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Mary decides to try her hand at creative writing. She writes an article about her grandfather, an old guy who dressed up as Santa, sang carols the year round, and so on. She shows it to Murray and he praises it. But when she takes it into Mr. Grant's office, even though he asks her not to, he is less than excited. As a matter of fact, he says it stinks. She is really hurt. She decides to send it off to a publisher, but gets nothing but rejections. When Lou asks her about her article, she lies to him, saying it was being published in "Reader's Digest." Georgette is stunned by this, amazed that Mary could tell a lie. Things escalate and they are hilarious.

Solid assured little story and many laughs.

Mary does a creative writing piece on her grandfather. Murray praises it but Lou refuses to read it. Lou reasons that if he didn't like it he would feel obligated to honestly say so, which would create an awkward situation. Things escalate, Mary lies and says Reader's Digest bought the story, then things continue to escalate. All well done.

In the subplot Ted starts an autobiography.

Mary has done classes in journalism (Room 223) and creative writing before. The creative writing episode (Two Wrongs Don't Make a Writer) also featured Ted jumping on the writing bandwagon. There was another episode again (Murray Faces Life) where Ted dictates his biography to Mary. Despite all that, this one still works.