TMC
10-06-2013, 01:49 AM
http://www.bonethefish.com/viewtopics.php?3101
Played by Valerie Harper, Rhoda Morgenstern had started out life as Mary Richard's neighbor on the original "Mary Tyler Moore Show" back in 1970. Despite the fact that she was actually attractive, Rhoda started out considering herself fat and unattractive but after some initial rivalry proved to be the best friend Mary could have had. More importantly, Rhoda was someone quite interesting who had the best wisecracks and played her emotional baggage for laughs having moved to Minneapolis to New York to try to escape herself . The single biggest piece of luggage Rhoda had was her well-intended but very suffocating mother Ida (played by the inimitable late Nancy Walker) who was overbearing to Rhoda despite being roughly a foot shorter in height! Anyway, the viewers all loved Rhoda, Ida and their backstories so when it was decided to spin off her character into her own show in 1974 with Rhoda moving back to New York , there were high hopes and expectations. Unfortunately, they were not to totally pan out. For one thing, Rhoda seemed far more grounded and levelheaded in New York than she had in Minneapolis which didn't make the character funnier. Also, she was in competition with her own younger even more insecure kid sister Brenda (played by Julie Kavner- pre Marge Simpson) who became far more of a source for laughs than Rhoda did on her own show. Also, they made the mistake of marrying her off quickly to the divorced father of some kid Brenda babysat (who, strangely was barely seen or referred to again after the wedding). Oh, yeah, and they hypped that wedding almost as though she was an actual royal with some viewers going so far as throwing parties while it aired! Of course, this meant that Rhoda had nowhere to go but down from that point on. It also didn't help that Rhoda simply became more annoying and less sympathetic as time went on (and how the show survived at all with the year-long departure of Nancy Walker still is puzzling). Oddly enough, had the show simply had Ida and Brenda without Rhoda at all, it might have been better. Of course, all this is just one viewer's POV so feel free to cast your votes as to whether Rhoda Boned or not.
Played by Valerie Harper, Rhoda Morgenstern had started out life as Mary Richard's neighbor on the original "Mary Tyler Moore Show" back in 1970. Despite the fact that she was actually attractive, Rhoda started out considering herself fat and unattractive but after some initial rivalry proved to be the best friend Mary could have had. More importantly, Rhoda was someone quite interesting who had the best wisecracks and played her emotional baggage for laughs having moved to Minneapolis to New York to try to escape herself . The single biggest piece of luggage Rhoda had was her well-intended but very suffocating mother Ida (played by the inimitable late Nancy Walker) who was overbearing to Rhoda despite being roughly a foot shorter in height! Anyway, the viewers all loved Rhoda, Ida and their backstories so when it was decided to spin off her character into her own show in 1974 with Rhoda moving back to New York , there were high hopes and expectations. Unfortunately, they were not to totally pan out. For one thing, Rhoda seemed far more grounded and levelheaded in New York than she had in Minneapolis which didn't make the character funnier. Also, she was in competition with her own younger even more insecure kid sister Brenda (played by Julie Kavner- pre Marge Simpson) who became far more of a source for laughs than Rhoda did on her own show. Also, they made the mistake of marrying her off quickly to the divorced father of some kid Brenda babysat (who, strangely was barely seen or referred to again after the wedding). Oh, yeah, and they hypped that wedding almost as though she was an actual royal with some viewers going so far as throwing parties while it aired! Of course, this meant that Rhoda had nowhere to go but down from that point on. It also didn't help that Rhoda simply became more annoying and less sympathetic as time went on (and how the show survived at all with the year-long departure of Nancy Walker still is puzzling). Oddly enough, had the show simply had Ida and Brenda without Rhoda at all, it might have been better. Of course, all this is just one viewer's POV so feel free to cast your votes as to whether Rhoda Boned or not.