Um Amor de Familia

Neste piloto conhecemos Al e Peg Bundy, uma família muito disfuncional de Chicago. No piloto, Al e Peg, que não têm amigos, conhecem seus novos vizinhos Steve e Marcy Rhoades. Steve e Marcy têm um casamento muito feliz, até que conhecem os Bundys.

Marcy dá a Peggy o livro "Thinergy", que é um livro sobre saúde. Muito inspirada no livro, Peggy entra em uma dieta e tenta convencer a família a participar, mas eles se recusam. Quando a dieta faz Peggy se tornar realmente irritante, Steve convence Al a aderir à dieta, e convence Peggy a sair.

Os Bundys e os Rhoades ouvem sobre a criminalidade no bairro. Al compra uma arma, e os Rhoades compram um cão. Al ouve um barulho e acidentalmente mata o cachorro, pensando que era um assaltante.

Steve e Marcy planejam adicionar outro cômodo à sua casa com a restituição de imposto. Al tenta convencer Steve em construir uma sala de bilhar, enquanto Peg e Marcy decidem fazer uma sala de exercícios. Quem vai ganhar

Al e Steve se aproximam quando tentam restaurar um Mustang 1965. Peg e Marcy, por outro lado, não conseguem deixar de desprezar seus maridos.

Al não consegue comprar um presente para Peg em seu 16º aniversário de casamento, já que seu cartão de crédito parece ter estourado o limite.

Em uma tentativa de apimentar seu casamento, Al e Peg vão para um hotel, enquanto Steve e Marcy cuidam de Bud e Kelly. Os Rhoades descobrem que cuidar dos jovens Bundys é um erro quando as crianças transformam sua casa em uma festa bagunçada.

Al convida Steve para jogar poker, mas Steve acaba perdendo seu cheque salarial para Al. Com medo de contar a verdade a Marcy, Steve tenta convencer Peggy a dar-lhe o cheque de volta.

Peg quer um videocassete e Al não dá para ela. Ela acaba trabalhando em uma loja de departamento para ganhar dinheiro, o que perturba o seu relacionamento com Al.

Al passa algum tempo no apartamento de Luke Ventura depois de fugir de uma briga com Peg.

Steve está em uma viagem de negócios e Marcy tem fantasias sexuais com Al involuntariamente. Marcy fica tão enojada que conta a Peg, que tenta dar-lhe dicas sobre como evitar essas fantasias.

Depois de pensar que seu chefe está morto, Al ameaça procurar outro emprego, a menos que ele receba valorização e crédito por seu trabalho.

Al e Peggy se atrasam ao ir a um encerramento de sua lanchonete favorita quando Bud e Kelly se metem em um problema. Enquanto isso, Steve e Marcy preparam uma festa para alguns grandes executivos.

No início da segunda temporada, os Bundy vão a um hotel barato e sujo em Dumpwater na Flórida. Problemas o alcançam quando um assassino de machado, que odeia turistas, chega.

Peg é sequestrada pelo assassino do machado e cabe ao Al salvá-la.

Al e Steve visitam o cofre no banco de Steve e no dia seguinte, um milhão de dólares é dado como desaparecido. Peg e as crianças ouvem sobre isso e idolatram Al achando que ele roubou o dinheiro e que eles são agora uma família muito rica.

Um dos vizinhos de Bundy ameaça processar quando Buck, o cão, cruza com o cachorro dele, e pede ao Bundy para castrar Buck, o que Al se recusa a fazer.

Marcy e Steve têm uma briga, o que leva Marcy a se juntar a Peggy e suas amigas para ir a um clube de strip-tease. Lá, Marcy acidentalmente perde seu anel de casamento nas calças de um stripper.

Um stripper aparece na casa de Al com o anel de casamento de Marcy. Al convence Steve a fazer Marcy se sentir culpada por perdê-lo. Al confronta Peg sobre o que ela estava fazendo no clube de strip-tease.

A companhia de telefone corta o serviço de telefonia da família Bundy depois que Al se recusa a pagar por um telefonema que ele não fez. Isso irrita Peggy, Kelly, e o resto do bairro.

Al não passa no teste de renovação da sua carta no mesmo dia que Kelly recebe a dela.

Peg encontra uma antiga rival do colégio e as duas famílias se enfrentam em uma partida de boliche para ver quem é o verdadeiro perdedor. Com a equipe Bundy estando com um jogador a menos, Steve tem de intervir para ajudar.

Uma briga com Marcy sobre a barba recém crescida de Steve o faz passar algumas noites na casa dos Bundy, todo mundo fica feliz com isso, exceto Peggy e Marcy.

