Started watching these again. Forgot how gorgeous Mary Tyler Moore was and always a joy to see both her and the fabulous Dick Van Dyke play their roles. I admit, some skits are corny but they were better understood back then. Hard to find good, clean, wholesome shows these days! 🤔
This episode reminds me of all those 'I Love Lucy' episodes where Lucy wants to be in the show, but Ricky doesn't want her to. 'Ba ba lou!' - Actually, it is seldom a good idea to work with one's spouse; it rarely ends agreeably.
I love the armchair “historians” that use this as proof of a misogynistic attitude, when this episode was funny precisely because the audience knew Rob was being flawed and ridiculous! Even ROB knew he was being ridiculous about accepting help, and it resolves with Rob helping Laura out and realizing that he needs to appreciate her. But noooo, we are going to read the minds of the past and project hate and antagonism!
Unfortunately that was the prevailing male attitude. Even if they showed Rob being a jerk, that attitude was real back then and that is an irrefutable part of history. Don't know how old you are but I remember those days very well-- and much worse.
@@wandajames6234 I think it depends on the type of people you ask. I’ve interviewed many, many women who have lived in that time, and they NEVER have the take on it that modern “historians” do. None of the women I’ve interviewed felt put down or oppressed, none of them felt like women were expected to be perfect while men were always given a pass, none of them felt like there was a prevailing plot against women, they all recognized and had individual flaws, their partners had individual flaws and they recognized that working it out together was important. Which would seem to me that in the lives of the majority of women, the tyrannical misogyny that is a “fact” when seen through the lens of the progressive today looking back on a narrow artifact of yesterday (a fictional comedy, no less) bears very little resemblance to the actual attitudes of men in their lives. Now, I’m willing to admit that I may simple have interviewed “the lucky ones” somehow, and I’m definitely willing to say that their lives -when compared to the ultra-radical feminism which we view as the ideal today- were viewed differently as far as gender roles. I’d also say that the women I’ve interviewed tend not to be the victim type…not the type to say, “Poor me, the mean man made me wear a skirt,” and more inclined to say, “Wearing a skirt didn’t hurt us one bit.” But to say that every man was looking at Rob in this episode and not laughing at his folly, that they would ALL have been on the side of “you tell that woman”…from what I’ve observed, that’s not true. Which makes me think that it’s much more subjective and nuanced than it is portrayed in today’s history.
Im 62. I WISH i had the terrible aweful life that Laura had!!! Im alone, no kids, divorced, worked at different jobs, traveled, but now, im alone and NOT a millionaire!!
I think it’s a cute episode..did you notice how man times Rob buttons and unbuttons his jacket? It’s like a nervous gesture…anyway before it’s over Rob will admit he’s been acting like a bit of a jerk..😄
16:22 Buddy: "Don't get me in the middle of a husband and wife argument." Rob: "Wha..This is not a husband and wife argument. This is boss and employee." Buddy: "Well, then I'm sorry I got to go with the employee."
I love the way he kept saying “perfect” like it was a curse word that almost physically hurt him to say! I also love that the worst thing she could think to call him was a big dope…no f bomb or curse words added for color! This is great television! (My Grandma used to tell me how when she was growing up, the worst thing anyone could say on tv, movies or shows, was to call someone a ‘dirty rat fink” and how scandalous even that once was! 😂 yet, more currently you have to be careful just flipping channels around kids, because if you linger a second too long you don’t know what they could be exposed to (see or hear)! That’s also part of why my sister and brother in law don’t even listen to the radio anymore, and just stream instrumental music, because most of the time they have my now three year old niece with them…and it’s not worth the risk of what she could hear and pick up by accident. Even one of my friend’s sons got in trouble at school because they repeated a bad word they heard…a classmate repeating something their parents said. What have we come to now! I mean, yes express yourself…but why must it be so filthy and out of control?!
Loved seeing Jackie Joseph in this, even if it wasn't for very long. I best know her as Mrs Futterman in Gremlins and Audrey in the original Little Shop of Horrors.
