Omgosh right...I watched this as a kid and my kids watch with me my son bought the whole collection on DVD lol now I'm getting the grandkids watching it

She did the mannerisms & speech of an older woman very accurately.

I was probably 4 when I watched this, never knew til now how young she really was lol..

​@@marciphillips8682 I was a 70s kid too. I'm so glad I never had children. Family life never appealed to me, probably because of these shows 😂

You win best comment...soooo true.

SummerRain368 exactly. Pure raw unedited timeless Carol Burnett comedy

NGD I love The Carol Burnett Show and I am going. To subscribe toKZfaq Videos in order to enjoy a much happier time. Thanks. for the memories. Catherine Thunder

Amen

I know that's right! I grew up watching these episodes and 45 years later I'm still watching them! Some one commented that they felt rather sad for Eunice. I didn't feel sad for Eunice until after her Mom died she thought Ed wanted to get back with her and because of her low self esteem and genuine help for others; she did not even get to go with her brother Phillip to New York and she really wanted to go to see new places and enjoy life's true blessings.

Yeah this shit raw..

And Vicki Lawrence?

@@zyxzyx3030 that's right

That's right . Miss these types of shows

@@zyxzyx3030 if you look close Vicky Lawrence has a ghostly shadow behind her😱 I had heard that set was haunted

So true

Ya I don't like Ellen's character.

And I'd be lobbing those backhanded compliments right back to her. 🎾

I had an aunt like Eunice I dreaded playing board games with her

You know the old saying: "You can pick your friends, but you can never pick, your family"!!! This show (at least for me), always comes to mind 😁!!!

😂😂😂😂😂👍

Regarding this particular sketch: This was very sad and disturbing. Brilliantly written, acted,and directed…and I don’t like watching it. It’s really psychodrama for the writers. The talented Betty White’s character is downright hateful, as is Mama. I much preferred the earlier sketches of “The Family,” such as the three of them playing Sorry, or when Alan Alda, Tommy Smothers, and Roddy McDowell played Eunice’s brothers. Those sketches were funny. But then “The Family” took a dark turn that I detested. Thank goodness they lightened it up again when it morphed into Mama’s Family.

Yup

Amen!

@@rhsharp You're right. My estranged sister is a sociopath, clinically diagnosed.

@@rhsharp I agree. It's very reminiscent of the ugly arguments in "Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte." Every word is dripping with resentment and cruelty. Betty White's Ellen character is horrid and bitchy, and Mama is unbelievably insensitive. I kept expecting Eunice to shove the cake in either woman's face.

@@goldenblue2208 Wow thanks for pointing that out. Ellen.

@@dougmacqueen1679 😂😂😂😂😂

I love watching her acting when she has no lines. The way she looks at people as if she is actually feeling what is going on. Truly something an actor is born with, not taught.

@Dbo83 you

It would be an Emmy as this was TV...but yes, all of them are brilliant as is the writing...something that does not exist on TV anymore...

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Why doesn't Eunice just run away from home? LOL

He would have done better if he gave Mama a Japanese rabbit trap.

@@ericrivera8410 lol true probably didn't want to spend the money. Lol

Oh yes, Markxxx. The perfect birthday gift one gotta have is a fly swatter. I found one at the Dollar General just the other day for a phenomenal price of $1.00.

mjc 427 You would have to have a black heart not to find charm in this gem.

@@zeusmasterson4117 I loved it and all of Mama's Family skits and series.

And that', however true it may be, is a scary thought...

Yes.. I love watching Mamas family 💕💝💗💝💕

And how! I believe the best kind of comedy relates to the masses. We would watch Carol Burnett, Flip Wilson, Maude, All in the Family, Good Times, The Jeffersons,etc.

The live shows had a lot of cuts in them and re-does.... They showed some of the final show uncut and it had many "stops and re-starts"

Absolutely incredible!

Exactly. Betty White was also a stage actress and was trained to memorize dialogue.

They use cue cards. They also do practice runs.

The beautiful Lady Betty White here as Ellenand such a pleasure. Just went to the Father Christmas Eve. 👏

She tried so hard to make it a nice birthday for mama.

in-law drama is cutting. Eunice is the real villain.

