Let’s be Mama’s Family!

I'm the painted-on jeans worn by Bubba and Buzz.

I am Iola's toy soldier vacuum cleaner cosy.

I'm Bubba's never-aired shower scene.

I'm the tooth pick that killed Aunt Fran.

I’m Sonia’s useless waste of space in literally every episode.

I'm the back room of the Bigger Jigger.

I'm grandson Buzz's hot ass in tight jeans

I'm Iola's mother. You never see me, but you do hear about me.

I'm AMC's Opal Gardner playing the same shtick on a different show, & always wearing a frilly off the shoulder dress.

I am Buzz and Sonya, who?

and

I am Bubba, hotter than Buzz, hotter than the sun, and making little gaylings put down their sister's Barbies to drool at the screen.

I'm Mama's "funny" neighbor who thought Bubba looked good going or coming and would leer at him through the drapes whenever he did yard work... You never saw me on the show, but I was there

This is Mama's "funny" neighbor again, I just thought I'd add another picture of Bubba, you know to leer at

I'm Officer Sneed, later promoted to Detective Sneed. I was weirdly sexy in a nerdy kinda way.

I’m Aunt Effie’s pussy.

I’m Eunice’s lack of talent.

Here's Bubba in 2007... Still workin' Mama's nerves :)

I'm Fran, wondering why I agreed to move in with my demanding sister who can't even drive while her stupid son can't even keep his own house and has to move his brood in here as well.

I’m Naomi’s yellow, off the shoulder polyester dresses.

I'm Kwik Keys.

I'm Bonita Rokiki, aka THE KEEK!

I'm Mama's rape whistle.

I hated the KEEK. UGLY.

I’m Thelma’s pink refrigerator likely from the 1950s.

I'm the "The Family" sketches on the "Carol Burnett Show" wondering what happened to my pathos, poignancy, and bittersweet tone.

I'm the swinging kitchen door.

I'm DUKE REEVES! DUKE REEVES! DUKE REEVES!

I'm the Princess Thelma Rose

I'm a masculine ass that Bubba is trying to impregnate.

It will never work, but he should try forever.

I'm the Raytown Rapist. Iola secretly wishes I'd climb in her window one night.

I’m the Food Circus where Naomi Harper is head checker.

I'm Thelma's panty hose, rolled down past her knees.

I'm Duke Reeves. I'm still in love with Eunice, deep down.

I'm pastel overalls, I'm part of the failed attempt to 'fem' Sonia up.

[quote]I'm the tooth pick that killed Aunt Fran.

I've told you and told you, she died of NATURAL CAUSES!

I'm the picture of Vinton in Iola's room that she uses to...get ready for bed.

I'm the Raytown Gay Bar - The EVEN BIGGER Jigger. Things really start hoppin' around here when the movie show lets out - especially if it was showing one of them Hercules movies.

I'm Iola's two shades of lipstick: Blush and Bashful.

I'm Vinton's Cobra fez.

I'm the sense of Raytown pride

that inspired so many business to be named after our fair city

including but not limited to

Chez Ray

Ray-Mart

Galaraya Mall

Ray-mada Inn

Rayland Ballroom

and the X-Ray Vision I wish I had to see through Bubba's clothes

I'm Ellen's new butt.

I'm the Raytown Country Club

where Ellen Jackson and her husband Bruce socialize with the most affluent and socially prominent citizens of Raytown

(and where Ellen hopes no one knows she's related to that awful Eunice Higgins)

[quote]I'm the picture of Vinton in Iola's room that she uses to...get ready for bed.

I'm the cozies Iola knitted for her collection of dildos and vibrators

Just in case, Father Boylan should come into her room looking for Mother Boylan's mentholated salve again

and accidentally open the wrong cabinet...again

I'm Lolly Perdue, Chairwoman of the Church Ladies League

I may be fat and obnoxious but I'm also secretly illiterate

R41 FFS

I'm the new Cadillac Bruce Jackson buys for his beautiful wife Ellen Jackson (nee Harper) every year

I'm the discerning gay man reading this thread and realizing, that contrary to popular opinion, not all gay men have good taste.

Raytown Girls just want to have fun, R43!

I'm Naomi Harper's secret Chili Recipe

R47, that was a hilarious episode.

I'm the house phone. I'm rotary dial. These hillbillies who live in Mama's house use their fingers to dial me. They should be using a pencil.

I'm one of the best episodes ever filmed,

Season 2, Episode 5

"Rashomama"

[quote]I'm Bonita Rokiki, aka THE KEEK!

And I'm the most famous role of the actress who played her.

I'm the cheerful glucose cozy that Iola crocheted.

[quote]I'm the discerning gay man reading this thread and realizing, that contrary to popular opinion, not all gay men have good taste.

Quit yer strutting around, we all get it - you're a bitch gay man!

Now sit down and have a beer...

I'm Mama's support hose. I keep her edema in check.

I'm the Craftsman-style Bungalow house used to film the exteriors of Mama's House

conveniently located at

1027 Montrose Ave, South Pasadena, CA 91030

worth over $1,9 million today

I'm the downstairs powder room...

where our beloved Carl passed away

while sittin' on the can

I'm Iola dressed as Naomi in "I Do, I Don't," S4 E15. I'm wearing an off-the-shoulder *pink* dress. I'm fantasizing about marriage to Vint.

I'm Mama's green formica-topped dinette table and chairs in the cozy Kitchen

My grandmother had one just like it

I'm the casting director who cast a stud as a nerd.

I'm the good Reverend Meechum, spiritual counselor and pastor to the Harper family for many years

I'd like counsel that handsome young Bubba...if I only had the chance

I'm Bubba's never seen swim team Speedo.

My mother loved this show. She identified with it I guess. Anyway, I don't really like it but watch it every now and then to remember her.

[quote]I'm Bubba's never seen swim team Speedo.

Ha, joke's on you...I swam without my Speedo

Bubba was a masterful swimmer and Water Polo player

I’m Vernette Boylen, Iola’s niece. I miraculously recovered from having my head slammed into a television the year before and went to the prom with bubba.

Did Vint's & Naomi's basement love nest have a bathroom? Or did they have to upstairs to use the bathroom?

I'm little Eugene Meechum, queen in training

I'm Alberta Meacham, the minister's wife, who despises Mama for being popular with the church ladies. I will do anything to make her look bad, including running her bff Iola against her for church ladies president.

I'm also the only one on the show who speaks with an authentic Southern accent.

[quote]Did Vint's & Naomi's basement love nest have a bathroom? Or did they have to upstairs to use the bathroom?

I'd like to think they had a bathroom down there...

Vint was always coming up the stairs after having shaved and Naomi appeared in the kitchen beautifully coifed...

Besides the whole family was trapped down there the year that Tornado came through on Thanksgiving

I'm Carol Burnett wondering how my beautifully written, poignant, and character-driven sketches morphed into a broadly and poorly written tasteless sitcom.

