Who's the Boss?

Part of settling into his new home has Tony using Angelas personal bathroom and getting an eyeful when she steps out of the tub. Neither of the two stubborn housemates accept responsibility, and disagree to an extent that Tonys new girlfriend gives him the heave-ho. Monas advice about role-playing to better understand each others point of view helps Tony and Angela see that they arent angry after all.

Mona meets Jason, the man of her dreams, but shes old enough to be his mother! After much hiding the truth comes out and Angela, who previously stated that age had no part in love, is aghast. Its not until Jasons parents tell Angela that Mona isnt good enough for their son that she stands up for her mother and does an about-face of her opinion.

Tony is greatly anticipating his dinner date with a girl in Brooklyn, just as Angela is preparing for a business dinner for two with a client. When Angelas guest cancels at the last minute, Tony reluctantly stays in Connecticut to keep her company, while attempting to keep, but slightly postpone, his date.

At the market, Tony picks up a woman who believes that he is the owner of Angelas house and Jaguar. Meanwhile, Angela accepts a date with a man who believes that she is Rosie, Angelas flighty secretary. Both advise the other that no good relationship can begin based on a lie, and soon both are forced to confront their deceived dates.

Tony is moonlighting to raise extra money, which Mona believes is to take care of a secret girlfriend in Brooklyn. Soon the truth comes out: Tony is still paying rent on his recently deceased fathers apartment, so that he and Sam will have a place to go just in case things dont work out in Connecticut.

Its time to paint the Jaguar, and Angela wants the new color to be sandalwood. Tony overrides her decision and has it painted diablo red. When Angela discovers this, she is enraged and forbids him from future decision-making, proclaiming that he is just the maid. He then takes this declaration to the extreme by dressing, speaking, and behaving like a prim and proper butler.

Mona has been evicted from her apartment and begins looking for a new home. She takes Tonys suggestion to convert the loft above Angelas garage into an apartment. Angela is not happy about the new arrangements.

While Tony and Samantha live it up at the lavish estate of Tonys new boss, a wealthy older woman, Michael and Angela enjoy their reunion. But the celebration is short-lived, as they are eventually reminded of the professional and personal differences that drove them apart the first time.

Samantha is looking forward to the upcoming school dance, but Tony spoils her evening by constantly taking pictures of her and her date, working at the dance as a chaperone, and getting caught kissing her teacher in front of the entire class.

Stories of Tonys rebellious youth are rubbing off on Jonathan, particularly when Jonathan brings home a hubcap stolen from a police car. Angela then decrees that from now on, she is to be consulted on all decisions regarding her son. Not to be completely overruled, Tony decides to handle the situation in his own way.

Angela comes home from a rowdy birthday party, just as Tony returns home from a police-sponsored demonstration of the effects of alcohol on the mind. Both are in a woozy state, and they end up kissing.

After visiting the site in the woods where each remembers from their past, a thunderstorm prevents Tony and Angela from returning to the campsite in time. They end up having to share a room at a cheap hotel. Meanwhile, Mona and the campers tell scary stories and play pranks on the counselor.

The family is thrilled when a recently deceased stranger leaves Mona a sizable chunk of money in his will. Mona soon realizes who the man was, and suddenly doesnt want the money. The man turns out to be a former family friend with whom Mona had an affair many years ago.

Michael, Angelas ex-husband, returns to announce he is going to be married again soon, and invites everyone to California for the wedding. Jonathan takes an instant liking to Heather, his fathers new wife-to-be, and to the California lifestyle. Michael tells Angela that he thinks their son would have a better life in California, and that he wants custody of Jonathan.

After posing for a calendar, Tony becomes the object of a seductive womans affections. Angela doesnt want him to date her, but her views change when one of the calendars other stars takes an interest in her.

Nick, Samanthas grandfather, is denied parole from prison, so he breaks out and prepares to run from the law. First, though, he must confront Samantha, who refuses to speak to him for what he is doing.

A distant relative of Tonys comes to town to meet the man she is to marry through an arranged marriage. Upon learning that the intended groom is a male chauvinist, Tony throws him out of the house and forbids him to marry his cousin. But this infuriates her father, who flies from Italy to confront Tony.

