The BEST episodes of Rhoda season 1
Every episode of Rhoda season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rhoda season 1!
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!
#1 - Rhoda's Wedding (2)
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/28/1974
Rhoda almost doesn't make it to her own wedding when, at the last minute, Phyllis forgets to pick her up.
#2 - Chest Pains
Season 1 - Episode 21 - 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 25 - 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 24 - 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 - A Nice Warm Rut
Season 1 - Episode 23 - 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.
#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.
#7 - Whattaya Think It's There For?
Season 1 - Episode 17 - 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.
#8 - 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?"
#9 - 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.
#10 - 'S Wonderful
Season 1 - Episode 14 - 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.
#11 - Windows by Rhoda
Season 1 - Episode 22 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 9-E is Available
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/11/1974
Rhoda wants a new apartment, especially after an old beau of Joe's lets herself in with a key.
#14 - Joe
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1974
While on vacation in New York, Rhoda meets a man (Joe) and she decides not to return to Minneapolis.
#15 - The Shower
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1974
Unable to think of just the right gift to get Rhoda, Brenda decides to throw a shower for her soon-to-be-wed sister and uses the occasion to stage a small reunion for Rhoda with some of her old high school classmates.
#16 - The Lady in Red
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/7/1974
Rhoda lands a job with a small publishing firm and ends up delivering the eulogy at the funeral of an author whose specialty was X-rated books.
#17 - I'll Be Loving You, Sometimes
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1974
Rhoda's smooth romance with Joe gets a little bumpy when he decides it might be best if the two of them begin dating other people as well as each other.
#18 - The Honeymoon
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/4/1974
Rhoda and Joe's cruise doesn't turn out the way they expected.
#19 - Everything I Have is Yours, Almost
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 1/27/1975
When Rhoda discovers Joe has been visiting a doctor without telling her, she begins to worry, but not as much as when she finds out what kind of doctor he is.
#20 - Not Made for Each Other
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/13/1975
Rhoda's shy, retiring high-school chum, Myrna Morgenstein, shows up unexpectedly to demonstrate her new, Rhoda-like, head-on approach to life, and she begins a tumultuous non-romance with Joe's best friend.
#21 - Anything Wrong?
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/25/1974
Joe goes to his father for marital advise.
#22 - I'm a Little Late, Folks
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/18/1974
Rhoda thinks she may be pregnant, but she isn't sure enough to tell her husband Joe, especially when he comes home with the news that his business is facing economic troubles.
#23 - Good-Bye Charlie
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/9/1974
It's a case of mutual dislike at first sight when Rhoda meets Joe's friend Charlie Burke, a patronizing "man's man" who is not exactly thrilled with his best buddies wife.
#24 - Strained Interlude
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/20/1975
Rhoda and Joe work very hard at being the perfect modern couple, free of all jealousies and hang-ups until a man Rhoda once loved asks her out for dinner.
#25 - Guess What I Got You for the Holidays
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/16/1974
With his business on the verge of failure, Joe becomes ever increasingly worried, resisting Rhoda's advice to free his emotions, even if it means crying.