I think it'd be pretty funny if Gaster, or whoever is screwing with the Secret Bosses, isn't actually messing with them on Purpose, and is just going around genuinely attempting to help these fellas, but accidentally worsening their lives.
How does this link to the Popular Mid-to-Late 80's Family Drama Show, Highway to Heaven? Well, I'll tell ya.
The Premise of the show, is that a Probationary Angel known as "John Smith", (Real Creative, huh?) wanders the Country to work on assignments from "The Boss", along with a Human he meets in the first episode, Mark Gordon. These Assignments are usually to resolve an unfortunate situation that has arisen in a Person's life, usually when someone is caught in a hopeless situation. When he and Mark have finished assisting, they head off to the next person who'll need their help.
(There was a second show very similar to it in the 90s, called Touched by an Angel, but that's entirely unrelated to this.)
Anyway, the way I like to imagine it, is that Gaster is being thrown between worlds, finds himself working strange jobs in the Dark World, like a Financial Advice Hotline, or a Motivational Speaker for Clowns. Eventually he gets to a point where he's pretty sure whoever he's "helped" can figure out the rest for themselves, so he leaves. However, unlike John and Mark, he exposes his Assignments to Knowledge they were never supposed to know.
I wonder who Gaster's Mark Gordon is?
I think The Vessel could work. Much like Mark Gordon, the Vessel is rendered without a Purpose on its first Appearance.
Title cards to ten of my favorite Christmas episodes.
In alphabetical order by episode title.
The Alan Brady Show Presents (The Dick van Dyke Show)
Arthur’s Perfect Christmas (Arthur)
Basinger’s New York (Highway to Heaven)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (Peanuts)
Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales (Peanuts)
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (Sesame Street)
The Christmas Presence (The Love Boat)
Holiday Special (Magic School Bus)
A Muppet Family Christmas (The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock)
The Toy That Saved Christmas (Veggie Tales)
1984 STRIKES AGAIN! And it's full of surprises. The year of 1984, for television, was awesome. So many of the new shows that came out were long-running, super-popular successes. Even the shows that didn't make it still leave an impression on the public today. I talk about all of it in this exciting, thrill-packed video. You'll also find out other TV events of 1984 (some of them are pretty wild) and huge celebrities that began their careers on television this year (i.e. Keanu Reeves). Come on in and have some fun! https://youtu.be/TsHj-VFfa6I