RHODA S02E22 Let's Call it Love

[@cynthialyman2636]

I needed a quick dose of the Mid 70s so here l am again. God bless the beautiful Valerie Harper.

[@patwilliams800]

Same here Cynthia! Best time ever 💟❤💟

[@cynthialyman2636]

@@patwilliams800 agreed.

[@maryjordansiebert915]

And let's not forget the wonderful Julie Kavner!! I totally agree. I come back to these episodes every year or so. I find it so soothing.

[@oceaniacolbert9709]

Good laughs with carlton

[@lorraineb.4698]

I loved your comment. ❤

[@l.a.gothro3999]

I turned 57 last November, and I'm going to start telling folks I'm a very young old lady! Thanks, Ida!

[@Lifeafterthedarknarc]

57 is still young, I wouldn’t say that about yourself:) your a young women at least to me :)

[@Yanula-rx5mj]

Try 59 💞

[@nancyhowell4505]

​​@@Lifeafterthedarknarc *you're *woman 🙂

[@patricias5122]

Hi, l.a.gotho, I turned 70 and I would LOVE to be 59 again! So enjoy yourself!

[@patricias5122]

@@nancyhowell4505 That was not necessary. Women should be kinder to each other.

[@fishybowser7544]

That Carlton conversation was the best one yet

[@brianeduardo1234]

Such a great show..... really brilliant writing and acting

[@eduardo_corrochio]

It was fun but I wouldn't call it brilliant; and "Rhoda" lacked the quality of the series it spun off from. Now *that* was a superb sitcom.

[@lorraineb.4698]

@@eduardo_corrochioThis was a very good show which is why people are watching it now 50 years later. It aged better than the MTM show imho which has a dated quality to it.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@lorraineb.4698 For me the MTM Show is vastly superior but they are similar in several ways, of course.

[@carolinesant2283]

Thank you so much for putting these amazing and uninterrupted episodes of Rhoda on KZbin. I haven’t watched it since I was a kid in the 70’s. Oh how great tv use to be. No need for swearing, fighting or f--ing. Nice one 🌈 thanks again

[@lizajane1878]

Caroline Sant well said! I feel the same way. If only TV was good again.

[@barbaradavis8372]

You are sooooo right! No overt sex, no foul language or violence-just good writing and acting. :)

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@lizajane1878 There is _some_ good television programming available out there, you just have to find it-- like panning for gold. But I tend to agree that watching old shows like this seems preferable to most of what is available today.

[@thesilentdiva]

I mean Joe did have a fist fight in one ep

[@jamesr1703]

Nancy Walker's advice on keeping a marriage together was good. Today, couples break-up over the tiniest things.

[@Lalalalaurajazmin]

So just ignore everything and stay together to please the outsiders

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

@@Lalalalaurajazmin yes. Marriage vows are not just to each other but to God.

[@carmenowens3375]

Well she could have given her advice time to settle in, and stayed away some.

[@colettekleinman6514]

Rhoda needed counseling. She was too much work to live with. Constant arguing over everything. There was no peace in their home. Maybe religion would help her.

[@kassandraayalasongs]

Love ida and Brenda interacting 😂😂

[@ginaloverofangels]

I love watching these episodes, thank you so much for posting them. Poor Rhoda I dislike seeing her feel so insecure. Ida really does a quilt trip on her and Brenda.

[@patricias5122]

Whenever I get nostalgic for the 70s, I remember how that decade was like for women: we earned nothing compared to men, a woman who wanted to study law, medicine, engineering had a very tough time. Things are better. I miss the graceful, flattering clothes, though! These scripts are well done, they depict life for working women.

[@l.a.gothro3999]

The Nancy Drew books in Brenda's bookcase. There's some in the bookcase in her & Rhoda's old room at Ida & Martin's apartment, too.

[@Vejur9000]

The best was watching Brenda handle her mother with cooking temptation

[@davidallen3687]

I was always sad that their marriage failed. And it never worked as well as a series after that. I loved MTM, Rhoda and Phyllis!

[@NortelGeek]

Can't forget Lou! 😂

[@patricias5122]

Oh my gosh yes....excellent in every regard.

[@dannydougin3925]

Air date: February 16, 1976.

[@emilyedwards9809]

"First of all, there is no 'edge' for mothers.'' haha Love it. And I love the way Rhoda says ''totally''!!

