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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Kelly (Christina Applegate) arrives in Fort Lauderdale, where she immediately enters the "Miss Spring Break" bikini contest judged by Jefferson (Ted McGinley). Hoping to cop the $10,000 prize, Al (Ed O'Neill) and Griff (Harold Sylvester) offer their services as co-judges, with Al going to great and ridiculous lengths to hide the fact that he's Kelly's father. But his little scheme may be foiled when Jefferson's wife Marcy (Amanda Bearse) shows up in Lauderdale with blood in her eye. Katey Sagal (Peggy) does not appear in this episode. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Marcy (Amanda Bearse) is appalled when the bank where she works (Kyoto National) announces plans to donate a scoreboard to Polk High School--to be named after the school's greatest football hero, Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill). Determined to cheat Al of this honor, Marcy thinks she has found a loophole when she discovers that former Super Bowl champ Terry Bradshaw once attended Polk High for two whole months. Listen as the studio audience cheers when Bradshaw (as himself) invokes memories of the "immaculate reception" of 1972. This episode was originally telecast in tandem with Al Bundy's Sports Spectacular, a montage of sports-related clips from past Married. . .With Children installments hosted by Roy Firestone. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Camera in hand, aspiring moviemaker Kelly (Christina Applegate) follows her dad Al (Ed O'Neill) around during a typical day at the shoe store. The result is the stirring documentary "SHEOS" (well, heck, no one should expect an "auteur" to know how to spell). The film proves so impressive that the National Endowment of the Arts offers Kelly $10,000 to make a sequel, whereupon Al proposes his own personal epic, replete with bikini girls. This episode was originally shown in tandem with My Favorite Married, a half-hour special in which the cast of Married. . .With Children introduced clips from their favorite episodes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Once again, Al (Ed O'Neill) shoots off his big mouth, and the result is a grudge match between his alma mater Polk High School and longtime rival Onassis High. Unfortunately, the opposing lineup includes such NFL stars as John S. "Hacksaw" Reynolds, Bubba Snith, Ken "The Snake" Stabler and Lawrence Taylor. As a result, ex-gridiron favorite Al is reduced to the status of tackling dummy--with emphasis on "dummy". ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Season Eight of Married. . .With Children gets off to a roaring start as Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) somehow manages to get hold of some tickets for an all-star charity basketball game. In the course of what follows, Al makes two mistakes: First, he allows Peggy to accompany him to the game; second, he changes seats with Peggy just as that selfsame seat is chosen for the $10,000 Grand Free Throw contest. Appearing more or less as themselves are NBA stars Vlade Divac, Clyde Drexler and Xavier "X Man" McDaniel, Chicago Bulls announcer Ray Clay, and most of the Bulls' cheerleading squad. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

With too much time on her hands, 7-year-old Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) climbs behind the wheel of Joey's 1963 rambler, shifts the gears into reverse--and drives the car right through the kitchen wall. Too frightened to confess her "crime" to the family, Stephanie seriously considers running off to Mexico...but only makes as far as Becky's home. At the same time, Becky (Lisa Loughlin) is planning a date with a football player, while Jesse (John Stamos) fumes. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

On Spring Cleaning Day, Joey (David Coulier) accidentally gives away Stephanie's beloved toy teddy bear. The girl is totally crushed, especially since "Mr. Bear" represents one of the last tangible links between Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin) and her late mother Pam (played in flashback by Christie Houser) in her only series appearance). On a lighter note, Jesse (John Stamos) attempts to replace a broken drawer-handle on his own, without telling Danny (Bob Saget)...and with the expected disastrous results. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Nearly a decade ago, Joey (David Coulier) had promised himself that he'd change careers if he hadn't succeeded as a comedian within ten years. With the deadline rapidly approaching, Joey makes a last-ditch effort to achieve success by appearing on the popular TV talent show Star Search, hosted by Ed McMahon (appearing as himself, along with real-life Star Search. The challenge now for Joey is not only to win big, but to defeat the series' current champ Steve Butler (played by real-life Star Search contestant--and future creator of the cartoon hero "Jimmy Neutron"--Steve Oedekerk). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

While Danny (Bob Saget) is out of town, DJ (Candace Cameron) cooks up an elaborate scheme to skip school so she can get an autograph from popular singer Stacey Q). Alas, after successfully pulling the wool over the eyes of surrogate parents Joey (David Coulier) and Jesse (John Stamos), DJ is caught red-handed. Now Joey and Jesse must decide whether to discipline DJ and tell all to Danny, or merely pretend that the whole embarrassing incident didn't happen. This is the final episode of Full House's first season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

