shoe store into a 1970s-themed retro shoe store. Meanwhile, Kelly gets stung by an insect whose venom acts a truth serum in humans, making Kelly reveal just how crappy her and everyone else's life is.

#"To Build a Better Mousetrap": A mouse is running loose in the Bundy house, prompting Peg to face her childhood fear of mice and Al to wreck the house in his attempt to catch the pest instead of calling pest control.

#"Peggy Loves Al, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah": On Valentine's Day, Bud awaits his first Valentine (which he thinks is a trick cooked up by Kelly), Kelly must choose one Valentine from the many boys who are attracted to her, Steve plans to take Marcy to Hawaii, Marcy plans to pop out from a cake naked, and Peg wants Al to say "I love you" to her.

#"Impo-Dent": While Steve is away, Marcy drives Steve's new Mercedes (without his permission) and crashes it. When Steve finds out, he becomes impotent and fails to satisfy Marcy in bed.
#"Just Married...With Children": Al and Peg pose as Steve and Marcy Rhoades to get on a sadistic game show called ''How Do I Love Thee'', but find themselves facing off against Steve and Marcy (who are on the game show as Al and Peg Bundy).

#"All In The Family": Peg's deranged hillbilly relatives come over for a visit.

#"The House That Peg Lost": While the Rhoades are away on vacation, the Bundys are called to house-sit for them, leading to the Rhoades' house being taken away by a man looking for a roadhouse. Meanwhile, Kelly has a slumber party with her best friends, which leads to chaos when Bud reveals that Kelly slept with her best friends' boyfriends.

#"Hot Off The Grill": Al has a Labor Day barbecue, where he becomes aroused by the sight of Peg actually doing housework, and Steve and Marcy bring along the ashes of Marcy's aunt, whom Steve hated.

#"Weenie Tot Lovers and Other Strangers": Kelly competes for the chance to be a spokesmodel for Al's favorite food company, Weenie Tots -- and Al ropes in Marcy and Jefferson to pick up prize money from the Weenie Tots Scratch-N-Sniff-Stakes.

#"Peggy and the Pirates": Peggy tells Seven a story of love and blood on the high seas (with the Bundys, the D'Arcys, and Marcy's ex-husband Steve as pirates).

#"Driving Mr. Boondy": Bud takes up a job as a driving examiner for the DMV to earn money for a trip -- and Al, who has to renew his license, must contend with his own son during his road test.

#"No Pot To Pease In": In this self-referential episode, Kelly pitches her family's and neighbors' quirks and vices as a new premise for a FOX sitcom.

#"Assault and Batteries": In this special 3-D episode, Al, who is hoping to get back home in time to watch John Wayne in "Hondo," gets trapped in a store at the mall while trying to exchange batteries when the computers go down and lock everything down, including the doors. Meanwhile, Peggy, who is outside, goes on a shopping spree, and Kelly and Bud find Buck's birth certificate and celebrate his birthday.

#"Who'll Stop the Rain": Al is one man against nature (with nature winning every time) when he takes it upon himself to fix the leaking roof. Meanwhile, Marcy is upset when Steve takes a low-paying job at a pet store.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS4E16WhatGoesAroundComesAround What Goes Around Comes Around]]": Bud tries to make amends with a girl (played by ''Series/SavedByTheBell'''s Creator/TiffaniThiessen) who humiliated him in sixth grade. Meanwhile, Al prepares a speech for a high school dance, warning teens of the dangers of marriage.

#"Johnny Be Gone": A BottleEpisode in which Al and Peggy delay going to a closing of their favorite hamburger joint when Bud and Kelly need them to solve their own problems.

#"You Better Watch Out": In this, the first ChristmasEpisode (one that is so [[BlackComedy dark]], it had to have a {{Content Warning|s}} before the start of the episode), a Christmas stunt at Chicago's Lakeside Mall (which is sucking away business from the mall that Al works at, which is why he didn't get his Christmas bonus) goes awry when the man playing Santa crash-lands on the Bundys' yard and dies, leaving Marcy traumatized, the Bundys eating Christmas pizza on the police's dime, and the neighborhood kids wondering what happened to Santa.

#"I'll See You In Court": In this BannedEpisode (that didn't see a TV release until five years after the show's end, though it was leaked on DVD release), Al, Peg, Steve, and Marcy sue a seedy motel who uses hidden-camera footage of couples having sex as porno videos for the next customers.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS3E22 Here's Lookin' At You, Kid]]": The neighborhood women become the targets of a Peeping Tom — except for Peg, who takes it as a sign that she's not attractive anymore. Meanwhile, Al convinces Bud to help Kelly with her studies.

