Episode
The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Happy Homemaker Takes Lou Home
Overview
Sue Ann gets Mary to ask Lou out on a date on her behalf. Lou accepts, not realizing who Mary's 'friend' is.
Details
- Series
- The Mary Tyler Moore Show
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 13
- Air date
- 1975-12-06
- Runtime
- 30 min
Episode context
The Happy Homemaker Takes Lou Home is Episode 13 in Season 6 of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It aired on 1975-12-06. The runtime is 30 min.
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Ted is overjoyed when he gets a tax refund and splurges out on everyone at the newsroom, but is later shocked when the IRS informs him that he will be audited.
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Mary's old flame Dan Whitfield, who once proposed to her, returns to Minneapolis and she's forced to choose between him and her current boyfriend.
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Episode 15: What Do You Want to Do When You Produce?
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Episode 10: Lou Douses an Old Flame
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Episode 16: Not With My Wife, I Don't
Ted and Georgette face marital problems, but Ted refuses to see a counselor unless Lou goes with him.
Episode 9: Ted's Wedding
Out of pity for Ted, Mary invites him & Georgette over for brunch. While he as an onion ring in his mouth, he proposes to Georgette...again. When, for the first time, Georgette says no, she & Ted have a talk and decide they want to get married now. They invite all their friends: Lou, Murray (with mud on his sweatshirt from his son's football game), and Sue Ann (who, in a spectacularily comedic enterance, brings a veil, flowers, and rice, among several other things). Ted's mom can't make it (she's washing her hair), but the incompetent minister comes straight from his tennis match. Best man Lou helps Ted calm his wedding day jitters. When the minister asks Ted if he takes Georgette to be his lawfully wedded wife, he pauses for a moment. Finally, with a smile on his face, he says, ""I do."" When they are pronounced husband & wife, Sue Ann sings the wedding march...very poorly, of course. Once the wedding ends and Lou, Murray, & Sue Ann leave, Ted asks, as if nothing had happened,
Episode 17: The Seminar
Lou and Mary go on a press junket to Washington, DC. Lou was once a correspondent there, but Mary has difficulty believing him about his contacts.
Episode 8: Mary's Delinquent
Mary joins a Big Sisters scheme and tries to bring a teenage shoplifter to the side of good. Sue Ann, pursuing an award, decides to "adopt" a little sister as well but finds herself getting influenced.
Episode 18: Once I Had a Secret Love
Lou has spent the night with Sue Ann, and confides in Mary. Their friendship is almost ruined when Mary is unable to keep the secret.
Episode 7: Chuckles Bites the Dust
Chuckles the Clown is crushed to death by a rogue elephant in a parade, which leaves all the newsroom staff in hysterics except Mary.
Episode 19: Menage-a-Lou
Lou almost ruins one of Mary's parties when his old girlfriend, Charlene Maguire, arrives with a date. He tries to make her jealous by taking out one of Mary's neighbors.