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20th-century-man · 7 months

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Mary Tyler Moore / on location in Minneapolis filming the opening credits for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (CBS 1970-77)

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citizenscreen · 3 months

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Betty White as Sue Ann Nivens on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”

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oldshowbiz · 2 months

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show

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pretty-little-fools · 1 year

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besttvshowbracket · 8 months

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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Iconic for starring a single independent woman and also sometimes you can pretend Mary and Rhoda are lesbians‚ bechdel test style

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not-trustworthy · 11 months

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why is the mary tyler moore show gaslighting me into thinking that rhoda isn’t the most beautiful woman i’ve ever seen

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elliehopaunt · 7 months

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Sometimes I stop and remind myself how lucky we were to live at the same time as Betty White.

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dorihey · 5 months

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Today is the birthday of the late Ed Asner. Many are familiar with him as the voices of Carl Fredricksen from Up, Santa from Elf, and Hudson from Gargoyles, as well as Lou Grant from the Mary Tyler Moore Show and the aptly named, Lou Grant (series).

Back in the mid 2000's, my family and I were staying at a very large expensive house that belonged to friends of my parents as guests. They had a larger cable package than we did back at home, and they had ToonDisney. I remember seeing Gargoyles while staying there, on the "Hangin' with the Heroes" block in the evening. I remember seeing this show very vaguely as a younger kid, but I must not have been older than 6 or 7 or so given the original air dates.

I was totally enamored with these characters almost instantly. I hopped on their upscale internet, and immediately perused various Disney media sites at the time and started going down the rabbit hole with what little material the internet had back in like 2004 about the show. I learned about the cast, Greg Weisman's blog Station 8, and somehow convinced my parents to upgrade our cable so I could watch it. I even made a Neopets Fanpage about the show, and I have no idea if it's still around.

I don't have a lot of specific memories about Hudson being my favorite, or even having a particularly verbose knowledge of the show back them, but I DO remember becoming familiar and fond of Ed Asner, seeing a teaser for Up, learning he was in it, and that detail making it NECESSARY for me to watch it on release day.

I remember the evening before watching Up, and enjoying it, but I rewatched it with my mom a few days later. I am not sure what was different here, but I became OBSESSED. I joined a Pixar fan site, became a highly active member, and began absolutely marathoning this film. I also spent 5 hours one evening with a mechanical pencil, very little drawing skill, and drew this. (apologies, the picture is 14 years old and washed out)

To be clear, this was EXTREMELY out of nowhere. I had never drawn anything remotely this detailed before. So I (quite ignorantly, but still strongly) decided to change college majors and pursue art. Still workin' on that one...

Down the line, I ultimately watched Up in theaters 50 times, held movie nights for the fansite over Skype, made multiple forum signatures for myself and other members, and even got invited to Pixar, and met a lot of Pixar leadership (albeit briefly for most).

At the center of this though, Ed Asner was responsible for me gravitating to these characters. I've been pretty consistently enamored with his brand of wholesome curmudgeonry.

(I just made up that word, and I like it, so it's real now)

In any case, I've always felt a bit odd for having an attachment to an actor that hit his acting stride while being middle-aged in the 70s, 20 years before I was even alive - like I'm the only person my age that even knows this guy existed.

I had never gotten to meet Ed, but I did make an attempt shortly before he passed. It didn't work out, but his son Matt runs a charity organization called The Ed Asner Family Center that focuses on supporting individuals and families with autism and neurodivergence. I was fortunate enough to join an early screening of Dug Days before it released on Disney + thanks to a fundraiser by the center, including a Zoom Q&A with Ed. The thing I noticed during the call is that Ed was so immensely quick-witted, absolutely hilarious, and would not leave his piece unsaid. He had an astoundingly magnetic personality. It wasn't open mic, but I managed to get a question through - "What was it that got you into acting?"

Jonas Rivera, the Producer of Up was moderating the call and Ed about verbally trampled the guy by the time he was getting the last few words out, and he knew exactly what he wanted to say.

I don't have the exact words, but it boiled down to "escapism" - which was a bit shocking to me. You've got a former president of SAG, who'd been acting for longer than I have been a living person, and he was immediately compelled to tell everyone that the reason he got into showbusiness is to run from the world and its problems. It was remarkably humble.

Ed passed away exactly a week later. I couldn't eat for 2 days, I was so distraught.

I highly recommend that folks check out a lot of the acting Ed has done. He's absolutely brilliant, and one of the most fun people to watch. He was intimidatingly witty, and yet seemed like the guy who would talk to just about anyone. And then make them laugh their sides off.

I haven't shared my deep admiration for Ed too often other than with folks closest to me, but Ed Asner was a precious gem of a human being, and embodies a lot of things I think the world - particularly folks of the male persuasion - should have a bit more of.

Here's to you, Ed. Have a happy birthday up there for us, big guy. We love ya. <3

(side note, the portrait at the top, I drew to commemorate his first birthday after he passed in 2021. The picture at the bottom was drawn, but not adequately finished imo, about 2 weeks before he left us. I need to give it a proper redo someday)

#fanart #digital art #gargoyles #hudson #procreate #carl fredricksen #pixar up #Ed Asner #lou grant #the mary tyler moore show

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grandmastv · 1 year

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VALERIE HARPER in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1.01 Love Is All Around, 1970).

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thebestestwinner · 3 months

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See pinned post for the full bracket!

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curator-on-ao3 · 1 month

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What do you consider your first fandom? Not necessarily the first one that you created fan work for, but the first one that really gripped you and made you think of alternative stories for the characters outside of the show (or the canon), even if you didn't write them down?

Um, okay, so have you heard of the finale for the Mary Tyler Moore Show? Universally acclaimed, considered one of the best finales in the history of television?

I fuckin’ hated it.

I was a kid and Nick at Nite had aired the series and the finale pissed me off because (warning: spoilers for a TV show older than many of us) the found family broke up. And, yeah, the characters mourned for what they were about to lose and expressed their gratitude for each other, but the found family broke up and they were mostly jobless and crying.

So I wrote a little fix-in on notebook paper from school and that helped me feel better.

I wouldn’t say I was in the fandom — I consider Voyager my first fandom — but that was definitely my first fanwork and it was born of love for characters and my wish that the source material loved them the way I did.

(Some things don’t change?)

Thank you for this question, anon! ❤️ It really took me back.

#i love asks #ask box is open if you want to ask me anything #the mary tyler moore show #thanks again for asking #anon

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cinemajunkie70 · 1 year

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A very happy birthday in the afterlife to Betty White!