It’s 2024 and with all that’s going on, I enjoy watching these old shows. And I like reading the comments and know that I am not the only one who looks back with joy, but with sorrow too. I miss the good times and the people we have lost. ❤️
"The Captain and Schlemiel" - that is fan-freakin'-tastic! It's fun to see the durable, talented character actor Richard Masur in one of his first t.v. roles. Anne Meara really shines in this episode, too; the writers gave Sally a lot of great lines, and Anne knew how to deiver them.
@@stephaniewest2716 nope its not. But I cant think of the waitress' name. But Anne Meara was in another show that I was trying to remember half an hour ago. Guess I will have to Google it. The waitress had a more round face and was younger.
This episode reminds me of when Rhoda made Mary join that divorced people's club and Mary was all "LEAVING GETTING AWAY FROM THE CREEPIES!" funniest thing ever!
Wow same! I used to watch them with my lunch to ease my separation pain from when my son started kindergarden lol, but now as I'm rewatching I've been listening to it until i fall asleep, there's something very special and comforting about this show if you can get past all the fat jokes (which are super annoying and unhealthy, yikes... not a cute look)
My extreme thanks to you for uploading this classic sitcom. I remember watching only on episode when it aired on CBS-TV when I was 6 years old. I started appreciating the series when it began the reruns as I started going to high school. However, it's been years since I've watched it.
My uncle still wears a chain like that around his neck. I have a theory that people keep the fashion item or hairstyle they had when they were in their 20s. As dated as it becomes it still makes them feel younger.
Who the hell took the time to click on this and dislike it if they dint know the show? sigh..thanks for uploading though! Loved revisiting the old shows on your channels :)
Lookey there 's Ben stillers mom as sally... Rhoda tennis buddy and oh yeah Jerry Stillers wife aka Arthur Spooner on the king of queens don't ya just love it..
Bill Murray did skits as a lounge singer in those classic early Saturday Night Live days in the '70's. Bill was over the top which was fine, but Johnny Venture really nailed it.
I'm an old guy and I so remember loving The Mary Tyler Moore show, and Valerie Harper was great as Rhoda, and she added lots of great comic touches. I was so looking forward to the new show, all about her. I remember being disappointed in it, and never thought that Joe was the right guy for her. I guess I wasn't the only one since he was gone by the end of the 2nd season. And then, Rhoda seemed to become less funny and kind of bitter with everyone around her. That was back in the day of watching TV when it was on, of course..no VHS until later so I've only seen most of these show back when they were new. I was excited to find Rhoda on RUclips. Sadly, for me, it hasn't got better with time.
Michael Adams True. I was a kid in those days and didn’t really get the plot, but I do remember loving the first two seasons and then finding the show became so unfunny and sad I couldn’t watch it anymore.
Hahaha. The musician i dated and lived with for 5 years and I both wore a LOT of silver and turquoise. We used to occasionally get tangled up but not that bad. He didn't wear a necklace. We had rings on every finger. I had 2 rings on two fingers. Baby rings down lower between the other knuckles. We looked great. It was the 80s. Miss those times.
Carlton/Garfield = Lorenzo Music had a pivotal part in creating this show. I didn't however realize he died (age 64) until now when I looked him up. Sad.
"That's us, the Captain and Schlemeil." 🤣 Nick is such a 5th rate Fonzie! "Aaaayyy" 😎🪗🎶 Oh no, not Jonny Venture! 😆 Classic 70's cheese! I loved Sally's Johnny Quest and "Fonzie's Father" jokes! 🤣🤣🤣
Even though I don't miss Joe at all, everything is happening so fast! Last episode of season 2: Rhoda and Joe happy and together. Fifth episode of season 3: a bunch of new characters, Joe nowhere to be found, and this separation thing that came from nowhere, Also, the episodes seem unfinished...they end unexpectedly, without a punch or something.
