Who's the Boss?: Allergic to Love

And Mona's dating a hand model

Who's the Boss?: Allergic to Love
ABC
February 8, 1992
Sitcom
DVD
C+

If by now you're getting the feeling that the characters and/or writers-- Adam I. Lapidus this time-- were ambivalent about Tony and Angela getting married, you're correct.  Here, Tony seems to be, yes, allergic to love, and the more he insists he wants to get married, the less she believes him.  At some point in this season, there was a switcheroo, with some, including Light, still in favor of having a wedding, and others, most notably Tony D and ABC, feeling that marrying off Tony M and Angela would be a mistake, either because that wasn't what the show was supposed to be about and/or because it would harm the series in syndication.  In any case, the dilemma here is "solved" in that it turns out that Tony is only allergic to the glue in the wedding invitation envelopes, but there's still an unsettling feeling about the proceedings.

A few other things to note: Mona says that Angela was at her wedding, implying she was pregnant at the time; Sam, despite her relationship with Hank, is only inviting Bonnie, whom we haven't seen in about a year; Tony worries about whether Angela snores, even though he's literally slept with her a few times; and Tony looks like his mother, while Angela looks like his father!

Alf's Max Wright plays Dr. Wormser.  Bruce French and Eileen Barnett return as Ted and Elaine Braddock.

ALF: Somewhere Over the Rerun

ALF: Somewhere Over the Rerun
NBC
September 28, 1987
Sitcom
VHS
B-

I did not like ALF the show or ALF the character, but my then-future-ex-husband taped this for me for obvious reasons.  And it's not bad, even the segments without the castaways.  Once we hit the dream sequence on the island though, well, it's good to be home.  Everyone's aged (except of course Dawn Wells), but they're still comfortable with themselves and each other, and the writing kicks up a notch or two.  Note that the absent Jim Backus and Natalie Schafer were still respectively almost two and almost four years away from death, while Alan Hale had about two and a half years left, although you'd never guess it from here.  This may or may not be the first sitcom to pay a fond if mocking tribute to a "classic" predecessor, but it does predate, for instance, the superior Day by Day homage/reunion for The Brady Bunch.  And even Roseanne would honor Gilligan down the road.

Thirty-eight-year-old Anne Schedeen, who had multiple roles on Three's Company, most notably as his girlfriend Linda, plays wife and mother Kate Tanner.  Andrea Elson, who plays teenage daughter Lynn, would be Melinda on Who's the Boss?, while Max Wright, who plays her dad Willie, would be Dr. Wormser a couple years later on WtB.  Nick Havinga, who directed one Welcome Back, Kotter episode, here does one of his thirty for this series.