The Mary Tyler Moore Show Thread (Love Is All Around)

Also I love how his wife's name is "Marie" since they already had another character named "Mary"

a comedian friend of mine used to do an impression of Gavin McLeod and Tony Curtis saying hi to each other. (They both had similar sandpapery, queeny vocal qualities, at least until Tony died.)

Swear I've heard Gilbert Gottfried do that routine.

maybe I'm confused and it was GG! It's a disorienting thing to get old.

I wouldn't put it past Gilbert to borrow someone else's material though.

I actually watched some of this one night. I'm a sucker for time travel movies even if they're really, really horrible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnUgDNPO2I

It was really, really horrible.

OMG! I take it all back. Ahead of its time.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/25331/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-my-brothers-keeper#x-0,episode,1,0

Also, 8:49

http://www.hulu.com/watch/25322/the-mary-tyler-moore-show-lous-place#x-0,vepisode,1,0

lol, what's on 3rd St these days?

My Brother's Keeper is so great

Mr. Grant making everybody sing "Alexander's Ragtime Band" was hilarious.

Everyone knowing the words = dated.

Did anyone else know the words, apart from Mary and Rhoda who were somehow able to summon them up in order to avoid the wrath of Lou? In fact at that time most people probably wouldn't have known them, which was part of the joke you are missing, about how out of touch Lou was about what would have been fun for those people.

Me missing the joke = I'm not dated.

funny how things that are 40 years old address the collective experiences of 40 years ago, eh

(see if I'd said 50 that'd be easy zing pickins)

There's also an episode that relies heavily on Ted trying to tell a joke punning on the lyrics of, um, "The Darktown Strutter's Ball."

I'm not being serious. I am, after all, a MST3K superfan.

knock knock

who's there?

Anna Maria Alberghetti

Anna Maria Alberghetti who?

(sings) Anna Maria Alberghetti in a taxi, honey....

(jeez you have to have heard of A.M.A. too)

Valerie Harper has announced she has terminal brain cancer.

Poor Rhoda, she was my favorite.

I miss the MTM show being on Nick at Nite every night, it used to be a way for me to help unwind when I couldn't sleep.

very sad news

The fun in being married to a foreigner is having a 30-minute conversation, as we did the other night, on the transition from "Valerie" to "The Hogan Family" - was it the end of Harper's career, is there a parallel world where Kirk Cameron is the star of Arrested Development, Do we have Harper to blame for eight years of "Coach", who is Sandy Duncan and what are Wheat Thins.

Still coming back to this one in two- or three-episode bursts.

"Dated" works great when you're in the mood for a fast nostalgia binge ... only in my case, it's making me nostalgic for the early '90s, when I was a preteen watching this show on Nick at Nite and getting nostalgic for the Minneapolis that existed for the decade leading up to my birth, never realizing I'd one day work at a TV station in downtown Minneapolis. Tangled webs, et al.

Wish I could be more like Phyllis; pretty sure I come off more like Rhoda.

Ha, I'm the other way around.

E, you have your Sue Ann moments, honeybunch.

In short, I'm every woman but Mary.

lol, what's on 3rd St these days?

The '90s is on 4th Street, actually.

Saw this in a book store today:

http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/cvr9781451659207_9781451659207_lg.jpg

Love the cover, of course. Will buy and read eventually.

I want!!!!!!!!!

I flipped through it briefly and it looked solid--not a scrapbook-type thing, but an actual book. Came out in May, but I've heard anything about it. I look at that excellent cover, and it's one of those books that seems so obvious, I can't believe it hasn't been done till now.

Just to quibble a bit, Rhoda's stay on the show didn't last long the way I remember it (ditto Phyllis)--Murray was obviously much more integral (even if you didn't care for him), and for me, Sue-Anne and even Georgette eclipsed Rhoda in the end.

Just watched the episode where Mary has to work the Christmas late nite shift. It's really tender and alleviates the holiday sads a little.

Man, I feel lucky that in all my years working in TV news, I've only had to work one single Christmas Eve night shift.

You can have the night off, why don't you take it

*Take off glasses, look concerned*

"Throws hat in air, freeze frames."

Just read the first half of that book clemenza posted. Pretty good. Plenty of good stuff I didn't know perhaps will post some later.

In The Betty White Show, she would play a character named Joyce Whitman, a TV actress who has to work with her ex-husband as the director of her new show. Georgia Engel would play Joyce’s best friend. White had watched Star Trek from its beginning in 1966, often to her husband’s chagrin, so she pitched the idea of Joyce’s series being a space show. It would not only provide two contrasting worlds for Joyce, but it would also be hilarious, she thought.

OK, definitely recommend that book to clemenza and others. A few things I learned, which maybe you all knew already

Ed Asner nearly didn't get the job because he gave a too-angry reading of "I hate spunk" during his audition.

Gavin MacLeod originally read for Lou but turned around as he had his hand on the doorknob to leave and asked to read for Murray.

Creators Brooks and Burns prior show was Room 222. Before that Allan Burns' biggest show was perennial gag-line My Mother The Car , which was where he gave James L. Brooks his first break into TV writing.

Guy who directed the famous credit sequence also did the same for the Hawaii Five-O and Get Smart among others.

Your revive reminded me that this was out there, so I ordered a copy from Amazon yesterday. Love the episode LL mentioned above.

Just watched the episode where Mary has to work the Christmas late nite shift. It's really tender and alleviates the holiday sads a little.

Any thoughts on Rhoda, the series?

Only a few episodes in but it seems hard going.

I did not love the pilot

That's Valerie Harper's whole career right there. She kept trying to be a lead, but she's really just a support.

then they married Rhoda off outta desperation. still think of Julie Kavner as Brenda rather than Marge tho.

and Nancy Walker got TWO leads in a sitcom after that.

One was Blansky's Beauties, iirc. What was the other?

Bosom Buddies

never ever ever think about the theme song for "valerie's family/valerie" or you will not get it out of your head for daaaaaaays possibly weeks

to cleanse your brain immediately
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50k-dCwV6SU