@@revolutionaryviews9702 To me the point of the character is realism. female empowerment is not relatable to men. I, as a man, could relate to Rhodas humaness. Thats great writing.
And I always thought Valerie Harper was very very beautiful! Even on the Mary Tyler Moore Show I thought she was better looking at Mary. And I always loved Valerie Harper's wardrobe.
I vaguely recall an episode where Johnny Venture brought along a 'buddy' who had an equally tacky lounge lizard name. I wish I could remember the particular episode. Would love to see it again!
Another great one with Johnny Venture , is Season 3 / Episode 24. " To Vegas With Love " . Now am looking for the one you referenced with Johnny's , Friend .
Just because a sport is sweeping the nation doesn't mean everyone has to participate. Rhoda used to play tennis with Mary Richards, they'd goof off with it. Hoodies were worn in the 1970s, as a very casual jacket. Ever since the 1990s people have been wearing them as a shirt. In the 1970s and 1980s, we always took them off when inside. Nick Lobo was pure creep. Johnny Venture was far from ideal but he has a tiny bit more class than Lobo, and really cute. Elvis wore flashy rings and necklaces after 1970, but he was nice, polite, and never crude. He also never played with his microphone. Everyone in that car together was so hilarious. All they needed there was Ida!! LOL. Why does Venture always sing I Gotta Be Me? He doesn't sing that great, either. Basically, he's a dork.
I felt like this was the opposite of MTM and the Feminist message because Rhoda is married off Season 1 and they spend the rest of the series having her so focused on men as where Mary Richards just went through each day and faced work and life situations. They never gave her a steady beau and that was wise and why the show lasted so long. They started backwards-having her meet Joe season one when she should have built up to meeting him and then in season 4 the big finish-marrying Joe. Joe had to be the prince she finds after all the "losers" she dates in seasons 1-3. That's how they should have wrote it.
Saul, for me, it is just that Rhoda is this victorious loser for whom life can go the opposite of the way that a person hoped it would. It isn't anti-feminist at all, just anti-good luck.
The writers were used to writing work-based sitcoms, not family-based or marriage-based sitcoms. They just didn't know how to write a show that was all about a relationship and the family members of the couple in the relationship. So they kept trying all these random characters and not developing them (what happened to the FBI guy that Rhoda was so in love with, for example?). But none of these random characters can make the show cohere. It jumped the shark totally when they had Joe and Rhoda split up, not that there was any chemistry between Joe and Rhoda in the first place. I watch it for the golden moments when Ida has a great bit, or for the occasional good line. But apart from Brenda, Rhoda and Ida (not in that order), the characters are two-dimensional and stupid. Wait - the male characters are. None of them has a sense of humor or is smart or decent (apart from Martin, but the writers don't seem to be able to write well when they try to give Martin his own story-line). In short, I think the writers had four good characters: Rhoda, Brenda, Ida and Martin. But they didn't know what to do with them because they couldn't do a family-based sitcom. If they had put them all together in a work setting with some strong characters supporting (maybe running a hotel or something), they might have been able to carry it off.
That wasn't the focus of this show The focus is the situations associated on what life is like after separation for a young separated woman trying to get hrt her feet under her especially during the period of history of women trying to become "feminist " . A tough line to cross having been raised in a culture were women were subservient vs. women trying to break out of such a role...i think this show does a wonderful job in portraying such situations...more so now watching it 30 t0 40 years later.
I love how people who aren’t in the business say how it should be done... it’s still a sought after and cult classic after 45+ years I think they knew what they were doing.
The technical staff should be reprimanded for the sound on that opening scene. Wow, it's like someone was holding a mic in the back of the audience or something! Where was the boom guy??
Sure am not the only one that liked Johnny Venture. Looked up his character on google an it said he was on 11 episodes of Rhoda so now am on a quest to watch them all. Then of course theres Nick Lobo. But I must say I also enjoyed Gary's character. Oh talking about Gary I saw him the other night in a movie with Jaime Lee Curtis named " Blue Steel " . Jaime Lee Curtis plays a cop. An well Gary's character in the movie ? Don't want to give it away for those who haven't seen it. It is a good movie.
