# Who's The Boss - Billy?

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**Created:** [February 7, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-boss-billy/343319 "2006-02-07T00:05:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ace309](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ace309/32/1050_2.png) [@Ace309](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ace309)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-boss-billy/343319/1 "2006-02-07T00:05:04Z")

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My local UPN affiliate shows Who’s The Boss? episodes at 8 and 8:30 AM, at which point I’m usually half-awake and so I end up watching them instead of something productive, like the news or cartoons.

I was on vacation recently, and I missed the story arc that introduced [del]Cousin Oliver[/del] Billy, the five-year-old “our boy.” I checked Wikipedia’s entry on Who’s The Boss?, but to no avail. Can someone explain how Billy landed in Tony Micelli’s lap, and why he and Angela consider him “theirs?”

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**Author:** ![Analogue\_Skywalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Analogue\_Skywalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Analogue_Skywalker)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-boss-billy/343319/2 "2006-02-07T00:20:13Z")

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> [@Ace309](#):
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> My local UPN affiliate shows Who’s The Boss? episodes at 8 and 8:30 AM, at which point I’m usually half-awake and so I end up watching them instead of something productive, like the news or cartoons.
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> I was on vacation recently, and I missed the story arc that introduced [del]Cousin Oliver[/del] Billy, the five-year-old “our boy.” I checked Wikipedia’s entry on Who’s The Boss?, but to no avail. Can someone explain how Billy landed in Tony Micelli’s lap, and why he and Angela consider him “theirs?”

if i remember correct, billy was a young cousin or nephew of Tony Micellis’ someting happened to his folks and that old lady who Tony hung out with from Brooklyn took him to live with Tony

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**Author:** ![Analogue\_Skywalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Analogue\_Skywalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Analogue_Skywalker)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-boss-billy/343319/3 "2006-02-07T01:25:41Z")

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[who’s the boss trivia](http://www.funtrivia.com/en/Television/Whos-The-Boss-4364.html)

according to this site

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> What is the name of the little boy that Tony and Angela took into their home to take care of because his grandmother couldn’t do it anymore?
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> Billy.

He was a neighbor of the old lady who is named Mrs. Rossini