Norman Reedus helped Who’s The Boss? appear on The Walking Dead

Norman Reedus was instrumental in getting the opening credits from the hit sitcom Who’s The Boss? to appear on an episode of AMC’s The Walking Dead.

Season 7 of The Walking Dead introduced fans to several firsts on the AMC zombie survival drama series. One of those was a working television which actually had a program being shown on the small screen.

That scene in question happened in the episode titled ‘The Cell’, where Dwight was watching Who’s The Boss? in his room at The Sanctuary while fixing himself up a fancy sandwich made from food from The Saviors’ store.

The Tony Danza program being included in the montage over The Jam’s “A Town Called Malice” during the opening sequence was a pleasant surprise for many fans who grew up enjoying the program, but the reason Who’s The Boss? was chosen was for a specific reason according to Entertainment Weekly.

"“I ran into Tony Danza a couple of times actually,” Norman Reedus says during the commentary track for “The Cell.” “It was originally in Atlanta at a wrap party a couple of seasons ago. And then I saw him again in front of The Four Seasons. And then his manager ended up sending an email via someone else to me about Tony doing something.”"

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While it wasn’t Tony Danza himself that made the appearance, being able to do some kind of project with the popular sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1992 was great, even if Showrunner Scott M. Gimple didn’t have massive plans for its inclusion.

"“[Scott] had asked me, ‘Hey, send an email and see if it’d be cool if we did something to the credits with his show.’”"

Once they got the okay to use the opening credits, there was some hope on the end of Danza’s representatives to get a little more of a nod to the actor and the show, but that was something that the show just couldn’t make work in a logical way.

"“We did that and then his manager wrote me back and said something like ‘Oh, it’s cool. It would be cool if Norman said like, ‘Oh, see — he’s still the boss.” Or something like that. Something crazy. Which, of course, we didn’t do.”"

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What did you think of seeing Who’s The Boss? on AMC’s The Walking Dead? And what did you think of the fun story about Norman Reedus helping to set it all up with Tony Danza? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.