Felt bad for her a few times ..despite the laughs..I felt sorry for her sometimes

The eternal optimist. Nothing wrong with that. The “sunny” side of the street

@@kellychuba Ellen was forever dealing with Eunice issues which she had little to do with it. Eunice just had envy that she spread to everyone else lol

I don't know, I always loved her as Sue Ann.

NOLA GospelTracts Agreed! No one comes close. No Chris, Not even Sue Ann Nivens.

NOLA GospelTracts Carol Burnett was a natural thats for sure and so funny 😂

When Eunice got the crazy eyes you know it was about to get good!

@@christhompson9486 Eunice is played by Carol Burnett

This family however fictional was so like my own family. Only this family was funny

Same

Me too, I’m 44 and remember watching along with my mom…damn time flies. You’re right, as a youngin you don’t pick up on the underlying deep familial issues.

Agree . I was thinking the same thing !

April 26, 2023, Happy 90th Birthday Carol Burnett!! ♥️♥️

Well said ! Same here

All in the Family and Mama's Family: Eternal Comedy Gold and Clean Content. Love Married with Children too! I own each series ❤

That show was hilarious BETTY WHITE 🤣miss her already 😌🌺🦋

she's still alive. the democrats are doing this. They are trying to distract from Trump's come back. Evil people.

I tried to watch her SNL show today but it was just awful. She was the only one who was funny and I swear I could see her looking at the others with a look of "How the hell are these morons on TV?" more than once.

Her SNL was not legendary. Sad if her whole career is whiddled down to that.

@@Dogcatlover2432 Thanks. She had a wide range and a long reign. She’s a rare comedian that bridged so many generations. I look at Tony Bennet in the same way. I’m so glad another generation recognized his charm and let him sing on. My sister, a flight attendant, did an impression of Joan Rivers, while wearing River’s coat. Joan didn’t see it, fortunately.

Wrong line 😬

Epitome of class and taste.

🤣🤣🤣

Agree! Ha!

He looked hurt and confused...Duke Reeves must have been a hunk.

Blanche Dubouis Betty White’s name popped up on a news alert on my phone a while back. My heart stopped before I realized she had received an award.

@@zeusmasterson4117 She's still fighting monstrous alligators, I think.

FACTS

They oughta come together one more time as these characters.

That's because laughter is medicine.

That’s lovely. Know exactly what you mean.❤️📺

These shows were dysfunctional, not funny.

@@bunnicula38 You have ZERO taste and prb everything offends u!!🤣🤣

@@carfarts LOL!! Nah - just every character played by Betty White and Thelma . Okay! Everything offends me! LOL!

@@bunnicula38 then don't watch it Karen you bitter bitch

Betty White was stone fox in her young years

Betty White an American princess like many others

❤

Yes. Happy 98th Betty! 📺 We love everybody here.

❤️❤️❤️ We love Betty!

J.A. 263737668 can’t believe that is Betty!! She was and still is beautiful 😍😍😍

She is so Classically Beautiful

Don't forget Carol Burnett, I loved her as a child and even more so when I was old enough to understand the adult side of her comedy.

did you ever see "The Lost Valentine" ?

I just listened to her latest audiobook that I bought the day she died. She spoke about comedic timing, and how important it is, how being slightly off can ruin a scene. This episode was a masterful performance.

@@michael91411 6 rooms river view too.

No

Ellen is just a narracist I hace 2 sisters Luke this ivstay far away from them I'm not trying to be in drama

I remember watching this as a kid. She would start thev show with questions from the audience. I remember a guy stood up and said, " Can you stop doing Moma's Family? they remind me too much of mt family and I just want to enjoy the show." I never forgot that all those years.

Yes but at 64 I can also finally cry at it. Lol

When I watched it as a child I liked the comedy as an adult imo Mom was full of vitriol towards Eunice.Loved Ellen who could care less about her . Ed was unlearned . I too have family members like this if I never see them again it will be too soon.

What's Dysfunctional LOL😂

Dysfunctional family? Is there any other kind? 🤷

This was late 70s .. not 80s

@@savedbyhisgrace7573 hmm, I wouldn’t have been old enough in the 70’s but remember watching. Google says 83-90 the show was on air.

This episode actually aired Nov. 22, 1975

It started on the Carol Burnett Show which ended in 1978.

