I love the comedy in this I did'nt even know it existed. eunice is actually beautiful and stylish in this episode. its amazing that rue mcclanahan and betty white were on the golden girls together along with mamas family. I remember when we were all about to go to bed when we were little my dad would sing the closing theme song to the carol burnett show and we'd go to sleep.
Most of them ARE still with us, Vicki Lawrence is still with us, Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, and Betty White are still around, the only one im not sure about is Ken Barry.
I vaguely remember this. I was just in JHS. And in this clip I realized Carol Burnett's character is the middle child and that is nothing to laugh at nor is it funny. Read "The Birth Order Book" by Dr. Leman The middle child especially of three is the one that's the most ignored the most left out. The one that might seem easy going on the outside but is truly miserable on the inside. Sadly, my own twisted mother thought that this was some kind of an sick example to follow. Watch all clips.
@MrOphachew --The other good book is "Toxic Parents" by Dr. Susan Forward. Sadly, my mother loved this show but seemed to think it was an example of how to live life. It's a freakin tv sitcom meant for entertainment purposes only! She thought she was eunice and then treated everybody like momma did. I remember her telling my older sister by 8 yrs to tell me the same thing philip tells eunice at the very end of the show. And thats all she's had to say to me the last 10+ yrs. John Bradshaw clips
@MrOphachew --also check out youtube clips of author John Bradshaw right here on youtube. He also has a few good books out "Healing the Shame that binds you" by John Bradshaw and "On the Family" by John Bradshaw.
Thanks for sharing this video and all others like it. I don't quite remember this, but at 42 my mind tends to be alot like teflon, nothing sticks to it. Thanks again. E.J.
This originally aired in 1978 when I was 10 years old. I made an audio recording of this show (we didn't have a VCR then). I've listened to that audio recording 10's of times. I'm so grateful you put this on youtube. I've looked for this on DVD or VHS for years! This is, hands down, the best 90 mins of "The Family" that ever aired. So many great lines: "Mama, you don't always have to refer to him as That Ed Higgins"..."Face it Eunice, the man's the bottom of the barrel". Classic!
This originally aired on March 15, 1982 from 9:30-11pm(et) ["HOUSE CALLS", which followed "M*A*S*H", was about to be cancelled after three seasons]. Carol wanted to experiment with a longer special involving "The Family", based on the sketches she did on her variety show during the '70s. In essence, this became the basis for "MAMA'S FAMILY" on NBC in 1983, after CBS rejected the idea of a weekly series (with Eunice and Ed apearing only on occasion).
@0laila there doing what there doing in every industry doing things on the cheap reality shows are cheap no half million an episode salaries i think you can blame this on friends look how much they walk away with that will never happen again.
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I didn't like the "Eunice " special. Because it just wasn't FUNNY. And it was dull! It was just an attempt to get ratings by doing a long special based on the popular "Family" sketches. But it didn't really work. A lot of the plots from old "Family" sketches were recycled here: Duke Reeves, Fluffy, Carl in the bathroom. A very uninspired attempt to recreate the hilarious but dark "Family" sketches from the Carol Burnett show.
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I'm sure I'm not. Everything I said was true; the "Eunice" special was just a crass attempt to get ratings, an unfunny rehash of the original "Family" skits. The Family sketches were so popular that "Eunice" DID get good ratings and spawned the awful "Mama's Family" tv series, which got quickly got cancelled on national tv but found an audience in syndication. Nothing that comes about due to greed is going to be good: "Eunice" and "Mama's Family" are proof of that.
This "movie" is excellent. It was meant to be a finale to the entire set of skits on the CB Show, and it followed them pretty close. I agree about Mama's Family. It was horrid. Mama was way too nice, and the skits were lame, except when Eunice appeared in a very few of them. Then the feuding returned and made it funny.
It was a special play, shown just one time as the finale to the FAMILY series of skits. Most of it follows some of the previous skits, with some changes.
Yes, it was. I'm glad she finally did have that baby, because I got tired of hearing Naomi talking about her baby that she never had. Finally, the day came. But, I don't think that they should've ended the show. I wanted to see the baby grow up!
This movie/play aired on CBS many years before "Mama's Family" ever first appeared. This just a summary of many skits on the CB Show, and most of it follows those skits, with quite a bit more as well.
This was made long before Mama's Family, and on the CB Show, one of Eunice's brothers was "Phillip." In some of the skits he was played by Alan Alda and Roddy McDowell.
Actually, Alan Alda played Eunice's brother Larry in one skit from the Carol Burnett Show. I've uploaded that skit which I entitled "Merry Christmas Mama." On the Carol Burnett Show, Roddy McDowell ALWAYS played Phillip.
Im curious how old is Mama supposed to be? I figure she was born about 1920 and got married like fresh out of high school in order to have 3 children already over 40 by the time shes in her mid 60s when Mama's Family started. Of course on TV shows you cant always think linear.
At first when I saw this I didn't remember seeing it back in 1982. But now I think that I do remember watching this Carol Burnett special related to those "Eunice" comedy skits from The Carol Burnett show and it looks really nice. Seems to me that when Carol Burnett decided to say "Farewell" to her Carol Burnett show and her job as a TV comedienne and singer back in 1978, it wasn't really quite "Farewell" as we all thought it was. Her TV show ended in 1978, but she continued as an entertainer.
@rippedwrangler Judging from the closing credits seen in the final part, it actually turns out to be Dick Clair, who I believe would go on to co-executive produce "Mama's Family".
Thank you so much for this! I remember watching it when it first aired when I was about 15 and I made an audio tape of it (as I so often did at the time). I still have the tape and even converted part of it to mp3 a few years ago. It's really nice to see the video portion of it again after so many years!
so frightening, Eunice is my mother just add Uncle Jim Beam, a trailer and a collection of obesenities about me being gay, for example; while kicked out of my house, walking down pertshire in San Antonio at age 16, she gave one last yell of curiosity, "Are ya goin to get it up the a__ _....honey?" screen doors flew open and toddlers were pulled indoors. Life experience makes us stronger..... thanks I feel better now letting thsat go after 22 years.
