![]() Always the optimist, however, Maude brings over an old friend to cheer Walter up, but it leads to even more ruin when the friend shows up to the party and dies. Maude prepares a surprise birthday party for Walter, who is depressed about turning 50. This leads to another fight between them. At this inopportune time, Maude shares her feelings with Walter about the lack of meaning in her life and the difficulties she is facing in her quest for employment due to her gender. They must share a room in a cheap motel after their reservations are mixed up at their first choice of hotel. ![]() ![]() Maude accompanies Walter to an appliance convention in Massachusetts. It leads to problems for Phillip and aggravation for Florida, who temporarily quits her job. Maude and Walter are labeled slumlords after they learn that they own a rundown apartment building and someone pickets the conditions on their front lawn. It proves to be a challenge for Maude to "score" some, but when she does, she and Walter fight over it. Maude convinces her rich liberal girlfriends to picket with her at the police station, and to get arrested themselves as a symbolic move when the police sees that they are also in possession of the drug. Maude stands up for her principles when she hears of a teenager arrested for possession of marijuana. Nash is now a very attractive, single career woman, and it makes Maude resentful of her own position in life, especially when she bonds with Carol. Maude reunites with an old high school friend, Phyllis "Bunny" Nash ( Barbara Rush), who was not a beauty when Maude knew her. ![]() After soul-searching and taking advice from Carol, Walter, Arthur and Vivian, Maude decides to terminate the pregnancy. Maude cannot gauge Walter's reaction, as he is publicly indifferent to the idea. Carol is going through a divorce and moving in with Maude, and Walter and Maude must make a decision either to marry or just cohabit.Īt 47 years old, Maude discovers she is pregnant and must figure out how to tell the news to Walter as she plays cards with neighbors Arthur and Vivian Cavender ( Rue McClanahan).Ĭarol suggests that Maude should terminate the pregnancy now that the practice is legal in the state of New York. While Maude and Walter wait to see who won the presidential election, they reminisce about the same night four years before. Meanwhile, Walter gets tired of Maude neglecting him, which leads to a dish-breaking fight in the kitchen. Tired of being 27 years old and raising her son while living with her mother, Carol believes her ticket out of the house is to marry a man ( Frank Aletter) she does not truly love. Despite having a connection to someone who can "fix" the ticket, she insists on protesting the citation even after the judge immediately dismisses her "fixed" ticket. Maude receives a speeding ticket that could result in the suspension of her driver's license. Then, during the party, Maude mixes Arthur's prescribed tranquilizers with alcohol, which causes her to reveal the fundraising part of the party, and causing her guests to leave. She also tries to get black people to attend the party, but the best she can do is make Florida go to the event, calling her Florida DuBonnet. Maude organizes a fund-raising party for a black militant politician and invites all her rich white friends under false pretenses. However, a late night that went a bit too far, in which Russell calls Carol "Maude", proves that Maude was right. While Maude does her best to warn Carol of his ways, Carol believes Maude is interfering too much in her life. Maude's husband Walter is troubled to find Phillip swearing into a tape recorder and then playing it back.Ĭarol starts dating a man named Russell Asher (Cesare Danova) who once dumped her mother. In doing so, Maude overcompensates by going out of her way to treat her as an "equal," which Florida cannot stand. This sparks an argument between Arthur and Maude on "the moral decay in our society".įorward-thinking Maude tries to prove her worth as a liberal by hiring a black maid, Florida Evans ( Esther Rolle). Arthur insists that Phillip be punished for the act, while Carol and Maude believe it to be just simple young expression. ![]() Initially thinking Carol is having an affair, Maude is surprised to learn she is actually seeing a psychiatrist (William Redfield), and that he has a few questions for Maude.Ĭarol's eight-year-old son Phillip (Brian Morrison) is caught playing doctor with next-door neighbor Arthur's ( Conrad Bain) visiting granddaughter, Angela. Maude ( Beatrice Arthur) is suspicious when she notices changes to her daughter Carol's ( Adrienne Barbeau) mood. ![]()
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