Who's the Boss?: Eye on Angela

Who's the Boss?: Eye on Angela
ABC
February 19, 1985
Sitcom
DVD
B

Ellen Guylas wrote this farcical story, with special guest star the one and only Betty White, still in Sue Ann Nivens mode as Bobbie Barnes.  Bobbie hosts local TV show Eye on Hartford and she'll be profiling Angela.  She's looking for dirt and finds it when Tony and Angela, through an admittedly contrived set-up, accidentally wake up together in Sam's bed.  (Sam has a nightmare after the family watches Valley Ghoul, a nonexistent horror movie, on TV.)   Mona has spent the night in Jonathan's room so she's on the spot when Bobbie and her crew catch Tony and Angela in their nightclothes entering the upstairs hall, Angela saying, "I love when you put whipped cream on them!"  (Belgian waffles.)  Angela worries that everyone will think she's sleeping with her housekeeper.  Tony says she could do worse, so Mona says, "And has."  He invites Bobbie over, but it takes Mona, in full catty-but-protective mode, to blackmail former "weather bunny" Bobbie.

It's funny that even in the post-Three's-Company era, Angela possibly having sex with Tony is considered "kinky."  And, yes, there's a lot of shipping fodder here, especially in the tag, where Tony and Angela both claim they didn't dream while in bed together (Tony says he doesn't dream, which we'll later have proof is untrue), and yet we see them each remembering something that makes them grin, with a symbolic fire blazing behind them.