Posted on 02/06/2021 4:35:00 PM PST by simpson96
Mary is appalled with her co-worker's reactions to the death of Chuckles The Clown. Murray in particular can't stop making jokes about it all and Mary thinks it's all inappropriate, despite Lou's claim that it's just a way of dealing with death. They all attend the memorial service, but it's Mary who has trouble remaining solemn.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - "Chuckles Bites The Dust" (video, aired 10/25/1975)
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A great episode.
I remember that episode.
Now if I can only remember where I put my phone!
It’s funny cuz Chuckles was funny! He would have wanted it that way :)
A little song,
A little dance.
A little seltzer,
In your pants.
Even better - Betty White in the front row. Still looking good at 99....
A classic
See that guy with the mustache sitting behind Georgette Engels and Gavin McLeod?
I took a Civil War & Reconstruction class when I was in college in L.A.
A guy with a mustache sat behind me. He was always dressed in an Izod shirt and tennis shorts, and looked like he just stepped off the court at Wimbledon.
I watched that “Chuckles the Clown” episode when it first aired, and when I saw that guy with the mustache sitting there with the mourners I thought, “That guy looks like the guy who sits behind me in my Civil War class!”
The next day, my Civil War class was ready to begin, and this same guy with the mustache walked into the classroom, again in his Izod shirt and tennis shorts, and sat down behind me.
I turned around and said to him, “Didn’t I see you on TV last night?”
He said, “Yeah. I was an extra on The Mary Tyler Show!”
Wow!
Great episode. The way the presiding clergyman intones Chuckles’s slogan, “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants” is hilarious.
Make that last line, “The Mary Tyler MOORE Show!”
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