Who's the Boss?: Seer of Love

Who's the Boss?: Seer of Love
ABC
September 28, 1991
Sitcom
DVD
B+

Michele J. Wolff wrote this season-opener and game-changer.  Angela decides to buy Tony a watch for their seventh anniversary.  The Jeweler (Wil Albert, who was Isabelle's agent on Bosom Buddies) is sarcastic with her but she finds herself deciding to get the inscription "It's time I told you I love you."  However, Tony has gotten Angela seat covers for her Jag.  With nudging from friends, family, and strangers, the two do end up confessing their love, after a long seven years, during which, as Mona notes, Communism has fallen and other things have changed.  The episode is well acted, well written, well acted, and well costumed (including Angela's floral dress), and certainly the sets of the carnival are impressive.  So why not an A- or higher, especially since this is the culmination of so much of the series?  It feels like something indefinable is missing, and not just because the Nick at Nite version leaves out such important moments as finding out Billy's fate.  (He's back with his grandmother.)  Don't get me wrong, this is one of the top episodes of the series, but I don't feel like it's as amazing as "Jonathan Plays Cupid."  On the other hand, it's a definite improvement over the entire previous season.

Ivy Bethune had played a Woman Customer on That Girl a quarter century before her role as Sister Mary Francis (another scene that's cut out in syndication).