Mama’s Family

Only the first 2 seasons, the syndicated version was crap and utterly inconsistent with the original series.

I liked the one where Thelma and Naomi are female wrestlers for the day and tag team those fat lesbians.

I like all of the seasons except the last season.

I’m currently watching 227 on OWN.

It was worth watching once they got Bubba out of those silly baggy jeans and suspenders and into some nice basket revealing tight jeans.

I always wondered why Scooter and Bubba never hooked up. Vint would never figure it out.

Google Allan Kayser shirtless. Damn he’s fine.

I wonder if Allan Kayser knew how many fans he had.

Here's another photo of Allan Kayser.

Allan knew

And the Producers did too - he got progressively hotter and got more screen time

Vine was such a dumb loser.

Why did Ken’s daughter Halle never appear on the show?

MAMA'S friend seems SO LESBIAN to me.

This show was always my guilty pleasure

Seemed so hammy to me. Kind of like the Carol Burnett show. A very dated type of comedy. Archie Bunker, Jefferson’s and Good Times were better.

Oh god I hated that show. My mother loved it. She and her friends thought Lawrence was such a good actress because she played an old lady. Huh? Mom’s friend Barbara also thought the actress who played the robot girl from “Small Wonder” was a terrific actress, too, so that should tell you something.

I just recently watched this whole series. I get the comfort food comparison but overall it's a pretty bad show. Only a few really funny episodes. I think the syndicated is just as good as the original first two seasons. I was glad to see Vint's kids go though. They were bad and I love Iola and Bubba of course.

Lawrence was brilliant as Mama as written on the "Carol Burnett Show." She nailed the southern Bible Thumper hypocrite - and she was only 24 when she started Thelma!

Thelma on the syndicated "Mama's Family" was a completely different character on a puerile show. The Mama of TCBS and the syndicated MF are vastly different, as is the writing,

Wasn't that different to me.

You weren't paying attention, R19.

I just watched the whole series. It wasn't different.

I love this show. I wish it were on normal tv and not the logo channel.

It's on MeTV (not cable) every night.

Wait. Someone is saying that the Mama on Carol Burnett was the same as the Mama on Mama's Family? She was a vastly different character on the two shows. She was much less mean and caustic on Mama's Family. She needed to be, to a certain extent.

Fact is, the writing on the Carol Burnett Show version was vastly superior. Mama's Family was a pretty bad show.

It’s a horrible show but I love it.

Someone is saying? I AM saying. It is fine. It is not a big noticeable difference like you eldergays are making it out to be. So what if the character became harsher. That's how some old people get anyway as the years go on. Look at you all on datalounge. 😉 Mama would fight right in here in the lounge.

Total drek, you can see the punch lines a mile away. Something that was ok as a sketch on teh Carol Burnett Show doesn't necessarily make for a good series.

Vicki was worried about how such a venomous character could anchor a weekly series, and it was Harvey Korman who told her to soften Mama up and make her more lovable for the TV show.

It’s my comfort food when I’m depressed. Love it.

R26 The character didn't become harsher. She become toothless.

Naomi was slutty white trash in the NBC episodes, practically a carbon copy of her Opal Gardner role, which is why Burnett hired her in the first place. In the syndicated version, she was more of a ditzy airhead.

NBC version the house had FOUR bedrooms upstairs. In the syndicated version the house only had TWO bedrooms, which meant Vint & Naomi were forced to have their bedroom in the basement.

Happy April Fools Day!

I don't know the exact year this was taken, but it's obviously long after the show was over. Oh yeah, he's fine as wine!

I still like the April fools day and the female wrestlers episodes.

I liked it and if they still showed re runs in my area Id still watch I liked Bubba. Just my type.......shorter and built, and not too bright.

