When Bernie brings to the studio his visiting cousin Erika, he asks Tony to invite them to dinner so she has someone else to consider utterly uncool. It works, but Erika also dates Mikey, once; when Tony happily shows them off as a couple, both Dana and Bernie suggest that it's a ploy to flaunt his family as being utterly liberal: an insulting thought that makes even Tony and Bernie wonder which part "color-blindness" plays in their own relationship.
—KGF Vissers