Will Rogers' most famous quote was "I never met a man I didn't like". Well, obviously he never met anyone like Loretta (Pat Carrol)...the featured guest in this episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"!
The plot to this episode is pretty simple. Mary has to go to the hospital to have a tonsil removed (not tonsils...just one). However, the chirpy Mary is dismayed to find that her roommate, Loretta, is a....well, a very unpleasant person (I cannot say the word due to IMDB restrictions). Mary tries hard until ultimately facing a fact...some people are just unpleasant jerks.
This is just an okay episode...at best. My wife hated it because too often Mary is a giant doormat...and she certainly is here because she seems so desperate to have everyone like her. Worth seeing...just so you can see what 'Ursula' from "The Little Mermaid" (Pat Carrol) looked like in real life.