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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists

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Mary begins seeing an author who appeared as a guest on WJM-TV's Scrutiny, and becomes extremely self-conscious after discovering he is several inches shorter than her. Add a recap »

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Writers:: Gordon Mitchell Lloyd Turner

Director:: Jay Sandrich

Stars:: Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards); Gavin MacLeod (Murray Slaughter); Valerie Harper (Rhoda Morgenstern); Edward Asner (Lou Grant)

Guest Star:: Hamilton Camp (Eric Matthews); Robert Rothwell (Floor Manager)

Continuity Error: Mary says that in high school she was head cheerleader, but just a few episodes earlier, she told Rhoda that she was never a cheerleader, but a pom-pom girl. edit »
Mary Richards reveals her height as 5'7". edit »

Ted Knight (Ted Baxter) does not appear in this episode. edit »
This episode won the 1971 Emmy for Best Directing on a Comedy Series. edit »

Rhoda: There are no men friends when you're thirty. They're either fiances or rejects. edit »
Rhoda: My father's short.
Mary: See, it didn't bother your mother did it?
Rhoda: Bother her? She made him that way. edit »
Mary: You know how it is when you're dating someone?
Rhoda: No. edit »
Lou: (To Murray while he fills in for Ted) Keep up the fair work, Murray. edit »
Mary: Eric, this is my friend, Rhoda Morgenstern. Rhoda, this is Eric Shrimp! (looking away in complete humiliation at her gaffe about Eric's height.) edit »

Episode Title: Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists

This is a jab at the shortness of the character Eric Matthews and refers to the artist, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, whose legs ceased to grow after he broke them, presumably because of complications from familial inbreeding, so that as an adult he was only 5 feet tall, developing an adult-sized torso but retaining his child-sized legs. This is also known as Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome. edit »