[quote]Did Vint's & Naomi's basement love nest have a bathroom? Or did they have to upstairs to use the bathroom?

They had a bathroom in the basement.

Naomi used to talk about going downstairs for a "hot steamy shower"

R71 she didn't need no massager! Skeeter had me!

[quote]I’m Vernette Boylen, Iola’s niece. I miraculously recovered from having my head slammed into a television the year before and went to the prom with bubba.

Vernette didn't real look all that "recovered"

But thoughtful Bubba was kind enough to break his date with the bitchy girl and go with Vernette anyway

I'm Juvenile Hall...

where Bubba Higgins grew into a hot smolderin' specimen of walking sex

I'm the Harper refrigerator always fully stocked

with good food and generic beer

I'm Mayor Tutwiler

I'm Kay Cheeseman

I'm town slut Luann Fayette.

I'm Mama's pink refrigerator. What brand it was, where she got it, no one will ever know.

[quote]worth over $1,9 million today

In Raytown, it wouldn't even bring 1/10 that price.

[quote] I’m the Food Circus where Naomi Harper is head checker.

Was Naomi really the head checker at Food Circus? She seems too dumb for that much responsibility.

I'm Big Joan McCall

[quote] "Rashomama"

The name of the episode, alone, is intriguing ... I may have to rewatch. (Forgot what the hell it was about.)

R55 4 bedrooms and 1 bathroom? FUCK THAT

I’m Mr. Hansen Mama and Bubbas night school teacher. Before I had my way with Thelma Harper, I fucked DL TV icons Dorothy Zbornaik, Ann Romano and Mary Richards.

I'm Ellen's Cadillac. Though never shown, it's understood that every time said Cadillac is mentioned that Ellen is slumming when she visits Mama and family.

[quote] I'm Carol Burnett wondering how my beautifully written, poignant, and character-driven sketches morphed into a broadly and poorly written tasteless sitcom.

After you turned a role I won a Tony for into a stumbling, bumbling drunk just like your actual parents, I wouldn't complain if I were you. At least your show lasted more than a month even with you barely in it. I did a girl's school show first, but then Charlotte fucking Rae does one too and hers is a hit while mine dies on the vine after four weeks!

Those sketches were just loud and maudlin, not poignant.

I'm Iola's snobby friend Arlene Madison. I collect Hummel figurines and own a antique store.

I'm the exotic (for Raytown) Middle Eastern restaurant called The Garden of Eatin'

I’m Tiffany Thelma. I was born in an RV in my grandmother’s driveway.

I'm The Bonecrushers!

I'm Brandon Tartikoff struggling to find the right time slot for this show. We had to push it back from its fall premiere to make room for [italic]Taxi[/italic], but where should I put it? Should I put it after [italic]Silver Spoons[/italic] since the dad on that show is actually named Higgins for real? Maybe I should put it on after [italic]Gimme A Break![/italic] since Nell's character also has the last name Harper. I know what: I'll try putting it with [italic]Bosom Buddies[/italic] reruns. Anything is better than that stupid orangutan show with Leonard Frey.

Ah, screw it. Off to first-run syndication for you. Now to give Rue and Betty a call…

I'm Allan Kayser's acting ability that got worse and his jeans got tighter.

I'm the failed sitcom "Teachers Only" starring Lynn Redgrave that was paired with "Mama's Family" on Saturday nights in its one-season network run. I, unlike "Mama's Family," will never find new life in syndication.

I’m the underwear that Allan Kayser never wore underneath his skintight jeans.

I'm Thelma's giant fridge from the NBC seasons.

I'm the other Higgins … the one from [italic]Magnum P.I.[/italic] I won the ratings race on Thursday night at 8:00 PM/7:00 PM central that season only to be bested by [italic]The Cosby Show[/italic] and [italic]Family Ties[/italic] next season, so I suppose turnabout is fair play.

I met Allan Kayser at a convention in New Jersey a few years ago and he could not have been a nicer, more down to earth guy. I snuck in a mention about the tight jeans and he said that he was aware of his gay fanbase and that they’ve mentioned that topic to him a time or two.

I'm the divorce between Carol and Joe Hamilton that ensured Eunice would seldom appear. He got the new show and she got the old one.

I’m the sensu-bite fishing pole that nearly destroyed Naomi and Vint’s marriage.

I'm Harvey Korman parodying Alistair Cooke's "Masterpiece Theater" intro during the NBC season.

I'm the very special episode about one of Thelma's friends who can't read.

I'm Bo Peep gone hussy.

I’m Nikki Cox, before my inflated tits and lips, I played little Iola Boylen and recited mothers throughout history!

I'm [italic]The Scarlett Letter[/italic], the book Thelma does a report on when she goes back to high school. At least she couldn't cheat by watching that terrible Demi Moore movie since it didn't exist yet.

I’m Mama’s silver, pawned by Vint the loser so that he could post bail for his even bigger loser friend Claude Cainmaker aka Juliette Lewis’s dad.

I'm the talking parrot.

I’m the facelift ken berry got between the network and syndicated run of the series.

We're Alan Alda and Roddy McDowell, wondering why we weren't asked to play Thelma's son, instead, featuring a never-before mentioned son.

I am the horribly depressing Eunice made for TV film in which Mama dies and Eunice gives up on her dreams. Many DLers watch me and relate.

I'm Dorothy Lymans' quote of "All My Paychecks"!

I'm Leonard Oates, the Worm King of Tallahassee, Florida.

I’m Naomi, and I want to know what the fuck Jill Larson was doing non the production offices.

I’m the slutty sugar pack from Naomi’s collection that reads “ Arthur's Hideaway and Launderette: You tumble, we dry”

I’m Dorothy Lyman and I want to know what the fuck Jill Larson was doing trying on my wardrobe.

[quote] We're Alan Alda and Roddy McDowell, wondering why we weren't asked to play Thelma's son, instead, featuring a never-before mentioned son.

I'm the last season of [italic]M*A*S*H[/italic]. That should answer at least half that question.

I'm canned beer from the fridge. My label is indiscernible, but you know I'm domestic beer. Thelma cracks me open when it's her personal "Miller Time."

I'm the trip to Hawaii that Thelma won on [italic]Jeopardy![/italic] coming in second place with exactly one dollar.

I am the simple fact that those dark Family sketches from the Carol Burnett Show and a harsh and brittle Mama couldn't work in a 80s sitcom.

I'm Barney Martin, fresh from Arthur and Chicago, playing Thelma's drunk suitor in Hawaii.

We're the blink-and-you'll-miss-us clips from the NBC fall campaign song:

I am Aunt Effie's Rumballs.

I’m that tub of lard roselle huplander.

I'm the lavender dragon Eulalie Griswold

I'm Yeardley Smith playing one of Bubba's old pals from juvie before taking a role on another half-hour sitcom based on a sketch from a sketch comedy.

I'm T-Boy (of T-Boy and Dwayne), one of Bubba's friends. In real life I have an Oscar because I produced best picture winner "Argo".

