Who's the Boss?: Tony Micelli, This Is Your Life

Who's the Boss?: Tony Micelli, This Is Your Life
ABC
February 1, 1992
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Michele J. Wolff wrote this episode, which is certainly an improvement over the previous one.  Tony has a It's a Wonderful Life-like dream where he never injured his shoulder and is a very successful baseball player.  Unfortunately, he's also a jerk, or at least he has been to this point, but he tries to make amends.  Angela doesn't have her own agency, but she can't be doing that bad if she owns the same house.  Sam has written a thinly veiled novel about her father, which she promotes on The Phil Donahue Show.  The equivalent to Clarence the angel here is Tony's late Coach (Brandon Maggart, who would be Harry on Ellen).  It feels a little gratuitous to have Tony wake up with a ditzy blonde, who appears in a towel later, but even when Tony is committed to Angela, his eye still wanders.  At least there's a very sweet T & A moment in the penultimate scene, where he asks if she loves him and she says of course, which is all that matters to him.

I'm guessing the character Mike Va Salle takes his last name from the WtB writer Linda Va Salle.