After quite a few duds, season seven delivers a genuinely funny episode in The Old College Try. This one has a very amusing premise and we get quite a few memorable lines, Ed O'Neill getting the best of them.
Bud gets a $25K grant so that he can live on university campus, the lad depositing the money into his bank account. Soon after, Al and Peggy enter the bank to add twenty cents to Bud's savings; when they see the twenty five grand in their son's account, they believe that the bank has made a mistake and withdraw the lot, spending it on luxury goods and food. Meanwhile, Bud has settled on campus and has been busy writing cheques...
Al's realisation that they have spent all of Bud's money is the funniest moment - "I think we stole his money, Peg," he says with a priceless expression on his face - but the laughs also come thick and fast when Al and Peggy pay Bud a visit on campus, where the boy already has three young babes in his shower, much to Al's delight. When Bud drills a hole in the wall so he can peep on them, Al says 'That's low, son' - not a disapproving comment on his son's reprehensible behaviour, but rather pointing out that he needs to drill a little higher up the wall. Great stuff!
Bud gets a $25K grant so that he can live on university campus, the lad depositing the money into his bank account. Soon after, Al and Peggy enter the bank to add twenty cents to Bud's savings; when they see the twenty five grand in their son's account, they believe that the bank has made a mistake and withdraw the lot, spending it on luxury goods and food. Meanwhile, Bud has settled on campus and has been busy writing cheques...
Al's realisation that they have spent all of Bud's money is the funniest moment - "I think we stole his money, Peg," he says with a priceless expression on his face - but the laughs also come thick and fast when Al and Peggy pay Bud a visit on campus, where the boy already has three young babes in his shower, much to Al's delight. When Bud drills a hole in the wall so he can peep on them, Al says 'That's low, son' - not a disapproving comment on his son's reprehensible behaviour, but rather pointing out that he needs to drill a little higher up the wall. Great stuff!
