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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Mary Tyler Moore Show is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977. The program was a television breakthrough, with the first never-married, independent career woman as the central cha

(41 total)

Seasons

Season 1 (22)Season 2 (19)Season 3 Season 4 Season 5 Season 6 Season 7

Characters

Valerie Harper (15)Rhoda Morgenstern (15)Lou Grant (12)Ed Asner (12)Lorenzo Music (10)Treva Silverman (7)Susan Silver (6)Ted Knight (5)Ted Baxter (5)James L. Brooks (5)

“[about his nephew, Allen] What that kid needs is a little understanding, a little compassion, and all that other crap.”

— Bob Rodgers, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

Tagged: Understanding, Compassion, Crap

“There are no men friends when you're thirty. They're either fiances or rejects.”

— Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Friends, Thirtysomething, Fiance, Reject

“Rhoda: My father's short. Mary: See, it didn't bother your mother did it? Rhoda: Bother her? She made him that way.”

— Lloyd Turner, Gordon Mitchell, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: short, mother, overbearing

“Life insurance, huh? I still haven't met a beneficiary.”

— Steven Pritzker, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Life Insurance, Beneficiary, Spinster

“Lou: I haven't been this mad at anybody since…1944. Yeah…1944. That was the last time I let it all out. Mary: Did anything—much—happen? Lou: Huh? Oh. I captured a town in Germany.”

— Treva Silverman, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

Tagged: 1944, World War II, angry

“Mary: He had his arm around her and everything was very cozy. Then he saw us, he pushed her away and started treating her like a stranger. Rhoda: I know that feeling. I once had a date do that to me when I ordered steak.”

— Lorenzo Music, David Davis, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Cozy, Stranger, Steak, Cheap

“Lou: Mary, where are the idiot cards? Ted: Cue cards, Lou! Cue Cards! Lou: Excuse me, Ted. Mary, could you please give those cue cards to this idiot?”

— John D. F. Black, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

Tagged: cue cards, idiot cards

“Mary: Mr. Grant, you're gonna be just fine, just fine. Go in there and be natural. And remember to smile. Lou: You can't have both things, Mary.”

— Martin Cohan, Mary Richards, Mary Tyler Moore, imdb.com

Tagged: Be Natural, Smile

“Mary: Why are you smiling at me? Lou: Because you just reaffirmed my faith in human nature. Mary: You mean what I did wasn't rotten? Lou: Oh, no, that was rotten all right. It's just nice to know that everyone's rotten. Up to now, I thought you were one of the few holdouts.”

— Susan Silver, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

Tagged: smiling, Rotten, human natgure

“Rhoda: How come you're not watching that documentary on TV? It's on how much fun us single swingers are having. Mary: How come you're not watching it? Rhoda: I didn't want to watch it alone. It's too depressing.”

— Lorenzo Music, David Davis, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Documentary, TV, Swingers, Single, depressing

“Ted: I went to my reunion a couple of months ago. Famous Announcers School. Murray: That's a correspondence course. Where did they have the reunion, in a mailbox?”

— Allan Burns, Murray Slaughter, Gavin MacLeod, imdb.com

Tagged: Announcers School, Correspondence Courses, insults

“Ted Baxter: [Ted's brother, Hal needs a dinner date] Say, Mare, why don't you fix Hal up with that Israeli friend of yours? Mary Richards: You mean Rhoda? Ted Baxter: Yeah. Mary Richards: Ted, she's not Israeli; she's from New York. Ted Baxter: Well, I knew it was somewhere there in the Middle East.”

— Treva Silverman, Ted Baxter, Ted Knight, imdb.com

Tagged: Israeli, Jewish, New York, Middle East

“Mary, I came to Minneapolis because of the cold. I figured if I was frozen I'd keep better.”

— Allan Burns, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: minneapolis, Cold Weather, Aging

“I was five years old before I knew my father could talk. You know the first thing he said? 'Listen to your mother.'”

— James L. Brooks, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Cuckold, Submissive Male, mother

“Ted Baxter: Whatever happened to the good old days when they had wars in England? Murray Slaughter: You'd find a way to mispronounce London.”

— John D. F. Black, Ted Baxter, Ted Knight, imdb.com

Tagged: Ignorance, England, London, Mispronunciations

“Rhoda Morgenstern: How can you gorge yourself and stay so skinny? I'm so hungry I can't stand it. Mary Richards: Why don't you eat something? Rhoda Morgenstern: I can't. I've got to lose 10 pounds by 8:30.”

— Treva Silverman, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: weight loss

“Hey, Rhoda, do you know what I'm doing? I am changing my clothes at eight o'clock at night so that I can go to a club where I'm going to lie about being divorced so that I can perhaps in a few months' time end up in Paris speaking Spanish.”

— Treva Silverman, Mary Richards, Mary Tyler Moore, imdb.com

Tagged: Divorce, clubbing, paris, spanish

“You're talking about Midwestern love. I'm talking about Bronx love. There's a certain amount of guilt that goes with that. My mother wants the people she loves to feel guilty.”

— James L. Brooks, Rhoda Morgenstern, Valerie Harper, imdb.com

Tagged: Midweast, Bronx, Love, Guilt

“Lou Grant: You got a lotta spunk. Mary Richards: Why thank you, Mr. Grant. Lou Grant: I HATE spunk.”

— James L. Brooks, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

Tagged: Spunk

“If I don't like you, I'll fire you! If you don't like me, I'll fire you!”

— James L. Brooks, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

Tagged: Bossy, boss, You're Fired