When you are in South Florida if your last name is not Sanchez or Gonzalez , or not a white or black American can forget it not qualified that pretty much sums up the US also. I have acquaintances that is as best as you will get in the US . Think you meet someone different from the last , never the case . Have my own company , reading , my music and lap top , and pretty much keep to myself . I have got used to my own company since growing up though in the UK had friends would hang out with , but it is fine sometimes it is tedious but that goes as quickly as it comes . I have suffered a lot of discrimination in the US and I am also a US citizen . I am of colour from outside the US , it has happened again being treated like garbage again here recently , and suffered in long years of it , well not anymore . I have long time friends around the world . Just because we have not seen each other for a very long time does not mean the friendship is not there , and thanks to Facebook reconnected with a lot of them for twenty two years now .Social life or any kind of relationship in the US is no go area and expected that , really not worth it . Too agonizing , and also too much expectations
At least Ida has two daughters and a husband who all love her. I'd be content!A word of advice: NEVER underestimate your girlfriends! Especially if you are the youngest family member, the only one left and no husband.
Brenda looks really good with the longer hair. I don't understand why they always said she was fat ? She wasn't fat at all, she just had a different body type than Rhoda.
Back in those days, stick figure was the ideal. Every woman who wasn't like Twiggy or Karen Carpenter was mercilessly put down for being "fat". When Karen Carpenter died of anorexia, that finally started to wake some people up.
@themaggattack I was gonna say...Karen Carpenter wasn't like Karen Carpenter....neither was Twiggy either likely. They had to starve themselves...and unfortunately Karen paid the price for it.
Verna, the Cat Lady; was one of the most inspirational character-actor moments in any television sit-com. Her moment just defined what NY and the crazy-zany moments and characters that one encounters, living in the Big Apple. It was a shame that the writers, couldn't find a way to give her another moment or two, in the Sun. Just loved her. And would love to have such a dear, wistful soul as my neighbor.
The funny thing about the cat lady is that there are actually people that live with so many cats, that on my street where I used to live there was this pink house that didn't have a car and we never saw anyone come out of it but all you would see is cats everywhere on the property. The smell was horrible. You would smell it just driving your car past her house. So sad that my best friend and another class mate of mine lived on both sides of it. LMAO
@@givememore4free thank goodness someone is willing to help them. Cats are very loving and nice companions but they're alot of work. You have to have the right kind of house for them.
I know how Ida felt. When I was a kid I had so many friends move away. It gets so you're afraid to make new friends. That can hurt at any age. Maybe she needed a kitty. I wish I could've seen the kitty Verna had in her pocket. Love kitties!
I had a similar experience as Ida. I met someone on 4/1/2011 who became a good friend. We hung out a few times. We even went to the Rihanna concert together! They also ended up moving to California 4 months after we met.
He was a nice guy BUT he was my least favourite actor in the entire cast. He was just too ordinary and had little to offer but being nice. All the others are colourful...funny, perky and fun to watch. Plus there's far more potential for amusement with the better comedy actors.. I miss Charlie....he was insufferable but SO funny!
From those days to this anytime i hear the word Mahjong I think of Ida. It must have been so hard to get through the scenes with Verna without laughing, I start laughing the minute I see her seriously so funny
I play mahjong games on my android sometimes.It was really popular during the 1920s. The cat lady looks kinda like Gloria Swanson. I don't know why they had Joe and Rhoda divorce. I thought he was cute. If they had stayed together with a terrific marriage, the writers could've created some funny scenarios for them.
+Leimaris Cruz They aren't aired in the order they were taped. If you look at this site epguides.com/Rhoda/ "Prod #" is Production #, the order in which they actually taped the episodes.
@@sweetbeauty2153 Good morning. How are you? I am sorry you are going through some things on the job. It is a terrible feeling. I can't relax and i never want to do anything. A person works in order to take care of themselves. No one should be treated badly on a job. This is the worse it has been for me. I hope we both are able to get through this. I will keep you in my prayers.
Was Verna the same woman in an episode of The Golden Girls where she comes in and asks if a murder ever happened in the house? Or something along those lines? I kept waiting for her to ask that but then realized it was from a different show. But I think she was wearing a head wrap there too.
This was a weird one. Some of the later Rhoda episodes were that way. Nancy Walker and Harold Gould were kinda in and out. I think one of the elements that helped kill the show was Benny. Bad part, bad actor who played him. Interestingly, it was Benny's godawful annoying brother played by the great George Wyner in Season 5 who finally rounded out that boring character!