I think you were thinking Mama’s Family. It’s a spin off.

On “Mama’s Family,” I think it funny that Betty White and Rue McClanahan played niece and aunt, then later, roommates on Golden Girls.

And Rue and Bea, best friends on Maude

@@breckrichardson390 Rue was Franny on this.

Betty White's character, "Ellen" on this show truly shows her talent. It's hard to believe that she also played "Sue Ann" on the "Mary Tyler Moore" show! They're so different!

@@gfortune1491 I thought Sue Ann and Ellen were quite similar....Rose was totally different

Me too!!! Bless her heart! She really tried to make the day special for mama.

Her cake looked yummy.

Jamie Kitchens She really is. She is the only celebrity that if I were to meet, I couldn’t keep it together. I would probably cry and embarrass everyone involved.

I would melt down if I met her too

So true! 👍🙂

She really is a great actress.

LOL she was in her 50's on this show

I always wanted act as a kid I wrote Vicki lawrece staying that I'd love be on stage with all of them she sent me a photostill of her self signed autographed wishing me luck I taped it on my wall and months later got a small part in a German movie .

​@@ericrivera8410that's fantastic!

​@@ericrivera8410 That photo acted as a vision board It seems!

Carol said "Mama's Family" was a lot like her life growing up.

carol is brilliant as eunice, you should see all of them.

So true. Carol is not only a brilliant comedienne but a great comic actress. Harvey Korman, of course, and Vickie Lawrence too - very good character acting. Many of the great comics were not necessarily good comic actors. Jackie Gleason was another great comic actor.

Tarot by janine

betty's white adorable dimples while she's being mean ♥

I loved him as the voice of Gazzo on The Flintstones. He would crack me up calling Fred and Barney "dumb-dumbs"

@@seanpowell1661 Never realized that was him...I Learn something new everyday..

This must be is trailer park trash accent?

Kazoo too voice

I loved him as Mother Marcus Marian in As the stomach turns.

Actually Betty White looked better in her 50's and 60's then when she was young

She not' dead white hats rescued her

They all had such remarkable chemistry, bolstered by top-tier writing.

Mama was the culprit!

this show was so funny

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Renee, hope you’re safe and well?

I was bullied in elementary school too.

Actually I was as well, and sorta adopted the "Eunice type personality" as a defense. I could use many insults I heard from Mama's Family and other similar shows... and most kids had no idea what I was talking about... I got in trouble for calling a girl a "tramp" because I heard Mama call Naomi that lol

Those kids who bullied yall probably had a life like Eunice.

@@samueltaylor9254 I thought at the time that their lives were close to perfect but I talked to a couple of them later and you're right. I was wrong. One was being sexually abused by her stepfather and another was verbally abusive to quite a few people. A teacher had heard about her reputation and disliked her for it. I made it through the storm. I know there is a God. Dear God I'm here!

Agree. Betty definitely played the pretentious superficial bitch part really well though. Better than any role I've ever seen her do. " And you thought that was fried chicken we ate that night, Eunice!"

And a bigger mouth especially when she plays board games.

Heck, yeah. My family and I had our share of squabbles but nothing this baroque.

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Paula, hope you’re safe and well?

Whoever wrote these skits had to have met my family of origin. My sister was a Eunice.

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you, hope you’re safe and well?

Carol 😜

Marchant2 They really hold up. I thought Friends was funny when it aired. I tried to watch a few weeks ago, and it is AWFUL. So cringeworthy. Golden Girls and Mama’s Family, which are even older, still seem fresh and funny.

Some were written by Steve Martin!

Blinged out fly swatter verses a mink stole fur wrap as gifts. LOL

@@redrooster1908 he was so proud of finding it in discount

@@gregjurek5623 it’s been 30 plus years with no Lucille on TV. It’s really only Betty , can’t think of anyone else who’s been on tv this long.

@@gregjurek5623 Betty's career is longer than Lucy's.

Dick Van Dyke

😍😍

Vicki Lawrence was only 26 here

BW 53 goes to show you age dont matter🤣😂🤣👍

@Jane Marsee Betty White chose to remain childfree and has lived a long happy life. Happy Birthday! 98!!!!

Yes. The year was 1975 and Betty was 53.

