Archie buys Kelsey's Bar, but has to forge Edith's signature to get the money.

Mike has to soothe Edith's feelings after she learns that Archie forged her signature to buy the bar.

After Edith's cousin Liz dies her female roommate admits to Edith that they were lovers.

Archie, Mike and Gloria plan a surprise party for Edith to celebrate her 50th birthday. But an unwelcome visitor to the Bunker's home - while Edith is home alone - has a much different surprise in mind for the Bunker matriarch.

Edith encounters a life-threatening rapist on her 50th birthday.

Archie has to delay his fishing trip when Edith has an anniversary party for a couple from the Sunshine Home.

Harry the bartender quits after Archie keeps bossing him around. Edith and the Stivics end up helping out during the grand opening of Archie's Place.

Slow business at the saloon depresses Archie, so well-meaning Hank Pivnik gives him some pills to help him cheer up. But Archie takes too many and the family fears for his health.

Depressed Archie confines himself to bed indefinitely, so the family tries to get Harry the bartender to become Archie's partner and invest in Archie's Place.

A power outage and reports of looting in the city prompt Mike to write a letter to the editor about how greedy governments do the same in the name of free enterprise. At the bar, Archie vents his frustrations about how Mike always argues his point and doesn't see things his way. Two men - who have been listening in - approach Archie and suggest that he come to a meeting of the Kweens Kouncil of Krusaders (a chapter of the Klu Klux Klan), where they will come up with a more severe way of "teaching" Mike a lesson.

Archie learns that Gordie and Mitch - the two men he met earlier at his bar - plan to burn a cross on the Stivic's lawn and must come up with a way to stop them. When Archie tries to persuade Mike to write a new letter to the editor (recanting his previous stance on free enterprise), he lets slip that he had spoken with known Klu Klux Klan members. Mike is outraged and tells Archie to go away, but Archie is still determined to stop the cross burning - even if it means he will be the KKK's next target.

A flashback episode of when Mike and Gloria first came together by mutual friends at the Bunker home while Archie and Edith are out. Initially their differences lead to much tension until they discover a shared love for old style dancing.

Edith's faith is severely shaken when their friend Beverly, a female impersonator, is murdered saving Mike at Christmastime.

Mike recovers from the injuries he sustained in the mugging. But the Christmas Day gift exchange is still strained due to Edith's depression due to Beverly Lasalle's death, so the family rallies around her.

Honest Edith just can't lie during a detergent commercial.

On Superbowl Sunday, Archie's Place is robbed.

Archie will not allow Edith's aunt to move in after she was rejected by the rest of her family.

The butcher falls in love with Edith.

Mike and Archie get locked together in the storage room at Archie's Place and have a long talk.

Even a Pocono weekend doesn't seem to spark the romance in the Stivic's marriage.

Before an operation, Archie's brother tries to smooth over differences that occurred long ago.

Mike accepts a job on the West Coast and the Stivics prepare to move.

Mike and Gloria can't make the special dinner that Edith prepared for the departing Stivics.

Saying goodbye to Mike and Gloria proves traumatic for the Bunkers. Before they leave for their new life in California, Mike and Gloria share some long-hidden feelings, confused tears, and much, much more with Archie and Edith.