The Family (Eunice, Ed, and Mama) attend a Parent/Teacher conference with Bubba's teacher. The discussion turns to Eunice's unhappy childhood and miserable life. Guest Starring Maggie Smith. Unedited as it originally aired 11/15/74.
Carol always had amazing guest actor's and that was always something special. Carol knew this would become iconic gold. Carol made it iconic, she is an icon ❤ 14:45
Excellent writers, indeed, and dialog and scenes so true to life. When Mama pinches Eunice, and Eunice squinches up her eyes at her, well, that is something I've actually seen. It happened in church between my great grandmother and my unruly cousin, both named Martha. Too funny! Carol Burnett's Texas roots shine through in Eunice's accent. I love how Maggie Smith laid down the law in her classroom, and the family sat, diminished as if spoiled brats being chastised for bad behavior.
@@CassandraD-go8gl So true! My mother swore that Eunice was one of her sisters-in-law, and Mama was an aunt who complained about everything under the sun and could find no good in anyone.
They didn't always manage to hold their laughter. Vicki goes off script and gets Carol good. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6RqzclCLrP0.html
And to think she got her start just by writing to Mrs. Burnett and sent her a picture of herself stating that she had absolutely no acting abilities but went on stating how much they looked alike. Mrs. Burnett had her flown in gave her some lines to read. And as they say ‘The rest is history’
My goodness look at Maggie Smith. I loved this show when I was young, never missed it and its still hilariously funny. They don't make shows like this anymore. Its nice to have a belly laugh 🤣
This show has class! You couldn’t put a show like this on now. The costumes alone. All the original one of kind Bob mackere designer dresses every week. Not to mention choreographed song and dance numbers and original scripts; goes to show what entertainment is like when it is actually entertaining. Lol
I was in a family like this growing up, and was heavily bullied so it did no wonders for my self esteem. I can remember teachers thanking their lucky stars I was not in their classes, and some that I did have making fun of me constantly. When the family fell apart and the town found out there was a whole lot of "fake sympathy". Truth was they knew, and they were ignorant to it all. If we had teachers like Ms. Collins we wouldn't have this problem. I met a few and they helped me get through the hard things. However, given the state of education today, and especially parents today. Often teachers who tell it how it is find themselves quickly out of work by entitled and clueless parents who think they can do no wrong.
W O W -- I didn't realize it when I was originally watching these sketches on TV in the 70s, but they are STUFFED FULL of social commentary! The writing is excellent and the actors are amazing!
@Pink Panther Some "Old Days"....may have been good for you, but not so much for others.... you should think about that as well Mr. Panther. .... just saying to think about it, not to necessarily agree with me on the statement.
Why does Mama have to go everywhere with Eunice and Ed? We didn't slog my folks around everywhere. We'd have driven each other batshit crazy too. I think this meeting would have gone much better without Mama since she can't resist digging her elbows into Eunice for no good reason.
@Victor R. Indeed. Nowadays, when parents are told what's up with their kid, sometimes parents will get all defensive. "Not MY child! It's YOUR fault! You're the teacher!" Nevermind the problem starts at home...
Well in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" she was able to talk a student into going and dying in the Spanish Civil War....she could talk parents into anything.
I actually read somewhere where they did a run through on this without the accents and that it really depressed all of them and how tragic it really is.
@Victor R. I think she grew narcissistic because all the attention, love and pride went to the stuck up Ellen, who later on, didn't even like Mama, either. LOL!
@Victor R. yeah she a damaged good thank to Ellen and mama so the sorrow goes to Eunice I disagreed with that she a and Ed is Ellen and mama mat so she is stuck up Ellen selfish it why she mad fun of Ed and she got her karma her husband had affair
@@ProudKansan08 yeah she never got the attention her other siblings got mama even have Euince usen Ellen clothes so you have to feel sorry for her and bubba was also seeking attention from he's mom and dad she doing the same to bubba it's sad that Euince is a sad puppy you want to take home lol everyone say she damaged but she created but two narcissist Ellen and mama
I think this might be one of the few, if only, Family sketches in which all three of them are called out on their character by another, astute and educated person. I kinda really love it and can watch that end scene again and again. I love her calling out mama, "- an uncaring, bitter grandmother!"" Then making them all leave. "Out. OUT. OUT!!" Fantastic acting and dialog.
A very painful truth ! My teachers cared more about me than my own parents. I passed because of loving caring teachers like Maggie Smith from that clip.
@@Boudicca-xm2pi My experience is the direct opposite of yours . I had very uncaring and very unloving parents. On many occasions as a child I wanted to end my life so that my parents could be happy. If not for my caring teachers while I was in school, I would have committed suicide before I reach the age of 13. My teachers looked after me, help me get good grades, even got me a part-time job working after school. That part time job lasted over 3 decades until the company went out of business , dued to change of technology. My teachers made me a better person.They looked after me and took good care of me.I moved out at age 15 and moved into my own place .If not for the love and care my teachers have me,I would have been dead from suicide at age 9. Everyone circumstances is somewhat different. You had loving parents and I had loving teachers.
