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

How will you freight it on your own … ?

http://i.imgur.com/MDS603E.jpg

This rig is awfully big, girl this lane you're all alone.

(many xposts ago...) Phyllis spinoff costarred Henry Jones, who left such a lasting impression on me in The Bad Seed as a kid that I couldn't stand seeing him in a sitcom.

https://sp.yimg.com/ib/th?id=JN.Bl3YV1xIBajXTVg3NjhYtg&pid=15.1&P=0

I still have never seen The Bad Seed; before Phyllis, i'd seen HJ sell the bike to Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy, in Sipport Your Local Sheriff!, and i'm sure as guest judges or doctors on TV. Now I principally think of him in Vertigo and 3:10 to Yuma.

oh and the two Tashlin dillys in the '50s, Rock Hunter and The Girl Can't Help It... He was only about ten years older than Cloris Leachman, too.

Morbs, get yrself to Bad Seed asap. One of my alltime favorites, scared the crap out of me as a kid, amazingly campy as an adult.

i gen avoid camp (see also Mommie Dearest)

Aw, it's a way better movie than Mommie Dearest, though.

Shut the hell up.

^this is not his first time at the rodeo

http://www.pbs.org/program/mary-tyler-moore-celebration/

http://www.vulture.com/2015/10/john-amos-mary-tyler-moore-good-times.html

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihLJrcS8lsg

I haven't watched Dick Van Dyke since I was ten, probably, so this will alas hasten that vacuum.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks0to2QuJtM

Was hoping I could find the ending of Season 1's Christmas episode, where Mary works late and Lou, Murray, and Ted come back to the station to surprise her. On the short list of most perfect Sappy Sitcom Moments ever. (Can't even find a still...)

fuck 2016

Hello I just recently started watching this for the first time and I love it SO much

Especially love Lou Grant & Rhoda but everyone is great & the characters are so well-defined right out of the gate

Shelley Berman as the hilarious weird dentist at the Better Luck Next Time divorcees club was a great touch.

I still have to resume season one from five years ago. In the interim, I've watched probably 15-20 Prestige Shows from the post-Sopranos era (including The Sopranos), maybe three or four of which I'd rank ahead of MTM. It's just a different dynamic--and maybe I take MTM for granted.

Someone I used to work with--someone I like a lot--just posted on Facebook about her "spunky" daughter's second birthday. It took every ounce of restraint not to reply with a certain famous MTM clip.

Believe that clip was often shown as part of the ad campaign before the show was even on the air.

And I see that five years ago I posted something upthread about Alex Trebek quoting that clip.

http://retrowatching.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/the-georgette-storu.jpg?w=300&h=226

Sweetest, most lovable character ever--in a way that didn't make you hate her. There was an episode I remember where she got really tough with Ted that was great.

RIP Valerie Harper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djvnArl1qcA

to watch later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5p65xzswoI

RIP.

To my great embarrassment, I’ve still never seen an episode of MTM. My main association with her is her 80s show that she had yanked away from her and rechristened as The Hogan Family after she asked for more money.

RIP.

Feel a bit guilty bringing this up now, but couldn't find mention upthread of one of Nancy Walker's most famous prior gigs, as the paper towel pushing diner lady.

I think that gig was contemporaneous with MTM.

To my great embarrassment, I’ve still never seen an episode of MTM.

I saw it in daytime reruns when I was a kid because my mom would watch it, but I dove in as an adult just starting last Sunday (it's on Hulu). I'm only about halfway through S1 now and VH passes away. Makes watching it a little more poignant for the time being.

Love Valerie so much, so sad to see her go ;_;

Especially now that I became a MTM fan late in life, seeing what effortless joy & comedy she brought to a show that was wall to wall effortless joy & comedy

And god was she beautiful <3

https://i.imgur.com/96KBFlF.gif

<3

anyone seen any other analytic pieces, esp on how Rhoda betrayed Rhoda?

https://themuse.jezebel.com/im-the-rhoda-1837795944

/Mary sings a song really amateurishly in Mr. Grant's office/

"One for My Baby"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIgmMr891BQ

We are up to Season 6 of MTM and wow Mary’s hair has really been on a journey lately

Last half of season 5 she had the medium-short permed blowout (long on top) that resembled my Mum’s hair - Mary’s got bigger and bigger until Mr Veg complained that it was her worst hair ever. then she went into a cut blown-out Dorothy Hamil pageboy bob that I really liked. But now we’re into a dead straight flat-ironed feathered bob that is maybe my least favorite so far, it’s like a dry equivalent of someone dumping a bucket of water over her head

Anything happening hair-wise with Murray? (I do remember there was a toupee episode.)

Same old same old

The full bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_XquQO_kHg

brilliant

i die laughing over this now *before* she even starts singing

I want to live inside the theme song.

otm

What uh selection were you planning to warble?

RIP, Murray Slaughter.

;_;

so sad. He was 90!

RIP Ed Asner <3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jslAOzi_7sE

aww ed <3

What uh selection were you planning to warble?

Ha, should have quoted my screenname from then as well.