I love how Vivian Vance gives focus to the various other actors in her scenes. She really knows how the timing works and exactly where the laughs are going to fall. Beautiful craft.
A true classic...memories of childhood house in Cork , Ireland , always longed to see America...me being the youngest it was strange because I laughed louder than the older............ all cast that are gone R.I.P. !!! and thanks....
I’m glad the audience cheered when Vivian Vance came on set but I felt the cheer could’ve/should’ve been louder! The woman is a legend! Great episode with her nonetheless
I had the pleasure of meeting Charlotte Brown, one of the writers of this series, years ago and she said that the one major mistake the producers made with this series is marrying Rhoda too soon. By the end of the second season, they were running out of fresh ideas for new episodes. I think they considered having Rhoda get pregnant but decided - wrongly IMO - that Rhoda was funnier when she was single and looking for a man which was why it was decided that Joe and Rhoda get divorced. It turned out to be the wrong decision because when they did that, ratings for this series went from number 7 in season two to 32 in season three and it was canceled two years later. The producers hadn't considered that fans of the series - myself included - did not like the divorced Rhoda. If they wanted to save the series, they should have had a reconciliation between Joe and Rhoda for season 4.
Then divorce was not funny in a comedy. But I have to agree they married Rhoda way too soon maybe she should have never married. There are some characters, once that a series is established, that they should never married if they are single, case in point “ I dream of Jennie”, it died once they crossed that line. Mary Tyler Moore never got married in her own series and That Girl got married off of her series .
You're overlooking one major difference. Those other characters were not looking to get married. Rhoda was. And then once she finally got married, the writers had her get divorced. Don't forget that divorce was on the rise in America during this period and maybe seeing Rhoda get divorced on television reminded many people of their own bad experience which might be why those people stopped watching the series. The proof is in the ratings.
Well, if they were going to marry her off, they could at least have married her to someone comically interesting. Joe was so flat. Yet he was also a lousy straight man.
Nobody seems to like Joe! I didn't think he was that bad (except that he looked too much like Tom Jones). Another alternative could have been to have Richard Schaal, who was then married to Valerie Harper, play her on-screen husband but considering that those two really did get divorced in 1978, it's probably better that the producers did not select him after all. It would have been too verite!
@sarahspeaks144 Lady after my own heart! I totally agree with you Sarahspeaks144. One of the things they teach you in business school is that you never go from idea straight to mass production. That's why companies first do a market test to see if a new product will catch on. This is what the producers should have done here. If they wanted to try out this new concept (the divorce), they should have had Joe and Rhoda go through a trial separation just to see how the audience would react (the test market). Once they saw that this new idea did not resonate with the audience, the producers should have had a plan B and write in a reconciliation. Unfortunately, the producers went from idea to mass production to failure. After all, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
This was a very good episode. Vivian Vance fit right in. She made "angry middle-aged man" Joe, tolerable. I loved how Ida was not so subtle in her jealousy of Maggie Cummings. High stakes cheesecake, to say the least. David White (Ted Cummings) was adorable. Martin (Harold Gould) was his usual charming, insouciant, irreverent self.
Such a classy group of quality actors... all in the same room. Then I stop and think about the schmutz on tv today. So glad I grew up in the 70s... and that we have MeTV today.
Looking at this one episode of 1970s TV, three things stand out. 1. The actors talk more slowly because they had about 7 more minutes of screen time. On sitcoms of today, they have about 18 minutes versus 24 minutes of the old days. 2. The opening credits and closing credits, combined, take up about 90 seconds. Rhoda had a LONG intro and closing. 3. The names on the credits are actually ALL legible. One reason for all this. Commercials.
What a joy to see Vivian Vance. Perhaps she was too type-cast as Lucy's sidekick to have really launched a vital post-Lucy career. But this episode really proves that she was capable of holding her own in any comedic setting. Maybe drama, too. Who knows.
Vivian did do commercials after ILL was cancelled. She shunned the idea of being in the spinoff of ILL The Mertzes, and then later on did appear for 3 seasons in The Lucy Show. She left as the trip from Conn to Calif was too trying on her and wanted to spend more time with hubby.
