#STT Seeing Mary Tyler Moore age on her own namesake show is a little bittersweet to me because she really is committed to the role of Mary Richards, and that is some real dedication. But I’m also watching a few episodes of the Dick Van Dyke Show where MTM was, I think, in her 20s there, throughout the production of the Dick Van Dyke show, and so to see her age and mature is very… it’s almost off putting because you really get to see the effect of years of aging in, literally, a single day. But there’s a common thread between the MTM of the Dick Van Dyke Show and the MTM of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. And that is that kind of energetic bubbly spirit, I think, and you really cannot miss it. Maybe bubbly isn’t even the right word. Maybe just the word – the word refined, the word classic is the one that comes to mind, and that is, um, a character trait that I do want to exemplify. And as I’m going to my own 20s, this – this essence of of being a classic. I am that I am that I am.
"[Growing up] is hard and nobody understands." // https://www.homestuck.com/story/2391