Al plans a special evening for Peg's birthday by taking her out to the Bowlarama where he hopes to finally beat his arch rival's high game score, but Peg bowls a perfect game and destroys Al's self-esteem.
Tropes:
- Bested at Bowling: Peggy bowls 300 immediately after Al breaks the record at the local alley. This destroys Al's masculine ego.
- Bowling for Ratings: Al goes bowling in an attempt to beat the alley record of 256. He succeeds by bowling a 257 but is then upstaged by Peg bowling a perfect game.
- Heroic BSoD: Al suffers one of these as a result of Peggy getting a perfect score at bowling.
- Sanity Slippage: Al Bundy begins losing it as his wife gets ever closer to bowling a perfect game and beating the record he just set, and when she succeeds at it, Al's mind snaps completely and he's later seen sitting on the couch in front of the blank TV, imagining seeing himself on it as a winner.
- Talk Show Appearance: Al, who lost his mind after Peg bested his bowling score, fantasizes he's watching a news report where he saved a family of ten and their dog Winky from a house fire and a sports talk show with Roy Firestone where he's a popular football player in addition to being a bullfighter, a race car driver, an aviator and inventor of something called the seven-day underwear.