Al tenta melhorar as habilidades de Peg no softbol, enquanto o namorado de Kelly pede a ela para provar seu amor por ele fazendo uma tatuagem.

Bud conhece uma estudante de arte de 21 anos no parque e a traz para casa. Todo mundo parece gostar dela, menos Marcy, que planeja se livrar dela.

Este episódio de Natal fala sobre o Papai Noel, que está atrasado para aparecer no shopping. Seu pára-quedas não abre e ele cai fora de seu trenó sobre a propriedade dos Bundy... morto.

Al e Steve têm que sair às ruas à procura da velha boneca Barbie de Marcy, que eles trocaram por dois cartões de baseball raros, não sabendo que Marcy queria guardar a boneca.

Um rato encontra o seu caminho para a casa dos Bundy. Muito másculo e orgulhoso de contratar um exterminador, Al se prepara para matar o rato, mesmo que isso signifique que ele tem de derrubar a casa para baixo e danificá-la em pedaços.

Quando o carteiro entrega um cartão de crédito pré-aprovado para Buck, o cão, os Bundy começam a gastar muito.

No Dia dos Namorados, Bud espera seu primeiro presente, Kelly tem um monte de presentes de namorados para escolher, Steve planeja levar Marcy para o Havaí, e Peg espera Al dizer "eu te amo" para ela.

A casa dos Bundy está infestada de cupins, obrigando a família a passar a noite na loja de sapatos, onde Kelly, que está de castigo, tenta sair de fininho para ir a um concerto de rock.

Marcy bate a nova Mercedes de Steve e realmente se arrepende disso. Vingança faz Steve alegar de que ela o tornou impotente, e ele a usa como sua serva pessoal.

Com a esperança de ganhar uma nova máquina de lavar, Al e Peg e também Steve e Marcy vão a um game show para recém-casados

Al tenta manter seus ganhos com corrida em segredo, enquanto Peg começa a pegar dinheiro da carteira de Al.

Os parentes caipiras de Peg do município de Wanker fazem uma visita. Tios briguentos e tias que cantam, cuja carreira no showbiz é ameaçada por Al. E Al está tentando de tudo para assistir ao filme de John Wayne "Hondo".

In the third season opener, Al learns that he has had a copy of "The Little Engine That Could" since 1957 and when he goes to return it, he finds the same fat librarian that was there in 1957.

Peg thinks she might have seen Elvis at the mall and Marcy notices a pit stain shaped like him on Al's shirt. Elvis fans come flocking around just to see it.

A high school football player is threatening to break the record Al set for Polk High.

A nice weekend away for the Rhoades' and the Bundys turns into misery when Peg, Kelly and Marcy all have their period at the same time, torturing the men.

Al plans on building his dream - an executive's type of bathroom in the garage.

Al and Steve head off to a fancy boutique to get Peggy a new bra for her birthday.

Steve fears he is losing his hair, and convinces Al that the same thing is happening to him.

When a psychic's predictions all come true for Al, Peggy and Steve, Marcy fears that what the psychic told her will come true - her death.

Al grows his hair when his barber dies, and fears he is turning into a "sissy" just because he has to go to salons.

The Bundys inherit some money from a relative and decides to go to a fancy restaurant, but Al accidentally forgets his wallet. It is up to Bud and Kelly to go back and get the wallet, but they decide to ditch their parents at the restaurant, unable to pay the bill.

Peg goes to Kelly's school for mother-daughter day and talks about the joy of being a housewife, meanwhile Bud has to learn the value of a dollar after breaking the Rhoades' window.

Kelly has to tap dance at a dance recital because of a prank she pulled.

Al gets a second job in an attempt to make more money than Peg after she starts earning money selling 'Patty Girl' cosmetics.

Steve gives a driver "the finger" and fears that the man will beat him up.

Steve and Marcy ask Peggy to look over their house, but when a moving company asks for "Steves Roadhouse", Peggy allows the company to tow away the Rhoades' home, and they have to spend a night at the Bundys - where Kelly is having a slumber party.

Al and Peggy go to their high school reunion. Peggy wants to be prom queen and she spent a lot of money calling old friends and buying new clothes to gain votes. But when she thinks she has the majority of the votes, her rival Connie Bender appears and surprises Peg with the fact that Connie is now in the lead to be prom queen.

Peggy tries desperately to get more votes but it seems that most of the people are going to vote for Connie. Bud and Kelly ask Marcy and Steve about the sixties and after some history, Bud and Kelly dress up as hippies and visit the prom. Al runs into his old rival Jack, who appears to be Connie's husband, and Al and Jack decides to fight outside. Meanwhile, Peg rigs the election ... will she win?

