In this pilot we meet Al and Peg Bundy, a very dysfunctional Chicago family. In the pilot, Al and Peg, who have no friends, meet their new neighbors Steve and Marcy Rhoades. Steve and Marcy are a very happily married couple until they learn from the Bundys.

Marcy gives Peggy the book "Thinnergy", which is a book about health. Very inspired by the book, Peggy goes on a diet and tries to convince the family to join in, but they refuse. When the diet makes Peggy really annoying, Steve convinces Al to join the diet, and persuades Peggy to quit.

Al invites Steve to play poker, but Steve ends up losing his paycheck to Al. Afraid to tell Marcy the truth, Steve tries to convince Peggy to give him the check back.

In the second season opener, the Bundys go to a sleazy, dumpy motel in Dumpwater Florida. Trouble head their way when an axe murderer, who hates tourists, arrives.

Peg is kidnapped by the axe murderer and it's up to Al to save her.

One of the Bundys neighbors threaten to sue when Buck the dog mates with their dog, and asks the Bundys to neuter Buck, which Al refuses to do.

When the mailman delivers a credit card pre-approved for Buck the Dog, the Bundys go on a spending spree.

In the third season opener, Al learns that he has had a copy of "The Little Engine That Could" since 1957 and when he goes to return it, he finds the same fat librarian that was there in 1957.

Al plans on building his dream - an executive's type of bathroom in the garage.

Al grows his hair when his barber dies, and fears he is turning into a "sissy" just because he has to go to salons.

Marcy's dead aunt's ashes end up in the Labor Day hamburgers.

Al decides to get a new car, but finds out that Peggy spent all his saved up money, and he has to buy an old, used car.

Al has finally saved up enough money to buy Christmas gifts for everyone, but a few late customers to the shoe store makes Al unable to get to the bank.

Al gets a visit from a guardian angel and discovers what the Bundy household would look like if he was never born.

The Bundys get stuck in traffic on Labor Day.

A rabbit destroys Al's fantasy of having a vegetable garden.

In a spinoff attempt of Married ... with Children, we follow the lives of Charlie and Vinnie Verducci. Charlie wants Vinnie to marry rich to get a better life and they go to a formal fund raiser to meet rich women.

Marcy and Peggy discover they are both pregnant, to Jefferson's joy and Al's horror.

Al must work at a gas station after Peggy and the kids buy too much junk food, which Al cannot pay for, so he has to work off his debt.

Kelly has to walk through the wilderness after dumping her boyfriend in the forest. Al and Peg try to talk their marriage alive, but without success. Bud dates a girl with the measles.