Toody & Muldoon Meet the Russians

I love car 54 - remember from youth when it was new tgen morphed to Munsters. (Many know what I mean). This episode came on last night and I was shocked I don't recall ever see this. Mara Lynn dominates and throws her hips as no other!!! She steals every scene and overplays to everyone's hearts delight!

This was not an easy episode to sit through, simply because two of the characters were loud and continually abrasive, I wanted to hit the "mute" button. They were guest actor Jules Munshin, playing Russian Commissar Malonov, and my pal Joe E. Ross as "Officer Toody." Normally, I love Ross but when he was paired with Munshin, the two of them would drive anyone nuts. "Abrasive" doesn't begin to cover it, especially with Munshin's over-acting.

There is a female Russian in here, too. While Toody escorts "General Raskonokov" (Mara Lynn) around town, "Francis Muldoon" (Fred Gwynne) escorts her. Lynn provided the only laughs for me in this story as she changes from the normal anti-capitalist, bombastic communist to a wild woman who does a complete makeover and winds up doing a striptease!! She's pretty funny the most the show is not.

When sitcoms were actually funny, there was Car 54. Mara Lynn was hilarious as a beastly Russian General who gets a makeover into a brassy sexbomb, physically and mentally. "Comrade" Muldoon has to show her New York and deal with her bombastic tirades while Toody spends the day with a Russian UN delegate he "corrupts" to the American way.