@@nassauguy48 She played smaller parts in films before "Lucy". Most notably "The Secret Fury" with Claudette Colbert in 1950 (Viv's clips from that film are available here on UA-cam). She may have not become a household name, but she would've had some remarkable measure of success.
Love Vivian Vance. Nice to see her outside the Lucy shows. ❤❤💐😊🤗. Ooo, and Larry Tate from Bewitched, Mr. David White. Wonderful actors. Such fun this episode!
There was also talk of Vivian returning to once again be Lucy's sidekick on "Here's Lucy". But like is this show, her health prevented that from happening. It's to bad to 😢.
As stated in the Vivian Vance biobiography, she did not want to do " Here's Lucy" and didn't do too many of The Lucy Show's successive seasons. She had re-married and commuted from Connecticut but got tired of the commute...
It was almost otherworldly to see David White and the legendary Vivian Vance apart from their respective iconic television shows. It reminds us that they’re all, after all, just working actors playing parts. Such fun.
Wow, Vivian Vance and David White. What a great episode. Seeing Viv and Valerie together was awesome. The two best second bananans in the biz! Vivian looked healthy and on her game. Good for her. One of my favorite actors ever! Thanks for posting.
Speaking of drinking and David White, do you remember how everyone used to drink on BEWITCHED? Everyone except Tabitha. They drank a lot on the TV series DALLAS too. LOL
"Rhoda" was one of my favorite sitcoms! I had a crush on Valerie Harper in high school. Vivian Vance did a great job playing Maggie, as she did playing Ethel on "I Love Lucy". "Rhoda" had a great cast as well. No wonder it stayed on for 5 years!!
Viv and Rhoda, perhaps the most prominent second fiddles from previous shows. Valerie did better after MTM than Vivian did after Lucy. R.I.P. Ms's Vance and Walker. Both left a great body of work.
The ILL series ended & wanted to do a comedy on The Mertzes. Wm. Frawley was for it, but Vivian Vance bowed out not wanting to work again with Frawley. Some fans feel it would have failed without Desi and Lucy, Some fans felt it could have been successful, but we will never know either way.
One thing I've observed from watching several episodes of this series is the way the show really kicks into a higher gear when Nancy Walker is in a scene. Nothing against the other actors, but she just elevates things to different level, and the energy kicks up a notch whenever she's on screen.
They always had great guest stars on this show - Ruth Gordon, Vivian Vance, Anne Meara, John Ritter, and many others. You know there was actually a script written called "Your Old Friend Phyllis" but it never got produced. Cloris Leachman and Valerie were very good friends in life, but always adversaries on MTM Show!
@@washkoskat yeah - playing Carlton's mother, of all people. She was an incredible actress (although some people I've known don't like her acting...oh well.)
@@BenjiOrthopedic her Academy award winning performance in Rosemary's Baby was prefection. No one else could play that role and then later Harold and Maude was so much fun... I think i need to find a Ruth Gordon movie and watch 😁
Most say it's the writers' fault for creating this grumpy Joe character. IMHO it's not what Joe says, it's how he says his lines. If Joe had used a tone that sounded playful or empathetic - instead of sounding like he's annoyed or complaining - Joe would have come across as an entirely different and more likeable person.
@@nassauguy48 It absolutely did! They wanted to establish the character of Rhoda, but they did too much, too soon. Perhaps Joe shouldn't have ever been a part of the show, but it should've at least been put off for a few seasons.
Yes, when I used to watch this show when it ran originally, I wasn't crazy about him, but I am still unsure to this day whether I didn't like the actor or the character he played. He always seemed to have an angry streak about him.
Emily Edwards What is a midwestern accent? I am not familiar with all of the accents in most American states. I assumed Rhoda had a typical NY Bronx accent.
+CaptainGrimsdale There are numerous regional dialects all across the US. Most commonly recognized are the New York accent like Rhoda's (with variants within the city), the Bostonian accent with the vowels: "parking the cah in the yahd," the Southern accent, the Midwestern with its nasalized flattened vowels, and the alternating rhythms of the West Coast, also with several variations depending on where you are.
