Pat Nardo

Director Jay Sandrich.

Writers Patricia Nardo, Gloria Banta, and Lorenzo Music.

Guest-- No guest stars, so I guess we're not even gonna meet Mary's date.

Our episode opens up with a nighttime stock footage of Minneapolis, and up in the newsroom, Ted is wrapping up, talking about a garbage sanitation strike for workers in New York wanting a wage hike, and a spokesman for the striking workers say they will continue to refuse to collect the refuse.