European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 10, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Do the right thing a watch these shows Sarah b0tt0rff to plus editor a a everybody deserves a second Chance. Even Tony Danza. At least that a what you be got to figure when you see dumb sitcoms like who a the Boss and full House and empty nest coming Back for the second or third or seventh year on television. And you see them so High in the Nielsen ratings too. You be got to wonder a am 1 missing some thing a was i wrong when i decided this stuff was the worst thing id Ever seen on to a does it deserve a second Chance a Well of course. Everybody deserves a second Chance. _ so Here goes. This is what get if you do the right thing the fair thing if you tune in this week on an to to the season premieres of full House thursday Little has changed Here. What you be got is three Young men who look like they a do Well Selling used cars living with three Little girls who speak in Alvin and the chipmunks voices. New since you last saw this show is a Girlfriend for one of the Young men who while considerably older than the Little girls also Speaks in a Chipmunk voice. This menagerie goes to Hawaii together in the premiere episode and naturally they All end up stranded on a deserted Beach looking for coconuts to eat and scanning the horizon for someone to save them. Naturally. This is what happens on sitcoms to people who go to Hawaii. On the other hand maybe something has changed. Or maybe we be changed. The show just seems funnier As it starts into its third year. It s somewhat funny when Bob Saget irritates All his companions by carrying around a clipboard on which he a written a schedule for having fun. It s funnier when the boat washes away but the clipboard Waves Back on the Beach. They toss it out again irate and Backi comes. The kids Are fairly Sharp Little comedians too. A he ii Mary Kate Ashley 01sen at the Airport cooing and Aloha ing a Aloha lady a the child responds after a solemn look. A i see your belly Button. Well you Hadda be there. Abc Date night confusion on a a who a the Boss a pictured Are series stars Tony Danza left and Judith Light second from right with their dates Kate Vernon and Stan Ivar. Ower doctor Richard Mulligan living with his two grown daughters in Florida still seems like a big waste of Mulligan. It also seems to build too Many of its plot lines Arou Ltd the insecurities and unhappiness of the older daughter played by Dinah Manoff. Is it really All that funny that the younger girl Kristy Mcnichol gets the Best men and the Best jobs and seems Only Pas singly interested in the fact that her sister has serious problems in her life not that funny. Still if we re taking a second look someone took the time to write in some grownup stuff in this premiere episode some interesting acknowledgements that women hitting 30 May sometimes be faced with settling for less than great finances and that some working women mulligans nurse Park Overall would rather turn Down a pay hike than make More Money than their husbands not bad stuff. But the Best part of this still questionable sitcom is Richard Mulligan eyebrows raised up to his hairline demanding that his nurse take that raise or telling his daughters furniture analogies. Manoff s Fiance dilemma brings to mind a Roll top desk. A sexual problem got his bar Stool Story although he thinks in retrospect it should have been the armoire one. Not bad. Sively stranger and stranger until at the bitter end As the credits Roll the fabulous Guy gets arrested for securities fraud. Huh nuts to who a the Boss lets try another episode of full House. A did anyone see the end of gallic and son the. Other Day on an a Reader in Wurzburg set her video recorder to try to catch the Lindsey Wagner film when it came on at 2 a.m., but the movie started later than it was scheduled to Start and her recorder turned itself off before the end of it. Anybody get the whole thing please write to us at sunday Magazine the stars and stripes Apo by 09211, so we can let her know what happened. V t i 1. Empty nest Friday the comedy about a wid who a the Boss tuesday this is where this a second chances bit Falls apart. As its seventh year begins who a the Boss becomes increasingly confused not to mention Boring. Sorry Tony. If you Haven to seen this show for a while it will hot a. As unclear to you As it was to me whether Tony Danza and Judith Light playing housekeeper and Quot Boss respectively have consummated their relationship. Now they re Busy dating other people which implies that they once dated each other although it Isnit Clear. Not that you la care. This first half hour about some fabulous Guy Judith is dating gets Progress Captain planet and the planet cars starting this week on an is an environmentally conscious cartoon for kids involving a Mother Earth Type a Superman Type and a passel of kids from All the continents who have magic Powers to help save the ecology from environmental schmucks. The first week involves an evil Oil Driller who looks a lot like bad Pete. Its a so so cartoon but maybe its the thought that counts. Not recommended is College Madhouse also starting this week. We done to know where this show came from but we wish it Hadnot. This is basically a super Sloppy double dare for the 18-to-21 set a sort of uns exy wet to shirt contest. Southern european broadcasting gets All of the above Good and ill in about sue weeks. In the Quot meantime dear John the tax like sitcom about Quot an encounter group starts another year on seb this wednesday. Maxie the wednesday movie is a Little known Glenn close film in which she plays a a Stuffy Secretary possessed by the soul of a flapper. Finally Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell Are in his girl Friday saturday
