Um,
not intending to be a buzzkill, but how was that scene "approaching intimacy"?
(Not to say I didn't like that episode in season one, which is on DVD...)
It was played for laughs, as an accidental encounter, with Tony having Angela's permission to use her big bathtub for a bubblebath while she was out of town on a business trip. Tony was unaware she returned early, since they had not seen each other, and Angela was wearing headphones listening to music in her bath, and didn't hear Tony coming while he was singing. She was standing up, starting to dry off with a towel when Tony walked into the bathroom with them facing each other, Tony in his bathrobe, Angela with her towel behind her back, still wearing headphones...
During the WTB reunion show, Tony, long after the fact of course, said Judith wanted to get a genuine reaction for that situation, so she was topless, (if not nude, but Tony's eyes went "north" of her waist). Surprised shock certainly registered on Tony's face, and the camera jumped around Angela's/Judith's body, showing nothing more than her bare back, navel, and face, feigning shock/surprise. I hardly consider that intimacy.
A small part of that scene was included in the episode when the IRS info had Tony and Angela married, and an auditor was sent out to check their returns; it was also a "recap" of some of the earlier episodes. It **may have** shown some slightly different footage of that scene, showing a little of the side of Angela's left breast from behind, with her towel in each hand. (I don't recall that as being shown in season one.)
Episode 7.18 I believe, "Tony And Angela Get Divorced".
The remainder of the season one episode got almost as raunchy as some of the episodes of TWO AND A HALF MEN though... Angela was offended and aggravated that her new housekeeper saw her in the bath, (calling it "naked"), and at one point, opened the front door, and shouted out "Tony saw Angela naked." in a taunting voice. Unfortunately for Angela, Tony had a date coming to pick him up, and she was standing just outside the door as Angela opened it... The woman got the impression that Angela had ideas about Tony, and insulted Angela about shouting out the door, and said something I won't put here...
But, that actually got Tony off of Angela's "bad guy list" in the aftermath when the gentlemanly Tony came to Angela's defense against the woman, and sent her packing for her rude behavior.
In the movie FAR AND AWAY, (I believe), Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married in real life at the time. In a scene after he had a bare-knuckle prize fight, he was getting cleaned up, but either passed out drunk, or asleep, and the women had him naked on a bed, lying on his back with a very large bowl covering his crotch. Nicole comes into the room, and her character in the film is "interested" in him... she walks over to the bedside, and kneels, facing the bed and the camera, appearing to try to peek under the bowl. She cannot see under it, so she reaches over and carefully lifts her side of the bowl, and gets a bewildered but pleased smile on her face, then slowly lowers the bowl, and leaves the room, still smiling. Tom wanted a genuine reaction, and she was married to him then, but was expecting him to be wearing some sort of "modesty patch", and was surprised when she saw he was nude. The camera did NOT show what she saw under the bowl though. ("extras" section of the movie.)
No "approaching intimacy" there either, right?
Well, probably more than the similar WTB, because her character was deliberately looking...
At the end of episode 7.25 "The Road To Washington: Part 2"
Mona warns Angela that the senator's blonde, and well put together aide is probably stringing Tony along. Angela seems resigned to let Tony choose between them, even though they have never said they love each other, so Mona tells Angela to tell Tony how she feels about him, show him how she feels, and tell him how she feels again. After the aide essentially tells Tony they will never see each other again because the senator has flipped to support cutting Madical payments and Tony refuses to flip, Angela comes to see Tony. She tells him she likes him, then kisses him, then tells him again that she likes him (elementary school anyone?). Tony makes a joke about "show and tell" as Angela leaves the room and the episode ends.
Approaching...
The CW broadcast of WTB just earlier this (early) morning, I think episode 8.01, mentioned as the one when Angela bought Tony an expensive watch, as a Seventh Anniversary gift of them meeting, with the engraving "It's Time I Said I Love You". Tony gave her a ("kiss of death" practical gift) sheepskin car seat cover set. Angela delayed giving Tony her intimate gift while she was hurt by the "practical gift", expecting much more, lingerie at least. They end up in a carnival "Tunnel Of Love" ride as the carnival closes for the night, and apparently spend the night (intentionally) there, beginning with some substantial making out as the scene fades...
"Approaching intimacy"? I'd say so.
Well, *we* didn't see more than passionate making out, but more was certainly implied...
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