@enriquetheprofessor the funniest episodes are with bubba and iola my favorite episode is when bubby brings home a recorder for class and he makes a home movie of mama and iola and Naomi and vint and their was a short in the camera when they watched it on the public access channel it made mama out to be a abuse beer drinker having men in house when it was repairmen 😂
Not a TV show could ever compare to Mama’s Family. My daughter and I still watch it. We have never been able to get enough of it. Carol Brunette, was a much Older women, that I absolutely loved as a very young teen. I still love her, so that’s where I first started seeing Mama, I love Vicki so much. Those two are so Special to me, even now. This is wonderful to get to see them, that played all those funny parts, in real life. I’ve laughed so much with that TV show, until tears would roll down my face. My daughter and I still watch it every chance we get. I had my daughter later in life, she’s 23 now, so another one that absolutely loves this Classic TV show. I’m sure it will live on through our children, that love it as much as we do. I really did enjoy watching this.
Tony Llewellyn Well what would you expect Ken Berry is like 84 years old. Dorothy Lyman who just turned 70 hasn’t done much On Air TV over the years she’s been behind the scenes. It’s great she still has a lot of spunk!
@@tonyllewellyn2511 What the Hell you're talking about?! Allen is still handsome and LOOKS good for his age. Looks better looking than most 50 year old men I seen
I was 8 years old when Mamas Family came on Fox 28 at 10:00 and 10:30 p.m. I had a small black and white TV in my room and I would sneak and watch it Monday thru Friday when I was supposed to be asleep. To this day I own the complete series on DVD and I listen to it in the car in my phone on the way to and from work. I have every episode from season 3 on memorized. I love the entire cast!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I did the same thing! On Fox 30 in St. Louis I watched her waiting for Star Trek. And every Saturday Night we'd watch the Carol Burnett Show waiting for SNL!
mama's family, 227, amen, growing pains, happy days, Laverne and Shirley mr.belvader etc etc ...were the LAST of its kind shows in the '80s about true clean classic family comedies you will never see again...in the '90s things started changing to reality shows little by little..now today its nothing but trash on tv...sad but true.
Well Roseanne, I mean the Conners' have been rebooted as well as Full House and Murphy Brown. Of course a Family Matters reboot would be nice and the cast has remained close and would love for it to happen!!
@@RLucas3000 I was just about to say that. That and Who Wants To Be a Millionaire were big and when networks realized they could save money doing shows like them, they started making more of them.
I met both Allen Kayser and Dorothy Lyman at the Chiller Theater convention (Separate times) they were two of the nicest people! I took a photo with them.
I can’t believe someone thought they wouldn’t want Allan Kayser on the show! There would have been an inexplicable hole in my life if he wasn’t on the show! He was so good and perfect in that role, just wonderful. He made you just really love bubba. And now let’s not forget how unbelievably gorgeous he was! I couldn’t take my eyes off of him when he was on screen!
Bubba and Iola were inspired characters! They were very needed for the show to work. This cast was perfect while the cast from the first couple seasons sucked.
Lex Wright Sorensen: I agree with everything you said about Bubba. He really was extremely handsome and charismatic. My attention just shifted straight to him whenever he came on screen.
@@chrisgrube8529 Those two kids Buzz and Sonya were super downers, especially the girl. The show got significantly better with Bubba and Iola. Although I did miss appearances from Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman, also Betty White as Ellen ( but she did appear in one early episode ) .
My favorite sitcom of all time. I watched Mama's family as a kid at my grandmother's house. Every time I sit down to watch it now it takes me right back to a simpler time when the world moved slower and everyone wasn't in such a hurry.
One of my favorite shows! I was on punishment a lot in the 80's, so I watched Mamas Family, threes company every Saturday, I've seen every episode. God Bless Logo TV!!!!
I thought I was the only person like this...lol. It has such soothing effect on me that I always watch it to help me sleep during the daytime! I love, love, love this show!
@@OikPoinFive how about her bleach bottle piggy bank in the episode where Iola and Naomi switched places? Or her saline bag cozy on one episode where someone was in the hospital?
LOL, Beverley apparently developed a deep hatred for the color pink after starring in Mama's Family. She had appeared in a reunion show several years earlier dressed in a salmon-colored outfit, telling Vicki that that was the closest color to "Iola Pink" she was willing to wear :)
I love Mama! My family is from Western Virginia, Eastern Kentucky and I lived Mama's family. We had a Eunice and an Ellen. I just couldn't wait to leave them behind and go home. The series is so real to me and whenever I watch the series I feel that I am reliving my life. The humor is just so familiar to me. For me it's like smelling wood smoke in the autumn and I am transported back to the farm and having to deal with a whole cast of characters. Great job. I lived in Europe for 28 years and I have just discovered Mama's Family.
26, From eastern KY, and I’ve been watching Mama’s Family since it was on in the mornings on TBS. I think that’s why this show is so timeless, it reminds us of our own family. I personally know someone just like Mama. This show is a comfort for me. If I’m missing my own mama, I turn on mama and it’s like I’m transported to my childhood.
We were from Mississippi and could relate all too well to it. Plus they were second generation from Eastern Europe and I think that made it all the more relatable. They were Southern crazy and Slavic crazy at the same time.