I'm the casting director who found the perfect kid to play a young Eunice. She was amazing.

^ Great find, I had forgotten about "young Eunice"

I'm the Courteous Crook. Thanks a Heap!! (written in fine line pen)

I'm Bubba's acclaimed performance in Equus at the Pepperpot Playhouse.

Were there any gay characters? If not, then I'm the absence of gay characters.

I’m binkie bunny still traumatizing vinton.

I'm the Golden Trowel Award

I'm Vandercleefs

I'm Bubba's jeans that he wears commando :)

I'm R8 and I'm too self absorbed to make it all the way to the end of a 1 sentence OP.

I'm Leslie LaMoyne, the Patrick Vaughn of Raytown.

I'm all the plot lines that The Golden Girls stole from Mama's Family.

I'm Archie Woods, the sleazy Food Circus manager that got fired.

I’m the ancient DLer in my caftan who still watches Mama’s Family on MeTV. Bonanza is on next and my butthole is already getting moist for Big Hoss.

I'm the Pepperpot Playhouse production of 'Follies,' which, do to a zany mixup, had to be performed with the costumes for 'Cats.'

I am Tuna Montezuma

I'n the Raytown Travel Agency

I'm the trump supporters

I'm Nedemayers Department Store. I'm not sure how I was different than RayMart.

I’m Dr. Joyce Brothers wondering if vint....I mean Clint was able to get it up for Naomi

I'm Naomi's golden tan that was permanent on NBC and completely gone in syndication. (Seriously, did Dorothy Lyman have a skin cancer scare or something? She's as white as a sheet in syndication).

[quote] I'm the casting director who found the perfect kid to play a young Eunice. She was amazing.

That’s Tanya Fenmore. She’s also great in one of my favorite episodes of Tales from the Darkside, a hilarious send-up of The Exorcist.

[quote] Were there any gay characters?

I’m inclined to believe that soft spoken Buzz was gay. He and Bubba (the latter, fresh from reform school and ordinarily straight but not averse to a little walk on the wild side every now and then) could have been kissin’ cousins, with Bubba telling Buzz never to mention anything about their secret little get togethers in the attic.

I'm the radical personality and hairstyle transplant Naomi underwent between the network and syndicated episodes.

I think networkNaomi was too sexual for a syndicated show that kids could potentially watch at 7pm or whenever.

I'm the "very special ep" where Thelma realizes the bitch from the ladies' auxiliary can't read.

All the remaining mainstay characters had drastic overhauls from Network to Syndication.

Syndicated Mama was livelier and had more of a sense of humor than Network Mama (although she did begin to soften in season 2 of the NBC run). Season 1 Network Mama would never have participated in many of the hijinks that Syndicated Mama reveled in (“Dirty Dancing” included).

Syndicated Vint was a loveable goof who, while sometimes self-serving, he generally wouldn’t hurt a fly. Network Vint was the consummate loser and a misogynist, prone to bouts of egomania (see the “Amateur Night” episode), theft (“Mama’s Silver”), and who had a knack for being taken in by schemers and floozies.

Syndicated Naomi was a curly haired, bubbly husband-pleaser with an often high-pitched squeal of a voice and an overly-dramatic way of phrasing things (“As for you, Vinton Harper, it is goodbye FOREVER!”). Network Naomi was a sleazy broad. A Redneck Barbie with a lower-register country twang who, like her syndicated counterpart, had been married several times, but who was not above having a beer with and later shagging a guy from high school that she’d just reacquainted herself with (in his mother’s basement, no less).

I'm the ugly little tag Aunt Fran removed from her mother's area rug two years before Thelma burned a hole in it with Naomi's house keys and vacuum cleaner. That drunken asshole judge bellowed at Fran to pin me back on because she doesn't sew, yet she knits. Poor woman wet her panties right there in the courtroom! Fran attempted to pin me back on, but by then Vint had rotated the rug to hide the burn hole. She became frustrated she couldn't find my spot on the rug and took me back upstairs to hide me in her dresser where I remained till she died of natural causes. I eventually just hit the trash can.

@r150, That made me kind of hard :)

^Awesome!

I'm the mobile home parked conspicuously on Mama's property. Vint and Naomi finally move out of Mama's house ... into the mobile home on Mama's property.

Little Eunice was perfect casting. Wasn't that a crazy episode, too? Someone showing up drunk at a kids' recital?

I’m Stacey Q slumming it in first run syndication two years after my star turn as Cinnamon on The Facts of Life

I'm the casting director who found the perfect adult to play the teenage Eunice. She was amazing too.

I’m the Aqua Net used to give Allan Kayser his perfect coif.

I'm the flamingo motif that appeared in many episodes.

I'm the front porch set complete with AstroTurf grass, an indoors-y "echoing" sound which broke suspension of disbelief that I'm supposed to be outdoors, and the obvious scrim painting of the Harper living room whenever someone opened the front door to go back inside the house.

I'm Madame Rita. I charge 20 bucks for a night of family occult fun in which I will channel spirits to contact your dead relatives. I get all my info about your dearly departed down at my place of employment, The Beauty Spot.

I'm Thelma Harper's fake pearl necklace and endless array of pastel, flower patterned dresses.

I'm Naomi Harper's collection of lacy, frilled, off the shoulder yellow dresses.

I'm Iola Boylen's closet full of pink gingham shirtwaist dresses, accessorized by a pink hair bow.

R141 do you have one of those Boss Hog dildos? I saw a woman fuck herself in the ass with one. It’s the size of the wide end of a traffic cone. Should fit easily in your cave.

I’m the hangover from drinking a bottle of mother harpers miracle tonic.

I'm Eunice's boney shoulders.

I am Mama's Family Cooking.

I'm Fran's dress Mama ruined while ironing it and tried to replace it with a similar dress but was caught when the new dress had "all these tucks and gathers." Why do I remember this after 30 or so years?

I'm the Satsubishi 6000

I'm chee-wee.

The wardrobe designers did excellent work on capturing the personalities of the Harper family. But they missed the mark for Ellen, played by Betty White. Ellen was supposed to be more sophisticated than the rest of the family, so why was she wearing those faded Southern Belle rejects from the 50s? She should've been wearing more modern fashions but still looking like a hick.

R174 Because she was still in a small town. Believe me plenty of "well-to-do" middle aged Southern women still dressed like that in the 1980s. I remember seeing plenty of them.

I’m grandma francine’s fake tits.

I wish the rights hadn't gotten all convoluted. Apparently, at one time, there was talk of a Mama and Madea crossover movie, but they couldn't get the rights worked out. I would've enjoyed that.

^ I'm not sure they could get Mama's and Madea's egos together in the same movie

I'm THE BULGE.

I'm Mama's wig. I haven't been shampooed in eight months.

Everytime she opens the oven door I hold my breath.

I'm Bubba. I'm supposed to be a teenager but I look at least 30. But it matters not. My ass looks good in jeans, so nobody notices I'm the world's oldest teenager.

