Same here. I recall wearing many of the exact same outfits, peasant blouses, full skirts and boots and bohemian look jewelry.

@@g-girl9867 yes! So many things from that time still hold up

Mary looked good in everything. I got white bell bottoms and those scarves-only Rhoda could wear them just right.

I agree, always had a crush on her and could relate as a younger sibling myself

+Jan Holder The quicker picker upper, I remember that commercial. Why did she leave the show for a while?

+Carol Napolitano Walker left "Rhoda" twice to star in two different - in 1976 "The Nancy Walker Show" and then "Blansky's Beauties" (a spin-off from "Happy Days") the following year. Neither show caught on and cancelled relatively quickly.

The same here. Did you know Nancy Walker was acting since the 40s? She did musicals in one of those old movies so she's been around for some time.

Nancy Walker actually only left Rhoda for season 3. Strangely enough, The Nancy Walker Show and Blansky’s Beauties both aired and failed in the same season: 1976-77. Walker was back for season 4.

They definitely love the thrill of the case Let them chase you til you catch them

I have been married for 31yrs, soon, and what I discovered is that men don't have a vlue about our many insecurities and have no clue how to behave when we go a little nuts. Most are confident so they believe women have the same confidence. Don't assume you can tell your other half and he knows how to comfort you .

I would answer the "why question"but I don't know "why" I always did the same thing.

Because she’s a feminist who complains about everything

That's what Feminists wanted. They would be looking for this type who wasn't really a jerk, women wanted to be free so he treated them as such. I had an aunt (born in 1930?) who was a Feminist and never married/had no kids.

Don't like her!

creative series 🍸

love her under-4' 9" NY sassiness

One of my all-time favourite lines from television. I'm hoping to be able to use it at least once in real life before I die. Of course, it's harder now that we use cell phones!

Ida has met her match in Mike.

I never thought of that, but I think it's a great idea! 👍

I don't know if I could stand my flesh crawling.

she had a great show idiot

Joey Tribianni was a cute 90's iteration of sexy Italian Americans characters from previous years. From the Rat Pack to Arthur Fonzerelli to all the Godfather and Goodfellas movies to Rocky Balboa... heck, even Joey from Blossom was like a proto- Joey Tribianni. A montage of all their catch phrases: "Eyyyy" ... "Yo"... "Whoah" ... "How YOU doin'?" 😎

His name was Johnny Venture

It was a teeny tiny bed for when "mAh" slept over.❤️

@@svamberiv7999 😂🤣😂

@@svamberiv7999 😆😆

Small bed and the nose sofa emphasises the tragic life of single women you want Spinsters back then

I always assumed she set up the bed before the pilot to give Rhoda a bed while she stayed with her from Minneapolis. But then Rhoda moved in with her until she married Joe so it stayed. After Rhoda moved in, they really should have just put a couch on that wall.

Preach. This is so true.

You get what you settle for in life. If you as a woman lower the bar, are willing to just sleep with men with no love, no commitment, no hope of a future -that's what they will give you. It's what they will be 'trained' to expect in marriage and they will not be able to cope with the self-sacrifice and hard work that comes from a committed relationship. So they will divorce again and again -chasing rainbows and ever-younger women. They will be totally unsuited to a committed monogamous relationship until they are so old they know they'd better 'find someone' or they'll be alone when they die. If a woman sets the bar high, insists that she wants a permanent commitment and that sex is out of the question outside of a committed relationship, she'll get that, because decent men want a challenge; they want to be a hero for an unattainable woman. If all they can find is women who date and have sex with them with no strings, then men will never rise above that level of grunting animal. Women decide what they'll settle for. Rhoda's generation threw away marriage, commitment, family, children, and the satisfaction of unconditional love in a permanent commitment in favor of 'dating' and casual sex, on and on and on through middle age, always imagining that if you just go to bed with a man, somehow he'll think you're wonderful and want a lifelong commitment with you. Instead, men got what they wanted and what her generation was willing to give: cheap sex. You get what you settle for; the value you put on yourself. I hope at least some of today's generation, looking at the generations of the '60s and '70s, see what a bankrupt, miserable existence was being pushed as 'freedom' and they recognize the lie and demand something better for themselves than what young people in the '60s and '70s embraced and lived. So many people of that generation that I see and know have nothing but regrets and confusion: regret that they never married; regret of the children they aborted or thought they would somehow magically have 'one day' and confusion as to how they did everything the culture said they should do, and ended up with a series of broken relationships and little more (though with women, also with economic hardship and even poverty usually thrown in). Rhoda got exactly what she settled for from Joe and this guy: sex, no commitment, and no love, because love is not conditional, and Joe and this guy have all kinds of conditions. They could have sex, but never make love, whereas Rhoda wanted love. And Ms Magazine and the like kept hammering home the message that wanting love, real, unconditional love, which means commitment FOR LIFE was neurotic, made women insecure and unequal to men, and was to be abandoned in favor of casual, unfulfilling sex, loneliness, economic poverty (married women are better off financially than single women) and emptiness, as well as guilt for not, somehow, getting with the program and being like Cosmopolitan keeps telling them they will be, if only they imitate the worst qualities in the worst men.

