RHODA S03E17 Somebody Has to Say They're Sorry

[@sherryhook9066]

Enjoyed Rhoda in the 70s, now it is the last Saturday in February, 2022, and I will be 60 in the summer and still enjoying Rhoda and Brenda. 🥰🤗😊😘

[@Yanula-rx5mj]

Happy belated birthday, March 2024🍰

[@leesas_classics1722]

SO proud of Rhoda for standing up for herself. This is why I love her.

[@Stevebaby123]

Good show. Rest In Peace Valerie!

[@codym8897]

This episode features the first appearance of Benny Goodwin (Ray Buktenica). He would stay until the show's ending in 1978.

[@Vejur9000]

He was wonderful

[@Will-qs3ql]

I couldn't stand Gary when he first came on the show he was a caricature. But they made him human and likeable

[@ljrockstar69]

Ron Silver was so handsome :) Too bad they didn't keep him on the show longer or pair him with Rhoda.

[@davidreed7496]

By slapping Rhoda on the butt a policeman would be fired today

[@StrongnBeautiful]

I'm pretty sure he was well on his way to needing to be fired before that.

[@alpimarzi5501]

Only if he was wearing a body cam…

[@cmc1204]

Rightfully so

[@69Mucci]

Are you kidding? Cops murder unarmed people and get away with it.

[@m1k3ywestley7]

He's power tripping like most cops. She shoulda sued his sorry ass for false arrest. Benny's 1st appearance. He later played a guy from Julia's HS that wanted a date with her before he died on Designing Women.

[@Prina14]

Thanks for all of these great episodes!

[@cmtippens9209]

On top of everything else, if she lost the window dressing gig because of her arrest, she could probably sue for loss of income.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

People weren't sue happy back then

[@nelsonhall4248]

She should sue the Hell out of him he slapped her on her ass and false arrest she has a great case.

[@meirwise1107]

No swearing. No sex. No violence. And still funny after 30 years.

[@lj6080]

So true. This episode was filmed in 1976 so it's been 40 years now!

[@adelefarough5123]

Not only that, but a sex worker would have a hard time renting an apartment these days. Most leases have a clause forbidding tenants from running a business in their units.

[@davidsanderson5918]

Not so fast with the 'no sex'.......heyyyyyyy (my Nick Lobo impression). If Julie Kavner ever puts her hair up short, then this programme for me becomes STEAMING HOT!!! :)

[@eleanorryanryan2442]

I'm watching these episodes in 2021, and loving every one 😄🇮🇪💚

[@DixieGeek09]

@@eleanorryanryan2442 I am watching in 2021 also. Love yo everyone. ☺️☮️

[@natalielodean5948]

"Interesting choice, avoiding growth"-I'm going to use that!

[@kprieto2655]

Brenda is channeling Lucille Ball with her crying and then quickly recovering back to her regular voice hahaaa

[@jv-ep2tc]

rhoda was channeling lucille ball when she held onto the couch so that the cop couldn't pull her out of the apt.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

It's hilarious when Rhoda finally reaches Brenda on the phone and tells her to brace herself and stay calm, and Brenda instantly starts crying like a little kid.

[@m1patriot327]

Cracked me up too! That's something me & my sis would do! Bwaaahhh!!

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@m1patriot327 Love it

[@guesswho2390]

lol aww brenda. wish my relationship to my sis was like rhodas n brendas

[@MsSwwood]

Me too

[@arttrombley7385]

Me three.

[@emdee7744]

Ditto.

[@sueb6662]

me toooooooooo

[@cathycline2290]

@@sueb6662 Me Threeeee

[@Vejur9000]

Benny was great. He was brendas true match

[@RepentfollowJesus]

I was rooting for Gary

[@Michelina22]

I agree, the first 2 seasons were the better ones. Some parts are really funny though. Love the way they viewed things back then. I’d love to have a sisters relationship like that ! Awesome

[@shaharazon2449]

Right where the older sister thinks shes more important and over shadows the doirmat sister Brenda has an issue but Rhodas stuff is bigger and more seemingly urgent. Then tells her what to do and lectures her. harshly... after leaving her for years to grow up on her own.

[@richardswinbusk7787]

Ron Silver was such a magnificent talent He was great as Gary Levy He added a lot to the show Pure actor and great comedian here

[@rustynailmendlesohn8710]

he was super cute too. 😊 RIP talented Ron Silver❤

[@aphrabenn3233]

The cop's wife was in one of the pilots for Tree's Company for the part that finally would be landed by Joyce DeWitt.