R181 he was 23 when he started as Bubba.

" He was 23 when he started as Bubba."

He looked older. It was pretty obvious he wasn't a teenager, so it was really funny to see him trying to act like one.

I'm the fake Hawaiian girl Bubba fell for. She was a forerunner of "Seinfeld's" Donna Chang.

Very few actual teenagers played teenagers on TV. I bought the illusion, but then I was dicktamized.

[quote]Very few actual teenagers played teenagers on TV.

And sometimes not even in movies.

I'm Stephen Sondheim and I can't believe I gave permission for the use of one of my songs in the "Grandma USA" episode.

R187 and that was "Beautiful Girls". I'm sure Steve is more than happy with the money he gets when the episode is perpetually rerun.

I’m the Chinese Hostess gown that Naomi is making. Keep me the hell away from Mama’s prized Singer!

I’m Zanada, a homely Portuguese woman Vinton has agreed to marry for money, even though he married Naomi 7 episodes ago.

Worky worky, Zanada. Come back next year.

I’m Olga Streckbavitch, career girl from Russia and superb Password player.

What does everyone take to the beach in Russia?

Power tools!

I'm the kiln amnesiac Naomi makes her crafts in.

I’m the biscuit that bounces off Naomi’s nose.

Vinton, get that Sensu-Bite out of my face!

[quote]I'm town slut Luann Fayette.

I'm the tight t-shirts Luann bedazzled to draw attention to her big jugs.

Good bye Mama!

Good bye Iola!

Good bye Bubba!

And good bye NOSY NEIGHBORS!!!!

I’m the Country Club prime rib.

Tough as it is, you can’t beat the price!

R174, the costume designer was Rhett Turner who was often on The Gong Show in the Scarlett and Rhett skits. He was a very handsome guy.

I'm the amateur Talent Show at the Bigger Jigger

I’m Sweetie Sally and I’m going to steal all of your gibble gabble.

I'm "Good Lord" the phrase mama used a few times each episode

I'm the "Wang" computer Bubba rents to type his term paper

when Mama's feud with the Raytown Power company caused the electricity to be shut off.

I’m the powdered sugar Naomi brought to make gooseberry jam.

Was I supposed to bring the liquid??!

I'm Route 5 where Eunice's old car broke down in the hot sun

I’m the tag Aunt Fran removed from Mama’s rug even though it said not to under penalty of the law.

I remooooved it!

I'm the forgotten fourth act of Rashomama where we should have found out what really happened to Mama.

I'm Aunt Fran's repressed sexuality and dried up old vagina

I’m the cardboard cutout of Heather Locklear.

Bubba did unspeakable things to me.

I'm Chuck Duval the Shopper's Pal

I'm the guys on the Swim Team

who lusted after Bubba

at the pool, in the locker room, and especially in the showers

I’m Henrietta the chicken. A good deed never goes unpunished.

I’m Casanova Magazine’s Girls of the Interstate edition.

I’m the Moo Goo Guy Grits and the Thousand Year Old Hush Puppies at the combination Chinese/Soul Food restaurant.

I’m Clint and Salomi, a couple in crisis.

I'm the buffet table Iola claims to know how to lay.

^^^^^

I bet that’s the only thing!

Carol's love of old Hollywood showed itself in that epi about the Pepper Pot Playhouse having Eunice play opposite "Sweetie Sally" who was played by veteran Hollywood star, Gloria DeHaven. I bet Carol had the best time rehearsing with her.

Oh and I am Vicki's wandering eyes that always seem to wander to Bubba's crotch whenever he is showing prominent VPL in some episodes.

I'm Alberta Meechem

Pastor's wife on the streets, freak in the sheets

Alberta brazenly tries to seduce handsome young men to have sex with her so her husband can watch

I'm James A. Ray, founder of Raytown

who died in a house of ill-repute located on the site of Thelma Harper's house

I’m the last piece of the Monitor and the Merrimack jigsaw puzzle.

All done Bozo.

At Number 1 Old Decatur Road, R218.

I’m the blue organza hat Mama put on hold at Niedemaiers down to the mall.

You want to do something with that hat?

You want to do something with that face?

I’m the oatmeal raisin cookies made for that ingrate, Willie Potts.

Now move it, you old hippo!

I’m Mama’s first and last day at Raytown Travel Agency.

It’s a great day at Raytown Travel Agency!

The hell it is!

I’m Archie Woods and I’ve bagged every checker in the Tri-State area. It’s one of the perks of being manager.

I'm the Rayhound Bus lines. Leave the driving to Gus.

I'm "The Letter" everyone thinks is written to them. Next time watch knowing the entire episode was filmed in real time 23 minutes with no stops or goofs. Cast reunion says that never happens in TV and they were out really early tape night.

I'm McRay's, the fast-food restaurant where Bubba and Mama get jobs.

I am the one just scrolling through this thread looking for more pictures of Bubba’s package.

[quote] I’m the powdered sugar Naomi brought to make gooseberry jam.

I'm spot heaven.

I'm the Ladies Circle Magazine quiz - How Romantic Are You?

Vint only got 3 points - a Cold Fish!

R174 R197 his name was Ret Turner (not Rhett) and he collaborated with Bob Mackie

I'm Kwik-Keys, briefly a subsidiary of Bernice.

I'm PTSD-inducing Binky Bunny.

I love how Allan Kayser was constantly manspreading on the show, and how he chowed down whenever Bubba was eating in a scene. So many actors will push the food around or only nibble whenever they are eating in a scene, but not him!

I am the underrated Beverly Archer who was always stealing scenes.

I'm Iola's one episode fiancee who knows just what to do with elderly parents!

I'm Miss Ludie's Basement where Vint took tap dancing lessons as a kid.

I’m Loni Anderson, getting ready for my starring role in MOP-THE THELMA HARPER STORY about a woman trying to get porn off supermarket shelves everywhere!!

I’m Mrs. Pfefferman, decider of the Golden Troll Award. I’ll be there around 4ish with the media. Ta ta for now!

That’s P F E F F E R M A N.

I’m Bubba’s pink man hole spreading wide open once the meth kicks in. I will be taking multiple loads from Raytown’s male community mostly married. My hole will be stretched to the limit by Ramon Ortiz, the lone Puerto Rican in Raytown and with a 12 inch cock. Thelma will have a bath of Epson salt ready to sooth my torn up man pussy.

I’m Arlene Madison, Iola’s newest best friend in the world. How do I get rid of this barnacle.

Hey lady....get outta the way!!

[quote] Thelma will have a bath of Epson salt ready to sooth my torn up man pussy.

They make salt for printers now?

r235 I agree that after the writing went downhill in syndication, they were lucky that Iola was there to keep the show interesting.

r228 You ain't the only one, hoss.

I’m Cousin Cora. I’ve been homeless for six months, and cousin Thelma is gracious enough to let me sleep on her couch for one night. Tomorrow she buys me a one-way bus ticket to Bump.

