Name: The Bird and ...Um ...Bess
Released: 1971-09-18

In the opening episode of the second season, Mary Richards creates a documentary titled "What's Your Sexual IQ?" for the Six O'Clock News. Rhoda admits she didn’t do well on it, while Phyllis reveals that young Bess has already seen it. Concerned, Phyllis asks Mary to educate Bess about life’s realities, only to discover that Bess has already gotten the information from her peers. Meanwhile, the WJM-TV newsroom is bombarded with calls regarding the documentary, with Mary noting that the majority of viewers seem more shocked than anything else.

Show The Mary Tyler Moore Show

Episode S02E01

Air Date Sep 18, 1971

Season 2 Episodes

S02E01 The Bird and ...Um ...Bess S02E02 I Am Curious Cooper S02E03 He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother S02E04 Room 223 S02E05 A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend S02E06 Cover Boy S02E07 Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me S02E08 Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary S02E09 And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter S02E10 Don't Break the Chain S02E11 The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch S02E12 . . . Is a Friend in Need S02E13 The Square-Shaped Room S02E14 Ted Over Heels S02E15 The Five-Minute Dress S02E16 Feeb S02E17 The Slaughter Affair S02E18 Baby Sit-Com S02E19 More Than Neighbors S02E20 The Care and Feeding of Parents S02E21 Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda S02E22 You Certainly Are a Big Boy S02E23 Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda S02E24 His Two Right Arms

The Bird and ...Um ...Bess (S02E01)

Season 2 Episodes