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

Episode score 8.7 Great

Toulouse-Lautrec is One of My Favorite Artists

  • 7.
  • Season: 1
  • Episode: 7
  • First Aired: 10/31/1970
  • Prod Code: 7013

EPISODE OVERVIEW

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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 »

Writers:
Gordon MitchellLloyd 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 »
Show Score 8.7 great
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