Chronicles the unconventional family life of a stay-at-home writer father, his overly-involved wife, and their three independent yet close children, inspired by the real-life Zappa family and rocker Frank Zappa.
Tony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York. Together they raise their kids, Samantha Micelli and Jonathan Bower, with help from Mona Robinson, Angela's man-crazy mother.