[@emilyedwards9809]

''You can't be him! He's out of town!'' hahahahahaha

[@trevorrandom]

Brown & orange was big in the 70's

[@donnabrasher3303]

I had avocado green appliances and orange kitchen countertops. Yikes!

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

Those are the best. My decor is orange and green and harvest yellow. Todays disgusting black and white decor with live, laugh and love stickers is absolutely boring

[@kevinashwood2146]

Such a great show! I watched it when I was 16 years old & still watch it on KZbin.

[@annajacob7981]

"I defrosted a chicken." Ida 🏃‍♀️ out the door 😂

[@michellepost3131]

Rhoda needed to see a therapist. She talked too much, and her mom and Brenda were always over there.Brenda had no friends, and she needed a life.Two years of marriage is not long enough to start having issues that seem tremendous.Joe always seemed cold to me.

[@sweetbeauty2153]

Exactly! 🙄🤦‍♀️😱

[@cami42874]

Got that right Valerie is one of a kind

[@angelacarleton9575]

She will be missed more than she knows. RIP Rhoda.

[@EphemeralProductions]

lmao. Carlton is TOO cute and funny.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Always thought he was a great addition to the show.

[@colibri1]

This is so mid-seventies - all that beige! And all those tropical foliage houseplants in hanging baskets! Seeing that tunic-blouse Rhoda has on in the first scene made me remember that it was common for women to wear a rope-cord as a belt with those, knotted over one hip so that the tasseled or beaded ends would hang down, and the blouse would be so full over the waist that a lot of times you couldn't even see much of the belt.

[@lisamoroney3036]

Joe is such a complainer ,and Rhoda is obsessed about losing him . Couldn’t they find something else to talk about ? It’s like every episode.

[@lilakilonen5663]

No wonder Joe wanted a divorce.

[@Vejur9000]

I think that’s why the series started going downhill after two seasons, because it became all about stressed out Rhoda and Joe leaving her. Feels like people enjoyed seeing rhoda happy, Not stressed out angry and hurt

[@yourmommmmm264]

Many people who worked on the show said they made a mistake by marrying Rhoda off so early in the show, by the middle of season 2 they were running out of ideas

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

Well rhoda is a feminist so she complains about everything

[@annajacob7981]

@@yourmommmmm264 Yes, they married Rhoda off too soon. As important, they made a miscasting error by hiring David Groh. He was a fine dramatic actor, but didn't have the comic rhythm and acting chops for his Joe to keep up with Rhoda.

[@cami42874]

Gotta love Ida she’s incredible

[@LadyRockville]

She was actually my least favorite character

[@nubiancutey2530]

​@@LadyRockvillemine too.. I can't stand how pushy, inconsiderate and know it all she is

[@rebeccaself7390]

Thank you so much I have missed this show

[@louiserichardson5212]

Cute episode. Juggling work and relationships is STILL tough today. Great to see Justin getting more lines.

[@vivianhamilton616]

Yeah, I like him too.

[@stevenbosch429]

Ida Morgenstern was a woman of her generation. Her Life centered on her husband and her children. She knows nothing about the world outside and has the impression “it isn’t nice.”

[@faithfulforever6331]

That may have been her world; but I wouldn't say she knew nothing about what was outside her world. If Ida Morgenstern was nothing else, she was very savvy. Not a lot got passed her.

[@NortelGeek]

This is the best show, and I love all the characters, but you know--the one I really enjoy are the skits with Carlton. It just wouldn't be the same without him.

[@Lifeafterthedarknarc]

@nortelgeek I agree it’s the best show! I was tiny when it came out so now I get to watch it all now lol going thru one season every few nights lol

[@latoyajames6690]

I'm loving all these episodes

[@thesilentdiva]

Im even getting impatient with Joe, hurry up and say it. Jesus

[@lja64]

I miss my mom.

[@dland154]

I know what you mean.

[@patwilliams800]

Me too, we watched this together in the 70s. 😪👩‍👧🙏 They're still with us. 💕

[@nehamamama4272]

Me too😢

[@lorimiller4301]

I had every one of those yellow Nancy Drew Books. Gave 'em to my little Cousin.

[@christinacollaco6012]

Love Justin!

[@leesas_classics1722]

This is such a cute episode.

