After a fruitless search for new lodgings, Mike and Gloria agree to rent George Jefferson's old house-even though it means living next door to Archie.

Mike continues to make decisions without consulting Gloria.

Mike asserts his independence by leaving Gloria behind while he joins his friends on a weekend skiing trip.

Mike and Gloria are sure the romance has gone out of their marriage when even a weekend in the Poconous fails to reignite the spark.

Gloria insists that Mike get the vasectomy he's talked about for years.

Gloria is made to feel like an intellectual outcast when she spends the evening with Mike and his graduate-school friends.

Gloria takes out her frustrations about being pregnant on Mike.

The stiyics' love life reaches another imprasses when Michael is put off by Gloria's romantic aggressiveness.

Mike and Gloria's sex life suffers after they have to begin planning their encounters around the baby's feeding schedule.

Archie enters Joey in a newspapers's beautifull-baby contest, against the express wishes of Mike and Gloria.

The Bunkers attempt to reunite Blanche and Barney Hefner after her latest fling with an exterminator fizzles

Archie and Edith are invited to spend a fishing weekend with Barney and Blanche at their cottage. But after a game of Monopoly, an argument between Barney and Blanche begins. That night, Archie is uncomfortable to sleep with a man (Barney) in bed, while Edith and Blanche rate their husbands as a lovers. By the end, Blanche and Barney makeup and Archie tries to forget everything.

Edith holds her first Tupperware party under a cloud of worry when Archie disappears on his way to a union convention in Buffalo.

With no word from Archie after twenty-four hours, the family faces the possibility that he might've run off with another woman.

Archie must spend his afternoon at the vet when his accidently runs over Barney's annoying--but cute--dog with his cab.

When Edith develops laryngitis on the eve of her singing debut at Stephanie's PTA recital, Archie steps in to understudy the duet.

When Edith invites butcher Klemmer and his new sweetheart, a Russian who is the spitting image of Edith, she notices that Klemmer might have the hots for Edith and not for her.

Gloria leaves the house in a rage after Mike refuses to recognize her as an equal partner in their marriage.

Gloria is shocked when Mike announces that he doesn't plan on having children.

Archie returns from his sorry adventure -he get the sidetracked to a podiatrists' convention in Rochester- to find his friends and family celebrating his return with kissing contests,Hula Hoops, and ballroom dancing.

Archie feels the weight of his own mortality after a magazine quiz on life expectancy gives him another seven years- tips.

Mike becomes the sole support of a growing family when Gloria loses her job because of her pregnancy.

Edith leaves Archie when she finds out he dated flirtatious waitress while she was volunteering at the Sunshine Home.

Edith discovers Archie once had a brief encounterswith an old high school friend she's invited to dinner.

The Bunkers and Teresa wake up with their bathroom on fire! Archie expects money cashing in from the insurance company, until he finds out he's guilty for starting the fire.