“Mary Tyler Moore Show” Monday: Rhoda and Mary have their biggest fight – ever

The friendship between Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern is right up there with Lucy and Ethel. The two cannot live without each other. But unlike the famous redhead and her landlady, Mary (Mary Tyler Moore) and Rhoda (Valerie Harper) never had fights – except for this episode from season four – and it is a doozy!

I posted the entire episode “The Best of Enemies” because it shows how these two felt about each other and how important they were in each other’s lives. Mary is so lost without Rhoda that Mr. Grant (Ed Asner) tries telling her some jokes including this one about my hero Billie Jean King:

Q. What would happen if Billie Jean King got married to Bobby Riggs?

A. Her husband would be upset.

(Of course we now know Billie Jean left that husband 25 years ago and has since been in a committed relationship with a woman!)