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Mary Jane & Vanda: The Spinoff (Episode Guide)


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2.15 Mary Jane Meets Elizabeth Montgomery

 

Actress Elizabeth Montgomery comes to Mary Jane’s charm school armed with a theory and a proposal. The star is preparing for the most challenging role of her career thus far, Lizzie Borden in The Legend of Lizzie Borden. The only problem is, she worries that audiences might not accept “Samantha Stevens” playing such a reviled character as Lizzie. Her theory and plan for Mary Jane is as follows. She has been following the development of the charm school in the papers for some time know and thinks that if Mary Jane puts her through her charm paces – but in reverse, she will be able to be as uncharming as possible in the upcoming productions. Mary Jane is intrigued by her proposal and decides to give it a whirl, but in no time at all her reverse methods are working too well and both are becoming so miserable and vile to each other that nobody is achieving their goals. It is up to Vanda – armed with a chair and a whip – to stage an intervention and get the ladies back on track.

 

Special Guest Star: Elizabeth Montgomery

 

2.16 Mary Jane’s Big Break

 

After their weeks of working together and helping mould Liz into Lizzie, Miss Montgomery thinks Mary Jane would be the ideal unknown to co-star with her as her sister Emma. But when Vanda accompanies Mary Jane to her audition for moral support – after all, Dainty Jane hasn’t been before motion picture cameras since 1927 – producers think Ms. Barra would be a better fit for Lizzie’s overbearing elder sister.

 

Special Guest Star: Elizabeth Montgomery

 

2.17 Didn’t You Used To Be In Pictures?

 

With both ladies ultimately losing the plum role of Emma to Katherine Helmond while they’re cast as non-speaking townspeople from Fall River, Mary Jane and Vanda use every trick of their disposal to show up Katherine’s performance at every opportunity. Meanwhile, back at the Charm School and Restaurant, the new manager they have hired to oversee both operations while they make their motion picture, is wreaking havoc on both Sam and Students.

 

Special Guest Stars: Elizabeth Montgomery (Herself), Katherine Helmond (Herself), Nancy Kulp (Office Manager Jane Hathaway)

 

2.18 Vanda’s New Boyfriend

 

At the wrap party for Lizzie Borden, Vanda thinks she has found true love after meeting a comedy writer. They suit each other to a T, but their relationship hits a bump in the road when she heads over to the comedy club and hears one of his young protégés re-telling a traumatic story from Vanda’s childhood she told her new boyfriend in the strictest confidence.

 

Guest Star: Morey Amsterdam (boyfriend), David Letterman (Protégé)

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2.19 – Goat Curry for the Soul

 

A beautiful, exotic widow (Merle Oberon) arrives in Los Angeles and sets up an Asian fusion restaurant across the street from Sam’s Cafe. The novelty of the new Indian restaurant attracts all of Vanda and Sam’s customers. At a loss of what to do, Vanda decides to fight fire with fire and bring in her mother (Butterfly McQueen) to help her transform the cafe into a soul food Mecca.

 

Special Guest Stars: Merle Oberon (Poonam), Butterfly McQueen (Mrs. Barra)

 

2.20 – Sari, Wrong Number

 

When Poonam and Sam take their unusual flirtation to the next level, Vanda and Mary Jane suspect she has ulterior motives and wants a cut of their once again popular restaurant. Meanwhile, Mrs. Barra decides the only thing to give their place a little extra pep is to get a celebrity endorsement, so she looks up her old vaudeville partner.

 

Special Guest Stars: Merle Oberon (Poonam), Butterfly McQueen (Mrs. Barra), Eddie “Rochester” Anderson (Himself)

 

2.21 – The Morgenstern Project

 

On yet another start on their cross-country trip, Ida and Martin Morgenstern drop in on her brother Sam, and Ida makes it her mission to reconcile her brother with Vanda by any means possible and devises a series of wacky schemes to throw them together. Sensing Vanda and Sam are becoming frustrated, Mary Jane comes up with a plan of her own. The only solution to the problem and get Ida back on track to New York, she concludes, is to take her on as a pet project and put her through outrageous charm courses in order to smooth out her rough edges.

