WHO'S THE BOSS? (1984 - 1992)

 




















Created by: Martin Cohan, Blake Hunter
Starring: Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, Katherine Helmond

Ian Abercrombie, Ann Abernathy, Marla Adams, Grant Aleksander, David James Alexander, Sandra Alexander, Lisa Aliff, Kristian Alfonso, Michael Alldredge, John Allen, Angela Alvarado, Frank Annese, Shiri Appleby, Vinny Argiro, Debra Armani, Dylan Arrants, Leah Ayres, Nova Ball, Debrae Barensfeld, Suzanne Barnes, Allison Barron, Victoria Bass, Jennifer Bassey, Jack Battersby, Jeffrey Baum, Billy Beck, Dayna Beilenson, Cliff Bemis, Jeff Benson, Marc Bentley, Marisa Berenson, Greg Berg, Bibi Besch, Mary Betten, Leslie Bevis, Beau Billingslea, Peter Billingsley, Billie Bird, Brendon Blincoe, Scott Bloom, Alan Blumenfeld, Lloyd Bochner, Earl Boen, Zachary Bostrom, John Braden, Jonathan Brandis, Alicia Brandt, Dori Brenner, Bobby Brett, Randi Brooks, Argentina Brunetti, Katisse Buckingham, Betty Bunch, Delta Burke, Brandi Burkett, Dennis Burkley, Justin Burnette, Christopher Burton, Steve Burton, Jerry Buteyn, Dean Butler, Sarah Buxton, Scotch Byerley, Mary Cadorette, Randall Caldwell, Thomas Callaway, Bill Calvert, James Calvert, Candace Cameron Bure, Erinn Canavan, Jeff Caperton, Twink Caplan, Adam Carl, Joel Carlson, Julie Carmen, Larry Cedar, Leslie Chain, Estee Chandler, Jeffrey Alan Chandler, Ray Charles, Anthony Charnota, Betsy Chasse, Molly Cheek, Julian Christopher, Elizabeth Chumley, Lana Clarkson, Mark Clayman, David Coburn, James Coco, Todd Coconato, David Colby, Jeff Conaway, Julie Condra, Craig Connor, Sid Conrad, Jennifer Convy, Ben Cooper, Stephanie Cornish, Joe Costanza, Robert Costanzo, Mark Costello, Nicolas Coster, Erika Cox, Larry Cox, Melissa Cox, Kathleen Coyne, Pat Crawford Brown, Marcia Cross, Tonya Crowe, Robert Culp, Patrick Cupo, Concetta D'Agnese, Victoria Dakil, Doug Dale, Jane Daly, Blackie Dammett, Gabriel Damon, Matty Danza, Linda Darlow, Charles Gideon Davis, Joe Davis, Cristy Dawson, Lois de Banzie, E. 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Martin, Sarah Jo Martin, Sandra McCabe, Misty McCoy, Julie McCullough, Kit McDonough, Jamie McEnnan, Mark McGee, Derek McGrath, Marilyn McIntyre, Deck McKenzie, John McKinley Robertson, Paul McMichael, Sam McMurray, Nan McNamara, George McPhee, John Medici, Diana Meier, Joey Melore, Arthur Mendoza, Jeanna Michaels, Linda Michaels, Michael Michaud, Diane Michelle, Allan Miller, Keith Mills, Michael Mitz, Jody Montana, Julia Montgomery, Lisa Marie Moore, Pat Moore, Mark Morocco, Anita Morris, Garrett Morris, Leslie Morris, Kenny Morrison, Joe Morton, Louis Mustillo, Margaret Nagle, Najwa, James Naughton, Marr Nealon, Chris Nelson, Steve Nevil, Kristin Newman, Michelle Nicastro, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Leslie Nielsen, Suzanne Niles, Eddy Nix, Chelsea Noble, Brad O'Hare, Milo O'Shea, Billy O'Sullivan, Ana Obregon, Merritt Olsen, Lupe Ontiveros, Alan Oppenheimer, Gretchen Palmer, Jonathan Palmer, Stuart Pankin, Bobbi Panter, F. William Parker, Lindsay Parker, James R. 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194 episodes
(TV-G - adult themes)

