TV Quote of the Day (‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’ With a ‘Rotten Day’ for Ted)

[Georgette, finding Ted Baxter in the arms of another woman, strongly considers becoming a nun. Mary Richards invites the nun overseeing Georgette’s application to her apartment for a meeting. With Mary running late, Rhoda lets the nun in, followed right after by Ted, who, unaware of her vocation, begins putting the moves on the nun.]

Sister Ann [played by Gail Strickland]: “Mr. Baxter, are you asking me for a date?”

Ted Baxter [played by Ted Knight]: “Is the Pope Catholic?”

Sister Ann: “I hope so. I’m a nun.”

Ted: “...What a rotten day!”— The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Season 4, Episode 14, “Almost a Nun's Story,” original air date Dec. 15, 1973, teleplay by Ed. Weinberger and Stan Daniels, directed by Jay Sandrich