Top of the Heap
"Top of the Heap" tells the story of an unemployed man and his rather dimwitted son. The father-and-son duo often argue about what they want out of life. Vinnie, the son, wants to marry for love and Charlie, Vinnie's father, wants his son to marry rich.
- 1991-1991
- 1 season
- Fox Network
- Comedy
"Top of the Heap" tells the story of an unemployed man and his rather dimwitted son. The father-and-son duo often argue about what they want out of life. Vinnie, the son, wants to marry for love and Charlie, Vinnie's father, wants his son to marry rich.
Season 1 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1991
Episode 0
Top of the Heap
Sun, Apr 7, 1991
In the inner city slums of Chicago, Charlie Verducci is a superintendent of a run-down apartment building who lives with his dumb 20-year-old son Vinnie and their white Persian cat, Mr. Fluffy. Vinnie is recovering from a boxing match that he lost the previous night, while fending off come-ons from their 16-year-old neighbor girl, Mona Mullins, who has a crush on him. After visiting Charlie's life-long childhood friend, Al Bundy, at his shoe store (who bet and lost his TV set on Vinnie's boxing fight), Charlie comes up with a "Verducci Master Plan," he and Vinnie secretly crash a formal high society party hoping to find a woman so that Vinnie will court and marry a rich débutante, while Charlie himself fends off the advances from a rather large woman.
Episode 1
The Agony and the Agony
Sun, Apr 14, 1991
Vinnie reluctantly takes a job at a country club to help pay to get the building's broken furnace fixed.
Episode 2
Behind the Eight Ball
Sun, Apr 21, 1991
Charlie tries to hustle a country club member at a game of billiards, then comes to the realization that the guy may be a gangster. Meanwhile, Vinnie entertains the man's niece, Romona.
Episode 3
Stocks and Bondages
Sun, Apr 28, 1991
When Vinnie overhears a stock tip, Charlie sees dollar signs and hits up a loan shark. Meanwhile, Alex demands Vinnie fire two of the three waitresses he hired.
Episode 4
The Last Temptation of Charlie
Sun, May 5, 1991
When Mr. Fluffy disappears, all of the tenants assume Charlie sold the feline to finance a new TV.
Episode 6
The Marrying Guy
Sun, May 12, 1991
Mona dreamed that Vinnie is married. He promises her not to marry anyone anytime soon. There is a wedding at the country club. The bride turns out to be Vinnie's first love, rich girl Tyler Adams (Jeri Ryan).
Episode 7
Mona by Moonlight
Sun, May 19, 1991
Vinnie meets a beautiful Italian princess. When it comes time for her to return home, she invites him to come back to Italy with her. "I want to show you my Rome...I want to show you my Venice...I want to show you my Naples" (sounded like nipples). Vinnie replied: "Ooh, I'd fly 6000 miles to see doze!"