I don't get how Joe and Rhoda were "separated" and acting as though they were divorced. If they were "separated" they would have been legally "divorced" and acting "divorced".
Carlton appears in this episode, but they didn't show his face. I wonder why they thought it would be better to have an air of mystery about what he looked like.
@@imasheepbahbah3591 The other episode he appears in is a party in Rhoda's flat, and he dances the night away with the rest of them, but is wearing a mask the whole evening, so we still didn't see his face.
I was never able to stand Nick. I had a really hard time believing that Brenda would fall for anyone that dumb and that completely self-centered. The character of Nick was so irritating, but he was played to perfection. There were Johnny Venture types all over the place back in the 70s complete with predictable BS, tacky jewelry, immovable hair, schmaltzy songs and horrible clothes. They really were just like this character, I promise you. You could find one "singing" in just about any motel bar back then.
Yeah, I agree about Nick. I actually thought that he was somewhat entertaining, as a character, but agree, Brenda wouldn't have gone out with such a self-centered blowhard. And, yes, there were tons of Johnny Venture types back in the '70s. He probably looks like a caricature to younger folks, but to anyone who remembers the era, he wasn't much of an exaggeration.
Total fake they both were. Most musicians are very shallow and all about notches on their headboard. I didnt like either one of them. I dont see how girls don't see through them.
Like ma y others, I watched Rhoda from the first (the 'wedding', which was HUGE news. It's was like the 1970s version of 'Lucy has a bany', where so many stayed home to watch) from the start, but, Joe was (and the show's staff realised it was not amgood idea). I stopped watching, and only during the Covid lock-down did I see most of this series. It was so much fun, and seeing JohnnynVenture (wonderfully cast and performed by Michael DeLano) would have me in stitches, from this, his first appearance (21:46). I thought no he appears in about 6- 8 episodes, and he was like a little 'jewel', which they widely used sparingly, and Mr DeLano didn't take take the parody too far, to make the audience feel like he was a too much of a caricature.
Ann Meera, Ben Stiller's mom played Sally. She passed a few years back. She had converted to Judaism to marry Ben Stiller's dad. As she had been raised a Catholic but felt her then faith a farse. They were married about 46 years. They originally were a duo comedy team. Irish-jewish marriages are not uncommon, but they usually y only work when the woman is Irish y the man Jewish or when reversed ends in disarray. When a Jewish woman marries an Irishman the family structure tends to crumble as the Irish are way too proud y mostly drinkers, hardly Sabbath material.
I would rather be with Johnny than Nick. Johnny is cute and not nearly as annoying as Nick. Accordian music is irritating. Rhoda hanging onto Joe emotionally in several eps is tiresome. She puts Johnny down alot, but seems to forget how Joe has treated her. She thinks Joe is superior to all men. He dumped her less than 2 years of marriage, the wedding vows he spoke were a farce. She became her old self when she worked for Jack.
This is the 2nd time that Valerie Harper's character, Rhoda, wore beige lace. The other event was when she at Joe's fellow worker's, an elderly Italian man's, retirement party. Beige makes her look white washed. Chocolate brown is acceptable. Even Nick lobo looks attractive in his earthy brown shirt. By the way, Fonzie's dad in real life spoke 11 languages. Nothing to snuff at.
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I am so addicted to this show!! so glad it's on RUclips!!
It’s 2024 and with all that’s going on, I enjoy watching these old shows. And I like reading the comments and know that I am not the only one who looks back with joy, but with sorrow too. I miss the good times and the people we have lost. ❤️
Love him!
“I’m surprised you made it through the metal detector”..........🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Johnny Venture is absolutely adorable ! he's both ridiculous and yet vulnerable ))) binge watching and loving it
I’m quarantine-watching and I’d wear ALL RHODAS CLOTHES!