 

Special Guest Stars: Nancy Walker (Ida), Harold Gould (Martin)

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2.22 - Mamma Mia Dearest

 

Viv comes to Mary Jane in a state of panic. Her highly critical mother is coming to visit and Viv is desperate to try to make a good impression for once. So Mary Jane puts Viv through the paces, making her into as cultured and refined a lady as possible in just a few days. Well, when Mrs. Crysilda Jones arrives she sees right through Viv's charade and demands to know who did this. Mrs. Jones barges in to the charm school and starts berating Mary Jane for the awful advice she gave her daughter, and proceeds to show Mary Jane exactly what she thinks a charm school SHOULD teach. However, it isn't Mary Jane she's berating...it's Vanda, who's holding down the fort while Mary Jane runs some errands. And nobody talks to Ms. Barra like that and gets away with it!

 

Guest Stars: Vivian Vance and Frances Bavier

 

2.23 - One Flew Over the Teacups (part 1)

 

In the first of the 2-part season finale, Mary Jane and Vanda decide to plan a dinner party, and talk Sam into closing the restaurant for an evening so it can host the private affair. Everything starts out okay, but soon the girls start disagreeing over everything from the menu (Vanda wants chicken, Mary Jane wants fish) to the guest list (Vanda wants Harry to attend, but Mary Jane would rather have Viv come and doesn't think Harry and Viv should be in the same room after their breakup), and so on and so forth. Pretty soon things come to blows and they soon hate everything about each other and never want to be in each other's company again. Later that night, both ladies are devastated over letting their emotions get the better of them, and turn to their friends (Vanda to Harry, Mary Jane to Viv) for comfort. However, when they recount their version of the event (rashomon style) to their respective friend, pretty soon each believes it was the other's fault and they're once again mad at each other. Harry secretly meets with Viv the next day to discuss how to get the girls back on friendly terms again, as he's at a loss. Viv, remembering a play she saw in New York many years ago and coming up with a variation on its theme, suggests something very drastic...and soon both Mary Jane and Vanda are told that the other one is dying.

 

2.24 - One Flew Over the Teacups (part 2)

 

Mary Jane and Vanda, each thinking the other is dying, immediately put their fight in perspective and feel just awful about what happened, and both forgive each other immediately. Neither one of them lets on that she knows the other is "dying", however, so instead both women compensate by being as sweet and loving to each other as possible. Harry and Viv are delighted that it worked, and are just about to spring the good news that both women will live, when suddenly they find out that Vanda has started planning Mary Jane's funeral and vice versa! Horrified that things have gotten so out of hand, Harry and Viv set out to rectify the situation but it's too late. Soon both funerals are well under way, with neither Mary Jane or Vanda knowing anything about what the other is doing, until finally both women wind up at the funeral parlour at the same time to pick out each other's caskets. Everything comes out in the open and everybody has a good laugh about it...until Vanda questions the casket Mary Jane was going to select for her. Then Mary Jane thinks Vanda had a lot of nerve for wanting to stick her in such a cheap box, and soon both women are at it again, each one furious as to how the other was going to handle her funeral!

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Aww, thanks!

 

SEASON 3:

 

3.1 - Help! We've Fallen and We Can't Get Up!

 

Mary Jane and Vanda are getting ready to go to work in the morning but are running a little late. Vanda has a date at the beach the next day and is trying on her one-piece and inflatable giraffe to see if her roly-polys have helped her take off enough weight to fit into them again, when she falls through a hole in the kitchen floor and gets stuck...with only the inflatable giraffe around her waist preventing her from going all the way through. Mary Jane, washing her hair at the kitchen sink when it happens, jerks her head around sharply and wedges it firmly under the faucet and is unable to remove it. The rest of the episode chronicles their attempts to free themselves and the witty comedic banter that flies between them until Harry Carter shows up to help them in the end.