Mama cooking Fluffy is disturbing. They use that in "The Attick", but I never knew that they killed Mama off. Mama's Family will never be the same again!
It was in one of the original Family skits on the Carol Burnett show that Thelma Harper spoke about her husband going into the bathroom "and he never came out!" So yes, Carl Harper died in the bathroom, but that originated on the Carol Burnett show, not Mama's Family.
Do any of you Carol Burnett fans remember a skit on the show, where Carol was wearing a BLONDE wig and she pulls it off and has a BRUNETTE wig underneith? I thought that was the neatest thing when I was little but have never seen it again. Anyone remember it?
This is exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you for posting this. I have always wanted to see Eunice the show. Now if only it were available on DVD I'd be happier than a pig in mud.
Someone please tell me that color Eunice's hair is! It's always looked BROWN to me, but I hear a lot of people call it RED. Also The picture Bubba drew of Eunice at the conference, he drew her with red hair.
So is Phillip supposed to be OLDER than Eunice in this? B/c he just got back from college and it APPEARS that Eunice is STILL in highschool going to highschool parties, dating Ed and talking about how Duke Reeves is captain of the football team and all.
well first of all, I have to say I agree with all your comments below on how Eunice and Ed changed, and some of the other stuff below to. Good observations. Haha! And yea, it be cool if Eunice were on the syndicated version to see what it be like. For some reason tho, even if her and Mama did get back together, it wasn't on those syndicated episodes so it just wouldn't be the same, ya know. Something will never know. That one interaction she had with Mama over the phone is what will have to do
Did you notice that in the VERY EARLY Family Sketches on the CB Show, Mama acts more similar to the way she does in the later syndicated episodes of Mama's Family, she's more spunky and jokative, like when she was doing dog impressions of Topaz. It wasn't until later she started becoming SO bitter!
All I can say about this show is it must smell hella shitty up in that one bathroom. Can Carl take a dump or can Carl take a dump. I mean holy shit! He spent the entire portion of part 1, unloading.
Carl in the bathroom came from one of the original Family sketches. It was an episode that showed Ed, Eunice and Mama in flashback (Carl was heard but not seen). Mama interrupts the young Ed and Eunice in a makeout session. After Ed bolts Eunice tells Mama Ed was going to propose. Carl won't come out of the bathroom, so Mama tells Eunice "you'll marry him over my dead body!" And with a look that could kill, Eunice says "I hope so!" I wish somebody would put that sketch up on YouTube.
Way too critical! All three were self contained and had differences even within themselves. The sketches in the 60s/70s never had continuity. The special here is just a longer sketch for fans who missed the Burnett show. In keeping with almost 20 years of history the Mama's Family show also did not have continuity and had drastically changed facts and the details were so different you could write a thesis on it. Taken individually they are all wonderful!!! For true fans of course.
Thank you! This is exactly what I was trying to say above, but you stated it more eloquently. I agree totally, except that as a child I didn't really "get" or enjoy "The Family," but now do. They are all different and are all awesome!
Thanks so much for posting this. I rarely watched TV during the early 80s so I'd never seen it. I loved the Eunice sketches from the 70s and, like you, I never cared for Mama's Family, but this is of a different character entirely, very much like a play and without the comic exaggeration of the other shows, so every character seems human and sympathetic.
That was awful - terrible script and not funny even though it was intended to be a comdey. Ken Berry, the star of Mama's Family, is completely wasted here. This is unwatchable. Not surprising this one didn't warrant a VHS or DVD release, not to mention even a re-run...Crap.
I remember watching this on tv. At the time I didn't realize it but the continuity is off. If we're to assume that the sketches on The Carol Burnett Show took place in "real" time then Eunice and Ed didn't get divorced until around 1977. If the timeline is to be accurate then the Carol Burnett Show sketches should have taken place between the scenes showing the early part of Eunice's and Ed's marriage and the aftermath of their divorce. Mama's death should have also been later.
I suppose this special was made to cash in on the popularity of "The Family" sketches. It didn't work. The special is a lame, unfunny mish-mash: there's "Duke Reeves" and the "Fluffy" tale and Thelma yelling at Carl while he's on the toilet, ALL of which came from the original skits. It's too bad this thing even got made.
The Carol Burnett Show ran from 1967 to 1978. The "Eunice" special aired in the spring of 1982. "Mama's Family" debuted in 1983 on NBC until 1984, where it went into syndication until 1990.
"The Family" skits came before this. Actually this special is pretty lame, especially the last segment of it. It's not that funny at all. The awful sitcom "Mama's Family" came after this special.
I didn't think so. It revamped the character of Thelma Harper, to make her seem crusty but essentially good-hearted,which totally destroyed the integrity of the original skits. It was just an attempt to milk the "Family" sketches in order to make more money off them.
That's your opinion. I, personally, love Mama's Family and always HATED The Family sketches. I can appreciate them now, but back then I couldn't stand them. They weren't funny at all to my single digit aged self, whereas Mama's Family still makes me laugh.
If you saw the original skits as a child, then it makes sense that you didn't like them. It was very dark comedy with an unsettling realism; not something that would appeal to most children. On the other hand, "Mama's Family" was just fluff; the original Family sketches had real substance, even though they were sometimes painful to watch.
The "Family" skits on the CB Show saw a bitter, crabby, and never satisfied with anything attitude of Mama, the blow up temper of Eunice, and the laziness of Ed. It was all a total riot the whole time. "Mama's Family" paled in comparison and saw "Mama" as a kind whiner, not even remotely as bitchy as she was on the CB Show, along with silly side characters that all seemed dumb.
Yes, I know it was dark humor, but have since seen a lot of "The Family" sketches as an adult and can now find the humor in them, which is why I stated I was a kid when I first saw them. "The Family" and "Mama's Family" are two different entities. Apples and oranges. Just because they're different doesn't make one better than the other. I know "The Family" was the original, but, for me, "Mama's Family" was like having a half hour sketch of The Carol Burnett Show back every week.