I died in a ditch on a Thursday.

I'm the cute Dectective Sneed who foiled Vin's million dollar Pet Lock dream.

I'm the pin up Bubba made of Mama...

Go to 17:00 Iola's reaction, always makes me laugh.

I'm Jack LaRay's Health Spa.

We're the Mystic Order of the Cobras.

I am Mama's, Eunice's, Ellen's, Iola's and Frances', Lolly and Effies hemorrhoids.

No fresh vegetables and other helpful fiber at the Food Circus!

And they all complain often that the suppositories just aren't big enough to get the "full and deep coverage" they all want.

I'm Vernette Boylen, and Luann Fayette is GOALS.

I’m chubbs still pissed ms. Harper tore up my sticky buns and fat shamed me at the food circus check out isle.

I'm Vinton's first wife Mitzi who was never scene

^seen or in a scene

Ret Turner and Bob Mackie were definitely fucking...for like years on end. Sad when Ret died and lots of his stuff showed up on eBay (and may still be there).

I’m the glistening toilet bowl left by the Courteous Crook.

Hobart!

I'm Iola getting into Quik Keys by way of the ajar store window to open the door for Mama. The sight of my long, slender legs splayed wide open as I land on my back apparently is the cause of much mirth every time the scene is seen by a certain poster to DL.

"Very few actual teenagers played teenagers on TV. "

I suppose some adult actors could pull off playing a teenager but most of them can't. Allan Kayser was one of the latter. It was so funny seeing him try to act like a dimwit teenager boy when obviously he was a grown man.

[quote]when obviously he was a grown man

Parts of Bubba were very obviously a "grown man"

I'm the smaller living room set (missing set of double windows) and the rattier furniture that came with the syndication set, as opposed to the NBC series set and furniture...

And whoever pointed out Ken Berry's facelift between Season 2 and 3, now that you've mentioned it - I can't stop seeing it.

It was a good facelift- he looks much younger and not at all "Kenny Rogers/Burt Reynolds" lifted.

[quote]I’m Casanova Magazine’s Girls of the Interstate edition.

Casanova's got to go! But, Food Circus has tuna, four cans for a dollar!

I liked Allan Kayser (who doesn't) but I never bought his backstory as a boy coming out of reform school. He was too clean-cut and earnest.

Warning: the link I posted is not "secure" but it does have a photo of Kayser in sweat pants pulled up to give his balls a wedgie.

Time ravaged every member of the cast except Bubba

who turned into a DILF

I'm the Raytown Quiters and Losers Club for the divorced and the widowed

that Ellen joined after Bruce left her for his secretary

where she met the handsome young gigolo Glen who took her to Chez Ray

I'm the ratings - Mama's Family struggled on NBC as a network show

But the revamped syndicated show was the #1 rated syndicated show for all four seasons

R258 Honestly, I could buy him as a teenager. Some real-life teens just look older. We had a guy at my high school that looked DILF 40 at 18. He was popular because he never got carded for booze.

Beverly Archer looks great in that recent cast photo.

@r262, this one?

I’m the answering machine.

Thank you, R268

Hot AF

R268, no, not the same photo. Looks like the same pants, but a different shirt (no torso showing).

Ken Berry said that the show ended because Vicki Lawrence was over it, but Lawrence said it ended because Lorimar had enough episodes for re-runs and didn't need any more, which seems like a more likely explanation. I love how she just calls Rue "nuts" when talking about other cast members in this interview (starts around 38:47)

I though Allan Kayser was great, particularly in season 3 when Bubba was fresh out of reform school and hadn't developed into the perfectly-coiffed haired, tight jeans-wearing, literate version of the character. Early Bubba behaved exactly like Eunice (his tantrum at Fran's repass in the first syndicated episode "Farewell Frannie" was classic Eunice). I'm inclined to believe that when he got the role, the producers had him watch tapes of Carol Burnett as the character and told him to mimic her. They obviously changed "Bubba" later on when the character started taking school seriously and wearing tighter jeans, grew his hair out, etc. He even dropped the southern accent as the show went on.

I haven't watched the interview posted yet at r272 but are there any stories floating around about how the actors got along on set? Or didn't as the case may be. It looks like they had fun filming for the most part, but then looks can be deceiving.

I'm Eunice and Ed's OTHER son...wasn't Billy Ray my name? I can't remember. What happened to me? In the "Eunice" special both me and Bubba were runaways, chronic delinquents, seemingly irredeemable.

I’m Vicki Lawrence SCHULTZ. For some unknown reason I chose to use this name in the credits for the last season of the show despite the fact I had never this name before or since mamas family ended.

I'm bedroom room upstairs where mama doesn't allow Bubba's fellow girl classmate into even though they would be just "expanding their minds" because that won't the only thing expanding.

How'd they get that past the censors? Lol

" Some real-life teens just look older. "

Some dissolute teens look older than their age because of smoking, drinking, drugs, etc. But Bubba never looked older in that respect. He always looked like a healthy, well groomed, well nourished MAN. His hair was particularly well tended. It' was obvious he was getting expensive haircuts, maybe even getting it colored. Even for a sitcom that seemed ridiculous.

[quote]Beverly Archer looks great in that recent cast photo.

Not too recent. Ken Berry died in 2018.

It has been linked here many times before, but the little "reunion special" that Vicki did on her talk show was one of most cringeworthy things I've ever seen. Vicks was a complete bitch to poor Beverly Archer, who by this time was stealing scenes on 'Major Dad'. It was obvious Vicki resented her, so why even have her on the show to berate her? I won't link to it just because of that.

The cast, besides Vicki, got along great.

Dorothy really did want to date Ken and she moved to some state that Beverly was living in after she recommend it to her.

It’s funny you say that, because Dorothy really did seem like she was into Ken in her role as Naomi. Granted, she’s an actress and was supposed to look like she wanted him, but it looked a bit too real at times.

[quote]The cast, besides Vicki, got along great.

I'm not sure if I believe that. I got the impression that it was a very friendly set.

If you do a search on YouTube for "Mama's Family reunion," you'll get hits for Vicki Lawrence's talk show. She had a reunion on her talk show. Apparently, you can see her being somewhat rude to one or more of her castmates. (I think it was the Iola actress, Beverly Archer. Sad. Iola was such a great character, Vicki should've been grateful for what Beverly Archer brought to the show.)

Ken Berry was always a cute and likable actor. But the character of Vinton on the original NBC MF was so off putting that even Berry couldn't make him the least bit sympathetic. That version of Vinton was a horror. I remember one episode where he rages and threatens to leave Thelma's house; Fran tells Thelma to let him go, but when she sees he's serious about leaving she wails after him "VINTOOOOON!" It was cringeworthy. ALL the Harpers on the NBC were unsympathetic and ranged from tolerable to unbearable. No wonder the show flopped. They syndicated version had the right idea by dispensing with Fran, Buzz and Sonya and revamping the characters to make them silly and goofy, which went down much better with viewers. And of course the addition of Iola made things even better.