 

3.2 - Travels With Cynthia

 

Roommate Cynthia invites Mary Jane and Vanda on a weekend getaway to her vacation house at Lake Arrowhead. However, since they're taking the journey in the My Sin contest car, each lady insists on driving, as it was never properly settled who had full ownership. Mary Jane ultimately wins the coin toss and leads them out of Los Angeles. Vanda is so busy sulking in the back seat, however, that a frustrated Mary Jane pulls over about 30 minutes outside of LA and lets Vanda take the wheel. Unfortunately, Vanda never learned how to drive a stick, and it isn't long before she grinds the gears into pulp, leaving them stranded. All three of them try showing a little leg to passing cars but none of them pull over, leading them to resort to more and more outlandish tricks to get a car to stop and help them, with Mary Jane and Cynthia quietly suggesting that Vanda should volunteer to throw herself into the street as it was all her fault. Well, one good shove later and out Vanda goes, right onto the hood of Sam's car! Vanda's so happy to see Sam that she agrees to be his date for the weekend, and the two of them leave Mary Jane and Cynthia in the dust to fend for themselves. Now both women are launching on every car that passes hoping the same will happen to them!

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3.3 The Galloping Ghost Writer

 

The Los Angeles Herald Times Tribune writes a wonderful review of Viv’s restaurant, with special reference to her coffee. When Vanda opens the paper that afternoon, she senses a threat and immediately fires off a highly caustic missive to the editor of the paper. Thinking twice before dropping it in the mailbox, she scratches out her name – customers could, after all, think this is just sour grapes – and signs Mary Jane’s name to it instead. The next day people are thrilled at the refreshing letter and how “Mary Jane” is saying what everybody thinks, the letter is an immediate hit and the editor decides to capitalize on it by offering her a regular restaurant review column. Not wanting to give the game away for Vanda, Mary Jane agrees with the provision Vanda is her ghost writer. Things work out well for everyone. Vanda is getting to vent and Mary Jane is enjoying her increased profile and the free meals to boot! Things get complicated, however, when she’s asked to give a no-holds-barred review of Sam’s Cafe.

 

Guest Star: Charles Lane (Editor)

 

3.4 Sam’s Investment

 

The Girls are dismayed when Sam signs a hefty agreement with Billy Carter as a publicity stunt, taking on Billy Bear as the exclusive beer supplier of Sam’s Cafe. After the president’s haphazard brother hits a diplomatic SNAFU in Libya, Sam has second thoughts about the contract and thinks it might be detrimental to business. Billy’s no fool, however, and the agreement is ironclad. It is up to Mary Jane and Vanda to use their womanly whiles to butter Billy up.

 

Guest Star: Rich Little (as Billy Carter)

 

3.5 Mary Jane Meets Eve Plumb

 

Finally able to break free from her sitcom mold as Florence Henderson and crew forge ahead with the Brady Bunch Variety Hour saddled with Fake Jan, Eve Plumb’s agent hires Mary Jane to give his client a more adult and sophisticated persona. Vanda, however, is a rabid fan of Sherwood Schwarz and his programs, and is outraged Sid and Marty Kroft had the gall to proceed without Real Jan and she conspires to thwart Mary Jane’s plans at every opportunity in the hopes Eve will miss her signature role.

 

Guest Stars: Eve Plumb (Herself), Gary Morton (agent)

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3.6 Life Without Lionel

 

It’s November Sweeps and Lucille Ball Productions pulls out all the stops. When Harry compliments the girls on how far they have grown with their business ventures by taking them with him on a ski trip, they reminisce in the car on the way to Snowmass on how they all met with Lucy Carter coming to work at the employment agency still a grieving widow trying to make her way in the world and fellow office-building mates Mary Jane and Vanda help get her into the life of a swinging single against the wishes of Harry’s morning secretary Miss Singleton – working on Harry’s behalf – who has explicit instructions to keep his sister in law on the straight and narrow.

 

Guest Stars: Lucille Ball (Lucy Carter), Gale Gordon (Harry Carter), Doris Singleton (Miss Singleton)

 

3.7 – A Pasadena-ian in Colorado

 

On arrival at Snowmass, Harry is dismayed to find his former potential business partner, the Laura Trenton (of the Pasadena Trentons) romancing his former colleague and now arch rival, the very youthful Rudolph Springer III, in the ski lodge. Thinking Harry is still pining for his old love, they call Kim in an emergency to come and break them up.