Very funny and well written episode. Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Vivian Vance, and David White are all Television legends. Rhoda looked beautiful in this episode. Ethel Mertz meets Ida Morgenstern, Classic.
One of the better episodes as Vivian Vance guest starred. Vivian Vance was going to be a semi regular but became so ill. Then crossed over shortly after. So sad...but she was well loved.
My sibs and I, aged 5, 6, 11(me), and 13, used to sing this season's opening theme song so well together that it could've made one ask, Is it live or is it Memorex? Our mom mentioned after a few episodes how annoying it was getting, so... It was all in fun and yes, now nearly 50 years later I totally understand why she thought so.
5:22 I lived in California for twelve years, yet it took me several seconds to get that one. "Oh. Wine country." The audience's laughter was so quick--it was probably canned even though this was filmed in CA, and they would get it.
Because the writers split them up eventually I kind of understand why they wrote Joe as a bit of a dick...what I don't get is why they couldn't stick with one personality for him. Sometimes he's the sweetest ever, next he sounds like perma-douche. Too wide a gap between the two
Ethyl Mertz and Marge Simpson onscreen together. Two of television’s all-time greatest characters. Real history here.
And Larry Tate!!❤
And Miles
And Rhoda Morgenstern.
I love how Vivian Vance gives focus to the various other actors in her scenes. She really knows how the timing works and exactly where the laughs are going to fall. Beautiful craft.
Rip Vivian, Never Forgotten ❤
What a cast. Vivian Vance, Nancy Walker, David White (Larry Tate from Bewitched) in addition to Valerie Harper and Julie Kavner. Incredible!
❤❤❤❤❤
Nancy Walker.....pure gold!
comedic timing at its most impeccable!
A true classic...memories of childhood house in Cork , Ireland , always longed to see America...me being the youngest it was strange because I laughed louder than the older............ all cast that are gone R.I.P. !!! and thanks....
The legendary Vivian Vance!
You Bet!
yeah love her
MrS98VAC who
her glasses are perfect
Vivian Vance is the mother of the modern mental health movement! She was a very cool lady.💕
What a great episode. So many incredible actors all together in one room. Writing was superb too. Don't make them like this anymore. 😢
I’m glad the audience cheered when Vivian Vance came on set but I felt the cheer could’ve/should’ve been louder! The woman is a legend! Great episode with her nonetheless
They clapped but clearly lacked the enthusiasm, reverence she deserved.
Agreed! She was definitely a legend. She helped make I Love Lucy the success it was.
This wasn't the first take.... in case you have not been to a filming of a TV show, the audience gets tired.
@@dannydougin3925 good point. I never thought about it like that. Have you ever been to a taping of a sitcom and if so, which one??
How do you know the audience wasn't told to shut up. It costs them money to refill.
I had the pleasure of meeting Charlotte Brown, one of the writers of this series, years ago and she said that the one major mistake the producers made with this series is marrying Rhoda too soon. By the end of the second season, they were running out of fresh ideas for new episodes. I think they considered having Rhoda get pregnant but decided - wrongly IMO - that Rhoda was funnier when she was single and looking for a man which was why it was decided that Joe and Rhoda get divorced. It turned out to be the wrong decision because when they did that, ratings for this series went from number 7 in season two to 32 in season three and it was canceled two years later. The producers hadn't considered that fans of the series - myself included - did not like the divorced Rhoda. If they wanted to save the series, they should have had a reconciliation between Joe and Rhoda for season 4.
Then divorce was not funny in a comedy. But I have to agree they married Rhoda way too soon maybe she should have never married. There are some characters, once that a series is established, that they should never married if they are single, case in point “ I dream of Jennie”, it died once they crossed that line.
Mary Tyler Moore never got married in her own series and That Girl got married off of her series .