[@PhoebeFayRuthLouise]

Aphra Benn I knew she looked familiar!

[@m1k3ywestley7]

She's cousins with Jane Curtin from SNL, Kate & Allie, 3rd Rock Fame.

[@MikeIdy6000]

Valerie Curtin - she was "Vera" in Scorsese's "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" (1974)

[@nealwhaley63]

I think that is the late Lorenzo Music voicing the doorman. He was later the voice of Garfield, Peter Venkman, and many others. Small world.

[@sugarbabylove1000]

Yep. In Wikipedia it confirms this 😊

[@sueb6662]

yes it's Lorenzo 🎶 Music the voice of Garfield... he' is sometimes a producer on Rhoda as well

[@NJgateway]

@@sugarbabylove1000 Look at the credits for every single episode with the doorman. It's says "L. Music as Carlton the doorman". He had a few different jobs on the episodes as writer, etc.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

He was also in some credits on MTM

[@EphemeralProductions]

"I went to the wrong apartment. That's my side. " "Cookie??" lmao!!!

[@faithfulforever6331]

Ron Silver (Gary) had the best hair for a guy; very typical late 1970's.

[@AfterTheRain_Beth]

Brenda gets more & more gorgeous!

[@mariawelsh3190]

I hate this episode. That cop was abusive. 😡

[@sanchezmindandmusicchannel690]

ATTENTION ALL RECORD COLLECTORS: Anyone still having vinyl copies of Benny Goodwin's father's albums should hang on to them. They are worth lots of $$$, now.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

The band leader was Benny Goodman. Not Goodwin.

[@sanchezmindandmusicchannel690]

@@RepentfollowJesus As a viewer of the RHODA Comedies, you should already KNOW that their clever RUNNING GAG was making FUN of the legendary BAND LEADER by DELIBERATELY CONFUSING "GOODWIN" instead of his proper last name, "GOODMAN" Get-it? Remember how even IDA MORGENSTERN said how much she liked BENNY GOODWIN's FATHER'S MUSIC? "And the Angels Sing!" she coo'd... Remember? AGAIN... Misplacing "GOODWIN" for "Goodman". And the joke worked AGAIN. I own a lot of BENNY GOODMAN LP's and even I know what this running gag is about. This was yet-another another JOKE using the same theme.

[@paintedbird]

Poor Rhoda.

[@miswilliams]

Carlton is my fav🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@alondralabute2310]

Cops make a lot of mistakes and they feel it unmans them to apologize? He ought to have been sorry for putting her through that! He wouldn't let her explain what she was really trying to sell him, plus he did say he was the man from the place she was waiting for. That's entrapment. I hope they got the $50 back.

[@johnadkins5560]

John Adkins I don't like it that he pat her behind. In fact, that happened in 5 episodes and I think it's a shame that they put it in the scripts. Why would Valerie go along with that? I had a crush on her and I hated seeing guys touch her like that.

[@faithfulforever6331]

Boy is this episode so apropos for the times today. Police officers using unnecessary force; misidentifying themselves; not listening to the person they wanted to arrest; accusing someone without full evidence, etc. Someone really needs to police the police.

[@kathyflorcruz552]

@@faithfulforever6331 So...police aren't perfect. I sure the hell you aren't one of the ones screeching "defund the police". Because Democrat cities that HAVE done that have the worst crime rates & then screech "why aren't the cops doing anything"? Do NOT believe the lying media that all cops are bad unless you want less a lawless city & a long response time if you ever need them.

[@faithfulforever6331]

@@kathyflorcruz552 Well, I am sorry but for years and years I have watched police act as if we are living in a police state and not as if they are our public servants. The police do not think they have to answer to anyone and the very FIRST people they need to answer to are the public. I don't think it is asking a lot to want to have some explanation for police behavior that in the last ten years has been brutality case after brutality case.

[@faithfulforever6331]

@@kathyflorcruz552 And I never said to defund the police. What I want is some governmental organization established where citizens can police the police. Any state in which the police don't answer to anyone becomes a police state in which all the freedoms eventually vanish. It has happened in history over and over and over. When people choose absolute order over freedom, then the freedom disappears entirely. When we begin to call our freedoms to assembly and to speak out and yes, to even fight for our rights lawlessness, then all the freedom that men and women have died to establish and to protect in this country disappear. You can choose...do you want absolute order with a strong police force or do you want a country where people can stand up for their freedoms?

[@molliwilson5639]

I relate to Rhoda so much… for me , it’s all bout principle

[@styremcstyre]

I like Brenda's coat.