 

Guest Stars: Lucie Arnaz (Kim Carter), Tony Randall (Rudolph Springer III), Jayne Meadows (the Laura Trenton)

 

3.8 – Meet Millie

 

In this very special episode of “Mary Jane and Vanda”, we have a heartwarming Christmas episode (and a cross-promotion for the upcoming CBS On The Air). Mary Jane’s niece Millie Jo comes to her with a dilemma. Millie Jo lives with Down syndrome and she has developed a crush on another boy with the same condition in her group, but he won’t give her a tumble. Determined to snag him for a date for their Christmas party, she decides to take action. With her autographed photo of Eva Gabor in hand, she asks her aunt to use her methods to turn her into a glamour queen in order to land her man. A worried Mary Jane contacts her friend Eddie Albert to contact Eva Gabor and the two ladies teach Millie Jo of the importance of being herself.

 

Guest Stars: Eva Gabor (herself), Eddie Albert (herself)

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Awww, 3.8 is very sweet. I forget we're moving into the age of special episodes and more mature themes. Good time to shake things up!

 

3.9 - Like Brother, Like Sister

 

Vanda's eccentric brother Terrence comes to visit from San Fransisco, bringing along his "special friend" Chad. Vanda has always loved her brother for exactly who he is and the two hit it off again immediately, and she adores Chad. Mary Jane's experience with "those kind of people" is very limited, but she decides she has no issue and likes the two men a lot. Deciding they rather likes Los Angeles, Terry and Chad visit the Unique Employment Agency to try and find a job, thinking "odd jobs for odd people" are right up their alley. Straight-as-an-arrow Harry, however, finds the two men off-putting (regardless that his business caters to those with particular flairs just like them) and turns them away. Vanda is furious and tries to organize the rest of the office in a protest against Harry's backwards business policies. Even though only Carol Krausmeyer and Mary turn up, the commotion is enough to land the protest on the evening news. Next morning, Vanda and Mary Jane find themselves the new faces of the LA gay rights movement, and Terry and Chad couldn't be more thrilled.

 

Guest Starring: Paul Lynde (Terry), Richard Chamberlain (Chad), Mary Wickes (Mary), Carol Burnett (Krausmeyer), Anthony George (reporter)

 

Terry: Mr. Carter I presume?

Harry: Yes, I'm Harrison Otis Carter.

Terry: And this is the Unique Employment Agency?

Harry: Yes, we find odd jobs for odd people.

Terry: Odd jobs? (double checks newspaper ad and looks at Chad)...I thought it said hand jobs! (the two men dissolve in laughter).

Harry: Oh GAD!

 

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Awww, 3.8 is very sweet. I forget we're moving into the age of special episodes and more mature themes. Good time to shake things up!

 

3.9 - Like Brother, Like Sister

 

Vanda's eccentric brother Terrence comes to visit from San Fransisco, bringing along his "special friend" Chad. Vanda has always loved her brother for exactly who he is and the two hit it off again immediately, and she adores Chad. Mary Jane's experience with "those kind of people" is very limited, but she decides she has no issue and likes the two men a lot. Deciding they rather likes Los Angeles, Terry and Chad visit the Unique Employment Agency to try and find a job, thinking "odd jobs for odd people" are right up their alley. Straight-as-an-arrow Harry, however, finds the two men off-putting (regardless that his business caters to those with particular flairs just like them) and turns them away. Vanda is furious and tries to organize the rest of the office in a protest against Harry's backwards business policies. Even though only Carol Krausmeyer and Mary turn up, the commotion is enough to land the protest on the evening news. Next morning, Vanda and Mary Jane find themselves the new faces of the LA gay rights movement, and Terry and Chad couldn't be more thrilled.

 

Guest Starring: Paul Lynde (Terry), Richard Chamberlain (Chad), Mary Wickes (Mary), Carol Burnett (Krausmeyer), Anthony George (reporter)

 

Terry: Mr. Carter I presume?

