Eatin' Out is an episode from Season 3 of Married... with Children.
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- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In addition to owing the restaurant $225.57 and failing to pay for hours now, Paul also notes that Al overflowed the toilet in the men's room.
- Bittersweet Ending: Although Peg says she had a great night, she and Al are still now criminals wanted for skipping out on a check and holding up an entire restaurant hostage with Al's shoes containing his foot odor most certainly getting the police to be on their trail.
- Dine and Dash: The ultimate last resort that Al and Peg (but decided upon by Peg) come to when the restaurant staff are just about ready to call the police on them. It actually happens three times:
- Kelly and Bud are sent home to retrieve the money, and the restaurant accepts this because Al and Peg are still left at the table. But the kids decide to just use the money for their own selfish purposes.
- Al comes up with the idea of them doing the tango, making aggressively quick dance moves where Al and Peg spy upon the exit doors. They dash through the hallway before being forced back to their table by Paul who brought two other waiters to keep an eye on them.
- Lastly, Peg pulls out Al's shoes using his foot odor as blackmail against the restaurant to let them go off without paying the bill, then drops one of Al's socks to insure they won't be followed knowing she has the other sock to use as a threat.
- Dirty Coward: As Kelly and Bud are sent home to retrieve the money, they just use it to buy tickets for their own entertainment.
- Hypocrite:
- As Peg complains about how Kelly and Bud backstabbed them over the money and left them to deal with the restaurant's wrath, Al brings up how he and Peg neglect the kids all the time and they would have done the exact same thing to the kids if they were the ones who fled home.
- Al pulls off a scam trying to con the other restaurant patrons into paying his bill by claiming he was a friend of theirs who they owe money to him. He returns to the table telling Peg that he started off at $75 but then ran into someone who did know Al in the past and was owed $50 by Al, leaving Al with only $25 to pay off his bill.
- Idiot Ball:
- Al for forgetting to bring the money to pay for the fancy restaurant dinner.
- Then there's the other restaurant patrons that Al out of desperation tried to scam and pay off his $225.57 bill. His first victim he quickly calls "Billy Bob Sammy Jim" (turns out his real name is Harold per his wife) and he immediately buys Al's lies that they were former friends and that he borrowed money from Al before, but he never stops to question just how much Al knows about him, starting with his own name.
- Nice to the Waiter: Bud then joined by Kelly play cruel games on a waiter by going "Ahem" with their water every few seconds just to get their kicks. He vows he'll kill them if they keep going at it.
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: Al and Peg give out one to the waiters who are impatiently waiting for them to pay the check.
- Shockingly Expensive Bill: The $225.57 Al owes for his family's meal comes off as this to the other restaurant patrons (starting with Harold) that Al tries peddling it down to.
- Too Hungry to Be Polite: Bud and Kelly scarf down their meals in very grotesque ways not using utensils. Proves just how well Peg has been feeding them.
- Tranquil Fury: Paul as he tries to get Al and Peg to pay and leave is shown to be seriously holding back as he's had enough of them filibustering for hours now on the check.Paul: Sir, it's been three hours and we really need this table. We've got some nice water for you to take home. Pay Us!!
