[Publius]

I avoid these and books where the heroine is described as “spunky.”

From the first episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" in 1970.

LOU GRANT: You know, you've got spunk. (pause) I hate spunk.

[Chickensoup]

My gosh I forgot that!

MTM was funny and clever.

The spunk did not always work out.

She seemed genuinely at a loss at the antics of her co workers.

And the episode at the funeral of the clown Chuckles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmBK5GslDaQ