Noticing she is overworked, Tony arranges a vacation in Mexico for Angela. Initially, she has trouble not thinking of work, but soon adjusts. Tony constantly receives messages of Angela's assistant, questioning her about irrelevant things. He finally decides not to give Angela his latest message and she thereby loses an important account. Back at work, Angela finds out she has been fired. Written by matthijs_013

Tony confesses and quickly redeems his accidental part in Angela's dream job less, which Mona tries to present as a health bonus. Still everybody stresses if or at least when Angela will get another good job, yet the pool order is symbolically not canceled. As that seems a tall order given the economic cycle, she settles for head copy write, a big step back. Then a bolder idea takes shape: what if she starts her own agency? Tony would help install offices, Mona hopes to become the receptionist. Written by KGF Vissers

When her best friend, Marci, applies for a highly expensive private school called Montague, Samantha wants to apply as well. Angela is very enthusiastic, because she went to the same school. Tony, however, isn't keen on Samantha going there and is reluctant to let her go. Angela comes to the conclusion that Tony doesn't want his daughter to enroll a school filled with snobby people, but it turns out that Tony doesn't want Samantha to go to a school that far away. Eventually, Samantha is admitted to the school, but decides not to go because Marci was rejected. Written by matthijs_013

Tony and especially Mona stretch Angela's theory you must spend money to make it in business, while she wines client Ping in San Francisco, by celebrating the account in advance. They also fall for a limo company's sales pitch to lease for $1,000 a month. Angela failed and wants to economize. Tony and even Mona try to make the limo earn its keep. That works poorly, until Ping unsuspectingly rents it, driven by Mona. Written by KGF Vissers

Sam has a date with a guy whom every girl wants. The next day she's acting very strangely. Tony discovers that she has a hickey. When she says it's not a big deal and that she has another date with the guy, Tony grounds her. Angela and Mona tell him that he should talk to her. He does but she refuses to see Tony's side. She then sneaks out for her date. Written by rcs0411@yahoo.com

Tony and Angela are both asked as paranymphs at a wedding of common friends. The romantic atmosphere and table conversation with other wedding guests stir dreams of marrying themselves and make them take stock of mutual feelings as Tony's curious housekeeper position is challenged and defended. Written by KGF Vissers

Jonathan brings home more straight AAs, yet a teacher writes in a letter an extracurricular activity should broaden his perspective. Tony convinces Angela that the only way to avoid a nerd label is joining a sports team, accepted only if he coaches personally, and the boy picks gymnastics. The training goes great, while Angela drives secretary Mona nuts with workaholic zeal for her new agency. Jonathan takes a painfully excessive risk, yet Angela blames Tony for his shoulder dislocation until Mona explains the parental example pressure syndrome. Written by KGF Vissers

Geoffrey Wells gets Angela to agree to a weekend in Maine, so Tony digs up his dusty black book and finds an eager date, Tanya Stromball. When bad map reading made the Maine voyagers return, Tony feels crammed and says he'll take her to their native Brooklyn, but stops in a fancy inn. Coincidentally, Anela and Geoffrey end up there too, next door, well, balcony. Written by KGF Vissers

Tony gets a visit from Callahan, a horrible chap he constantly fought with in Brooklyn. To his amazement, the fiend is now a priest, but as soon as they start teasing again things get out of hand, even literally: hard-handed. Tony gets commandeered by the bishop to help out in a home as father Callahan left parish service, feeling he obviously remained a sinful scoundrel. Tony tries to mend that feeling as well as the dinner. Written by KGF Vissers

Tony nor Angela would admit it, but they're competitive enough about mini-golf to sneakily practice in secret after she won their first try and agreed to a rematch. Tony is puzzled when Sam squanders her chances on the basketball school team to spare a hunky kid, but Angela's sob-story changes her mind. Now Sam fears she lost the boy. Written by KGF Vissers

Tony prepared a wonderful Christmas goose dinner, but Angela accepts to join Geoofrey's family's catered dinner. Geoffrey also scares Tony from giving Angela his hand-made gift by buying her diamond earrings. Tony lies to have none of his own baseball cards left to avoid it being snapped up by Dr. Doyle Ferguson. Angela feels restoring that part of his past is the right gift for Tony. The scumbag dealer she buys it from actually bids on Tony's, tempting to pay his own 'worthy' gift for her. Written by KGF Vissers

The kids's school closes and Angelo's train doesn't ride due to excessive snow. Whle everyone cuddles up by the fire, Tony tells how he decides to seek a janitorial position so he could afford moving from cramped Brooklyn to Connecticut. Mona picks up how they met and she convinced him and later Angela that Tony as housekeeper, replacing 'Nazi nanny' Hiller, and as father-figure for Jonathan, would be ideal for both families and suit her own hunk-sighting lust. Written by KGF Vissers

