History Recap / MarriedWithChildrenS3E1HeThoughtHeCould

* BullyingADragon: Al constantly bullies Miss de Groot with petty insults, especially regarding how fat she is.

* KickTheDog: During the news report where Al is busted, as if the video wasn't bad enough, the reporter covering the story calls him a piece of garbage.

* PersonAsVerb: "Hey! Don't Bundy that book!"

While cleaning out Al's attic, Steve finds a copy of the children's book, ''The Little Engine That Could'' that Al borrowed from the library back when he was a child (in 1957) and never returned (mostly because he lived in fear of a fat, redheaded librarian named Miss de Groot, who always insulted him and told him he'd never amount to anything). When Al tries to return the book, he gets out of paying the fine by planting the book on the shelf...and ends up in the news where his good name (to use the term loosely) is run through the mud.

* ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook: ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould''.

* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist who [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]] to eternal suffering.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been dead by now because of all the sugar she ate, without even confirming she's dead. Later on, Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state and Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose property value.
** Miss de Groot works in a library, despite feeling that the people who use it don't deserve to. She also calls Al a loser when her life isn't much to look at.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was in no danger of going out of print.

* YouAreFat: Al hurls these at Miss de Groot, who in turn hurls "You are poor" insults at him.

* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut.

* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist who mocks and [[KillThePoor condemns the poor]].

* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming, lower-class bully vs. Miss de Groot, a FatBastard classist.

* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut. Justified as (a) Al doesn't have the money for the overdue book, and (b) it's yet another insult about Miss de Groot's weight.

* BrickJoe: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl and goes to pour it in the gas tank of her car, which he promised to do in the flashback of his childhood dealing with Miss de Groot.

* EvilVersusEvil: Al Bundy the weight-shaming bully vs. Miss de Groot the FatBastard classist.

* HereWeGoAgain: As payback on Miss de Groot for all the grief and pain she's caused him over a span of many decades, Al steals her sugar bowl.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Steve entices Al to return the book anyways assuring him that Miss de Groot should've been dead by now, without even confirming she's dead. Later on, Al gets caught, becomes a wanted felon in the state and Steve gets angry at ''Al'' blaming him for the incident that's caused their neighborhood to lose property value.

* ComicallySmallBribe: Al tried bribing Miss de Groot into forgiving his library dues with a donut.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Simply for failing to return a library book in time, Al is treated as a felon which is odd since library books are public non-rival goods and the book Al borrowed was not going out of print.