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* RevengeOfTheNerd: Al and his cronies are stunned to see that that the nerds they used to bully are now filthy rich with gorgeous women hanging all over them.
--> '''Nerd''': "Should have done your own homework, guys!"
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* NoSympathy: After Al ends up victorious in his fight with Jack, he dances with Peg. While they dance, Al complains about how he's badly hurt from the fight and needs to go to the hospital. But Peg just tells him to shut up and stop spoiling their moment.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Before entering the reunion, [[EntitledBitch Peg]] orders Al to stay away from his old friends, especially (as she puts it) "that little weasel, Eli". Turns out, she was absolutely right, as not only are his friends obnoxious jerks, but indeed, ringleader Eli is the biggest one of all, manipulating Al into performing dangerous stunts at a [[ComicallySmallBribe ridiculously small amount]] and even after taking bets on his and Jack's fight and winning a large amount of money, only gives his a ''nickel'' [[KickTheDog while sarcastically telling him to buy himself a new tooth.]]
* MisspellingOutLoud: Intentional example: in pretending to be former hippie classmates to get into the reunion to gain access to its food, Bud and Kelly take up fake names (although Kelly's name is a double joke, referring to both her idiocy and her sluttiness):
-->'''Bud:''' I'm "Moonbeam" and you're "Peace": [[BaitAndSwitch "P-I-E-C-E".]]

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* BaitAndSwitch: Jack is the first person to come back inside after he and Al fight. Peg is shocked that he apparently won, and he gives her a thumbs-up...and promptly collapses. Al then returns surrounded by the other attendees, who all cheer him for his victory.



* FightingBackIsWrong: Subverted. Peg initially refuses to let Al fight Jack, but when it looks like Connie is going to become Reunion Queen and Jack pushes finally pushes Al too far, she tells Al "you want him? Go get him."



* PreviouslyOn: The part-two recap beginning shows Peg flipping through a photo book and the narrator summarizing what happened in part one (Peg is excited to go to the high school reunion, Al couldn’t care less, Bud and Kelly are starving for food; Peg's rival, Connie Bender, is Peg's contender for the prom queen election; Al and his high school rival, Jack, want to have the fight they never had back in high school; Peg's worried that Connie will win the prom queen election; Bud and Kelly are still starving for food).

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* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Jack clucks at Al when Peggy refuses to let Al fight him. This is enough for Peg to let Al go ahead with the fight.
* PreviouslyOn: The part-two recap beginning shows Peg flipping through a photo book and the narrator summarizing what happened in part one (Peg is excited to go to the high school reunion, Al couldn’t care less, Bud and Kelly are starving for food; Peg's rival, Connie Bender, is Peg's contender for the prom queen election; Al and his high school rival, Jack, want to have the fight they never had back in high school; Peg's worried that Connie will win the prom queen election; Bud and Kelly are still starving for food).food).
* TheRival: Jack Bender is this to Al, while his wife Connie is this to Peggy. The Bundys triumph.
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* BullyingADragon: Jack makes the serious mistake of getting into both a physical and verbal fight with Al. Al wins their eventual fight, with everybody cheering for him. Before that, Al utterly ''destroys'' him during their SnarkToSnarkCombat:
-->'''Jack:''' You know Bundy, I can't think of a single thing you did better than me in high school.
-->'''Al:''' Well, why don't you ask your wife about that, Jack?
* CheatersNeverProsper: Oh yes they do. When Al and Jack go outside for their fight, almost all the other attendees go with them. Peg and the kids are left alone in the ballroom, and they stuff the ballot box so Peg becomes Reunion Queen.
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* PreviouslyOn: The part-two recap beginning shows Peg flipping through a photo book and the narrator summarizing what happened in part one (Peg is excited to go to the high school reunion, Al could care less, Bud and Kelly are starving for food; Peg's rival, Connie Bender, is Peg's contender for the prom queen election; Al and his high school rival, Jack, want to have the fight they never had back in high school; Peg's worried that Connie will win the prom queen election; Bud and Kelly are still starving for food).