I thought the Naomi/Vinton pairing was so surprisingly believable. Great chemistry.

I'm the lyrics to the theme, "Bless My Happy Home", that absolutely no one else but Vicki Lawrence knows.

[quote] I thought the Naomi/Vinton pairing was so surprisingly believable. Great chemistry.

A quirky pairing, really. IRL, Naomi could have married someone better-looking than Vint. Someone who wasn't residing in Mama's basement. However, I give credit to Dorothy Lyman for making the TV marriage seem plausible.

I imagine Vicki is very bossy, just like Mama. I went to see her live show, about 15 years ago. She was very good.

Ken had a nasty divorce and didn't want to get into another relationship but yes, Dorothy totally was into him.

She went onto a great career as a tv director while Archer scored payola with a network show. Vicki had the unsuccessful talk show, Berry pretty much retired and Kayser struggled to get clean from coke.

Wasn't Lymsn the in-house director for The Nanny show?

[quote] "I imagine Vicki is very bossy, just like Mama."

She IS an Aries, after all...

I thought D. Lyman was a lesbian.

[quote] I thought D. Lyman was a lesbian.

No, you didn't.

R292 & R293 D. Lyman is an Aries ALSO! ♈

R288 You forget that Naomi had been around the block a few times. Especially, in a small town, reputation can trump looks.

Mama was the original town tramp. She was nicknamed "Hot Pants" in her junior high days.

Shame on her. She was always calling me cheap when she was the original Blue Plate special.

[quote]t’s funny you say that, because Dorothy really did seem like she was into Ken in her role as Naomi. Granted, she’s an actress and was supposed to look like she wanted him, but it looked a bit too real at times.

Well she did win two Emmys for her soap, but sorry to disappoint but she was recently married right before she was cast. She was married to Vincent Malle a producer and brother of Louis Malle and Candace Bergen was her sister in law.

She didn't marry Malle until 1987.

I've only seen an excerpt of the Vicki! MF cast reunion mentioned above but didn't think Vicki was aggressive or unfriendly, though the group did seem kind of awkward. Despite her fond reminiscences, I don't think Vicki was cut out to be a talk show host. In the TV Academy Interview Vicki goes on about how she didn't think the NBC version worked as well and forced writers to re-write one episode in which Thelma was supposed to sleep with her visiting brother-in-law (Season 2, Ep. 20) because it was so out of character. She is very complimentary to Ken/Dorothy/Beverly/Allan and credits them, along with the former Carol Burnett show production staff, with the show's success in first-run syndication, though her insistence that the show could have won Emmys had it been nominated along with network shows in the late '80s seems a bit of a stretch. It is kind of remarkable how this character changed from "The Family" sketches to the "Eunice" TV special to the NBC show to the syndicated version.

Bitter crone Mama and fun-loving Mama both work for different reasons, and Vicki played both hilariously.

[quote]She didn't marry Malle until 1987.

Her first season shot in 86 and she married Malle in 87, sorry, But she didn't marry in on the first date, point was ,she wasn't lusting after Berry, she was acting.

[quote]her insistence that the show could have won Emmys

Only if the only other nominees had been Hee-Haw and Small Wonder.

Let's NOT be Mama's Family

Berry had been married to Jackie Joseph (Audrey in the original 1960 Corman film Little Shop Of Horrors). She and Ken adopted two special needs kids.

Years and years and YEARS ago, Berry came into town to do The Music Man. Some kids from the studio where I took tap were recruited to be in the show that week. The local choreographer was a pill and didn't want to spend any time with us to show us our routine, so Ken took us aside and spent some time teaching it to us.

Of course I was most charmed by Jackie - who spent most of her time watching her kids and wasn't in the show. She was beautiful and friendly.

When she and Ken divorced, she was a member of the First Wives Club. She and some other "first wives" went on a crusade to shame their exes into giving them more money, etc. They were all on the Phil Donahue Show.

Later she and Ken made up and were friends for their kids - who both died within the last five years or so. JJ is on Facebook and posts a lot and is very friendly. Ken of course.....be dead.

Bahaha, R303!

I thought the relationship between Mama and Naomi was very interesting. Although she often threw her best lines at her, Mama was very fond of Naomi and recognized that she had a goodness that none of her other daughters had. She recognized her loyalty and also saw that she was a good match for her son. There seems little doubt that Mama felt closer to Naomi than Eunice or Ellen.

I bet the show could have at the very least been nominated, Beverly Archer most definitely.

I decided to look at who was nominated in the years that Syndicated Mama's Family was on the air. As a random sampling there is no reason why the show couldn't have competed against Golden Girls, Family Ties, Night Court... There is definitely no reason why Archer and Lyman couldn't have competed with Justine Bateman, Jackee Harry, Estelle Getty and the like.

1989 would have been tougher as it seems that the Emmys were shifting away from videotaped and broader types of sitcoms with Golden Girls still holding on.

[quote]Wasn't Lymsn the in-house director for The Nanny show?

She directed half of THE NANNY's 146 episodes.

R302 Mama's Family TV show began in 1983, the year that Lyman divorced her first husband. Lyman was on it from the start; she wasn't an add-on character in syndication like 'Iola' and 'Bubba.'

[quote] her insistence that the show could have won Emmys.....Only if the only other nominees had been Hee-Haw and Small Wonder.

Oh for Christ's sake Vicki Lawrence was funnier in one episode than Julia Louis Dreyfuss was in the entire laugh free run of "The New Adventures Of Old Christine" and they still threw an Emmy at her.

Mama's Family was an Emmy winning show. Bob Mackie and Ret Turner won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series in 1984 and was also nominated in 1983 and 1987.

With the plethora of syndicated programs in the 1980s, I'm surprised they didn't get their own categories. I could've seen the Daytime Emmys making syndicated categories, like how they now have digital categories.

Ken was a song and dance man and I think he choreographed this number from the show. Watching him in the background, you can see his dance training.

I may be old as fuck, but I've still got my girlish figure.

Damn, Bubba is a hot DILF

He looks his age, while at the same he doesn't appear to have a lot of sun damage like a lot of fair skinned people.

He's a lily white ginger. They learn very young you sunburn in fog, so they avoid it.

Is he still selling motorcycles?

^He works for the postal system these days. He's got two grown kids (a boy and a girl) and two adorable young twin sons with his second wife. Both of his older kids have kids of their own.

Bubba smelled funny down there. He is a ginger.

He's hung and fertile...

[quote]A quirky pairing, really. IRL, Naomi could have married someone better-looking than Vint. Someone who wasn't residing in Mama's basement.

It was intimated a few times Vint wore out Naomi often, he was hung like mule. She was always after his d, so that might explain things.

I always wanted Iola to have the sex.

Vint was the only man who actually loved Naomi's canned chili with Fritos and beer...

[quote]I always wanted Iola to have the sex.

Iola had plenty of sex!