I also really like the carol Burnette charcter of Eunice, thelma, and Ed in ...................the family

I met Allan Kaiser at a convention a couple of years ago. Extremely nice guy and yes, he’s well aware of his gay fan base. I casually mentioned the tight jeans they made him wear, and he said “I have a big gay following the tells me about those jeans all the time.” He also added “I still know how to work it,” or something along those lines. Indeed, he does, because he’s still frickin’ hot.

The Mama in the NBC shows is vastly different from the syndicated Mama. Season 1 NBC Mama was humorless, caustic and she never cracked a smile. By season 2, they’d softened her a little, but she was still nowhere near as jovial as she would become in the syndicated episodes. Vint also changed, going from being a misogynistic, slightly unlikable loser and grifter to an affable, lovable doofus in the syndicated episodes. Naomi had a similar transformation, going from the NBC incarnation of a sleezy hillbilly tart to the high pitch voiced, likable ditz in syndication.

Lyman was essentially playing Opal Gardner in the NBC version. Carol fell in love with her AMC performance, and pretty much wanted her to duplicate that on Mama's Family. Not sure why they changed direction in the syndicated show.

I only like the scenes with Mama's daughter....Betty White....she was always embarrassed by Mama's hillbilly ways.

Someone should write a fanfic between Bubba and Buzz.

I like the Valentine's Day episode with the stripper at the end.

R41, Bubba had a tight package while Buzz had a cute little bubble butt on him.

Only gay men could find something homo-erotic about Mama's Family. Must everything with you be about sex?

In syndication, Buzz was going to be too smart a character for Thelma. Bubba the hot dumb bunny was a good foil.

Naomi should still have been written on the trashier side, though maybe slightly less. Vint was dumbed down too in syndication, so maybe that was done to make the show sellable.

That's what we think.

r37, that's awesome! He sounds like a cool guy.

Mama Family had NO black character's,do nope i did not like the show.It was unrealistic. ..to non conservatives.

Stripper at 18:09. As a kid, I fucked my pillow to that.

Kayser was perfect from his expertly coiffed strawberry mane down to his Chuck Taylors. He seemed to get even more buff and thick by the last couple of seasons, which is odd because he had a major coke problem by then.

I don't know what is says about me that I know this, but the stripper was played by hot piece of ass David Sederholm, who had played a cop on Ryan's Hope in the early/mid-80s. He was one of my first JO fantasies when he was on the soap. Grant Show played his brother on the soap.

[quote][R37], that's awesome! He sounds like a cool guy.

He is!

Bubba can get it anywhere, anyhow, anyway, anytime. Aging sexy as fuck. Those pink nipples. Mmmm. Well, I never noticed a change in the characters. Mama was always a bitch. They were always trying to hustle money. People don't stay the same anyway. Why should the characters. Bubba alone makes the syndication versions better although I think the first two seasons are fine minus the children as I've said before. I like the episodes, "Mama gets the bird" "a blast from the past" and "very dirty dancing". They could reboot it now with vickie Lawrence being a true old lady. Tiffany/Thelma would be grown up. Bring back Bubba, Eunice, Betty White, and Naomi. R.I.P. Vinton.

Iola Boylen was my most favorite character.

^^^Yes, I love Iola too. She is hilarious. Bring her back for the reboot too.

Ken Berry was a GAY BOY.

"Only the first 2 seasons, the syndicated version was crap and utterly inconsistent with the original series."

The original series was crap, REALLY crap. That's why it failed. The syndicated version did some very sensible things, namely getting rid of Aunt Fran and Vinton's two awful children Bud and Sonia. And it added the unforgettable character of Iola Boylan, a middle-aged spinster who lived with her parents and wore nothing but pink gingham shirtwaist dresses and pink bows in her hair. Although I never found him funny or amusing, some people were joyed by the addition of Bubba Higgins, the runaway son of Ed and Eunice. Played by Allan Kayser, he was incongruously hunky (Ed and Eunice Higgins produced a son that looked like THAT?) and looked like a grown man rather than a teenage boy. But even in syndicated form "Mama's Family" was a lowbrow humor, and the character of Thelma Harper, who was an irredeemable, monstrous she-devil in the original "Family" sketches on the Carol Burnett show, was watered down to make her seem basically good-hearted despite her crustiness. What a cop out.