I have binge watching this series about 2 weeks. I didn't see it in the 70s. I love it.
I binged soon after the quarantine
I love her clothes too.
Those baskets hanging from the cupboard doors. Oh, the 70's.
The fridge is 70's avocado. In her place with Joe, it's brown.
"Because I dont smoke."😂 Love,love,love Brenda!😂
I 💕 that part! I was like, go Brenda!! 💋❤
Brenda is a doll 🥰
I haven't seen some of these episodes in over 40 years, but I remember Nick Lobo and especially Johnny Venture...SO 70s and SO hilarious!
Brenda's beauty was underrated
Marge Simpson is so beautiful I love her!
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
As was her acting.
So much so
Johnnie Venture was a great character 😂😂
He was actually talented to play the character so badly.
I loved Nick! Such a goof...
"The Captain and Schlemiel" - that is fan-freakin'-tastic! It's fun to see the durable, talented character actor Richard Masur in one of his first t.v. roles. Anne Meara really shines in this episode, too; the writers gave Sally a lot of great lines, and Anne knew how to deiver them.
I believe that sally is the waitress from the dinner on MTM.
@@stephaniewest2716 nope its not. But I cant think of the waitress' name. But Anne Meara was in another show that I was trying to remember half an hour ago. Guess I will have to Google it. The waitress had a more round face and was younger.
richard masur was on all in the family..
“Sally” aka Ben Stiller’s mom! 😊
She was the chef in Archie Bunker's Place
The bit where he was singing "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off" to Rhoda was so awful...and so hilarious. LMAO
Mar Thivierge I know it’s a hilarious scene!
This episode reminds me of when Rhoda made Mary join that divorced people's club and Mary was all "LEAVING GETTING AWAY FROM THE CREEPIES!" funniest thing ever!
That was a great episode.
Thank goodness I found this season. I loved your posting this show. Yes! These videos are apart of bedtime routine now. I need them mann!
Wow same! I used to watch them with my lunch to ease my separation pain from when my son started kindergarden lol, but now as I'm rewatching I've been listening to it until i fall asleep, there's something very special and comforting about this show if you can get past all the fat jokes (which are super annoying and unhealthy, yikes... not a cute look)
@@prettyhamburger6462 I listen to this or MTM to sleep. I grew up to these. Its comforting.
love the old checkered cabs - we would squeeze 6 or 8 into a cab
My favorite Rhoda episode. Hilarious!
Nick Lobo just cracks me up.
My extreme thanks to you for uploading this classic sitcom.
I remember watching only on episode when it aired on CBS-TV when I was 6 years old. I started appreciating the series when it began the reruns as I started going to high school. However, it's been years since I've watched it.
LOVE THIS ONE!! SEARCHING FOR JOHNNY VENTURE EPISODE FOR YEARS!
Love Fonzy's dad & Johnny Venture act
My uncle still wears a chain like that around his neck. I have a theory that people keep the fashion item or hairstyle they had when they were in their 20s. As dated as it becomes it still makes them feel younger.
I agree with you.
Jerry Seinfeld always says, Dads wear the styles that were popular in the last year they were happy in.
@@eduardo_corrochio ff
That was the time they felt the most I'm control got the most dates felt the most confident. They are emotionally frozen and haven't grown up.
I am 59 and have not kept anything from my younger years. Too freaky for me. Lol
Who the hell took the time to click on this and dislike it if they dint know the show? sigh..thanks for uploading though! Loved revisiting the old shows on your channels :)
Should have done more with the Johnny character. Dude is a riot. Love the episodes with him in them.
Lookey there 's Ben stillers mom as sally... Rhoda tennis buddy and oh yeah Jerry Stillers wife aka Arthur Spooner on the king of queens don't ya just love it..
She was also on the previous episode. I'm watching all the episodes in order on the playlists...Season 1 playlist, Season 2 playlist, etc.
The brash cook from "Archie Bunker's Place".
