Who's The Boss?

[ljenkins782]

22 hours ago, JAYJAY1979 said:

Oddly Judith Light was of the few actresses, Mary Frann on Newhart is another, where the 80s hair worked on them.  Now some of her outfits...on the otherhand..and the huge glasses not so much.

Mona didn't seem to vibe with the 80s look..but by the early 90s, the show found a nice ensemble and hair style that worked great on her (at the expense of her warm moments sadly).

Yeah, the big hair kind of balanced out Judith Light's long-ish face. The straight middle parted hair she had by the end was a bit less flattering.

As for Mona, she dressed in a more classic style, which made sense for a WASP-y Connecticut woman over 50. I liked a lot of her clothes, and she definitely wore her sweaters well. The one thing I always notice about either the character (or perhaps it was just Katherine Helmond's style) is that her nails were always beautifully manicured. Not those tacky, overly pointy or fake looking, but very natural, perfectly painted nails.

[Bastet]

I know this is random, but it's driving me nuts -- which episode has the scene where Samantha is in one of her you're not my mother snits about Angela, Angela tells her to go to her room, Tony walks in and wants to know what's going on, Samantha says, appalled, "Angela just told me to go to my room," and Tony says, with perfect delivery, "Then go to your room"?

[GHScorpiosRule]

5 minutes ago, Bastet said:

I know this is random, but it's driving me nuts -- which episode has the scene where Samantha is in one of her you're not my mother snits about Angela, Angela tells her to go to her room, Tony walks in and wants to know what's going on, Samantha says, appalled, "Angela just told me to go to my room," and Tony says, with perfect delivery, "Then go to your room"?

It's the Ray Charles episode; where Samantha agreed to use the red headed demon Chad's song "Always A Friend", but then caught him macking on another girl and asked Angela not to use it.

"Hit The Road, Chad"

Edited November 15, 2022 by GHScorpiosRule

[Bastet]

5 minutes ago, GHScorpiosRule said:

It's the Ray Charles episode; where Samantha agreed to use the red headed demon Chas's (?) song "Always A Friend", but then caught him macking on another girl and asked Angela not to use it.

Thank you!  I knew Samantha was in trouble about Jonathan when it happened, so I thought maybe it was the one where she babysits, but that wasn't it.  You're right -- it's that she, angry with Angela for saying she couldn't refuse to use the song, took it out on Jonathan.

I love how quickly they became a family.  That very first Christmas, with everyone in their pajamas by the fire, having opened presents, and then Tony and Angela are dancing and Samantha thinks they're dorks, but then Mona starts dancing with her and little Jonathan is adorable trying and utterly failing to do anything like that with his own feet -- if you just looked in on them without knowing the context, you would think they'd all been together forever.

By the end of season two, when Tony has to have an emergency appendectomy, he asks Angela to raise Samantha if anything happens to him, and she readily agrees.

The reasons not to get together got ridiculous in the later years, but I like that when the kids were little Tony and Angela acknowledged that if they'd got to know each other under different circumstances, they'd be dating, but with things how they are, the family is more important and they can't risk it.  Samantha needs Angela, Jonathan needs Tony, and Tony and Angela need each other to raise them, so anything beyond friendship and co-parenting isn't even a possibility right now.

[Bastet]

It's weird that this show has come up in conversation twice - with two different people - in the past month, but it indeed happened again earlier today and this particular chat made me realize that after all these years, I can still pull up in my mind the exact inflection with which Samantha said "Oh, my god" when she realized the Jag wound up in the lake because Tony and Angela were making out in it, and Mona's pitch perfect "Well, get back in that car until it does!" when Tony said nothing happened.