Can We Be Honest?
Mr. Grant was kinda a dick to Mar most of the time and she took it off him, because he was The Boss. I liked Murray myself. Neither man's "humor" would be permitted in the workplace today -- both would be "bullies"... Still Mr. Grant was more palatable to me than Captain Von Stuebing. Just... Murray was the ladies' best friend in that workplace.
“Lou Grant: What religion are you?
Mary Richards: Mr. Grant, I don't quite know how to say this, but you're not allowed to ask that when someone's applying for a job. It's against the law.
Lou Grant: Wanna call a cop?
Mary Richards: No.
Lou Grant: Good. Would you think I was violating your civil rights if I asked if you're married?
Mary Richards: Presbyterian.”— Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 1: Love is All Around
“Lou: I haven't been this mad at anybody since…1944. Yeah…1944. That was the last time I let it all out.
Mary: Did anything—much—happen?
Lou: Huh? Oh. I captured a town in Germany.”— Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 2: The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch
“If you've noticed, I'm one of the few producers without a peptic ulcer. One of the reasons for that is, I'm able to delegate blame.”
“If I don't like you, I'll fire you! If you don't like me, I'll fire you!”
— Lou Grant, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 1: Love is All Around
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“Ted: [bragging] I even got cheered for cutting a ribbon at a supermarket!
Murray: That's because they didn't think you could do it.”
“Ted: [lamenting at the party that he isn't where he should be in life] I might as well face it. I'm a no-talent!
Murray: Did somebody put truth serum in the punch?”— Murray Slaughter, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 1: Party is Such Sweet Sorrow
“Ted: I went to my reunion a couple of months ago. Famous Announcers School.
Murray: That's a correspondence course. Where did they have the reunion, in a mailbox?”
— Murray Slaughter, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 2: Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me
“Mary: [about Ted's gift to her] It's the thought that counts.
Murray: I know, and he has cheap thoughts.”— Steven Pritzker, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 1: Second Story Story
Of course, dumbbell Ted had his moments of levity too...
“An ounce of perversion is worth a pound of cure.”
— Ted Baxter, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 2: More Than Neighbors
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"You're Gonna Make It After All..."
Trivia Note for Locals: Mary's apartment building in the last two years of the series was at... Cedar Riverside. (Ir's mostly Somali Muslim living there today.)
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