You're overlooking one major difference. Those other characters were not looking to get married. Rhoda was. And then once she finally got married, the writers had her get divorced. Don't forget that divorce was on the rise in America during this period and maybe seeing Rhoda get divorced on television reminded many people of their own bad experience which might be why those people stopped watching the series. The proof is in the ratings.
Well, if they were going to marry her off, they could at least have married her to someone comically interesting. Joe was so flat. Yet he was also a lousy straight man.
Nobody seems to like Joe! I didn't think he was that bad (except that he looked too much like Tom Jones). Another alternative could have been to have Richard Schaal, who was then married to Valerie Harper, play her on-screen husband but considering that those two really did get divorced in 1978, it's probably better that the producers did not select him after all. It would have been too verite!
@sarahspeaks144 Lady after my own heart! I totally agree with you Sarahspeaks144. One of the things they teach you in business school is that you never go from idea straight to mass production. That's why companies first do a market test to see if a new product will catch on. This is what the producers should have done here. If they wanted to try out this new concept (the divorce), they should have had Joe and Rhoda go through a trial separation just to see how the audience would react (the test market). Once they saw that this new idea did not resonate with the audience, the producers should have had a plan B and write in a reconciliation. Unfortunately, the producers went from idea to mass production to failure. After all, if it ain't broke, don't fix it!
This was a very good episode. Vivian Vance fit right in. She made "angry middle-aged man" Joe, tolerable. I loved how Ida was not so subtle in her jealousy of Maggie Cummings. High stakes cheesecake, to say the least. David White (Ted Cummings) was adorable. Martin (Harold Gould) was his usual charming, insouciant, irreverent self.
Thanks for sharing, this brought back awesome memories!
Viv..a total class act all the way.
I am really enjoying these reruns of Rhoda...(some of which I've not seen before)! Thanx so much for posting them! I appreciate it. 😀
Sammmmeeee sentimentsss
So true
Wow Vivian Vance & David White how cool is that !!!!
Such a classy group of quality actors... all in the same room. Then I stop and think about the schmutz on tv today. So glad I grew up in the 70s... and that we have MeTV today.
Vivian Vance! = God, how I have always loved that lady's personality and acting: legend is right!
Vivian Vance of I Love Lucy fame as Ethel, and on the Lucy Show as Viv. Larry Tate from Bewitched too.....rip
Wow, what a cast! Mr. White from Bewitched, Ethel from I Love Lucy, and Miles from the Golden Girls!
heula1 Yes indeed! They were all good actors from that era when television had better quality shows.
And Rhoda and Ida from The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
+David Eskridge it's a spinoff from MTM show...that's the whole idea
heula1 The gentleman from Bewitched was Darren’s boss, Mr. Larry Tate............Not Mr. White.
And Ida who was aunt angela on the golden girls
Looking at this one episode of 1970s TV, three things stand out. 1. The actors talk more slowly because they had about 7 more minutes of screen time. On sitcoms of today, they have about 18 minutes versus 24 minutes of the old days. 2. The opening credits and closing credits, combined, take up about 90 seconds. Rhoda had a LONG intro and closing. 3. The names on the credits are actually ALL legible. One reason for all this. Commercials.
Viv and Valerie! The two best sidekicks ever! Similarly, Lucy appeared on an episode of Mary Tyler Moore's show.
+George Adelman Lucille Ball was never on an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show (sitcom).
Lucy was on MTM's short-lived variety show, after the sitcom ended.
Didn't know Lucy guested on MTM. TY
Lucy was never on MTM..ever
@@sanfrancisco89 Lucy was on the MARY TYLER MOORE HOUR....different....a variety show.
What a joy to see Vivian Vance. Perhaps she was too type-cast as Lucy's sidekick to have really launched a vital post-Lucy career. But this episode really proves that she was capable of holding her own in any comedic setting. Maybe drama, too. Who knows.
Vivian did do commercials after ILL was cancelled. She shunned the idea of being in the spinoff of ILL The Mertzes, and then later on did appear for 3 seasons in The Lucy Show. She left as the trip from Conn to Calif was too trying on her and wanted to spend more time with hubby.