You can't even really compare "The Family" to "The Family." The sketch was always changing. Every time you turned around Eunice had another (guest star) brother. Someone in the audience once asked Carol how many brothers Eunice had and even she didn't know. Then some time later they introduced that lame-ass Mickey Hart character, so Tim Conway wouldn't be left out, that I abosolutely hated.
There were some guest stars, but that made it fun. Let's see...brother Phillip (Roddy McDowell, with an English accent, even, twice), and also Phillip (Ken Barry on the Eunice special), brother Larry (Alan Alda), brother Jack (Tommy Smothers). Ellen was twice played by (maybe more than twice) by Betty White, to a flawless tea!
I've always wonder what Eunice would have been like on a later syndicated episode of Mama's Family, I wonder how she and Mama would have interacted since Mama *and the WHOLE tone of the show* was SO drastically different. I wonder If Eunice would be different.
hmmm, Eunice had one interaction with Mama over the phone at Bubba's graduation on the syndicated version of the show. Do U remember? Still and all, I dont think it's clear representation of what Eunice would be like had she been on the much different syndicated version of the show. I'd pay to see the interaction between Eunice and the Syndicated Mama
Yes and I remember EVERY underwent a personality change and I just wonder what Eunice would have been like, I get the feeling she would have been MORE goofy and LESS dramatic.
Also I saw a short clip on a Carol Burnett special of Mama, Eunice and Ed, Eunice looked MUCH older and had glasses, Mama looked like she did on the LAST of Mama's Family and Ed looked older. I just wonder WHERE that clip could have been from? I'm thinking MAYBE the 1990 Carol Burnett Show. But if it was did it follow the continuity of Mama's Family? Where Ed and Eunice still in Florida? And did Mama act like she did in the syndicated version? So may questions about that clip.
Ok, now you have me having a lot of questions. lol, more than just my original of what Eunice would be like which by the way you made some good points. Eunice would have definitely turned into a goofball. The others did anyway. But what is this clip you speak of? There were more Mama's Family's after 1990. Never heard of that. you have to find it. Hey, was it those Vicki Lawrence specials she does live in new york in some on-stage thing? If so, yea, I wonder what mama she is portraying
Like I say I don't know where the clip was from. It was something about Carol Burnett on a news show and it showed a clip of Mama, Eunice, and Ed in a skit and they all looked MUCH older. And somewhere on the new I saw a pic of Eunice sitting by a typewritter and she looked MUCH older and is wearing glasses.
And if you get the Show Stoppers DVD or tape on the cover there is a pic of Eunice and Mama together and Mama looks just like she does on the later syndicated episodes of Mama's Family and Eunice looks much older like Carol looked in the early to mid 90s.
AND a friend of mine told me she remembers seeing something where Mama visits Eunice and Ed in Florida. At first I thought she was either mistaken or pulling my leg BUT not I'm wondering if she saw a skit like that from the 1990 Carol Burnett Show. I get the feeling Mama and Eunice were together a few more times AFTER Mama's Family.
I doubt it. I have never heard of any of this. I would like a little bit of proof. Sounds like your friend is full of it. I may look up this info when I get some time over the net to see if they have anything on it.
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But I would like to know too, but it seems like they are pretty secretive about these things, I also heard that Vickie and Carol played Eunice and Mama on the Tin Conway Show and the Harvey Korman Show a few times, but I don't know of ANYWAY of confirming it!
I tried to catch all the Tim Conway shows (just a few episodes?) (don't remember Harvey having a show) but I remember Tim standing up at the show taking questions. Eunice entered from the back of the audience with a question. She was excited about being on TV, & I remember her saying something like, "I finally made it on TV, Mama! Take THAT, Mama!" Short scene. Carol's later show (limited or canceled show?) had a short scene with Mama and Eunice at cemetery I've never seen again
Another thing I've noticed, I've rewatched a LOT of the Mama's Family episodes with Eunice and Eunice and Ed act somewhat different than they do on the Carol Burnett Show. I can't really explain it, but Eunice acts more quirky or cartoonish, whereas on the CB Show she was a tad more realistic acting.
That's why I'd PAY to see Eunice on a syndicated episode of Mama's Family, I'd like to see the 2 world's collide. I'd like to see if Mama and the tone of the show would go back to being dark humore and tragic real life since Eunice was there or if it would continue as normal in spite of Eunice, or if Eunice herself would undergo a change.
I think the thing is Mama's Family - in the sketches and NBC Years was always a character driven show. It wasn't a typical sit com with joke_punchline then audience laughs. Its the actions and how the characters act is what made it funny.
Well the Family Sketches were VERY similar to a LOT of people's real life, so that's prolly why they would NOT appeal to most yound children, they would not understand it. However Mama's Family, *The later half* was almost like a cartoon, sorta in the same category as the Simpsons.
Thanks for adding this! I actually have it on an old VHS tape. Carol Burnett was interviewed about this and she said they performed this a few times in front of different live audiences. She said the one scenes that stood out the most was when Phillip tells Eunice off, and puts her in her place for always being afraid of failing. The applause lasted so long, it had to be edited out. I also get a little teary-eyed, when the cast comes out to thunderous applause at the end.
Is it just me or did they use that same tacky yellow dress in Naomi's wardrobe later on?
merrittdude 4 days ago
@Tabstarkin what CBS station were these from?
rebafan19 2 weeks ago
Ken Berry is alive and well, happily married and retired. andy griffith is still alive too!
Jason1975ism 1 month ago
Ken Berry gay?? nooooo! he was a playboy in the day! he got more tail than dog catcher!
Jason1975ism 1 month ago
yellow dress with purple nail polish ugh!!!
keishhale 1 month ago
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tanquantwal 1 month ago
Ken Berry is cute - is Ken a homosexual?
