The Hood, the Bud and the Kelly (Part 2) is the sixteenth episode of Season 10, and the 227th overall episode of Married... with Children. It is the final part of a two parter revolving around Bud and the Mafia. Directed by Gerry Cohen and written by Daniel O' Keefe, the episode originally aired on FOX on January 14, 1996.
Summary[]
Bud has trouble filming his exercise video, as Kelly and Raphael have trouble co-existing. To make matters worse, Vito's goon, Gino, has threatened to kill Bud and harvest his organs if things don't go well. Meanwhile, the wives of NO MA'AM make bets on which of their husbands will fall off the roof next, as they continue trying to install a satellite dish themselves.
Plot[]
Bud tries his best to shoot the video, but keeps failing due to the immaturity and constant squabbling of Raphael and Kelly. As Gino heads out and waits to the 5pm deadline, his enforcer, Vito stand by to watch on the set, while also reminding Bud of what it will cost him if he does not finish on time. Seeing that his various organs and body parts will end up being used as part of the mob's "recycling ecosystem", Bud desperately tries to get Kelly and Raphael to stop arguing and get back to work.
Back at the Bundy residence, as the rest of NO MA'AM arrive to help Al and Jefferson with the satellite dish, their wives begin placing bets on which husband will fall where. As they begin reviewing the instructions (and also recover from the falls) Bob Rooney finds an egg upon the old antenna. Despite Ike's warnings, Bob picks up the egg anyway, and this angers the mother bird, who flies down and lifts Bob into the sky. Officer Dan shoots the bird down, which drops Bob onto Griff, who was on the ground.
As Kelly and Raphael continue to bicker, another associate of Vito's named Bebe stops by and chats with Gino. Bud, who had accidently knocked the camera around and left it on record, goes to talk to Raphael, while the conversation between the two mobsters is recorded. As Bebe and Gino begin hoping that they can finally kill Bud, the two stars of the video eventually come together after Bud plays their music together, creating an interesting Rock-Latin beat sound.
The wives later begin to complain that their husbands are never able to get anything done. Unbeknownst to them, the men in fact did get it hooked up, but were just relaxing and grilling on the roof while watching television there. As Peg asks Al how much longer, Al simply tells her five more minutes, as he and the others laugh and continue enjoying their alone time on the roof.
After calling it a wrap and congratulating the stars and the three female assistants, Bud get Kelly and Raphael together to review the footage. Althought it originally looked good, it is then revealed that the tape also captured Bebe and Vito having a conversation, where Bebe reveals that Vito had taken the kidneys of a local alderman who had stiffed them for $20,000, and would be murdering him soon. Seeing that they had an hour left, the trio then plan to erase the incriminating evidence and pretend they never saw it, but Vito suddenly appears and ask to see the final product.
As the trio try to make an excuse as to why the video is not ready to view, Kelly accidentally blurts out what she saw and heard about the alderman. Bud then tries to plead with Vito to at least let Kelly go because she is too dumb to recognized them, but the mobster is unmoved and prepares to kill Bud first. However just as Vito, Gino, and Bebe draw their guns, the three background dancers used in the video draw out their weapons, revealing that they were undercover cops.
Later that night, as Al and his friends, now dressed in pajamas, are watching the news on the rooftop, the news reporter reveals that while Vito and his companions were arrested for murder and racketeering, but had their identity withheld and had to only pay a small fine and do community service. In the same arrest, it was also revealed that Bud was arrested for sexual harassing the three dancers/undercover cops during production. After reading his full name and noting that his home address is available upon request, the reporter then mentions that Bud will be sentenced to life in prison under a "One Strike and You're Out" law. The guys plan to get him out soon, after they watch some more TV on the roof.
Recurring Cast[]
- Harold Sylvester as Griff
- E.E. Bell as Bob Rooney
- Tom McCleister as Ike
- Dan Tullis, Jr. as Officer Dan
- Alix Elias as Louise
- Carol Ann Susi as Frannie
Guest Cast[]
- Richard Moll as Gino
- Perry Anzilotti as Vito Capone
- John Carlos Frey as Raphael
- J.J. Johnston as Bebe
- Lisa Arturo as Farrah
- Veronica De La Cruz as Kate
- Melissa De Sousa as Jaclyn
- Kym Whitley as Danielle
Quotes[]
- Bud: [nervously looking up at Gino] Look, uh, Gino, lets say I don't make the...
- Gino: [makes throat-cutting gesture] Cut-off point? [walks over to a chair and puts his case down]
- Bud: Look, let's just say what happens if I don't finish the video on time. I mean, Vito said there was some kind of easy payment plan.
- Gino: It is easy: you don't pay us, we kill you. It don't get no easier than that.
- [Gino begins unlocking his case, causing Bud to panic]
- Bud: [slowly begins to panic] What do you got in there? Vito said I had until 5. It's not 5:00 yet.
- [Gino finally opens the case, causing Bud to run to the other side of the studio and duck behind the camera]
- Bud: NOOO! Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!
- Gino: [pulls out a small laptop computer from the case] Take it easy, Spiel-bug. I'm just checking my e-mail.
- [Bud slowly gets up and looks at the three dancers who give him a mocking smile and wave to him. He then begins to walk back to Gino while trying to regain his composure]
- Bud: Oh, gee, a PowerBook? I never thought computers were for, you know...
- Gino: Big, dumb thugs? See, we use computers now because the family is very much into recycling.
- Bud: Oh, you mean, like glass, papers, cans?
