Who's the Boss?: Paint Your Wagon

Who's the Boss?: Paint Your Wagon
ABC
January 15, 1985
Sitcom
DVD
C+

This is one of the weakest episodes of the first season, although not without interest.  Tony is holding a free aerobics class for the other housekeepers in the neighborhood, including Phoebe (Melanie Vincz, who was Kathy on Mork & Mindy and two different roles on Three's Company), the Wilmingtons' maid.  Diane Wilmington (a pre-Designing-Women Delta Burke) resents her husband's affair with Phoebe.

Meanwhile, Angela wants her Jaguar painted beige or perhaps sandalwood.  Tony decides to have it painted red, and she's furious.  She says he's just the housekeeper and he doesn't know his place.  So he goes coldly "Jeeves," even when she tries to apologize.  This bugs me even more than the "Jack in the Flower Shop" episode of Three's Company, where they're both in the wrong, but he's more in the wrong and yet she suffers for it more.  After all, it's a $1500 paint job!  When seductive Mrs. Wilmington wants to trade Tony for Phoebe, Angela says he's free to go, as soon as he pays off the $1500.  And she gives in on the red paint.  This is, by the way, an episode where catty!Mona is present, mostly against Mrs. Wilmington but sometimes against Angela, although she is the peacemaker between Tony and Angela as well.

Linda Hoy, who was Nurse Brown on Three's Company, is Vivian.