True, but one cannot have the chicken without the egg. Without Lucille Ball, who knows if Vivian, as talented as she was, would have gone anywhere?
@@nassauguy48 She played smaller parts in films before "Lucy". Most notably "The Secret Fury" with Claudette Colbert in 1950 (Viv's clips from that film are available here on UA-cam). She may have not become a household name, but she would've had some remarkable measure of success.
Larry tate
Viv had great skin for a 65 year-old lady!
Gorgeous!
ETHEL!!!! lol I was so surprised to see her!!!!!
+Emily Edwards and Larry Tate of Bewitched :)
It's the two best sidekicks in television history
Love Vivian Vance. Nice to see her outside the Lucy shows. ❤❤💐😊🤗. Ooo, and Larry Tate from Bewitched, Mr. David White. Wonderful actors. Such fun this episode!
Apparently, there was talk of Vivian becoming a series regular after this. Too bad her health wasn't doing too well. Would've been great!
***** Yep and Viv on The Lucy Show.
Yes, she is!
There was also talk of Vivian returning to once again be Lucy's sidekick on "Here's Lucy". But like is this show, her health prevented that from happening. It's to bad to 😢.
Damn! That could’ve saved the show!
As stated in the Vivian Vance biobiography, she did not want to do " Here's Lucy" and didn't do too many of The Lucy Show's successive seasons. She had re-married and commuted from Connecticut but got tired of the commute...
Rhoda looks lovely in her red top, and Ida is really attractive in her lavender/ lilac pantsuit. They are flattering colors on both of them.
The great and incomparable Vivian Vance! WOW!!!!!! ♥️
love seeing these legends vivian vance amazing a great episode no plastic on idas couch crazy
Ethel Mertz and Larry Tate!
Thank you UA-cam these treasure's will still be here long after I'm gone..
What I love so much about this show it was so typical old-school New York attitude and comedy.
It was almost otherworldly to see David White and the legendary Vivian Vance apart from their respective iconic television shows. It reminds us that they’re all, after all, just working actors playing parts. Such fun.
Wow, Vivian Vance and David White. What a great episode. Seeing Viv and Valerie together was awesome. The two best second bananans in the biz! Vivian looked healthy and on her game. Good for her. One of my favorite actors ever! Thanks for posting.
Unfortunately, looks are sometimes deceiving and this was one of those times. So sad...
@@eloiseockert6561 Even though she was physically still solid looking, there was definitely a tentativeness to her.
Love ❤️ this show, I can’t believe I only found out about it this year 😳; anyway better late than never. Rhoda is so pretty.
The 70's when alcoholism was a lighthearted, funny affair.
yeah they had people having bars in their houses and drinking as a matter of course when visitors were over, on TV and stuff even into the 80s.
Now everyone’s obese and obsessed with the drug, marijuana
Speaking of drinking and David White, do you remember how everyone used to drink on BEWITCHED? Everyone except Tabitha. They drank a lot on the TV series DALLAS too. LOL
Yep
"Rhoda" was one of my favorite sitcoms! I had a crush on Valerie Harper in high school. Vivian Vance did a great job playing Maggie, as she did playing Ethel on "I Love Lucy". "Rhoda" had a great cast as well. No wonder it stayed on for 5 years!!
Loved Rhodas father. Classy gentle kind man.
Viv and Rhoda, perhaps the most prominent second fiddles from previous shows. Valerie did better after MTM than Vivian did after Lucy. R.I.P. Ms's Vance and Walker. Both left a great body of work.
The ILL series ended & wanted to do a comedy on The Mertzes. Wm. Frawley was for it, but Vivian Vance bowed out not wanting to work again with Frawley. Some fans feel it would have failed without Desi and Lucy, Some fans felt it could have been successful, but we will never know either way.
@@eloiseockert6561 Wow, William Frawley must have been a real SOB to work with. Is that why he was replaced by William Demarest on My Three Sons?
@@nassauguy48 He passed away.
