The Family: The Reunion from The Carol Burnett Show (full sketch) 

Mama FINALLY has on a different dress!! 👗😂😂

Vicki is too convincing as mama. Genius.

Phil was smart to have left town and you def can tell he's sorry he ever came back.

The look on Phillip's face throughout is hilarious...like "Why did I even bother?!" 😂🤣

Harvey cracks me up. That southern accent and faces he makes is hilarious. Too bad he's gone.

I urge all her fans to read her book. She grew up in a terribly dysfunctional situation. Coupled with poverty it’s a miracle she found the humor to do this skit. I’m such a fan.

Poor Phillip…so confused and dismissed. 😂🥺

This family is so self-absorbed, they don't even realize they've produced a world-class gem in Philip. It's the greatest thing Thelma has ever done in her miserable life, and she's too small-minded to claim it.

Funny how these old shows were truly funny without using dirty words or sexual innuendos. That's called talent!

Props to Harvey Korman, the unsung hero in this scene

I am a big fan of the Eunice and mama sketches. Great acting and I am a big fan of carol , Vicki and Harvey

Phil is the smartest of all....he RAN!!!

"So, Phil, my precious baby boy...why did you leave home, anyway?"

Considering how Vicki Lawrence was hired, she turned out to be perfect.

I looked it up, and this was the very first "Family" sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show". It caught on so well that it became a recurring feature of the show. Carol Burnett is originally from Texas, and that's why she gave Eunice a southern drawl. Harvey Korman and Vicki Lawrence thought it was funny, so they used similar accents with their characters.

"Now, c'mon Eunie, Mickey Heart's a good ol boy"! LMAO 🤣

It is amazing how families resent success in their members...Anybody with any sense would SUPPORT Phil instead of blowing off his accomplishments.

Eunice and Mama were the most miserable people I ever experienced on TV. Phil was my hero. He Didn't fool with all that drama.

The people or person that thought of this sketch, did not have to think very hard there is a little bit of every family, in this sketch.

This is the first Family skit...so brilliant!

These mama family skits are sometimes too uncomfortably real. But damn their funny and good.

I sent this to my Aunt and said next time you ask me why I don't visit this is why

Brilliant insight into what makes a family dysfunctional.

I empathize with Phil. It's the reason I choose to be estranged from most of my family, they are too self absorbed.

I love Carol Burnett and her wonderful sense of humor. Carol Burnett is a genius and her fellow cast members were all brilliant talented stars. No vulgarity, no cursing, just plain funny. I love as The Stomach Turns and I love love Mama's Family. I watched the show as a teenager and 50 years later I am still watching The Carol Burnett Show.

This was the very first "Family" sketch, and the beginning of Vicki Lawrence's 46+ years of playing Mama on screen and stage!

This rings so true with how I feel with my family, they are very self absorbed this way and I am so glad I have some safe distance from them.

Carol created theatrical episodes with these mama skits. She loves stage theatre. Superb script writing...

I felt so bad for Phil. They’re so wrapped up in their dysfunction that they have no interest in what’s going on with poor Phil.

A Nobel prize, Pulitzer, and world travels... but you still cannot get Mama's undivided attention? Hmm. They did a great job of capturing broken families from so many different angles. It almost hurts to watch.

😂😂😂😂 I’ve been watching for hours since I am sick and in bed couple days. This is the best medicine.

I've always loved these Family sketches. Carol, Harvey, and Vicki were all so brilliantly funny. So many people can relate to them. I can. I was always an outsider in my family and was treated the same way. Time heals. I can laugh about it now. It was disappointing but not tragic. We can always find love and acceptance if we are willing to give it. It doesn't always come with the "family".

The brother, Phil, regrets coming home about five minutes after he arrived. lol

So many floral patterns I need alka seltzer.

all i can say is i grew up watching carol in a time when things ment some thing, i loved her show as a child big fan for life, tv was different then compared to now all these episodes are priceless you don't know what ya got till it's gone maybe the younger generation will catch on, because tv has changed in the past 30 years there are no shows close to what we had a few channels but all good shows compaired to hundreds of channels of crap i will stick to classic, thats what i relate to god bless them all

This reminds me of my family🥺. If I would go on a trip or have something interesting to talk about my mother would completely change the subject and my sister now does the same thing.