Jonathan tries to date even nerdier Jenny Wittener, encouraged by his (grand)ma and brilliantly coached by Tony. The boy does everything right, but the brat falls in love with Tony instead. Hurt, Jonathan jealously decides to hate Tony 'to death', even sleeps in a tent outside unwilling to share the same home. Written by KGF Vissers

As part of a birthday surprise party for Tony, Sam sits for a portrait by Greek artist Christo. Tony gets wind of it and starts reminiscing how his late wife Marie was involved in portraits painting. Tony fears she might have cheated on him with an artist, starts digging in her life while he was a traveling pro baseball player and realizes he didn't know about half of what the home front did. Written by KGF Vissers

The only time a year Angela joins the Micellis and Mona watching baseball on TV, she surprises Tony by preferring fan junk-food. To get some, she borrows boyfriend Geoffrey's beloved brand new Porsche, which was parked at her place for safety. Mona's car blocked the driveway and putting it back in the garage gets delayed, fatally as the tree the neighbors were having removed thus crashes onto it. Geoffrey's desperate fury leads to a breakup with Angela, which both regret. Tony helps Geoffrey patch up despite Angela's mean scorned routine. Written by KGF Vissers

The whole family is proud when a son boy-friend Chad write in Sam's honor gets played on the radio. And again when blind singer-pianist Ray Charles accepts to perform a version in a power commercial for the Bower Agency. But Chad is seduced to a meaningless kiss by a school rival and dumped by Sam, who turns viciously against Angela with the absurd demand to cancel the national campaign. Written by KGF Vissers

When president Tony and Angela host the parents association, the fund raising plans focuses on sports, including boxing. Tony reluctantly yields to the consensus that a sports star would be best, and Brooklyn buddy reveals Tony has a boxing past. Only Angela learns he was traumatized by a staring opponent at age sixteen, and lets her train him in staring. As Mad Man Micelli he mounts the ring against giant Wilbur. Written by KGF Vissers

Geoffrey announced a decision 'to change our lives', so the Bower-Micelli household expects him to propose to Angela. She's bitterly disappointed when he just offers a time share condominium contract and avoids his company with a (convenient?) bad cold. Once Geoffrey catches on, he actually proposes. Tony sort of mediates, but mainly for the home front opposition. His strongest argument is that his late wife never doubted a second, while Angela agonizes over a pro-contra list. Written by KGF Vissers

Tony mistrusts his incorrigible uncle Nick Milano, just released from prison, but Angela naively gives him a generous welcome. In no time, Tony's mistrust is proved right in both keeping a menial supermarket job Tony painstakingly arranged by dating the boss's unattractive sister and publishing Nick's diet manuscript', which proves stolen from a death row jail bait. Written by KGF Vissers

Tony's much younger date, Casey Fryman, turns out to be an executive in Armando Ghia's hot fashion firm. That's enough to give Angela a shot at his latest campaign, but she's out of touch with the young target group. Tpony builds up her confidence, but learns her new 'trendy' outfit didn't help at all. Written by KGF Vissers

Samantha gets Tony's permission to go out late to a concert tanks to Mona, who is less amused to find Angela eager to prove she can be 'just as spontaneous' in ways she immediately lists. Tony still encourages her, despite finding it's too late for much. She ends up dating her high-school days biker 'class hero', Jake Maguire, although he never graduated or gt an adult job. She's happy in the end that gallant Tony discretely followed her to the dodgy bar date. Written by KGF Vissers

Shivering at the dentist, Tony meets ladylike, lonely English widow Fiona Finch. He proposes Angela, whose secretary left, to hire her. In no time Mona, who keeps slacking, gets jealous, leading to both resigning. Now Tony fills in and tries to mediate between mother and boss, which makes business sense now it becomes clear how well only Mona handles male clients. Written by KGF Vissers

Mona cheerfully visits the hotel her brother Cornelius Robinson invested all their savings in, only to find it's a miserably-run dump. Still, she's charmed enough by happier hotel-memories and the hunky naive bell-hop-waiter to give it a go, making the most of experience and people-skills. Written by KGF Vissers

Mona happily moves out to new job with her brother. So she convinces 'healthy young stud' Tony to turn her garage apartment into a 'bachelor patch'. His Brooklyn youth mates like Fingers take that as a standing party invitation. Angela and especially Jonathan feel lonely without Tony in the main house. Actually, Tony soon misses them too, but a surprise intruder really decides the plot. Written by KGF Vissers