A Show that Changed the World: Who's The Boss?

Many years ago, a little show about two disparate families who come together in an un-traditional way, beamed onto television sets nationwide. It broke cultural taboos, ripped into established boundaries, shocked and appalled even the most liberal of viewers with it's genre busting format, and made viewers question their values and faith. That show was not Who's the Boss?. And thus began America's 8-season love affair with yet another shitty sitcom.

The opening credits give you all the information you need to jump right into the show. "There's a time for love and a time for livin', so take a chance and face the wind." Those lyrics ring true for dimbulb main character Tony Danza, played with gusto by the award-winning Tony Danza. He and his daughter, Sam, "face the wind" when they are run out of the city due to poor personal hygene. So they pack up the Good Time Family Van and head to a Connecticut town where they hope all their live-in house cleaner dreams come true. Luckily, Tony spots an ad in the Penny Saver seeking just that. Since he's seen a vacuum before, he figures that gives him just the right amount of experience to get the job done. So he shows up at recently widowed mother Angeler Bower's doorstep, ad in hand, p-cap hairstyle freshly trimmed, and worms his way right into the family's heart.

Characters Worth Noting: The Facts of Life

The Facts of Life was a serious drama that taught the world valuable lessons on life, love, baked goods and roller skates. The deadly serious theme song summed up the nature of the show in it's first few lines "You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the Facts of Life (the facts of life, dee doo)." The show centered on four girls, Blair, Joseph, Natalie and Toots, who were perpetually away at boarding school living under the watchful eye of housemother Mrs Garrett. The girls lived above her bakery and always smelled like cookies.

Blair was the hottest and, therefore, the biggest bitch. She was practically made of money. In fact, I believe it was even mentioned in one episode that she even shat money! Ha ha, only in Hollywood. Her favorite pastimes were making fun of those less fortunate than herself, leading young men on, talking about money, talking about her "daddy," looking pretty, and making greed fashionable (it was the 80's after all). She was probably the most shallow, and the most liked of all the girls.