PLOT:
Tony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York. Together, they raise their kids, Samantha Micelli and Jonathan Bower, with help from Mona Robinson, Angela's man-crazy mother.

season 1 - 

Tony has a date and, thinking Angela won't be home for hours, decides to take a bath in her tub. Angela firmly and Tony mildly lecture Sam for fighting in the park and thus causing Jonathan to trade his first punches. Instead of learning a lesson, Sam tells Jonathan all about "cool, exciting" Brooklyn life. When she decides to run away, Jonathan insists on tagging along. Tony and Angela set out to get them back. Mona is dating a much younger man. Angela has landed an account with a commercial, so Tony and Mona "invite" themselves to come along. Client Mr. Larson insists Tony must replace the actor scheduled for the Machismo shaving scream shower scene. He does great, but gets a terrible rash afterward. Larson wants Angela's agency and Tony for an even bigger account, but refuses to retract the cream, which lab tests say irritate 2 to 3 percent of users. With Mona and the kids away for a couple of days, Tony makes a date. Angela also has a guy coming in to see her so she arranges for a meal to be catered. When the guy doesn't show up, and when the caterer does, he convinces Tony not to leave Angela alone. In town for a reunion, Angela's sorority sister, who's used to taking everything of Angela's, sets her sights on Tony. Tony is dating a woman who thinks he's very rich while Angela is seeing a guy who thinks she's a secretary. Angela's new boyfriend upon meeting Tony and knowing he's a former player latches on to him. And they hang out a lot. But when Tony sees him pick up another woman, he doesn't know whether to tell Angela or not. When Mona discovers Tony spends time and seems to need an extra income, she follows him to Brooklyn. Assumptions he either has mob debts or a New York lover are found false, he actually pays for the apartment where he was raised by his deceased father. Angela tries to convince him to cut the emotional tie to the past. A baffled and unprepared Tony protests the actions of Angela, Mona and Mother Nature as his tomboy daughter, Sam, slips subtly into womanhood. Angela has her car painted and left instructions of what color she wants. But Tony thinking her choice is dull, decides on a different color. And when she sees what he did, she lays down the law on who is the boss and who is the maid. That's when Tony becomes subservient. And her neighbor upon learning the friction between them decides to make Tony an offer to work for her. When Angela hears her firm's owner is retiring, she fears competent colleague VP Jim Petersen will maneuver to replace her as president. She tries to win the board's sympathy by staging a party when Jim has a family function, but he turns up, sports talk stirs the old boys network and unrepentant Tony's temper makes things worse. Mona has been evicted from her apartment for keeping a dog. Tony's family sense practically forces Angela to invite her mother to move in. Tony hires father and son Battaglia from Brooklyn to convert an old barn into a separate apartment, but mother and daughter bicker endlessly and bitterly over every concept and every detail. Tony intervenes again when they are on non-speaking terms. Angela's husband, Michael, a researcher in the jungle, shows up after she sent him divorce papers. After leaving Angela, Tony finds a new job. And the old problems between Angela and Michael resurface. Angela announces proud as a peacock she has been chosen as the next guest subject on regional TV star presenter Robert "Bobby" Barnes' show, which is renowned for scandal, which the host has found with Tony and Angela's living arrangement. School coach Tony opposes Sam attending the school dance, suspicious of boys, until he realizes the suitor is utter klutz Bobby Michaelson. However, the kids are increasingly annoyed and embarrassed as Tony and his camera hover around every step of the dance, horrified to hear his surprise: he volunteered last minute as a chaperon. Even that is topped by Tony being seen dancing and kissing with "Old Lady Scranton", their foxy teacher. Tony is suspicious of his father-in-law's motives and means when, out of nowhere, he arrives on Angela's doorstep and lavishes Samantha with expensive gifts. Angela is worried that the stories Tony has been telling about his childhood pranks are the cause of Jonathan's strange behavior changes. Tony and Samantha must come to grips with the affluence of their community when Samantha desperately wants to go on a ski trip that Tony can't afford. Temptation threatens to singe employer/employee relationships when Angela and Tony find themselves alone "celebrating" Angela's birthday.  

