Been watching this episode and something came to me...

In Bess, You Is My Daughter Now Mary is watching Bess because Lars has caught chicken pox from a patient. She first doesn't want to be with Mary, but then later comes to really enjoy it. Phyllis comes over to pick Bess up one morning--it seems that Lars doesn't have chicken pox, but has poison oak, instead. There's only one problem... Bess doesn't wanna go home.

How many of you would be like Bess and...not wanna go home?

Been watching this episode and something came to me...

In Bess, You Is My Daughter Now Mary is watching Bess because Lars has caught chicken pox from a patient. She first doesn't want to be with Mary, but then later comes to really enjoy it. Phyllis comes over to pick Bess up one morning--it seems that Lars doesn't have chicken pox, but has poison oak, instead. There's only one problem... Bess doesn't wanna go home.

How many of you would be like Bess and...not wanna go home?

Bess did not like Mary because she didn't really know her. But once Bess hung out with Mary, she found out that Mary was pretty cool and their relationship was at a point where if Bess couldn't talk to Phyllis (scatterbrained as she was), she could always come up to see Mary. That's how I saw the Mary-Bess relationship.

Kinda like when you were a kid and having a play mommy.

Bess did not like Mary because she didn't really know her. But once Bess hung out with Mary, she found out that Mary was pretty cool and their relationship was at a point where if Bess couldn't talk to Phyllis (scatterbrained as she was), she could always come up to see Mary. That's how I saw the Mary-Bess relationship.

Kinda like when you were a kid and having a play mommy.

Yes, I understand their relationship.
I think you mis-understood. I almost even made it a poll, lol.
But there's almost no need for that.

I mean I think we all here would rather stay at Mary's then go back home, right? LOL
I used to think what it would be like, myself, to live with Mary. (and not just "Richards", of course, but MTM, herself)

I used to pretend I was in her apartment, talking to her, and Rhoda & Phyllis. I doubt if I'd want to go back home too. I'd want to stay around and see all the happenings in Mary's apartment. :D

I used to pretend I was in her apartment, talking to her, and Rhoda & Phyllis. I doubt if I'd want to go back home too. I'd want to stay around and see all the happenings in Mary's apartment. :D

For us all to be flies on her walls... ;)

Ha ha...as a guy, I woulda LOVED being able to hang around Mary's apartment!

I used to pretend I was in her apartment, talking to her, and Rhoda & Phyllis. I doubt if I'd want to go back home too. I'd want to stay around and see all the happenings in Mary's apartment. :D

You'd like to stay around and see all the happenings in Mary's apartment . . . like her boring parties? Fortunately for us, those long, boring parties are compressed into just a few minutes, so we never have to endure them and get bored ourselves. But I'll take Lou Grant's word for it that they're pretty awful.

I always thought the relationship between Bess and Mary was very sweet and I would have liked to have seen it explored a bit more. Of course by 1975 that was impossible since she and her mother moved to San Francisco.

I always thought the relationship between Bess and Mary was very sweet and I would have liked to have seen it explored a bit more.

Yes, I always liked it a lot, as well. :)

That episode is lovely,I think with Mary,Bess loved just being a girl,rather than Phyllis using her books every 5 seconds and treating her as an adult.

I think it was also so clever we never saw Lars,give you this wonderful impression of him,without seeing him.

Been watching this episode and something came to me...

In Bess, You Is My Daughter Now Mary is watching Bess because Lars has caught chicken pox from a patient. She first doesn't want to be with Mary, but then later comes to really enjoy it. Phyllis comes over to pick Bess up one morning--it seems that Lars doesn't have chicken pox, but has poison oak, instead. There's only one problem... Bess doesn't wanna go home.

How many of you would be like Bess and...not wanna go home?

Who would want to go back home to Phyllis? :lol:

Who would want to go back home to Phyllis? :lol:

*giggles*