A visitor in his own family

When I met my husband’s family for the first time, it was like that. He has 2 brothers with wives like Eunice and mama. They barely said hello to me, them continued their family yelling and disagreeing or fighting with each other and didn’t ask me any questions or opinion of anything. I could not believe it. They are also very loud people compared to my soft spoken family., which would be ok. Except for manners of not even trying to have a conversation with the future wife of their son or brother.. I told my husband on the way out “I am not going to live here in this town.” Luckily he was transferred to the south, which I loved.

...these are well done shows that are well acted and painfully funny!!

This is what my family was like when I used to go home from college. After a few visits, I stayed away.

This show reminds of my youth when we just didn't know how lucky we were at the time ,we were very poor and this made me forget for a while it really was a better time and place and longing to go back there.

Roddy McDowall is a actor wonderful !!👏😊😍🖒

Love this. I swear it's almost like watching my own family. Lol

“Oh, come on Eunice, Mickey Hart’s a good ol’ boy!!” Lol!!

No wonder he moved to India! Mercy sakes alive!

Dysfunctional family to the 10th power. Lol

This skit makes us reevaluate our conversations doesn't it ? It's very funny but brutally realistic. Be kind to one another people !!

Eunice’s hair is different 😂

This was hilarious from start to finish!!! Every word hit home in one way or the other. Carol and her coactors are brilliant, the writing is phenomenal! Wiping the tears as I try to type this!!

Making fun of life's reality in some families. Wonderful comedy!!!

you know as a kid I never realise how good looking Roddy McDowall was. Ye and like the ladies comment before mine I recognise so much of this family in my own. I guess that's why it's so funny.

Reminds me of my family in a way. Went to visit after several years and during the visit asked if anyone wanted to go get something to eat- my treat. They didn't. I said I was hungry and would go and get something for myself and I'd pick something up for them if anyone wanted anything. Everyone suddenly wanted something from different places scattered all over town. I said, "damn. Can't you all agree on one place?" They began bickering about the different places and how the food was better here or there. I threw my hands up, gave up and said, "I'm not driving all over town from one side to the other to different places- that's ridiculous! It would take an hour or more just driving around and most of the food would be stone cold by the time I got back! So here's the deal. I'm going to XXXXXXX and if you want something from there, I'll be glad to bring it back for you. Otherwise, you can go wherever you want and get whatever you want yourself." That started more bickering about how they always did it that way. That segued into how so and so one time went to get the food and stopped at the nearest place first and then drove across town to others and by the time they got back the food from the first place tasted like leftovers. That started more people complaining about how their food had been lukewarm. One complained that their sandwich had gotten all soggy and squishy. That started even more bickering. I just walked out, went somewhere and got something to eat and said fuck it. No wonder I chose to live in a city hours away from them! Another time, I asked my stepdad if he wanted to go to get something to eat. He said no. I asked if he wanted me to bring him something back. He said no. Ok, fine. When I got back, he began complaining loudly that he hadn't had anything to eat. I'd had it at that point, repeated all the offers I'd made and said, "If you haven't had anything to eat, it's your own damn fault and I don't want to hear anymore about it." Arrrrrgh!

We can most of us all relate to these characters, which is enough to make us laugh til we cry..

Philip is the Harper that grew up in England.

I sure would love to visit Raytown. I bet it would be a hoot....Eunice, don't forget you were jump rope champion of the block. 😂

Eunice screaming MAMA - LOL M A M AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So surprised to see Roddy McDowall! He actually published some photos in Life magazine in addition to his acting career.

This was the first Family sketch that I recall seeing on the Burnett show. And I watched it every week.

I was born in 82 but I remember that rotating fan! It was in the family 4 years when American products made great stuff! Isn't that Roddy McDowell?

It's a good thing Phillip didn't listen to his family. Instead of a Pulitzer Surprise, he could have had a column in the Raytown Morning Star.

It's scary but I will bet there are people like this in the real world!

Roddy was a handsome fella. RIP.

If u want to laugh this is guaranteed I grew up to this I love it

The way Carol screams MAMA.....looool

Mama's Family was really hilarious but it took a really dark turn later with the movie "Eunice." Mama has died and Ed has long since run off with a waitress to another town and divorced Eunice. Then, after Mama dies, Ed rolls back into Raytown with a scheme to get back into Eunice's good graces (talking about seeing her again and going out to dinner and movies and rekindling their "relationship") but it's all a plot to get some of the insurance money so he can buy out the hardware store in the other town and own it. At first, Eunice is falling for the scam and thinking Ed wants her back but wants to take it slow and easy even though she's excited but Ed lets slip that he's married the waitress. That's when Eunice puts everything together and realizes what's he's really up to and throws him out of her life for the final time. It really ended the series on a dark note.