RIP "RHODA" VALERIE HARPER 👼🙏😇 THX 4 THE LAUGHS😍
RIP Vivian and both Davids as well. I guess "Marty" too
Who could ever forget Lucy and Ethel fighting over the washing machine? Too bad Vivian's role in Rhoda was not a recurring character.
Shr was going to be a semi regular but she became extremely ill shortly after. Then became so ill she crossed over
So sad.
Vivian Vance! ❤️❤️❤️
One thing I've observed from watching several episodes of this series is the way the show really kicks into a higher gear when Nancy Walker is in a scene. Nothing against the other actors, but she just elevates things to different level, and the energy kicks up a notch whenever she's on screen.
Ah! How lovely is Valerie Harper ☀️( Rhoda) ❤️ in red.💟
OMG Vivian Vance!!!!!!!!!!! I love her!!!!
Vivian Vance🤩☀️😍
I love all of the episodes. Awesome
This is really one of the best-written of the 70s comedy shows. Sorry I never realized that the first time round.
4:00 "We're moving Mrs. Mertz's washing machine in front of her door!" LMAO!!
They always had great guest stars on this show - Ruth Gordon, Vivian Vance, Anne Meara, John Ritter, and many others. You know there was actually a script written called "Your Old Friend Phyllis" but it never got produced. Cloris Leachman and Valerie were very good friends in life, but always adversaries on MTM Show!
Ruth Gordon was such a class act loved her appearance on Rhoda
@@washkoskat yeah - playing Carlton's mother, of all people. She was an incredible actress (although some people I've known don't like her acting...oh well.)
@@BenjiOrthopedic her Academy award winning performance in Rosemary's Baby was prefection. No one else could play that role and then later Harold and Maude was so much fun... I think i need to find a Ruth Gordon movie and watch 😁
I liked the episode with Joan Van Ark (Joe's glamorous first wife). Once again, Rhoda found herself in the "secondary" role.
We've got I Love Lucy and Bewitched all on the Rhoda show!
Joe is always annoyed
Most say it's the writers' fault for creating this grumpy Joe character. IMHO it's not what Joe says, it's how he says his lines. If Joe had used a tone that sounded playful or empathetic - instead of sounding like he's annoyed or complaining - Joe would have come across as an entirely different and more likeable person.
He’s surrounded by whiny feminists what do you expect
Ma is right a lot of the time, at least when it comes to getting along with spouses.
Valerie was gorgeous here
She seemed to have a fantastic glow like her aura was really coming through!
Joe is cute, but he gets gruff so easily.I was surprised on a later episode when Martin left home to 'find himself'; he and Ida were pretty close.
They purposely wrote male characters to be that way so that feminism would look heroic
There are a few exceptions (this being one of them, and not because of Joe), but I generally avoid the Joe episodes.
@@PonderousProse I get the same feeling. David Groh was great, but the Joe character somehow took away from the mystique of Rhoda.
@@nassauguy48 It absolutely did! They wanted to establish the character of Rhoda, but they did too much, too soon. Perhaps Joe shouldn't have ever been a part of the show, but it should've at least been put off for a few seasons.
Yes, when I used to watch this show when it ran originally, I wasn't crazy about him, but I am still unsure to this day whether I didn't like the actor or the character he played. He always seemed to have an angry streak about him.
I loved Rhoda's Midwestern accent! hahaha Cute.
Emily Edwards What is a midwestern accent? I am not familiar with all of the accents in most American states. I assumed Rhoda had a typical NY Bronx accent.
Yes, I honestly don't remember writing this comment. I have no idea why I called it Midwestern instead of a New York accent.
+CaptainGrimsdale There are numerous regional dialects all across the US. Most commonly recognized are the New York accent like Rhoda's (with variants within the city), the Bostonian accent with the vowels: "parking the cah in the yahd," the Southern accent, the Midwestern with its nasalized flattened vowels, and the alternating rhythms of the West Coast, also with several variations depending on where you are.
Emily Edwards I assumed you meant Rhoda’s Western accent on the phone accepting her mother’s cowboy invitation.
