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Fall of 1993...

posted 8 years ago by I_Love_Hutch
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I had just been broken up with my first boyfriend for about one month. He was my first love and I don't bounce back so easily, anyway. This was around september/October of 1993, and Nick at Nite was having this 72 hour "Mary-thon". Well, I'd never seen "Mary Tyler Moore" before, so being the constructive masochist that I am, I thought I would just sit down and watch the show and just sort of forget myself for a while. I kind of never looked back. Never before or since has there been, IMO, a group of more likable and lovable and colorfully semi-realistic characters. And Mary Richards was just the best of the best. I know it was groundbreaking in 1970 (same year I was born) for its feminist issues, but I think the show went so much deeper than that. The show was absolutely brilliant in how subtly it straddled the fine line between cynicism and warmth, with a huge heart always winning in the end.

[–] OldFriendOfTheChristys 8 years ago

I too "discovered" the show in the 90s - the heyday of Nick at Nite as far as I'm concerned. It's the only comedy series I can name that comes close to perfection.

[–] shango7200 8 years ago

I find it interesting that the younger generation will discover something like this and love it-- especially since "alike" shows such as Cheers, Taxi and others that have taken the MTM format (workplace with semi-realistic comedy situations/ apathy/ a touch of irony and sometimes sadness) and "run with it" in all directions (Taxi got especially weird in later seasons) -- and modernizing the concept somewhat. But comedy is comedy-- so there ya go.
The decade that MTM was set in was better than what was to come-- decade-wise. Well in my opinion. I was a "Brady Bunch" kid from that exact period.
One poster on here was so depressed that she locked herself in an attic with the complete DVD sets and watched them over an entire weekend!
I like watching the sets when home sick in bed ! Best medicine ever.

"The ENEMY of my ENEMY is my FRIEND"

[–] DeathRay93 8 years ago

I am a millenial and adore MTM. I was and will always be a huge 30 Rock fan. My mom was always saying it reminded her of Mary Tyler Moore. Recently we discovered reruns on METV. I was reluctant at first but now I'm hooked.

[–] shango7200 8 years ago

I implore everyone who likes this show to BUY THE DVDs instead of those cheap re-run channels !
They cut entire jokes out!!!! Many of them are MURRAYS ! LOL

"The ENEMY of my ENEMY is my FRIEND"