Life with Bonnie

Seasons

2002

USA

6.5

Bonnie Molloy, a local TV host, shares personal family stories on her morning show. Her husband and children struggle as she blurs reality and entertainment for fame, challenging the line between public persona and private life.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Pilot

Bonnie endures a dinner with John's boss and his wife after a show that included two Italian chefs and a racist author.

S1 • E2

Weather or Not

Everybody but Bonnie is excited about the appearance of a local weatherman (David Duchovny) on the show, who brings a clip of the film he has made.

S1 • E3

Dream

After Mark implies her job is easy, Bonnie's day gets tougher, thanks to imbibing too much cough syrup before a crafts segment.

S1 • E4

Don't Act Your Age, Just Act

It's Tony's birthday

S1 • E5

Duets

The station owner's son (Kevin Pollak) insists on dining with Bonnie the night before he co-hosts, forcing the crew to babysit her kids.

S1 • E6

Is It Just Us?

Bonnie interviews a UFO abductee (Don Lake) with a sketchy memory, and frets about whether Mark's new nurse will be attractive or not.

S1 • E7

A Day in the Life

It's Halloween and the Molloy family is going all out. While the kids are having fun, the Morning Chicago crew is kept busy with welcoming an important guest.

S1 • E8

Happy Day

Carl Reiner plays the station owner, who orders the show to make some cosmetic changes with a spiritual bent to please potential investors.

S1 • E9

Money Plus Marlens Makes Four

Jonathan Winters plays an author with multiple personalities and Mark protests Bonnie's haphazard checkbook accounting.

S1 • E10

Partly Sunny

David Duchovny returns as weatherman Johnny Volcano, who's promoting his guest role on a soap opera in a scene that includes Bonnie.

S1 • E11

What If?

On her wedding anniversary, Bonnie dreams she's married to Tom Hanks after she names him as her ideal fantasy.

S1 • E12

Christmastime in the City

A snowstorm brings everyone closer together, as the Molloy family, stranded in Chicago for the holidays, celebrates Christmas with the Morning Chicago gang.

S1 • E13

Okay, Thanks

Bonnie weathers Samantha's first crush, but unfortunately not on her show, where she chats with a local gossip columnist (Rip Taylor).

S1 • E14

Deuce Is Wild

Holly tells her new singer beau (Frank Stallone) that she's the producer, so he makes a surprise visit and asks to perform on the show. Bonnie also does a segment with chef Kazu Uehara.

S1 • E15

Assaulted Nuts

A fireman who responds to the Molloys' squirrel problem is non-responsive when he appears on the show to give safety tips

S1 • E16

Psychic

Bonnie's guest on her Cooking for the Dead TV special is a notoriously animated psychic, Kevin Powalski. His long hectic psychic improv steals the show and amused Bonnie goes along with it. Mark's at home sick with flu.