@@Boudicca-xm2pi Everyone experience is different. Still I LOVE my teachers for taking care of me. Many were like Maggie Smith from that Family episode. They made sure I was loved, they treated me better than my parents. If my teachers were alive today I would hug them and say THANK YOU for everything you have done for me. Some had loving parents others had loving teachers.
Joshua S, I didn’t know Maggie Smith had starred in any comedy sketches. I love her accent and I wonder if she is still alive. She starred as the Grandmother in Hook. I recall the year that movie came out in 1992, starring Robin Williams. And she also was Mother Superior in Sister Act starring Whoopi Goldberg.
This would be the perfect parent-teacher conference sales pitch! 😅 I've been a teacher for 11 years and one thing I've seen is that more often than not you get those parents now and then who sign up for the conference and don't show up at all then ask if it can be rescheduled. I understand life is crazy and we all forget and that's fine. But if you can't make it, call the school that way they're not waiting around.
Damn....Bubba been picking up habits from the family. They are crazy as hell!!! I ended up here after seeing mama on family fued with Steve Harvey. Never watched the Carol Bernert show but I'm hooked now. This is pure comedy. Crazy family got me laughing!!! Lol
I always loved Carol Burnett, and the whole cast. Maggie Smith, such a great actress, played a few times on her show. Carol is now 89 and Maggie, I believe is in her 90's, God bless them both. Love the movie, "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." Great Movie, co-staring, Pamela Franklin. 😍👍🙏
Vicki Lawrence talked about how, as an experiment, they decided to do the skit in rehearsal without the accents. Just straight performance. Vicki said the result was so awful and depressing that she started crying. They really are a dreadful family, always hurting each other. :(
In most comedies, the characters who squabble usually have some redeeming qualities, some sign of love and humanity. But Eunice, Ed, & Mama really didn’t have anything good about them. Carol Burnett was originally raised in Texas, and she said she really knew this character.
As a preschool teacher, I’ve come across many families like this one…where kids act out so badly at school but it’s because they have disfuncional family lives. And as a teacher you try to be truthful and honest and dive deeper into what’s going on at home and parents want none of it. Parents have no clue of the impact they have on their kids even in the little arguments and spats that they have. Most parents think “they are too small and don’t get it” but kids are smarter and pick things up more then they realize. Children might not verbally express the problems perfectly but they know hence they act out. It’s sad we need better teachers out there like Miss Collins
All you see now are teachers who just want to push the kids through the grades even though they don't deserve it. If they try to hold them back they say the teacher is the problem or picking on their kid.
I love this skit. I never fail to go into gales of laughter every time I see it. They simply don't make them like this any more. There are no funny lines, per se, but they play it straight and the outcome is hilarious. Carol Burnett Show at its best.
@@ericrivera8410 You can almost see Allan Kayser watching this scene and asking VIcki Lawrence for pointers as to how Bubba should act. He did say that he did watch a lot of Carol's skits as Eunice to get a better idea of what Bubba's home life was like...
This is absolutely GOLD. The family dynamics brilliantly portrayed and so real. I was too young to appreciate Carol Burnett. I don't even think the show was aired in Australia. The acting is brilliant by all the actors. I just can't get enough of the show. Remeniscent of a gone by era.
The wonders of RU-vid!! This clip was FANTASTIC. It brought back fond memories of the culmination of a week-long voyage aboard the QUEEN MARY 2 from Brooklyn to England. Before flying home from London in June of 2007 I had the high honor and deep privilege of seeing two-time Oscar, Emmy and Tony-winner Dame MAGGIE SMITH at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in the EDWARD ALBEE play "The Lady from Dubuque." After the evening performance, I was lucky enough to meet this gracious, elegant lady and have our picture taken at the Stage Door. Right before she left, I bowed and kissed her right hand. That was over 30 YEARS after her performance on CAROL BURNETT and MAGGIE SMITH still enhances every show she does. Just saw the 2019 DOWNTON ABBEY movie.
Lmao. That whole family was a zillion short. The teacher was using art n psychology together. Ed didn’t get that at all. Duh 🙄 and Eunice was worried about her hysterical hair. Funny, but that’s 70s TV. Always great shows on as a kid.
@@ProudKansan08 Quite right .Its a tribute to Carol Burnett that famous stars were willing to make guest appearances on her show .Even Sammy Davis Jr and Burt Reynolds
Yes, Maggie was already a big star and Oscar winner for ‘The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie’ by that time. Great to see her guest star on a popular American TV show of the day.
