Saturday Nine: Love is All Around (1970)

This week's Saturday Nine:

You can hear this week's song here.

1. This week's song is the theme from The Mary Tyler Moore Show, a sitcom that originally aired from 1970 to 1977. Were you a fan? No, it's before my time. I had only heard of Mary Tyler Moore because of Weezer's "Buddy Holly."
   
   
2. The song tells us that Mary Richards can turn the world on with her smile. Yet the real-life Mary Tyler Moore said she was uncomfortable with her "wide mouth." If you could improve on one of your facial features, which would you choose? My jawline. My jowls are huge and I wish I could re-shape them. If I could get facial surgery, it'd be a jaw reduction.
   
   
3. We also hear that Mary can "take a nothing day and suddenly make it all seem worthwhile." What do you think makes a day "a nothing day?" I assume it's a day that is completely uneventful or boring. But, to be honest, I like those kind of days when I have nothing to do or no errands to run. But I also don't get bored when I don't leave the house.
   
   
4. Mary works in the newsroom at WJM. Her desk is neat as a pin. Are you neat? Or do you lean to the sloppy side? Depends. At home, I can be pretty messy if I don't have the time to properly organize my stuff. But at work, I'm on the neater side. I hate a cluttered desk and I am constantly putting everything back in its place because I share the office with other managers.
   
   
5. Mary's best friend, Rhoda, worked as a window dresser at Hempel's department store. What department store did you most recently shop at? What did you buy? I honestly can't remember because I don't really shop at department stores. The last one I walked into was Hudson's Bay at Yorkdale... but I didn't buy anything.
   
   
6. Mary Richards lived in Minneapolis. What city is nearest to where you are right now? I live in the outskirts of Toronto.
   
   
7. Originally the part of Mary Richards was written as a divorcee, but in 1970, there were no TV shows that centered around a divorced woman. Think about the women in your life. Are most of them married, divorced, single or widowed? I would say most of them are either single or in relationships.
   
   
8. The MTM production company logo featured a mewing kitten. The cat was found in a Minneapolis shelter, and, after her sequence was shot, she was adopted by a crew member who named her Mimsie. What's the name of the last cat — or dog or hamster or rabbit — that you petted? A dog named Joey that my friend Chelsea was dog-sitting.
   
   
9. Random question — Would you rather have a job that kept you seated on your fanny or standing on your feet? Standing. Almost all of my jobs have required me to be standing for my entire shift. But my job right now is a ratio of 70:30 of standing to sitting (for office work) and I get really tired and lethargic when I sit for more than an hour.