Bud tries to find a girl who will date him when both of his friends have dates.

Steve and Marcy convince Peggy to buy a computer for the family, but nobody uses it.

When the family visit the beach, Al meets an ex-girlfriend and Bud and Kelly both look for dates.

When all the women in the neighborhood gets peeped on except Peggy, she gets really jealous and eventually puts out a ladder, milk, and cookies for the him. Meanwhile Al convinces Bud to stop fooling Kelly and actually help her with her studies.

A série gira em torno da família Bundy, que vive nos arredores de Chicago e faz qualquer coisa para não ter que dizer palavras gentis uns aos outros. O patriarca Al é um vendedor de sapatos misógino cuja mulher, Peggy, é uma dona de casa que não quer saber de nenhum afazer doméstico. Dizer que os filhos, Kelly e Bud, não têm grandes coisas acontecendo na vida deles é um eufemismo. Esta comédia sarcástica explora as constantes agressões verbais do casal sobre os filhos relaxados, a falta de dinheiro, o sucesso e a intimidade.

Marcy's dead aunt's ashes end up in the Labor Day hamburgers.

Peggy wins a free health week with the healthiest man in Chicago, but ends up converting him to her lifestyle, and he drops dead.

Kelly and Bud try to raise money to got to a concert. Kelly's scheme involves playing poker against Peggy's friends and Bud makes Al take a bunch of kids camping.

Al goes to Marcy's dentist and finds that he has a relationship with his assistant.

Peggy talks to a woman at a beauty parlor, and becomes convinced that Al is cheating on her, with that woman.

The Bundys lets a foreign exchange student live in their home for the weekly $500 that the government will pay them, but the french girl ends up ruining Kelly's social life.

A Playboy model visits the shoe store and Al wants to find out which issue she is in, but Peggy sold his Playboy collection and Al has to convince her to get the magazines back.

Steve risks his job when Al takes a $50,000 loan from Steve's bank to start a shoe hotline.

Al decides to get a new car, but finds out that Peggy spent all his saved up money, and he has to buy an old, used car.

Steve spends time at the zoo with the Bundys instead of looking for a job, which upsets Marcy.

Al has finally saved up enough money to buy Christmas gifts for everyone, but a few late customers to the shoe store makes Al unable to get to the bank.

Al gets a visit from a guardian angel and discovers what the Bundy household would look like if he was never born.

Al's pride and "do-it-yourself" beliefs annoys the rest of the family when Al decides to fix the leaking roof himself.

After Peggy lied on the Bundy taxes, Al has to find a quick way to raise money for the audit, and when a couple offers good money for Peggy's hair, Al must find a way to convince her.

Kelly becomes a rock and roll singer with Bud as her agent.

Peggy takes Marcy on a trip to Las Vegas to get over her divorce from Steve.

Al, Bud and Kelly arrive in Las Vegas to find Peg and Marcy completely broke, and they must find a way to raise some money to get back home.

Bud tries to get revenge on a girl who humiliated him years ago.

Al plans a special evening for Peggy's birthday by taking her out to the Bowlarama where he hopes to finally beat his arch rival's high game score. Al beats the score, but minutes later, Peggy bowls a perfect game, destroying Al's self-esteem.

Peggy must repeat Home Ec class to get her high school diploma.

Kelly gets a new job as a weather girl at a local news station.

Al has to judge a beauty contest at the shoe store and has nightmares about feet. Meanwhile, Kelly tricks Bud and Marcy into thinking they slept with each other.

After discovering Peggy's latest purchases, Al throws a yard sale to get rid of a lot of the junk, but no one is interested.

The Bundys get stuck in traffic on Labor Day.

Al and Kelly pretend to be sick so they can avoid going with Peggy and Bud to Wanker County, but Kelly ends up really getting sick and Al has to care for her for the entire week which interrupts Al's fantasies of being with two beautiful women.

After Al decides he doesn't need insurance, Bud gets in an accident and they counter sue the other driver with Marcy as a witness.

Al's softball team wants to bench him before the big championship, but Peggy, Kelly and Bud hold three of the required votes to omit him. Peggy is swayed by the hunk who will replace Al, while it takes food to get the kids' votes.

Al doesn't mind Peggy going out with Marcy every night to a ballroom dance hall and dance the night away with a handsome man named Andy, until another man, named Pete, tells Al that Peggy is stealing someone's husband - his.

Kelly auditions for a job as a spokesperson for the new Allante car.

Al gets a visit from small green aliens who steal his socks.

A rabbit destroys Al's fantasy of having a vegetable garden.

Al become the neighborhood stud when some women see him move a couch.