Mostly lesbonic and masturbatory but still

[quote]he was hung like mule.

Just like his daddy Carl...

and always braying like a jackass too

LuAnn Fayette gave Bubba a blowjob. Lucky girl.

[quote]LuAnn Fayette gave Bubba a blowjob. Lucky girl.

I always thought Bubba titty-fucked LuAnn while holding onto her pigtails

Bubba ejaculated onto LuAnn’s face.

^still hot for Bubba after all these years

During the Sunday MF marathon on Logo today, they played the last episodes of the series. Love the episode where Thelma went with Naomi to her birthing class. "Alright everybody, inhale...AHHHH!!!"

Why didn't Bubba do gay porn?

Those dames on the next to last episode were all uptight cunts who hadn’t been fucked in decades.

I don't understand those complaining about Bubba's age and how he doesn't look like a teenager. Remember, this is the same show where thirtysomething Vicki Lawrence was playing a senior citizen. They didn't even bother making her up a la Sophia Petrillo. She just put on a cheap, gray wig and glasses. The point is that MAMA'S FAMILY is a wacky sitcom set in a silly town where the people are cartoon characters. You're supposed to suspend disbelief and just go along with it; if you take it too seriously/literally, then the magic wears off. Besides, I don't think Bubba was supposed to be a young teenager. Didn't he get his GED via night school and then attended community college. I think he's supposed to be in his early twenties by the end of the series, while the actor was in his late twenties.

I wish Bubba had started an Only Fans back in the day...

No, Bubba and Mama graduated from high school the same year, 1988. Mama was the valedictorian via night school. Bubba went to Raytown JC, because his Florida State plans fell through because Eunice and Ed couldn't afford him moving to Florida to live with them and sort of ditched him.

We’re the Dames, thanking god we didn’t allow low class Thelma Harper and her barbecue chicken wings into our club!

Merv Griffin's Wings!!!

I'm the door-hanger cross-stitched by Iola,

"Don't Come A-Knocking If the Trailer Is A-Rocking"

R334, you don't say. Why not a one of us ever considered that. You so smart.

How old would Thelma be in 2021?

I'm Iola Boylen Living magazine.

And we're the Real Housewives of Raytown.

She'd probably be dead or pretty close to it.

Thelma was likely supposed to be in her 70s when MF went off the air, so it's safe to say that she'd be dead.

[quote]MAMA'S FAMILY is a wacky sitcom set in a silly town

How dare you besmirch such a fine town.

She ain't dead!

"Flounder's Day" ("Raytown O Raytown") is one of the funniest episodes. Thelma's audition is hilarious.

The exterior house is in Southern California just a few houses down from the infamous Michael Meyers hedge in Halloween.

Vicki Lawrence WAS made up to look older. It wasn't just the wig and glasses; her body was padded to make her look like a lumpy old woman. I thought she did have the figure of some big bottomed old lady.

The Michael Meyers hedge is right next door to the Mama's Family house.

The Pee Wee Herman house is just around the corner on Oxley.

I desperately want to live in a neighborhood that houses Thelma Harper, Michael Myers and Pee Wee Herman.

That queen in the video at R349 needs to get facts straight. The show debuted in 1983 and its syndication run was not watched more than its network run. Yes, the syndication run was deemed more successful as it ran for 4 seasons, but the show had more viewers during its 2 season network run.

I wonder if Buzz ever fooled around with little Tommy Boylan.

R350, I think what the previous poster meant was that Vicki wasn't wearing facial prosthetic make-up to make her look older like Estelle wore, she just had on a wig and padding. Her acting did the rest.

They should reboot this show with Thelma as the oldest living woman in America.

Take care R354. Adam The Woo has a large and very dedicated fan base, so you keep your sass mouth to yourself.

R358 How lovely that the queen I’ve never heard of has a fan base. That queen should do research and get his facts straight. lol

We’re Vint and Vintina the names Vinton really wanted to name his kids.

Made today Vint and Naomi would be seeking a throuple and Bubba would be escorting as gay for pay and questioning his sexuality.

Mama would finally come out as non-binary.

Iola would be transitioning into...undetermined.

I'm the eldergay, amazed that somehow this thread got to 363 replies (including this one).

It’s crazy how Buzz and Sonia were only mentioned once during syndication - in the first syndicated episode, to be exact, and were never mentioned again. By the time Naomi became pregnant in the last season, it was as if Vint’s older kids never existed. He would sometimes talk about becoming a father as if he’d never been one. Had MF gone one more season, it would have been cool if Buzz and Sonia made an appearance just to see how they would’ve interacted with Bubba.

Betty White did one episode of the syndicated show, and there had been some speculation she didn’t do more because she was on the golden girls, but she said that wasn’t true and she would’ve gladly done more shows but wasn’t asked.

Did Iola’s niece get to sample Bubba’s odor ‘down there’ when he brought her to the prom?

Vernette should be so lucky...

If she did, Vernette is knitting cozies with a smile on her face

remembering her night of passion with Bubba

[quote]it would have been cool if Buzz and Sonia made an appearance just to see how they would’ve interacted with Bubba.

Naomi: Too bad Bubba's our cousin. Hey, how come all the good men are either married or related to me?

Buzz: I'm gonna suck the cum right outta his nuts!

Ahh I meant Sonja, not Naomi.

I kinda liked Sonia's trashy slutty stoner vibe, but she was a bit too contemporary for the time-warp of Raytown. Karin Argoud was a mix of Misha Barton and young Linda Ronstadt. She seems to have aged fairly well, like a prettier version of the actress who played Dorothy in Brooklyn flashbacks on Golden Girls.

[quote]Did Iola’s niece get to sample Bubba’s odor ‘down there’ when he brought her to the prom?

Probably, since he didn't even shower when he came home from throwing rocks at the quarry. He just went up and changed into his tux.

Ken Berry really was talented. I heard he lived his last years in a retirement home for celebrities.

I think if the show continued Bubba would have eventually married Amy, his girlfriend in I Do, I Don't. That episode is so funny as Iola playing the Naomi character.

Buzz & Sonia were not photogenic and they didn't have one iota (or is that Iola) of panache, like Bubba. Bubba made you want to watch the show. Buzz & Sonia looked like 2 kids they pulled in off the street who had no show business experience at all.

We’re the senior sickos that want to gangbang Thelma at the single seniors dance.

Buzz & Sonja later in life.

Sonja looks great.

Buzz still looks gay.

Was Buzz his real name, or was he a Vinton Jr. or something else?

Buzz had a nice ass.

The actress who played Sonja looks better as a middle aged woman than she did on "Mama's Family."

I'm the rainy, windy and overcast week spent in Hawaii where there was never a hour of sunlight to shoot.

On the show Sonja was the epitome of poor white trash.

I'm the bolt of lightning that hit Mama's all the way down her back to her crack...

when she was carrying Gladiolas into the Raytown Senior Citizens Home

That TON of gladiolas!