Angela is teaching a class on advertising, and Tony is one of her students. For the students first assignment, they are to make a commercial for a laundry detergent. Tony is overbearingly proud of his ad, but Angela despises it and give him an F.

A sitters last-minute cancellation leaves Samantha to watch Jonathan while Angela and Tony go to a parents meeting at school. Samantha panics when Jonathan inadvertently tosses a piece of jewelry down the sink drain. Although Tony had told her not to have any guests, the house is soon full of her friends: Chad, a boy who thinks he can retrieve the missing jewelry, and four of Samanthas friends who come to admire Chad. Tony and Angela return home just as the kids are sneaking out.

Tonys poker game has run late, and Angela hurries him to clean up the house in time for her friend who will soon be arriving. Just as his last guest (a raucous Brooklynite) is ready to leave, Angelas friend (a quiet, straight-laced woman) arrives, and the two end up as an item.

Tonys campaign for PTA president is clouded by his opponents mudslinging. He attempts to justify her accusations by explaining some past misunderstandings (this is done through clips of earlier episodes).

Arrogant, obnoxious neighbor Diane is devastated by her husbands recent decision to leave her for their maid. She temporarily moves in with the Bowers and Micellis, and nobody in the family enjoys her company.

One of Tonys old baseball friends visits and the two end up in a competition to organize a team of players, then play each other. Tony wants to have Angela play for his team, but when he turns out to be a demanding coach, she decides to play for the other team.

Angela has found a model to play the part of a princess in a series of pasta commercials. But the client instead chooses a shy photographer, who didnt even want the job.

Angela tries desperately to find a new job but no one of her old friends or partners has one for her.The only job she can find is one of a copy writer.Eventually,Tony and Mona convince her to open her own agency.

With a trick Jim Petersen snatches away Angelas first customer. Tony and Mona try, with a similar trick, to get him back to Angela.

Dr. Ferguson, Marcis Dad, marries and Tony and Angela should be best man and maid of honor. In the course of this both have to face the question whether the want to marry again. At the wedding party they meet Geoffrey.

For the weekend Angela goes to Maine with her friend Geoffrey. Tony now alone at home, the kids are on a school trip to Washington, invites his old flame Tanya. Angela and Geoffrey couldnt manage to go to Maine and return unexpected.

Sam has got into the schools basketball team. Her friend Todd hasnt and as she dont want to bother him she also goes without the team.Angela beats Tony in Miniature Golf.

Due to heavy snowfall life in Fairfield is down. To pass the time stories are told. Topic: Who has brought together the two families - Sam, cause shes the reason Tony wanted to move; Tony, cause he wanted to make life better for Sam; Jonathan, cause he needed someone who takes care of him; Angela, who needed someone for the household;or Mona, who has found Tony ?

Angela gives a surprise party for Tony because for the first time Angelas agency is in the black and it was Tony who persuaded her to open an agency of her own. As a present the painter Christos should portray Sam. Tony meets him and Christos tells him that a Marie Micelli once took painting lessons at him. This message causes a little crisis for Tony who now thinks he hasnt known his wife well enough.

Samantha thinks her boyfriend Chad is the cats meow when he writes a song just for her. Word gets around, and the tune is heard by legend Ray Charles whom Angela cooerses into recording it for her ad agency. When rat Chad starts seeing another girl, Samantha is so infuriated she demands the recording not take place. It takes a stellar performance of the song by Ray to make Samantha see that her friendship with Angela is more important than getting back at Chad.

Geoffrey invites Angela to a trip into the mountains. There he would like to ask her a question, which would change boths life. But its not the proposal Angela expected.

Through Tonys new girlfriend Casey Angelas got a new commercial order for Armando-Fashionwear. But she couldnt think of any spot.Age, too, is a matter because she as the experienced (equals being old) should advertise fashion for the young generation.

Tony has met Fiona at the dentist and get her a job as secretary at Angelas agency. The tidy-minded perfectionist Fiona is Angelas dream but also Monas nightmare. After an argument between Mona and Angela Fiona quits because she doesnt want to stand in the way of the both. But Mona quits, too.

