![]() ![]() Mary takes this opportunity to invite Lou and Edie over for dinner. The gang meets back up at the station, where Lou is eager to go home to a kid-empty house and connect with his wife, Edie. We begin after Lou’s youngest daughter’s wedding. Just when I think you can’t win my heart anymore, you prove me wrong again. While I enjoyed “Smokey The Bear Wants You,” Rhoda’s episode was not quite as strong as Lou’s episodes, in particular episode 21, “The Boss Isn’t Coming to Dinner.” Still, props to Rhoda for making an effort. This also does not go over well: “I now know the thrill of having a raccoon watch me change.” The episode ends with them still together, but I don’t see a future for these two. But because she like Chuck so much, Rhoda agrees to a weekend camping/hiking trip. “Can you imagine me living up in a treehouse with a guy in a boyscout hat?” she asks Mary. This does not go over with our New York City born-and-bred Rhoda Morgenstern. While the money was good, Chuck wasn’t happy and plans to go back to school to become a forest ranger. After a few failed attempts, Rhoda finally gets the truth: Chuck recently quit his job as vice president of a successful company. They start dating, and everything is going great except for one thing: Chuck has a lot of money for someone who doesn’t seem to work. Both women are taken with the handsome Chuck, but he only has eyes for Rhoda. Rhoda and Mary meet the handsome Chuck Pelligrini (played by West Side Story’s Michael Callan) at gas station waiting for Rhoda’s car to be fixed. Many of these qualities are seen in “Smokey The Bear Wants You.” In those 17 episodes, we learn she is a fantastic gift giver (I still can’t get over the rotisserie) a fierce and loyal friend – more on that later the person to call on when your apartment is robbed or to ease a tense social situation a lover of doctors the fastest quipper this side of Lorelai Gilmore and despite her constant self-degradation, a confident woman who knows her worth. For a character who made such a huge impression on me, it’s interesting that she only has two episodes where her story drives the plot – episode 6, “Support Your Local Mother”, and episode 23, “Smokey The Bear Wants You.” The 17 episodes in between show Rhoda in a mostly supporting role, but she also slowly develops as a character. Last week I said I wanted more episodes involving Lou and Rhoda this week we get two spotlight episodes for Lou and one for Rhoda. My first thought after finishing these was: Well that was fun! Second thought: Ask and ye shall receive. Let’s get to it: This week we discuss Mary Tyler Moore season 1, episodes 21-24. That went fast, didn’t it? I am a champion TV marathoner, and even though watching one season over four weeks is relatively slow for me, it still flew by. Hello Retrowatchers! Believe it or not we’ve come to the end of season one. ![]()
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