Kelly moves out after Al beats up yet another of her boyfriends. This upsets Peggy, who becomes an overprotective mom, to Bud's dislike.

Al and Peggy try to have another baby after a dead relative promised $500,000 to the couple who provide an heir named after him.

Marcy wakes up after a drunken night and finds herself married to Jefferson.

Al becomes the neighborhood godfather when Kelly starts dating a 41-year-old man with the right connections.

Buck brings a female dog into the house, and feels neglected when the family only care about the new dog.

Al is horrified when Peggy completely redecorates his bathroom, turning it pink.

Al gets a job as a security guard at Polk High, but gets fired after the championship trophy is stolen by Al's old nemesis.

Al goes crazy trying to remember the name of a song he heard on the radio.

Al has to choose whether to spend his money on Bud's visit to the White House or letting Kelly enter a Miss Weenie Tot contest.

Al and Peggy take over Marcy's house when they go to watch a movie there. Meanwhile, Bud takes a girl to a concert and Kelly babysits a lot of horrible children.

In a spinoff attempt of Married ... with Children, we follow the lives of Charlie and Vinnie Verducci. Charlie wants Vinnie to marry rich to get a better life and they go to a formal fund raiser to meet rich women.

Al buys a cheap old air conditioner which leads to a massive blackout in the entire neighborhood, forcing the Bundy's to move into a supermarket.

The Bundys and the D'Arcys face off to see who can spend the $1,000 shopping spree first. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly bother celebrity Jerry Mathers who judges the contest.

The Bundy car breaks down in New Mexico and they have to call Marcy and Jefferson for help.

The Bundys and the D'Arcys face the effects of greed as they discover a gold mine in the desert.

A man offers the Bundys $10,000 if they allow Buck to breed with his dog.

Marcy and Peggy discover they are both pregnant, to Jefferson's joy and Al's horror.

Al runs off to a bus station to escape Peggy's constant demands, and Jefferson does the same by running away from Marcy.

Al builds a private room for himself, using the Bundy hammer. Meanwhile, Bud starts going by "Grandmaster B," but nobody can remember his nickname right.

In order to earn money for a competition, Kelly hustle men for money by playing pool.

Peggy and Marcy go out on a journey to buy back all of Marcy's childhood furniture, which Jefferson sold.

Peggy gets jealous of Buck when the family pay him all the attention, and she flees home to W* County.

Bud and Kelly convince Al to get glasses after a few minor accidents.

After having a vision of God, Al starts building the perfect shoes.

Kelly gets her own talk show and the other networks become interested in it.

Kelly goes to Hollywood, but her show gets slaughtered by the censors.

Al gets a job as a private detective and is framed for murder.

Peggy thinks Al is having an affair, so she sends the kids to spy on him.

Al discovers that he truly has no possessions of his own, and decides to get back one of the things that truly meant a lot to him - his championship game ball.

Bud dates an extreme sporter and the D'Arcys play a relationship board game with Peggy and Al.

Al gets to star in an athletic shoe commericial.

In traditional male Bundy bonding, Al takes Bud to the nudie bar on his 18th birthday.

Steve Rhoades returns to reclaim his wife, but is shocked to find out that Marcy remarried. The Bundys argue whether friendship is more important than money when they find out that Steve is on the run from the police for stealing a rare egg from a national park.

Bud wins a ""Dinner with Anthrax"" contest and sends away Al and Peg on a timeshare vacation to Florida while Anthrax visit the house.

Jefferson lets Al in on his psychic phone scam but the Bundys soon take over the business.

Bud is suspicious when Kelly is invited to a party for smart people.

Bud juggles two women at once, one being Miss McGowen, his English teacher. Meanwhile, the family ignores Peggy when she is sick and Al gets free pizza by attending children's birthday parties at Chuck E. Cheese.

Kelly gets a job at an amusement park. Meanwhile, Al takes a personal vacation - in the Bundy living room.

Al is shocked about having another kid when Peggy's relatives leave their five-year-old son Seven in the Bundy home.

Kelly has to walk through the wilderness after dumping her boyfriend in the forest. Al and Peg try to talk their marriage alive, but without success. Bud dates a girl with the measles.

Peggy discovers that Seven does not know when his birthday is, and the family decides to celebrate him... on Al's birthday.

Al has to take a job as a topless bartender to pay for Seven's doctor bill, but Peggy fears that Bud and Kelly might make Seven sick, and kicks them out of the house.

Peggy tries to make Al more interested in having sex with her by purchasing new dresses, unsucessfully.

Bud starts his own fraternity to get women.

The Bundys vote against a two cent beer tax.