Mona moves to New York to her brother and Tony gets her apartment so he can live up his bachelors life. But after the opening party the normal life returns and Tony misses his old environment.

Sam has found a new friend and meets him at the library. But its the college library - Tony finds this out and assumes that her new friend must be much too old for her. Immediately he goes there and in front of everyone he makes Sam look like a fool. Sams friend is the 15 year old genius Mason whom Sam just want to use to show off in front of her friends.

Jonathans grades are at the level where he can skip a grade. He goes from sixth grade to seventh grade. He meets a boy who gets him into trouble and Tony and Angela have to see the principal, concerning Jonathans behavior.

For a contribution campaign Tony spends 48 hours on a billboard. This campaign is also heard in Washington and Tony is offered a job as Nationwide Coordinator for Special Projects for the Parents Council.But Tony refuses - too quick, Angela thinks.

During a competition Tony injures his leg due to Angelas fault. Of course she now wants to take care of him; but this costs Tony a broken leg. Angela lends him a helping hand in the household, but somehow she cant get anything right for Tony. As a result she starts working again and gets a nurse to look after Tony. But she is much worse than Angela.

Sam and Jesse take Tonys car for a joy ride when delivering food, but she dents the car and when its time to face Tony, she lies and says a boy, who caused the Bower family trouble in the past, dented the car. But on trial day, Sam confesses what really happened to Tonys car.

Tony takes charge of a teen restaurant. When he throws out a popular student all the other customer follow him. Sam, working there as waitress, gets the order to fire her dad.

Tonys relatives from Italy are coming for a visit and uncle Aldo has a great surprise for Tony: he gives him a 12 hectare piece of the winery. Maurizio, Tonys cousin, has fallen for Angela and wants to marry her.

To prevent the old school in Brooklyn from being tore down, a benefit concert is organized.There, also Tony and the Dreamtones should be on stage, but due to their continuing disagreements there not, that also caused their breakup years ago. After Tony hears Angela sing, he wants her to join the band on stage for a few songs. But the others refuse and Tony ultimately quits again.

Because of a job he has to do Jesse cant go out with Sam and suggests she should go out with Mason instead, whos living there for a short time after he has been thrown out of his room. After a great evening Sam gives Mason a fatal kiss which means the end of the relationship with Jesse after he has learned about it.

Sam gets a job as model. This one is a success and other orders follow. But Tony isnt happy about that fact, especially because shes earning a lot of money and with that shes no longer dependent on him.

Jesse asks Sam to go with him to the prom. But Angela takes to much care of Sam because she wants Sam having the prom night she herself never had. But after all the interferences, Sam refuses to go.

In Brooklyn Tony meets an old girlfriend. Her husband challenges Tony for a pool game which Tony should lose to strenghten the self-confidence of his opponent. But this is quite hard thing to do as he would really like to blow away this jerk.

In an effort to better himself, Tony heads off to college. The public speaking class is headed up by a strict grammer enthusiast who singles Tony out as an impossible case. Its My Fair Lady as Tony does a complete turnaround, but he alienates himself from his family and friends and must rely on the ""inner Tony"" to figure out who he really wants to be.

Tony feels guilty when he remembers he got his grandfather in trouble when he was a child, causing him to never take the American citizen swearing in, so Tony does the swearing in for his grandfather.

Samantha and Mona both break up with their boyfriends on the same night, so they go out to eat at a restaurant to clear their minds, which troubles Tony.

The wife of Monas brother has died. But to go to heaven she must make Mona reconcile with her brother. Tony is picked out as the mediator.

Mrs. Rossini visits Tony. Accompanying her is her young uncle Al.Al is attending the nearby Beauty College and Tony should take care of him. In the course of this Sam and Al come closer.

Again Sam comes home with an expensive T-shirt. This time Tony wants to show her that she can have them cheaper and produces some of them himself. Angela and Sam persuade him selling them at the flea market. Both of them help him, especially Sam hopes she can get rid of her debts which she has made at Jonathan. But it happens what has to happen: Angela and Tony quarrel.

