Al Bundy decides to take his family out on the road not in the Dodge but the mysteriously new car that takes it's space. It's a convertible with the top down. The Bundys including Bud and Kelly dread spending the day with their parents much less stuck in traffic. It's the beginning of a new fall season and Peggy has to get home in time to see "Nun of This" starring Karen Valentine as a nun who has had enough and she's your worst nightmare, a nun with a gun. Al wants the family to do something together this year and they are stuck in traffic for hours moving only inches. In the meantime, Marcy has come back from two weeks vacation without the Bundys noticing her absence and with a new outlook on life.
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A Great Episode
slightlymad2223 October 2014
All the gang are back in the season five opener. And it's a great episode. Not just to open the season with, but a great episode in general.
All the cast are comfortable in there roles, and know how to play them to maximum effect. None more so than Ed O'Neil as Al Bundy.
Plot In A Paragraph: On Labor Day weekend, with Kelly having graduated from high school, Peggy looking forward to the new TV season, Bud in his senior year in high school, and Marcy having gotten her job back at her bank, Al decides to take the family for a vacation and see American by car. We see them attempt to bond and bicker as they end up in a 50-mile traffic jam on the Chicago freeway.
We also her to see one of my favourite traits of the Bundy clan and that is "if you mess with one Bundy, you mess with ALL the Bundy's"
A great episode.
All the cast are comfortable in there roles, and know how to play them to maximum effect. None more so than Ed O'Neil as Al Bundy.
Plot In A Paragraph: On Labor Day weekend, with Kelly having graduated from high school, Peggy looking forward to the new TV season, Bud in his senior year in high school, and Marcy having gotten her job back at her bank, Al decides to take the family for a vacation and see American by car. We see them attempt to bond and bicker as they end up in a 50-mile traffic jam on the Chicago freeway.
We also her to see one of my favourite traits of the Bundy clan and that is "if you mess with one Bundy, you mess with ALL the Bundy's"
A great episode.
Clear a path!
BA_Harrison12 November 2022
It's Labour Day weekend again, but instead of the annual Bundy bar-b-q, Al decides that the family should take a road trip to see America. Of course, it being Labour Day, the traffic on the highway is at a standstill, and the car makes it no further than walking distance from their house.
I wonder whether this episode was the inspiration for the Michael Douglas film Falling Down. That film started with the main character losing the plot while stuck in traffic on a hot day -- Al is also on the verge of a breakdown, his car having moved just a few inches in hours. He fights with another family in the car next to his, suffers abuse from his wife and kids, and eventually incites the other people on the road to smash up the highway in protest.
As far as laughs are concerned, this isn't one of the funniest, although Kelly asking "Are we there yet?" was great.
One more thing... do Americans really think that Asia and Africa are countries?
I wonder whether this episode was the inspiration for the Michael Douglas film Falling Down. That film started with the main character losing the plot while stuck in traffic on a hot day -- Al is also on the verge of a breakdown, his car having moved just a few inches in hours. He fights with another family in the car next to his, suffers abuse from his wife and kids, and eventually incites the other people on the road to smash up the highway in protest.
As far as laughs are concerned, this isn't one of the funniest, although Kelly asking "Are we there yet?" was great.
One more thing... do Americans really think that Asia and Africa are countries?
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