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Married... with Children Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 1989 - 1990
Episode 1
Hot off the Grill
Sun, Sep 3, 198923 mins
On Labor Day, the gender roles are reversed when Al becomes the loafer, while he forces Peggy to prepare the backyard barbecue for the creation of his famous "Bundy Burgers." But one of the secrets of their flavor is the ashes of Marcy's dead aunt, which Kelly stole from the Rhoades' house.
Episode 2
Dead Men Don't Do Aerobics
Sun, Sep 10, 198922 mins
Peggy wins a two-week exercise course with local TV personality Jim Jupiter, "the healthiest man in Chicago," which soon turns into a test of wills between Peggy and the TV aerobics instructor. Jim succumbs to Peggy's lazy lifestyle of smoking and eating junk food. When Jim Jupiter literally drops dead afterward, during his TV show, Peggy surprisingly begins to suffer from a rare form of guilt.
Episode 3
Buck Saves the Day
Sun, Sep 24, 198922 mins
Kelly and Bud need to raise money for concert tickets for themselves, so Bud sells Al as a camping guide, and Kelly cheats at a poker game with Peggy's friends. With Steve and Bud along for the ride, Al has to take a bunch of kids camping and they end up stranded in the woods and only Buck can save them.
Episode 4
Tooth or Consequences
Sun, Oct 1, 198923 mins
A toothache forces Al to see Marcy's dentist, a divorced man who devotes as much of his time to his work as he does to his young female dental assistant. At the same time, Al pressures Peggy to cook him just one square meal.
Episode 5
He Ain't Much, But He's Mine
Sun, Oct 8, 198923 mins
Peggy begins to suspect that Al is cheating because he seems to have a lot of different excuses on why he is coming home later than usual. Peggy meets Ginger at her beauty salon. Ginger is a young woman who admits she is sleeping around with another woman's husband and Peggy thinks it could be Al that she is sleeping with. Marcy goes to Peggy's salon and gets a new look, that Steve hates. Peggy is worried that Al is cheating on her and she is determined to get answers.
Episode 6
Fair Exchange
Sun, Oct 29, 198923 mins
The Bundys' latest money making scam is to host a foreign exchange student in their garage. But the French beauty (Milla Jovovich) proves to be so popular that she ends up stealing all of Kelly's boyfriends.
Episode 7
Desperately Seeking Miss October
Sun, Nov 5, 198923 mins
When a Playboy Playmate walks into Al's shoe store, he's eager to get home and look up her October, 1987 issue. But Al is a broken man when he finds out that Peggy has sold his entire Playboy collection to get money to buy a good luck charm to win the lottery. The ghost of Al's father later appears and convinces him to get some self-respect.
Episode 8
976-SHOE
Sun, Nov 12, 198923 mins
Al decides to open a shoe emergency hotline with help from Steve in the form of a $50,000 loan. But typically, Al's get-rich-quick scheme backfires when nobody phones in. When Marcy gives Al a second $50,000 loan to repay the original loan, the Bundys and the Rhoades join together in a downward spiral of failure when Al instead sinks the second $50,000 into his failing shoe hotline, which results in Steve losing his job at the bank, Marcy getting demoted and Al ending up being the loser as always.
Episode 9
Oh, What a Feeling
Sun, Nov 19, 198923 mins
When the Dodge finally gives its death rattle, Al digs up his secret car-fund shoe box and trades the Dodge for a ride to the local dealership. When Bud opens the shoe box, he finds not $5,000, but a mere $800... and a red hair. Al spends the rest of the episode trying to buy something that goes "vroom!"
Episode 10
At the Zoo
Sun, Nov 26, 198922 mins
Newly unemployed Steve decides he doesn't really want to work, so he fritters away his days with the Bundys, visiting the zoo and taking fishing trips. This puts a strain on Steve's relationship with Marcy, who ends up going out with Al to a local bar, where they swap stories about their miserable marriages. But the conversation between Al and Marcy reaches its peak when Marcy has to decide whether to use the $25,000 reward she earned by foiling a bank robbery, sustaining a gunshot wound in the process, to buy a new car or to bail out Steve, who has been arrested for "rescuing" Bosco, the tortoise, from the local zoo.
Episode 11
It's a Bundyful Life Part 1
Sun, Dec 17, 198960 mins
On Christmas Eve, Al plans the best Bundy Christmas by withdrawing money from his secret savings account to buy the selfish and ungrateful Peggy and the kids presents. When Al can't get to Marcy's bank on time, he tries a ill-fated cash motivated plan for a day care center which leaves him sad and alone with no money.