Tony and Sam spend a weekend together skiing in Vermont. There Tony meets Lisa, his skiing instructor. But Sam isnt happy about her fathers fling. Inbetween - at home - Angela and Mona catches a cold.

Angela gets invited to a dinner at which Frank Sinatra is to perform; Tony, a huge Sinatra fan, is to be her guest. When business affairs leave her unable to go, Mona goes in her place, but doesnt tell Tony that the ticket is nontransferable.

The Bowers get new neighbors: the Harpers. But they are a little bit too snooty and an big argument between Tony/Angela and the Harpers comes up. But Jonathan and Heather, the Harpers daughter, have fallen for each other.

Angela hires a shy contractor to put a skylight in the kitchen. He takes an immediate liking to Mona, who agrees to go out with him. When he learns that he is not the only man in Monas life, he abandons the skylight job. Tony accuses Mona of having no respect for mens feelings.

Tony has a new passion: golfing. Angela wins a country club membership for Tony. There Tony meets the owner of the biggest nationwide sport articles store who currently gives away a big advertising order. And of course, Angelas after this order, too.

Sams friend Scott gets nervous about French finals, so on test day, Sam gives Scott the answers. When Tony finds out, he takes Sams car privileges. But when Sam has to take chemistry finals, someone gives Sam the answers to the test, but she does not use it. When the teacher sees the answers under Sams desk, he calls Tony. But will anyone believe anything she says?

Holidays on Jamaica. And everyone enjoys the life there.Angela, too, dives right into the holiday-action and has a lot of fun. As its not Tony, with whom she has that fun, he gets jealous.

Tony and Angela are apartment-sitting for Mrs. Rossini. After meeting two couples Tony used to be friends with, Angela dreams that she and Tony are married, living in Brooklyn, and expecting a baby.

On the spur of the moment, Tony accepts a date with a woman he meets at a bar. Having second thoughts, he cancels the date the next day, only to learn later that the woman is the professor of his new class.

Al has founded a rock band and Sam becomes, as she has some quite good ideas, the groups manager. But she has problems getting gigs because everyone just sees the cute girl in her.

Angela joins a health club, where she quickly makes friends with a group of three women. After they meet Tony, Angela tells them they are a couple. Tony learns of Angelas lie, and she explains that, just like in high school, she felt pressured to do it, in order to fit in.

Some bad experiences at school, including being assigned to play the accordion, have Jonathans self-esteem at rock bottom. Tony helps him overcome his depression by introducing him to an old friend of his, who is now an accordion player. Jonathan soon enjoys playing the accordion, but when Tony encourages him not to restrict himself to one activity, Jonathan misinterprets Tonys intentions as disapproval for the accordion, and bans Tony from his first recital.

Due to good scholastic work Sam is admitted to a special program which allows her to skip her last year in High School and go directly to college. But she fears that Tony then is left back alone.

Angela buys, due to tax reasons, a house in the neighborhood and Tony helps her shaping it up. A lodger already seems to be found but when Angela returns from a business trip she finds a young actress moving in instead.

Angela persuades Tony to train her volleyball team. Doing this Tony takes care more about the other, poorer team members and when the important game is due, Angela quits the team.

A client of Angelas, a baseball player, upsets Tony when he demonstrates that he is only in baseball for the money and the fame. Tony wonders whatever happened to pride in the game.

Tony and Angela make friends with another couple at the country club. The couple is about to become engaged, but their relationship with Tony and Angela may pose a problem.

Sam has her heart set on attending Tate College, but Tony insists she keep an open mind, so the two take a road trip to visit some schools. Sam eventually gets a letter from Tate requesting an interview, but things dont go as she hoped.

A census taker visits Tony and Angela, just as they are hoping to leave for the movies. Using flashbacks from previous episodes, Mona gives the man a brief run-down of the history of Tony and Angelas relationship.

Angela meets, and begins to date, Christopher, a man who appears to be perfect. Everyone who meets him seems to feel as if theyve met an angel. Tony, however, cannot seem to meet him, encountering several failed attempts, which begin to ruin his relationship with Kathleen.

