The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV Series)

I Love a Piano (1974)

Mary Tyler Moore: Mary Richards

Quotes 

• [Mary and Lou are hustling around the newsroom, upset that Murray has been out to lunch all afternoon] 

  Mary Richards : Oh, well, I just don't believe it - 4:30 and Murray is still not back from lunch?

  Lou Grant : Doesn't he know that we have a show to get on the air?

  Ted Baxter : You know, it's fascinating. Here in Minneapolis/St. Paul, it's 4:30 and we're hard at work. In New York, it's the cocktail hour, and the lights are beginning to twinkle on the Great White Way. And, in London, smartly dressed theater-goers are strolling down the Strand for a late supper at the Savoy. And in Tokyo, it's tomorrow. Actually tomorrow! Do you realize there are people alive here in Minneapolis who are already dead in Tokyo?

• [Murray has returned to the newsroom, drunk] 

  Lou Grant : What have you been drinking?

  Murray Slaughter : Pouilly-Fuissé.

  Lou Grant : [nods]  Too bad.

  Mary Richards : What do you... mean? What? Why?

  Lou Grant : I've been a newsman for thirty years. I've sobered up guys who were drunk on everything from scotch to aftershave lotion. But never once in my life have I had to sober up anyone who was drunk on Pouilly-Fuissé. I don't know what to do! I don't know whether to give him black coffee or cheese!