[@draydayj1]

I didn't remember that Rhoda and Joe had split back in the day but as I'm watching the show today I have to say: I saw this coming when they moved in the same building as Brenda.

[@justsayin3390]

Not loving Rhoda's hair style like this.

[@michellepost5232]

Everytime Rhoda asks Joe if he loves her, I feel like screaming! I never knew anyone that lacking of self-esteem as Rhoda. That striped mumu type dress Rhoda is wearing looks awful, makes her look really fat. That Myrna is annoying. I don't know why Myrna and Justin can't work without those two for awhile. Rhoda sure gets insecure about Joe, sometimes asking if he still loves her, and that was when things were good between them.Good grief, enough already! I think Brenda and Ida go to Joe and Rhoda's apt. way too much, more so Brenda. Brenda can't seem to think for herself, no matter how petty the issue. Most married couples today both work because they have to, to afford rent and bills, so jobs are rarely the issue these days.

[@molliwilson5639]

This is a script, not real life… LOL

[@robynhawkins48]

You seem to be miserable

[@carmeldelaney1086]

Love Rhoda and the rest of the Cast.

[@youngcallwood3315]

Haha that would work on me if one of my children said they were hungry and defrosted a chicken. I would cook for them in a heartbeat. It's fun to see that I relate in that way with a woman from a totally different generation.

[@jamesr1703]

Rhoda and Joe's divorce must have KILLED Ida.

[@oldyellerschannel4676]

Maybe she should have taken the hint, and butted out more often.

[@lorraineb.4698]

I think she was off the show after that pretty much

[@jamesr1703]

Scoey Mitchell is still alive and in good health!

[@connied2451]

"DONTCHA THINK??!!" followed by a slap up the back of the head LOL

[@MarkCoatesYork]

"You lied to me about a chicken ?" 8-)

[@hollytaylor1655]

I love Valerie and she usually looks beautiful but her dress was not flattering! It looked like a tent lol

[@DontFartOnMyPillow619]

I was thinking she was hiding a pregnancy with this dress.

[@colibri1]

She's actually dressed very fashionably for the time. From 1974 to 1978, the leading women's high-fashion trend was called "the Big Look," introduced by Kenzo Takada and Yves Saint Laurent. "Big" meant voluminous and oversized, and it influenced even women on the street like the Rhoda character here. That's why you see her wearing the full dresses, the big capes, the peasant skirts, and the occasional shawl and full boots. I know you were joking saying her dress here looked like a tent, but there really was a style of dress in the seventies called a tent dress and it was very high-fashion and popular.

[@yolandagrady7232]

Ugh! I wanted to smack Rhoda when she kept interrupting Joe early in the episode when he wanted to speak. I loved her in the Mary Tyler Moore Show but in this show, she often annoys me. Other characters save this show for me especially Brenda & Ida.

[@rg8152]

By the way, a bit of trivia: 24:47 is NOT a typo. His legal name is spelled with three Ls, no E!

[@patriciaelms5340]

Valerie Harper was the best, but script is so ridden with insecurities....the first episode of the series had enough bad fat jokes that one needs in a lifetime. Such a waste of fabulous talent.

[@SFox-fy3gd]

An entire episode devoted to calling outta work....it took me 30 seconds...o yhea I'm single!

[@m.e.d.7997]

Different couches and refrigerators every few epis!!

[@pattyredmond6963]

Back in 70's when Rhoda and joe got married it, I believe i'm correct, was highest ratings. The very thing that got them the highest ratings they go and get a divorce. I loved Joe and Rhoda.

[@bookwoman53]

patty redmond The writers quickly discovered that Rhoda wasn’t very funny as a wife so they began planning a divorce.

[@roseprulx2228]

Carlton should have had his own show!!!!!! Rose Prulx

[@VictorianMetalGirl]

@@ladyrose7793 I love Rhoda and General Hospital! It was interesting to find out David Groh was on it in the 80's and married to Bobbie Spencer. And I wish they played re-runs of soap operas on tv.

[@princessbearpoker]

If anything ruined Rhoda's marriage besides her ball busting it was her incessant family drama and interference.

[@zimjun7]

Which in reality ( not for the ratings ) is fixable. MAKE it fixable!!!

[@carmeldelaney1086]

That was a great line of Brenda's.Mum I just defrosted a chicken.

