After Angela is forced to hire an escort to accompany her to an agency function because she can't find a suitable date, Mona persuades Tony to ask her out on a "real date."
Tony's good intentions of spending a weekend skiing in Vermont -- alone with Samantha -- get snowed under when he meets a pretty instructor and Jonathan makes a grown-up decision to help his sick mom at home.
When Tony takes Angela to a Cardinal's reunion, a voluptuous baseball groupie from the old days throws him a few new curves.
Tony challenges Angela to a t-shirt selling competition when she claims that she is the better salesperson.
Jonathan attempts to sway schoolmates to vote for him for class treasurer, but Mona's sexy pose for a magazine cover may cool his chances.
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."
When the housekeepers in his neighborhood discover that Tony's salary far exceeds theirs, they decide to strike -- with Tony's help.
Tony invites Mason, the 15-year-old "college man" who once had a crush on Samantha, to stay after he gets kicked out of his dorm during finals week. But when Samantha who's going steady with new boyfriend Jesse finds herself attracted to Mason, the sparks fly.
Diligently trying to sway Samantha to include college in her future, Tony is infected by his own enthusiasm and decides to enroll.
Friendship is put to the test when Tony's old singing group gets together once more for a benefit performance to save their old high school from the demolition crew.
When the new man in Samantha's life wants her to be his steady girl, the old man in her life, Tony, feels more than just a little neglected.
When Tony's family from Italy comes to Connecticut for a visit, they are determined to get Angela married off...if not to Tony then to Cousin Maurizio.
When Tony and Angela befriend Kelly, a new-in-town single mother, they became suspicious when she deliberately avoids discussing her past.
Samantha cuts the apron strings when her boss forces her to fire her father in order to keep her own job at a popular, trendy restaurant.
While Angela courts Max Muldoon, a prospective client for her agency, Mona is also interested in him as well...but for very personal reasons.
When Tony vows to get even with the obnoxious kid who rear-ended his prized van, he's unaware that Samantha and her boyfriend, Jesse, have kept from him one very important fact about the accident.