Discuss!
mrspatrickcampbell 1 month ago
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the episodes some are on julieyang1 channel
deedeesnicks 2 months ago
I love the comedy in this I did'nt even know it existed. eunice is actually beautiful and stylish in this episode. its amazing that rue mcclanahan and betty white were on the golden girls together along with mamas family. I remember when we were all about to go to bed when we were little my dad would sing the closing theme song to the carol burnett show and we'd go to sleep.
tearose00 2 months ago
I have been loking for this forever! I was 8 when it aired and never seen it. Thanks for uploading this! - Aneesh A. Sehgal
56thAlbanyProd 2 months ago
Most of them ARE still with us, Vicki Lawrence is still with us, Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, and Betty White are still around, the only one im not sure about is Ken Barry.
Godsentanangel 3 months ago
@Godsentanangel Ken Berry is still around he's 78 years old now...
FireitupBedford 2 months ago
Gosh, thanks so much for this! I have a vague memory of it.
harryspunkpunk 6 months ago
gawd wearing a dress to go see a movie??!?!? wheres it at, The Waldorf Astoria?
howardkevinm 8 months ago
@Tabstarkin what CBS station was this taped?
rebafan19 8 months ago
Eunice was well dressed when she lived at home. She went way downhill when she got married.
moomp 9 months ago
HiLaRiOuS!
TheImaDarlin 9 months ago
I vaguely remember this. I was just in JHS. And in this clip I realized Carol Burnett's character is the middle child and that is nothing to laugh at nor is it funny. Read "The Birth Order Book" by Dr. Leman The middle child especially of three is the one that's the most ignored the most left out. The one that might seem easy going on the outside but is truly miserable on the inside. Sadly, my own twisted mother thought that this was some kind of an sick example to follow. Watch all clips.
MrOphachew 9 months ago
@MrOphachew --The other good book is "Toxic Parents" by Dr. Susan Forward. Sadly, my mother loved this show but seemed to think it was an example of how to live life. It's a freakin tv sitcom meant for entertainment purposes only! She thought she was eunice and then treated everybody like momma did. I remember her telling my older sister by 8 yrs to tell me the same thing philip tells eunice at the very end of the show. And thats all she's had to say to me the last 10+ yrs. John Bradshaw clips
MrOphachew 7 months ago
@MrOphachew --also check out youtube clips of author John Bradshaw right here on youtube. He also has a few good books out "Healing the Shame that binds you" by John Bradshaw and "On the Family" by John Bradshaw.
MrOphachew 7 months ago
When Eunice first ran in, it reminded me of Lucile Ball. Wow.
Jewelrylover111 10 months ago
how did you tape this back then? When did vcrs come out ?
japierce15 11 months ago
did you know that carol burnett was ment to be mama and vick lawrence
was ment to be eunice? i liked it the way it was
missy12061 1 year ago
OMG I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU HAVE THIS. Thank you sooo much! =)
DorisDayFanatic 1 year ago
The special aired on Monday, March 15, 1982.
ThorneAstor 1 year ago
Carol Burnett will always be number 1 when it comes to comady. No swearing, nudity, or fowl behavior. We should all demand she returns.
gamehound83 1 year ago
so Mama has been around for 40 years?!
TheFirePhoenixKing 1 year ago
The only one that is dead is Harvey Korman, dumb ass.
BigDickMcGirk 1 year ago
@BigDickMcGirk Plus Rue. Well from the series Mama Family not sure about the series before
TheFirePhoenixKing 1 year ago
"yes damn it! the whole neighborhood can hear you!" lol lmao!
LEIMALOCCA 1 year ago
love this show and they only have season 1 out after 20 some years, where can i get a download of all
BJZnRPZ 1 year ago
anyone know where i could find a script of this? It is pretty much amazing.
Druid103 1 year ago
I love you SO much for posting this. OMG! I've been wanting to see this again for years. Wow!
deltablues2 1 year ago 3
Thanks for sharing this video and all others like it. I don't quite remember this, but at 42 my mind tends to be alot like teflon, nothing sticks to it. Thanks again. E.J.
EJCrowell 1 year ago
This originally aired in 1978 when I was 10 years old. I made an audio recording of this show (we didn't have a VCR then). I've listened to that audio recording 10's of times. I'm so grateful you put this on youtube. I've looked for this on DVD or VHS for years! This is, hands down, the best 90 mins of "The Family" that ever aired. So many great lines: "Mama, you don't always have to refer to him as That Ed Higgins"..."Face it Eunice, the man's the bottom of the barrel". Classic!
ksrtm007 1 year ago
Wow I never saw this show...its awesome!!
nrk1216 1 year ago
So this must have been when Ken Berry first started before he was on Mama's Family. Is that right?
roosevelthighschool 2 years ago 2
@roosevelthighschool Ken hadd earlier starred in "Mayberry RFD" and other shows.
MrMiracle100 1 year ago
I was 5 wen this aired I dont remember this tho
30Silas 2 years ago
This originally aired on March 15, 1982 from 9:30-11pm(et) ["HOUSE CALLS", which followed "M*A*S*H", was about to be cancelled after three seasons]. Carol wanted to experiment with a longer special involving "The Family", based on the sketches she did on her variety show during the '70s. In essence, this became the basis for "MAMA'S FAMILY" on NBC in 1983, after CBS rejected the idea of a weekly series (with Eunice and Ed apearing only on occasion).
fromthesidelines 2 years ago 3
Oh, wow! its like a flash back!
RIORDENATO 2 years ago
I love this. It is strange and wonderful. Thanks for posting. I missed it when it first aired.
sanfrancisco89 2 years ago 2
damn guys i feel old i was a kid when this was on tv
Jeepus80 2 years ago
dude i wasn't even born when this was on tv and it feels so good to be watching this and imagine how things used to be back then...
never imagined i would be watching this while sitting in front of my pc,on youtube
hus787 2 years ago
Thanks! :) these shows are the best, i'm only 18 but i grew up with mama's family and peticoat junction lmao !
berryblitz07 2 years ago
I can't think of anyone else who plays Mama better than Vicki Lawrence. Thank You.
roosevelthighschool 2 years ago 3
Agree. Vicki is amazing!
