The BEST episodes of Rhoda
Every episode of Rhoda ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rhoda!
Rhoda which began in the fall of 1974, began each episode (at least the 1st season) with Valerie Harper stating: "My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York in December, 1941. I've always felt responsible for World War II. The first thing I remember liking that liked me back was food. I had a bad puberty, it lasted 17 years. I'm a high school graduate, I went to art school. My entrance exam was on a book of matches. I decided to move out of the house when I was 24, my mother still refers to this as the time I ran away from home. Eventually I ran to Minneapolis where it's cold, and I figured I'd keep better. Now I'm back in Manhattan. New York, this is your last chance!" Rhoda is the successful spin-off to the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
#1 - A Nice Warm Rut
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1975
Brenda decides to break out of her "nice, warm rut" by moving to San Francisco, a plan that isn't discouraged by Rhoda, but one that Joe thinks is rotten.
#2 - Chest Pains
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/3/1975
Rhoda and Brenda have to take their mother on her very first trip to the doctor, a visit that mama Ida faces with a combination of fear and embarrassment.
#3 - Along Comes Mary
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/10/1975
Mary Richards shows up unexpectedly and throws a monkey wrench into Rhoda's and Joe's plans for a long-awaited weekend alone at Cape Cod.
#4 - Ida, the Elf
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1975
Bored with her life, Rhoda's mother Ida decides to become a "now" woman and surprises Rhoda and Brenda by announcing she's launched a whole new career.
#5 - Whattaya Think It's There For?
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/6/1975
At Ida's insistence, Rhoda talks Joe into asking her father for the money he needs to save his business, but then is surprised to learn things about her dad's financial state that are news to even her mother.
#6 - Rhoda's Wedding
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1974
Complications arise when Rhoda and Joe's plans to have a small wedding is complicated by Ida, who invites all of her friends. Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up. Note: Special one-hour episode featuring wedding guests Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore), Lou Grant (Edward Asner), Murray Slaughter (Gavin MacLeod), Georgette Franklin (Georgia Engel) and Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman).
#7 - Pop Goes the Question
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1974
Joe pops the question, but it's not exactly the one Rhoda wants to hear. Instead of "Will you marry me?" it's "How about living together?"
#8 - Parents' Day
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1974
Rhoda and Joe decide to set aside one day to tackle the generation gap, and schedule lunch with his parents and dinner with hers.
#9 - 'S Wonderful
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1974
Despite Joe and Brenda's insistence that she butt out, Rhoda continues to plunge ahead to prove to her younger sister that her new boyfriend is really a married man.
#10 - Lady's Choice
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1977
Brenda enjoys the luxury of having two boyfriends, Gary and Benny, competing for her attention until they both show up for a date on the same night.
#11 - The Weekend
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1977
Rhoda arranges a weekend alone with Mike.
#12 - Brenda and the Bank Girl
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/12/1978
Brenda is in the final running for the First Security Bank Girl.
#13 - You Can Go Home Again
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1974
Rhoda has difficulty finding an apartment in New York City and finally moves into the one place she never even considered--her parents' apartment.
#14 - Windows by Rhoda
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/10/1975
Distracted by visitors who keep interrupting her work at home, Rhoda opens an office and soon learns about the problems faced by a woman launching her own business.
#15 - Brenda's Unemployment
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1975
That rotten job Brenda felt she held at the bank looks like a rose garden after she quits being a teller and is faced with the thorns of unemployment.
#16 - Meet the Levys
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/15/1976
Gary Levy's parents give Rhoda Gerard the once-over as a prospective daughter-in-law, which she is pretending to be only as a favor for Gary.
#17 - Don't Give Up the Office
Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/1/1976
Rhoda has one little problem with money; she doesn't have any, and it's forcing her window-dressing firm out of business.
#18 - Love Songs of J. Nicholas Lobo
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1975
Against his better judgment, Joe hires Nick, Brenda's obnoxious boyfriend, to become a wrecker at his demolition firm.
#19 - Friends and Mothers
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1975
Rhoda's new, delightful, vivacious middle-aged neighbor becomes a threat to mother Ida.
#20 - Rhoda Questions Her Life and Flies to Paris
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/1976
Rhoda plans a wildly impulsive act to demonstrate to her estranged husband Joe that she's far from being a dull person.
#21 - Happy Anniversary
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/29/1978
With Ida hinting of a party, everyone leads her to believe there won't be one.
#22 - So Long, Lucky
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/2/1978
A string of bizarre mishaps plagues Rhoda.
#23 - Two's Company
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/5/1978
Gary and Benny go into business together, something friends should think twice about.
#24 - As Time Goes By
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/26/1978
With a party to stir up business underway, Rhoda and Jack get locked in a bathroom.
#25 - The Jack Story
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/5/1978
Rhoda's boss asks her to help him out when an old chum comes into the city and wants to get together.
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