Love Jackie Joseph. She was the secretary who can't stop laughing. You may remember her as the stripper (Alberta Schweitzer) in the pith helmet and not much else in the 'Mrs. Petrie Your Husband's in Jail' episode. I'm sure she was in some other D.V.D's but can't remember offhand.
I'm not positive but, I thought that at that time Joseph was married to Ken Berry. Berry appeared several times as the dance director on the Alan Brady Show. In one episode we learn he was a judo instructor in the Marines.
Laura was a dream in this episode, and Rob was a super jerk. This time, Laura had a major meltdown for a good reason. Her marriage was threatened by the idea that a married woman could hold down a paying job outside the home, and not have the household crumble. The ridiculously fragile male ego!!! A wife who has a paying job! How radical!!
@Randi Levson@ Agreed Randi. Although the rate of married women (including those with children) rose steadily during the 1960.s, television has always seemed to be something of a conservative medium and I imagine the producers didn't want to upset the status quo. Working wives would not become the norm until the 1970''s. That being said, I think the writers laid on Rob's horror and hysteria at the idea that Laura might get even a part-time job with the proverbial trowel. I'm a murderino and I've seen videos of convicts sentenced to lethal injection that took it with more aplomb than Rob does at the thought of Laura working.
Randi Levson: yes Rob was a jerk, but please don't judge a 60 year old show by todays culture. Don't know how old you are but I was there in the 1960s. Different time, different culture. Yes many things have changed since then, many for the good, though we have lost a certain degree of civility in my opinion. And yes back then a Wife with children in the home having a job outside the home was radical. Way too easy to judge history by todays standards as it is way too easy to judge younger generations by our standards. One last thought: Old people remember what it was like to be young while young people have to wait to know what it is like to be old. Sincerely; an old fart
@@deerejohn7209 yes man who young in 60s are a real man and now man can easily manipulate by woman I'm taking about USA not in my country I'm from India my country is supar conservative if she want do job she has to ask everyone
@@kalyanvaghela4758: I hope that one day the world is not so ignorant. Change only happens when voices are in unison, find you and your sisters voice. I wish only the best for you and I am looking forward to your bright future.
Rob was a complete asshole in this episode, but Laura really should have taken the hint when Rob said he didn't want to hire her. The constant nagging would make me not want to hire her even more.
To those who clearly dont seem to understand this episode: Yes, Rob is being a pain in the butt. Obviously he is in the wrong. Everyone takes Lauras side including Buddy/Mel (who is are men btw) He is supposed to be insecure that Laura does everything so well because he's not the same way. And he doesn't want to dynamic of his hone to change. Laura was looking for an opportunity to help and prove herself, she did both. She wasn't looking for a long term typist job. It's a comedy not a moral guide for life. The situations are made up to be silly and frustrating. Believe it or not the majority audience for DVD show is women. Yes he is insecure and the show makes it clear he is the one in the wrong. They dont have to spell it out, audiences have brains. Yes, women can work outside the home and believe it or not they did then too. This is about Rob and his personal feelings and clearly Laura does want the job too. All the women offended by this are so fragile, and yes I am a woman. It's meant to be exaggerated and silly. South Park is way way more intentionally offensive and people love it. If you don't like the episode, move on.
I'll say. Catch the episode where he does his best to ruin Laura's pleasure in writing a story for some illustrations. Rob writes his own story and sulks like a 5 year when Buddy and Sally choose Laura's story.
Heavens to Betsy! How dare the television show a husband with FLAWS?! And how DARE they have the wife and husband love each other anyway! It’s not like people love each other despite their flawed natures, is it?
Imo, this episode is really hard to watch. It's just too sad to watch a marriage/friendship collapse, and I kind of feel like they didn't really recover from the fight they had. One reason I think that is because there are a few episodes later on in the series where Rob calls himself a dope (that's what Laura calls him during their fight in this episode), and Laura just agrees with him. I mean, that might just be a coincidence, but I know some fights can leave scars.
