Long before Madea, there was Thelma Harper!

“You’re supposed to be a stewardess, not a pigeon in heat!” DEAD. 😂 ☠️

"Your idea of a workout includes a man, a bed, and a cigarette afterwards!" OOF.....😂

Naomi: “This is our own personal boudoir Ms. Harper. And I think it looks just fine!” Thelma: “That’s because all you ever see of it is the ceiling!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

One of the best shows of the 80s

Dorothy Lyman is a very nice down to earth lady. I had the pleasure of meeting her here in upstate NY. She was at Beverly Archer's antique store, also another down to earth and pleasant lady. So fortunate to have met both ladies!!!!!

Thelma Harper was my favorite character when it comes to insulting Naomi. It cracks me up! 😂

Mama knew know to read and throw shade!!!! 😎 The ultimate savage!!! Love me some Thelma Harper!!!

Mama wore Naomi OUT for almost a decade

Naomi's little shoulder wiggle at the end lol

Has anyone else ever noticed Naomi rocks yellow quite often? I still love this show! ❤️

Have you ever noticed how any of your duties can be performed standing up lol !

"Mrs Harper, if you needed some help all you have to do is ask." -(calmly) "Alright Naomi."(screams) "HELP ME!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

"These women are professional athletes! The only thing you exercise is your lips and your hips!" Damn!! lmao

6:20 “I’m not playing with a big loser” “Why not you SLEEP WITH ONE!” Me: *SAVAGE* 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 I am the one

Thelma was a pistol.

I love every single comeback she has. I have this on DVD and I love every episode.

Pigeon in heat 🐦🔥😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

When Thelma zips up Vint's sleeping bag 😂😂😂 I wonder if that was an ad-lib.

Mama had her foot permanently on Naomi's neck!!

Thelma not only insulted Naomi, but also Vint, especially when she called him a loser in that episode where she and Olga, a Russian visitor, lost in Pyramid game! XD

Haha. When Vicki held a Mama's Family reunion on her talk show, an audience member asked what her favorite Mama-Naomi fight was. And she was like, "Favorite fight? My Lord, we had them all the time!"

Mama harper was a savage 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Mama 👵was a savage LOL 😀😃😄😅😂 ❤Vicki Lawrence

I loved the episode when Naomi got revenge on Mama .She was fixing a dinner for Naomi and Vinton's friends and Mama got stuck lying under a card table 😆

Naomi “I’m giving my husband his afternoon kiss it part of my wifely duties” Thelma “Have you ever noticed non of your wifely duties can be preformed standing up” Me: Gagging 🤭

They should have included the episode where Vint and Naomi go to that lovers motel and mama ends up there too. Thelma to Naomi: "Where'd you get that dress, Fredericks of Tijuana?!" LOL!!!

03:17 "Its too big, we're going to a funeral not the country music awards" 😂😂🤣🤣LMAO!!

“Thelma hates Naomi” “Eunice hates Naomi” I guess it runs in the family

This family has no tact whatsoever! 😅😅😅

I don't blame Thelma at all Naomi does take it too far

It’s nice to know having money wouldn’t change you

Naomi: I want the judges to see me in the best possible light. Thelma: Well you better pray somebody blows a fuse. 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I never laughed so hard. Thelma was salvage with her insults 😂😂😂😂

Love this show I can look at it over and over !

I can recycle watching this show 1,0000 times. Good t.v.

They left out the best Mama/Naomi scene. When Ellen, Eunice, and Naomi were making Gooseberry Ham and the berries started popping and Naomi said “I can hear that sweat popping all over me” and Mama yelled “It’s the berries your tramp”.

I love how for all the changes the show went through they saw the Mama-Naomi arc through to the end by having it begin with Thelma dead set against Vint marrying her and ending with Mama delivering their baby out of their mobile home in the driveway. Also sidenote: the fact that the show creators named the daughter-in-law Naomi always made me wonder if that was a comedic nod to the story of Ruth and Naomi in the Bible, which probably the most famous story about a mother and daughter in-law ever told only unlike the Biblical story the show makes it clear they can't stand each other and only tolerate one another for Vint's sake LOL

Who's teaching this course Tina Turner? 🤣🤣

Everyone should relate to this show one way or another

I think Naomi had a baby girl at the end of this show and they named her Thelma. They didn't like each other but I think there was some love there, in a disfunctional type of way.

May i remind you 2 i prepare food in this room?😂😂😂😂😂

This was a amazing show

Naomi looked so much better with straight hair that's the only thing I missed about the original version of Mama's Family.

Vinton must be a good lay!!!

"Ms. Harper were just doing Dirty Dancing." "I can see that NOW STOP IT!!"