- Gino: No. Body parts. Say, for a hypothetical, it's 5:00, Vito walks in, he ain't got no tape. So I look up in my PowerBook and see that Jim in Jersey needs a spleen. [Bud suddenly grabs his stomach area] So we recycle your spleen into Jim. Problem... [gestures outward with his hands] Solution [gestures inwards towards himself].
- Bud: [nervously] Can I live without a spleen?
- Gino: Perhaps, but little Joey in New Haven needs a brain. [grins, then shows Bud the laptop]
- Bud: [motivated] Kelly, Raphael, it's showtime.
- [Gino is using his laptop, while being surrounded by the three dancers]
- Kate: Do you have "Mortal Kombat" in there?
- Gino: Are you kidding? I got the highest score in the mob.
- [they begin to laugh, just as Bud begins walking over to them]
- Bud: Gino, good news.
- Gino: I can kill you now?
- Bud: No, I meant good news for me. I patched things up between Kelly and Raphael.
- Gino: How?
- Bud: I did what any respectable director would do. I lied to them and offered them points in the film.
- Gino: [dumbfounded] Net?
- Bud: [grinning, in a mischievous tone] Of course.
- [the entire group bursts out into laughter]
Notes[]
Title[]
- The title of this episode is a reference to the 1966 Spaghetti Western film The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
Trivia[]
- Bud's middle name is revealed as Franklin in this episode.
- The rerun airing on ViacomCBS Domestic Media Networks is edited to exclude the "Screw U" dialogue between Jefferson and Officer Dan.
- In this episode, the mother bird that attacks Bob Rooney is referred to by Officer Dan as a “B-52 with a beak” and it lifts him over 70 feet into the air, something even the strongest birds, like the eagles are not capable of doing. Given its size and strength, it’s possible that the “Mama Bird” is a late surviving specimen of the genus Argentavis, a giant prehistoric bird of prey that resembled a cross between an eagle and a condor. It stood up to 6 feet tall, and had a wingspan of about 25 feet. It was the only bird that was big and strong enough to lift a human.
Cultural References[]
- After Jefferson and Officer Dan get into an argument over the part, "Screw U", Jefferson takes a one legged stance with his arms up and folded like a wing. This is a reference to the 1984 martial arts film, The Karate Kid in which the protagonist uses the technique to score his victory in the All Valley Karate Tournament.
- The film featured Pat Morita who starred with Ted McGinley on the television series Happy Days and would later make a guest appearance on MWC as Mr. Shimokawa.
- One of the women asks Gino if his PowerBook has Mortal Kombat on it. He then boasted that he has the highest score in the mafia.
- Mortal Kombat is a video game franchise that is known for its extreme violence and gore. A few months prior to this episode's original airing, the third installment of the series, was released in arcades, as well as a live action film.
- Bud tells Gino that he convinced Kelly and Rafael to work again by offering them net points to the film, causing him, Gino and the dancers to laugh.
- In Hollywood accounting, points refers to the percentage of profit an actor would be entitled to for their work, with net points referring to the net profit after all other expenses are paid for.
- In this scenario, Bud and the rest of the group are laughing at Kelly and Raphael's choice to take net points because the actors who are owed net points are often told after production that their movies earned little or no net profits even though gross profits surpassed production costs significantly. Hence, Kelly and Raphael would be getting little or no money for their work.[1]
- Rafael tells Bud that he would "rather give CPR to Rosie O'Donnell" than listen to Kelly's workout music.
- Rosie O'Donnell is an actress and comedienne who shortly after this episode originally aired, she became the host of her own daytime talk show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show.
- After finishing up filming, Bud refers to Raphael as "El Boy-o Loco" while talking to the background dancers. This is in reference to the Mexican-style chicken restaurant chain, El Pollo Loco. Although El Pollo Loco is a real chain of Mexican-style chicken restaurants, they are primarily based in California and the southwestern US and did not have any locations in Illinois at the time this episode was filmed.
- The undercover cops in the exercise video are named Farrah, Jaclyn and Kate, which are the names of the actresses who starred in the 1970s television series, Charlie's Angels (Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson).
- They even pose with their guns in the same formation that the trio does during the opening credits of the show.
- The "One Strike and You're Out!" sexual harassment law that put Bud in jail at the end of the episode is a parody of the Three-strikes law that was legislated into law in 1994. The law is meant to give criminals who committed a felony for the third time a mandatory life sentence in prison after having committed two prior felonies.
Locations[]
- Bundy Residence
- Gary's Aerobics Studio
Sets[]
- Bundy Living Room / Kitchen
- Bundy Roof
- Gary's Aerobics Studio Workout Area
Goofs[]
- When Raphael storms into his dressing room after the argument with Bud, the star falls off the door. Later on when Bud bangs on the door for Raphael and Kelly to hurry up so he can make the video before Gino kills him, the star is back on the door.
- Bud and Kelly watch a video of Gino and Vito plotting crimes. However, when the camera shows Bud and Kelly in a reverse angle, we also see the back of the VCR and the television monitor. There are no cables hooked up.
- When Officer Dan falls on top of Ike, its clearly a dummy and doesn't even have any hair.
- Bud refers to Raphael as "El Boy-o Loco", in reference to the restaurant chain, El Pollo Loco. Although El Pollo Loco is a real chain of Mexican-style chicken restaurants, they are primarily based in California and the southwestern US and did not have any locations in Illinois at the time this episode was filmed. So, it would not make much sense for Bud to reference a restaurant chain that was not known outside of the Southwestern United States.
- Just before Bebe enters the scene, Bud flees to Raphael's dressing room and clearly moves the camera with his body which causing it to spin and face the studio audience. This same camera, as seen later, tapes the conversation between Bebe and Gino. The angle at which the camera points during its move could never have recorded the footage later seen.