@@jonathankieranwriter Look at a list of the guest stars and it's people that Carol Burnett likes and admires, even stars that at that point were past their prime. Unlike a show like SNL, they didn't feel the need to cater to a "flavor of the week".
@@johnnotgalt2697 yes I know..when I was a teen I wanted to be on the show so I mailed them a letter .I got a photostill from Vicki wishing me luck..I put that picture on the wall and eventually got some acting gigs.
@@rock-ym3uf Congrats, and I think I misunderstood. I thought you were referring to Vicki, not your grandma, when you said "may she rest in peace." Condolences and your grandma sounds like a great ladyt!
To those that enjoy the acting of Maggie Smith, you should watch "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie". One of her best acting roles. A great film with a great cast. I highly recommend.
Of course Maggie Smith was brilliant as Jean Brodie and when she disciplines the three of them it reminds me of her telling Miss Mackay off in the movie LOL
I've watched about 5 in a row now. The first time was funny but after that, wow, I can't believe how it got so dark so quick. If looked through a microscope it's Mama who's the start of the problem (I know it sounds cliche): preferring one of your own kids over another, always placing blame on Eunice and her husband, etc. Poor Bubba, the kid is crying out desperately for love, attention and affection.
@@jamiegarrity6439 It's genuinely distressing watching Mama fan the flames between the sisters over and over again. She simply can't stand the thought of them getting along for even a few minutes. These are so on-point: both the writing and the performances.
Oh grow up, it's a comedy show... that's the problem today, people are emotionally incontinent and has to make everything about them. You negative Nelly, just enjoy the damned skit and don't watch if you are a triggered snowflake. 🙄
@@jaredcooper9111 He did start out getting out of juvie. And left behind by Eunice and Ed. So that was probably traumatic enough of a shock to actually accept the help he was offered and to adjust. Sides he was still a troublemaker now and then. Unless you meant how they physically described him
Eunice says “lay it all at my feet like all those other teachers did” and it gets ignored that all of their kids’ teachers hate the boys. The scripts on these sketches are very dense and contain a lot of information.
Brilliant, true-to-life acting, reflecting personal experience for many families I'm sure. While this is hilarious, it's also a blueprint for what triggers fights in dysfunctional families. "Didn't I just say that, Mama?" is a case in point, where the opportunity was there to leave it be, but they were playing to an imaginary audience as well as the real one. Someone always has to win, and in the process, they lose, and so too do the kids.
These Mama's Family skits were like a therapy of sorts for my mom back in the day. Unfortunately her mother was "Mama" through & through, right down to the way she dressed. The only real difference was my grandma put a "rinse" in her hair in a shade called Apricot (very light brown), & we're from Pennsylvania, so no southern accent. But boy she had a sharp tongue. And out of her 7 offspring (4 boys, 3 girls), my mom was definitely her Eunice. Grandma always made my mom feel like a failure as an adult, even though she really wasn't, & she'd physically abused my mom frequently, though her other girls never got whipped. Mom was born in 1926 & it was like a normal thing for parents to take a belt or a switch off a tree to their kids' backside. At least in the rural area we're all from. My mom was able to use the humor of Mama's Family to help get herself through the hurt she'd had all all those years. I always wondered what it was like to have a nice loving grandma like all my friends did.
I totally understand. My mom never whipped us but she would tell daddy!! Then we’d get in trouble. I vowed I would never do that to my kids and I didn’t.
@@dma124 No kidding, I'd have never guessed that, since it says "The Carol Burnett Show" in the title. I never said it was the "Mama's Family" TV show. I said skit- meaning a short acting piece. I watched "The Carol Burnett Show" all through my childhood, & then "Mama's Family" later when it began as it's own show. Was my "supposed" mistake the most important thing you had to worry about on a Sunday morning? If so, I'm very sorry, & I hope things get better for you. Have a blessed day.
Funny show and can you imagine if Eunice actually did had a daughter or two instead. Eunice and her girls would constantly be at each other throat just like Eunice and her Mom is.
If they had had daughters they would have been a mess. Their sons though sound definitely emotionally disturbed & dumb. They would be trump cultists now & would have been at these recent "Liberate" rallies strutting around with their AR-15s intimidating governors and senators in state capital buildings.
Ironic that,until Miss Collins called HER 'tude out, Thelma (Mama) seemed completely supportive of everything Miss Collins was saying but she seemed eager to have an authority figure call join her in dumping on Eunice and Ed. Miss Burnett, Miss Lawrence and the late Mr. Korman did great playing their regular roles here while Miss Smith was fantastic as the one-shot Miss Collins who more than held her own against these three! Thanks for this!
I thought that I was going to die laughing when I seen that picture that Bubba drawled the funny thing is there was a family that lived in my neighborhood when I was a kid growing up in the 60s that actually acted like them and their grandmother wore the same kind of print dresses and that blue rinse hair