I remember seeing this re run as a kid. After Rob acts like an obnoxious self centered idiot he tells Laura he doesn't know what to say. Apparently the phrase I'm sorry isn't in his vocabulary. Again, I was very young.but I was pretty sure that was the correct response.
@@nsme1965 True, during that era it would have often been the norm. Interestingly, the two DVD writers (Persky and Denoff) later created That Girl and "borrowed" this episode by having Ann help Don by filling in at his office. The results are predictable, the difference being that Don eventually realized he acted like an idiot and apologized to Ann.
Call me crazy but if todays gen z and even x and y gens were forced to watch this ONE show en mass, and laugh their stupid brainwashed twisted heads off we would have a vastly improved country!! And grammer would be improved also!!
This show is not going to improve anyone's grammar Also, if we are so brainwashed, blame those who raised us But- I suspect there is a good chance by "brainwashed" you mean people who are not an extension of your generation and who have different values
I don't think so. Housework is work. Making a home, cooking, cleaning, shopping, sewing, all take time and effort when done properly. "Today's eyes" are unrealistic. When anyone tries to hold down two jobs, one or both will suffer.
This episode "My Part-Time Wife" was a head of its time. it points out how hard it is to take care of the home family and hold down a job can be and still get in some laugh throughout the episode.
@@January. Lol This comment was just so funny. Loved the prompt 'dead pan' correction! I am most certainly not laughing at the person who perhaps doesn't speak, therefore write English as a first language. (why do I feel like I need to check for any spelling errors and typos myself 😝)
Started watching these again. Forgot how gorgeous Mary Tyler Moore was and always a joy to see both her and the fabulous Dick Van Dyke play their roles. I admit, some skits are corny but they were better understood back then. Hard to find good, clean, wholesome shows these days! 🤔
Laura is " Practically Perfect in Every Way " 😊
I loved her joke and it was hilarious 😂 when he said "You can't fire, I quit you "
That line was actually in an old Sid Caesar show that Carl Reiner wrote.
Haha
sweet episode...god i love this show
I love this one so much, Allen with 5 L’s I stilll laugh out loud at that part. And MTM was so awesome in this.
24:41 "He told me to bring my broom!"
That was a good one 😂😂
I loved her chocolate joke 😍
I loved everything about her.
The best part is listening to each other with empathy.
Too bad we ain't built like that emotionally.
This episode reminds me of all those 'I Love Lucy' episodes where Lucy wants to be in the show, but Ricky doesn't want her to. 'Ba ba lou!' - Actually, it is seldom a good idea to work with one's spouse; it rarely ends agreeably.
I love Jackie Joseph 🥰🤗 I'm glad Carl Reiner put her and her husband Ken Berry in a number of these great shows.
Who else saw Dick Van Dyke on the masked singer and is now bingeing their old favorites?
Same! Some of his more obscure movies are on YT as well
MTM is so good here... and didn't you all love the complete change of character in her outstanding performance in "Ordinary People"?
I love the armchair “historians” that use this as proof of a misogynistic attitude, when this episode was funny precisely because the audience knew Rob was being flawed and ridiculous! Even ROB knew he was being ridiculous about accepting help, and it resolves with Rob helping Laura out and realizing that he needs to appreciate her. But noooo, we are going to read the minds of the past and project hate and antagonism!
Unfortunately that was the prevailing male attitude. Even if they showed Rob being a jerk, that attitude was real back then and that is an irrefutable part of history. Don't know how old you are but I remember those days very well-- and much worse.
