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Married... with Children Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1987 - 1988
Episode 1
Poppy's by the Tree: Part 1
Sun, Sep 27, 198760 mins
The Bundys take a vacation to near-beautiful Dumpwater, Florida and stay in a cut-rate motel where an ax murderer that hates tourists, shows up every five years since 1967, and redneck locals begin to make bets on who the psycho will strike next.
Episode 2
Poppy's by the Tree: Part 2
Sun, Sep 27, 198760 mins
After a hair-raising encounter with the maniac, Al decides to get the family out of town. But they realize that they are trapped at the motel by a storm and the locals are unwilling to help them. Then things take a turn when Peggy is taken hostage by the ax murderer in a room and Al must rescue her.
Episode 3
If I Were a Rich Man
Sun, Oct 4, 198723 mins
Steve takes Al to the vault at the bank where Steve works for a secret after-hours card game, and the next day, one million dollars is reported missing. Al is then treated like a king by Peggy and the kids as well as hostility from Steve all of whom mistakenly think Al stole the money.
Episode 4
Buck Can Do It
Sun, Oct 11, 198723 mins
Al is loath to have Buck the dog neutered despite being threatened with lawsuits from numerous neighbors regarding Buck's "nocturnal carnal activities" resulting in "stupid, ugly puppies" from their dogs. Reacting to pressure from Peggy and a bizarre dream he has involving Buck becoming upright and articulate, Al makes a decision.
Episode 5
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Part 1
Sun, Oct 18, 198723 mins
While Al and Steve are occupied by a female employee who fixes the Bundy's refrigerator, Peggy invites Marcy to a strip club with the girls.
Episode 6
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun: Part 2
Sun, Oct 18, 198723 mins
Marcy loses her composure and her wedding ring when it slips into a dancer's briefs when she slips him a tip. Desperate to keep the news from Steve, Marcy sets out distracting him every chance she gets. However, El Zorro the Stripper suddenly shows up at Al's house and returns Marcy's wedding ring to him, who gives it to Steve and tells him about where Marcy was the other night.
Episode 7
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sun, Oct 25, 198723 mins
Al gets heated up over the large phone bill and refuses to pay it, which results in the disconnection of the Bundy phone line, making him the target of hostility from Peggy, the kids and the Rhoades who now take the Bundys phone calls on their phone, especially the ones from Peggy's mother. To make matters worse, there's a streetlight that is also bothering Al which is keeping him awake every night.
Episode 8
Born to Walk
Sun, Nov 1, 198723 mins
Al flunks his written drivers test the same day that Kelly passes hers, leaving him confined to the house and unable to get to the racetrack to bet on an important horse race. Al doesn't want to pay for Kelly's insurance . . . or clothes . . . or schoolbooks. And then, Al gets a ticket for driving with an expired license . . . which means that now he will have to take the test all over again.
Episode 9
Alley of the Dolls
Sun, Nov 8, 198723 mins
Victory seems assured when Steve agrees to join the Bundys for a family team bowling match against Peggy's arch rival from high school, Mimi, and her obnoxious family. But Bud reveals that he doesn't know how to bowl because he has squandered his bowling lesson money, prompting Steve to coach Bud on the pointers of bowling.
Episode 10
The Razor's Edge
Sun, Nov 15, 198723 mins
Steve comes home after a little personal vacation sporting a beard. When Marcy sees it, she tells him to shave it. But he doesn't want to. So they get into an argument which ends with Steve moving out and staying with the Bundys. He passes the time by cleaning and cooking and Al likes his cooking that he tries to make his stay as long as possible.
Episode 11
How Do You Spell Revenge?
Sun, Nov 22, 198723 mins
Al, Peggy, and Bud are part of a shopping mall softball team playing other mall teams. After losing a few too many games, Al demands that Peggy improve her softball skills or she is off his team. Meanwhile, Kelly's new boyfriend, Brian, asks her to prove her love to him by getting a tattoo.