The presence of Saturday Night Fever is strong in this TV show.
I know I shuouldn't love Nick, but I just do!
He’s a sweet dummy!
He totally has that effect ^^ I love the far out words he uses🤣 Little fox! Ey ey ey...
Johnny THE Original!!!! LOUNGE LIZARD I LAUGH OUT LOUD every time I watch this episode which is alot. :)
Bill Murray did skits as a lounge singer in those classic early Saturday Night Live days in the '70's. Bill was over the top which was fine, but Johnny Venture really nailed it.
I'm an old guy and I so remember loving The Mary Tyler Moore show, and Valerie Harper was great as Rhoda, and she added lots of great comic touches. I was so looking forward to the new show, all about her. I remember being disappointed in it, and never thought that Joe was the right guy for her. I guess I wasn't the only one since he was gone by the end of the 2nd season. And then, Rhoda seemed to become less funny and kind of bitter with everyone around her. That was back in the day of watching TV when it was on, of course..no VHS until later so I've only seen most of these show back when they were new. I was excited to find Rhoda on RUclips. Sadly, for me, it hasn't got better with time.
Michael Adams True. I was a kid in those days and didn’t really get the plot, but I do remember loving the first two seasons and then finding the show became so unfunny and sad I couldn’t watch it anymore.
I agree.
Brenda is my fav hahaha
Its weird how they always portrayed Brenda as fat when she was thin!!
Thin by 2020 standards. Not so thin by 1970 standards.
Hahaha. The musician i dated and lived with for 5 years and I both wore a LOT of silver and turquoise. We used to occasionally get tangled up but not that bad. He didn't wear a necklace. We had rings on every finger. I had 2 rings on two fingers. Baby rings down lower between the other knuckles. We looked great. It was the 80s. Miss those times.
And then you got saved 😉
Sometimes being alone is better alright!
Trivia bit: the actor who plays Johnny was one of the finalists to play Joe.
And you can hear Jay Sandrich's high-pitched wooping laughter during the nightclub scene.
i thought it was James L Brooks! LOL I've also heard it was Lorenzo . Who knows? lol
I'm from Vegas and I would be honored for Johnny to take me to dinner.
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣 I CAN'T TAKE THIS🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OMFG THIS SHOW IS CRAZY ON THE LOW LOW JOHNNY KINDA CUTE🥰
Language please
Carlton/Garfield = Lorenzo Music had a pivotal part in creating this show. I didn't however realize he died (age 64) until now when I looked him up. Sad.
I’d forgotten that Nick introduced Johnny to Rhoda!
Nick and Johnny work well together.
Yet alas not with anyone else.
Fonzie's father LOL
Wow! Rhoda unknowingly just described HERSELF:.....loud, pushy, arrogant....(23:02)
This is Garfield your doorman
😂😂
“ I’m not a cat” LOL
I love this episode
"That's us, the Captain and Schlemeil." 🤣
Nick is such a 5th rate Fonzie! "Aaaayyy" 😎🪗🎶
Oh no, not Jonny Venture! 😆 Classic 70's cheese! I loved Sally's Johnny Quest and "Fonzie's Father" jokes! 🤣🤣🤣
Johnny was who she was calling Fonzie's father
Richard Masur
Played
Nick but also
Played
David on one day at a time
And Howie in Fallen Angel...
And also Uncle Phil in My Girl 1 and 2
He also played a character in “ My Sister Sam” that’s where I remember him from!! That very forgettable show!!
JOHNNY VENTURE, LEGEND
Even though I don't miss Joe at all, everything is happening so fast! Last episode of season 2: Rhoda and Joe happy and together. Fifth episode of season 3: a bunch of new characters, Joe nowhere to be found, and this separation thing that came from nowhere, Also, the episodes seem unfinished...they end unexpectedly, without a punch or something.
julioagua Bad writers killed Rhoda’s marriage and this show. It made for depressing entertainment that disempowered rather than empowering women.
