Happy Happy birthday Carol. I’ve always loved your shows…. Happily I’ve been able to download most of your skits…they never get old!! I’ll soon be 84 and I count on them to brighten my days. Much love being sent your way…. Diane Brooks
Mickey is such a sweet souled character - so desperate for a family he even loves Mama's family. He & Ed were more or less outsiders just dealing with them too. Mickey's appreciation for what he has on his own is wonderful to see as well. 💟
Coz he’s peculiar and Ed takes food money from Eunice to give it to Mickey. Any mother with a family can see just how wrong that it. I would have dumped that piece of shit Ed long ago. Heck I wouldn’t have married such a loser in the first place. And that horrible mother of hers, no wonder her sister wants nothing to do with them. Poor Eunice is the long suffering one here. She is constantly being abused by these two. Sad part is, there are families in this world just as bad and much much worse than them. I’m glad not in my family. Well….not that l know of…,,
There's always an undercurrent of sadness in these Family sketches. The actors don't play the material just for laughs, but dig down deeper to show how each character is broken in some way, especially Eunice.
Vicki always had the incredible ability to choke on her laughter and hold it together. Not many actors can do that (for example, her co-stars on this show) consistently. Even when we do notice her starting to break, she hides it well and recovers quickly. Tim was probably as good as her in regards to this, though. He's a rock in almost every sketch, even when Harvey has already lost all control right next to him, lol. Harvey and Carol were pretty much done once they got going, which is why Tim made it his mission to break them in every sketch, lol.
Yep. Comedy was golden and we had 3 whole channels. No remote. You actually had to get up and walk across the room to turn the channel and adjust the volume.
It’s not much of an apartment, but it’s all his and its clean and private. That’s all we want when we are young and just starting out. I had such a place way back when i was 19, it was only $75 a week and i was so proud of having my very own place. Especially in NYC where it’s so expensive to live
Remember my first place. I am the middle child and a go getter. I had started buying my stuff up and storing it in my bedroom. By the time I moved my loser older brother and the rest of them had gone through my stuff and took out what they wanted including my monthly tokens. I was always the one who left, never returning and made the best of surviving with no family support in NYC.
I paid $300 a month for my one bedroom in San Francisco in the 1980S. It wasn't big, the neighborhood was dicey, but it was the best pace I ever lived.
I had something called an "efficiency" (meaning a 13 by 13 room) with a bathroom and something you glorified if called it a kitchenette. But it was mine that a paid for myself, and if was what I could afford, well, so be it. My mother called it a "dump" and I asked her what the apartment she had right after she was married was like.
Growing up, I'm 59, I loved these comedy shows! This was true comedy. Today's shows can't make audiences laugh without putting something sexual into the skits!
Lol...agreed. Probably because Mama is so ultra crabby in those skits...lol. I also love the one when they go to visit Phillip in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it's not on youtube right now...well, a highly edited version of it is. That's one that is missing.
One of the best of the "Family" sketches. Brilliant combination of characters in a dysfunctional family, sadness, pathos and comedy. Like a little Tennessee Williams play.
Good show? Although I do like other parts of Carol Burnett show, it’s this “comedy” I can’t stand. In this skit they even have some racist jab for goodness sake.
Mickey Hart’s obliviousness is priceless. It’s th3 little things…like when Eunice grabs his shoulder at the end as she’s tearing into him, and oblivious Mickey pats her hand.
@@ginaspurlding8590 yeah coz very often the husbands guy friends are their gay lovers. Happens all the time. If a man can’t marry a woman who is his lover, best friend and everything he could want then you shouldn’t get married. Stick with your friends and leave the good women for the good men. Why do u think divorce is so high. Ppl are selfish, greedy and sinful.
"You just shut up, you sawed-off little weirdo!" What a vicious peasant Thelma was! THAT was the Mama that I fell in love with and missed all too often on the "Mama's Family" show, although when they did summon THAT Thelma, it was hilariously funny. I love how on this show, the actors never pulled back from showing their characters as sometimes very objectionable people. That took guts.
That's the main reason I couldn't watch Mama's Family. I tried, and after forcing myself to watch a few of the first episodes on the first season, I was like, this isn't at all the Mama we saw on The Carol Burnett Show. She was too nice and some of the other characters were just too unimportant. I found out decades later that Harvey Korman, who was involved with show, tamed Mama down because he felt that her being so vile and mean every week wouldn't go over very well. He was wrong.
I think the 1982 "Eunice" tv special was the last appearance of the carol Burnett family. As for the tv show that seems to be an alternate timeline where Eunice moved on with her life and where the intelligent and successful Philip never existed instead giving us Vinton.
Its' absolutely hilarious when they dump "Mother Harper" out of that chair onto the floor, along with the "thud" sound effect. Not to mention Tim Conway went off script, and if you look close, when he yells at Mama as she is sitting in that chair and he says "We're gonna dump you on the floor..." Vicky Lawrence starts to smile and holds back laughter.
Mickey: "You can call me anything you want!" Mama: "You can count on that!" - Another hilarious line I fell off the sofa hearing for the first time! ;)
My grand had an old roommate who did that same and claim he was a moderate drinker. We always joked, a moderate amount at 10, a moderate amount at 11....
