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Season 2, Episode 5: A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend

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When Ida, Rhoda's mother, visits, she sees how well Phyllis and Bess get on, and how closely Mary appears to her mother when they chat on the telephone, that she tries to be Rhoda's ""friend"".

All Episodes - Season 2

The Bird and ...Um ...Bess
Episode 1
The Bird and ...Um ...Bess
 I Am Curious Cooper
Episode 2
I Am Curious Cooper
 He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother
Episode 3
He's No Heavy . . . He's My Brother
 Room 223
Episode 4
Room 223
 A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend
Episode 5
A Girl's Best Mother Is Not Her Friend
 Cover Boy
Episode 6
Cover Boy
 Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me
Episode 7
Didn't You Used to Be . . . Wait . . . Don't Tell Me
 Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary
Episode 8
Thoroughly Unmilitant Mary
 And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter
Episode 9
And Now, Sitting in for Ted Baxter
 Don't Break the Chain
Episode 10
Don't Break the Chain
 The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch
Episode 11
The Six-and-a-Half-Year Itch
 . . . Is a Friend in Need
Episode 12
. . . Is a Friend in Need
 The Square-Shaped Room
Episode 13
The Square-Shaped Room
 Ted Over Heels
Episode 14
Ted Over Heels
 The Five-Minute Dress
Episode 15
The Five-Minute Dress
 Feeb
Episode 16
Feeb
 The Slaughter Affair
Episode 17
The Slaughter Affair
 Baby Sit-Com
Episode 18
Baby Sit-Com
 More Than Neighbors
Episode 19
More Than Neighbors
 The Care and Feeding of Parents
Episode 20
The Care and Feeding of Parents
 Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda
Episode 21
Where There's Smoke, There's Rhoda
 You Certainly Are a Big Boy
Episode 22
You Certainly Are a Big Boy
 Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda
Episode 23
Some of My Best Friends Are Rhoda
 His Two Right Arms
Episode 24
His Two Right Arms
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