Tony and Angela are thrilled that books aren't the only thing that Mona, grandmother turned college student, is bringing home from school, until they discover what class Mona's new beau is in.
Angela pokes her nose into Tony's urban child-raising philosophies when his daughter's fist fighting wears off on her own son, only to lose her son and eventually her composure.
Tony's scrupulously clean household habits extend to Angela's chambers, but he finds much more than a rubber duck swimming in her bathtub.
An ex-"big-leaguer" takes his daughter, pride and future on the road to start a new life, settling in the suburbs to keep house for a budding female executive with a son who loves snakes and a mother who loves men.
Angela reluctantly returns to her life in Connecticut as Tony begins his new life in Iowa, but her search for a new housekeeper has a surprisingly happy ending.
When Samantha asks Tony to help her land a job at the campus travel agency, Tony recalls the time he got Jonathan a job as ball boy for the New York Mets baseball team -- with disastrous results.
When Mona's domineering mother crosses the Atlantic to pay the family a visit, Mona is forced to stand up to her for the first time in order to save Tony and Angela's engagement.
After promising Angela not to pressure her about getting married, Tony sets up an elaborate stratagem to propose to her at a football game.
Reeling from the recent death of a childhood friend, Tony drags his family on a series of death- defying adventures until it dawns on him that what's missing in his life might just be marriage to Angela.
Tony is forced to do a little moonlighting when, attempting to prove he's not a "kept man," he buys Angela a painting he can't afford.
When Angela goes out of town and leaves the Bower Agency in Mona's care, a dangerous flirtation develops between Mona and Angela's biggest client.
Tony enters the world of high finance when, eager to prove that he trusts Sam's taste in men, he allows her new stockbroker boyfriend to invest his "cookie jar" money.
When Angela is bedridden with a twisted ankle, she's overwhelmed by her loving, if slightly domineering nursemaid -- Tony.
Nervous about their family's reaction to their newfound feelings of affection for one another, Tony and Angela go to great lengths to keep their romance a secret.
When Tony and Angela celebrate the anniversary of their seven years together at a neighborhood carnival, Tony's in for the surprise of his life when a fortune teller forecasts true love...if he can beat the clock.
Tony's Washington D.C. debut is a big hit, but he lets the glamour of politics go to his head when he's courted by an attractive lobbyist.
Tony's determination to protect his elderly friend Chappy from Medicare cutbacks leads him and the entire family to the floor of the Senate. Getting there entails an adventure-filled train ride -- and an unusually close encounter between Tony and Angela.
When music promoter Samantha needs to find a headliner for Ridgemont's rock festival, Tony calls on an old friend with big connections in the music business, who makes a promise that seems too good to be true.
Tony has his hands full when an "influential businessman" from his old neighborhood asks Tony to take his spoiled daughter under his wing.
Tony's beloved "second mother," the earthy Mrs. Rossini and Angela's sexy mother Mona have fallen for the same man, and the competition soon engulfs Tony and Angela, who do everything they can to champion the cause for their respective "moms."