CommanderBabe 2 years ago
@CommanderBabe Thanks for agreeing with me.
roosevelthighschool 2 years ago
I don't remember "House Calls". I wasn't even born then. I was born in 1985. Thank You
roosevelthighschool 2 years ago
THE GENIUSES OF COMEDY.... WISH THEY WERE STILL WITH US.. I'M ONLY 22 AND I can't believe how SUCKY TV IS COMPARED TO THEN.! WOW........
0laila 2 years ago 37
they're still alive
asnycnow15 2 years ago
@0laila there doing what there doing in every industry doing things on the cheap reality shows are cheap no half million an episode salaries i think you can blame this on friends look how much they walk away with that will never happen again.
bluewolverine40 1 year ago
@0laila their not dead.
robinburns1 1 year ago
@0laila I sooo agree with you man. Tv today sucks like heck. Nothing but trash. This was the best time for tv.
TheKingJacob1 1 month ago
@0laila yeah, real sucky. Which is just what genius wordsmiths deserve. Real sucky, huh?
thisherecat2 1 month ago
THE GENIUSES OF COMEDY.... WISH THEY WERE STILL WITH US.. I'M ONLY 22 AND I can't believe how SUCKY TV IS COMPARED TO THEN.! WOW........
0laila 2 years ago 3
thanks for posting
PrepDogg 2 years ago 3
eunuchs
zndprophet 2 years ago 2
I HAVE A FRIEND CALLED EUNICK AND HIS SISTER, EUNICE, too noob!
kurozakilee 2 years ago 4
Vicki Lawrence & Carol Burnett are awesome!
dennardc3 2 years ago 30
OMG! I never new they did this! Fantastic! Eunice & Mama are my favorite from the Carol Burnett Show.
ABBAFANUSA 2 years ago 5
With Wayne Rogers and Lynn Redgrave based on the Walter Matthau movie House Calls.
TIPTON340 2 years ago
i love watching this. i wasnt born when this came out out but i wish i was. =] my mom enjoyed it =]
jesussierrra 2 years ago 2
Thank you for posting these videos! I've wanted to see these again for years....they are priceless! God bless you!
Crussell12 2 years ago 7
I was hooked on this stuff at the time.
LawrenceErnie 2 years ago 3
This is an old show. I wasn't born yet but I wish to God I was. Thank You.
roosevelthighschool 3 years ago 3
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I didn't like the "Eunice " special. Because it just wasn't FUNNY. And it was dull! It was just an attempt to get ratings by doing a long special based on the popular "Family" sketches. But it didn't really work. A lot of the plots from old "Family" sketches were recycled here: Duke Reeves, Fluffy, Carl in the bathroom. A very uninspired attempt to recreate the hilarious but dark "Family" sketches from the Carol Burnett show.
cynthiacher 3 years ago
Looks like your the only one who feels like that...
FireitupBedford 3 years ago
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I'm sure I'm not. Everything I said was true; the "Eunice" special was just a crass attempt to get ratings, an unfunny rehash of the original "Family" skits. The Family sketches were so popular that "Eunice" DID get good ratings and spawned the awful "Mama's Family" tv series, which got quickly got cancelled on national tv but found an audience in syndication. Nothing that comes about due to greed is going to be good: "Eunice" and "Mama's Family" are proof of that.
cynthiacher 3 years ago
This "movie" is excellent. It was meant to be a finale to the entire set of skits on the CB Show, and it followed them pretty close. I agree about Mama's Family. It was horrid. Mama was way too nice, and the skits were lame, except when Eunice appeared in a very few of them. Then the feuding returned and made it funny.
pocodfe 2 years ago
This is classic. They always take off the great show and put on a bunch of crap.
Ever since my sister was young she can play Unice to a T....
FireitupBedford 3 years ago 2
eunice was the best work i have seen
ClarenceFisher 3 years ago
I bought the dvd of this special and recieved it yesterday
oldsitcom12 3 years ago
oldsitcom12, where did you buy it? I didn't know this was available on dvd.
seleehwekim 3 years ago
On iOffer dot c.o.m it is the same exact video that is up. The same quality
oldsitcom12 3 years ago
I figured they just took my copy off of YouTube and put it on DVD. ;-)
Tabstarkin 3 years ago
I knew when I saw it they took it from you. When I was watching it on dvd the other day I knew that it was the same exact thing you uploaded.
oldsitcom12 3 years ago
I can't believe people would do this without putting it in their description. So you recorded this off of CBS when it first aired.
oldsitcom12 3 years ago
you're not the only one who has access to this
paulbalochefan 3 years ago
Does anyone know what episode this is? It's to damn funny!
FranTheNanny29 3 years ago
It was a special play, shown just one time as the finale to the FAMILY series of skits. Most of it follows some of the previous skits, with some changes.
pocodfe 3 years ago
yep, it was:) wow...truely great times, they'll ALWAYS be missed :'(
0laila 3 years ago
wait a minute..who killed off Mama? If I remember, the last ep of Mama's family was when Naomi had the baby.
pika23 3 years ago
Yes, it was. I'm glad she finally did have that baby, because I got tired of hearing Naomi talking about her baby that she never had. Finally, the day came. But, I don't think that they should've ended the show. I wanted to see the baby grow up!
travis7310 3 years ago
Totally 2 different shows
oldsitcom12 3 years ago
This movie/play aired on CBS many years before "Mama's Family" ever first appeared. This just a summary of many skits on the CB Show, and most of it follows those skits, with quite a bit more as well.
pocodfe 3 years ago
Oh what a treat! I never knew this existed!!! *squeals* I have a horrible fever and head cold right now, and needed something to pick me up!
Can I say one thing..Howcome they call Vinton Phil.
pika23 3 years ago
This was made long before Mama's Family, and on the CB Show, one of Eunice's brothers was "Phillip." In some of the skits he was played by Alan Alda and Roddy McDowell.
pocodfe 3 years ago
Actually, Alan Alda played Eunice's brother Larry in one skit from the Carol Burnett Show. I've uploaded that skit which I entitled "Merry Christmas Mama." On the Carol Burnett Show, Roddy McDowell ALWAYS played Phillip.