Thelma was truly dysfunctional.

The strewar-dess glide. 😂😂😂😂

Well he obviously knows nothing about quality!

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣omg..I wish I could find full episodes....Mama H. don't play!!

“Have you ever noticed how NONE of your wifely duties can be performed STANDING UP?!?!?!” LMFAO Talk about going for the jugular 😂

I wanted to be Naomi when I was little. When I grew up that's what I wanted to be. I didn't understand the character but that was my model. I got my fashion sense from her as a pre k child and ran with it Girls always copied me my whole life and I owe a large part of my dress code too naomi

Since the 80’s all I see and hear is ”PRNDL”

This is my 93 year old Grandma,s favorite show,and she makes a version of Naomis Chilli.Also I liked the show without the teenagers,they picked kids that looked to old to be Teenagers,and the boy looked like he was going to split out of his clothes.

How did these two actors keep a straight face? They were always making out!🤣

i swear to god momma reminds me of my great aunt.

Lol at Mama breaking Character @ 6:38

Iola seems a bit happy to look at times!

Bubba from the year 1985 like whoa🤨🙄🤔😲🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇺🇸📺😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆🤩😍😁😃😎🤓

Why did naomi sell her 🏠 next door to move to the Harper's basement 😳? She must of made some 💰 from the proceeds that her and Vinton could of found something across town away from Thelma in Raytown.

I love this show 😄😍💗

Thelma Harper Vicki Lawrence she was a legend to comedy love mama family

A classic! And I used to be at the film live audience, back then! 💯

I miss this show ❤️ Too bad they made vint into a moron

Lol!!! Best show ever.

To this day I’m still mad Mama Harper and Sophia Petrillo never met!

Golly!!!! thank god my mama is not like that!!!!

Dorothy Lyman on the DVD bonuses of MF said that naomis character always tried and wanted to be so close to Mama but never could please her. And in that she was jealous of iola taking her spot/relationship from mama away. This partially explains why they never saw eye to eye plus as well as they should have

😂😂😂 I used to love watching this show growing up

“Good lord Naomi, you’re chaperoning bubba’s prom not entertaining the troops” lol

Except when it comes to pickin wives lol !

Lmao Thelma Harper definitely reminds me of the white version of Esther Anderson from Sanford & Son 😂🤣😂🤣🤣

1:50 That burn tho 😂😂🤣🤣

The home video one was the best the part where she said well great first I'm a,abusive mother now a lush lol funny

Ken Berry was a very fortunate man.

Sean Payton he look like ! Go Ram's! 🏒🤬🧐🌮

Long live, Thelma Harper 😅

I adore this I grew up on momma's family. OMG so many good memories with my family

They did good detail work they even put the name of their local Grocery store on the grocery bag. Food Circus.

Why were they always smooching on each other in the living room and the kitchen? Did they not have their own room?

And that I love this show ❤❤❤❤📺

Great actresses and actors!!!

😂😂😂😂 she told that Gul her hair to big!!!!!!😂😂😂 Hahahaha

Mama wore poor naomi out. in the real world if there would've been a mother in law like thelma harper, and a daughter in law like naomi harper, and a son like vinton harper, the son vinton harper, would've ended up with two failed marriages because naomi would've also divorced vinton just like vinton's first wife did and vinton would've probably ended up being depressed for the rest of his life and he would probably end up blaming mama for all his problems.

I think that last clip really sums it up.

Archie Bunker and Meathead passed the torch to Thelma and Naomi Harper.

Me , too! A pilot and steward ness , I don't play with the air! God's zone!

N🚫T " Walking 💃🏼 like a pigeon 🕊 in heat 😛🔥!!" 😵☠⚰

Be nice to watch all episodes you can't find them nowhere

Happy birthday Vicki Lawrence!

Thelma knew how to throw shade this was before Geoffrey from Fresh Prince of Bel Air Both were savage in their own way .

I wish so much we would have gotten a Married With Children meets Mama's Family cross over episode. Naomi and Peg i can see being friends and I would have liked to see Al and Mama insult each other

MAMA HARPER FOR PRESIDENT..... 2024

Those shoulders never get covered up

Oh and since when you were such an authority your idea of a workout includes a man, a bed and a cigarette afterwards That is a total lie! I've never smoke a cigarette in my life! 😆😆😆

0:24 Oh my god what were Vint and Naomi about to do if Thelma hadn’t walked in?

I love Mama’s Family ❤😂

I'll have you know I am doing the Stewardess Glide. Yeah who's teaching this course Tina Turner 😂😂😂

Oh my God this is so funny.

I like one when she got mayor and said Naomi was good in front seat as well in the back. Lol

Mia airlines, the outfit has to be pass down!💯🤪