Mary's new love interest, an assistant to the governor, keeps breaking their dates.Mary's new love interest, an assistant to the governor, keeps breaking their dates.Mary's new love interest, an assistant to the governor, keeps breaking their dates.
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- TriviaTed Knight had previously worked as a ventriloquist and puppeteer. He demonstrates those skills in the newsroom.
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Written and Performed by Sonny Curtis
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Interesting historical context
Mary Tyler Moore, widely hailed as a feminist, does a show where her character is stalked by an "Important Man", whom she has no qualms about trying to date after he gets her personal info by way of a State Trooper, then gets guilt tripped by her boss to buy his wife a gift (he usually just gives her money to buy her own gift), and another coworker whines that it's unfair, because then she should also buy her othercoworkers gifts for their own wives (or his mother, as he's single).
And all of this seems perfectly normal to everyone involved.
I grew up watching this show, but nowadays I find it increasingly difficult to watch sitcoms from the '50s, '60s and '70s due to the implicit sexism. And The Mary Tyler Moore Show touched (very lightly and unevenly) on the issue of racism, such as when Gordy (John Amos) has to remind people, including his own station manager, that he covers weather, not sports.
But despite both Mary's and Phyllis' occasional complaints about sexism, they both seem terribly complant, not to mention the husband-hungry Rhoda, who gives the impression she would marry the first rest stop (male) acquaintance who proposed to her.
But one should remember, this was an era in which feminism somehow also included Helen Gurley Brown, with her theory about "mouseburgers" and how subservient they needed to be in order to catch a man.
And all of this seems perfectly normal to everyone involved.
I grew up watching this show, but nowadays I find it increasingly difficult to watch sitcoms from the '50s, '60s and '70s due to the implicit sexism. And The Mary Tyler Moore Show touched (very lightly and unevenly) on the issue of racism, such as when Gordy (John Amos) has to remind people, including his own station manager, that he covers weather, not sports.
But despite both Mary's and Phyllis' occasional complaints about sexism, they both seem terribly complant, not to mention the husband-hungry Rhoda, who gives the impression she would marry the first rest stop (male) acquaintance who proposed to her.
But one should remember, this was an era in which feminism somehow also included Helen Gurley Brown, with her theory about "mouseburgers" and how subservient they needed to be in order to catch a man.
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