@@wandajames6234 I think it depends on the type of people you ask. I’ve interviewed many, many women who have lived in that time, and they NEVER have the take on it that modern “historians” do. None of the women I’ve interviewed felt put down or oppressed, none of them felt like women were expected to be perfect while men were always given a pass, none of them felt like there was a prevailing plot against women, they all recognized and had individual flaws, their partners had individual flaws and they recognized that working it out together was important. Which would seem to me that in the lives of the majority of women, the tyrannical misogyny that is a “fact” when seen through the lens of the progressive today looking back on a narrow artifact of yesterday (a fictional comedy, no less) bears very little resemblance to the actual attitudes of men in their lives. Now, I’m willing to admit that I may simple have interviewed “the lucky ones” somehow, and I’m definitely willing to say that their lives -when compared to the ultra-radical feminism which we view as the ideal today- were viewed differently as far as gender roles. I’d also say that the women I’ve interviewed tend not to be the victim type…not the type to say, “Poor me, the mean man made me wear a skirt,” and more inclined to say, “Wearing a skirt didn’t hurt us one bit.” But to say that every man was looking at Rob in this episode and not laughing at his folly, that they would ALL have been on the side of “you tell that woman”…from what I’ve observed, that’s not true. Which makes me think that it’s much more subjective and nuanced than it is portrayed in today’s history.
I would hate to be stuck at home while my partner was enjoying all the “pistachios”. This hasn’t aged well at all.
Rob was afraid of losing his very efficient wife to the business world. She would have been a success at it and rob was terrified!!!
Im 62. I WISH i had the terrible aweful life that Laura had!!! Im alone, no kids, divorced, worked at different jobs, traveled, but now, im alone and NOT a millionaire!!
Yes, he was a sore loser. Laura did it well!!
I know, I know, it's just a show, but a man treating me like that would not get a second chance.
Buddy threw a dart at the dartboard! I never thought I'd see it!
I think it’s a cute episode..did you notice how man times Rob buttons and unbuttons his jacket? It’s like a nervous gesture…anyway before it’s over Rob will admit he’s been acting like a bit of a jerk..😄
16:22
Buddy: "Don't get me in the middle of a husband and wife argument."
Rob: "Wha..This is not a husband and wife argument. This is boss and employee."
Buddy: "Well, then I'm sorry I got to go with the employee."
I love the way he kept saying “perfect” like it was a curse word that almost physically hurt him to say! I also love that the worst thing she could think to call him was a big dope…no f bomb or curse words added for color! This is great television! (My Grandma used to tell me how when she was growing up, the worst thing anyone could say on tv, movies or shows, was to call someone a ‘dirty rat fink” and how scandalous even that once was! 😂 yet, more currently you have to be careful just flipping channels around kids, because if you linger a second too long you don’t know what they could be exposed to (see or hear)! That’s also part of why my sister and brother in law don’t even listen to the radio anymore, and just stream instrumental music, because most of the time they have my now three year old niece with them…and it’s not worth the risk of what she could hear and pick up by accident. Even one of my friend’s sons got in trouble at school because they repeated a bad word they heard…a classmate repeating something their parents said. What have we come to now! I mean, yes express yourself…but why must it be so filthy and out of control?!
I can remember watching Adam 12 in the late '60s, I think '69, & being absolutely shocked when Reed said damn during the show.
Ooh. Buddy is all dressed up in the episode. Trying to impress Laura maybe ? Hehe
Loved seeing Jackie Joseph in this, even if it wasn't for very long. I best know her as Mrs Futterman in Gremlins and Audrey in the original Little Shop of Horrors.
Love Jackie Joseph. She was the secretary who can't stop laughing. You may remember her as the stripper (Alberta Schweitzer) in the pith helmet and not much else in the 'Mrs. Petrie Your Husband's in Jail' episode. I'm sure she was in some other D.V.D's but can't remember offhand.
She was also in Andy z Griffith as Ernest T? Bass’ girlfriend he meets at a “ soirée”at Mrs. Wiley”shone.
@@garyfrancis6193 Howard Morris and Carl Reiner were both old 'Show of Shows' stars
and probably liked her silliness.
I'm not positive but, I thought that at that time Joseph was married to Ken Berry. Berry appeared several times as the dance director on the Alan Brady Show. In one episode we learn he was a judo instructor in the Marines.