@Konga 5000 I agree about Benny. I felt Brenda settled big time. I loved Gary though
Diana Marie I agree 💯
@@revolutionaryviews9702 To me the point of the character is realism. female empowerment is not relatable to men. I, as a man, could relate to Rhodas humaness. Thats great writing.
He reminds me if Sunny Mann on It’s a Living. Funny!
JOHNNY Venture the first lounge lizard 🦎 😳 lol.
If only comedy today could be this funny.
I love how they never show Carlton.
Like Wilson on Home Improvement. Who knew the Rhoda show was innovative.!
@@greatmusicfan57 and Lilith on Frasier.
He looks nothing like you would expect. Absolutely nothing.
@Dland I think you mean Maris. Lilith was shown on Frasier and on Cheers, many, many times.
He was shown in a Halloween party at Rhoda's, but he wore a mask. His name is M. Music and he's the voice of Garfield.
Loved Nick's postcard.😂😂😂 Kinda sweet. Lol
Definitely sweet 😊
He knew it by heart because thats what he sent to every girl he was involved with. Gotta watch those musicians.
With that wavy hair and the accordion Nick reminds me of Myron Floren of "The Lawrence Welk Show."
This is what talent looks like. It's just as funny all these years later.
I would date Johnny in a heartbeat 💗!
They were really hard on Johnny the second he walked in
You would be used by Johnny in a heart beat. Those guys are all about themselves.
@@RepentfollowJesus Come to of it, I am dating Johnny. 🤨
Actually, I’m dating Nick. 🥴
And I always thought Valerie Harper was very very beautiful! Even on the Mary Tyler Moore Show I thought she was better looking at Mary. And I always loved Valerie Harper's wardrobe.
It's amazing, they let u through the medal detector.....lmao
No metal detectors back then. Actually they never asked for ID at the airports either
I would have laughed the whole night! She should have sucked it up went with the flow and tried to have a good time!
They changed her from a down to earth person to a snappy angry man hater.
I vaguely recall an episode where Johnny Venture brought along a 'buddy' who had an equally tacky lounge lizard name. I wish I could remember the particular episode. Would love to see it again!
Another great one with Johnny Venture , is Season 3 / Episode 24. " To Vegas With Love " . Now am looking for the one you referenced with Johnny's , Friend .
Just because a sport is sweeping the nation doesn't mean everyone has to participate. Rhoda used to play tennis with Mary Richards, they'd goof off with it. Hoodies were worn in the 1970s, as a very casual jacket. Ever since the 1990s people have been wearing them as a shirt. In the 1970s and 1980s, we always took them off when inside. Nick Lobo was pure creep. Johnny Venture was far from ideal but he has a tiny bit more class than Lobo, and really cute. Elvis wore flashy rings and necklaces after 1970, but he was nice, polite, and never crude. He also never played with his microphone. Everyone in that car together was so hilarious. All they needed there was Ida!! LOL. Why does Venture always sing I Gotta Be Me? He doesn't sing that great, either. Basically, he's a dork.
Ok how many folks here who were around in the 70s remember real life people who were just like Johnny??
They use the word "terrific" a lot in this show! LOL !
they used it a LOT in the 70s. lol
while at G.B. it'd been 'splendid'
I love the accordion .. so funny
This has to be the closest we seen of Carlton's (Lorenzo Music's), The Door Man aside from his one animated episode.
Anne meara she was great on the king of queens
She would have been about 46 years old here, by the way. Born in 1929.
OMG the nightclub scene is hysterical!!!!!
The first singer actually had a good voice and vocal range.
I felt like this was the opposite of MTM and the Feminist message because Rhoda is married off Season 1 and they spend the rest of the series having her so focused on men as where Mary Richards just went through each day and faced work and life situations. They never gave her a steady beau and that was wise and why the show lasted so long. They started backwards-having her meet Joe season one when she should have built up to meeting him and then in season 4 the big finish-marrying Joe. Joe had to be the prince she finds after all the "losers" she dates in seasons 1-3. That's how they should have wrote it.