I love it that some of these "low brow humor" shows like Mama's Family are more fondly remembered than pretentious, self-important drivel like Murphy Brown or Designing Women.

R38/R39: I often wondered if Lyman had a skin cancer scare or something. In NBC, she is thin and TANNED with a pony tail and a low voice and is ready to brawl with Thelma. In syndication, she's thicker, has that perm pilled on her head, has the high-pitched ditz voice, and she is WHITE! As the snows of Canada. Her character changed the most in both appearance and demeanor. Iola annoyed me only because they lazily cast her as the pink dress wearing Fran substitute. They could have put more thought into her appearance to make it less obvious. I sill say the NBC seasons were superior, including Buzz's butt (his face was cuter than Bubba's as well, fight me).

Yeah the NBC season was far superior to the syndicated version. I know...that's like saying that JC Penney was superior to Sears. However, it was closer in tone to the original family sketches. The syndicated shows were more farcical, the humor much broader.

i liked this as much as i liked beverly hillbillies, green acres, gilligan's island, The Andy Griffith Show ,The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Brady fucking bunch and any other show that you need to removed 3/4's of your brain to enjoy.

It’s comfort food so is Alice. Both are shown frequently on Logo.

Team Buzz, don't mind gingers, but Bubba never did it for me...

" lazily cast her as the pink dress wearing Fran substitute"

Iola and Fran are NOTHING alike.

[quote]Buzz's butt (his face was cuter than Bubba's as well, fight me).

I will, because you deserve a beat down for that mess...

This is GORGEOUS...

Bubba feeling less like himself

I would be concerned for someone who wore nothing but pink gingham day in and day out. Like, genuinely concerned for their mental health.

R67 she DID almost have a nervous breakdown several times

I liked Mama's Family and thought it was funny. Watching it is like eating comfort food. There's nothing really controversial about it. I preferred the Bubba seasons to the Buzz and Sonja seasons. I liked Iola and Naomi.

Iola and Fran are NOTHING alike. Iola is wacky as hell. Sweet and a pushover. Fran was more high strung. Fran actually made me sad in the dress episode. The fight between her and Mama genuinely moved me. I was sad when she went off into the great beyond but I love Iola.

The buzz and Sonia years were not my faves but I liked the whole series.

Vinton was truly awful in the NBC "Mama's Family." And Thelma was so co-dependent towards her only son that it was revolting. As I recall there was one show where Vinton steals Thema's silver for money to get a criminal buddy out of jail. Of course she gets enraged and rails at him. He then threatens to take his kids and leave. Fran encourages her to let him go but she can't; in fact at the prospect of his leaving hse wails "VINTOOOON!" It was all very unfunny, a mother willing to live with her no good son's criminal tendencies. It did improve the show to make Vinton a harmless doofus.He was still a deadbeat, living with his wife in his mother's basement, but at least he wasn't a criminal anymore.

Yeah, NBC Vint wasn’t likable at all, but he did give us Vinnie Vegas...

Spot on, R72. I actually found that episode to be one of the funniest of the NBC episodes though.

I like the episode where they try to find a man for Iola by way of personal ad.

I liked it the episode where they're all busy with something so Naomi has to make lunch. The look on Mama's face when she eats a sandwich with a Kraft Single - with the plastic still on - is priceless.

I liked the one where they have a contest as to who can make the best chili. Thelma, Iola and Naomi are the contestants and Vinton is the judge.

R77 I love that one!

One of Naomi's "ingredients" for her chili was ... a can of chili.

Iola should have stolen Naomi's husband.

The bitch tried R80

Ken Berry was funny as Vint

Kenny Berry was a hot furry daddy as Vint.

Well Good Lord!