Who put a camera in my families living room?

Those Shoes & the Wall paper on the wall I remember those days

2:21 🤣🤣🤣 Micky Hart's a good ool' boy!

Crazy funnie. Love them. The white sandal what a fashion lol

It is so painful to watch the disfunction in this family. Can you believe that this really happens in real life?

Thanks so much for uploading these comedic gems. Better than any snl episode.

Mamma and Eunice are so much alike - I love it how they go from arguing to off topic - genius!

'well excuse me for living !' A thing people from a certain era might say. My mum said it a lot.. the more petty the argument, the sooner it was said.

This is freaking funny man. I was raised with nothing but Mexican-American families. Remember watching the show when I was young. Live. They're just regular folks super funny

Can you do that one little thing for my sanity!!!🤣

My favorite all time comedy/variety show, period. And this series of skits was my favorite. But, I never understood why the very talent Roddy McDowall couldn't at least lose the British accent and throw a teeny bit of country twang in. He is an actor, after all.

I have heard that art or drama can mirror reality and the Higgens family can be considered as a satiric jab at dysfunctional families, but they can't compared with the comments I have been reading in these posts. I may feel a little sorry for Eunice and her family, but your people are a page out of Dr. Freud's book.

This Is Funnier Than Mama's Family Ever Was 💯

Mama's Family sketches, hilarious.

Superbly done but personally hits to close to home, no pun intended, to work as comedy.

Yup. Win the Pulitzer prize, get on the cover of Newsweek, and all your family wants to talk about is your color and the state of your bowel movements. Then lecture you about getting a real job at the town newspaper. Can’t imagine why he’s going straight back to the airport after. Also, we need to talk about this Ed/Mickey Hart bromance, lol.

Well, well at least this dysfunctional family yells their thoughts. My family kills me with silence.

This is why people leave home and never go back.

Can you imagine how many families are like this in quarantine?

Eunice wears the same dress 24/7.

I'm trying to figure out how Phillip came out the way he did after being raised around that, LOL!

I felt like Phil every time I went back home to the Midwest from California. I realized in minutes that no one was really interested in me at all because they were all so absorbed into their own melo-dramas. Then I would start counting the days until I could go back to California. They are dead now and I am free.

2:20 “Now come on Eunie! Mickey Hart’s a good old boy” 😂

Roddy McDowell was a beautiful man!

Just love The Carol Burnett Show love it love it love it

Eunice blends in with the wallpaper in that dress!

Oh, come on, Eunie, Mickey Hart’s a good ol’ boy!! Lol!!! The way he said that!!!

Run Phil run!

Phil understands he got some NUT CAKE in family but it still FUNNY !

Pretty much how reunions with my grandmother are, always screaming, its fun.

We saw Carol Burnett with Steve Martin 7 years ago in Beverly Hills; they were doing a 2-hour off-the-cuff talk together. What surprised us all was Carol's extremely serious demeanor, she barely smiled, absolutely nothing like her typically warm on stage persona. On the other hand, Steve happily engaged with the audience and was very open, fun-loving and whimsical throughout the evening. Perhaps Carol's overly pulled facelift and Botox made cracking a smile impossible.

They didn't give poor Philip time to say anything 😂😂😂I'm 💀 when they was arguing about the daughter not having talent then switched to the dog..😂😂

Ed could not have been less interested when Phil told about his Pulitzer and Nobel prizes. Then Eunice and Mama dragged Phil into their argument about how Mama missed her hair appointment last Friday. To top it all off, everyone was far more interested in the antics of Topaz than in visiting with the son and brother whom they had not seen in five years. The family wasted what precious little time they had with Phil by indulging in their bickering and petty arguments. The final insult came when Mama rejected Phil's offer to send her a copy of his new book,. To her, his book would be just one more thing to find a place for or to collect dust. These are the most developed characters that they ever did on The Carol Burnett Show.

love those white shoes!

Love MAMA'S FAMILY. Favorite episode was BUBBA'S DOUBLE DATE. Great episode. And the one with the psychic who channels the dead. Seen all 6 years of episodes. Wish it stayed on longer!