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

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.

Betty White wins the MTMS tontine.

Gordy says hey

https://i.imgur.com/4LWEbiq.jpeg

gordy! :D

So he is! As is Marie Slaughter herself, Joyce Bulifant.

What uh selection were you planning to warble?

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I was in the neighborhood, visiting one of my favorite spas.

Watching season 6 now, which is very tight, despite Mary's disappointing new apartment.

And there's this bit from "Lou Douses an Old Flame": Despondent Lou tells Mary about receiving a Dear John letter from his sweetheart while he was serving on the front in WWII. This line that comes out of the blue...

Lou: That war cost me the woman I love, Mary, so don't try defending Hitler to me!

...followed by Mary's gobsmacked reaction... are SO SO good. I'm somewhat surprised it got past the censor in 1975.

I'm realizing now that the character of Lou Grant makes me laugh more than any of the others on this show.

You've got spunk.

Lou is the best <3

Mary has Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti on her record rack. Wouldn’t think that was her taste.

I continue to be fascinated by Mary Richards’ record collection, which becomes visible when she moves into a new apartment in season 6 and has a turntable and an album rack on display. One album cover can be seen on the rack at any given time.

I mentioned she has Physical Graffiti; she also has the Woodstock soundtrack. In season 7 I keep seeing a mysterious black & white album which turns out (thanks, internet) to be the back cover of A Slice of Cake by the ‘60s girl group The Cake. So random! There’s got to be a story there.

Debuts today:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU5p79a7IgU

Will definitely watch that when and if I get access, but couldn't they come up with a better title? That Being... construction has been used to death by now. Something that plays on "spunk," a line or phrase from "Love Is All Around," something.

MTM: TMI would've been my suggestion

1976. pic.twitter.com/H38vWDDktP

— Kliph Nesteroff (@ClassicShowbiz) May 22, 2023

God, that two seconds of her dancing around the 45-second mark--so incredibly seductive.

Really enjoyed the documentary, the home-shot footage of people speaking at her drunken bridal shower in the 80s was especially touching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JFF64tPf5M
The hat store thing is pretty funny

This is near the end:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvgHCvFjMc

Does anyone like season 7 of MTM? I find it too sentimental and a little too formulaic in terms of character… like we GET that Sue Ann is horny, Murray is snarky, and Ted is dumb… why are you beating us over the head with this? The show ended when it should have imo, if not a season too late