If They Remade the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" Today

Hopefully, Gordy Howard would bring the spunk.

Well if they made the casting today it would obviously be a very different cast since those folks are just too old now.

[quote]Murray would be gay

Wasn't he pretty much already gay anyway?

Sue Ann Nivens would launch a new career with a leaked sex tape.

Rhoda would suffer from bulimia.

They would be producing a reality tv show, not a news show.

Ted would be a blond woman with fake teeth and tits.

Mary would actually have men sleeping over.

[quote]Mary would actually have men sleeping over.

Where would the sleep in that tiny studio of hers?

It's funny that OP would have a "sassy black woman" play Rhoda.

Baked Pears Alicia would have to be gluten free or Congresswoman Geddes wouldn't eat it.

They couldn't call it [italic]The Mary Tyler Moore Show[/italic] without her.

Sue Ann, in a moment of foreshadowing, would rename Veal Prince Orloff, Veal St. Olaf.

Surprised it hasn't been rebooted yet.

Oh, yes. It's very 2020 to have a sassy black friend. You have your finger on the pulse there, OP.

Rhoda would be a sassy trans woman of color.

Hi 2015 bump troll r11!

Mary would suffer from undiagnosed depression caused by having to deal with a patriarchal work culture.

Chuckles The Clown would have been killed by being hired to repeatedly drive the Republican clown car into a wall.

Ted would be a Trumper

Sadly, Georgette would also be a trumper. Their kid would disown them for this.

Murray would have divorced and married a man.

Mary would finally marry the man of her dreams, and start a family. She would even give birth to two sons. Her life was anything but ordinary.

Sadly though, one of the sons would die in a freak boating accident. As much as she tried, because of the the same affliction which first surfaced upon Chuckles The Clown's death, Mary would not be able to shed a tear over her dead son, and become even more distant with her remaining son.

In fact, she will not make it after all.

[quote] Rhoda would be a sassy trans woman of color.

You mean she used to be white?

The title would be shortened to MARY!

Mary would be getting all the big black cock!

Mary (formerly Mark) would be transgendered.

So would Lou (formerly Louise).

Eldergays can't think of much beyond sex change jokes, I guess.

Lou’s bear 🐻 buddies would show up some times and eat his ass while he bent over his desk!

OP, your wanting to cast the stupidest person on the show as trans is LITERAL VIOLENCE!!!!!!

[quote] Eldergays can't think of much beyond sex change jokes, I guess.

That's why they're stuck on DL instead of writing shows people will actually watch.

Mary would be the Executive Producer and star of a daytime chat show on her very own network. Sue Anne would have her cooking/magazine show on Mary's network. Pompous ass Ted would have his Dr. Ted show, despite not having a real doctorate. Rhoda is a fashion and lifestyle writer, contributing editor and frequent guest on Mary's show.

Mary would have to deal with her alcohol addiction and her eating disorder(s) openly on the show - and she'd probably attend multiple twelve-step programs.

In that respect, the show might look more like Mom.

Mary Richards might smoke openly and feel free to curse.

But the biggest difference would be Mary would have to struggle much more financially - she wouldn't have all those designer clothes and she might not own a car. She'd need to have one or more roommates.

She might have to take a part-time job to supplement her income from the TV station. And she'd likely have much less job security today - she'd be changing jobs every few years or working freelance through periods of unemployment.

Mary would likely be divorced or be a veteran of several long-term romantic relationships by age 30. Mary also might be struggling to find care for her elderly parents.

She might be more likely to smoke weed.

I would love it if they let Mary masturbate freely & liberally! And it become part of the comic relief.

[quote] Ted would be transgendered

Nah. That would be Gordy.

Veal Prince Orloff would be Tofu Prince Orloff.

WJM would be a struggling streaming start-up.

Weatherman Gordy Howard would be killed by building security in a minor incident that escalated. Antifa would set fire to the WMT-TV building. Ted would go on TV and do a special about the widespread systemic racism at the station. Lou Grant would be fired, and then doxed on Twitter.

It would come out in a later episode that Gordy tried to grab the security guard's gun while drunk. He also had a history of domestic violence, and had lethal doses of fentanyl and crack cocaine in his bloodstream at the time of the incident.

