SEASON 1, EPISODE 8: PEGGY SUE GOT WORK

Peggy desperately wants a VCR so she can tape Phil while watching Oprah and she has a few schemes up her sleeve to get Al to buy one for her. And just as it seems like Al is going to cave in, Marcy steps in. She is infuriated that Peggy has to "ask" Al; it's sexist and outdated and all that stuff. So she lures Peggy into taking a job at a department store. Here, Peggy learns what she always suspected: working, especially working with the public, sucks. While she wants to quit, she can't, as that would be admitting to Al how hard his life (working and supporting the family) really is. Al also wants Peg to quit (this one here is rather odd--later we will see Al practically beg Peggy to work on many an episode), but he doesn't want to give her the satisfaction that he really needs her around the house. So both come up with a scheme to get of the predicament, and the kids prosper nicely. Like many of the early Married With Children episodes, that cutting edge is just not there. This strange hybrid of a conventional sitcom mixed with bits of edgier material just doesn't work.