Such an interesting and enjoyable reunion. I love the whole cast. Allan Kayser is still so handsome. I had such a crush on him during the Mama's Family shows
OH Mama's Family.... I looked forward to the night when this show came on. My mama and I used to sit and watch this and laugh at Vicky Lawrence and the cast. This was some good one on one time with My Own Mother ahhhhh.... Rest on Mama, rest On💖
They all look amazing! To say the show is older than myself, and they still have a youthful HAPPINESS to them....u can't help but be impressed! RU-vid has let me down with being able to watch episodes here. I'm glad I finally got the full series on DVD 🙄
Mama's family was so cheesy and it should have been awful, but it remains something that I can watch over and over again. I don't know if it's nostalgia from watching it with my grandma or if it is just how unrelentingly charming the cast is, but it can still make me laugh out loud
Part of the draw for me was that it was staged and designed like a cartoon. The living room was standard and ordinary, like a cartoon backdrop. Each character had a clothes color pallet, often exaggerated and the loud voices. It had a cartoon feel.
@@terrymiller7057 Oddly enough it is on "MeTV" right now but it's one of the earliest episodes where Buzz and Sonya are going to the prom, so I changed the channel to Public Television.
I just find it a bit funny that everyone is older(except the man who played the grandson) than Vicki, when she played the grandmother/matriarch of the family.
It is always a treat to see a cast that worked together years ago get together, and this shows that this cast really liked each other. It was a silly show, but it was fun.
let's not forget the original cast Rue McClanahan as Aunt Fran (RIP), Betty White as Ellen, Carol Burnette as Eunice, Karen Argold as Sonia, and that one guy as Buzz
RIP Ken Berry. He was so much older then the rest and I didn't know it. Mama's Family was one of my favorite shows. I have the whole series now but I use to watch it after school at 4:00-5:00. Then the changed it to 3:00-4:00 which I didn't like because I would miss the beginning of it. But then they went to 1:00-2:00. I hated that so I had to get a VCR. But then a fire stopped that. They went even earlier at 10:00-11:00. But it was everyday so at least I got to see Sunday and Saturday. I never imagined owning the series again. Until DVD.
I REALLY STILL LOVE THE SHOW AND NOT AS SHAME TO SAY IT, IT ALLOWED ME TO IMPROVE MY ENGLISH BIG DEAL AND I APPRECIATE THIS VERY MUCH, "THANKS A LOT MAMA" BEVERLY ARCHER LOOK THE BEST HERE AMONG ALL OF THEM
I just love the Mama's family I really enjoy watching it over and over again I just sit sometimes it just watch the show now and then wish they would have continue the show but you all did a wonderful job
Mama's Family was right up there, with I Love Lucky, to me. I loved Carol Burnett so, so much. When Mama's Family came on I was a young girl glued to those three shows, I love Lucy, Carol Burnett show, and Mama's Family. All three made me laugh so much. Classic, and classy.
I adored this show so much. My mom is from the south. I grew up in the big city and my mom likes Loretta Lynn, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Elvis, and the Mandrell sisters. And we'd watch HEE HAW, the Andy Griffith Show, and movies with country influences too, that randomly came on TV, we did not have Cable back then. Plus I spent more time getting to know my mom's brother and sister. That I could totally relate to Mama's Family. My dad's side is Hispanic and they did not visit enough to really get to know them to well. I'm so shy around them, even as an adult.
I will watch Mama's Family till I die. Gen x here, so this is just great classic tv. Vicki was great years later on a show called yes dear. Another classic tv for me as well. Great group of people right here.
I’m watching Mama’s Family today and loving it just like I did when it was on re-runs in the 90s this show brings me back in time it’s also very soothing and calm makes you forget about the pandemic 😷 for a little while 🙏🏻🥰❤️🙏🏻
Yea but youd think they'd remember more stuff than they do like the last time they were together. They are more forgetful than the usual. Its as if they are all suffering from Alzheimer's at different levels
i was surprised that she didn't remember the reunion on the Vicki show too. As far as I know that was the only time they all were together before this interview here. Dorothy and Allan seem to have the best recall -- especially Allan, who can still sing the words to "Raytown, Oh Raytown"
+Bilal Nasir EXAAACTLY!!!! That introduces a huge reason why it's pretty mind-boggling she forgot. And just to confirm your posting, I follow Mama's Family very closely and I know for a fact that was the only time they ever reunited after the show, the one time. Vicki did reunite with the Carol Burnett Show a few times over the years but never Mama's Family clan other than on her show so as you said very surprising. Agreed that Dorothy and Allen seem to have the best recall.
I never noticed it untill I was watching Mama's Family a couple of days ago. I was wondering how he ever breathed in those jeans. That must have been uncomfortable.
Hello to all of you all you are all wonderful actors and actresses I love watching y'all over many many years you all look wonderful I watch your episodes over and over and I love the laughs thank you so much forgiving us all that beautiful comedy
I was just a young, teenage girl when "Mama's Family" was on TV back in the 80's. The show got better later, when they brought on Bubba and Iola. I remember watching reruns of the show back in the mid-90's, and thinking how cute Allan Kayser was! And he's still cute! He seems like a genuinely nice guy, and he has a great smile!
I did not know Naomi's actress was older than Vicki, Vicki looks like Mama now, but during the show, she surprised me by how young she looked back then playing an older lady!
Going through the entire run of Mama's Family (the seasons featuring the five actors here, anyway) right now for the first time in years. Never fails to amuse. These five had were great together, and it's so weird to see everyone else BUT Vicki Lawrence seem significantly older IRL. .... Also, Beverly Archer as the librarian in a few Married With Children episodes; classic. XD