[@chiffvetterice5929]

Missing Joe, so handsome

[@jamesr1703]

I'm only watching Seasons 1 & 2. I don't like Rhoda after she gets divorced.

[@carmenowens3375]

Rhoda just couldn't SHUT HER MOUTH.

[@mariawelsh3190]

So love the yellow wall in Brenda's apartment. The set designer knew their colors💖🤍💖🤍💜

[@thewrongshoes]

How did they go from this to divorced the next season??

[@CF1975]

I always found Myrna incredibly annoying.

[@EphemeralProductions]

i thought she was charming, in a perky, naive and clueless way. LOL

[@kassandraayalasongs]

tall32guy she used to be in season 1 😂

[@stephemmick1496]

I wonder when the writers plan for the divorce I wonder if they had already planned it by this episode

[@lorraineb.4698]

Joe and Rhoda had great chemistry

[@AnitaD28]

The mother is a hand full. lol

[@thesilentdiva]

When they call out sick today ppl i think would take it more seriously..... Personal day, mental health days, etc etc. Wage slavery brainwashing will have u thinking u don't deserve personal time

[@margaretlittle6800]

In the comments someone said the mother spoils the show , wrong ,she makes it

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

She didn’t spoil the show, she spoiled the marriage

[@nubiancutey2530]

That's your opinion. Just as my opinion is her character was awful

[@sweetbeauty2153]

​@@nubiancutey2530 Exactly! She was irritating asf!🙄🤦‍♀️😱

[@randomasmr4045]

You lied to me about a chicken 😒

[@smcfall3]

The mother really gets on my nerves. She spoils the show.

[@lifechanges557]

+smcfall3 I like her.

[@merricat3025]

I thought I'd it was a sterical. Wooden water as a mother. I also loved Carlton your doorman

[@sweetbeauty2153]

Wow someone finally said it😱. I'm glad I wasn't the only one that felt that way about her. She needed other things to occupy her time besides coming over to Rhoda's and Brenda's apartment interfering with their lives.

[@lisaebrom9956]

I love Nancy Walker. She was the salt in the seasoning of the show. She was the typical mom. Rewatch some of the episodes and you may see her in a different way. I loved the 70's.

[@becm1395]

Nancy walker was a great actress and riot on the show remember this is a comedy show . Brenda and Rhoda also were great comedic actresses. Also don't forget amazing writing.

[@RuiOliveiraTV]

21:13 for those who want to see again xD

[@Christian_Ada1]

People keep repeating the same crap over and over again on each new video The ratings drop on Rhoda not only just stemmed from Joe leaving it stemmed from getting rid of three characters, major players on Rhoda in the same season and introducing new characters that people that no one cared about so not only do they get rid of Joe. They got rid of her parents as well. Nancy Walker was very, very funny on the show but it may have gotten to someone’s head That’s what they went wrong. I guess someone thought that Nancy Walker was the glue that kept Rhoda’s ratings that they gave Nancy Walker her own series one the Nancy Walker show and then Blansky‘s beauties which both got canceled and ultimately ran back to Rhoda

[@gdcat777]

Who wants to hear about their parents getting it on in the Afternoon? Ewww.

[@Shamonwhitehurst252]

Grow up Nancy

[@DixieGeek09]

I dislike Myrna on every episode she's in.

[@sweetbeauty2153]

Yes I do too! She's so annoying, just like Rhoda's mother!😱🤦‍♀️🙄

[@Cleospatras]

Love the ideals back then...

[@dionlindsay2]

Not only was Rhoda an idiot in this episode, the script writers were idiots for spinning the theme out into a whole 25 minutes.

[@boxcarent.3147]

Not pretty clothes. Her body deserved more appealing outfits.

[@joltjolt5060]

Why did people in the 70s just seem so NORMAL? How can we get back to that?

[@summerbreeze553]

Rhoda is so insecure

[@babbitsmom]

Summer Breeze - Many women are, she's probably the first realistic character in the history of television.

[@leesas_classics1722]

@@babbitsmom that's why Rhoda is relatable.

[@molliwilson5639]

It seems like the producers wrote in the shadow of her insecurity about her and Joe from the very beginning..

[@pauldesigncomics2625]

Rhoda looked like chair on thumbnail with that long dress

[@lisaward60]

I thought I interupt but Rhoda does it all the time

[@molliwilson5639]

Going braless was a political statement NOT a fashion statement….

