Archie is inflamed by an anti-gun editorial on the news and gets into a massive argument with Mike and Gloria about gun control that ends with him calling the station and scheduling a televised rebuttal. When he gets on television, he makes a fool out of himself by suggesting, among other things, that the best way to deal with hijacked airlines is to arm the passengers before their get on board and take the guns away with they depart. At Kelsey's bar after the editorial airs, the family shares a drink when a man comes in who saw the broadcast. He seems nice until he robs them at gunpoint. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Archie discovers that he has a small tax problem. Seems he didn't think it was important to claim the money that he made on his part-time cab driving job. He goes down to the Internal Revenue Service to talk to them but he offends the man, who is black. In response, the agent tells him that he is going to audit his returns for the last three years. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

The Bunkers are hosts to a house guest named Bobbie Joe, the bubbly new wife of Duke, Archie's old war buddy. She's more than Archie can handle. She's young, beautiful, bouncy and with an over-developed bosom that Archie can't take his eyes off of. The woman is very friendly, so friendly that Archie mistakenly believes that she has made a pass at him. He tells Mike and Gloria about it, unfortunately while Edith is in earshot. Edith is hurt and asks Bobbi Joe to leave. While Archie is trying to explain, Bobbi Joe walks out, leaving Archie to worry about the future of his friendship with Duke. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Questions of sexual equality enter the Bunker household when Gloria's friend Tammy comes over and asks an age-old riddle about the identity of a surgeon who can't operate. Archie is stumped and so is Mike, so Archie takes the riddle down the Kelsey's bar and asks supposed riddle-master Barney Hefner. He can't figure it out either, so Archie goes back home where the riddle is finally solved by Edith. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Edith goes to great lengths to conceal the fact that Archie's niece Linda has been out dancing with Lionel Jefferson. When he finds out, it ignites a firestorm between the Bunkers and the Jeffersons right in the middle of the Bunker's own living room. Linda becomes so put out with Archie's reaction that she refuses to talk to him. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

While out shopping, Edith gives a woman directions, but then realizes that she has given her the wrong information. She chases the woman into the street and is caught by security who nab her for supposedly stealing a wig. She is put on a blacklist and is made to understand that her credit will be no good at any store where she tries to shop. Edith begins to worry that she is becoming a kleptomaniac - or 'klepper' as she calls it - and is urged by Mike and Gloria to see a psychiatrist. Instead, she goes to see Father Majeski, the priest whose car she had once dented. He helps her work out the problem by getting her to talk about it. In the middle of their conversation, Edith come to the conclusion that she is not a 'klepper' but merely absent-minded. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Edith is lonely and decides to answer a magazine ad for a couple to be friends with. She invites them over for dinner without telling Archie. The couple, Curtis and Ruth Remply seem friendly - too friendly. It takes Louise Jefferson to explain to Edith that the Remplys are actually swingers and not just on the dance floor. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Mike's Uncle Alex dies leaving him an inheritance of $500. Archie thinks that the money should go his way, but Mike thinks that it should go to George McGovern's presidential campaign. He does, and then secretly he starts working nights until he can get the money paid back. Gloria works herself into a frazzle trying to keep him fed and keep a lid on his story, until things come to a head and they are forced to admit to Archie what they did. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

On Mike and Gloria's second anniversary, the family reminisces about the days leading up the wedding. Mike's Uncle Casimir came all the way from Chicago to discuss the wedding plans, but Mike was in a panic fearing that Archie would offend him with Polish jokes. Archie and Casimir nearly come to blows over disagreements over wedding plans, everything from the food to the music to the officiant. Things gets so heated that Mike calls off the wedding and walks out. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

During a flashback to Mike and Gloria's wedding, Mike stormed out the house over a fight between Archie and Uncle Casimer. He comes back out of shame and then the question arises of who will officiate the ceremony, a priest or a minister. Mike and Gloria want a civil ceremony and after much familial conflagration the officiate turns out to be a judge. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Mike needs emergency surgery to remove his appendix, but is uncomfortable with the idea of a female surgeon doing the operation.