Tabstarkin 3 years ago
Oops...that right...that was a typo on my part. I have that on on tape as well, though it has a few edits.
pocodfe 3 years ago
Nice bit of continuity in the fact that Mama mentions 'Ms. Boleyn' - who was Iola's (unseen) mother many years later in 'Mama's Family.'
TRAVISJAMES03 3 years ago
Up until they got rid of Vinton's first two children (I think, "Buzz" and "Sonja"), "The Family" always had pretty good continuity.
dkphoenix05 3 years ago
Im curious how old is Mama supposed to be? I figure she was born about 1920 and got married like fresh out of high school in order to have 3 children already over 40 by the time shes in her mid 60s when Mama's Family started. Of course on TV shows you cant always think linear.
ForeverAnalog 3 years ago
I miss the original Mama's Family and do wish the show "Eunice" would be back on the air.
roosevelthighschool 3 years ago
At first when I saw this I didn't remember seeing it back in 1982. But now I think that I do remember watching this Carol Burnett special related to those "Eunice" comedy skits from The Carol Burnett show and it looks really nice. Seems to me that when Carol Burnett decided to say "Farewell" to her Carol Burnett show and her job as a TV comedienne and singer back in 1978, it wasn't really quite "Farewell" as we all thought it was. Her TV show ended in 1978, but she continued as an entertainer.
man975dog 3 years ago
Is it just me or does Carl's voice sound an awful lot like William Christopher (Father Mulcahy from MASH)? Sounds like him to me.
rippedwrangler 3 years ago
Oops, silly me. I watched all 9 segments to the end and some guy named Dick Clair did Carl's voice.
rippedwrangler 3 years ago
@rippedwrangler Judging from the closing credits seen in the final part, it actually turns out to be Dick Clair, who I believe would go on to co-executive produce "Mama's Family".
Suedeheadlover 10 months ago
@Suedeheadlover I forgot to add that he was also one of this special's co-writers.
Suedeheadlover 10 months ago
Thank you so much for posting this movie. I am a big Mama's Family and Carol Burnett fan, so this was a real treat.
Vauthier 3 years ago 2
Thank you so much for this! I remember watching it when it first aired when I was about 15 and I made an audio tape of it (as I so often did at the time). I still have the tape and even converted part of it to mp3 a few years ago. It's really nice to see the video portion of it again after so many years!
johnnytheC 3 years ago
i love this. =]
im 17 yrs old and i wish they had tv shows like this now. it seems like the world was a beautiful place . =]
these types of shows make me happy and stuff lol thanks for uploading this:D
jesussierrra 3 years ago 2
so frightening, Eunice is my mother just add Uncle Jim Beam, a trailer and a collection of obesenities about me being gay, for example; while kicked out of my house, walking down pertshire in San Antonio at age 16, she gave one last yell of curiosity, "Are ya goin to get it up the a__ _....honey?" screen doors flew open and toddlers were pulled indoors. Life experience makes us stronger..... thanks I feel better now letting thsat go after 22 years.
opusnumberken 3 years ago
Oh how I remember this special when I was in high school. Thanks so much for posting this !!!
Johnnyboy792 3 years ago
Mama cooking Fluffy is disturbing. They use that in "The Attick", but I never knew that they killed Mama off. Mama's Family will never be the same again!
DanceMotherFuckers 3 years ago
It's better if you don't even think of Mama's Family as the Eunice Skits from the Carol Burnett Show and The Eunice special as even being related.
pgy002 3 years ago
Oh, but they are, and this movie should have been the final word on 'The Family'. But noooo, they had to make 'Mama's Family'.
Neville6000 3 years ago
thanks for posting, hadn't seen this and had always liked mama's family
bellladonna5 3 years ago
didn't the husband die in the bathroom on mama'a family?
Sk84love 3 years ago 3
yes...on the toilet.
love9boy 3 years ago 2
It was in one of the original Family skits on the Carol Burnett show that Thelma Harper spoke about her husband going into the bathroom "and he never came out!" So yes, Carl Harper died in the bathroom, but that originated on the Carol Burnett show, not Mama's Family.
cynthiacher 3 years ago 3
Do any of you Carol Burnett fans remember a skit on the show, where Carol was wearing a BLONDE wig and she pulls it off and has a BRUNETTE wig underneith? I thought that was the neatest thing when I was little but have never seen it again. Anyone remember it?
pgy001 3 years ago 2
Why does the title say 1955 when it was made in 1981 ??? Debra
Moonchild60 3 years ago
It's a flashback to set up the story...meaning they start in 1955.
LadyDragonsblood 3 years ago
That CBS theme music brings back memories!! What year was this done?
PsyCouture 3 years ago
1981
Neville6000 3 years ago
This is exactly what I wanted to see. Thank you for posting this. I have always wanted to see Eunice the show. Now if only it were available on DVD I'd be happier than a pig in mud.
roosevelthighschool 3 years ago
Someone please tell me that color Eunice's hair is! It's always looked BROWN to me, but I hear a lot of people call it RED. Also The picture Bubba drew of Eunice at the conference, he drew her with red hair.
pgy001 4 years ago
Thank you! As a big Mama's Family fan, I was looking for this! God bless you!
defleppard11 4 years ago 2
So is Phillip supposed to be OLDER than Eunice in this? B/c he just got back from college and it APPEARS that Eunice is STILL in highschool going to highschool parties, dating Ed and talking about how Duke Reeves is captain of the football team and all.
SurfingInARainbow1 4 years ago
well first of all, I have to say I agree with all your comments below on how Eunice and Ed changed, and some of the other stuff below to. Good observations. Haha! And yea, it be cool if Eunice were on the syndicated version to see what it be like. For some reason tho, even if her and Mama did get back together, it wasn't on those syndicated episodes so it just wouldn't be the same, ya know. Something will never know. That one interaction she had with Mama over the phone is what will have to do
Tonetare 4 years ago
Did you notice that in the VERY EARLY Family Sketches on the CB Show, Mama acts more similar to the way she does in the later syndicated episodes of Mama's Family, she's more spunky and jokative, like when she was doing dog impressions of Topaz. It wasn't until later she started becoming SO bitter!
pgy001 4 years ago
All I can say about this show is it must smell hella shitty up in that one bathroom. Can Carl take a dump or can Carl take a dump. I mean holy shit! He spent the entire portion of part 1, unloading.
