All language subtitles for mary_tyler_moore_s03e03_whos_in_charge_here

Who can turn the world on with her
smile?

Who can take a nothing day and suddenly
make it all seem worthwhile?

Well, it's you, girl, and you should
know it.

With each glance and every little
movement you show it, love is all alone,

need to wait. You can never tell, why
don't you take it? You're gonna

make it after all.

You're gonna make it after...

I have to make a personal call.

What's the matter with the phone in your
dressing room? I think it's tapped.

Who would tap Ted's phone?

Maybe the FBI needs a few laughs.

Mary, you didn't let somebody into my
office, did you?

Mr. Grant, I am the associate producer.

I'm just a little too busy.

If Grant starts shouting at me because I
let Ted in his office, I am going to

just scream.

Don't let him.

Right.

You see the sign on that door? It says
Lou Grant, not rec room. Mr. Grant, I am

the associate producer here. I mean, I
don't mind typing your personal letters

and getting you coffee or straightening
your desk.

But if you want somebody to keep Ted...

Fired?

Worse. I've been promoted.

Promoted? Well, that's wonderful.

To what?

Program manager.

Murphy just quit.

It's a big move up for me and a lot more
money.

Oh, Mr.

Grant, I'm just so very happy for you.

Uh, Mr. Grant, why aren't you happy for
you?

I'd be happy for me with that money.

sure you'd be very good in that job.

Maybe. But up there, I'm really going to
have to work at being good. Yeah, I

think I know what you mean. Down here,
you were good without even working.

At it.

It isn't going to be easy, Mary.

For example, my first job is naming my
replacement here.

Oh, yeah, that's right. The new you.

Well, will it be anybody I know? Well,
sure.

You'll be glad to know that my new
policy as program manager is to...

Promote from within.

Oh, well, Mr. Grant, I just want to say
that I don't want the job.

I didn't offer it to you, Mary.

I'm considering everybody.

Good, good, good, because there are so
many really capable people from, you

know, within who are capable of handling
the job. Like who?

I want you to think that I thought that
you, you know, were in any way

considered.

Nobody is second in command.

Of course, I do seem like the logical
person, don't I? Of course you are. But,

Mary, this isn't just you reaching for
the next plateau. It's us.

Well, what if us does a rotten job and
gets us all fired? Exactly.

Wait, Rhoda, I don't think I'd do a
rotten job and get myself fired. I just

don't know if being the head of a
newsroom is a woman's job.

There you go.

Woman's job, man's job, there's no...
such thing.

Name one job a man can handle that a
woman can't. A female impersonator.

Hopeless.

Rhoda, you think I should go after the
job?

Mary, I think you ought to go after a
handsome, successful guy. Get married,

pregnant, and then blame him when you
don't have a career.

suggested I get it for her for her
birthday.

Fast Wheels Drag Strip for a girl. Girl,
boy, what difference does it make?

Girls are always supposed to get little
girl toys.

Dolls, play stoves, little dishes.

It's all part of the plot to launch them
nicely into their little roles as

housewives. That's where I went wrong.

Yeah, Mia, when I was a kid, we used to
play Mommy and Daddy. I always played

Mommy's...

thing together.

Oh, don't look at me.

I was one of those cute little girls who
always got dolls to play with.

That's right. I admit it.

That's me, victim of the system, Miss
Helpless.

But Mary, you don't have to be. This is
your chance.

Go after that job, Mary. Take the pieces
of your life and put them together.

Phyllis, um, tell me, when she gets her
life together, will she need batteries?

job is going to mean coming in early,
staying late, working straight through

lunch hours, taking care of a million
details, keeping the sponsors happy,

working late. It's exactly what I do
now.

You know, about the job.

My job?

That's the one. Well, you'll be glad to
know that you didn't get it.

You're not glad.

Well, no, it's just, you see, that I
kind of decided that I wanted it after

Oh.

Mr.

Fanta, the fact that I said I didn't
want it influenced your decision?

No.

Why wasn't I a great choice?

Does it have anything to do with my
ability?

No, are you kidding?

It's not because I'm a woman.

114 times, Ted. I kept track.

No kidding?

Why would you want to keep track?

I don't know.

I just thought that maybe someday I
might get to be news director.

Here, let me help you with that.

See, maybe I can take you to lunch
today, Murray.

Say, Murray.

It still says Lou Grant here.

You're going to have to get yourself a
new door.

You sure?

This is a table. Well, Mr. Grant, that's
all we've got.

It's the uncluttered look.

Maybe, but when I dump everything in
here on top of there, it's going to look

cluttered.

Well, I can order another desk for you,
Mr. Grant, with drawers.