Saul, for me, it is just that Rhoda is this victorious loser for whom life can go the opposite of the way that a person hoped it would. It isn't anti-feminist at all, just anti-good luck.
The writers were used to writing work-based sitcoms, not family-based or marriage-based sitcoms. They just didn't know how to write a show that was all about a relationship and the family members of the couple in the relationship. So they kept trying all these random characters and not developing them (what happened to the FBI guy that Rhoda was so in love with, for example?). But none of these random characters can make the show cohere. It jumped the shark totally when they had Joe and Rhoda split up, not that there was any chemistry between Joe and Rhoda in the first place.
I watch it for the golden moments when Ida has a great bit, or for the occasional good line. But apart from Brenda, Rhoda and Ida (not in that order), the characters are two-dimensional and stupid. Wait - the male characters are. None of them has a sense of humor or is smart or decent (apart from Martin, but the writers don't seem to be able to write well when they try to give Martin his own story-line).
In short, I think the writers had four good characters: Rhoda, Brenda, Ida and Martin. But they didn't know what to do with them because they couldn't do a family-based sitcom. If they had put them all together in a work setting with some strong characters supporting (maybe running a hotel or something), they might have been able to carry it off.
That wasn't the focus of this show
The focus is the situations associated on what life is like after separation for a young separated woman trying to get hrt her feet under her especially during the period of history of women trying to become "feminist " . A tough line to cross having been raised in a culture were women were subservient vs. women trying to break out of such a role...i think this show does a wonderful job in portraying such situations...more so now watching it 30 t0 40 years later.
@@ritagencius8900 When we look back from present time we forget the times really were different for people.
I love how people who aren’t in the business say how it should be done... it’s still a sought after and cult classic after 45+ years I think they knew what they were doing.
The technical staff should be reprimanded for the sound on that opening scene. Wow, it's like someone was holding a mic in the back of the audience or something! Where was the boom guy??
I think Johnny is a good guy. Masculine, considerate
🥀⚘RIP ⚘beautiful lady ⚘🥀
i just realized she must never use those cupboards in the kitchen. either that or all those damn baskets are really nailed on there. lol
Sure am not the only one that liked Johnny Venture. Looked up his character on google an it said he was on 11 episodes of Rhoda so now am on a quest to watch them all. Then of course theres Nick Lobo. But I must say I also enjoyed Gary's character. Oh talking about Gary I saw him the other night in a movie with Jaime Lee Curtis named " Blue Steel " . Jaime Lee Curtis plays a cop. An well Gary's character in the movie ? Don't want to give it away for those who haven't seen it. It is a good movie.
LOved Anne Meara and this episode funny as usual!! Brenda is a hoot!
Sister is looking very cute here.
Johnny cracked me up he liked Rhoda
I wish they didn't write Rhoda so bitter and shrewish after her separation/divorce
Too bad they didn't play out Johnny as a potential love interest for Rhoda, it could have extended the show longer... he was more funny than Joe was.
I love this series. I do think this particular episode is kind of sad, despite having funny parts to it.
Carlton licking smush smush
I don't get how Joe and Rhoda were "separated" and acting as though they were divorced. If they were "separated" they would have been legally "divorced" and acting "divorced".
“big Sally” ?? really. She’s not BIG and even is she were, it’s inappropriate to call her that!
Carlton appears in this episode, but they didn't show his face. I wonder why they thought it would be better to have an air of mystery about what he looked like.
Where is he?... on this episode that is
@@imasheepbahbah3591 The other episode he appears in is a party in Rhoda's flat, and he dances the night away with the rest of them, but is wearing a mask the whole evening, so we still didn't see his face.