It's Korman.

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you, hope you’re safe and well?

I read that originally they tried the sketches without the accent and it was sad not funny

and then she says look at what I am stuck with. Poor Ed..no respect.

Hilarious!

@@okiebrave1932 He was a terrible husband and father, though. That marriage failed because both of them had real problems.

"Luuuuuuuuuved"

Looked like a sounded boy

Same here. Absolute GOLD

Donna Miller it’s horrible. So true to life in many aspects.

My mom is this way with her oldest daughter who is 32 years old, unemployed with a 5 year old daughter whom all stay with her. It's a really unhealthy relationship.

@@JuicedUpLemon thats how my family treats me...like Eunice

@@reneedillard7511 I'm so sorry about that!😥

A lot of families are like this, there will be a sibling that does everything for their mom and the sibling that never comes to visit will be the favorite

I know, Mama was a piece of work and there are so many people like Mama, Explains dysfunction

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Love this episode!

Yes or it hits too close to home.

MBVlove31 Like Good Music. These are TIMELESS

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😂😂😂😂

Yaaaasssss

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Thelma Harper is my spirit animal

I remember watching old episodes of this when I was in high school in 1998 and having a crush on Mama because of the necklace...something about that necklace was sexy to me on her white skin. I think that is when I developed a deep crush on white women.

Exactly! I thought it was mean…..even though it just a show……..

The big sister stealing her dolls and whatever she wanted. I could relate to Eunice's anger. Yes all too true real life stuff.

Preach my dear; preach. Lived it most of my life.

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you bonnie, hope you’re safe and well?

I could too

Agreed!

Right, its funny and sad at the same time!

She was continuously gaslit by narcs.

I know this is fiction but it’s rather sad. The smartest one of the entire family is their brother Philip. He left home early to move to California to become a writer and never came back home and limited his contact with immediate family. This is the best way to deal with narcissists. You can empathize why Eunice turned out the way she did. Her mother was a narcissist and used gaslighting against her, and her sister Ellen was a narcissist as well and used gaslighting. Truly, if I were her, I would have divorced that stupid, lazy, penny pinching husband, put that selfish, ungrateful, narcissistic harpy of a mother in a nursing home and forget her, and tell that self centered sister to kiss my narrow ass before leaving town to start my life over and forget everyone of them. No love loss.

Carol was so spot on in her performance you can't help but laugh and be sad at the same time.

For sure. These are brilliant actresses, but this sketch is giving me anxiety, because it’s a prime example of the subtle and sometimes not so subtle emotional abuse that goes on within too many families.

Hello how are you doing today over there now I hope you have a wonderful day today.

She had a good heart in real life. She loved animals. She did her best to help them.

Yep,the grand ol days

i think the Carol Burnett show aired on Saturday nights. Not sure about All in the Family. The others you mentioned were on Sunday nights.

@@thehashearthasheart7146 Yep! Saturday night! 10pm Eastern. My younger sister and I would be right in front of the TV.

@fresh B I also love Sammy Davis Jr. as well

I remember All in the Family and Carol Burnett on Saturday nights. Then All in the Family switched to Sundays. Carol Burnett was on after The Mary Tyler Moore and The Bob Newhart Shows.

Funny you say that, all my memories of these shows are tied up to my loving grandma who passed away in January...

Vicky's Mama character is great. A 22 year old, specs and no make up and the wig. Whaa laa

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Chris, hope you’re safe and well?

@@brianwalter8152 hi there, Brian… I’m doing great and safe, thank God… How are you? Do we know one another?

@@christopherscorner I'm very well thanks for asking, Glad you're Okay, don't think we do Chris I'm from New Jersey 🇺🇸.

I love watching these all over again!

Hello 👋🏻 nice to meet you Jaymes, hope you’re safe and well?

From what I understand, much of the material for The Family came from Carol Burnett's experience with her own mother.

I love Thelma ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 I want ♥️ 😋 😍 to be just like 👍 Thelma when I grow ♥️ up!

This was one of my favorite shows growing up. 😍😍😍

Me too. Something I remember looking forward to. Free, at home, family entertainment. Wonderful memories with my Mom, Dad and 6 siblings

@Hello there, how are you doing this blessed day?