This is a show I would think was popular mostly with women. Baby boomer women were young at this time. It was nice that Rhoda had a nice ending in with the mary tyler Moore show. When they decided to have her go through a divorce it was no longer a happy source of entertainment. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the divorce. It was just unhappiness. Not why we tuned into Rhoda. What should have happened is the writers should have worked harder at making the show something other than just a continuation of the MTM show. I did watch the show at that time but I remember the feeling I had when they decided to move the characters to divorce. Ugh, Why?
I SO AGREE. First Rhoda for NO reason divorces, then Idas husband who was happy & chased her around for sex and she lived it but then he ups and leaves. It was stupid on the writers part. Just STOOOPID
This show Rhoda was totally off track at this point, the writers totally ruined it and that's why it was cancelled. Sucks cus first few seasons were excellent.
The cat lady is probably an inspiration for the demented character from The Simpsons. Why would Ida be despondent over a person she just met at a party? It takes years to develop a friendship not in a short span of a few days. At least Ida has two loving daughters and a husband.
Watson: Anorexic you say? NO in the seventies and sixties when I was teen and in my 20s we were healthy and in shape. One was ostracized if we ever appeared half as heavy as the kids today and we well should have been. Obesity in this country is an epidemic and no one says a thing about it!! What a pity!
She wore such feminine clothes. Yeah, it was going down hill . Sad, too. They always have to ruin a good thing. It's happened to every sitcom I've ever seen. Then they add people, as if that will make a difference.
Mahjong. It is played with tiles, like dominoes, in some versions, or played with cards. Very popular in the 30's, 40's and 50's. The playing of the game was often utilized in many a stand-up comedian's routine, as a tag-line of what the 'average, middle aged Jewish woman does. Plays Mahjong.
It's also very popular among Asians (I could be wrong, but I think the game originated in China). It was prominently featured in the 1990s film "The Joy Luck Club".
Nancy Walker was always terrific.
Did you see her as Sophia's sister on The Golden Girls? She was so terrific in the two episodes...
Nancy Walker was amazing. Made me cry one minute and laugh the next.
One of my favorite episodes. Ida being sensitive and not a nag. It is hard to make new friends the older one gets.
Yea it sure is.
When you are in South Florida if your last name is not Sanchez or Gonzalez , or not a white or black American can forget it not qualified that pretty much sums up the US also. I have acquaintances that is as best as you will get in the US . Think you meet someone different from the last , never the case . Have my own company , reading , my music and lap top , and pretty much keep to myself . I have got used to my own company since growing up though in the UK had friends would hang out with , but it is fine sometimes it is tedious but that goes as quickly as it comes . I have suffered a lot of discrimination in the US and I am also a US citizen . I am of colour from outside the US , it has happened again being treated like garbage again here recently , and suffered in long years of it , well not anymore . I have long time friends around the world . Just because we have not seen each other for a very long time does not mean the friendship is not there , and thanks to Facebook reconnected with a lot of them for twenty two years now .Social life or any kind of relationship in the US is no go area and expected that , really not worth it . Too agonizing , and also too much expectations
@@jmartin4204 I'm so sorry to hear this. I think everyone is worth knowing. We all have a story about life.
At 18:51 in the video when Brenda says “surfing”,you can REALLY HEAR the Marge Simpson come out.
How can two classic TV shows The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda be so relatable.
This is when shows were at their best.
At least Ida has two daughters and a husband who all love her. I'd be content!A word of advice: NEVER underestimate your girlfriends! Especially if you are the youngest family member, the only one left and no husband.
Brenda looks really good with the longer hair. I don't understand why they always said she was fat ? She wasn't fat at all, she just had a different body type than Rhoda.
I know, that was awful. It had to make the actor feel bad.
Back in those days, stick figure was the ideal. Every woman who wasn't like Twiggy or Karen Carpenter was mercilessly put down for being "fat". When Karen Carpenter died of anorexia, that finally started to wake some people up.
@themaggattack I was gonna say...Karen Carpenter wasn't like Karen Carpenter....neither was Twiggy either likely. They had to starve themselves...and unfortunately Karen paid the price for it.
One of the better ones from s4, so far--no Gary! So sad that May had to move
the days when people actually showed up at parties......
