Every so often during the six season run of "Maude", there would be an episode that focused on only a few of the characters with the others conspicuously absent from the action. This is the first in the series, taking Maude and Walter out of town to a convention, and staying in a rather tacky motor lodge that has a magic fingers machine on each bed and walls seemingly as thin as cardboard. Maude and Walter fight throughout over her role as "the little woman", and she continuously expresses her desire to be just more than a housewife, mother and grandmother. Walter reminds her of her busy social life which she claims is still meaningless without a career, and this shows the changing world of women in society in the early 1970's. There are several off stage shouts for them to shut up so at the end when the unseen proprietors want to take their picture, it seems like they will be added to a wall of "do not allow these people to check in" rather than "they are an actual married couple" which Walter and Maude are told. It really gives great detail into their inner personalities, show how loving couples can fight bitterly and make up in ways that strengthen the marriage simply because how much they love each other. I'm sure many married couples related to this experience which makes "Maude" truly one of the most ground breaking sitcoms in history.
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It's Maude and Walter only for one of the series special episodes that is very character revealing.
mark.waltz21 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Maude And Walter Argue About Women's Lib
Jimmy_the_Gent427 May 2019
Maude comes with Walter to one of his appliance conventions and she talks about not being something other than his wife.
An amusing episode, it all takes place in a sleazy motel room. It starts off with some good jokes about motel called John Smith, Walter says it must have been named after most of the customers. Maude has to wear a name tag saying "Hello My Name Is Mrs Walter Findlay". When she leaves the room she says it like a robot. Some funny back and forth quips between the two, and we never see the convention, just the two describing it when they return.
An amusing episode, it all takes place in a sleazy motel room. It starts off with some good jokes about motel called John Smith, Walter says it must have been named after most of the customers. Maude has to wear a name tag saying "Hello My Name Is Mrs Walter Findlay". When she leaves the room she says it like a robot. Some funny back and forth quips between the two, and we never see the convention, just the two describing it when they return.
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