Episode 12
Earth Angel
Sun, Dec 6, 198723 mins
There's a new light in the neighborhood when Bud brings home an attractive, free spirited, 21-year-old artist named Tiffany on her way to art school in New York and everyone likes her, except Marcy for Tiffany steals the attentions of Steve as well.
Episode 13
You Better Watch Out
Sun, Dec 20, 198723 mins
The Bundys Christmas Eve is interrupted by a non-traditional visit from Santa Claus when a drunken bum in a Santa suit misses his scheduled appearance at a new mall when his parachute doesn't open and he plummets into the Bundys back yard. While the coroner and his men try to get the corpse out of the place, Al masquerades at Santa to some neighborhood children outside his front door.
Episode 14
Guys and Dolls
Sun, Jan 10, 198823 mins
Seeking to relive a childhood hobby, Al and Steve engineer a major league deal: they buy nine classic baseball cards with money obtained by selling Marcy's 20-year-old Barbie doll that she's been saving for the daughter she hopes to have someday. When Marcy discovers her doll is missing and goes into a fit, Al and Steve are forced to go look for the doll in the streets. Meanwhile, Bud deliberately gives the dim-witted Kelly bad assistance to help her with a book report.
Episode 15
Build a Better Mousetrap
Sun, Jan 24, 198823 mins
Al's attempts to get rid of a rodent in the Bundy house end badly.
Episode 16
Master the Possibilities
Sun, Feb 7, 198823 mins
Al, under the impression that you don't have to pay for anything you didn't order, takes Peggy and Bud on a wild spending spree, and goes with Peggy to a fancy hotel for a weekend getaway when the mailman accidentally leaves a new credit card addressed to Buck the dog.
Episode 17
Peggy Loves Al - Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
Sun, Feb 14, 198823 mins
On Valentines Day, Kelly hauls in a load of Valentines, while Steve plans to give Marcy a trip to Hawaii. When Marcy finds out from Peggy, she plans to give Steve his Valentine present by jumping out of a life-size cake. Meanwhile, Bud holds a vigil by the mailbox waiting for his first Valentine, while Peggy ponders over the decision on whether or not she'll get the gift she wants from Al for him to say "I Love You."
Episode 18
The Great Escape
Sun, Feb 21, 198823 mins
The Bundy's stay at the shoe store after their house is tented for termites. A grounded Kelly plots to escape and go to a rock concert.
Episode 19
Im-Po-Dent
Sun, Feb 28, 198823 mins
Marcy regrets denting Steve's new car when he claims that she's made him impotent.
Episode 20
Just Married... with Children
Sun, Mar 6, 198823 mins
While secretly going through Steve and Marcy's mail, Al and Peggy fill out an application to a TV game show called "How Do I Love Thee" where the objective is a Bundy natural: surviving physical torture from one's spouse. Al and Peggy appear on the show pretending to be Steve and Marcy and they easily win many prizes. But when Steve and Marcy find out, they appear at the end of the show pretending to be Al and Peggy, and the husband that survives the most torture in an electric chair wins a new car.
Episode 21
Father Lode
Sun, Mar 13, 198823 mins
After going with Steve to the racetrack, Al is reluctant to reveal that he won $1,200, because he knows that Peggy and the kids will take the money for themselves. While Al tries to throw off Peggy's suspicions with sex, Steve asks for increasingly exuberant bribes of Al's racetrack winnings so he will keep his mouth shut about the money.
Episode 22
All in the Family
Sun, May 1, 198823 mins
Al's quiet three-day weekend plans to watch his favorite John Wayne movie "Hondo" are ruined when Peggy's eccentric relatives arrive from Wanker County, Wisconsin: her unseen, obese mother; feuding uncles, the hulking Irwin and the effeminate Otto; and singing, dancing, guitar-playing triplet aunts whose showbiz career is threatened by Al's bad advice. Al then intrudes on Steve and Marcy's romantic evening to complain about...the in-laws intrusion on his "Hondo" weekend.
