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‘TIS THE QUESTION: ‘WHO’S THE BOSS’ By Alicia David
Daily Titan Staff Writer
In the middle of the 1980s between side ponytails and leg warmers was a television show that blended family and comedy to give us the right mix of entertainment. “Who’s the Boss?,” which got its start in 1984, was a popular sitcom that showed us not all households are run the same. Tony Micelli, played by Tony Danza, was a widower who wanted to raise his daughter Samantha in a different state and leave the fast-paced New
York lifestyle behind. The Brooklyn pair packed up their blue van and headed off to a small town in Connecticut where Tony searched for a job as a housekeeper. He showed up on the doorstep of Angela Bower, a divorced, prim and proper advertising executive, who was a little reluctant to hire a male housekeeper. After the urging of her mancrazy mother Mona, Angela decided to hire Tony. She hoped that he might also be a good male role model for her shy, soft-spoken son, Jonathan. Tony, an easy-going former baseball player, and Samantha
Mona, the fun-loving redhead, lived in a separate area above the garage. This living arrangement made it easy for her to frequently come and go as she pleased through the kitchen in the main house. She would Photo provided by nostalgiacentral.com sneak in to add were the exact opposite of her wisecrack comments before the overly-stressed Angela quickly being kicked out by and Jonathan, but the oppo- Angela. The show took us through sites seemed to attract and had everyone laughing at their day the ups and downs of two single parents trying to raise to day problems. The four had to learn to make their children under the same adjustments for their newly roof with not always the same combined lifestyle, which rules. Tony added the father figproved to not be as easy as it ure element that Jonathan was seemed.
missing, while Angela acted as a motherly figure to Samantha. In the eighth and final season of the show, everyone started to go their separate ways. Samantha became more lady-like and after attracting the attention of many guys, eventually got married. Jonathan slowly broke out of his shell. And Although Tony and Angela became close to marriage with their constant flirting back and forth and love/hate relationship, they never did tie the knot. The show may not have had a traditional household setting, but it did show us the importance of bonding together to get through everyday struggles. For those of us who just can’t get enough of this light-hearted family comedy, the first season DVD has been released and re-runs of the show are often shown on Nick at Nite.
