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1. Most MTM fans know that Mary Richards left her small Minnesota hometown to start a new life in the big city of Minneapolis. But where did the less emancipated Laura Petrie spend her formative years?
2. When Mary Richards moved to Minneapolis, she was recently divorced, having just ended an unfulfilling ten year marriage to her high school sweetheart.
3. Mary Richards and Laura Petrie had something in common besides the fact that they were both played by Mary Tyler Moore: a great ensemble cast to back them up. Which of these character names was not associated with either show?
4. Rob Petrie's meglomaniacal boss, Alan Brady, once grudgingly admitted that Laura had spunk after she burst into his office and reprimanded him for taking credit for writing one of Rob's best comedy routines.
5. Both Laura and Mary briefly entertained the dream of becoming a writer. Although neither of them was ever successful in achieving that dream, it was for very different reasons. Was it Laura or Mary who gave up on writing after finding herself the victim of a lecherous writing instructor?
6. Laura Petrie had a bad habit that Mary Tyler Moore actually shared at the time in which she was portraying the character. What was it?
7. Both Laura and Mary had a wisecracking best friend. In Mary's case, it was upstairs neighbor and aspiring interior decorator, Rhoda Morgenstern. Laura's smart alec sidekick was next door neighbor and housewife, Millie Helper. Which of these "best friends" once ate a piece of chocolate and then famously exclaimed, "I don't know why I'm eating it. I should just apply it directly to my hips!"
8. Was it Laura or Mary who once posed fully-clothed for a portrait intended as a gift, only to be mortified by the discovery that the artist had painted her in the nude?
9. Home cooking, dinner parties, and references to food were a staple of both "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", but was it Laura or Mary's kitchen in which the decor included a prominently placed, bright orange cookie jar shaped like a pumpkin?
10. Only once during the course of either show did one of the two characters admit that they belonged to a specific religion. Was it Laura or Mary who identified herself as a Presbyterian?
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