Harry: Yes, I'm Harrison Otis Carter.

Terry: And this is the Unique Employment Agency?

Harry: Yes, we find odd jobs for odd people.

Terry: Odd jobs? (double checks newspaper ad and looks at Chad)...I thought it said hand jobs! (the two men dissolve in laughter).

Harry: Oh GAD!

 

:gale2:

Richard Chamberlain and Paul Lynde: INSPIRED casting! :lol:

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3.10 – Playing it the Hard Way

 

After losing a substantial amount of money in a fruit machine, a sheepish Harry asks Mary Jane and Vanda to lend him just enough money to make his month’s rent with the promise to pay it back the next month with interest. A few hems and a haw later, they agree and a relieved Harry goes on his way. Considering the matter over a late night around the kitchen table with a Chantilly cream cake, Cynthia suggests Harry just might have a gambling problem and Mary Jane and Vanda decide to stage an intervention. They reconsider their plans, however, when on an afternoon stroll they spy Harry through a shop window being fitted for a very expensive looking suit and demand answers.

 

Guest Stars: Gale Gorton (Harry Carter), Parley Baer (Dr. Cunningham)

 

3.11 – Lucy’s Tell All

 

Kim gets back from New York after an extended visit with her mother. On her return, she heads over to Sam’s Cafe to fill the gang in on what’s going on in Lucy’s life. After regaling them with stories of her latest ad campaigns and a particularly wild night at Studio 54 with Liza Minnelli, Halston, and Ernest Borgnine, she accidently lets slip the one detail Lucy swore her to secrecy – Lucy just inked a five figure book deal to write her memoirs charting her meteoric rise from humble widow-cum-secretary to Madison Avenue power player. They’re happy for Lucy but by the next day, Mary Jane, Vanda and Harry are worried and decide to pool their resources to fly to New York to secretly oversee Lucy’s memoirs to make sure they’re portrayed in the best light possible. All without Lucy knowing that is the real objective of their trip. And even to the detriment of each other!

 

Guest Stars: Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon

 

3.12 – Mary Jane, the Muse

 

Celebrating the success of the manuscript and the eventually constructive criticism they were able to provide, Lucy takes Mary Jane and Vanda out on the Town for some New York haute cuisine. Famished after a day of sightseeing, Mary Jane orders a nice, thick, juicy steak. When only one bite-size morsel of steak arrives in a sea of jus foam, Mary Jane exclaims to the waiter, ‘Where’s the beef?!’ The girls have a good laugh about it and head out to have an actual meal as a chaser. The next day when pitching ideas to Dave Thomas, Lucy laughingly recounts the previous evening inadvertently leaving out Mary Jane and Vanda...and inadvertently gives him his new ad campaign. How does Lucy explain to Mary Jane she actually stole her idea, and how does she keep her boss from finding out her brilliant brainwave actually came from a chipmunk?

 

Guest Star: Lucille Ball

 

3.13 – Lured

 

When Vanda locks up the restaurant after another late-night cafe, she steps out into the moonlight to see a big time heist unfold and makes eye-contact with one of the crooks. Police are all over the morning shows the next day appealing for witnesses and after some hesitation her morality gets the better of her and she tells them everything she knows, including the fact the crooks saw her. The police team her with a grizzly independent detective for a stakeout hoping the criminals would recognize her so the good guys can make a move. When the opportunity strikes, however, Vanda and the detective are caught in a passionate embrace and miss their chance.

 

Guest Star: Buddy Ebsen (Barnaby Jones)

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3.15 – Mary Jane meets the Undercover Woman

 

Tired of the lumbering ways of her stunt man Hugo, television’s Joyce Whitman, star of Undercover Woman, makes Mary Jane an interesting proposal – help transform him into someone who – despite his size – can walk and move like Joyce. Who better to teach Hugo to walk like a glamour girl such as Joyce than Harrison Carter? Meanwhile, Vanda takes Joyce’s best friend Mitzi under her wing to try and instill some confidence in the soft-spoken girl but Joyce’s director ex-husband has other ideas for Vanda.

