Now with Marcy's single life, she decides to go dancing and take Peggy with her. Peggy attracts a guy named Andy played by Sam McMurray. They go dancing a couple times a week. Finally, Andy's wife shows up at Al's door. It turns out that Andy's gay and his wife is actually a man played by Dan Castellnata. Al and him bond over his cooking especially his potatoes and discussion about sports. Al thinks he's a male Peggy but he's wrong. He's got a job, he cooks, and watches sports but would rather be home like Al than out dancing with his spouse. I like the part where Al gets to eat and says "Will you marry me?" I thought the episode was well-done despite it's nature which was controversial in it's day for 1990. Oh well, times have changed but not the Bundys.
7 Reviews
A Personal Favourite Of Mine
slightlymad2223 October 2014
Plot In A Paragraph: Peggy (Katy Segal) goes dancing with Marcy (Amanda Bearse) and meets a man called Andy (Sam McMurry) and is instantly smitten with him. Then his wife turns up at the door and tells Al what has been going on.
After a couple of less than great (but still funny) episodes, we are back to the 10/10 rating from the first couple of episodes of this season
Once again Ed O'Neil is great as Al, likewise Katy Segal as a flirty Peggy. Amanda Bearse is a lot of fun as a slutty man hungry Marcy. Barring a couple of scenes the gorgeous Christina Applegate and David Faustino aren't given much to do besides a couple of scenes. Dan Castellaneta is great as Pete.
After a couple of less than great (but still funny) episodes, we are back to the 10/10 rating from the first couple of episodes of this season
Once again Ed O'Neil is great as Al, likewise Katy Segal as a flirty Peggy. Amanda Bearse is a lot of fun as a slutty man hungry Marcy. Barring a couple of scenes the gorgeous Christina Applegate and David Faustino aren't given much to do besides a couple of scenes. Dan Castellaneta is great as Pete.
"Dance Show" vs. Seinfeld's "The Contest"...
dsgraham21200211 September 2015
Warning: Spoilers
I'm going pick a nit, with this review. I'm sick and tired of the adoration and perception of what a landmark program Seinfeld's "The Contest" was, aired November 18, 1992. Two full years prior, came this 'landmark' and equally 'shocking' program, aired on October 21, 1990.
What "The Contest" did to the subject of self-pleasure (I want this review to be approved, so I won't chance the 'M' word), "Dance Show" did to male homosexuality. The episode contains my all-time favorite Al Bundy line, where he learned of Pete's attitudes toward cooking for his 'husband' ("A well-fed man is a happy man"), loving sports (except for soccer, which isn't really a sport), and making a good living ("I'm an office manager making "forty-thou a year"...big bucks for 1990!), all qualities Al would embrace and cherish in a spouse, to which he replied to Pete with arguably the greatest Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy facial expression and line delivery on this show, a mixture of goofy realization and acceptance : "I love you." Later at the tail end of the show, Al drops the bomb on Peggy about her dance partner and flirtation saying: "He was a homo, Peg". Now, can anyone remember when this epithet was used on a network television comedy before 1990? Currently on IMDb, "The Contest" has a 9.6 rating from 2,139 users (pu-leeez people) and "Dance Show" a very large but paling-in-comparison 8.5 from 299 (I will be #300 with a "10"). I've recently seen both episodes once again, having viewed "Dance Show" many more times than the other, and this reviewed episode is my hands-down preference. Al's line is still a gem, easily out-ranking "Yes, but are you still the master of your domain?", which for me is now simply trite and ho-hum.
Neither episode remains shocking in any way by today's standards, but I truly feel that even taking each one into its proper context, "Dance Show" is quite easily equal to "The Contest".
What "The Contest" did to the subject of self-pleasure (I want this review to be approved, so I won't chance the 'M' word), "Dance Show" did to male homosexuality. The episode contains my all-time favorite Al Bundy line, where he learned of Pete's attitudes toward cooking for his 'husband' ("A well-fed man is a happy man"), loving sports (except for soccer, which isn't really a sport), and making a good living ("I'm an office manager making "forty-thou a year"...big bucks for 1990!), all qualities Al would embrace and cherish in a spouse, to which he replied to Pete with arguably the greatest Ed O'Neill as Al Bundy facial expression and line delivery on this show, a mixture of goofy realization and acceptance : "I love you." Later at the tail end of the show, Al drops the bomb on Peggy about her dance partner and flirtation saying: "He was a homo, Peg". Now, can anyone remember when this epithet was used on a network television comedy before 1990? Currently on IMDb, "The Contest" has a 9.6 rating from 2,139 users (pu-leeez people) and "Dance Show" a very large but paling-in-comparison 8.5 from 299 (I will be #300 with a "10"). I've recently seen both episodes once again, having viewed "Dance Show" many more times than the other, and this reviewed episode is my hands-down preference. Al's line is still a gem, easily out-ranking "Yes, but are you still the master of your domain?", which for me is now simply trite and ho-hum.
Neither episode remains shocking in any way by today's standards, but I truly feel that even taking each one into its proper context, "Dance Show" is quite easily equal to "The Contest".