Episode 12
It's a Bundyful Life Part 2
Sun, Dec 17, 198960 mins
When Al Bundy gets fed up with how his family treats him, he wishes he was never born. His guardian angel arrives to face the ungrateful man and shows him what life would be like without him. Peggy is married to a wealthy socialite named Norman Jablonsky and is a wonderful mother and housewife. Kelly is a college student genius and child prodigy in French and writing. Bud is not a dysfunctional nerd, but a ladies man and also a genius. Norman reveals that he's planning to buy a mansion for all of them to live in. Then the guardian angel shows Al where Marcy lives. She is still married to Steve and has three children. Unlike the perfect Jablonsky family, she has developed Peg-like manners when she refuses to cook and clean for Steve, causing him to inherit Al-like manners. He's very miserable and works in a shoe store. This finally gives the misanthropic Al a clue that, in wishing he was never born, not only are Peg, Bud and Kelly happy, but Marcy and Steve are miserable. He decides he wants to live and give spending time with his family another shot.
Episode 13
Who'll Stop the Rain
Sun, Jan 7, 199023 mins
Al desperately tries to fix the house's leaking roof during a rainstorm. But each time Al falls off the roof, it makes Peggy and the kids wonder if he's too stupid or too cheap to call a roofer to do the job. Meanwhile, Steve lands another job, at a pet store, and Marcy suffers side effects after being bitten by a venomous "Peruvian Devil Gerbil."
Episode 14
A Taxing Problem
Sun, Jan 14, 199023 mins
Faced with an IRS audit because of Peg, Al decides to find money quickly to pay his taxes by selling Peg's hair for $5,000. However, Peg is not looking to give away her red hair anytime soon.
Episode 15
Rock and Roll Girl
Sun, Feb 4, 199022 mins
When Al challenges the selfish and ungrateful family members to earn a dollar of their own, Peggy tries scamming money from others because of her loathe for work. Meanwhile, Bud appoints himself as Kelly's agent and lands her a job as a 'rock video slut.'
Episode 16
You Gotta Know When to Hold Them: Part 1
Sun, Feb 11, 199022 mins
Steve is history after he okays a divorce from Marcy and leaves her in the middle of the night, leaving behind a note saying that he has gone to become a park ranger at Yosemite National Park. While Bud unsuccessfully tries to score with man-less Marcy, Peggy talks her into a "just girls" vacation to Las Vegas, where they lose $5,000 of Al's money.
Episode 17
You Gotta Know When to Fold Them: Part 2
Sun, Feb 18, 199023 mins
Al and the kids travel to Las Vegas to try to get the ladies out of the hole they are in. After an unsuccessful attempt to win their money back at the roulette table, Al agrees to try to win $10,000 by staying three minutes in the ring with GLOW wrestler "Big Bad Mama", a huge monster of a woman.
Episode 18
What Goes Around Came Around
Sun, Feb 25, 199023 mins
Al is excited when he's asked to speak at the Polk High Homecoming Dance. At the dance, while Al rants on and on about the unhappily married man, Peggy finds herself being wooed by a teacher, Kelly is trying to please two dates and Bud is plotting revenge against his date, Heather McCoy, who humiliated him years earlier by running his underwear up a flagpole.
Episode 19
Peggy Turns 300
Sun, Mar 25, 199023 mins
Al plans a special evening for Peggy's birthday by taking her out to the Bowl-a-Rama, where he hopes to finally beat his arch-rival's high score of 220. Al beats the score, but minutes later, Peggy bowls a perfect game, destroying Al's self-esteem.
Episode 20
Peggy Made a Little Lamb
Sun, Apr 15, 199022 mins
Peggy discovers that she never graduated from high school because she flunked one class: home economics. Using her "life experience" as course credit, she goes back to school to pass the final exam with Kelly's class, who is trying to graduate from high school herself. Peggy's assignment is to cook a rack of lamb, Kelly gets Jello. Elsewhere, Bud continues trying to get the newly single Marcy's attention.
Episode 21
Rain Girl
Sun, Apr 29, 199022 mins
When Kelly realizes that she's not intelligent or literate enough to attend college, she takes a job at a TV station, where she quickly moves from intern to a $1,000-a-week weather bunny. The current weatherman storms off and Kelly, with her new manager, Al, gets a $250,000-a-year contract offer.
Episode 22
The Agony of De-Feet
Sun, May 6, 199023 mins
After being plagued by nightmares of feet, a beautiful woman asks Al to judge a contest at Gary's Shoes and Accessories, whose contestants she "could never compete with." Meanwhile, Kelly tricks Marcy and Bud into thinking they slept together.
Episode 23
Yard Sale
Sun, May 13, 199023 mins
Peggy will buy anything at a yard sale, so when she brings home a boar's head, there's no more room in the garage to put it. So, Al decides enough is enough and he decides to have his own yard sale, despite Peggy's protests. But the stuff he is selling is stuff only Peggy would be stupid enough to buy. Al's next idea is to create "Bundyland, The Happiest Place on Earth," which is a collection of all the junk items Peggy bought, in their own back yard.
