After Mona loses Angela's car and diamond necklace to a hustler in Atlantic City, Tony and Angela team up to win them back in a high-stakes poker game.
Tony calls on his old friend Bobby to help Jonathan build his self-confidence after he's forced to trade in his baseball glove for an accordion.
Tony hopes a student-teaching course will give him the "easy A" he needs to win a business school scholarship, but instead it gives him the inspiration for an entirely new career goal.
Angela unwittingly sets the neighborhood gossip wheels in motion when she tries to impress the girls at her new health club by implying that she and Tony are having an affair.
Tension between Samantha and Jonathan leads to a session with a family therapist, but it's a burnt -out Tony who finds himself in a support group for "Supermoms."
When her friend Al forms a rock & roll band, Samantha jumps at the opportunity to take the music business by storm by becoming their manager.
Angela considers a lucrative offer to merge with another advertising agency, but Mona is not part of the package.
Tony decides to mend his flirtatious ways by breaking a date with a woman he met at a singles bar, unaware that she's his new history professor.
Samantha discovers a new-found passion for books when a cute graduate student asks her to join his literary club.
When Angela and Tony house-sit for Mrs. Rossini, Angela has visions of beer, babies and bowling as she dreams of life as a Brooklyn housewife.
Charlie Brisco, Sam's old friend from Brooklyn, drops in to stir up some trouble, but is "discovered" by Trish Carlin, owner of a modeling agency Angela is using for a photo shoot.
After what appears to be a disastrous trip to Jamaica, Tony and Angela discover their true feelings for each other.
When Angela buys Tony a new car for his birthday, he realizes how attached he is to his beat up old van.
Samantha learns a valuable lesson when Tony catches her cheating on an exam and grounds her for two weeks.
Angela is shocked when an old boyfriend from college shows up to inform her that the Mexican divorce from their spur-of-the-moment marriage 20 years ago was never finalized.
Tony wonders whether he has turned into a suburban snob when Samantha falls for Mrs. Rossini's nephew-age uncle from the old neighborhood.
Mason, who is student teaching one of Tony's college courses, exercises such blatant favoritism toward Tony, his "star pupil," that Tony decides to teach his teacher an important lesson.
Tony helps an angel earn her wings by reuniting Mona and her long-estranged brother in a special celebration of the Christmas spirit.
In this unusual retrospective episode, Samantha disobeys Tony and angrily drives off for a Vermont weekend. Her defiance prompts both father and daughter to reminisce about times they have spent together.
When Mona and Samantha are both dumped by their boyfriends, they try to raise their spirits with a "girls night out."