Hell this is a dreary party. Not a funny ep so far
another great episode!
Verna, the Cat Lady; was one of the most inspirational character-actor moments in any television sit-com. Her moment just defined what NY and the crazy-zany moments and characters that one encounters, living in the Big Apple. It was a shame that the writers, couldn't find a way to give her another moment or two, in the Sun. Just loved her. And would love to have such a dear, wistful soul as my neighbor.
The funny thing about the cat lady is that there are actually people that live with so many cats, that on my street where I used to live there was this pink house that didn't have a car and we never saw anyone come out of it but all you would see is cats everywhere on the property. The smell was horrible. You would smell it just driving your car past her house. So sad that my best friend and another class mate of mine lived on both sides of it. LMAO
The actress never did anything else.
@@Asukenick She was in the movie Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon with Liza Minnelli...but I couldn't find anything else.
I agree! A perfect '70s NYC character. Loved her.
@@givememore4free thank goodness someone is willing to help them. Cats are very loving and nice companions but they're alot of work. You have to have the right kind of house for them.
loved the cat lady. she was too funny. :)
I know how Ida felt. When I was a kid I had so many friends move away. It gets so you're afraid to make new friends. That can hurt at any age. Maybe she needed a kitty. I wish I could've seen the kitty Verna had in her pocket. Love kitties!
Ida is way too fussy with housekeeping to have a pet. She would be hoovering night and day.
The Episodes with Ida(&Martin) are the best episodes..miss Joe too!!
Getting older is hard! It is true because a person keeps losing friends and there are less people to talk to and see. It is lonely...
That is the truth
We are really not alone. We have God by our side all the time
I had a similar experience as Ida. I met someone on 4/1/2011 who became a good friend. We hung out a few times. We even went to the Rihanna concert together! They also ended up moving to California 4 months after we met.
I miss Joe ( The way he was before the seperation). They should have kept him for all the shows.
Jamiecreates Canada
I agree! I thought it was stupid of the writers to have them divorce. I liked the chemistry between them. The show is boring now.
Jamiecreates Canada Rumor has it the the actor was NOT liked by the rest of the cast, thus he was fired.
@@travisjames3517 No, he was written out because the writers felt that Rhoda was funnier single.
agree
He was a nice guy BUT he was my least favourite actor in the entire cast. He was just too ordinary and had little to offer but being nice. All the others are colourful...funny, perky and fun to watch. Plus there's far more potential for amusement with the better comedy actors.. I miss Charlie....he was insufferable but SO funny!
From those days to this anytime i hear the word Mahjong I think of Ida. It must have been so hard to get through the scenes with Verna without laughing, I start laughing the minute I see her seriously so funny
I play mahjong games on my android sometimes.It was really popular during the 1920s. The cat lady looks kinda like Gloria Swanson. I don't know why they had Joe and Rhoda divorce. I thought he was cute. If they had stayed together with a terrific marriage, the writers could've created some funny scenarios for them.
I love Rhoda to great show
This is so funny and so old-school New York.
That's the way I felt when my friend died. We were planning on growing old together. I'm done dating, so I'm the cat lady now.
How did Brenda have short hair on the last episode and long on this one??
+Leimaris Cruz They aren't aired in the order they were taped. If you look at this site epguides.com/Rhoda/ "Prod #" is Production #, the order in which they actually taped the episodes.
Cool, did not know that. Thank You!
The same way Rhoda and Ida's marriages were fine one episode then headed to divorce the next. Overnight it happened...hmmm
thanks
_"Just eat it. What else would you do with a carrot cake?"_
- Verna, The Cat Lady
I feel rather lost today. 🙄
Why
@@barbibutton9619 I feel a little better today. I am not crazy about my job.
I am looking for something else, but i have applied for school. Hunter College.
@@reneebraxton1032 yeah I know same here with my job😔
@@sweetbeauty2153 Good morning. How are you? I am sorry you are going through some things on the job. It is a terrible feeling. I can't relax and i never want to do anything. A person works in order to take care of themselves. No one should be treated badly on a job. This is the worse it has been for me. I hope we both are able to get through this. I will keep you in my prayers.
Was Verna the same woman in an episode of The Golden Girls where she comes in and asks if a murder ever happened in the house? Or something along those lines? I kept waiting for her to ask that but then realized it was from a different show. But I think she was wearing a head wrap there too.
