By unknown
Submitted by mattessa

During my frosh year, I had a dream. It all started this one rainy day, when my roommate Laura and I were downloading TV Theme songs off Napster - those were the days, eh? Being children of the 80's - the age of quality sitcoms - we came across awesome ones that touched our hearts. And among the Full House, Growing Pains and Family Ties theme songs, we came across one that changed the entire scope of frosh year. It was the theme to Who's the Boss?

Now Who's the Boss? wasn't even my very favorite eighties sitcom. I'm partial to Saved by the Bell myself, but Who's the Boss was one of those shows I watched religiously. I suppose the difference is that Saved by The Bell has been on in syndication for the past few years at seven in the morning and so we had the option of watching it if we really wanted to. However, Who's the Boss? had virtually disappeared from television altogether.

Thus, when we came upon the theme song, we started reminiscing about old episodes and laughing at Angela's hideous glasses and Tony's accent - who else says "Angeler" and "Jon-tin", really? The theme song became a part of our morning routine. We'd play it when we woke up in the morning to get us pumped for the day.

This television theme song also became our frosh year theme song. We made a CD at the end of the year with a bunch of music that we had listened to and that song was the headliner. The problem remained however that we missed the show. We missed it so, we long for it, really yearned for it. Why on Earth had it been taken out of syndication? Nobody knew. Such a great show was being so discriminatingly neglected and yet Full House still played twice a day.

But, you see, one otherwise ordinary day this past summer, I received a phone call from a friend who informed me that a Who's the Boss? marathon that would be airing on the Prime the very night I was meant to attend a U2 concert. I was forced to make the decision: Bono and the Edge or Tony Micelli and Angela Bower? And yes, believe me, I considered the latter alternative.

I answered not the call of 80's hilarity that night. Instead, I enjoyed the concert I'd emptied my savings to attend. But before we knew what happened, that marathon spawned syndication. When I told Laura, it was like a dream of ours had come true. No more just wishing for Mona's antics every morning when Brand New Life played on our Win Amp systems. Our dream had come true, bestowed upon us much like Tony's job as Angela's housekeeper had somehow been bestowed upon him. And now we are able to enjoy Who's the Boss? six times a day!