# Mary Tyler Moore Hospitalized \[EDIT:  RIP\]

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 25, 2017, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-hospitalized-edit-rip/778175 "2017-01-25T19:33:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-hospitalized-edit-rip/778175/81 "2017-01-27T04:05:15Z")

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> [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](#):
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> I don’t get it. Why was her father taking birth control pills? Was his something else? They didn’t have \*that \*man pill back then.
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> Maybe it was Prozac?

Prozac was still decades in the future. The father probably took blood pressure meds.  
Mary would have been taking The Pill, which was in the news all the time then. The implication that a nice girl like Mary was having sex was a very big deal at the time, a bit shocking for a tv sitcom. Dramas had different standards, and movies were very different.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2017, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-hospitalized-edit-rip/778175/82 "2017-01-27T04:12:00Z")

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Re: posts 78 and 80, I stand multiply corrected, though on the latter I mistakenly thought White’s character started appearing on _MTM_ relatively late in the show’s run, after White’s _Carol Burnett_ appearance (as “Ellen”).

Clearly I need to up my research game.

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**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mary-tyler-moore-hospitalized-edit-rip/778175/83 "2017-01-30T19:32:18Z")

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Interesting: I was just scrolling over 2016–2017 at the Dead People Server and saw that Mary outlived former husband Grant Tinker by almost two months (28 November vs 25 January).

Great website, that one!

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