Dick Van Dyke recalls why Mary Tyler Moore once got so pissed at him

Mary Tyler Moore wasn’t a woman to be messed with — and Dick Van Dyke learned that the hard way.Van Dyke, 99, recalled the time that he “pissed” off his late friend and former “The Dick Van Dyke Show” co-star because of a cartoon he drew of her.“I made her mouth too big, and she was so pissed at me,” he said at a charity event at his home in Malibu, California on Nov.

30, according to People.“I had to go back and draw it again,” Van Dyke remembered.“I mean, she had a beautiful mouth, but it was generous.”Van Dyke’s wife, Arlene Silver, chimed in to note that Moore “turned the world on with her smile.”Moore died in January 2017 at age 80.

She passed away from cardiopulmonary arrest that was brought on by three prior conditions, including diabetes.The late actress and Van Dyke starred in his titular sitcom from 1961 to 1966.The success of the program led to Moore getting her own series, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show,” which aired on CBS from 1970 to 1977.After Moore’s death, Van Dyke spoke about his fondest memories of the beloved star during an interview on “CBS This Morning.”“She had kind of a mid-Atlantic accent — kind of a Katherine Hepburn.

And I thought, ‘Gosh, she’s beautiful, but do you think she can do comedy?'” he recalled of when she auditioned for “The Dick Van Dyke Show.”“It was amazing how quickly she picked it up… had such good timing,” he added.“In no time, she had us laughing.”Van Dyke also compared working with the seven-time Emmy Award winner to “going to a party every morning.” “I didn’t know I can sing and dance she knew that she could.

The chemistry that happened between us was just serendipity,” he said.“We became an improv group.

We could almost reach each other’s mind.”Moore similarly praised Van Dyke back in the day.“The truth is that Dick doesn’t lose his temper,” she reportedly said in 1965.

“He doesn’t sulk.He doesn’t throw his weight around.

He...