Jackie Joseph was married to Ken Berry, who also had a bit part as a dance/martial arts instructor on the Alan Brady Show, on the D.V.D Show
She was in the Doris Day show as well. She played Jacque (secretary to Sy)
@17:40...She proved her capability of dual roles on the *MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW* .
A Little Bit Of Kindness Goes A Long Long Way..
Think About That..🤔
🤗💖😽
Laura was a dream in this episode, and Rob was a super jerk. This time, Laura had a major meltdown for a good reason. Her marriage was threatened by the idea that a married woman could hold down a paying job outside the home, and not have the household crumble. The ridiculously fragile male ego!!! A wife who has a paying job! How radical!!
@Randi Levson@ Agreed Randi. Although the rate of married women (including those with children) rose steadily during the 1960.s, television has always seemed to be something of a conservative medium and I imagine the producers didn't want to upset the status quo. Working wives would not become the norm until the 1970''s. That being said, I think the writers laid on Rob's horror and hysteria at the idea that Laura might get even a part-time job with the proverbial trowel. I'm a murderino and I've seen videos of convicts sentenced to lethal injection that took it with more aplomb than Rob does at the thought of Laura working.
It was the 60s wasn't common for married women to have jobs , oh I agree rob is a prat in this
Randi Levson: yes Rob was a jerk, but please don't judge a 60 year old show by todays culture.
Don't know how old you are but I was there in the 1960s. Different time, different culture.
Yes many things have changed since then, many for the good, though we have lost a certain degree of civility in my opinion.
And yes back then a Wife with children in the home having a job outside the home was radical.
Way too easy to judge history by todays standards as it is way too easy to judge younger generations by our standards.
One last thought: Old people remember what it was like to be young while young people have to wait to know what it is like to be old. Sincerely; an old fart
@@deerejohn7209 yes man who young in 60s are a real man and now man can easily manipulate by woman I'm taking about USA not in my country I'm from India my country is supar conservative if she want do job she has to ask everyone
@@kalyanvaghela4758: I hope that one day the world is not so ignorant.
Change only happens when voices are in unison, find you and your sisters voice.
I wish only the best for you and I am looking forward to your bright future.
Rob was a complete asshole in this episode, but Laura really should have taken the hint when Rob said he didn't want to hire her. The constant nagging would make me not want to hire her even more.
I have to agree in this episode he was a real jerk. This show was presentation of the times, showing how husbands don't support their wives.
To those who clearly dont seem to understand this episode:
Yes, Rob is being a pain in the butt. Obviously he is in the wrong. Everyone takes Lauras side including Buddy/Mel (who is are men btw)
He is supposed to be insecure that Laura does everything so well because he's not the same way. And he doesn't want to dynamic of his hone to change.
Laura was looking for an opportunity to help and prove herself, she did both. She wasn't looking for a long term typist job.
It's a comedy not a moral guide for life. The situations are made up to be silly and frustrating. Believe it or not the majority audience for DVD show is women.
Yes he is insecure and the show makes it clear he is the one in the wrong. They dont have to spell it out, audiences have brains.
Yes, women can work outside the home and believe it or not they did then too. This is about Rob and his personal feelings and clearly Laura does want the job too.
All the women offended by this are so fragile, and yes I am a woman. It's meant to be exaggerated and silly. South Park is way way more intentionally offensive and people love it. If you don't like the episode, move on.
In some episodes Rob behaves like a horrendous jerk, especially whenever Laura does anything that makes her happy.
A tribute to the fragile male ego of the 60's.
I'll say. Catch the episode where he does his best to ruin Laura's pleasure in writing a story for some illustrations. Rob writes his own story and sulks like a 5 year when Buddy and Sally choose Laura's story.
Unfortunately true.
@@gregh7400 How were our egos any different in the 60s when compared to any other decade? 🤔
Heavens to Betsy! How dare the television show a husband with FLAWS?! And how DARE they have the wife and husband love each other anyway! It’s not like people love each other despite their flawed natures, is it?