Al makes Kelly get a job, so she becomes a waitress.

Al and the family try to sneak into the first class lounge by dressing up like rock stars.

Al buys a cemetery plot so that he will be buried next to a western movie star and a mule. But Peggy feels excluded.

Bud gets a huge money grant to go to college, but Al and Peggy spend it all on items for themselves.

Al remembers how the Bundys celebrated Christmas over the years.

Al becomes frustrated when Peggy can't decide what to wear to a family wedding. Meanwhile, Bud gets to know the bride and Kelly spends time with the bridesmaids.

Peggy and Marcy ruin Al's fishing trip by constantly fighting. Meanwhile, Jefferson and the kids spend Marcy's money.

Kelly buys a motorcycle, which upsets the rest of the family who find it unsafe.

Peggy creates a cartoon character named Mr. Empty Pants, who bears a strange resemblance to Al.

Bud appears on a game show for single men. Meanwhile, Al and Peg don't sleep for days and Kelly fears that there is a conspiracy against her.

Peggy tells Seven a fantasy store about pirates and beautiful princesses.

Al competes in an athletic championship for seniors.

Al ends up being sued by a burglar after Al punches him while he breaks into the Bundy house.

The Bundys go to the movie theater for Kelly's birthday and they see her boyfriend with another woman.

Al's lack of performance in the bedroom makes him the laugh of the town, so Al sets his mind on getting back in shape.

Al plans on retiring early, but Peggy spends too much money shopping and he must get a job at Homeplate Athletic Shoes.

Al tries to scam the insurance company when the Dodge is stolen.

Bud's cousin shows up angry after finding out that someone slept with his wife before their wedding... not knowing that that person is Bud.

When Al and Peggy go to a basketball game, Peggy switches seats with Al and her seat is chosen for a $10,000 free throw contest.

Al helps his childhood girlfriend deal with a young tough guy and his gang.

The family thinks Bud is insane when they overhear him talking to himself in his room.

When the Bundys start having good luck, Al remembers the Bundy Curse and realizes he is doomed.

Marcy tries to imagine being in the bedroom to improve her ability to speak in front of large audiences, but her fantasies tend to go a little too wild.

Kelly and Bud buy a car to share, but sharing a car leads to fighting, and the Bundy children has to double date.

While Bud, Kelly and Peggy spend the night impersonating the Village People at the D'Arcy's Halloween party, the Grim Reaper visits Al.

Al tries to help a young man forget the idea of marriage. Meanwhile, Kelly gets stung by bees and becomes crazy.

Women take over the nudie bar and the bowling alley, so Al starts an organization called ""NO MA'AM.""

Peggy and Marcy make Al and Jefferson abandon their plans of going to a new sports bar to instead go see The Jeffersons live.

Buck runs away from home and ends up at a dog pound.

Al ends up being circumcised after the surgeons misread the doctor's instructions.

Kelly and Bud try to sneak a jukebox, their Christmas present for Al and Peggy, into the house on Christmas Eve while Al and Peggy argue over channel surfing.

While Al and Peggy are away at a family reunion, Kelly's boyfriend ruins Peggy's couch. Bud and Kelly have to find a new couch similar to the one they had.

Al is annoyed when the mall hangs a billboard sized picture of Peggy next to the shoe store.

A dispute over whether an apple tree belongs to the D'Arcys or the Bundys leads to a feud between the two families.

Bud tries to find an old valentine, whose letter Kelly forgot to give him years ago. Meanwhile, Al shops for Valentine's Day gifts to give to Peggy.

Al will get a new Viper for his Dodge if he lets people film a video of the Dodge crossing the 1 million mile mark. Meanwhile, Kelly tries to find Waldo.

Al's high school football field will be destroyed for an auto shop, so he protests. Meanwhile, Kelly tests a new bug spray on Bud and Buck, which has unwanted effects.

Al is offered $50,000 dollars to reveal the identity of Jefferson, who is revealed to be a spy.

Peggy must convince Al to come home for a “nooner” in order to win a big radio contest. Meanwhile, Bud and Kelly wait in a very long line to buy concert tickets.

Al's carpool, consisting of him and three models, is chosen to promote a campaign to clean up Chicago.

Al loses his precious parking space after insulting a fat woman, which leads to ""No Ma'am"" seeking out to find a guru, Ironhead Haynes, and seek his advice.

When Al tries to change some batteries, the computer locks him inside a store. Meanwhile, Kelly and Bud celebrate Buck's birthday.

Al convinces Jefferson to bet on a football game, but the star of the football team starts dating Kelly, and it interrupts his training.

Al teaches Kelly about sports, so she can be on a sports trivia game show.