[@kirkmorgan-austin8361]

The debut of roller skating Benny Goodwin ‼️😆

[@arttrombley7385]

I didn't realize that Joe Rossi was a cop before He became a reporter on Lou Grant. Lol

[@dandiacal]

That's actor Robert Walden. If you know ALL THE PRESIdENTS MEN, he was also in that as a Nixon lackey.

[@zimjun7]

Interesting. No money was exchanged ( accepted ) He could not have the right to arrest her. hmmm... 7:52 or 7:53 …….. whatever

[@StrongnBeautiful]

That whole thing was BS.

[@molliwilson5639]

He went to the wrong apartment… watch the full episode…

[@forestkaat]

This was my fave episode from this season

[@steveprice2718]

I never realized, or recognized, so many up and coming actors that appeared on this show. This one has Robert Walden from Lou Grant and Happily Divorced, playing the detective.

[@colibri1]

This was obviously before the police were militarized. Rhoda might not have survived resisting arrest unscathed these days; she might not have survived at all. Of course, the seventies was the last decade that cops were successfully prosecuted for brutality etc.

[@m1k3ywestley7]

Did Benny steal the club from the miniature golf place?! Lol

[@BenjiOrthopedic]

Robert Walden, as the ahole cop, as many know was Joe Rossi on "Lou Grant" for 5 years - a fine actor. He was also on a show called "Brothers" in the 80s, which I think is pretty well forgotten now but it was also had a very long run but I don't think it was ever re-run or issued on DVD.

[@forestkaat]

yes, that's Robert Walden, who was on the show, Lou Grant & Valerie Curtain, very funny in the movie Maxie with Glenn Close & Mandy Patinken.

[@aliray1868]

Will and grace stole so much from Rhoda

[@pinkysimmsBMMM]

Like what??? No one is gay... no one is rich. No one on W&G lives in same building as their sister. Only similar things is Rhoda & Grace are both Jewish

[@StrongnBeautiful]

Wow. This is the most serious storyline I've seen them do on this show. It's always interesting to see police injustice happen to white people. They so often try to make black people seem absurd and irrational when we speak about it.

[@steveprice2718]

Don't get started on that . Yes, there ARE situations where the cops are wrong witha fraction of black people. Political correctness is out here. Facts do speak for themselves. News stations will often edit stories to fit whatever agenda they're aiming for. Not all whites are out to smear the black man, and not all black men have criminal intent. We are an imperfect world with many imperfect people in it. White, Black, Latino, Asian, middle eastern, the list is endless. I di not watch the news to be influenced by idiots with an agenda of propagating hate. Don't vplay the race card, vin other words...... It's played out.

[@hotgritz4sho]

@@steveprice2718 You just exemplified the reason why this country is in the predicament that it’s in. We have to learn how to listen to others-even if it’s painful, and makes you uncomfortable. No, everything isn’t about race but it until you’ve been mistreated poorly because of your race then learn to listen and understand what someone else is saying, where they are coming from to be exact.

[@EphemeralProductions]

exactly. and police injustice DOES still happen to whites all the time. I know of a person whose nephew (white and unarmed) was shot and killed by cops, while his hands were where they could see em. Granted he had just finished a theft, but, he was not threatening them that I know of.

[@fad23]

I train police and they learn that apologies are powerful and important.

[@josephjoel9199]

Two great women who never admitted that they made a mistake and meant it. And, I still say that Valerie Harper was funnier.

[@user-rs8zb1tu5i]

i like how Brenda stands up for Rhoda when her boyfriend broke her toe and didn't even apologize.

[@bluecollarlit]

Robert Walden, the actor who plays the arresting officer, portrayed Donald Segretti in All The President's Men. (Watching this, I was going crazy : "Who is that guy?! Where have I seen that face?!)

[@particlewaveduality1]

god bless you for these episodes I love her and I hope she beats the odds with her illness one again thank you god bless and keep valarie harper she was always a success in television and was treated badly by nbc during the "valeries family show"

[@oldyellerschannel4676]

OMG...

[@katiezee2]

Knock knock knock..'Gee I wonder who that could be?' Hey open the door and find out

[@eduardo_corrochio]

Brenda to Rhoda: "Gee, I wonder who that could be-- you're already here". It's a self-deprecating joke about Brenda not being very social.

[@alpimarzi5501]

When he patted her rear I about lost my shit

[@Kay2be2mr]

I would've told her that her husband patted my behind.