season 2 - 
While retrieving a homesick Jonathan from summer camp, Angela wistfully reminisces about her romantic awakening there some twenty years ago, but is shocked to realize that it may have been a younger Tony that may have been her first kiss. Tony and Angela's teenage summer camp encounter at "kissing rock" creates unexpected friction when a sudden thunderstorm thrusts them together again, this time in a secluded motel room. Samantha's desperation to become a member of her new junior high school's "in-crowd" places Tony in a difficult, and high-paying, position. Mona delights at the prospect of spending her inheritance from a mysterious benefactor until Tony's innocent diligence confirms Angela's worst suspicion about the philanthropist. Tony's attempt at arranging a date between Angela and his recently divorced buddy leads to a battle royal when the lively Mona intervenes. Tony frolics with the legendary California beach beauties while Angela slugs it out with her ex-husband, whose imminent marriage brings the gang to sunny California. Tony's and Mona's scheme to thwart Michael from gaining custody of Jonathan backfires, but Jonathan's own surprising behavior at his father's wedding saves the day in Angela's favor. Tony poses for Mona's Hunk-of-the-Month calendar, and catches the fancy of a purring beauty whose unusual love for felines proves to be his undoing on their first date. Tony takes Angela and the kids on a pilgrimage to Brooklyn for Thanksgiving, but Angela's not so grateful when the feast includes a heavy helping of male chauvinism. Tony's jailbird former father-in-law flies the coop after his unsuccessful bid for parole when he learns that Samantha has disowned him. Mona's undercover role in a sting operation to expose age discrimination backfires when Tony and Angela pull strings to help her get a foot inside the door of a shoe company. Tony gets an offer he can't refuse when his Italian uncle entrusts him with engaged cousin Anna, but her arranged marriage may be "rubbed out" after Angela, Mona and Samantha "Americanize" her. Tony and Angela cheer Samantha for landing a coveted position on her school's drill team, but jeer at her for intentionally dropping the ball in her new job as Angela's Saturday secretary. Tony's use of female mud wrestlers in a homework assignment for Angela's advertising class creates a sensation, but clouds his chances to become teacher's pet. Samantha's "discovered" talents as a ballerina has Tony ready for them both to pirouette up the ladder of success, until Mona steps on his toes and suggests he hang up his tutu before becoming an overbearing stage parent. Samantha's babysitting days are over when Tony catches her sweetheart with his hand stuck in the kitchen plumbing and her girlfriends romping through the house while Jonathan is supposed to be sleeping. Two timely blind date proposals help soothe the Valentine's Day blues for both Tony and Angela, until they discover that it's Jonathan who's shooting Cupid's arrow. Angela's dealt a full house when she agrees to host Tony's poker party with one condition: that he keeps his roughneck buddies away from her "seemingly" prudish friend. Tony tones down his celebration after winning a bowling tournament when Angela veers into the losers lane of an advertising awards competition, but he has plans to salvage a classy victory for her. Tony becomes embroiled in a mudslinging campaign when he accepts the nomination for Fairfield School PTA president, but it's manager Angela's reputation that takes the beating when Tony publicly defines their "relationship". When a perfume heiress is sent by her father to secure an advertising deal, executive Angela goes all-out to court the account, but little does she know that the sophisticate is doing some courting of her own, with an unsuspecting Tony. The sultry neighborhood siren, on the outs with her husband, persuades Angela to take her in, then upsets the Bower household by singing her song for Tony. Mona advises a disgruntled shoe employee to chase his dreams and pursue an acting career, but when he chases it out to Hollywood, his wife is forced to retrieve him, leaving Tony to act as surrogate father to the couple's eight-month-old son. Tony's old baseball rival challenges him to a game that brings former Yankee manager Billy Martin, Los Angeles Dodgers star Steve Sax and "Mr. Baseball" Bob Uecker off the bench for a closer look when Angela plays for the opposing team. Angela and Tony celebrate their second anniversary as her housekeeper with her romantic home-cooked meal, but Angela fears that she has poisoned him when he succumbs to stomach cramps and is rushed to the hospital. Angela picks the perfect Italian Princess Vionelli Foods Girl, but her overly enthusiastic advertising associate comes up with a blonde bombshell who wows the client and forces a battle for the job.