The giggler played Ernest T bass’ girlfriend in Andy Griffith.. when they tried to make him a gentleman.
People think I have nothing but "Laura hating" episodes... well
here is a "Rob hating" episode
I've not seen.
Imo, this episode is really hard to watch. It's just too sad to watch a marriage/friendship collapse, and I kind of feel like they didn't really recover from the fight they had. One reason I think that is because there are a few episodes later on in the series where Rob calls himself a dope (that's what Laura calls him during their fight in this episode), and Laura just agrees with him. I mean, that might just be a coincidence, but I know some fights can leave scars.
_Even a horse gets a lump of sugar._
Still laugh at MTMs crying.
I remember seeing this re run as a kid. After Rob acts like an obnoxious self centered idiot he tells Laura he doesn't know what to say. Apparently the phrase I'm sorry isn't in his vocabulary. Again, I was very young.but I was pretty sure that was the correct response.
He can't even say sorry, and she's the one who has to explain and justify herself. If that isn't misogyny, what is?
@@nsme1965 True, during that era it would have often been the norm. Interestingly, the two DVD writers (Persky and Denoff) later created That Girl and "borrowed" this episode by having Ann help Don by filling in at his office. The results are predictable, the difference being that Don eventually realized he acted like an idiot and apologized to Ann.
Jackie Joseph as the substitute typist. They just used her real name.
She was Ernest T. Bass' sweetheart on The Andy Griffith Show Ramona).
@@DerylEagle46 “ Mah Rameena” according to Earnest T.
What's with the telephone ringing at 15.37?!
Sally was a 'writer' not a 'typist'. She and Rob both did the typing
Slight CASE OF Nepotism..??
YA THINK?
This is the only episode I can remember Rob being a total jerk.
At 15:23 is Rob wearing zipperless pants?...why do i notice these things? only on this show do i notice minute sartorial oddities!
The giggler was annoying
Call me crazy but if todays gen z and even x and y gens were forced to watch this ONE show en mass, and laugh their stupid brainwashed twisted heads off we would have a vastly improved country!! And grammer would be improved also!!
This show is not going to improve anyone's grammar
Also, if we are so brainwashed, blame those who raised us
But-
I suspect there is a good chance by "brainwashed" you mean people who are not an extension of your generation and who have different values
Repent from ALL SIN and accept Jesus Christ while He can be found! Jesus is coming soon. Don't wait until it's too late. Get right or get LEFT!
What does this have to do with this show?
What are you talking about??? This doesn't have anything to do with the show
The message is said out of love
No
What does your comment have to do with this episode
This is a terrible episode, viewed with today's eyes. It is PAINFUL to watch.
Agreed!
I don't think so. Housework is work. Making a home, cooking, cleaning, shopping, sewing, all take time and effort when done properly. "Today's eyes" are unrealistic. When anyone tries to hold down two jobs, one or both will suffer.
This episode "My Part-Time Wife" was a head of its time. it points out how hard it is to take care of the home family and hold down a job can be and still get in some laugh throughout the episode.
Not really
Must have been hard to fit so much misogynistic sexism into 30 minutes.
Must be hard for you to dig so much up every day so you can feel oppressed.
It's funny how Mary Tyler Moore's two most important characters are poles apart from each other. On her own show and here.
@@preetakumar6593 I think the change you talk about was called the 60s.
And yet they accomplished it. What I find a bit ironic is that all of the three leading ladies (Moore, Marie, Morgan Guilbert) were working mothers.
Must be hard to fit so much self-righteous mind-reading into one comment.
This episode is out dated. Most woman work nowadays, it takes two incomes to survive.
Thanks for the update. None of us knew that.
@@sharksport01 😂😂😂😂
@@sharksport01 lol!
*outdated *Most women
@@January. Lol This comment was just so funny. Loved the prompt 'dead pan' correction! I am most certainly not laughing at the person who perhaps doesn't speak, therefore write English as a first language. (why do I feel like I need to check for any spelling errors and typos myself 😝)