Married... with Children (TV Series) Where's the Boss? (1987) User Reviews

AL quits his job or meets his boss!

[Sylviastel · 8/10 · 27 April 2009]

Al's boss, Gary, dies in a plane crash or somewhere where he turns up alive after all. Anyway, Al sent $300 worth of flowers to his boss' family. Thinking that he would get so much as a thank you card, Gary's family sends all the flowers and baskets to a hospital. So Al is out of $300 and decides that if the boss doesn't come that he will quit much to his wife's disappointment. So for one day, he stays home. He decides to go back to work and has a plan in order for everybody to know that Al was met by his boss. Diana Bellamy who plays the first overweight woman who insulted Al revisits the store. The show was good to their guest stars because Bellamy would later have a role on the show's spin-off, Top of the Heap with Joe Bologna, Matt LeBlanc, and Joey Lauren Adams.

At a topless hula school, that's where!

[BA_Harrison · 16 November 2020]

When Al's boss Gary is presumed dead in a plane crash, he spends $300 on flowers, hoping that his generosity and condolences will be noticed and that he will finally get the recognition/promotion that he believes he deserves. In a stroke of typical Bundy bad luck, Gary turns out to have survived the crash, and all flowers that were sent are given to charity. Al says that if he isn't thanked by his boss, he will quit his job, and proves to be a man of his word. However, after one day at home with Peggy, he comes crawling back to the shoe store to get his old job back.

'Where's the Boss?' is a so-so episode with a few amusing lines ("I'd kill before I let you go naked, and no jury would convict me either.") but not enough real belters. The show ends on a satisfying note with Al going the extra mile to get one over on his fellow mall employees - nice to see Al getting the upper hand for a change, even if it costs him cold hard cash.