Al has a Freak Out at work after a sixteen-hour shift where he accidentally saw a customer's dirty underwear. His doctor says that he's suffering from stress, and advises him to start a vegetable garden as a relaxing hobby. The garden seems to work, but then a rabbit eats all of Al's crops. Al attempts to kill the rabbit, and things just go downhill from there.
This episode provides examples of:
- Agony of the Feet: When Al tries to kill the rabbit with a shotgun, he shoots himself in one of his feet. When he tries to kill the rabbit with a flamethrower, he burns his other foot.
- Amusing Injuries: Following the explosion, the Bundys and Marcy are wearing assorted bandages to indicate the different kinds of injuries they've suffered.
- Animal Nemesis: Al is obsessed with killing a rabbit that destroyed his vegetable garden. He fails, in part because the rabbit has the intellectual advantage.
- Bad Boss: Gary, who owns the shoe store, forces Al to work a marathon 16-hour "midnight madness" sale all by himself.
- Big "WHAT?!": As a crazed Al places dynamite in a fake carrot.Kelly: [worried] Daddy?
Al: WHAT?!
Kelly: Nothing. - Brain Bleach: Al after dealing seeing a fat woman had been wearing the same underwear for 5 days
- Butt-Monkey: Marcy repeatedly bears the brunt of Al's attempts to get rid of the rabbit. He floods her living room, kills the bald eagle drinking from her bird feeder, burns up her fence and the tree in her yard, and nearly destroys her house.
- Didn't Think This Through: After lighting the dynamite's fuse, Bud asks if this is safe. Al assures him it is, until Bud asks if he made sure the dynamite wasn't placed near a gas line.
- Dumbass Has a Point: Kelly suggests they should be nicer to Al, given his current mental state (all while misspelling "mind").
- Freak Out: The pressure of working a sixteen-hour shift at the shoe store by himself and seeing a fat customer's dirty underwear drive Al completely insane. He's reduced to letting Peggy lead him around while babbling about selling shoes after midnight.
- Hair-Raising Hare: The rabbit drives Al even more crazy than he already was at the start of the episode. It starts by eating his vegetables and then inexplicably surviving anything and everything he does to try and kill it.
- Insane Troll Logic: "Son, if dynamite was dangerous, you'd think they'd sell it to an idiot like me?"
- Lethally Stupid: Al comes closer to killing himself, Peg, the kids and Marcy than he ever does the rabbit.
- Made of Iron: The rabbit survives being poisoned and being in the middle of a dynamite explosion.
- Oblivious to Their Own Description: When Al says the doctor diagnosed him as suffering from stress and names her as a cause, Peg immediately nags him and laments the lack of appreciation for her. Al has a pained look on his face as Peggy goes on a tirade about the woman is "always the helper, never the helped."
- Panty Shot: A thankfully offscreen example happened to Al when he accidentally looked up a fat woman's dress at the shoe store and saw her underwear...
which she hadn't changed in five days. - Sanity Slippage: Al starts the episode with multiple screws loose from working 16 straight hours at the shoe store and seeing a fat woman's dirty underwear. His stress levels go off the charts as he repeatedly tries (and fails) to kill the rabbit. He becomes increasingly deranged as he uses more and more extreme methods, until he's giggling like a madman as he stuffs a fake carrot with dynamite.
- Serial Escalation: Al's attempts to get rid of the rabbit start with pouring water down the hole, then spraying a cloud of poison, then using a shotgun, then a flamethrower, finally using a stick of dynamite. All he does is damage Marcy's property, his person and especially his own sanity.
- That's All, Folks!: Naturally. The episode closes with a close-up of Al eating a carrot.Peg: That's Al, folks!
- This Is Gonna Suck: When Bud asks if he made sure the dynamite wasn't placed near a gas line, Al sheepishly takes Peg's hard hat and advises everyone to hit the floor.
- Whole-Plot Reference: To Looney Tunes. Al plays a particularly unhinged Elmer Fudd who's trying to kill the rabbit that ruined his vegetable garden.
- Worth It: Unaware the rabbit survived the last onslaught and despite all the injuries and massive property damage he caused, Al ends the episode feeling quite good.
