Blossom
Who's in Charge Here?
TV Flash files “Who's in Charge Here?” as hour 5 of 114 in the TV Flash guide — Blossom (1990–1995) on NBC, season 1, episode 5, aired 1991-01-21, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E05: listed hour 5 of 114 in the Blossom guide, hour 5 of 14 in season 1. It aired 1991-01-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Dad's Girlfriend” (S01E04). Next is “Sex, Lies and Teenagers” (S01E06).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
With their dad working on a cruise ship for a week, he reluctantly leaves Blossom in charge. Things are going well until she notices Anthony's latest girlfriend, also a recovering drug addict, steal a valuable family heirloom. As Blossom laments to Six about how to tell Anthony that his girlfriend is a thief, she soon discovers bigger problems when Joey arrives home, announcing that someone stole their dad's car at the mall, only to discover that it's in the police impound lot.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Who's in Charge Here? sit in the Blossom guide?
S01E05 is listed hour 5 of 114 — hour 5 of 14 in season 1, season 1 episode 5.
When did Blossom S01E05 air?
Who's in Charge Here? aired 1991-01-21 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Why the hats and asides?
Fashion, fantasy sequences, and fourth-wall breaks are house style — a teen girl's POV treated as worth formal play, not just issue plots.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Hats, fourth-wall asides, and Very Special Episodes as house style. Mayim Bialik’s first sitcom era treats a teen girl’s POV as worth a whole series — Joey’s whoa, Six’s name, and issue-episode maximalism that never whispered. Nineties girlhood comedy with formal playfulness: odd, sincere, and still the show that made a hat look like a personality.
The work, first: hats as personality, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style — a witty teen growing up with a musician dad and two brothers, Mayim Bialik's first sitcom era treating a girl POV as worth a whole series. Don Reo's NBC sitcom (1990–1995). Joey Lawrence's *whoa*, Six LeMeure's name confusing new viewers forever, Michael Stoyanov and Ted Wass around the household. Fashion, fantasy sequences, and asides that never whispered. Odd, sincere, early-1990s style-icon energy.
Filed against
- Mayim Bialik as Blossom Russo
Mayim Bialik’s Blossom Russo made a teen girl’s POV worth a whole series — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special maximalism — then walked The Big Bang Theory’s nerd-reference multi-cam as if the hat kid had learned physics. Nineties…
- Joey Lawrence as Joey Russo
Joey Lawrence’s Joey Russo made Blossom a whoa heard round TGIF — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style, Mayim Bialik’s first sitcom era treating a teen girl’s POV as worth a whole series. Nineties girlhood comedy…
- Michael Stoyanov as Anthony Russo
Michael Stoyanov’s Anthony Russo held Blossom’s sibling weather while hats and fourth-wall asides did the branding — 1990s girlhood comedy, Mayim Bialik’s POV as a whole series, Joey’s whoa, Six’s name, Very Special Episodes as house…
- Ted Wass as Nick Russo
Ted Wass fathered Blossom as Nick Russo — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style, a teen girl's POV treated as worth a whole series. Nineties girlhood comedy with formal playfulness. TV Flash files him as…
- Jenna von Oÿ as Six LeMeure
Jenna von Oÿ’s Six LeMeure named Blossom’s best-friend weather — hats, fourth-wall asides, Very Special Episodes as house style, Mayim Bialik’s first sitcom era treating a teen girl’s POV as worth a whole series. 1990s girlhood comedy…