season 3 - 
Tony tells Angela that she has been working too hard, and has a right to a vacation. So the combined Bower-Micelli clan flies to Puerto Vallarta for some fun in the sun, but all the while Angela is obsessed with events back at the office. Uncertainty fills the Bower-Micelli household as Tony confesses the unwitting role he played in Angela's firing, and Angela brings her resources to bear in seeking another spot at the top. When Samantha decides to apply to a live-away school, and Angela, being an alumna of the school, backs up the effort 100%, Tony starts making noises like a dispossessed father. When Mona starts her own limousine rental service, it sets the wheels in motion for new business for Angela's ad agency. When Samantha returns from a party with a hickey on her neck, she considers it a romantic status symbol, while her dad regards it as an ominous portent of things to come. While serving as members of a wedding party, Tony and Angela envision themselves as the bride and groom. Tony decides that Jonathan has become an intellectual wimp, and against Angela's better judgment, enrolls him in gymnastics competition designed to heighten the youngster's machismo, and his own self-image. When Tony and Angela engage in separate dating, thoughts of each other creep into their minds and play havoc with their romantic reflexes. Tony has a reunion with a former classmate he has held a grudge against for many years and finds, to his astonishment, that the man is a priest. Samantha finds that trying out for the girls' basketball team puts a damper on her love life, while a friendly game of miniature golf escalates into an all-out war between Tony and Angela. It's a comedy of errors when Tony and Angela exchange Christmas gifts and Tony receives a very special card. The family reminisces about how Tony came to take on the job as Angela's housekeeper. A timid Jonathan goes on his very first date with a girl, only to have his hopes for a relationship dashed when the young lady falls for Tony instead. When Tony learns of a facet of his late wife's personality he never knew existed, he doubts his worth as a husband. Tony wrestles with his conscience over whether to try to patch things up after Angela and Geoffrey call it quits. Angela talks Ray Charles into recording a love song written by Samantha's boyfriend as a jingle for an important account, but when the young couple splits up, Samantha insists that Angela call the whole thing off. Tony is pitted against a typing teacher from Brooklyn, nicknamed "The Terminator", in a charity boxing match. Geoffrey pops "the big question", but it's not quite what Angela or anyone else, for that matter expected. Tony's recently released-from-prison father-in-law has a new moneymaking idea: a prison diet book. Angela feels old when she works on an ad account for a designer who has a staff of young and beautiful women. Angela impulsively asks the wildest guy from her high school days out on a date. Angela hires another secretary to help Mona with the office workload, but Mona can't tolerate her work habits, efficiency and perfectionism. Mona discovers that her brother, Cornelius Rockwell, has used her nest egg to buy a seedy Manhattan hotel. Tony moves into Mona's vacant apartment as he tries to relive his fun-filled bachelor days.

season 4 - 
When Tony donates his cooking and cleaning services to a neighborhood charity auction, Angela must bid against Frankie, whole interest in Tony goes far beyond his housekeeping skills. Samantha lands herself a date with a "college man" but fails to tell her dad, sending Tony on a rampage through the university library to track down the guy. Angela and Tony play matchmakers, fixing up her shy cousin with his best buddy, the team doctor for the New York Rangers, but no one knows what to do when the unlikely pair decides to get married. When Jonathan skips sixth grade, taking a giant leap from grade school to junior high, he's not the only one who has to grow up fast. Samantha bristles when Tony tries to fix her up with Jesse, a kid with a social conscience who is always crusading for one cause or another. When the Parents Association embarks on a fund raising drive, President Tony volunteers to camp out on a billboard for donation pledges. When Samantha's grandfather Nick passes away suddenly, Tony is concerned about her unusual reaction to the loss. A series of accidents temporarily confines Tony to a wheelchair, but things get worse when Angela declares that she's going to nurse him back to health. When Tony's neighborhood pal Mrs. Rossini suddenly finds the responsibility of the family fish market dumped in her lap, Tony steps in and runs the store for her. 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. While Angela courts Max Muldoon, a prospective client for her agency, Mona is also interested in him as well, but for very personal reasons. 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. When Tony and Angela befriend Kelly, a new-in-town single mother, they become suspicious when she deliberately avoids discussing her past. 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 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. 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. Diligently trying to sway Samantha to include college in her future, Tony is infected by his own enthusiasm and decides to enroll. 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. But when Samantha, who's going steady with her new boyfriend finds herself attracted to Mason, the sparks fly. When the housekeepers in his neighborhood discover that Tony's salary far exceeds theirs, they decide to strike, with Tony's help. Samantha is thrilled when a modeling job for one of Angela's campaigns leads to more work and money, but Tony is terrified at the prospect of his model daughter living "life in the fast lane". When Max pops the "big question" and asks Mona to marry him, Mona shies away from a wedding, until she is faced with a little competition. When Jesse invites Samantha to the prom, Angela's over-eagerness to make it a night to remember leaves Samantha wishing she could just forget the whole thing. Waiting for her special birthday in restless anticipation, Angela reveals some secrets of her heart during a fit of sleep talking. When Tony has an unexpected reunion with his high school sweetheart, his patience is tried by her husband, who tries too hard to prove his superiority.