[@nathelondon3719]

Why is anyone down on Gary? Out of all the men that Brenda dated he was the most handsome, witty, caring and with a caring soul.

[@user-rs8zb1tu5i]

Oh my God, he is an undercover cop, while I don't think Rhoda would solicit anything.

[@LorraineMatthew-oe3mm]

THIS IS AN HILARIOUS EPISODE 😂😂😂🤣🤣😝😝😝😝

[@mellamell7441]

Joe Rossi from Lou Grant!

[@deborahklinlger8565]

Gary's character improved with time. In the beginning of his appearances he was creepy. Later became a friend. I couldn't see him with Brenda. Rip to all who have since died 🎉❤😢.

[@johnadkins5560]

I wanted to punch him through the screen when he pat her behind. I didn't like that at all. Why was that in the script and why did Valerie go along with it? I don't care how much money she was making, she should not have allowed that. Valerie was my TV sweetheart and it angered me to see guys touch her like that.

[@glen7318]

She's an actress, she does what's in the script....

[@johnadkins5560]

Well, do people always have to do what's in the script? I've heard of people refusing certain things in the script and they changed it. So, if Valerie didn't want to be touched like that, she could've refused, but she obviously didn't mind. However, it doesn't change my feelings about her. She was and always will be my favorite actress.

[@glen7318]

Either she didn't mind, or she knew that if she complained too much and refused to act as the script was written, she'd lose her job.

[@johnadkins5560]

Yeah, you got a point there. I still hated it, though. It's a shame what some people have to do to keep their jobs.

[@withgoddess7646]

It's just a tv show...

[@mthivier]

MTM apparently liked Robert Walden's performance, as they would cast him In"Lou Grant" not too long after this episode aired; Valerie Curtain played Vera in the film "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore".

[@kennethlindsey8357]

ROBERT also had a small role in the movie All the president men.

[@davidsanderson5918]

The bloke who laughs when Rhoda delivers the line about men knocking on her door by mistake.....that's a great laugh. They should get him on regularly rather than the one with the donkey laugh! :)

[@skunk69x29]

Some say it's Desi Arnaz as he would regularly attend "live" tapings. I've seen a few other sitcoms where that same laugh is there.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

If it's the honking laugh that sounds like he's right nearby then it's producer/writer/director James L. Brooks. He can be heard laughing on the set of many episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show as well. It gets annoying because it's so loud and unique that it pulls you out of the show's story. :D

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@eduardo_corrochio that's pointless to say. It IS James Brooks but people argue about it all the time on the comments of these videos, saying it's Desi Arnaz, or Lorenzo Music, or James L Brooks. No one can agree on who it is, no one seems to believe it's James Brooks. so i don't even mention it anymore.

[@eduardo_corrochio]

@@EphemeralProductions And yet you just mentioned it. Now _that's_ pointless.

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@eduardo_corrochio 🙄🙄🙄

[@Kashaslove]

"Joe Rossie" from Lou Grant!!!! He's great! (the cop). BTW - Lou GRANT IS A GREAT SHOW!

[@kindspirit7]

must be 50 baskets in the kitchen lol

[@perdidoatlantic]

So was she convicted? Charge dismissed? I’m very concerned about this.

[@pinkfur3805]

Perdido Atlantic lol

[@StrongnBeautiful]

B.S. B.S. protocol.

[@molliwilson5639]

No, she was not convicted . He went to the wrong apartment. Did you watch the full episode?

[@emilyedwards9809]

I think Walden took laughing lessons from the director or whomever that is you can always hear laughing off camera. -_- Actually, it also sounds like Carlton's laugh. lol

[@tankstoner8496]

And he gave acting/directing lessons at the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute in Arkansas

[@pinkysimmsBMMM]

It’s not Carlton it’s James L Brooks

[@edwardmunster7269]

Love Rhoda way better then MTM show

[@DavidMiller-kf1ss]

Cop was on lou asner show.😂

[@freemangriffin4953]

Robert Walden and Valerie Curtin were great in this episode (: This is my favorite 3rd season episode - Rhoda and Brenda were terrific! (: So funny!!!!! (: (: (:

[@EphemeralProductions]

valerie curtin? you mean valerie harper..... or are you talking about the wife?

[@jimsteffel]

Never throw a gun.

[@RepentfollowJesus]

I really liked Gary.

[@hallnelson2897]

I still would have sued the hell out him anyway he was a total asshole.

[@mpt54]

A "hot tamale" in the building? That would be unacceptable now a days.

