This episode does a lot as it brings in Tony's mom full force. At first Jeannie reacts to her as a mother-in-law and does not get along with her. Then later in the show she realizes she can use mom to at long last marry her master.
It takes until the last season to get to there, but this marriage plot always worked quite well on TV. It created a star later when Bruce Willis did Moonlighting and works today on the cable series Castle. There's always something about being on the edge of marriage that gets viewers. The most successful plot line ever, even the Marx Brothers sold tickets with it in their movies.
Marriage and relationships and family still represent stability in peoples minds or at least the media still sells that. In the real world of business partnerships are the most dangerous business model and in a way marriage is too. This blonde is a woman who if she really loved me I'd marry. Then I'd find out about her true baggage.
It takes until the last season to get to there, but this marriage plot always worked quite well on TV. It created a star later when Bruce Willis did Moonlighting and works today on the cable series Castle. There's always something about being on the edge of marriage that gets viewers. The most successful plot line ever, even the Marx Brothers sold tickets with it in their movies.
Marriage and relationships and family still represent stability in peoples minds or at least the media still sells that. In the real world of business partnerships are the most dangerous business model and in a way marriage is too. This blonde is a woman who if she really loved me I'd marry. Then I'd find out about her true baggage.