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1990 NBC. "A Very Fanelli Christmas." An Italian family who own a funeral home business try to keep it afloat. Joe Pantoliano, Christopher Meloni, Richard Libertini, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Ned Eisenberg. Dom (Joey Pants) is a hustler and scam artist. When he brings home a Christmas tree everyone wants to see a receipt. Then we have a series of clips about his scam involving fake Rolex watches.
The next bit is a series of women who are brought home to the kitchen table as possible matches for Anthony (Ned Eisenberg), who runs the funeral home. Then the youngest Fanelli has to admit he has dropped out of school, and is not gay, which everyone is relieved to find out. Christopher Meloni is the stud brother Frankie, who is having a problem with Little Frankie. "You look like you lost your best friend in the world." "I did." "Ma, I'm important!" Wendie Malick and the lovely Italian beauty Fabiana Udenio appear briefly.
A Christmas episode with clips is kind of hard to judge a sitcom by. There was some criticism that the show was too stereotypically Italian. This is the only episode available on Youtube.
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