[@jeanmiller1142]

it's really too bad that people are so overly sensitive to simple words. that's what we have come to sadly so

[@user-rs8zb1tu5i]

What did Rhoda do? Maybe he is an imposter with handcuffs.

[@mariawelsh3190]

This episode was probably the most serious episode they ever did and let me say that this cop? Today? Lol His ass would've been sued all over the city. The cops in the precinct would've been asking for him and he would be somewhere without a trace. You gotta be kidding me lol

[@Kate-fi8oh]

I love Valerie Curtin.

[@ljrockstar69]

Is the actress that played Mrs. Joyce, the actress that was in the pilot of Three's Company before the show hired Joyce DeWitt and Suzanne Somers to play Jack's roommates?

[@Switzer1234]

I liked this show a lot more when Joe and Rhoda were married. Now it's just boring!

[@eduardo_corrochio]

The character of Joe was as bland as plain oatmeal. She might as well have been married to a hairy mannequin, LOL. He did not add anything worthwhile to the show. They were a bore together.

[@glen7318]

I wouldnt say bland, though He wasn't much good as as comic actor.. But the character did seem to be in a permament snarl at his life and before long, at Rhoda.....

[@michellepost5232]

I remember this ep from when new. It is funny. There are murders, and the cops worry about prostitution? That woman down the hall is causing problems, because of what she does. I like Brenda's hair in this ep. Her figure is just right, too. I don't know why she always thought she was fat. Everyone thinks Benny's last name is Goodman, and that he is the bandleader's son. Funny. That police detective is a royal jackass.He was on other shows back then, so was that cop's wife.

[@vanessapierce231]

Rhoda's character is Jewish y so are executive producers Brooks y Burns. We demand justice y will get it one way or another. There was a Jewish mother at a beach with her son. They were enjoying in the hot California sun when a humongous wave came in y swept the young child away. The mother was stunned y crushed all at the same time. A devout Jewess, she looks up to the heavens pleading with God for his safe return, big alligator tears y all. ...please God please. All of a sudden another huge wave crashed the shore y she looks at her feet y their lies little Arthur. She looks back up at the sky y says......but God he was wearing a hat.😆

[@jv-ep2tc]

Robert Walden. Yuck.

[@thestones8022]

using laugh tracks.

[@thestones2789]

im smelling spinoff flop

[@AnnusMirabilus]

so "heartwarming" to see that apparently cops were jumping to conclusions and not even listening to the other side even during the '70s

[@YankeeJet24]

@NotYourBusiness: After reviewing that clip 3x, I have to agree with you. That "man or woman" remark came from out of the blue and had nothing to do with the storyline or even with that scene. It was out of place and unnecessary. Just remember that women were still fighting for their rights in the workplace (remember that when Rhoda opened her business, the landlord originally wanted Joe to sign the lease) and Stonewall was just less than 8 years prior to this episode. Also, that hooker better not be Hispanic, or Rhoda's "hot tamale" remark could be taken as racist. Will & Grace actually took that line out of an episode a day before it aired because of criticism in previews when Karen called that name to her housekeeper Rosario. Then again, the person in 4E could've just been Pat from 1990s SNL. :-)

[@smallfry7743]

Cant get over how poor the writing was for the later Rhoda episodes..So dumb and boring..Seasons 1&2 were the best ones.

[@firouz4296]

How come the police man's apartment looks better than Rhoda's even though she is the "designer" ?

[@shaharazon2449]

Dang girl. dont mess with the police. geeze let it go. or sue

[@Sheldonwh]

Trans-phobia at marker 3:08 . Disappointing for such a progressive show. But then, it was the 70s. Not that we've come a long way since then regarding how transsexual people are treated and depicted in tv and film.

[@kprieto2655]

You are using contemporary jargon - "trans-phobia" about a subject that is just in recent years up front and center. How can you criticize and be so disappointed by a show from 1976-1977 to not check all the boxes on the social/human issues list! It wasn't Rhoda's job to change the world. Be grateful for what MTM did with all of their shows and how they are still relevant and valuable. Ungrateful.

[@adelefarough5123]

NotYourBusiness: Trans-phobia? Back then, trans-sexuality was unheard of, or at least well hidden. Hell, "feminism" was still a curse-word.

[@StrongnBeautiful]

Don't worry about it. Everybody is NOT down with homosexuality. Get used to it.

[@withgoddess7646]

@@adelefarough5123 It depends what circles you travelled in.

[@MonaMonatte]

I couldn’t even finish watching this episode.