Tonetare 4 years ago
Carl in the bathroom came from one of the original Family sketches. It was an episode that showed Ed, Eunice and Mama in flashback (Carl was heard but not seen). Mama interrupts the young Ed and Eunice in a makeout session. After Ed bolts Eunice tells Mama Ed was going to propose. Carl won't come out of the bathroom, so Mama tells Eunice "you'll marry him over my dead body!" And with a look that could kill, Eunice says "I hope so!" I wish somebody would put that sketch up on YouTube.
cynthiacher 3 years ago 3
Haha! Yea I've seen that episode of the family sketches. It is on youtube. At least that's where I saw it eons ago like early last year or something.
Tonetare 3 years ago
IT WAS WATERD DOWN .
laneatlileden 4 years ago
Way too critical! All three were self contained and had differences even within themselves. The sketches in the 60s/70s never had continuity. The special here is just a longer sketch for fans who missed the Burnett show. In keeping with almost 20 years of history the Mama's Family show also did not have continuity and had drastically changed facts and the details were so different you could write a thesis on it. Taken individually they are all wonderful!!! For true fans of course.
Garysc6 4 years ago
Thank you! This is exactly what I was trying to say above, but you stated it more eloquently. I agree totally, except that as a child I didn't really "get" or enjoy "The Family," but now do. They are all different and are all awesome!
pepsiprincess 4 years ago
Thanks so much for posting this. I rarely watched TV during the early 80s so I'd never seen it. I loved the Eunice sketches from the 70s and, like you, I never cared for Mama's Family, but this is of a different character entirely, very much like a play and without the comic exaggeration of the other shows, so every character seems human and sympathetic.
colibri1 4 years ago
That was awful - terrible script and not funny even though it was intended to be a comdey. Ken Berry, the star of Mama's Family, is completely wasted here. This is unwatchable. Not surprising this one didn't warrant a VHS or DVD release, not to mention even a re-run...Crap.
stevejndallas 4 years ago
I remember watching this on tv. At the time I didn't realize it but the continuity is off. If we're to assume that the sketches on The Carol Burnett Show took place in "real" time then Eunice and Ed didn't get divorced until around 1977. If the timeline is to be accurate then the Carol Burnett Show sketches should have taken place between the scenes showing the early part of Eunice's and Ed's marriage and the aftermath of their divorce. Mama's death should have also been later.
smns65 4 years ago
They should not of kiled MaMa off on the Carol Burnetty Show.
tomyaz 4 years ago
I suppose this special was made to cash in on the popularity of "The Family" sketches. It didn't work. The special is a lame, unfunny mish-mash: there's "Duke Reeves" and the "Fluffy" tale and Thelma yelling at Carl while he's on the toilet, ALL of which came from the original skits. It's too bad this thing even got made.
cynthiacher 4 years ago
I liked the special but I agree that some of the recycled gags didn't work.
smns65 4 years ago
Duke Reeves lol. On one episode of Mama's Family Eunice and Mama get into an argument over him that lands them in jail.
christna1 4 years ago
I love ALL of Mama's Family- the Sketches, the NBC Years, The Syndies- I love it all!
Thanks for posting!
VASINGER 4 years ago 2
this is so so so cool
you help me out alot with this oh goody!!!
don77sicily 4 years ago
Thank you for uploading this. I didn't even know it existed!
pepsiprincess 4 years ago
whoa you really did your work to find this cool!!!!
don77sicily 4 years ago
Which came first--the Carol Burnett Show skits, or this special? I'm assuming this, right?
mastroni1 4 years ago
The Carol Burnett Show ran from 1967 to 1978. The "Eunice" special aired in the spring of 1982. "Mama's Family" debuted in 1983 on NBC until 1984, where it went into syndication until 1990.
Hope that helps. :-)
Tabstarkin 4 years ago
"The Family" skits came before this. Actually this special is pretty lame, especially the last segment of it. It's not that funny at all. The awful sitcom "Mama's Family" came after this special.
cynthiacher 4 years ago
Mama's Family was a good show...
myspace08181984 4 years ago
I didn't think so. It revamped the character of Thelma Harper, to make her seem crusty but essentially good-hearted,which totally destroyed the integrity of the original skits. It was just an attempt to milk the "Family" sketches in order to make more money off them.
cynthiacher 4 years ago
That's your opinion. I, personally, love Mama's Family and always HATED The Family sketches. I can appreciate them now, but back then I couldn't stand them. They weren't funny at all to my single digit aged self, whereas Mama's Family still makes me laugh.
pepsiprincess 4 years ago
If you saw the original skits as a child, then it makes sense that you didn't like them. It was very dark comedy with an unsettling realism; not something that would appeal to most children. On the other hand, "Mama's Family" was just fluff; the original Family sketches had real substance, even though they were sometimes painful to watch.
cynthiacher 4 years ago
The "Family" skits on the CB Show saw a bitter, crabby, and never satisfied with anything attitude of Mama, the blow up temper of Eunice, and the laziness of Ed. It was all a total riot the whole time. "Mama's Family" paled in comparison and saw "Mama" as a kind whiner, not even remotely as bitchy as she was on the CB Show, along with silly side characters that all seemed dumb.
pocodfe 4 years ago
Yes, I know it was dark humor, but have since seen a lot of "The Family" sketches as an adult and can now find the humor in them, which is why I stated I was a kid when I first saw them. "The Family" and "Mama's Family" are two different entities. Apples and oranges. Just because they're different doesn't make one better than the other. I know "The Family" was the original, but, for me, "Mama's Family" was like having a half hour sketch of The Carol Burnett Show back every week.
pepsiprincess 4 years ago
You can't even really compare "The Family" to "The Family." The sketch was always changing. Every time you turned around Eunice had another (guest star) brother. Someone in the audience once asked Carol how many brothers Eunice had and even she didn't know. Then some time later they introduced that lame-ass Mickey Hart character, so Tim Conway wouldn't be left out, that I abosolutely hated.