No, that's okay.

Well, anyway, you've got lots of cabinet
space.

I'll just put everything away for you.
Almost everything. I like to keep this

close by.

Right here in my...

get you one right away.

Don't want Murray to get mad at me.

Listen,

if you need anything, you know my
extension, right?

You're right.

I'm free.

50.

And that's it.

Oh, good.

That's it?

Oh.

My creative movement class.

We used to finish with things like...

So for that, I...

what you're going to say. So do I.
Goodbye, Mary.

Hey, Rhoda. What?

Where are you going?

Oh, I thought I'd, you know, hang around
the ballerina union hall. See if I can

keep up with you.

How can they do this to us?

Phyllis, I'm the one who didn't get the
job.

But Mary, don't you see that this
affront to you is an affront to all

I know.

you're just going to take this
humiliation. To tell you the truth, I am

delighted that Murray has the job
instead of me. Oh, Mary. I mean it.

Mr. Grant made the whole thing look so
easy.

Poor Murray already. He's overworked and
pressured. The poor man's absolutely

miserable. Yes, and it's always a man
who gets those opportunities.

Phyllis, I don't want the job. Mary, we
have to decide on a course of action for

you. I've got to get through to you.

I'm free.

Hello?

Oh, hi.

Well, it was really wonderful.

No, really, it was a wonderful evening.

Well, listen,

it's kind of hard to talk right now.

Oh, you go right ahead. We can discuss
this later.

I'll put you down for that.

Okay? We'll confirm.

Lunch. That's all I do on this job is go
to lunch.

You know what I have to do when I go on
all these lunches? I have to eat lunch.

What about a drink, Murray?

Thanks, I could use one. What are you
drinking, Mary?

Oh, I'll have a Mai Tai, unless you're
out of gardenias.

Good to see you guys.

Somebody put waste paper in my waste
paper basket.

Oh, I think I know what you mean. I
found that and I put it in the bar.

Oh, good.

Good. Mrs.

Thorne, tomorrow maybe we could move my
desk.

the news itself.

The whole format.

It lacks sparkle.

Sparkle? Lou, it's the same format we
had last week when you were there.

The same one we had for the past eight
years. That's just the point. It still

has my imprint on it. I want to see your
imprint.

Imprint? Yeah, let me show you what I've
been doing here. I don't even know what

my imprint is.

way we beat him to the punch and get a
whole new audience. How does that sound?

Terrific. That way we can all get home
an hour earlier.

You know, my wife was always
complaining... Mr. Grant, it's so great

How come nobody ever thought of it
before? Somebody did.

Oh, who?

Me.

But that's when I was down there and
couldn't do anything about it.

Now, I'm up here.

And I can do something.

He has lots of ideas. Great, great
ideas. In fact, we were talking about

just today.

Like what?

You know.

Which one?

Well, any one. They're all good.

Oh, well, here's one that we sort of
like.

Now, look, the news is really like a
newspaper, you know. I mean, you got the

hard news, you got sports and features.

But the one thing we don't...

That wasn't the good one that I was
thinking about.

What one was it?

You know.

No, I don't know, Mary.

Mary, the film clips?

The rear projection?

Oh, no, I didn't like that one. Mary,
you did. You loved it. No, I didn't like

it. Mary, don't you remember both of
them? Mary, I said I didn't like that

Now, look, Lou, here's something just
off the top of my head.

Now, I heard about this new show they
have in L .A.

where the anchorman works in front of a
large...

Near the end of the show, they could ask
Ted questions, and he could... Forget

it, Lou. It's a lousy idea.

Murray, you misunderstood me.

I didn't mean you had to leave your
imprint right...

I'm sorry. I forgot. I've got this
important meeting.

Oh, that's all right.

Mary!

want me to sit behind my desk and look
like a program manager.

Take the money and smile.

That's not me, Mary.

No, sir, it certainly isn't. I don't
mind taking the money, but that smiling

killing me.

I had to smile through everything.

Remember that meeting with Chuckles the
Clown the other day? Yes.

We were smiling at each other all the
way through it.

Then I realized that his smile...

to do something up there. What's that?

I got him to fire me.

Terrific. Then I got him to give me my
old job back.

Terrific.

I think you're the best program manager
the station ever had.

They'll never see my like again.

Grant, I made you a nice fresh cup of
coffee, and can I get your signatures

there? Thanks, Mary.

You know, I like what that job up there
could have been, but I miss being down

here. I missed your coffee. I missed the
pressure and the deadlines. I

especially missed my lower drawer.

Murr, you're Lou.

What are you doing in Murr's office,
Lou?