 

Guest Stars: Betty White (Joyce Whitman), Gale Gordon (Harry), Georgia Engel (Mitzi Maloney), Charles Cyphers (Hugo), John Hillerman (John)

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How could YOU know so MUCH about 1977's ill-fated "Betty White Show"??

Those who did not see it may wonder how it could miss: Betty fresh off her success in the MTM show with Georgia Engel in tow, the coveted Monday night at 9 time-slot, an interesting premise: Betty as the Angie Dickenson-like star of a "Policewoman"-like show.....

Several factors killed the show:

MTM which had had most of its product embraced by public and critics only a couple years earlier suddenly and inexplicably fell out of favor between the 75-76 and 76-77 seasons. Contrary to the public perception that MTM "quit while it was still a winner", the seasonaverage ratings had dipped to 37th place (or close to it), when there were only about 65 shows on all three networks. All of a sudden, the public wanted the likes of "Happy Days" "Laverne and Shirley" "Charley's Angels" and "Three's Company"---all on ABC, the executives of which must have been pinching themselves about their good (and undeserved, IMO) fortune.

MTM picked this show to jump on the videotaping sitcoms bandwagon and this was its fatal flaw. It had the look of a CBurnett sketch, so the goings on were completely unbelievable.

I can't really discuss the merits of the show...I only saw one and barely remember whether it was funny ornot. But having a lead character with a snarky disposition is a very dicey thing for a sitcom. We want loveable and warm, the snarkiness can be provided by supporting cast. I can' t think of another TV series lead character that was able to provide both....except, oh...LUCY who could be loveable and endearing one moment and the next: "petty, childish, rude, vain, stubborn....irritating, headstrong, obnoxious..

 

And ANOTHER side story: I participated in a focus group looking at TV pilots. We were given no intro to these shows and this was one. "The Betty White Show" started out with Betty as her Policewoman character in an episode of that show, crouched behind her police car shooting a gun, and I remember thinking: they're casting Betty White in THIS?? Then the camera pulled back to reveal that this is the TV series Betty is starring in as part of the premise.

 

3.15 – Mary Jane meets the Undercover Woman

 

Tired of the lumbering ways of her stunt man Hugo, television’s Joyce Whitman, star of Undercover Woman, makes Mary Jane an interesting proposal – help transform him into someone who – despite his size – can walk and move like Joyce. Who better to teach Hugo to walk like a glamour girl such as Joyce than Harrison Carter? Meanwhile, Vanda takes Joyce’s best friend Mitzi under her wing to try and instill some confidence in the soft-spoken girl but Joyce’s director ex-husband has other ideas for Vanda.

 

Guest Stars: Betty White (Joyce Whitman), Gale Gordon (Harry), Georgia Engel (Mitzi Maloney), Charles Cyphers (Hugo), John Hillerman (John)

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3.16 - The Fight Clubs

 

Terry and Chad have a fight and walk out on each other. Terry turns to his sister while Chad cries on Mary Jane's shoulder. They each offer their side of the story to their respective female friend, then Mary Jane and Vanda come together to try and figure out how to get them back together. Unfortunately, Vanda has taken Terry's side while Mary Jane has taken Chad's side, and the two of them become convinced that the other one is wrong. Then Terry and Chad make up and have to figure out how to get Vanda and Mary Jane on good terms again. They succeed, but then start fighting again! Will the cycle ever end?

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3.17 - Vanda's Lava Lamps

 

Mary Jane is impressed with Vanda's lava lamp and asks where she got it. To her surprise, she learns that Vanda made it herself. She agrees to teach Mary Jane and soon Mary Jane has her own hand-made lava lamp. Harry Carter is also impressed and Vanda makes one for him for a small price. Then he orders another, then another, and another, all for a very reasonable price. Vanda grows suspicious and soon learns that Harry's selling them behind her back for outrageous prices. When he orders more, she doctors them up to make them dangerous. Suddenly Harry has to refund every single purchase AND pay Vanda off for the money he giped her. Another scheme down the drain...

