Phyllis comes storming into Mary's apartment, asking a favor. She has a woman's club and her guest speaker has canceled at the last minute. She wants Mary to ask Ted Baxter to speak to the ladies. She gets him to agree by sort of ambushing him. Of course, he's so self centered that he sees this as a way to make a big splash in front of some women. The fact is that he cannot do impromptu things. Murray writes a speech for him, but when it's over, it's a disaster. A woman asks him a question and he freezes up. He ends up, catatonic, outside Mary's front door. At one a.m. Lou is called to mediate things, but Ted has lost his "charisma, whatever that is." His news reports are even worse than usual. There are some fantastic lines and Ted Knight is awesome as the inept anchorman.