Love the cheesecake line. "what about her cheesecake? " "Meh." lol
Vivian Vance “Ethel Mertz” ❤️❤️
I just finished all 5 seasons. Now I’m gonna start from season 1, episode 1
Adored Ida!!! When she was on the show it was a classic episode!!!
he was always such a big baby
Rhoda rocked those head scarfs
Very funny and well written episode. Valerie Harper, Julie Kavner, Nancy Walker, Vivian Vance, and David White are all Television legends. Rhoda looked beautiful in this episode. Ethel Mertz meets Ida Morgenstern, Classic.
OMG! The voice of the doorman was the same voice of Garfield in the cartoons!
He is the same voice. Lorenzo Music
Joe is such a grouchy
You’ll get over it
I was right- his name was Lorenzo Music and he did voice Garfield too!
7C, 9E..strange for an apartment building with only 5 floors.
A sitcom...
@@eloiseockert6561 Yes, we are aware of this fact.
@@sanfrancisco89 obviously you aren’t
@@Shamonwhitehurst252 Yes, I am asshole. It is a comment on continuity issues. You can now look up what continuity means and fuck off.
One of the better episodes as Vivian Vance guest starred.
Vivian Vance was going to be a semi regular but became so ill. Then crossed over shortly after.
So sad...but she was well loved.
Loved this epi
Like the chicken?
Love Vivian Vance!
Rhoda/Valerie is breathtakingly gorgeous in this episode!! at dinner party, in red, so beautiful
Good clean funny entertainment tv lacks this today sadly
interesting-Viv played the ad executive and her husband was in Bewitched as Larry Tate-ad executive
DANG! I'M 61, still dealing with history disappearing before my eyes, wasn't expecting this. 😍💝💯♾️
So sad most of this cast have passed away
If you want to see a very young Vivian Vance from 1933, go to youtube, "Eadie Was A Lady"
What a weak round of applause for Mrs Vance.
I think this is my favourite episode.
Mine too
Even tho' Valerie's gone now, i love her solid respect for ELDERS like Vivian Vance, among others😍.💝💯♾️
Ethel Mertz and Larry Tate, this should be a hoot! 😂😂😂😂😂😂
A.J. Benza once called Vivian Vance "TV's most beloved second banana." For once, he was right!
Ethel in advertising and married to Larry Tate the OG advertising king 🤣
Ethel......❤️
My favorite episode
How precious is this Ethel and Larry Tate, In Advertising.
I'm wearing Hai Karate 😁🔥😂❤️
Great
My sibs and I, aged 5, 6, 11(me), and 13, used to sing this season's opening theme song so well together that it could've made one ask, Is it live or is it Memorex? Our mom mentioned after a few episodes how annoying it was getting, so...
It was all in fun and yes, now nearly 50 years later I totally understand why she thought so.
In the late seventies when I was sitting in my backyard at night I heard kids a few houses down in their swimming pool singing TV theme songs loud.
REFERENCE TO GREEN STAMPS.
5:22 I lived in California for twelve years, yet it took me several seconds to get that one.
"Oh. Wine country." The audience's laughter was so quick--it was probably canned even though this was filmed in CA, and they would get it.
Probably a lot of people in the audience were tourists who actually went to those places to visit.
Erik, There wasn’t anyone like Rhoda 😄
Vivian!! 😍
Who didn’t want to guest on Rhoda? Great to see the line up.
I love Rhonda,we would be friends
RHODA SHOULDN'T HAVE
ACCEPTED AN INVITE WITHOUT ASKING JOE FIRST.
Larry Tate & Ethel Mertz... 😲 WOW
Because the writers split them up eventually I kind of understand why they wrote Joe as a bit of a dick...what I don't get is why they couldn't stick with one personality for him. Sometimes he's the sweetest ever, next he sounds like perma-douche. Too wide a gap between the two
Great Episode! It my mind when Rhoda is wearing the Red Scarfs on her head in this episode it is an ode to Lucy's Hair but maybe that's just me haha
Doubt that...the scarf matched her skirt.
This episode resulted because Valerie Harper met Vivian Vance in Hawaii...❤
That was everything!!!