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The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Not a Christmas Story

Episode Summary

Yuletide yummies for worldwide tummies. (Guest: Alonso Duralde)

Episode Notes

🎄 We’re snowed in a bit earlier than expected, so we’ve hunkered down to have a Christmas feast from around the world. Our colleagues from the newsroom upstairs are less than enthusiastic, but that’s not stopping us from enjoying this 1974 non-Christmas Christmas episode of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

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🎙 Guest:

Alonso Duralde (Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas, The Film Verdict, Linoleum Knife, Maximum Film, Breakfast All Day, Deck the Hallmark, Hollywood Pride, Bluesky).

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💬 Topics & Tangents:

Pre-order the Revised and Updated Edition of “Have Yourself a Movie Little Christmas.”

IMDb’s photo gallery for this episode has 20 screenshots of Mary in a towel.

Betty White’s amazing Christmas dress.

Harrison Ford recalls what he told George Lucas while shooting the first “Star Wars” movie.

I couldn’t find a recipe for “soufflé tour légende,” but here’s one for “Mr. Grant You Took Half Veal Prince Orloff!”

Today’s TV Trope: Social Semi-Circle.

Michael Scott triumphantly singing “Happy Birthday” on “The Office.”

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📼 Commercials:

Burger King Gift Certificates Christmas Commercial (1974)

Season’s Eatings.

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