Lolly Purdue is illiterate!

[quote]MAMA'S friend seems SO LESBIAN to me.

I will have you KNOW that I chose my career over a relationship - I am my mother's primary caregiver.

I'm also active in my Church and in my community.

And I have not met the right man yet...or so Mother says.

R83 I agree

I think maybe Eunice on The Carol Burnett Show maybe got a bit too dark for its own good, as it went on.

The final season of TCBS featured Dick Van Dyke taking the place of Harvey Korman. In the Eunice sketches, they had Ed leave Eunice which I find to be too dark for the way she portrayed the character, you know? Whereas the actors in say Maude played the characters as realistic, Eunice and Mama were a bit too over the top to sustain such a dramatic story line.

Those episodes with DVD are rarely seen, as they were never part of the syndicated package of Carol Burnett and Friends. I suspect they were mostly seen once when the show air, and forgotten about. DVD plays Dan, a guy who was an old Army buddy of Ed's. I believe he turned out to be a grifter. It may have been a better idea to have DVD just take over the role of Ed from Harvey Korman.

In any case, Dick Van Dyke only pasted half a season. A couple of Eunice sketches were done without him,, the final one being in 1979.

Attached is the episode where Eunice finds out Ed is leaving her. Starts at about 2:30 on the tape. Check it out and see if you agree with me that it was a mistake to have Ed leave Eunice.

Typo! Should say "LASTED half a season"

Sorry.

I actually thought Eunice was the best character of the entire sketch, but quite dark, sort of like a cartoonish cast-off from The Last Picture Show. I love the Family sketches primarily because of Eunice and feel that they hold up better than a lot of the other stuff from TCBS because they are darker. The Eunice/Mama dynamic were at the heart of those sketches, the tonal change that occurred upon Mama's Family's move to syndication as I don't think the original tone that the network series was going for worked without Carol Burnett being on the show full time.

Bubba smelled ‘funny’ down there.

I didn't watch the show for fucking Bubba. He was a moron.

I actually hated Eunice. Carol Burnett is not funny to me. I hated the episodes she appeared on. All that mugging and buffoonery she does. Yuck.

Ant Effie had the smelly snatch.

R93 did u get close to it?

They HAD to have Ed leave Eunice; Harvey Korman left the show. Dick Van Dyke did replace Ed sort of; he became Eunice's new love interest. But Dick Van Dyke should NEVER have been on The Carol Burnett Show. Dick Van Dyke as a second banana to Carol Burnett? It just didn't work. Anyway, the addition of "Dan" didn't provide many laughs; in fact, his presence made Eunice's situation seem ever more desperate. I vaguely remember the ending of one skit. Dan, who cares nothing about Eunice, brushes her off and leaves; she runs off after him, saying he can have her if he wants her. But before leaving she turns to Thelma, who has witnessed that pathetic scene, and says to her "It's somethin', Mama. It's somethin'." Now that is VERY dark comedy.

I liked it when Eunice thought she was gonna win the Gong Show. When she was “gonged” they stopped the show and close upped her face looking shattered. Kinda dark.

Why did Korman leave?

Dead

I loved watching this show cause I got to see Eric Brown for the first season. I spent many nights dreaming of him after watching Private Lessons. And before you ask, I was younger than he was back then.

Gross r99

"Why did Korman leave?"

I think he just wanted to be out on his own. He had his own show for a while (it didn't succeed). He really was a comic genius, though. The Carol Burnett show really started going downhill after he left.

R101 I love that episode! Especially in yje beginning when Vint and Naomi are dancing for mama showing her the latest dance craze. Hilarious.

I agree, r64. And I'm ready to fight that bitch at r58, too.

Is this the thread about Susan Hayward, where she drinks?

The first time I came, it was thinking about Bubba and his huge bulge. That was our porn back in the day. You had to use your imagination

What was the setting of the show? North Carolina?