Figaro Hey! You're actually speaking my adoptive mother's philosophy who was born in 1914 and adopted me when she was forty-five. I was so out of step with most of my peers, growing up as they did with much younger parents in the 60s and 70s, during this so-called era of free-love and sexual liberation. Old-fashioned or not, I was raised with a great level of self-respect by parents who indeed made sure I set the bar and kept it high, in spite of the time period of my youth. My mom used to say that times may change but people really don't, and I found that she was right many, many times. I know I was rare because I was actually still a virgin when I got married at age twenty; that was almost unheard of back in those days. I'm glad I had the childhood I had, and was raised with the morals and values that are virtually unheard of now and were already becoming a memory back then when I was still very young.

Figaro Hey! I agree with everything you say except for placing the responsibility on women. This is nearly fifty years of culture that’s been rammed down their throats, and it’s worse than ever today. Pop cultural propaganda has destroyed several generations of lives now. What we need is a new counterculture that is more similar to the old establishment, complete with sitcoms and movies that showcase self-respecting women as role models rebelling against the raw deal the sexual revolution gave them. Girls growing up in a woman-hating culture of casual sex and abandonment can’t be expected to know their worth. We have to teach them what their parents sadly did not. Think if Rhoda could have seen into the empty years ahead and instead of apologizing for being “needy” could have told Joe and this jerk Mike where to get off, withOUT giving her intimacy or throwing any part of herself away on him. What a tower of strength she would have been for young women doubting their own hearts in the cold-blooded era of free sex and no love.

This is the opposite to my experience. Dating in my forties, all the men I met wanted to settle down, and I still wasn’t ready. I started dating a more relaxed man. Anyway, we’re married now, so things didn’t go according to plan.

Right!!!!

Then you're old enough to know how differently people felt about things back in those days. Take off your 2022 glasses and put your 1972 glasses. If you can find them.

She chased them both and didn't learn. This one is worse than Joe

Too funny

Loved Gary

Benny is predictable, honest and hard working. Gary is fun and exciting. Gary may be a great boyfriend but Benny would make a good husband.

I love Benny think he's hysterical and handsome

@patrick m ok

Ok

Daughters who had a mother like that would have seen therapists, weekly.

@@Gobi512 Ida was a pain in the ass!

@@Gobi512 You are so right!!!!

@@Gobi512real talk. Every Tuesday and Thursday. 😂

I felt Hirsch just wanted things his way all the time so I would have to agree with Rhoda about getting to know someone and taking time to know someone without jumping into the fire.

I really dont understand why ppl keep saying they should have married instead of Rhoda and Joe. This guy is even more of walking red flag, clearly

It rained more on average in the 70s. The climate was more temperate and global warming had not yet gotten bad.

@@faithfulforever6331 , back in the 70s, they taught us we were heading for an ice age. Global warming, the opposite side of the coin, and just as ridiculous, did not enter the scene until much later.

​@@DaveKaramazov contrived all of it

@@jeanmiller1142 they sure did. The planet always corrects itself, an it doesn't need our help. It will be rotating on its axis and orbiting the sun long after we're all out of the picture.

Exactly

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I totally agree. Years ago, I met Charlotte Brown, one of the writers for this series, and she said that the big mistake the producers made with Rhoda is that they married her off too soon in the series and they didn't know what else to do with her. That is why in the third season, they concocted a separation between her and Joe. IMO, they should have had her get pregnant. But for some reason, the producers thought that Rhoda was funnier when she was not attached. It was a classic case of creating drama because you're bored.

you would feel comfortable with someone who is totally insecure and neurotic??? On the other hand, the men are self centered an unable to make commitments. I guess that's the way so many are!!!!

garfieldisgod I've been married for 32 years now. But I would love to introduce you to some women I know who move from one boyfriend to another because they get "bored" after two years. Maybe you need to stop watching so much Lifetime and look at the world as it really is. Many women are just as shallow as many men.

Dennis Nayland Smith I agree. Shallowness is not gender specific at all.

Dennis Nayland Smith I agree. Shallowness is not gender specific at all.

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Jewish sort of way? Wtf does that mean?

Yes, Judd was a smooth operator and I personally would have dumped his ass not because he was Jewish but of the way he expects a woman to let him have his "damn way!"

What an incredible left-handed compliment.

Mike is that Jewish guy that tries to tone down his "Jewishness", by acting less uptight or typical, that ends up still being that insecure guy that can be annoying.

Eroftei Horea Tilicea people would have liked Joe and Rhoda still married and having a child. Rhoda was an interesting working married woman..... we loved her they should have kept them together.

Do you have that phrase on a stamp? We know that you love, love, LOVE this show

no sex before marriage

realistic is wut america likes to avoid! but yet they cry the biggest tears wen trouble comes

Rhoda was over 30 and divorced.

Totally agree. Bye ma 😒 Slam!!

@@highlightedreply8838 Or... go fuck yourself!

Sam. Yes ❤

And you had two of the greatest second bananas in show business history with Vivian Vance and David white

And what the producers didn't know Rhoda and Joe were brilliant Astrological wise They certainly could have got good storylines keeping Joe.

I know, you left the comment yrs ago, but I'm just watching this. Anyway, are you kidding me (I am being sarcastic, in a way). The writers, many of them were addressing the issue of feminism, being free of men and so on. Women who are the daughters of these feminists want nothing to do with these men-haters. They had to get rid of Joe from the beginning (when he agreed to marry Rhoda - because she didn't feel right just living with him) and women wanted to see working women not needing men (at least Rhoda, since the writers found Brenda a mate). These feminists would have prevented the birth of future generations!

@@marinazagrai1623 It's stupid and sad, huh? We were not created to be alone. Men need women just as much as women need men. Nothing weak about that. Just IS!

There have been numerous reasons given. Some were that they simply didn’t know how to write for a married Rhoda, some were (though they have always been unfounded) that the actor that played Joe was hard to deal with behind the scenes, etc. A lot of people said that the show suffered when Rhoda became single again. One of the reasons why the producers said they cancelled the show was because they were focusing too much on the Brenda character. Valerie Harper said that she didn’t mind and they said that the show was called “Rhoda,” not “Brenda.”

Marina Zagrai Feminists basically wanted one thing: equal rights/privileges. Maybe they had a variety of theories about how to achieve equality, but the bottom line is that they wanted to be regarded as people in their own right and not have the world filtered through a man. Fun fact: At the time of this airing, men could not be charged with rape if they forced their spouse to have sex, and women were making 60 cents on the dollar for equal work. Those were the issues feminists were concerned about, not proving something superficial.

@@mellamell7441 You’re the first commenter in touch with reality on this thread.

She's beautiful.

This is very un Judd Hirsh, this guy is another jerk.

yes

Melanie I bet you would look amazing

Thanks for making me smile

Oh my ! I knit a sweater like this in blues lol

Je's a jetk, she's a great woman.

hence the results of what america is today! ......#keepida

I have read many negative comments about Joe's character. I have seen a tenderness and kindness about him with Rhoda. Whenever they would argue, he usually was the one to acquiesce first to Rhoda. He was very understanding about her family, too. If the top brass of the network wanted to shake up things a bit, they could have had the couple just separate, have an unexpected pregnancy, or some reversal of the status quo. They did not have to break up the couple... Women's lib did not necessarily mean you have to have get a divorce. Shows do not have to reflect the trends, but also show something for the audience to improve and aspire to. Just my humble opinion.

Cheer up, Deborah-it gets worse! I'm a 78 year old widow living in a grim nursing home. You should see my 4 choices 😱. I miss my smart, handsome, witty husband & I'm not ready to fade away quite yet but I'm losing hope fast. That's why I'm watching all the re-runs of these old comedies I guess-helps with the lonliness. I like the old British comedies like Keeping Up Appearances too. 🙋Good luck to you from 🇨🇦!

@@Claudia-up6hr CLAUDIA WISHING YOU BETTER DAYS AHEAD. THANK YOU. DEB

Thanks

***** Glad to hear that you agree with me. I said that because in almost every episode of the series before Rhoda left, every man preferred Mary to Rhoda. And I used to always wonder why they did when Rhoda seemed less unencumbered and more carefree (as well as more attractive).

Dennis Nayland Smith I'm not a guy, but I agree with you. They really had to drab down Valerie Harper for her to play Mary's not-so-hot friend. I really enjoyed watching Rhoda become better and better looking. Not dumping on MTM, but Valerie's natural assets - bone structure, eyes, hair - are just better.

Hell, Yeah. Valerie Harper was hot. Watching this episode, I just realized how much she looks alot like my EX girlfriend. Damn!

I'm no man, but Valerie Harper was absolutely gorgeous when she was on MTM and Rhoda. And she's been fighting cancer for five years and is still lovely.

Mary had a large mouth and a lot of teeth. Valerie was much prettier.

Ida was always butting in!!!!!

Taxi had not been created yet.

Not!!!!!