@@treasurehunteruk9718 thank you hope I can find that episode
@@imasheepbahbah3591 They never show him… Carlton is the head of Lorenzo Music who does their music…
it's pretty insulting the way they speak to the brenda character. and she isn't even ugly so it doesn't make sense.
Once again, the writers of this show have no concept of time. Nick has been gone lots longer than four weeks.
Poor Rhoda has to put up with Jonny
@ lisadawn I know he died from bone cancer I hate it he's one of my favorite voice actors and I loved him as Garfield my favorite cartoon
I was never able to stand Nick. I had a really hard time believing that Brenda would fall for anyone that dumb and that completely self-centered. The character of Nick was so irritating, but he was played to perfection. There were Johnny Venture types all over the place back in the 70s complete with predictable BS, tacky jewelry, immovable hair, schmaltzy songs and horrible clothes. They really were just like this character, I promise you. You could find one "singing" in just about any motel bar back then.
There's a lot of Johnny Ventures' today. Minus the jewelery.
Yeah, I agree about Nick. I actually thought that he was somewhat entertaining, as a character, but agree, Brenda wouldn't have gone out with such a self-centered blowhard. And, yes, there were tons of Johnny Venture types back in the '70s. He probably looks like a caricature to younger folks, but to anyone who remembers the era, he wasn't much of an exaggeration.
Total fake they both were. Most musicians are very shallow and all about notches on their headboard. I didnt like either one of them. I dont see how girls don't see through them.
Carolton is one crazy dude
Carltons a mess! LOL!
Why dont they make tv shows like these any more? These are great.
Sadly because once reality shows hit big they don’t have to pay actors, writers and producers. Reality is so cheap to produce and own in perpetuity
I didn't think Carlton was ever off duty
OMG! Anne Meara! Ben Stiller's mom!!! RIP
Jude Lewis Thank you. I knew she was familiar but I couldn’t place it.
rip anne meara VH.
Like ma y others, I watched Rhoda from the first (the 'wedding', which was HUGE news. It's was like the 1970s version of 'Lucy has a bany', where so many stayed home to watch) from the start, but, Joe was (and the show's staff realised it was not amgood idea). I stopped watching, and only during the Covid lock-down did I see most of this series. It was so much fun, and seeing JohnnynVenture (wonderfully cast and performed by Michael DeLano) would have me in stitches, from this, his first appearance (21:46). I thought no he appears in about 6- 8 episodes, and he was like a little 'jewel', which they widely used sparingly, and Mr DeLano didn't take take the parody too far, to make the audience feel like he was a too much of a caricature.
14:24 $50 in 1976 is about $210 in 2014.
Isn't that Jerry Stiller's wife, can't recall her name. They've both passed on to heaven now😢
God?! What Uh Yutz?!
Ann Meera, Ben Stiller's mom played Sally. She passed a few years back. She had converted to Judaism to marry Ben Stiller's dad. As she had been raised a Catholic but felt her then faith a farse. They were married about 46 years. They originally were a duo comedy team. Irish-jewish marriages are not uncommon, but they usually y only work when the woman is Irish y the man Jewish or when reversed ends in disarray. When a Jewish woman marries an Irishman the family structure tends to crumble as the Irish are way too proud y mostly drinkers, hardly Sabbath material.
I would rather be with Johnny than Nick. Johnny is cute and not nearly as annoying as Nick. Accordian music is irritating. Rhoda hanging onto Joe emotionally in several eps is tiresome. She puts Johnny down alot, but seems to forget how Joe has treated her. She thinks Joe is superior to all men. He dumped her less than 2 years of marriage, the wedding vows he spoke were a farce. She became her old self when she worked for Jack.
This is the 2nd time that Valerie Harper's character, Rhoda, wore beige lace. The other event was when she at Joe's fellow worker's, an elderly Italian man's, retirement party. Beige makes her look white washed. Chocolate brown is acceptable. Even Nick lobo looks attractive in his earthy brown shirt. By the way, Fonzie's dad in real life spoke 11 languages. Nothing to snuff at.