Raytown, Missouri

I didn't realize Missouri is so ... small-town South. Ew.

I never knew the state that Raytown was supposed to be in was Missouri. They never said it on he show, only referring to it as the Tri-State area.

I loved the names of all the retail and entertainment establishments in Raytown: The Bigger Jigger, The Pepperpot Playhouse, The Food Circus, Kwik Keys. By the way, there is a real life Raytown, which is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.

Iola was a virgin. Her pussy must have stunk like Ant Effie’s!

Iola's pussy was as pink as the rest of her.

[quote]I loved the names of all the retail and entertainment establishments in Raytown: The Bigger Jigger, The Pepperpot Playhouse, The Food Circus, Kwik Keys. By the way, there is a real life Raytown, which is a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri.

Let's not forget RayMart, St. Ray Hospital, Jack LaRay's Health Spa, The Ray of Hope Home for Wayward Girls, the Raymada Inn, Chez Ray, McRay's, the Rayhound bus station, and Rayvis auto rental.

The Ray of Hope Home for Wayward Girls

How many DLers have stayed there?

Chez Ray is my fave for date night

Bubba ran away to Bump after they accused him of stealing geeky pencil neck Iola’s pearls.

How many batteries did Iola wear out after seeing Bubba?

Oils’s hymen is still intact.

^^Iola’s

Remember the urban legend that Bev Archer died??? So scary. Her Mom got scared.

Bubba smelled funny ‘down there’.

Buubba never made it to Bump, R116. Thelma.found him at the bus station in Raytown.

Beanpole Iola remained a virgin until the end.

Iola is not much of a caregiver. More of a mooch with a pink gingham fetish.

Bubba sure did make me feel funny down there.

Aunt Effie was bizarre.

Aunt Effie was pointless. Hate all her episodes.

Love is a beautiful thing that ought not be screwed with.

Duke Reeves, Eunice's one true love......lol

That fat Roselle Hufflander was often spoken of but never seen.

^It's HUPLANDER, thank you.

The mayor's wife was a cunt

I meant the minister's wife

Lollie Purdue was Ant Effie’s lesbian lover. They bumped pussies.

R132 and R133, they were BOTH cunts. Especially the Reverend Mrs. Meecham

They showed Duke Reeves in that flashback episode with young Eunice. haha.

I was always desperate for a candy cake!!

Well they just canceled the cool kids on Fox

Did Iola’s niece Vernette give Bubba a bj?

r135, that's Alberta to you, bitch!

Allan Kayser graduated from Columbine High School in Colorado.

Thank God the shooters didn't get Bubba!!!

^Allan had graduated from Columbine in 1982. The shootings happened in1999.

I know, I was joking

Was Cousin Cora a lez?

R126: She was Carl's spinster sister till the syndication, then she became some Crowley relative of Thelma's. Consistent writing....

[quote]Remember the urban legend that Bev Archer died??? So scary. Her Mom got scared.

Mother does not experience fear...

Since her last operation, she is incapable of feeling most human emotions.

You really felt chemistry between Lyman and Berry. Interesting also because Mama seemed to favor Naomi even over her own daughters.

Beverly Archer was a comic genius as Iola. The scenes with Mama and Iola are my favorite. Highly underrated show. (yes a lot is silly and corny, but there are many hilarious bits. My favorite episodes are the love letter, and the one where Iola is a femme fatale and Naomi is in gingham, and the film noirish one)

Beverly Archer is HILARIOUS.

Iola should have been president of the church ladies league.

Iola maintained a crush on Vinton. Vint got more goofy in later episodes---too much for the show. Ken Berry died within the past year.

[quote]Remember the urban legend that Bev Archer died???

I remember it well

[quote] never knew the state that Raytown was supposed to be in was Missouri.

the only real proof is that on the NBC episode where Mama learns to drive, Aunt Fran's car has a Missouri license plate. When someone in the audience asked why the Harper's talked Southern, Carol Burnett said it wasn't planned, but it was just more fun to do the characters like that..