#"[[Recap/MarriedWithChildrenS2E2DeadMenDontDoAerobics Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics]]": Peggy wins the chance to exercise with Jim Jupiter, a local aerobics instructor with his own TV show, for two weeks, but she ends up killing Jim by introducing him to the world of smoking, eating junk food, and watching TV.

#"What Goes Around Comes Around": Bud tries to make amends with a girl (played by ''Series/SavedByTheBell'''s Creator/TiffaniThiessen) who humiliated him in sixth grade. Meanwhile, Al prepares a speech for a high school dance, warning teens of the dangers of marriage.

#"The Dance Show": ''Simpsons'' voice actor Creator/DanCastellaneta[[note]]the man behind the voices of Homer Simpson, Abraham "Grampa" Simpson, Arnie Pie, Charlie (one of Homer's nuclear plant coworkers) Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Mel, the Mexican bumblebee man, Jeremy the Squeaky-Voiced Teen, and others[[/note]] guest stars as a gay man who stays with Al after he complains that his husband may be falling in love with Peg.

#"Wabbit Season": In this WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes-inspired episode, Al gets into gardening to relieve his stress after suffering a nervous breakdown during a midnight shoe sale, but must deal with a rabbit stealing his carrots.

#"Top of the Heap": A PoorlyDisguisedPilot-cum-[[ADayInTheLimelight day-in-the-limelight episode]] (not to mention the 100th, and one of few that doesn't focus on the Bundys, though Al does make an appearance) centered on Al's high school friend, Vinnie, and his dim-bulb son, Charlie (played by Joseph Bologna and a pre-''Friends'' Matt [=LeBlanc=], respectively) trying to fit in who high society so they can be rich white trash instead of poor white trash.

#"God's Shoes": Veteran voice actress Creator/JuneForay and former ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member Tim Kazurinsky guest star in this episode where Al's fall out the window after seeing Peg's $2500 portrait leads to a near-death experience where Al sees God's shoes and, when he comes to, plans to sell them to the apathetic masses.
#"Kelly Does Hollywood" (two-part episode): Former ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' cast member Jon Lovitz guest stars in this episode where Kelly's vacuous public-access talk show gets picked up by a major network and the Bundys (save Peg, as Katey Sagal is not in this episode) go to Hollywood.

#"The Goodbye Girl": While Al is on an imaginary trip around the world, Kelly (who dropped out of modeling school) gets a job at a TV history museum — and becomes a bug-killing TV personality known as The Verminator while Jefferson is harassed by kids who think they recognize him from ''Series/HappyDays'' and ''Series/TheLoveBoat''.

#"Al On The Rocks": Al gets a job at a topless bar -- where it's the bartender who's topless (and brings in the big bucks). Meanwhile, Peggy [[OutOfCharacter begins acting like a caring mother]] to Seven and throws out anyone who may make him sick.

#"Christmas": While at a bar, Al reminisces about his past Christmases with his family. When he is forced to get gifts he takes up many part time jobs, including one as a MallSanta.

#"Heels on Wheels": Kelly buys a motorcycle after fearing that she may be getting too old to have fun, but Peg is more interested in it for [[ADateWithRosiePalms sexual reasons]] and Al is interested in it after a transsexual shoe store customer leaves him questioning his manhood. Meanwhile, Bud gets a job posing nude for art classes at an all-girls' school.

#"No Chicken, No Check": Kelly and Bud buy a new car, but end up having to share it when Bud dates a foreign exchange student while Kelly dates a commercial actor. Meanwhile, Al insures the car as a farm vehicle, and in order to collect in case of an accident, there must be a chicken in the car -- [[WhatAnIdiot which he eats]] after his refrigerator burns out and rots all the meat inside of it.
#"Take My Wife, Please": In this HalloweenEpisode, Al wishes he was dead, and is visited by the Grim Reaper with a ''very'' familiar face who will grant his wish for death...unless a family member of his says he needs him. Meanwhile, Peg, Kelly, Bud, and Jefferson are forced to impersonate Music/VillagePeople for an audience of menopausal women.

#"Dances With Weezie": Al and Jefferson sneak out of a ''{{Jeffersons}}'' reunion performance to go to a new sports bar, where they end up in a bar fight over who starred in the first light beer commercial.
#"Change For a Buck": In this, Buck's second ADayInTheLimelight episode, Buck decides to run away after having enough of the Bundys' stupidity and neglect -- and ends up in a pound [[PoundsAreAnimalPrisons where he'll be gassed if no one adopts him]].

