ABC
January 15, 1997
Sitcom
DVD
B
B
Ellen's realtor Margaret (Nancy Lenehan again) talks her into getting a nook for her house. So Joe has his friend Madeline (Florence Henderson) pulls some strings for Ellen to get a building permit. But it turns out that Joe, who's been secretly seeing Madeline for four months, is a kept man. Ellen talks him into giving back Madeline's gifts, but soon finds herself under Madeline's spell, and we see Ellen transformed into a well-dressed shopaholic. There are some lines here that play off not only Ellen's closeted state but also Henderson's Brady past, and overall Dava Savel's writing is good. Even the Spence subplot, where he considers getting a tattoo to apologize to Paige for ruining her kitchen, isn't bad.
Rick Hall makes his second appearance as Contractor #1. Paige is absent, presumably still in Canada on the Bob Saget project. John Tracy, whose TV directing career goes back to the '70s, including two Bosom Buddies episodes and one Who's the Boss? episode, here does his only Ellen episode.
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