Discouraged that Angela is spending too much time at home, Tony convinces Mona to bring her to a night club. Angela does loosen up, but more so than Tony had intended. Soon, Angela is having middle-of-the-night parties, skipping work, and becoming a regular at Monas club.

Sam moves out of the house and into a dorm. Tonys frequent visits make him as popular there as she is, and she begins to feel smothered.

The time has come for Billy to start kindergarten. But there he beats up all kids. Tony and Angela is given the advice to take up a parental consultation.

Tony becomes a volunteer fireman. His dedication is a little too extreme, and he ends up getting kicked out of the squad.

The family fly to Italy to visit Tonys relatives, who have a surprise for him. He is now the owner of a vineyard there.

Tony and Sam compete for a college job as a sportscaster. Sam expects Tony to give it his best shot, but she is afraid that, since she is running against him, he will let her win. Tonys audition video, however, misleads Sam about his intentions.

Tony and Angela invite Sam to temporarily move back to the house while she is sick. She is skeptical at first, but soon is taking full advantage of their hospitality. Only Jonathan sees that she is milking Tony and Angela for their attention.

Tony wants Billy to decide on a sport so he isnt at home all day. Billy decides in favor of swimming. This is something Tony is not happy about: he is afraid of water and cant swim.

When Tony has to leave his class, Mona takes his place as the teacher. But she teaches the class in sex education and later on, Tony is called to the principal.

Mona has caught herself another man. But Cliff also falls for Mrs. Rossini who lives at Angelas for some days. Cliff cant decide on one of the both, so a fight for Cliff arises between the two women.

Sam promotes a concert in college. But she cant find a band for the evenings highlight. Tony informs her that he has the actions to provide a star. But the friend he relied on is just a braggart whos working as errand-boy in a studio.

An attractive young government representative becomes Tonys guide to major events and public appearances around Americas capital. Angela begins to suspect that the womans intentions toward Tony are less than pure.

After Tony and Angela have confessed their love for each other,they both now want to spend an enchanting evening together.But that isnt that simply,especially since no one can know about it.

After a car crash Sam and Pierce come closer. When Tony finds this out after weeks, he - against the others expectation - takes a fancy to Pierce and confides his money to the stockbroker. But like always he overdoes here, too, and he spends more time with Pierce than Sam does.

Tony feels inferior to Angelas success. A letter that addresses him as ""Mr. Angela Bower"" doesnt help his self-esteem. He takes a second job at a bar, but that proves to be a mistake.

Tony is angry at Angela for her rejection. Meanwhile, she continues to question the sincerity of Tonys intentions.

Jonathan is looking for a job. A friend of Tonys arranges for Jonathan to work as a ball boy at New York Mets games. A slight mistake during his first game costs him his job -- and the Mets the game.

Hard times have begun in the advertising industry - and Angela isnt spared either. Tony takes over the financial management because he has economy experiences. He pinches and scrapes wherever he can.When Angela, totally frustrated, goes shopping, she runs into serious troubles with Tony. He without hesitation takes away all her credit cards.

Angela books up the whole time with some events and visits. Tony has to fall back on excuses to be together with his friends. But Angela catches on to him.

Repeated instances of swelled lips have Tony frantically searching for the cause of his affliction. Angela notes that each occurrence happens just after they mention their wedding, and she begins to worry that the swelling is a sign that he isnt ready for marriage.

Tony, Angela, Mona, Jonathan, Mrs. Rossini, and Hanks parents chase after Sam and Hank. They arrive at the chapel before the service began -- Sam did not want to be married without Tony present. Tony is still adamant against the union, but the ceremony goes forward as planned.

Angela, accompanied by Mona, goes to a health resort to get some distance from Tony and his temper. There she meets Tom who, bylook, could be Tonys lost twin brother but his way is completely contrary to Tonys.

Tony has graduated from college and his job search is unfulfilling. He gets a letter from an Iowa university who wants him to teach there. The job sounds perfect for him, but he pretends he is not interested, because its so far from his home. Angela sees through his facade and convinces him to take the job.

Angela attempts to adjust to her new life in Iowa, but discovers that she really wants to be back east, working at her agency. The conflict of professional interest threatens to split up Tony and Angela.