According to legend, the working title for Married...With Children was "NOT the Cosby Show," and that said it all. This raunchy, ribald eleven-year saga of a boorish, dysfunctional family living in the outskirts of Chicago was about as far removed from The Cosby Show as Mercury is from Pluto -- which was just fine so far as its creators, Ron Leavitt and Michael Moye, were concerned. Harboring a lifelong hatred for the "typical, wholesome" American TV family, Leavitt and Moyes chose instead to develop a series which revelled -- nay, wallowed -- in questionable taste, endless insults, and juicy sexual badinage. The newly formed Fox network, anxious to offer programming that would immediately separate itself from the "norm" as dictated by the ABC, CBS, and NBC, was receptive to the concept, and on April 5, 1987, Married...With Children debuted as Fox's first-ever sitcom -- not to mention its first-ever prime-time series. The Bundy family might well have been described as "trailer trash," only they didn't live in a trailer but instead in a large, untidy suburban Chicago house. Patriarch Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) worked for minimum wages as a clerk at Gary's Shoe Store. Being an unregenerate male chauvinist pig, unkempt, and reeking of body odor, Al would sooner hang out at the local nudie bar with his fellow members of "NO MA'AM" (the National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood) than come home to the wretched meals prepared by his lazy, viper-tongued wife, Peggy (Katey Sagal). Hating housework almost as much as cooking and forever dressed in tight, garish outfits that displayed her ripe figure to anyone who was interested (Al certainly wasn't), Peg was also distinguished by her layers of facial makeup and her towering teased hair. The Bundy's dimwitted, slatternly daughter, Kelly (Christina Applegate), was so proud of her reputation as the high school's "easiest" girl that she sometimes gave annotated lectures on the subject; in later episodes, Kelly worked at such intellectual pursuits as waitressing and as commercial spokesperson for an off-brand beer. Kelly's kid brother Bud (David Faustino), eleven years old when the series began, was a combination juvenile delinquent and con artist, who, once he reached maturity (?), held down jobs as a clerk at the Motor Vehicle Bureau and as a one-person talent agency (with Kelly as his sole client). The Bundy family was a great source of irritation and embarrassment for their strait-laced newlywed neighbors, Steve and Marcy Rhoades (David Garrison and Amanda Bearse), who were respectably employed as accountants. The bad influence of the Bundys eventually seeped over into the Rhoades household, with Steve losing his job, divorcing his wife, and ending up working as a forest ranger, and Marcy taking as her second husband the terminally lazy Jefferson D'Arcy (Ted McGinley), whom she met during a drunken binge at a banker's convention. During the series' seventh season, Shane Sweet became a regular as Seven Bundy, son of one of Peg's many cousins; but the character never caught on and was summarily dropped without explanation. Two other series regulars never appeared on camera. Kevin Curran provided the voice of the Bundys' unhousebroken, oversexed dog, Buck, and later voiced a cute cocker spaniel puppy named Lucky -- who turned out to possess the reincarnated soul of the late and very reluctant Buck. And during the series' tenth season, Kathleen Freeman was heard but not seen as Peg's harridan hillbilly mother, Mrs. Wanker, who moved into Bud's room after walking out on her husband (played in some episodes by Tim Conway).

Bearing absolutely no resemblance to real life and doggedly avoiding sentiment and "very special episodes," Married...With Children was not exactly everyone's cup of treacle; in fact, one Michigan housewife became so incensed by the series' outrages (which were grotesquely exaggerated for full satiric effect) that she organized a letter-writing campaign to force Fox to cancel the series. Though the woman did not succeed, one third-season episode of Married...With Children, in which the Bundys were unwittingly videotaped while having sex at a cheap motel, was never aired by Fox and in fact was not seen in the United States until 2002, some 14 years after it was produced! Though the series had more than its share of detractors, it also enjoyed a huge fan following with most viewers fully aware that Married was actually a spoof of late-'80s/early-'90s TV raunchiness and accepted it as such. The series' "nothing sacred" attitude enabled the writers to sidestep a particularly delicate situation during season six. To accommodate the real-life pregnancy of Katey Sagal, it was decided that Peg Bundy would also have a baby. Unfortunately, Sagal miscarried, leaving audiences to wonder how this personal tragedy would affect the series. As it turned out, the writers managed to transform pathos into hilarity by stating baldly that Peg's pregnancy was merely a bad dream, à la Dallas! (Later in the series, Sagal again became pregnant, fortunately carrying the baby to term; this time around, however, the writers felt it would be best not to say anything whatsoever about babies on the series). Ending its original network run in 1997, Married...With Children has continued to be successfully rebroadcast in syndication and as part of the FX cable network lineup. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Not realizing that his new assistant, Val (Tanya Boyd), is his boss' daughter, J.J. (Jimmie Walker) puts on the usual amorous moves. Eventually, J.J. learns the truth -- and not long afterward he receives a promotion at the art agency. Is it remotely possible that J.J. is currying romantic favor with Val only to advance himself professionally? ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The daycare center at the Evanses' apartment building may have to be closed down for lack of funding. Unwilling to see this happen, the Evans family combines forces with Willona (Ja'net DuBois) and several other friends to stage a fundraising benefit show. Essentially an excuse for the cast to show off their hitherto hidden musical talents, this episode also serves as a showcase for future Diff'rent Strokes star Gary Coleman. "That's Entertainment, Evans Style" was the final episode of Good Times' fifth season. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Shifty landlord Nathan Bookman (Johnny Brown) sells a dilapidated used car to J.J. (Jimmie Walker) and his friends. This joint-ownership setup results in a great deal of ill will when the buddies argue over who can drive the car, and when it can be driven. As the story rolls merrily along, it's a toss-up as to which will fall apart first: the partnership, or the car. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide