Stunningly beautiful. The insecurities make no sense. The perm wasn't very good but other than that Valerie was a gorgeous woman.

Yes, she was !

Who

And I dated one

@@stephaniestanley8041 Oh man would I love to hear more details on that!

@@stephaniestanley8041Deep down, The Johnny Venture’s of the world 🌎 are really nice & caring guys under the surface!! Their pushiness is only a defense mechanism. I saw it in the 70’s & 80’s in clubs!!

Was also good in Oceans 11

Also gave a good performance in Oceans 11

' Brenda's ' hair style was not any different than she usually wore it.. her outfit was gorgeous as she was going out.

More like Tony Orlando and Dusk

Exactly

Still better than Michael Bubllues

Love Johnny 💖 Justice for Johnny .

She looks anorexic. A close female friend did the same. She was extremely heavy, went to Weight Watchers. But she is now 10 pounds underweight. She thinks she looks great but she doesn't. My sister did the same thing. The 2 of them look like skeletons with a thin layer of skin. Siggghhh...

Thank you for mentioning the too skinny thing. At the start of season 4 you know a dramatic weight loss she looks anorexic. I wonder if it was stress. I mean I think Valerie was beautiful like any size I never thought she was overweight ever.

Yes too skinny in this episode.

@@haroldstacey6748 Valerie Harper was overweight but she did go from one extreme to the next.

@@eloiseockert6561 she looks like an emaciated person in this episode. She was never grossly overweight. She was a beautiful woman Inside and Out.

@@ladyrose7793 You are sooo right!!! she is a stick!!!

I feel like he is the character who would have found something to hold in his hands, and it could have been much worse than the mic.....

Sure did! It always feels like a blast of very hot wind in my face when I unexpectedly see them pictured in pre-9/11 TV shows and films. Good to see them, but bittersweet and gut-wrenching. I consider myself (as a visitor to NYC) fortunate to have actually visited them and to have dined at Windows On The World. New York City! Nothing remotely like it anywhere!

***** I think they were officially completed in '76. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I do believe you're right about the South Tower.

Meir Wise I'm always on the lookout for those and old movies and TV shows so sad but yet a remembrance

The twin towers were also in "Saturday Night Fever" for a few seconds. The north tower still had the original shorter mast--the big one was installed in 1978. I went to NYC in 1979, to celebrate New Year's eve in Times Square, and went to both towers--got lots of pics from the South tower observation, and from inside and from ground level. So sad to remember that awful day when they ceased to exist. I also had dinner one night at Windows On the World. What a view from there--not to ever be forgotten.

I'm so sorry for the loss , I'm from Scotland and we mourned for you too , all the best xx

I know...it upset me too

@Mark Thompson yes I am imagining this to a four on the four beat and some heavy wah wah with the odd disco lick thrown in on bass !

At the time, this skyline was four years old. Towers went up in '73. Someone please correct me if this is incorrect.

@@eduardo_corrochioyou’re correct little Gringo!! The idea for the towers was actually thought of by Nelson Rockefeller in the late 50’s!!

Towers went up in 70 I think

That’s why Rhoda was such a tough show yo watch just woe from everyone…..Joe was lucky he got out when he did.

In the late 70s I remember powder blue tuxedo's with matching cumberbunds and ruffled shirts and nobody laughed. Not at our high school. The 70s sported some real flouncy blouses for awhile.

My groom & his groomsmen wore those shirts in 1975.

Emily Edwards good eye!! Lol

Sergio Alférez. 🙃😂

and her makeup too pale and severe...not flattering:(

Sheela Diamond b

She looks great in those jeans.

She does look too thin. Her arms look really thin. She was always beautiful in the face but here it has a gaunt look.

Yes, but he existed in the pre-politically correct world of the 20th Century, before hi tech replaced emotions and people were still human rather than robots.

Michael Delano was working in Vegas when he was cast as Johnny Venture on Rhoda, and he is an actual nightclub entertainer in LasVegas to this day. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ZtmSn5SCxJi8Y4U.html

They would have been a better match too. He was fun and kind

Agreed. Makes me sad for all the time and energy she wasted on trying to be someone else's "ideal" of feminine beauty. This ain't it. She was perfect as she was.

Vegas was a business trip for her.

She said in this episode, "He's different. One doesn't meet someone like Johnny every day of the week," -- and maybe it was her sieve of an ego, that was hurting because there was no one but Johnny interested in her.

She can boost something of mine too. HEYNOWWW!!!

Kate Moffett-Polacci It wasn't his ego that was damaged. It was his self esteem. Rhoda just him a shoulder to cry on even if didn't cry like a little girl.

After destroying them.

I don't know how Rhoda's honesty (even about her own self-admitted neuroses) could destroy any male ego. She was ahead of her time: out spoken, unafraid to admit her insecurities and fears while still being sexy and beautiful. Women would be lucky to have her for a friend (like MTM who spun off her series) and any decent man would be lucky to have her. The comments focusing on her thinness or heaviness seem pretty shallow and vapid compared to those remarks about her true character, which Valerie Harper consistently elevated to admirable heights.

I was in my late 20s and I could not STAND Johnny, except for the "Mystery Man" episode. When I saw it again later on, and now, I absolutely love Michael's characterization of Johnny. He appears to have had such a good time. I really liked Joe, too. I also didn't care for Nick until I saw Richard Masur as Anne's boyfriend on One Day At a Time, and I grew to appreciate Richard's characterization of Nick characterization as well. I liked the character of Rhoda better on MTM than on her own show but that's hindsight. I do think I bailed before the end of the series originally.

Johnny stands up to her. He's her equal and she doesn't like it. She tries to destroy him, almost succeeds, and he turns it around in his own favor. He is terrific!

What the backstory to all this is, is the hatred of the Rock-and-Roll illiterate generation for the Great American Songbook that came before and continues, if hidden. Johnny represents Entertainment, which saw itself rightly as serving a semi-Divine purpose, of uplifting the audience. To replace it, you have evil rock demons serving themselves and their drug-addled libidos. Or drug-devouring disco dippies. That's what Rhoda is representing, she is the dishonest one. Brenda and Gary appreciate him.

By season 4, the people writing “Rhoda” were not the same people who had been writers on The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

@Konga 5000 Johnny Venture may have been a cartoon character but he did represent lounge lizards (and to a degree, singer Tom Jones who always wore that huge cross and several rings, and who had a lot of sex after his shows with willing audience participants). I was in my late 20s when this was aired originally and I did NOT like Johnny, but now as a 70+ person, I find this characterization delicious. Michael appears to have had such a good time doing it, every time he appeared. I don't see that there really was anywhere to take him and her after that, though.

Stupid comparison!!

It's a damn site more dysfunctional now!

The 70's were so much more in real life, believe me. We felt free, had good music, good TV, we went OUTSIDE in sun, snow, played in puddles in the spring rain and had the best drugs, clothes and more than u must've missed out on

@@barbibutton9619 I’m not from the 70s but I love 💕 your response…. Awesome!!!

Every second that is experienced depends on the person every second, day, decade can be amazing or trash depending on who you are and how you see life