The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Support Your Local Mother

The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Support Your Local Mother
CBS
October 24, 1970
Sitcom
DVD
C+

This Burns & Brooks episode introduces Nancy Walker as Rhoda's mother Ida, intended as a one-shot but in hindsight of course destined for Rhoda's eventual spin-off.  I'm not a big fan of sitcom episodes where people impose on each other, but this isn't bad.  We finally get to see Rhoda's smaller but groovier apartment, beaded curtain and all, as well as her "workplace," well, the window she's decorating.  (And she makes a racy remark about the bride mannequin being pregnant.)