ABC
March 21, 1989
Sitcom
DVD
B
Don Segall, who wrote one episode for M*A*S*H, co-wrote this episode where new neighbors Pam (Leah Ayres, who would be Fake Marcia on the Bradys) and Mark Harper (Sam McMurray, at the time recognizable from his years as a regular on The Tracey Ullman Show), along with their precocious 12-year-old daughter Heather, move in and annoy Tony and Angela. The clash is similar and yet different from the Conners and the Langs in a recent Roseanne episode. The Langs were gently mocked but they were nice people, while the Harpers use "niceness" to cover up aggression. Tony and Angela quarrel with them, especially after T & A catch Jonathan and Heather kissing. (Light's hyperventilation adds a whole other level to the humor.) And the tag scene is one of those supernatural or at least peculiar ones that would pop up now and again in the second half of the series run, this time with Mona practicing voodoo.
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