I've loved this show during its' original run. I even have an autographed Valerie Bertinelli photo....but man...imagine if this ran today? Twitter would be in flames!!
This episode bothered me. Cause they made the main character on the show. A bad person. It was better to have a certain man come on the show play the part after he is told off. He leaves the show
“We don’t encourage personel phone calls in this office”, right after her two daughters came to visit. The visit took well over 2 minutes, the phone call, about 10 seconds.
@s0urpatchkiddo… I thought so too. Here was Ann, a young, single, divorced mother of two, and usually acted like a professional in workplace, acting like THIS. This episode was stupid, unbelievable, and ridiculous.
Bonnie Franklin was a real ham. Pat used to say she would come in “ Hunting Bear” over the dialogue in the script every single morning before the other actors came in and would tweak and argue over her lines AND their lines.
You forget things over the years, but boy when she slipped that kiss in and kept on a going about the slogan it got a good ole belly laugh outta me like watching it for the first time.
Ann As The Ol Saying Goes Dont Dip Your Pin In The Company Ink and dont take a swim in the company pool! By far Max was the handsomest one on the show! Julie lucked out! I could see it if John Stamos was the Secretary ! I would have been chewing my teeth down to the numb!
Wow. Ann was so out of line. I liked what he told her. The tables were turned. She so deserved it. She tried to seduce him! She got jealous when I got that phone call.
And she knew he had a date on Saturday night. So she strongly suggested that he come over her apartment to work on an assignment that wasn't due for two weeks.
I’ve forgotten a lot of these episodes so I don’t recall this one. But I just watched the first 2 seasons of ODAAT on IMDb. Ann had experienced something similar during an earlier episode while interviewing for a job when her potential boss came to her apartment on a Friday night with a bottle of wine to “discuss the position” (which she alluded to in this episode), and she said no to his advances as she didn’t want to use sex to get the job but wanted to be hired her potential and abilities. Of course she wasn’t hired. Ann was a strong 70s liberal feminist in those earlier episodes, so it was kinda surprising to see her behave like this here (and to go from being an assistant to ad exec w/in 3 years [and that was the first job she ever had as she was a housewife for 17 years before her divorce]. Well it’s TV 😁 and I digress). But I guess this was a cautionary tale - for that time - that anyone can fall into falsely believing that women could not sexually harass men - as she discovered at the very end - and that unchecked power can corrupt someone in situations like this where a boss uses an attraction to an employee to take advantage of them. Probably one difference here is that Ann finally got it (tho it took her way longer than I would have liked) and didn’t repeat this behavior. But it was kinda hard to see this character be this lecherous and obtuse - even the audience groaned - about her behavior to begin with.
Wasn't this show late 70s? Inflation was starting to build. When Reagan was in office in 1981, I believe mortgages were double digit interest, so impossible for most. Plus Reagan was destabilizing unions and cutting most of the public sector, except defense, so jobs were difficult as well. The only solution he had was "trickle down economics", and we know what a mess that was. The economy was a mess during both Reagan and Bush Sr. That's why Clinton won in 1992 with "It's the economy, stupid "
Mortgage rates were very high during the Reagan years, double digit. Isn't this show late 70s? So those market factors were building, and trickle down economics made it worse when Reagan arrives in 1981.
Do you have any of the ‘Happy New Year’ episodes taped?? The ones where the family all goes to put on a show at the retirement home in NYE … they were my favorite shows of my favorite series. It’s the sweetest and most fun thing .. and the fact that they went back and did it three times - all NY Eves. I’d give a lot to see those shows again.
Years later they did a similar situation in Friends where Rachel hired a male aide and wound up having an affair with him as well. Talk about inappropriate, but because she's a woman it was ok. 🙄
But how many women who were just starting to build the law around sexual harassment were laughed at by their supervisors and co workers when they tried to report their abusers? I think that's the point here, for the male audience to feel how sleazy it is and how horrible it feels when someone treats you this way on the job.
When I watch this episode I realize it Anne wasn’t entirely at fault here,because Craig also he already had a date but went over anyway,he also knew the Benson account wasn’t due yet,he still went because he wanted to be there.Just think about that.
I disagree. Her statement "i guess if your personal life is more important than your job", was a subtle threat, even a blind man could see this. So he felt he had no choice.
But when they filmed this, sexual harassment on the job was still a new topic. I believe some of the court precedent to establish a definition of a hostile work environment weren't settled until 1992?
RIP Bonnie Franklin. I liked her but my wife said she is "plain & corny and over-does her facial expressions". She loves Schneider but says McKenzie Phillips looks trashy but Valerie Bertinelli is "cool".
But i think that's the point, for the audience to feel exactly how inappropriate workforce harrassment is. Remember, this is a relatively new topic, and most of the law that we now take for granted hadn't been settled yet. I seem to remember the New York Times magazine doing an in depth story on a lawyer who had scored a win for the definition of a hostile work environment. I think that was approximately 1992, so this episode is about fifteen years ahead?