[quote] the character of Thelma Harper, who was an irredeemable, monstrous she-devil in the original "Family" sketches on the Carol Burnett show, was watered down to make her seem basically good-hearted despite her crustiness

You're not wrong, but the problem is when you take a basically unlikeable character, and move them from a supporting to starring role, you have to change them to make them likeable. Or you wind up with Phyllis for example. Who was funny in small bits, wasn't likeable on Mary Tyler Moore (even Mary Richards says they aren't as good friends as she thinks) and then doesn't change when she gets her own starring show. You wind up with a mess, the only saving grace on Phyllis was Mother Dexter, another unlikeable character but in a supporting role. And you only liked her because she disliked Phyllis.

Bubba was very funny at first, basically till he graduated high school, then around then they changed his messy hair and styled it and blow dried it (big hair for the 80s) and he became a yuppie.

The first episodes of him being untrustworthy (he has to have the bedroom next to Thelma, so she could keep an eye on him every second) or when he stole the stop sign (you hear the crashing cars) are hysterical.

The syndicated years produce weird contradictions such as adding two or three more (I forget) extra husbands for Naomi, making Vint and Naomi stupid (as opposed to devious and strong willed) and establishing only two bedrooms, which means Vint, Eunice and Ellen shared?

Also notice in the first half of the syndicated years, Iola was sort of an opponent to Mama, (such as accusing Bubba of stealing) and not as chumy best buddy with Mama as she later became. I wonder if that was the original idea for Iola was and it was dropped.

And Yeardley Smith's "Bonita" was brilliant. She could've made a living playing thugs.

Allan is now old and no longer hot. We are glad.

I was so surprised this show was created or ran at all! The whole idea of Vicki Lawrence in a dime store wig playing a senior when she clearly was not one seemed so amateurish, like a junior high school play where some kid has to play the grandmother. I think I watched one episode, it was all so dumb. I'm glad people enjoy it!

Ant Effie had the smelly snatch. I know. I smelked it.

Vicki said the Mama was originally written for Carol but when she read the final draft of the first sketch, Eunice appealed to her more, so she took that and gave Vicki the Mama role. Vicki said "Carol said Mama was like Tennessee Williams on acid"

What did Ken Berry do between the network run and syndication? Eye lift? Face lift? He looked different.

Yeardley (Lisa Simpson) Smith as the Keke

The fabulous Anne Haney as Albert Meacham!

[R 111] Rayhound Bus Lines...there are so many.

[quote]The fabulous Anne Haney as Albert Meacham!

She was an FTM?

NEVER got into mama's family, too many characters and the character of mama changed drastically.. she was AWESOME on the carol burnett eunice sketches, however, the difference was on that show, mama was a "foil" and rarely talked unless to throw out funny stone face panned insults and it was eunice's life and story. On mama's family with no carol and thus no eunice, mama had to talk more and more, changed the character and so on... i did have a crush on ken berry though.. i very very vaguely remember some sketch on a tv show where he played a robin hood? like character and wore spray painted on green tights! and damn his legs were shapely as was his ass... i believe he was a dancer and why he had such a nice sexy lower body?...

anyway, i do go to watch on youtube videos of eunice and mama from the carol burnett show as well as the best videos of episode of laverne & shirley as my go to to make me happy videos... i think both shows "hold up" unlike others....

OFF TOPIC: but in regards to that actor allan kayser, it made me think of (i don't know why! lol!) that teenage slice of blonde hunkiness that was on that lupone show "life goes on". as the daughter's wishful fantasy dreamboat boyfriend... i forget his name but he was dreamy and wore his jeans like many back then spray painted on skintight! wonder whatever happened to that actor?

Anne Haney’s snatch smelled as bad as Ant Effie’s. Pee you!!!!

Needs to be on hulu!!

I gave him one, r139!