[quote] Was Buzz his real name, or was he a Vinton Jr. or something else?

Your second guess is correct.

[quote] On the show Sonja was the epitome of poor white trash.

Until prom night when she left the house as a girl and came back a woman. And a prom queen.

Buzz becomes a man

If Buzz' name was actually Vinton, Jr.

Was Bubba's name actually Ed Higgins, Jr.

The only time Sonya looked pretty was when she was dressed up for prom. Otherwise, she looked like a stoner chick that listened to Van Halen. She and Buzz didn't even try a southern accent.

Did Bubba stretch out Vernette's hole?

I've been rewatching MAMA'S FAMILY episodes. All I gotta say is : Buzz had a bubble butt to die for and Bubba is sex-on-a-stick!

It strains credibility that Bubba was sired by the likes of Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman. Who was Eunice messing around?

Ant Effie had the smelliest snatch ever! Pee you. Even Iola’s untouched pussy smelled better.

Raytown was not set in the south, but in the midwest, in Missouri. Raytown was supposed to be a suburb of Kansas City.

There is a Kansas City suburb named Raytown, but Mama Family appears to have been more Southern than northern Missouri. On the Burnett show, it definitely was Southern.

Mama and Iola were going to take a cruise down the Ray River on the "Dixie Belle" with a swan made out of collard greens. Bubba had a southern accent,

Well, according to Vicki Lawrence Raytown was a suburb of Kansas City. I'm sure the accents were just to make them seem that much more rube like.

Vicki did acknowledge the Kansas City suburb with the same name, but she said the location of their Raytown was never specified, just somewhere in the Bible Belt. That would include Missouri, of course.

R391, not necessarily. It's possible for two non (conventionally) attractive people to conceive an attractive offspring, and vice-versa.

R390, Buzz and Bubba's bubble butts* helped me get through puberty.

*Try saying that 10 times fast.

I am "Knock-knock!"

[quote]Who was Eunice messing around?

Duke Reeves, of course.

I love learning little odds and ends about shows I like. Aunt Effie was played by a terrible actress/"dancer" named Dorothy Van, but Van really wasn't valuable to the show for her non-acting abilities. She wrote a lot of the episodes along with her real life husband Jim Evering producing and directing a lot of the later episodes. You can watch his rise up the ladder if you check out the credits at the end of each show. Both Dorothy and Jim are deceased now.

"Duke Reeves" was Joe Hamilton who was then the head honcho and Carol's real life husband at the time. Allegedly, she broke up his first marriage where he had spawned many, many children and then went on to have 4 more with that hussy Carol, before they finally divorced. He's dead now too. You can see a lot of first marriage "Hamilton" children are connected to his shows too according to the credit roll.

One of my favorite episodes had to do with Iola making a new best friend at her cooking class. Her new best friend was played by the wonderful character actress Mary Pat Gleason who sadly also passed away not that long ago. ("How do I get rid of her?")

Mary Pat Gleason had mental issues.

I’m the Babylonian Roof Garden still waiting for Eunice and Ed to show up.

Mylie Cyrus had nothing on Mama.

I'm Iola's hymen, the longest resident of the neighborhood (after Mama)

Everything you ever need to know about Raytown.

I'm Arthur's Hideaway & Launderette

You Tumble, We Dry ;)

I bet Bubba knew all the ins and outs of Raytown better than anybody!

Imagine Iola on Bubba's 18th birthday...

I'm St. Ray's Memorial Hospital

[quote]Mama and Iola were going to take a cruise down the Ray River on the "Dixie Belle"

It hit all the major port cities. Hinkley, Bundy, and Bump!

[quote] Raytown was not set in the south, but in the midwest, in Missouri.

Missouri, is where the South and Midwest meet. The Ozarks for instance is very much the South. That is where the Clampetts of the Beverly Hillbillies came from. Mark Twain's stories are set in Missouri yet is considered Southern literature not Midwestern literature. Also, historically Missouri was a slave state that had duel governments, sent soldiers to both sides of the Civil War, and was represented on the flags of the Union and Confederacy. They later had Jim Crow laws.

Also, South and Midwest should be capitalized when speaking of US regions.

I'm Bubba's underwear and nowhere to be seen.

Bubba jerked off into his socks.

It would have looked great on my bedroom floor.

Was Bubba circumcised?

Or did he have a big ol' sensitive hood?

He was a white male born at some point between 1967 and 1971, so yes... he was probably circumcised. But then again, Ed and Eunice were poor and I think socioeconomics play into the circumcision thing as well.

Eunice bit it off in a fit of rage.

[quote]Eunice bit it off in a fit of rage.

Totally missed that episode.

And let's pretend it was Ed's foreskin...

Always remember Eunice has splinters in the windmills of her mind.

R417 Not really during that time period, it was just standard for boys born in hospitals.

[quote]it was just standard for boys born in hospitals.

Actually, Bubba was born in the back of an Edsel on Route 5...

The family hierarchy was changed so often but in one of the CB sketches, Eunice reveals she and Ed got married because they had to to which Mama says something like "welcome to the club". So theoretically, Bubba was the surprise pregnancy and Ellen was Mama's "gift".

r420 That's a new one, Mama!

[quote]Bubba jerked off into his socks.

I'm male and didn't know that some guys did that until I met my brother-in-law. Sever saw him naked (though would love to!), but he has admitted that as a teen he would use his socks to come into and wipe up with afterward. Silly me, I used paper towels.

I'm the family documentary Bubba makes for a school project in which Mama comes off looking like a neglectful lush of a mother due to a glitch in editing. 😁😂🤣

I’m the photo Allen kayser used for the last season of the show because he was tired of the dorky one used for the first 3 seasons.

R427 is that really why? I've wondered why his was the only one to change in the last season.

[quote]I'm male and didn't know that some guys did that until I met my brother-in-law. Sever saw him naked (though would love to!), but he has admitted that as a teen he would use his socks to come into and wipe up with afterward. Silly me, I used paper towels.

Even "Friends" had a joke on it.

I'm the home cooking just like mother used to make not just orphan used to make.

r426 That's one of my favorite episodes.

During an ill wind when they are trapped in the basement, Mama says who needs the odor eaters. That smell was actually Ant Effie’s snatch odor.

The Documentary and The Love Letter are two of my favorite episodes.

I’m Naomi’s trashy slut chili

2 cans of chili

1 can of beer

2 strips of beef jerky

1 package of beer nuts

1 snack sized bag of Fritos

I wouldn't put a PINK tomato in chili

I’m Iola’s original Mother’s Day poem, "A Mother's Hands."

When I was just a little girl, what was there to brush each curl?

A mother's hands.

What shook the rattle when I said goo-goo?

What bandaged each boo-boo?

A mother's hands.

I'm everyone's colors. Mama wears blue or purple, Vinton wears tan, Naomi wears yellow, Iola wears pink, and Bubba wears green.

I'm DL obsession "Follies." What's the connection, you ask? Go to 7:46.