[@molliwilson5639]

Yes.

[@annajacob7981]

How about it was just a personal choice. Does everything have to be politicised?

[@jerseytomato100]

It looked horrible. Not a flattering look at all

[@michellepost3098]

Rhoda talks too much. She needs to truly listen to Joe, anytime. And as pretty as she is, she has such low self-esteem. Rhoda usually dressed nice, but that striped gown was awful, made her look fat. It looked like a mumu. I agree with Joe, Rhoda has too many people who often visit. She should have worked less and paid more attention to Joe. He was cute. If I had been a writer of the show, I wouldn't have had their marriage go bad, and they'd have stayed happily married. They weren't married that long, during the third season they seperated. I don't even know what their problem was. Joe was a good member of the cast, and contributed to the episodes. I wonder if he wanted off. Nancy Walker looked younger on this ep. I never liked Myrna. She was so irritating.

[@oldyellerschannel4676]

The weekend alone isn't good enough for these two? Plus vacations?

[@dudley5533]

Justin would make a great partner with Aunt Esther from Sanford and Son.

[@kevinashwood2146]

I love Myrna!

[@maristella9062]

Myrna irritates me. But I can see why someone else might like her.

[@pamhoward5102]

That was in the day of being on your computer 24/7. You could do everything by telephone. You had write checks for your monthly bills. In some ways better than today. Unless you are computer illiterate. Which I am not. I need to catch up with the computer egos. They used teach you at the library. I am sure they don't do that anymore.

[@nancyhowell4505]

You had *to write

[@sabineprennig1585]

No concept of vacation here

[@nmc5858]

Erik, There wasn’t anyone like Rhoda 😀

[@berrylicious75611]

Why was Rhoda wearing such loose clothing, if she wasn't pregnant? Someone help me understand! (I'm kidding.)

[@MonaMonatte]

The weekdays you are both tired after work and you both need your time together. Not everyone barging in all the time. Some weekends were reserved for friends and family gatherings….

[@johnny-becker]

Uh, spending time with family is what weekends are for. Business calls are not to be taken from closing hour Friday to opening hour Monday. Friday night go out to eat and se a show. Saturday day do the housework that needs to be done and Saturday night, have a bit of whatever fun. The point is, weekends was meant for pleasure. Weekdays was meant for business. Simple enough if you ask me.

[@elizabethrobinson8615]

Aww come on. Why so sour!! It's a TV show. Lol

[@johnny-becker]

@@elizabethrobinson8615 Please forgive me. I just ate a whole box of lemonheads when I wrote that.

[@carmenowens3375]

Maybe that works for you, but you're not the one who decides what works for which days.

[@jeanmiller1142]

You seem to think that everybody has a Monday through Friday 9:00 to 5:00 job. If that is so far from the truth and reality.

[@carltonthepug]

Yet he did want a divorce lol

[@marinazagrai1623]

She's concerned about Joe because let's say it: "why was a seemingly handsome, working man single/divorced...something was wrong with him". At that age, he would've had a wife not be divorced.

[@jenniferholzman119]

Know wonder why joe and Rhoda separate

[@standziobek7108]

Se more of her joe

[@tehilovely]

O. M. G What a mom 😱

[@juliannehuff9566]

I don't like Myrna.. she's so whiney

[@elizabethrobinson8615]

Ida's hair was horrible

[@stephemmick1496]

Nancy Walker was only 54 here but the way she dressed in her hair made her seem much older

[@BenjiOrthopedic]

That hair on Brenda was hideous LOL! The 70s just did not have anything good with either hair or clothes.

[@lorraineb.4698]

They had longish pageboys like Mary Tyler Moore had in season 5 and the Farrah hairstyle and the iconic ‘Shag’ made popular by Jane Fonda in ‘Klute’

[@molliwilson5639]

Rhoda’s hair is ridiculous here…why?

[@BettinaBalser]

Foreshadowing. I get an upset stomach when I watch this episode.

[@eileenkung5839]

She get no boyfriends.

[@adrianteavkaraoke]

Wrong approach....God didn’t put humans on earth just to physically work and build for nothing.

[@JAWrightonline]

8:08-9:59--Child abuse?

[@molliwilson5639]

What are you talking about?

[@JAWrightonline]

@@molliwilson5639 Popped her daughter upside the head three times. CTE around the corner. 😏😏😏