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A unaired pilot of Married with Children.

Peggy forces Al to sacrifice a basketball game and spend a torturous evening in conversation with the new neighbors, idealistic newlyweds Steve and Marcy Rhoades.

Marcy introduces Peg to a new diet to improve her marriage. Al wants no part of it but learns if he tries the diet, he can persuade Peg to quit. He must then swallow his pride and admit to Peggy that he loves her.

There is a rash of burglaries in the area and the Rhoades' house is robbed and Al's car stereo is stolen. Both families seek solutions: Steve and Marcy buy a guard dog and Al buys a gun, with bad results.

Steve and Marcy plan to add a new room to their house, using their tax refund money. Al convinces Steve to make it into a billiards room, while Peggy convinces Marcy to make it into an exercise room, which leads to an all-out battle of the sexes to see who will win.

Al and Steve buy a beat up Ford Mustang from one of Kelly's boyfriends. Soon, they form a tight friendship while restoring it. The only problem is that they are neglecting their wives, now that they spend every free minute with the car. Marcy gets to experience something in the back seat of the Mustang that she has never done before and when Al finds out about it, he won't let her forget it.

It's the Bundys' 16th wedding anniversary. Al plans to buy Peggy a very fancy watch, but unfortunately, his credit card gets declined. Dare he show up at the party without a present?

Steve 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.

One evening, Al takes Steve along to watch a poker game he's playing with his friends. Steve thinks he has the feel of the game and sits in for one of the men, but he ends up losing his paycheck to Al. Steve tries to avoid telling Marcy the truth about losing their mortgage payment money, while Al plans to use his $300 winnings to buy a new fishing rod.

To get the money to purchase a new VCR that Al won't buy her, Peggy gets a job in a department store, which takes the "fun" out of the Bundy marriage as a result of her absence. Peggy winds up in the clock department, where the ticking noise drives her nuts. Kelly and Bud get stuck with Al for the evenings.

Al gets a first-hand look at Luke's swinging bachelor life when he takes refuge at Luke's apartment after work rather than return home to finish an argument with Peggy over visiting her relatives for the weekend. Luke invites two attractive, dim-witted airline stewardesses over to his place, where one of them tempts Al.

While 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.

The near death of the playboy owner of Al's shoe store starts Al wondering why he's never visited the store. Feeling unappreciated Al decides to take drastic action.

Personal problems and crises delay Al and Peggy's departure to the going out of business party of their favorite hamburger joint, "Johnny B. Goode's", which range from Kelly being stood up from going to a party, Bud wanting to finish a remote-controlled car for a model car festival, to Marcy stranded at the Bundys wearing only a towel after staining her dress.