pepsiprincess 4 years ago
There were some guest stars, but that made it fun. Let's see...brother Phillip (Roddy McDowell, with an English accent, even, twice), and also Phillip (Ken Barry on the Eunice special), brother Larry (Alan Alda), brother Jack (Tommy Smothers). Ellen was twice played by (maybe more than twice) by Betty White, to a flawless tea!
pocodfe 4 years ago
I've always wonder what Eunice would have been like on a later syndicated episode of Mama's Family, I wonder how she and Mama would have interacted since Mama *and the WHOLE tone of the show* was SO drastically different. I wonder If Eunice would be different.
pgy001 4 years ago
hmmm, Eunice had one interaction with Mama over the phone at Bubba's graduation on the syndicated version of the show. Do U remember? Still and all, I dont think it's clear representation of what Eunice would be like had she been on the much different syndicated version of the show. I'd pay to see the interaction between Eunice and the Syndicated Mama
Tonetare 4 years ago
Yes and I remember EVERY underwent a personality change and I just wonder what Eunice would have been like, I get the feeling she would have been MORE goofy and LESS dramatic.
SurfingInARainbow1 4 years ago
Also I saw a short clip on a Carol Burnett special of Mama, Eunice and Ed, Eunice looked MUCH older and had glasses, Mama looked like she did on the LAST of Mama's Family and Ed looked older. I just wonder WHERE that clip could have been from? I'm thinking MAYBE the 1990 Carol Burnett Show. But if it was did it follow the continuity of Mama's Family? Where Ed and Eunice still in Florida? And did Mama act like she did in the syndicated version? So may questions about that clip.
SurfingInARainbow1 4 years ago
Ok, now you have me having a lot of questions. lol, more than just my original of what Eunice would be like which by the way you made some good points. Eunice would have definitely turned into a goofball. The others did anyway. But what is this clip you speak of? There were more Mama's Family's after 1990. Never heard of that. you have to find it. Hey, was it those Vicki Lawrence specials she does live in new york in some on-stage thing? If so, yea, I wonder what mama she is portraying
Tonetare 4 years ago
Like I say I don't know where the clip was from. It was something about Carol Burnett on a news show and it showed a clip of Mama, Eunice, and Ed in a skit and they all looked MUCH older. And somewhere on the new I saw a pic of Eunice sitting by a typewritter and she looked MUCH older and is wearing glasses.
SurfingInARainbow1 4 years ago
And if you get the Show Stoppers DVD or tape on the cover there is a pic of Eunice and Mama together and Mama looks just like she does on the later syndicated episodes of Mama's Family and Eunice looks much older like Carol looked in the early to mid 90s.
SurfingInARainbow1 4 years ago
AND a friend of mine told me she remembers seeing something where Mama visits Eunice and Ed in Florida. At first I thought she was either mistaken or pulling my leg BUT not I'm wondering if she saw a skit like that from the 1990 Carol Burnett Show. I get the feeling Mama and Eunice were together a few more times AFTER Mama's Family.
SurfingInARainbow1 4 years ago
I doubt it. I have never heard of any of this. I would like a little bit of proof. Sounds like your friend is full of it. I may look up this info when I get some time over the net to see if they have anything on it.
Tonetare 4 years ago
Hey just to let you know I am Surfininarainbow just at a freinds house.
But I would like to know too, but it seems like they are pretty secretive about these things, I also heard that Vickie and Carol played Eunice and Mama on the Tin Conway Show and the Harvey Korman Show a few times, but I don't know of ANYWAY of confirming it!
pgy001 4 years ago
I tried to catch all the Tim Conway shows (just a few episodes?) (don't remember Harvey having a show) but I remember Tim standing up at the show taking questions. Eunice entered from the back of the audience with a question. She was excited about being on TV, & I remember her saying something like, "I finally made it on TV, Mama! Take THAT, Mama!" Short scene. Carol's later show (limited or canceled show?) had a short scene with Mama and Eunice at cemetery I've never seen again
2008nowplaying 3 years ago
2008nowplaying-What happened in the Cemetary skit? I've heard about it, but have never seen it.
pgy001 3 years ago
Another thing I've noticed, I've rewatched a LOT of the Mama's Family episodes with Eunice and Eunice and Ed act somewhat different than they do on the Carol Burnett Show. I can't really explain it, but Eunice acts more quirky or cartoonish, whereas on the CB Show she was a tad more realistic acting.
pgy001 4 years ago
That's why I'd PAY to see Eunice on a syndicated episode of Mama's Family, I'd like to see the 2 world's collide. I'd like to see if Mama and the tone of the show would go back to being dark humore and tragic real life since Eunice was there or if it would continue as normal in spite of Eunice, or if Eunice herself would undergo a change.
pgy001 4 years ago
I think the thing is Mama's Family - in the sketches and NBC Years was always a character driven show. It wasn't a typical sit com with joke_punchline then audience laughs. Its the actions and how the characters act is what made it funny.
VASINGER 4 years ago
Well the Family Sketches were VERY similar to a LOT of people's real life, so that's prolly why they would NOT appeal to most yound children, they would not understand it. However Mama's Family, *The later half* was almost like a cartoon, sorta in the same category as the Simpsons.
pgy001 4 years ago
I have wanted to see this for so long! thank you ever so much for uploading .
vulcangirl15 4 years ago
you need to send me this or THE EPISODE WITH GONE WITH WIND
sailorkeyblader 4 years ago
Thanks for adding this! I actually have it on an old VHS tape. Carol Burnett was interviewed about this and she said they performed this a few times in front of different live audiences. She said the one scenes that stood out the most was when Phillip tells Eunice off, and puts her in her place for always being afraid of failing. The applause lasted so long, it had to be edited out. I also get a little teary-eyed, when the cast comes out to thunderous applause at the end.
pocodfe 4 years ago
OMG! I've been wanting to see this for years!
MikeCA1974 4 years ago