season 5 - 

When Tony buys Samantha her first car, they discover their ideas of the perfect automobile are miles apart. Tony takes a speech class at college and learns the old adage that it is always best to be yourself. When Tony enrolls in college and escorts Angela to his first fraternity party, the "spiked" punch transforms usually conservative Angela into the life of the party. After reminiscing with Angela about his late grandfather, Tony attempts to have him posthumously declared an American citizen. When Angela hires a charming creative director for her advertising agency, Tony's imagination starts working overtime. When Mona and Samantha are both dumped by their boyfriends, they try to raise their spirits with a "girls night out". 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. Tony helps an angel earn her wings by reuniting Mona and her long-estranged brother in a special celebration of the Christmas spirit. Mason, who is a 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 wonders whether he has turned into a suburban snob when Samantha falls for Mrs. Rossini's nephew-age uncle from the old neighborhood. 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 challenges Angela to a t-shirt selling competition when she claims that she is the better salesperson. When Tony takes Angela to a Cardinals' reunion, a voluptuous baseball groupie from the old days throws him a few new curves. Tony's good intentions of spending a weekend skiing in Vermont alone with Samantha gets snowed under when he meets a pretty instructor and Jonathan makes a grown-up decision to help his sick mom at home. 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". The chance to meet none other than Frank Sinatra himself at a lavish gala sends Tony and Mona scrambling to compete for an invitation to attend with Angela, but when Angela finds that she can't go, Tony and Mona decide to crash the event anyway. After Tony grounds Samantha for becoming intoxicated at a party, he is forced to re-examine his own views on social drinking. Angela's and Tony's warm welcome to the new family next door turns down right chilly after Angela catches the neighbor's precocious little girl kissing Jonathan and Tony sees his beloved herb garden uprooted. Angela arranges for Samantha to stay with her friend Trish Curtis, owner of a New York modeling agency, so that she can interview her four top models for a feature story in her school newspaper. Mona mends her flirtatious ways after Tony admonishes her for dumping an old friend of his after one date. During career week, Bonnie is such a hit at Angela's firm that Sam begins to think Angela likes her more. Mona pressures Tony to set up a business meeting for Angela with his big-shot golf partner, never realizing that it could spoil Tony's new friendship. 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. Samantha learns a valuable lesson when Tony catches her cheating on an exam and grounds her for two weeks. When Angela buys Tony a new car for his birthday, he realizes how attached he is to his beat up old van.

