Top 75 Best Episodes of Married... With Children
These would be my picks for the best episodes of Married... With Children, respectively. They encompass most of the show's primary atmosphere and have a strong storyline attached to the plot. Also, each of these episodes has a nice connective plot point for a finely suited ending theme as opposed to the episodes that end rather random and without much meaning. These are also the funniest episodes for the actual writing, but that's besides the point. I also crafted a list of the episodes that weren't as good, but this list concentrates on those that were quite entertaining.
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- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode8.2 (838)DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAfter Kelly gets in trouble at school, the only way she can get out of punishment if she joins the school's tap-dance club.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl discovers a library book that was due in 1957. He must return it to the library and face up to his worst childhood fear: the librarian.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl 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.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonNewly 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.
- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode7.9 (768)DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl 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.
- DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe Bundys' Christmas is rudely interrupted when a parachuting mall Santa crash-lands into their backyard, attracting the neighborhood kids.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonThe Bundys go out to a fancy restaurant to spend a great windfall, an inheritance check for $237 from a late uncle of Peggy's. But it becomes apparent that fine dining in public is not a part of the dysfunctional Bundy lifestyle. Matters are made worse, when Al forgets to bring his wallet.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonSteve, Marcy and the Bundys head out to a cabin in the woods, but the merriment is halted by Kelly's PMS. The men leave for a bit to go out fishing and return to all three women menstruating and hostile. When a bear attacks the car, Al hilariously attempts to stop him.
- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode8.0 (861)DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonWhile Steve is out of town for the week on business, Marcy starts having dreams involving a romance-minded Al which turns her dreams into nightmares, and turns off her sexual urges, prompting her to look into the source of her nightmares, while a clueless Steve asks Al for advice on Marcy's sudden lack of sexual needs.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonSteve returns home having grown a beard from a week-long rafting trip. He and Marcy get into a huge argument over his reluctance to shave it off, leading him to move in with the Bundys.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearsePeggy goes out dancing with Marcy, and becomes taken with a handsome man-about-town named Andy. At home, however, Al gets confronted by Andy's wife, Pete.
- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode8.1 (724)DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl 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.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseNow an aspiring model, Kelly invents a maneuver called "The Bundy Bounce" for her first audition as spokesperson for the new Allente car. But Bud's big mouth gives the idea to another model, so Kelly must take things into her own hands and remove the competition. Meanwhile, Peggy goes on a strike with housework because Al think's she's useless.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseSteve returns to try and reclaim his estranged wife unaware that she has remarried to a younger man.
- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode8.3 (738)DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl is haunted by a tune on the radio he can hum but not name, and he gets no help from Peggy or the D'Arcy's. Al similarly haunts Kelly's new boyfriend, Vinnie Verducci, the son of his fellow lowlife friend, Charlie Verducci, when Al warns Vinnie to only look and not touch, which is not easy for Vinnie.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseWhen Al can't pay his bill at the gas station, he is forced to don a uniform, complete with 'Habib' name tag and work at the station. He spends the day being hounded by motorists, as well as Peg and the kids.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseIt's Bud's 18th birthday, but everyone still treats him like a little boy. Does he stay at home for his birthday party with a pony and a clown or does Al have something else in mind for his "adult" son?
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseBud's belief that his 40-year-old teacher is romantic interested in him is greeted by laughter from everyone. But another student smells the smoke and wants the fire for herself. Meanwhile, Peggy has a cold which prompts Al to keep his distance by going out every night to a Chuck-E-Cheese restaurant for some free pizza by crashing little kids birthdays parties. Can Bud keep two girls or will he suffer from a humiliating Bundy defeat?
- DirectorSam W. OrenderStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseBud sends poor Kelly on a wild goose chase to find 'Waldo' so that he can have run of the house making out with a wayward blonde. Meanwhile, with nearly 1,000,000 miles on the family jalopy's clock, Al gets an incredible offer from the Dodge company for a brand-new Viper.
- DirectorAmanda BearseStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl wants to beat rival shoe-shop owner Babcock in something and puts his faith in Bud, who's in the same entrepreneurial-studies class at Trumaine as Babcock's son Little Floyd. Each boy must come up with a product and a marketing campaign for it Al sees that he'll get his revenge if Bud's project gets a better grade than Little Floyd's. When Kelly brings home a sexy-guys calendar, Bud decides to make a Girls of Trumaine calendar. All goes well, especially with stunning cover girl Crystal Clark--until, sounding very troubled, she has second thoughts about appearing in the calendar. Meanwhile, Peg is on the road searching for her dad to save her parents' marriage.
- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode7.8 (896)DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonSteve and Marcy decide that once is enough after they volunteer to watch Kelly, Bud and the family dog, Buck, after Al and Peggy go away for the weekend to a seedy motel in Wisconsin because Al wants to watch a boxing match on cable TV, which the Bundys don't have.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl becomes the boss of the neighborhood after Kelly starts dating an influential city councilman.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseAl decides to grow a vegetable garden, but soon faces off against an all-out war with a rabbit who steals his carrots and other vegetables.
- 1987–199723mTV-PGTV Episode7.9 (757)DirectorLinda DayStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalDavid GarrisonAl's attempts to get rid of a rodent in the Bundy house end badly.
- DirectorGerry CohenStarsEd O'NeillKatey SagalAmanda BearseJefferson reveals his secret past to Marcy when he tells her that he is a ex-CIA spy in a witness relocation program. Meanwhile, Al gets conflicting emotions when he is offered a $50,000 reward by a certain Walter Traugott, a shady thug who is looking for Jefferson. Elsewhere, Peggy has a toothache from a broken tooth, and Kelly and Bud dress up as bums at the mall to acquire more cash for themselves.