History Series / WhosTheBoss

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: The B-story of the Season 8 episode “Mrs. Al” has Angela struggling to come up with a suitable campaign slogan for Le Fizz, an awful-tasting, French sports beverage that Tony suggests is so bad it’s not even suitable for children (questioning why Angela gave it to teenaged Jonathan to taste-test), much less adults (quipping that the slogan should be “if swallowed, induce vomiting”). Eventually, Angela uses the drink’s taste as the selling point, using a paraphrasing of the trope name as the tagline for the commercial she shows to Tony and Mona at the end of the episode:
-->'''Commercial pitchman''' (heard on TV off-screen, after spitting out the drink in disgust): ”Something that tastes ''this'' bad must be good for you.”

* IfItTastesBadItMustBeGoodForYou: The B-story of the Season 8 episode “Mrs. Al” has Angela struggling to come up with a suitable campaign slogan for Le Fizz, an awful-tasting, French sports beverage that Tony suggests is so bad it’s not even suitable for children (questioning why Angela gave it to teenaged Jonathan to taste-test), much less adults (quipping that the slogan should be “if swallowed, induce vomiting”). Eventually, Angela uses the drink’s taste as the selling point, using a paraphrasing of the trope name as the tagline for the commercial she shows to Tony and Mona at the end of the episode:
-->'''Commercial pitchman''' (heard on TV off-screen, after spitting out the drink in disgust): ”Something that tastes ''this'' bad must be good for you.”

-->'''Tony''': Hey, you, get off that pedal! There's kids in this neighborhood! And pets! And the elderly!
-->'''Angela''': ...and sometimes I like to park my Jag in the street!

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* LethalChef: There are many jokes about Angela's lack of kitchen skills throughout the series,[[RealMenCook usually from Tony]].

** "Charmed Lives" with Fran Drescher, as an aspiring model/actress, and Donna Dixon, as a photographer-turned-model, who are given an apartment to live in when they get hired to share a job as models for an Italian food company. The spin-off lasted three episodes.

* CoolBigSister: Sam is in essence, this to Jonathan.
* CoolOldLady: Mona.
* CousinOliver: Billy in Season 7.

* ParodiesOfFire: A swimming example, rather than the usual running example.

* RipTailoring: Angela does this once for {{fanservice}}.

Widower Anthony Morton "[[TheDanza Tony]]" Micelli (Danza) is a former second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals who was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury. Wanting a better environment for his daughter Samantha (Milano) to grow up in, Tony moved out of his native Brooklyn to take a job in upscale Fairfield, Connecticut as a live-in housekeeper for divorced advertising executive Angela Bower (Light). Joining them in the Bower household were Angela's son Jonathan (Pintauro) and her mother Mona Robinson (Helmond).

Widower Anthony Morton "[[TheDanza Tony]]" Micelli (Danza) is a former second baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals who was forced to retire due to a shoulder injury. He wanted to move out of Brooklyn to find a better environment for his daughter, Samantha (Alyssa Milano). He ended up taking a job in upscale Fairfield, Connecticut as a live-in housekeeper for divorced advertising executive Angela Bower (Judith Light), and Tony and his daughter move in to the Bower household (which included her son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro) and her mother Mona Robinson (Katherine Helmond)).

''Who's The Boss?'' is an American television sitcom starring Creator/TonyDanza, Creator/JudithLight, Creator/AlyssaMilano, Danny Pintauro, and Creator/KatherineHelmond. It was broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1984 to 1992. The show debuted on the same day as Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' in 1984.

* BilingualBackfire: In one episode, Samantha's boyfriend helps her cheat on a French exam. While they're in the kitchen later with Mona, Samantha thanks her boyfriend in French for helping her cheat, unaware that Mona knows French also.

* CousinOliver: Billy in Season 6

* ClipShow: "Sit Down and be Counted", "Life With Father", "The Way We Was".

* ShouldersOfDoom : Most of Angela and Mona's outfits. [[TheEighties And how]].

* TranquilFury: In the two-parter episode where Hank and Sam runs off to marry (without telling Tony).

* ContinuitySnarl: In the season 7 episode "The Unsinkable Tony Micelli" has Tony become deathly afraid of water and refusing to swim because of a traumatic incident he suffered when he was 9 years old. However, the season 2 episode "Custody" had Tony swimming and surfing in the Pacific Ocean with no issues.

* MrsRobinson: In one episode, Mona comes home with her boyfriend, who is in his twenties. When she starts to show off the gold brooch he gave her, which he pinned over her left shoulder, it's missing, so she thinks she dropped it. As the family looks for it, her grandson finds it, ''pinned over her right shoulder blade''.

* ThemeTuneCameo: In the episode ''Sit Down and be Counted'', nearly at the end of the episode the census worker says that he'd like to write a story based on the Bower-Micelli household. Tony is upset after the last question, and leaves with Angela to the movies. Three months later, Angela and Tony are sitting in front of the TV, watching "Hank the Housekeeper", heavily based on their lives, with the main female character named Andrea. At the end of the ShowWithinAShow, cue the instrumental theme song. Although it only lasted for a few seconds before the real theme song plays.

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Downplayed with Angela and Tony, but sometimes played straight. One episode has Angela drinking beer while watching a sports show while Tony sits next to her, reading a magazine (and a magazine about dress, at that).

* FullyClothedNudity: In "A Well-Kept Housekeeper", Tony takes a job at a restaurant that features hot, nude men as the waiters. When Tony's daughter "Sam" shows up, Tony tells hers that he doesn't approve of her being in such a raunchy place, to which Sam replies, "At least I have my clothes on!" Tony, the "nude waiter" is wearing shoes, long pants, and a vest, leaving only his arms and head exposed as he's so embarrassed by the outfit that he covers his chest and stomach with a tray.

''Who's The Boss?'' is an American television sitcom starring Creator/TonyDanza, Creator/JudithLight, Creator/AlyssaMilano, Danny Pintauro, and Katherine Helmond. It was broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1984 to 1992. The show debuted on the same day as Creator/{{NBC}}'s ''Series/TheCosbyShow'' in 1984.