Sitcoms Online Photo Galleries - Vinnie & Bobby: Matt Leblanc

Vinnie & Bobby aired from May until September 1992 on FOX.

In this spin-off from Top of the Heap, hunky but dimwitted Vinnie Verducci ( Matt LeBlanc) was no longer living with his social-climbing dad. He was still in the same run-down apartment but was now living with his freeloading childhood friend Bobby ( Robert Torti) Vinnie, a construction worker did want to make something of his life and, to that end, was taking night courses at Dick Butkus Community College in Chicago. Bobby, a lazy, obnoxious guy who was convinced he was God's gift to women, was forever taking advantage of his good-natured friend. Mona ( Joey Adams) was the sexy teenage girl who lived in Vinnie's building and had the hots for him. Bill, Stanley, Fred, and Casey ( John Pinette, Ron Taylor, Fred Stoller, Colleen Morris) were his fellow construction workers, and Carl ( Vidal Peterson) was Mona's nerdy would-be boyfriend.

A Review from Entertainment Weekly

VINNIE & BOBBY (Fox, 9:30-10 p.m.) Vinnie and Bobby are working-class stiffs, roommates always on the lookout for fabulous babes and get-rich-quick schemes. But this isn't a sitcom; it's a televised version of a teen-scream fan magazine. Vinnie is played by Matt LeBlanc, late of another recent Fox anti- laughfest, Top of the Heap. Bobby is portrayed by Robert Torti. Both are such hunks that whenever they enter a scene the studio audience bursts into shrieks, squeals, catcalls, and applause. Someone will ask, ''Vinnie, when did you lose your virginity?,'' and there's an immediate explosion of audience hooting and hollering so overwhelming that LeBlanc must pause before delivering his typically lame punchline: ''I didn't lose it-it was stolen.'' It's obvious that the minimal entertainment value of Vinnie & Bobby derives not from its jokes but from its hunk quotient, a factor I humbly leave to the devotees of LeBlanc and Torti. D

For a look at the relationship between Vinnie & Bobby and Top of the Heap go to http://poobala.com/marriedandvinnie.html

For a Website dedicated to Matt LeBlanc go to http://www.mattleblanc.net/

For a Fansite dedicated to Matt LeBlanc go to http://www.mattleblanc.org/

For a Matt LeBlanc Page go to http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3142/leblanc.htm

For the Official Robert Torti Website go to http://www.roberttorti.com/

For a Page dedicated to Joey Adams go to http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/set/1675/