I really liked it, and I think a lot of you are overthinking it. That being said, there were some gigantic plot holes. One of my favorites is in the last season when Vint and Naomi are trying to get pregnant, and they're trying to figure out which one of them has fertility issues. I know Buzz and Sonya were completely forgettable, but dayum!

Little Eugene is on LOGO right now.

What if Little Eugene had demanded to share Bubba's bed?

white trash

r170

You can have kids and later on have issues having more.

Mama tried to get Bubba to share his bed with Little Eugene.

Little Eugene is now 47

That god awful Eulalie Griswald had the purple dress on and was handing out mint cups last night.

I've always been upset that we never got to meet Kay Cheeseman.

bubba is my perfect type.........not too tall and built like a brick shithouse. Even the correct hair color.

Bubba smelled ‘down there’.

R180 musky hairy cock is the best

My favorite episode is the Latin Sizzle episode when Mama and her friend enter the dance contest.

Sure, r174, but it's seems a little strange that his previous children didn't even rate a mention during the discussion.

I loved Mama's reaction to Vint's invention called the Pet Lock (a take on the Pet Rock, but using broken locks from Quick Keys): "Vint, you've come up with some lame ideas, but this one qualifies you for handicapped parking!"

Why was Fran treated like an afterthought? Wasn't Rue a bigger star at that point?

No. She only had her stint on Maude. Vicki was extremely popular from Carol Burnette

Rue was nothing before Golden Girls.

Betty White said she would've gladly done more guest spots on Mama's Family (this while she was on Golden Girls) but she said no one ever asked her.

I say Mama's nasty bits were better than Mary Richard's or Ann Romano

R188 that Ellen character was awful And not that funny

^^^I agree.

Iola’s mother was fat. But we never saw her.

yet another piece of crap show championing ignorance and stupidity

R192 chrissy metz would have been perfect for that role as Iola’s mother.

"yet another piece of crap show championing ignorance and stupidity"

It wasn't a masterpiece, but I'm not sure how it was "championing ignorance"

"chrissy metz would have been perfect for that role as Iola’s mother."

Weird how some people here are so obsessed with a C-list actress that they have to mention her in EVERY thread

R187 I guess that's why she got third billing behind Bea and Betty.

[quote]Iola’s mother was fat. But we never saw her.

Funny how that works.

Off screen character? How was that even possible?

Why was Reverend Meecham’s wife such a god damned up tight cunt?

She never got laid

Did you ever see the Reverend? That's your answer right there.

Iola was annoying. They even gave her a new best friend once, Arlene, and Arlene got sick of her very quickly. I can see why. Iola never got laid.

....

r202

She and Vint got plastered on Aunt Effy's rum balls after high school graduation.

Shit show.

Did LuAnn Fayette tell Naomi how big Bubba’s cock was?

Well, I loved the "family" sketches on CBS and "Mama's Family" and even the early 80s two hour special "Eunice." But for what it's worth, I thought that Raytown was in Texas, not Missouri. As for Iola, I think she was a certain "type" who very much existed in real life. In the 1980s in my big city office building, there was a private sector department with an Iola who wore the shirtwaists and had that regulation tight hairdo. She might have been somebody hired during World War II. Such people existed. I saw Beverly Archer playing a NJ real estate agent in a feature film. Sadly, I forget the title, but Matthew Broderick was the publicist for a TV star who was selling the star's father's house. And she was good in that role too.

I would love a Mama/Madea movie, sort of a geriatric Thelma and Louise.

I hated the "Eunice" special. It rehashed a lot of the old Family sketches (Duke Reeves, Fluffy the Rabbit, Carl on the toilet) but the worst thing about it was that it was just NOT FUNNY. It was a hell of a lot more depressing than funny.

[quote]She and Vint got plastered on Aunt Effy's rum balls after high school graduation.

It was the Thanksgiving tornado episode where just Iola got drunk on the rum balls and ended up singing "Tiko Tiko" right before she passed out.