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They Speak Portuguese in Brazil

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 22 February 2017]

Ted attends Murray and Marie's 20th anniversary party and gets all caught up in how lonely he is. He has an insane dream. So on a whim, he proposes to Georgette on the air. She accepts and he immediately gets cold feet and can't bring himself to tell her. He wants Mary to tell Georgette that he will be in Brazil for a year. What happens at the end is really funny. Mary tries to turn the tables on him. Ted Knight was one of the most masterful comedians in our time. Ted Baxter is also a priceless character. But in this episode, Mary is the master.

They crossed a line

[dwp-08886 · 6/10 · 6 May 2023]

I would not call any sitcom "realistic," but MTM plots were almost always rooted in reality, to the point that they could be devastating as well as hilarious. But this one is not, and it is neither. The whole Brazil conceit runs off the rails and they just have to stop the episode in midstream. Also, it is, on one level, astonishing that no one on the show knew that Portuguese, not Spanish, is spoken in Brazil, AND, on another level, it is unbelievable that neither Mary nor Lou (in front of whom Ted refers to speaking Spanish) knows that. It starts out seeming like it must be typical Baxter ignorance. But neither Mary Tyler Moore nor Mary Richards knew? Now that's devastating!