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* [[Marathon Running]]: Nick@Nite's ''The Mary-thon'', a one season a night week long marathon that introduced the series to the cable network's line-up in 1992.
* [[Reality Subtext]]: One of the episodes from the final season is about Murray's frustration at being the only person in the group who hasn't won a Teddy Award. In real life, Gavin MacLeod was the only major cast member who never won an Emmy (he was never even nominated) and he later admitted his disappointment about this.
* [[Shout-Out]]: In later seasons, the opening credits feature two scenes in which Mary is seen interacting with people connected with the show. The first scene shows Mary walking in the park when two joggers run by her: creators James L. Brooks and Allan Burns. The second scene shows Mary dining at a restaurant with an older man: Moore's then-husband, Grant Tinker, who also served as co-founder and president of the show's production company, MTM Enterprises, and would later become even more well known as "the man who saved [[NBC]]", when he served as the network's chairman and CEO from 1981 to 1986.
** The opening also has a scene of Mary washing her car while donning a Fran Tarkenton (Minnesota Vikings QB) jersey.
** If you look closely at the WJM program grid on the wall of the Station Manager's office, you'll see ''[[My Mother the Car]]'' is shown several times a day. This is an in-joke to the [[Old Shame]] shared between Brooks and Burns.
* [[Spin-Off]]: There were three - ''[[Rhoda]]'', ''Phyllis'' and ''[[Lou Grant]]''.
** And oddly enough, that last one was a ''[[Genre Shift|drama]]'' and it was the most successful one!
* [[Star-Making Role]]: Pretty much everyone in the cast ''other'' than Mary Tyler Moore herself (and perhaps [[Betty White]]) can thank this show for first making them a household name.
* [[Take That]]: The writers would sometimes put in disparaging references to the cheesy late-'60s sitcoms this show was rebelling against, including ''[[Gilligan's Island|Gilligans Island]]'', ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' (re-named [[Expy|"The Clancy Clan"]]) and co-creator Allan Burns's own [[Old Shame]] ''[[My Mother the Car]]''.
* [[Throw It In]]: When Moore filmed her famous hat-tossing scene in downtown Minneapolis, the camera caught an elderly woman scowling at her in the background. The woman was [http://jyanet.com/mtm/020514.shtml a local resident named Hazel Frederick], who happened to be walking down the street after shopping in the area and couldn't understand what this young woman was doing in the middle of a busy intersection. The producers decided the shot was too good not to use, and Frederick's face became an unintentionally iconic part of the show's opening.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Mary was originally going to be divorced, but the writers feared people would think she'd divorced [[The Dick Van Dyke Show|Rob]]. Plus, executives back then didn't think a divorcée protagonist wouldn't appeal to many people.
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