Rhoda would be Palestinean.

One thing it would not be is funny.

DAMN IT !! I DID NOT TURN MURRAY GAY .

Buck wouldn't want her to reboot

[quote]DAMN IT !! I DID NOT TURN MURRAY GAY .

Ok, alright...I did take a dump in Valerie's purse one time, or...a few times.

The Dinner Party

Congressional Representative Margaret Geddes, a vegan would be horrified at Mary for serving veal.

But Geddes would become slightly drunk and decide to forgive Mary, since Mary obviously didn't plan or cook the meal.

Geddes a lesbian would decide to stay over and scissor with Mary on her pull-out bed.

Later that year Geddes and Mary would be seen at Michfest together shortly before they ended their May-December romance.

(Geddes would be played by actor Holland Taylor with Sarah Paulson playing the part of Mary Richards.)

And MTM would still be the best television ever!

>>What would you do?

I'd watch something else!

It is noticeable if you watch the old show how eating habits of thin women have changed. Mary frequently has a cheeseburger or bacon and eggs etc.

Mary would not have thrown her hat. She would have dodged a looter.

[quote] It is noticeable if you watch the old show how eating habits of thin women have changed. Mary frequently has a cheeseburger or bacon and eggs etc.

The year this show went off the air is the beginning of a huge spike in obesity rates in the US.

She would shaking her head and throwing some marijuana edibles in her cart, not pork chops.

Phyllis Lindstrom would be a recently located drag queen from San Francisco.

Mary would be tossing a plant-based "Impossible" steak into her cart.

And she'd be fatter than Rhoda.

Would we finally get to see Mary's bedroom in the remake? I loved the closet-converted-to-a-kitchen, and the conversation pit living room, but where did she sleep?

R52 -duh, the sofa folded out to a bed

[quote]What would you do?

Not watch it.

They had a similar, but less complex/clever sign in a factory on the West Side of Cleveland. My guess is that they had quite a few variations on this.

Buck would have never wanted a remake

R54, so do you, I hear.

Mary, Rhoda, Georgette and Ted would become zombies and terrorize the Twin Cities.

Lou, Murray, Gordy and Sue Ann would be their first victims.

Lou in hot pants!

[quote]If They Remade the "Mary Tyler Moore Show" Today

Retard OP would be trying too hard to be clever.

They would give Mary ridiculously huge breast implants that would throw off her whole character.

And possibly a sick ginormous Kardashian dumpster to pull around the scenes.

Mary would be heavily into BDSM. But her riding crops would be PETA approved artificial materials rather than leather.

R64: I knew that would happen once Julie Andrews went topless in a movie.

What Solange(Brenda) be Bae’s (Rhoda) little sister/enforcer In the shadow of Celine Dione (Mary)

Mary would be Chet, a transman.

R66 Would*

Remaking Mary Tyler Moore for today was called 30 Rock. Just ask Tina Fey.

No calling her "girl" in the title song. (I mean, she was 30 at the time it started).

R69 30 Rock isn’t really “today” though. There’s already stuff on that that’s now considered “outdated” that they have to censor for the PC babies.

Meri get iPad

R61 How about making more interesting threads yourself instead of just shitting on everyone else's?

I thought Muriel closed all pre-2020 threads so they couldn't be bumped.

I'd be the white and brown typewriter on the desk in the set background, enshrined as a relic from a bygone era, both unloved and untouched. :(

R74 She did, unless they had 2021 activity.

Mary's apartment would more like the size of a closet if the pay scale was accurate to what someone in a big city with her kind of job could afford.

Bump

bump

Mar would still throw her hat but would be surrounded by homeless addicts.

Mary would be played by Laverne Cox.

I would have to be cast as "Ida Morgenstern"

Actually, with today's sensibilities, I could see Beanie as Mary. She has the comic timing, and her bewilderment would really make for a different interpretation of the character.

If Ted were transgendered, OP, the show wouldn't make it off the blocks. Ted is a buffoon, remember?

Mr Grant would be the same and Ted would be the same, except yes, Georgette would be east Asian. (Or possibly Slovenian.)

Lou Grant would be a shirtless daddy bear. Grrr. Woof.