#"The Worst Noel": A [[ChristmasEpisode Christmas]] [[BottleEpisode bottle]] episode where Al and Peg spend their Christmas on the couch trying to find something good to watch on TV while Kelly and Bud try to sneak a jukebox into the house without Al or Peg knowing.

#"Kelly Knows Something": Al auditions to be on a sports trivia show to win $10,000, when his TV breaks down. But when the producer rejects him for having no personality (or, as they eloquently put it, "[his] personality is between [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Joe Piscopo]] and the fat kid from ''Series/HeadOfTheClass''[[note]]the same one who later became executive producer of a lot of Nickelodeon kidcoms[[/note]]), Al trains the dim-witted Kelly (who can only hold new facts into her brain if old memories are pushed out) to be a contestant.

#"Ship Happens" (two-part episode): After Peggy wins a magazine contest, the Bundys and the D'Arcys go on a cruise, which turns out to be one catering to fat women by day and slim, sexy women by night. Peggy gets a bad hair-do there and stops Al from enjoying the slim, bikini-clad women -- and later, the Bundys and D'Arcys are stuck on a life raft with a fat woman and comedian and former ''SNL'' cast member Creator/GilbertGottfried. Meanwhile, Wolfman Jack (appearing as himself) stays at the Bundy house and Bud and Kelly are bombarded with news casters who keep asking them if Michael Jackson molested them.

#"Radio Free Trumaine": ADayInTheLimelight episode for Bud, Steve Rhoades, Marcy, and two Trumaine University radio [=DJ=]s whose jobs are on the line after making disparaging remarks about how Steve got his job as dean.

#"Requiem For a Dead Briard": Buck the family dog dies. While Kelly is upset, Al is more concerned about spending money on a replacement pet (and on using [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Father Guido Sarducci]] as a medium) while Buck (in Animal Heaven) is put on trial about his fate.

#"Flight of the Bumblebee": To earn his membership into NO MA'AM, Bud must take a photo of himself with wrestler Wrestling/KingKongBundy during a wrestling match on Halloween.

#"Turning Japanese": Pat Morita guest stars as a Japanese businessman who shows an interest in Al's beat-up Dodge, but Al won't give up his [[TheAllegedCar alleged car]] without a fight.

#"Enemies": In this PoorlyDisguisedPilot episode (with most of the Bundys taking a backseat in the story), Kelly dates a delivery man named Tom, who only wants her to get back at his girlfriend.

#"Crimes Against Obesity": In this partial ClipShow episode, Al is locked in the shoe store by a pro-obesity group who puts Al on trial for all the insults he's hurled at fat women. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly try to install tinted windows on the Dodge.

#"Lez Be Friends": In this RealitySubtext-laden episode, Marcy's cousin Mandy ([[ActingForTwo both played by Amanda Bearse]]) comes over, and Marcy thinks Mandy is after Jefferson, but Al finds that Mandy is a lesbian and has her sights on Peg.
#"Damn Bundys": In this fantasy episode (that premiered around the time that the Jim Carrey movie ''Film/TheMask'' was airing on FOX, so expect a lot of cheap, late-1990s style special effects), Al's wish to play professional football comes true when The Devil (played by Robert "Freddy Krueger" Englund) offers Al to sell his soul to him, but when Al won't pay up, he ends up dead and in Hell -- along with his family and neighbors.

#"The Desperate Half-Hour/How To Marry A Moron" (two-part SeriesFinale): Bud's pen-pal from prison and her boyfriend pay a visit to the Bundy household and take the family (and the D'Arcys and Griff) hostage, while Kelly falls for the prisoner's boyfriend and plans to marry him.

#"Blond and Blonder": Bud teams up with a rich, handsome man named Eric (who was a nerd who got bullied by Kelly and her bimbo friends) for a revenge plot at their high school reunion. Meanwhile, Al, Peg, Jefferson, and Marcy look for toys they can donate to charity, and end up playing Twister.

#"Heels on Wheels": Al worries about Kelly's safety when Kelly buys a motorcycle for herself. Meanwhile, Bud volunteers for an all-girls art school to pose in buff.

#"The Great Escape": Kelly is grounded for getting poor grades in school and must stay with her family at the shoe store while the house is being fumigated for termites, prompting Kelly to escape the mall so she can make it to a concert.

#"Pilot": A down-on-his-luck shoe salesman named Al Bundy, unhappily married to his former party girl girlfriend, Peggy, with two children (a brainy, yet dateless son named Bud and a promiscuous bimbo named Kelly), is forced to choose between going to a basketball game or joining his lazy wife in meeting their new neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades (two bankers who are the very epitome of 1980s greed, conservative politics, and social-climbing).