Golden Girls vs. Mary Tyler Moore Show: Who Did a Better Priest Episode?
Out on the Lanai: A Golden Girls Podcast
H Alan Scott, Kerri Doherty
4.5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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H. Alan Scott/Sadie Pines and Kerri Doherty break down a season 3 Mary Tyler Moore Show episode titled "Mary's Father," which surely inspired The Golden Girl's episode "Forgive Me, Father." They discuss the comparisons and differences, Betty White's Blanche-like attitude, and how exactly priests get paid.
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| 0:00.0 | Picture at Los Angeles, 26. |
| 0:13.6 | Hi. |
| 0:15.4 | Welcome to Out on the Lanai, the only Golden Girls podcast you're ever going to need to listen to. I just remembered I have tea to share with you, Carrie, by the way. We'll share it on the rest of anchor happy hour. And I'm H.L. and Scott slash Sadie Pines. Whoa, coming in hot. Welcome back. I'm Carrie Doherty. And today we're doing a Beyond Golden Girls episode where we cover the many film and TV projects that the women did outside of the |
| 0:38.0 | Golden Girls during the course of their illustrious careers. And today we are breaking down a |
| 0:42.0 | season three episode of the Mary Tyler Moore show titled Mary's Father that features our beloved |
| 0:48.2 | Betty White, but is also tied to the Golden Girls in another way. And I want you all to see if you can guess what the |
| 0:56.6 | Golden Girls tie-in is just from the log line of the episode here. Okay, here we go. Mary is |
| 1:03.0 | afraid that a Catholic priest she has befriended is leaving the priesthood because he has feelings for her. |
| 1:11.7 | Hmm. |
| 1:12.7 | Where would we hear this story in a television episode like 12 years later? |
| 1:21.2 | Hmm. |
| 1:23.4 | Not even. |
| 1:24.4 | Yeah, I guess, well, I guess it would have been 12 years later. |
| 1:26.1 | Yeah, this was 1975. |
| 1:32.1 | Guys, the Golden Girls ripped off Mary Tyler Moore Show. |
| 1:42.1 | Well, yeah, I mean, I, I don't want to say ripped off, but I do maybe they was influenced by. |
| 1:45.6 | Influenced by. But then I also, this is the other thing too. |
| 1:47.2 | I always say this. |
| 1:48.5 | Nothing is original. |
| 1:52.4 | Everything in comedy is ripped off somebody else for the most part. |
| 1:54.4 | Everyone's inspired by something. |
| 2:04.7 | But yes, I will give you that there are even setups for jokes in this episode that are sound exactly like the Golden Girls episode. As we go through, I literally have pulled out. It's a great episode. It's a great |
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