You don't need to dig far to see how Married With Children had to have a massive rethink regarding their plans for their sixth season. They went in with an idea of how they wanted the overarching story arc of the season to go -- another way to add more hell to Al's life -- and real life got in the way. So, they had to pull the ejection lever and do what could have been nearly impossible: keep everything they wanted from the first half of the season yet reset the Status Quo and make an interesting episode out of it. And it works.
And it's funny. Most episodes that have to revamp the season or reset it are usually dreary affairs that put continuity first for the show to continue and make it funny as an afterthought. But this episode goes into a whole new territory with Al Bundy and manages to be a classic while resetting the season outright. It's a gem to behold. Al Bundy as a hapless detective who manages to edge out a win is really one of the finer moments of the show and easily one of the best episodes of this part of the show's run even if it was written to gracefully back out of an abandoned storyline.
And it's funny. Most episodes that have to revamp the season or reset it are usually dreary affairs that put continuity first for the show to continue and make it funny as an afterthought. But this episode goes into a whole new territory with Al Bundy and manages to be a classic while resetting the season outright. It's a gem to behold. Al Bundy as a hapless detective who manages to edge out a win is really one of the finer moments of the show and easily one of the best episodes of this part of the show's run even if it was written to gracefully back out of an abandoned storyline.