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* PreviouslyOn: The part-two recap beginning shows Peg flipping through a photo book and the narrator summarizing what happened in part one (Peg is excited to go to the high school reunion, Al could couldn’t care less, Bud and Kelly are starving for food; Peg's rival, Connie Bender, is Peg's contender for the prom queen election; Al and his high school rival, Jack, want to have the fight they never had back in high school; Peg's worried that Connie will win the prom queen election; Bud and Kelly are still starving for food).
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* GloryDays: Al relishes in reliving his high school memories with several classmates. At one point, he asks Peg "Oh, why did I leave high school?", to which she quips "You were ''thirty'', Al!"

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* GloryDays: Al relishes in reliving his high school memories with several classmates. At one point, he asks Peg "Oh, why did I leave high school?", to which she quips "You were ''thirty'', Al!"Al!"
*PreviouslyOn: The part-two recap beginning shows Peg flipping through a photo book and the narrator summarizing what happened in part one (Peg is excited to go to the high school reunion, Al could care less, Bud and Kelly are starving for food; Peg's rival, Connie Bender, is Peg's contender for the prom queen election; Al and his high school rival, Jack, want to have the fight they never had back in high school; Peg's worried that Connie will win the prom queen election; Bud and Kelly are still starving for food).

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Peg is much more of a jerkass here than usual as she has spent all of the family's money on herself for a $500 red dress and ate Burger King all by herself while leaving Kelly and Bud to suffer from hunger.
* GloryDays: Al relishes in reliving his high school memories with several classmates. At one point, he asks Peg "Oh, why did I leave high school?", to which she quips "You were ''thirty'', Al!"
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of mocking her starving children, forcing them to break into the ballot box so she can stuff the extra votes in, breaking up several of her classmates' relationships in high school and ignoring Al after being badly hurt in a fistfight, [[spoiler: Peg wins the title of prom queen.]]
* PlotHole: There's plenty of food at the prom, why would Al turn down the chance to go there when he's starving and Peg hasn't made him anything?
* UselessBystanderParent: Even as he sees Kelly and Bud who are starving and running around both the streets and the house desperately looking for something to eat, Al doesn't do anything since he himself is also very hungry and only cares about what he'll get to eat.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Peg is much more of a jerkass here than usual as she has spent all of the family's money on herself for a $500 red dress and ate Burger King all by herself while leaving Kelly and Bud to suffer from hunger.
* GloryDays: Al relishes in reliving his high school memories with several classmates. At one point, he asks Peg "Oh, why did I leave high school?", to which she quips "You were ''thirty'', Al!"
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of mocking her starving children, forcing them to break into the ballot box so she can stuff the extra votes in, breaking up several of her classmates' relationships in high school and ignoring Al after being badly hurt in a fistfight, [[spoiler: Peg wins the title of prom queen.]]
* PlotHole: There's plenty of food at the prom, why would Al turn down the chance to go there when he's starving and Peg hasn't made him anything?
* UselessBystanderParent: Even as he sees Kelly and Bud who are starving and running around both the streets and the house desperately looking for something to eat, Al doesn't do anything since he himself is also very hungry and only cares about what he'll get to eat.
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In this two-parter episode, Al and Peg go to their high school reunion and reignite old rivalries: Al with his rival, Jack, and Peg with her rival, Connie Bender ("Bring a friend. It won't offend her"). Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly pose as hippies so they can crash the reunion and get some food, but Peg calls upon them to rig the results of the prom queen election.
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* GloryDays: Al relishes in reliving his high school memories with several classmates. At one point, he asks Peg "Oh, why did I leave high school?", to which she quips "You were ''thirty'', Al!"
* KarmaHoudini: In spite of mocking her starving children, forcing them to break into the ballot box so she can stuff the extra votes in, breaking up several of her classmates' relationships in high school and ignoring Al after being badly hurt in a fistfight, [[spoiler: Peg wins the title of prom queen.]]
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'''Married... with Prom Queen''' is an episode from Season 3 of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren''.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Peg is much more of a jerkass here than usual as she has spent all of the family's money on herself for a $500 red dress and ate Burger King all by herself while leaving Kelly and Bud to suffer from hunger.
* PlotHole: There's plenty of food at the prom, why would Al turn down the chance to go there when he's starving and Peg hasn't made him anything?
* UselessBystanderParent: Even as he sees Kelly and Bud who are starving and running around both the streets and the house desperately looking for something to eat, Al doesn't do anything since he himself is also very hungry and only cares about what he'll get to eat.

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