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3.18 - Belle of the Brawl

 

Mary Jane and Vanda have both scored dates with eligible bachelors for the annual Country Club Cotillion. However, both men discover the Cotillion is the same night as a lady wrestler competition they'd agreed to judge and have to back out. Not wanting the other to find out her date cancelled, Mary Jane and Vanda each set up an elaborate decoy plan at the dance involving department store dummies and frequent trips to the restroom. They keep it up for a while but eventually both admit what really happened. Deciding they really want to spend an evening with their dates as planned, they do the only thing possible and enter the lady wrestling competition: Mary the Mutilator vs. Vanda the Vamp!

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Love these! I wonder what Vanda would think!!

 

3.18 - Belle of the Brawl

 

Mary Jane and Vanda have both scored dates with eligible bachelors for the annual Country Club Cotillion. However, both men discover the Cotillion is the same night as a lady wrestler competition they'd agreed to judge and have to back out. Not wanting the other to find out her date cancelled, Mary Jane and Vanda each set up an elaborate decoy plan at the dance involving department store dummies and frequent trips to the restroom. They keep it up for a while but eventually both admit what really happened. Deciding they really want to spend an evening with their dates as planned, they do the only thing possible and enter the lady wrestling competition: Mary the Mutilator vs. Vanda the Vamp!

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"Vanda Barra and the Holy Grail"

When Vanda gets a spiritual calling to forge a quest to find the Holy Grail, she drags Mary Jane along even though clueless MJ asks "Is one missing?" In a dream sequence, Mary Jane conjures up their most likely first obstacle: The Knights Who Screech 'Chocolate Chip'!!

Knights: Cliff Norton, , Irwin Charone, John McLaren ,William Lanteau

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3.20 - Things That Go Bumpity-Bump In the Night

 

Vanda's been sleepwalking and doing bumpity bumps down all her stairs each night. Despite her poor diet as of late, her derriere is in the best shape it's ever been in. Mary Jane wants to know what Vanda's secret is, so Vanda tells her everything she's been eating lately. When Mary Jane's rear end blows up like a balloon, she threatens to sue Vanda for intentionally misleading her, unit she witnesses Vanda's sleepwalking first hand and all becomes clear.

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3.21 - Happy Birthday Vanda

 

After a long, grueling week at the restaurant, Vanda wants nothing more than to kick back and relax for the weekend. However, her restful Saturday is constantly interrupted by Mary Jane, who keeps hounding her to come out to dinner that night. Vanda declines. Then, Harry starts pestering her to do the same thing. Vanda again declines, only to be hounded by Carol not long after. At the end of the day, and without a moment's rest, everyone in town seems to have knocked on her door with a dinner invitation. Fed up and exhausted, she reluctantly agrees. When she arrives at the restaurant, she is greeted by all her friends holding a giant HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANDA! banner. Her brother, Terry, Chad and even Lucy have all flown in for the occasion. Vanda, who had completely forgotten her birthday, is so touched she forgets all about her exhaustion, and proceeds to have a wonderful evening with all her nearest and dearest who care for her so much.

 

(In fond memory of Vanda Barra)

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3.21 - Happy Birthday Vanda

 

After a long, grueling week at the restaurant, Vanda wants nothing more than to kick back and relax for the weekend. However, her restful Saturday is constantly interrupted by Mary Jane, who keeps hounding her to come out to dinner that night. Vanda declines. Then, Harry starts pestering her to do the same thing. Vanda again declines, only to be hounded by Carol not long after. At the end of the day, and without a moment's rest, everyone in town seems to have knocked on her door with a dinner invitation. Fed up and exhausted, she reluctantly agrees. When she arrives at the restaurant, she is greeted by all her friends holding a giant HAPPY BIRTHDAY VANDA! banner. Her brother, Terry, Chad and even Lucy have all flown in for the occasion. Vanda, who had completely forgotten her birthday, is so touched she forgets all about her exhaustion, and proceeds to have a wonderful evening with all her nearest and dearest who care for her so much.

 

(In fond memory of Vanda Barra)

 

Love it!

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