BOOB'S THE BOSS?

WHO'S THE BOSS
ABC 1984-1992

MAD #266, October 1966
w: Dennis Snee
a: Mort Drucker

“Will they or won't they?” sitcom about Tony Micelli (Tony Danza), en ex-ball player, who leaves Brooklyn with his daughter Samantha (Alyssa Milano) and moves to Connecticut to be a live-in maid for Angela Bower (Judith Light) and her son Jonathan (Danny Pintauro). Rounding the cast is Angela's mother Mona Robinson (Katherine Helmond. An older horny woman named Robinson. You get it?) 1Benchley was a newspaper strip Drucker was doing in the late eighties that he'd plug in every MAD piece. He's pictured later.

WHAT'S THE BEEF?
Cracked #220, July 1986
w: Joe Catalano
a: John Reiner

“Where's the beef?” was a slogan for Wendy's that became the “Whassup?”/”Yeah, Baby!”/”My wife” of the mid-eighties. Even those references are just as dated. What's the equivalent now?

Richie's brother Chuck was in the first three or four episodes of Happy Days, then disappeared and was never mentioned again.