A grad student could do a whole thesis on the dysfunction of this family. These episodes were scripted so well, and the actors made the most out of their roles (even if from time to time they felt the need to break character and laugh). I have actually "seen" these personalities in real life, on an airplane, no less, AND, I giggled to myself the entire trip. Even the "Mama" was wearing Thelma's wig. I will NEVER forget that plane ride.
Sometimes I just come back after a day or two to watch a few again because I missed them and wanna hear them talking especially Carol and the other characters of The Family! 😅
I’m 55 I still watch this to this day I don’t get tired they still make me laugh just like honeymooners it’s my favorite also here Lucy the Lucy show and Abbott and costlo another of my favorite and til this day at 55 still as funny as A 7 year in front of the black and white tv I love the monster and Dracula mummy werewolf movies with abott and Costello I love the old movies of them the sitcoms too
Carol actually made her laugh in the servant sketch, Carol and Sis and a few others. Conway is not the only one that made any of them laugh. Why do people keep posting this nonsense? Carol has broken up more over Harvey and Vicki than anything Conway.
I think Ed and Mickey really cared about each other. Ed gave Mickey the family he didn’t have and Mickey gave Ed the love and respect that Eunice and mama didn’t give him. I think they met a need that they both had. Eunice had every right to be upset about the raise Ed gave Mickey because he took money from their family to give Mickey the raise.
@@corrine7127 And Mickey should've had enough sense to not bring the raise up in the first place. None of them had much self-control, which is what makes the sketch so funny.
I was raised in the South and my mom looked just like Eunice. She had a personality of "mama". The shows reminded me of the family wars, mostly between the religions. These shows are like therapy I can relate to.
I love how Mickey yells into Mother Harper's ear! I love that! I once tried doing the same thing to my own mother, she punched me in the arm and said, " You dont have to yell! I can hear you!".
This whole scene makes more sense when you remember that Thelma had a shotgun marriage to Eunice's father, and that Eunice had a shotgun marriage to Ed due to a fight with her mother and desperation to get away from her. :(
@@jay1hi547 Technically yes depending on the continuity. In the Mama's Family continuity (when Carol Burnett was not in charge and barely in it), she was the forgotten middle child. In "The Family" continuity (during the Carol Burnett show run) it's a little more up in the air, possibly the jealous older sister vibe, but she does say she got Ellen's hand-me-downs. Either way, they definitely made it canon that Thelma/Mama had a shotgun marriage. However, even if Eunice wasn't the "oops" child, it still has the same impact, because Eunice realized in that scene she grew up to be just like her mother.
I think the funniest of these sketches is Mamas birthday when Ellen gave her a mink jacket and Eunice got her a fly swatter. Mama said thanks to her thoughtful daughters she can go to parties in her beautiful mink and keep the flies away too😂
Yeah but he need to take care of he's family first it my opinion lol because Eunice had no good silver ware everything he buy her it cheap and he also bought her pillow cover for her sofas he cheap but take care of Mickey also took Mickey to a vacation so I'm I'm in Eunice side lol
@@lizr990 Ed not only disliked Eunice, he also disliked his sons and spent most of his time complaining about how hard he worked and how badly he wanted to get away from them. :(
Mickey: "We're gonna dump ya, Mother Harper!!" 😂😂😂❤️ Thank you for sharing this. Great thumbnail, as usual. I think Tim ad-libbed "She's too big to get out of there" at 4:39 because Vicki seems like she's stifling a laugh after that.
I remember watching this show with my mom back in the 70s I was a teenager at that time so I didn't understand the whole concept of the show but sure do today I love this show it brings back great memories of my mom....
My mother is a even more "intense" version of Eunice.....when these aired in my childhood my mother absolutely HATED these sketches lol....they are funny, well portrayed characters with great dialogue...i havent spoken with my mother for a loñg time..if i ever get the urge to look her up i just get a "dose" of her watching these clips...safer this way lol.
i believe that a lot of people can relate to these "Family" sketches. I love my family but I know enough to keep my distance.....yes, you're right... it is, indeed "safer."
@Don Strassburg i understand sometimes it's easier to stay away from toxic family members, but if your mother was truly worse than Eunice she must have been mightily abused growing up.
Can ONLY imagine the fun they had doing this, itsa kinda like living out EVERYTHING you REALLY wanna say! LOL Thank you Jesus for this kinda humor total AMERICANA at its finest!
In the 1970s I was being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home (parents had split up, mother had custody of us kids. She was a mentally ill, abusive monster). As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery. The Carol Burnett show was one of many tv shows I watched regularly in daily syndicated reruns. It really helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed happiness, laughter and joy in an otherwise joyless existence. The Carol Burnett show was the one and only tv show whose sketches had me and my sister literally rolling on the floor, clutching our sides with laughter (especially if the sketch had Tim Conway in it. He was the best). EXCEPT for these "The Family" sketches. When Eunice yelled and/or scrunched up her face in anger, she was the exact spitting image of our mother. It was just too painful. My sister and I would sit completely stone faced through these "Family" sketches. I don't recall them eliciting a single laugh from either one of us (not even the occasional presence of Tim Conway helped).