season 6 - 
After what appears to be a disastrous trip to Jamaica, Tony and Angela discover their true feelings for each other. 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. When Angela and Tony house-sit for Mrs. Rossini, Angela has visions of beer, babies and bowling as she dreams of a life as a Brooklyn housewife. Samantha discovers a new-found passion for books when a cute graduate student asks her to join his literary club. 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. Angela considers a lucrative offer to merge with another advertising agency, but Mona is not part of the package. 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. 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 of "supermoms". 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. 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. 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. 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. When Sam sees Angela being kissed by her date, she begins to worry about Tony spending the rest of his life alone after she leaves for college. Tony fears that his zealousness to "destroy" obnoxious neighbor Fred Hartwell in a tennis tournament may have had tragic consequences and bends over backwards to make amends when Fred's identical twin, Ed, shows up. Angela invests in a rental house and appoints Tony as the superintendent, but is shocked to find that he has rented it to a beautiful young actress instead of the nice, retired gentleman they'd agreed on. Tony and Angela unwittingly fix up Mona with the grandfather of Samantha's boyfriend, and he turns out to be the fiancee she walked out on 40 years ago. When Tony agrees to coach Angela's volleyball team, his sympathetic ear and winning spirit score points with the girls but Angela feels left out of bounds. Samantha and her friend Bonnie head for Ft. Lauderdale during Spring Break but find themselves in over their heads when two local boys begin to make their move. Angela's prospective client, a famous baseball player, seems to have everyone charmed but Tony, who has some serious concerns about his obsession with money. Tony is delighted to meet his maternal grandfather from Italy for the very first time, but is shocked to discover that his houseguest may not be a member of the "famiglia" after all.

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INTRO:

THE MIDDLE (2009 - 2018) draft

Created by: Eileen Heisler, DeAnn Heline
Starring: Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn, Charlie McDermott, Eden Sher, Atticus Shaffer, Chris Kattan, Brian Doyle-Murray

Samantha Adams, Ryan Agahee, Rhonda Aldrich, Jill E. Alexander, Kirstie Alley, Dean Anthony, Luis Anthony, Moises Arias, Michael William Arnold, Ed Asner, Noelani Bailey, Grace Bannon, Adilah Barnes, Gabriel Basso, Frances Bay, Terrence Beasor, Tommy Bechtold, Patricia Belcher, Jimmy Bellinger, Adrienne Berry, Daniela Bobadilla, Parker Bolek, Michael Boucher, Shellita Boxie, Harry Boxley, Krista Braun, Peter Breitmayer, Julie Brown, Julianne Buescher, Casey Burke, Steve Byrne, Aimee Carrero, Lance Carter, David Chandler, Tahlena Chikami, Brock Ciarlelli, Greg Cipes, Bob Clendenin, Kristina Cohen, Mindy Cohn, Parker Contreras, Mason Cook, Josh Cooke, Greg Cromer, John Cullum, Christopher Darga, Brooke Dillman, Bonita Dorssom, Charles Dougherty, Rachel Dratch, Thomas F. Duffy, Lancaster Duplechin, Jason Edgar, Van Epperson, Mari Falcone, Amy Farrington, Pat Finn, Christopher H. Fisher, Andrew J. Fishman, Dave Foley, Faith Ford, Harrison Forsyth, Margarita Franco, John Gammon, Richard Gant, Jessica Marie Garcia, Gavin Garrison, Keith Gerchak, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul R. Grace, Greer Grammer, Mary-Pat Green, Will Green, Rick Hall, Susan Harmon, Piper Mackenzie Harris, Gregory Harrison, Rick Harrison, Brian Harvey, Laura Heisler, Carolyn Hennesy, Cheryl Hines, Paul Hipp, Monica Horan, Megan Hubbell, David Hull, Betsy Hume, Dani Jacoby, Chris Jorie, Lexi Jourden, Kiva Jump, Jane Kaczmarek, Keven Brahim Kaddi, Greg Kasyan, Laura Ann Kesling, Keegan-Michael Key, Richard Kind, Aramis Knight, David Koechner, Michael Kostroff, Andy Kreiss, Peggy Lane, Devan Leos, Vicki Lewis, Daniel Lewk, Sam Lloyd, Daniel A. Lopez, Norm Macdonald, Thomas Mann, Gia Mantegna, Rachael Marie, Marsha Mason, Katlin Mastandrea, Will Matthews, Alphonso McAuley, Jack McBrayer, Joel McCrary, Mandy McMillian, Troy Metcalf, Andy Milder, Jeanette Miller, Aedin Mincks, Aidan Miner, Tina Mirka, Scott Michael Morgan, Mandy Musgrave, Suzy Nakamura, Jillian Nelson, Jake Netter, Sean O'Bryan, Chord Overstreet, Mary Passeri, Alexa PenaVega, Antoine Perry, Jeffrey F. Perry, Blake Petchenick, Brayden Petchenick, Aaron Zachary Philips, Adam Pilver, Hilary Pingle, Jeris Poindexter, Aidan Potter, Rachel Quaintance, Alan Rachins, Mike Randleman, Terrell Ransom Jr, Dale Raoul, Jen Ray, Roger Rees, Lisa Rinna, Azim Rizk, Doris Roberts, Mel Rodriguez, Ray Romano, Marion Ross, Cynthia Rube, Alan Ruck, Dylan Rummel, Sarah Rush, Emily Rutherford, Garrett Ryan, Blaine Saunders, Keaton Savage, Sam Schuder, Brandon Scott, Donovan Scott, Amy Sedaris, Nick Shafer, Molly Shannon, Duane R. Shepard Jr, Brooke Shields, Laura Siegel, Gibson Bobby Sjobeck, Mackenzie Brooke Smith, Malcolm Foster Smith, Maurice G. Smith, Riley B. Smith, Zachary Robert Smith, Erin Sossamon, Scott Sperber, June Squibb, Charles C. Stevenson Jr, French Stewart, Galadriel Stineman, Nicole Sullivan, Derek Theler, Wesley Thompson, Dierk Torsek, Austin Trace, Nicole Travolta, Tim Trobec, Chelsey Valentine, Dick Van Dyke, Jerry Van Dyke, Larell VanBuren, Jeffrey Wallace, Scott Ward, Audrey Wasilewski, Derek Waters, Joseph Whipp, Betty White, Jackson White, Phillip Wilburn, Casey Wilson, Beau Wirick, Ping Wu, Monica Yudovich