The cat lady reminds me of Greta Garbo. And the woman named May Parker...does she have a nephew? Was Ben Parker a jeweler?
the theme tune is a lot better
Nancy Walker made Ida Morgenstern the gold standard by which every Jewish and gentile mother would be judged. She was iconic.
That's so sad. Ida finally makes a friend and then May gets invited to live in California with her daughter to leave Ida again with no friends.
Makes me laugh when they crowd one side of the table.
Had a good belly laugh in shower !!! When she they realized she probabbly got robbed lol .
The good days when everyone wasn't staring at their cell phones and actually had to communicate with people..
Love this episode was so cute with he watch ! Lol ! Hate the beginning od season 4 season 3 was the best lol m and season one lol ...
The 70’s & 80’s were far better times, especially the 70’s. People are assholes today and branding it is a new trend.
This was a weird one. Some of the later Rhoda episodes were that way. Nancy Walker and Harold Gould were kinda in and out. I think one of the elements that helped kill the show was Benny. Bad part, bad actor who played him. Interestingly, it was Benny's godawful annoying brother played by the great George Wyner in Season 5 who finally rounded out that boring character!
Hey why is Ida alone? 😳 What happened to Martin? Did I miss something? 😧
He was off on a golfing weekend.
@@RepentfollowJesus I think the golfing weekend was just a lie
This is a show I would think was popular mostly with women. Baby boomer women were young at this time. It was nice that Rhoda had a nice ending in with the mary tyler Moore show. When they decided to have her go through a divorce it was no longer a happy source of entertainment. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to the divorce. It was just unhappiness. Not why we tuned into Rhoda. What should have happened is the writers should have worked harder at making the show something other than just a continuation of the MTM show. I did watch the show at that time but I remember the feeling I had when they decided to move the characters to divorce. Ugh, Why?
I SO AGREE. First Rhoda for NO reason divorces, then Idas husband who was happy & chased her around for sex and she lived it but then he ups and leaves. It was stupid on the writers part. Just STOOOPID
The divorce wasn't the mistake. The marriage was the mistake. Rhoda should have remained single.
Just eat it! lol
This show Rhoda was totally off track at this point, the writers totally ruined it and that's why it was cancelled. Sucks cus first few seasons were excellent.
Small Fry
I agree! The first 2 seasons with Joe were the best. Now it's boring and lack luster story lines.
I so agree. Aggravating when I think how many more episodes I could have seen if the writers had been better at their job.
Loved Joe... Wanted to keep him for myself
You do not have to have an occasion to have a party or give gifts
Waco Texas,,,he didn't get wet. Kind of prophetic.
麻将🀄️
I must have missed something. Where is Ida's husband supposed to be?
That's what I was wondering. I had never seen this show before, but I have seen a few episodes here on you tube, and am wondering the same thing.
He came out and divorced Ida..
I was better in the 70's!😁
The cat lady is probably an inspiration for the demented character from The Simpsons. Why would Ida be despondent over a person she just met at a party? It takes years to develop a friendship not in a short span of a few days. At least Ida has two loving daughters and a husband.
When you get to Ida's age, you don't have decades to get to know someone!
Watson: Anorexic you say? NO in the seventies and sixties when I was teen and in my 20s we were healthy and in shape. One was ostracized if we ever appeared half as heavy as the kids today and we well should have been. Obesity in this country is an epidemic and no one says a thing about it!! What a pity!
She wore such feminine clothes. Yeah, it was going down hill . Sad, too. They always have to ruin a good thing. It's happened to every sitcom I've ever seen. Then they add people, as if that will make a difference.
Janet Duncan
I agree!!
They ruined the show..but IDA was always great
I never cared for Ida. She brainwashed her daughters into being subservient no matter how bad they were treated.
Wtf is Maja?
Mahjong. It is played with tiles, like dominoes, in some versions, or played with cards. Very popular in the 30's, 40's and 50's. The playing of the game was often utilized in many a stand-up comedian's routine, as a tag-line of what the 'average, middle aged Jewish woman does. Plays Mahjong.
It's also very popular among Asians (I could be wrong, but I think the game originated in China). It was prominently featured in the 1990s film "The Joy Luck Club".
Mahjong is similar to gin rummy except with tiles.
Hey "Wtf" Lady: watch "The Handicap Spot" episode of Seinfeld and you'll see Mrs. Costanza playing Mahjong.
Because,they were jealous of her relationship with Jesus
What are you on?