« Then, your mother. The end » (vhs) (dvd)
leplatypus25 November 2012
Warning: Spoilers
Without Steve but with the constant food question, I expected this 5th season to be annoying. But, it's actually the opposite. It's the best season ever so far:
Even after four years, the scripts manage to be still innovative and go into new territories: parody ("Godfather" (5.13) or gold fever (5.23-24)), Cartoon (alien (5.7), wabbit (5.8), supermarket contest (5.22), buck's life (5.14)) and religion (as Al begins his crazy monologues with his Lord). The dreadful food question is really tuned down and the family life follows the timeline (one thing that the Simpsons couldn't get it): Kelly has graduated and becomes actually a jobless woman at home, like her mother. This new situation brings funny moments Al sharing a week with Kelly (5.2) or Peggy nursing Bud (5.10) and it's really a situation that all others prude shows never want to look after! It's also a big athletic season for Al as he can add new glorious chapters in his sport life (5.4-16). At last, it's the arrival of Jefferson: personally, he can't me forget Steve because it's just the opposite: Steve was a prude nerd tempted by going astray while Jefferson is a crook turning into goodness. The stinkers are very few: "Top of the heap" (5.20) is boring because it's failed spin-off, without our beloved cast.
My best episode this year is 5.5: getting desperate to see Bud turning into female (5.25), it was so funny to see Al realizing that his dream wife would be a ... man!
Even after four years, the scripts manage to be still innovative and go into new territories: parody ("Godfather" (5.13) or gold fever (5.23-24)), Cartoon (alien (5.7), wabbit (5.8), supermarket contest (5.22), buck's life (5.14)) and religion (as Al begins his crazy monologues with his Lord). The dreadful food question is really tuned down and the family life follows the timeline (one thing that the Simpsons couldn't get it): Kelly has graduated and becomes actually a jobless woman at home, like her mother. This new situation brings funny moments Al sharing a week with Kelly (5.2) or Peggy nursing Bud (5.10) and it's really a situation that all others prude shows never want to look after! It's also a big athletic season for Al as he can add new glorious chapters in his sport life (5.4-16). At last, it's the arrival of Jefferson: personally, he can't me forget Steve because it's just the opposite: Steve was a prude nerd tempted by going astray while Jefferson is a crook turning into goodness. The stinkers are very few: "Top of the heap" (5.20) is boring because it's failed spin-off, without our beloved cast.
My best episode this year is 5.5: getting desperate to see Bud turning into female (5.25), it was so funny to see Al realizing that his dream wife would be a ... man!
A classic MWC episode
gatsby916068 June 2020
Among the best MWC episodes and rare for its time in featuring a gay male couple. Peggy wants to go dancing while Al would rather stay home hungry with Peggy out of the house. She goes with Marcy and meets a partner in suave and charming Andy who is a great dancer. They dance night after night.
Imagine Al's shock when Andy's "wife" Pete comes knocking at the door. He is soon impressed Pete holds a great job and is a fabulous cook who feeds Al. Pete is the perfect wife that Peggy is not as Al stuffs his mouth with Pete's cooking.
After Al berates Andy for ignoring such a fine wife, Andy responds with one of the show's greatest lines: "You ate Pete's potato?" The episode concludes with Al making a tremendous comeback when Peggy thinks he is jealous of Andy's attentions to her.
The voice of Homer Simpson Dan Castellenetta plays Pete. A hilarious episode.
Imagine Al's shock when Andy's "wife" Pete comes knocking at the door. He is soon impressed Pete holds a great job and is a fabulous cook who feeds Al. Pete is the perfect wife that Peggy is not as Al stuffs his mouth with Pete's cooking.
After Al berates Andy for ignoring such a fine wife, Andy responds with one of the show's greatest lines: "You ate Pete's potato?" The episode concludes with Al making a tremendous comeback when Peggy thinks he is jealous of Andy's attentions to her.
The voice of Homer Simpson Dan Castellenetta plays Pete. A hilarious episode.
Peggy's gaydar is on the fritz.
BA_Harrison17 November 2022
While a starving Al stays at home waiting for a pizza to be delivered, Peggy and Marcy go dancing. Peggy meets a man called Andy, who she believes is flirting with her. In reality, Andy is gay but enjoys socialising and dancing, while his more domesticated husband Pete prefers to stay at home. Worried that Andy might be trying to replace him with a woman, Pete goes to see Al for help. Al is impressed by the fact that Pete has a job, loves sport and can cook, just like a wife should, and after Pete treats him to a steak dinner and cake, Al agrees to deal with the situation concerning his wife and her dance partner.
This a solid episode: Kelly looks amazing in a red top and short skirt, Bud has a date with a 'tramp' (Al approves and gives his son $20), and Marcy acts like a floozy with a sailor. The inclusion of a same-sex couple was remarkably progressive for a sitcom in 1990, and while Al still makes some hilariously un-PC remarks about Pete and Andy's relationship, he's not nearly as judgmental as one might imagine.
Best line: "You had Pete's potato?"
This a solid episode: Kelly looks amazing in a red top and short skirt, Bud has a date with a 'tramp' (Al approves and gives his son $20), and Marcy acts like a floozy with a sailor. The inclusion of a same-sex couple was remarkably progressive for a sitcom in 1990, and while Al still makes some hilariously un-PC remarks about Pete and Andy's relationship, he's not nearly as judgmental as one might imagine.
Best line: "You had Pete's potato?"
One of my favorites
dave-76-49061531 January 2021
Others have described this episode. This is one that I watch over and over when I need a laugh. I think Dan Castellaneta is about the funniest guest star. I'm disappointed that there were no follow on episodes with Pete and Al going to a ball game.
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