215 episodes
(TV-PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations)

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Brick asks Frankie to come to his class presentation dressed in a costume. Frankie organizes a publicity stunt in hopes of saving her job. Frankie and Mike's romantic anniversary getaway is ruined by various family matters. Frankie encourages Sue to fight for her right to attend a class trip. Mike involves Brick in various activities to help him interact with others. Axl accidentally breaks down the front door and Mike insists he fix it. An accident leads to a visit from a social worker, Bob tries to help Mr. Ehlert shoot a commercial. Mr. Ehlert forces the staff to work on Thanksgiving, Brick gets lost in a corn maze. Frankie tries to stop her kids from fighting, Mike considers firing Aunt Edie. Mike offers to organize the family Christmas so Frankie can focus on rehearsing a solo for Mass. Sue wants an expensive pair of jeans in order to fit in with her peers. Sue has a confrontation with a neighbor's son, Axl is asked to help Brick with a gym requirement. Mike discovers a dinosaur bone in the quarry at work, Brick decides to run for school historian. Frankie vows to stop yelling at the kids if they follow through on their school work and chores. Frankie and Mike try to plan a quiet, romantic Valentine's Day without the kids. Mike helps Brick train for a regional spelling bee, Sue's birthday is forgotten. Axl is heartbroken when his girlfriend breaks up with him, Sue and Brick watch a scary movie. Frankie worries about her job when a motivational consultant is asked to speak to the sales staff. Mike receives tickets to a basketball game that falls on the day of the funeral of Frankie's uncle. Mike and Frankie decide to cut unnecessary expenses, including their cable TV. Frankie worries that Axl will be heartbroken when his occasional girlfriend reenters his life. Frankie does more for Mike and the kids and less for herself on Mother's Day, Sue steals a magnet. Mike decides that he and Brick should be more social at the Heck family barbecue. Frankie and Mike find out that Brick may be held back a grade, a test reveals Axl to be gifted.

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FAST FIVE (2011)

Directed by: Justin Lin

Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Jordana Brewster, Gal Gadot, Tyrese Gibson, Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Matt Schulze, Sung Kang, Joaquim de Almeida, Elsa Pataky, Tego Calderon, Don Omar, Michael Irby, Alimi Ballard, Fernando Chien, Yorgo Constantine, Geoff Meedy, Luis Da Silva, Jeirmarie Osorio, Eva Mendes

130 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de Janeiro, they must pull one last job in order to gain their freedom. As they assemble their elite team of top racers, the unlikely allies know their only shot of getting out for good means confronting the corrupt businessman who wants them dead. But he's not the only one on their tail. Hard-nosed federal agent Luke Hobbs never misses his target. When he is assigned to track down Dom and Brian, he and his strike team launch an all-out assault to capture them. But as his men tear through Brazil, Hobbs learns he can't separate the good guys from the bad. Now, he must rely on his instincts to corner his prey... before someone else runs them down first.

