Desperately Seeking Miss October

It's always fun when a hot woman walks into Al's shoe store, especially if Steve also happens to be there. "Hooter alert!" hollers Steve as Barbi Brandt, Playboy Playmate Oct' 87, walks into the shop in a little black dress, looking to buy a new pair of stilettos. The two men battle it out to get the woman what she wants, acting like drooling idiots.

Later, Al goes to his basement to get his treasured collection of Playboys so that he can show Steve more of Brandi, but he is horrified to find that they have gone: Peggy has sold them to pay for a statuette of Tubro, the Panamanian god of money, which she hopes will help her win the lottery. As Al sits on the couch, a broken man (even more than usual), he is visited by the spirit of his dead father, who tells him that he must get back his Playboys, and that all the men in heaven are counting on him, including 'The Duke', John Wayne.

Not only is this episode very funny, but it also features a classic example of hideous Bud Bundy fashion, an oversized yellow shirt/waistcoat combo.

Al Bundy had kept his father's Playboy magazine in plastic and in chronological order. When Peggy can't get money from her family to get a statue, she sells her husband's Playboy magazines much to the dismay of the men in the house including Bud. After seeing a Playboy of the month at Gary's Shoes, he tries to retrieve her picture to show his friend and neighbor, Steve, who is becoming more like Al much to the dismay of Marcy. All Peggy wants to do is win the lottery, have money, and happiness in her life so she gets "Tubra" statue. When Al gets a visit from his dearly departed father, (He's played by Ed O'Neill with a mustache and grey hair.), he demands that Peggy get his Playboys back.