Archie inquires Edith about four lottery tickets, purchased several months prior, that she had forgotten about. Upon finding out one is a winner, Archie shows a sudden interest in keeping them, despite Edith insisting the tickets actually belong to Louise Jefferson. Archie, reminding Edith she paid for the tickets with her own money, says otherwise.

Archie and a black man vie for the last spot on a bowling team.

When Edith can't find her heirloom necklace, Archie wants to report it missing so he can collect the insurance money. He then runs into problems when an agent comes over to verify the claim

Archie has been home from work with back problems, compounded by worries that the man who is filling in for him is younger and faster. He ends up in the hospital for surgery and, while there, strikes up a friendship with the man in the next bed. Archie likes the man and even invites him over for dinner. This is mostly because a faulty partition blocks his view of the man who is not only French but is also black. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Archie refuses to admit that he's getting older despite the signs, like the fact that he needs glasses - which he refuses - and the fact that he doesn't remember things the same way he use to. In a slump, he goes to Kelsey's bar when he meets an old acquaintance named Bill who is the same age but looks 20 years younger. Archie starts exercising but it only makes him feel worse, so he returns to Kelsy's to drown his sorrows where he meets up with Bill again and finds out that the only thing keeping him young is the fact that he cheats on his wife with young girls. When Archie meets Bill's lady friend, he isn't surprised when she lays the bombshell on him that she's an escort. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Archie snoops through Mike and Gloria's room, sparking a debate over privacy and prompting everyone - Edith included - to storm out of the house.

Edith reunites with her high school boyfriend during her class reunion, prompting Archie to worry about whether his wife will rekindle the romance.

Mike worries that Archie may have unwittingly purchased a stolen watch. Matters become complicated when the watch is broken and Archie must find a repairman who will fix it and abstain from asking questions.

Archie wakes up one Sunday morning to find a swastika has been painted on his front door. At first he thinks it might have been a bunch of juvenile delinquents who might have done it. However, it is soon learned that it was meant for a Jewish activist who lives the next block over. Things become even more heated when a member of a radical Jewish vigilante organization offers to protect the Bunkers even though it might mean busting a few heads. However, at the end of their meeting with the man, the Bunkers receive a dose of sobering reality when it comes to racial violence. Written by Brian Washington Sargebri@att.net

The family goes out to dinner and gets into an argument after the refrigerator goes out and they call two repairmen who are unable to fix it. They have an argument over how it really happened and we see their different perspectives. Archie remembers the he was pleasant and that the repairmen were crooks. Mike remembers that Archie was a bear and that the men were pleasant. Then Edith weighs in with what really happened and it turns out that Archie was the one who broke it. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

Archie sneaks out at night ... and it isn't to go bowling (as he claims). Rather, he's been working on the sly to get his GED.

Gloria comes home shaken up and wearing clothes borrowed from a friend. She won't tell Mike what is wrong, but eventually she relents and tells her mother that she was walking by a construction site when a man pulled her behind a fence and tried to rape her. She passed out and he ran away. The question then becomes whether to report it or not. Edith convinces her by telling her how, when she was a teenager, a man tried to attack her in the same fashion. Gloria decides to tell the police and they send a detective over who advises her that testifying to the crime can be as horrifying as the incident itself. Mike and Archie supersede and decide that she isn't going to testify, leaving Gloria still shaken and the case unresolved. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com

The family is getting ready for Gloria's birthday, unfortunately it just happens to coincide with the first day of her period. She comes home moody and almost immediately gets into an argument with Archie over his view of women as inferior. The argument ends with her calling her father stupid. Edith tries to talk to her about it, but Gloria blames her for always giving in to his insults and his demands. The two go to bed that night not talking to one another. Edith can't sleep and can't talk about it. Gloria is stubborn and won't back down until her mother realizes that she has been little more than a doormat. Mike and Gloria can't sleep and end up in a major fight that goes from the bedroom to the living room to the couch. The fight goes on and on until Edith brings it to a halt with a story of how her mother and father got into a fight over maple syrup and didn't talk for several weeks, after which they never really patched things up. Mike and Gloria decide on a truce. Written by Jerry Roberts armchair-cinema@hotmail.com