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FAST & FURIOUS (2009)

Directed by: Justin Lin

Starring: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, John Ortiz, Gal Gadot, Laz Alonso, Sung Kang, Ron Yuan, Tego Calderon, Don Omar, Shea Whigham, Liza Lapira, Jack Conley, Greg Cipes, Neil Brown Jr, Brandon T. Jackson

107 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

Heading back to the streets where it all began, two men rejoin two women to blast muscle, tuner and exotic cars across Los Angeles and floor through the Mexican desert. When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Connor. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver him. And from convoy heists to precision tunnel crawls across international lines, two men will find the best way to get revenge: push the limits of what's possible behind the wheel.

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - ON STRANGER TIDES (2011)

Directed by: Rob Marshall

Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Geoffrey Rush, Sam Claflin, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Kevin McNally, Stephen Graham, Richard Griffiths, Greg Ellis, Oscar Jaenada, Keith Richards, Damian O'Hare, Roger Allam, Anton Lesser, Sebastian Armesto, Juan Carlos Vellido, Judi Dench

137 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

Captain Jack Sparrow, along with the feared pirate Edward Teach, a.k.a. Blackbeard, and a mysterious woman from his past, Angelica, race to the infamous Fountain of Youth. Meanwhile, the Spanish have sent some ships to go looking for the Fountain and to counter them, the English have sent their own ship under the Captainship of the pirate-turned-privateer Captain Hector Barbossa. While Blackbeard is seeking the Fountain to Save his own skin, Barbossa has a vendetta of his own. Who will be the one to reach the Fountain of Youth before the others?

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - AT WORLD'S END (2007)

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Geoffrey Rush, Chow Yun-fat, Stellan Skarsgard, Bill Nighy, Jack Davenport, Kevin McNally, Naomie Harris, Tom Hollander, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, David Bailie, Martin Klebba, Keith Richards, David Schofield, Greg Ellis, Lauren Maher, Angus Barnett, Giles New, Reggie Lee, Ghassan Massoud, Marcel Iures, Sergio Calderon, Takayo Fischer, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Marshall Manesh, Dominic Scott Kay

168 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

With the East India Trading Company trying to eliminate all the pirates, Barbossa, Will and Elizabeth race to bring back Jack from Davy Jones' Locker so as to bring together all the members of The Brethren Court and launch an attack on the East India Trading Company and Lord Cutler Beckett, who is in possession of the heart of Davy Jones. With everyone having his or her own agenda, who will be the one to stab the heart and live forever to be the captain of the Flying Dutchman?

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PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN - DEAD MAN'S CHEST (2006)

Directed by: Gore Verbinski

Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Stellan Skarsgard, Jack Davenport, Tom Hollander, Kevin McNally, Jonathan Pryce, Lee Arenberg, Mackenzie Crook, Naomie Harris, Alex Norton, David Bailie, Martin Klebba, David Schofield, John Boswall, Derrick O'Connor, Geoffrey Rush

150 minutes

(PG-13 - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

William and Elizabeth are sentenced to death for being in contact with Jack Sparrow. For saving Elizabeth, Will accepts to bring Jack's compass in exchange for his and Elizabeth's freedom. Meanwhile, Jack is being hunted by Davy Jones. Elizabeth escapes from prison to look for Will. Jack agrees to trade Will his compass if he finds a special key that will open a special chest. To find the key, Will goes aboard the Flying Dutchman, upon which he gets captured. He is reunited by his father on the Flying Dutchman. He finds the key and escapes the ship. Meanwhile, Jack gets Elizabeth to find the chest containing the heart of Davy Jones. Will and Elizabeth reunite on the island and open the chest and find the heart of Davy Jones. While Jack wants it to settle his debt to Jones, Will wants it to free his father and another person wants it for his own needs. Who is this mysterious person and what does he want to do with it?

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