Mama's Family House

The house must have had 4 bedrooms because one for Mama, one for the aunt (Rue McClanahan in the first season) and there were two grandkids, both teens and a boy and a girl who wouldn't have been sharing a bedroom presumably.

I think Vinton was downstairs for privacy to fcuk his nubile wife with great abandon.

There had to be at least three bedrooms upstairs.

One for Mama and two to house Bubba's huge bulge!

Say, whatever happened to that gorgeous gal that played Sonja?

Thelma Harper and her family were ignorant hicks, and they would not have found anything untoward about siblings of different sexes sharing a room. Mud dumb hicks don't see anything wrong with relatives of different sexes sleeping in the same room.

[quote]The house must have had 4 bedrooms because one for Mama, one for the aunt (Rue McClanahan in the first season) and there were two grandkids, both teens and a boy and a girl who wouldn't have been sharing a bedroom presumably.

That would be the NBC years. In that Mama had one bedroom, Aunt Fran the other, she had another room as her "studio" for her to write.

Then when Vinton moved in, he took the basement, Sonia took the "studio" and Buzz (Vint Jr) moved into the attic. (though one episode seemed to contradict this a bit).

How long did this terrible show last of the air?

[quote]Mud dumb hicks don't see anything wrong with relatives of different sexes sleeping in the same room.

It's a step up from dumb city hipsters who accept a 200 square foot apartment as sufficient living space.

it's high-stair-ick-ul

The exterior shown in the opening credits was also Lynda's house in John Carpenter's Halloween.

There was a different house in the original opening.

I loved Mama's Family.

"How long did this terrible show last of the air? "

I don't know how long the original "Mama's Family" on NBC lasted, but it wasn't long. There was a good reason for that; it sucked.

The show was revamped in syndication. Aunt Fran was gone. They killed her off (offscreen).. Vinton's two kids, Buzz and Sonya, were also gone, which was a mercy. Buzz was totally bland and Sonya was ugly and sullen. A new character was introduced, Iola, who was actually sad and funny and played to perfection by Beverly Archer. Eunice's son Bubba comes to live with Thelma and her lazy son and his hot to trot wife. Bubba is supposed to be a teenager, but looks like he's at least 25 years old. Oh well, at least he's hot. Anyway, the new version of Mama's Family proved much more popular than the NBC series and lasted several years. It wasn't great, but it certainly was better than the cruddy original series.

The revamped version was fun because it was like a live action cartoon. The dialogue was actually pretty funny as a parody of small town America mid 20th century

R6 was permanently banned from The Bigger Jigger.

I had high expectations for the original series but was very disappointed after seeing the first episode. It just wasn't funny and the two kids were irritating. The later syndicated version was a big improvement after ditching Buzz and Sonja and replacing them with sexy Bubba and hilarious Iola. Loved it!

I miss Sonja.

"Just repeat to yourself, 'It's just a show, I should really just relax.'"

--Mystery Science Theater 3000

Vinton, you clumsy poop. get off your butt and get me a beer!

i liked how naomi worked at food circus as a cashier. i aspired to be like her as a child.

i hated betty white's character on the show. what a bitch. so unlike rose nylund!

The original Opal from AMC was in this show.

R20 has apparently never heard of Sue Ann Nivens.

Why are you all still talking about the house instead of Bubba's massive cock?

I hated Mary Tyler Moore show. Unfunny.

Can someone please find and post thar clip of Bubba shirtless with no shirt in short shorts with ni underwear?

Recent pic of Bubba.

Naomi worked at Food Circus!

It's better than working at Kwik Keys!

I loved how they worked "Ray" into local landmarks (Chez Ray, Ray of Hope Home for Wayward Girls), kinda like [italic]Laverne & Shirley[/italic] did with "Pfister."

I loved the episode where Naomi gets Thelma a job at Food Circus as a consumer product counselor. Hilarious!

Thelma also worked with bubba down to Burger Boy

RayMart!

All the church ladies league governing board shops down to Niedermeyers

Was the Raymada Inn located near the GalleRaya Mall?

Everything Raytown.

Jesus, good for Allan Kayser. Looks like he's been consistently hot from his Mama days till the present. I used to watch this show in reruns in the late 90's/early 00's when I was a kid, and he always gave me a funny feeling down there.

I don't like redheads but Bubbles was one hot guy.

Anybody remember that awful "Eunice" special? The Family skits on Carol Burnett proved so popular that an hour long special was done about the Harper family. In that one Ken Berry plays the brother of Eunice and Ellen, only he's called Phillip and he's the only bright, normal member of The Family. He becomes a successful writer and gets away from his family's lunacy. But the special mostly focuses on the intense, sick, co-dependent relationship Eunice has with her mother Thelma. The show is a lot more disturbing than funny, and it rehashes a lot of old Family sketches (Carl on the toilet, Duke Reeves, Fluffy the rabbit). And get this; at the end of the show Mama is DEAD. Boy, what a laugh riot!

I thought "Eunice" sucked, but the special got such good ratings that the awful Harper family got their own series, with the previously dead Mama miraculously back to life and her house again filled with her pitiful, dysfunctional relatives.

r38 has issues. see a psychiatrist, please.

I love the opening song.

I can't ever find it on syndication anymore

It's out on DVD now R41. It works much better without commercials.

Iola is the gem of the cast. And Bubba is the bulge of the cast.

Iola (God bless her soul) made me a cunt cozy.

She said she knew instinctively I would take an extra large. God love her, the old dry dyke.

My favorite show of all time. I love how each character has their own color...Mama is blue/lavender, Vint is tan, Iola is pink, Naomi is yellow, and Bubba is green.

The boy who played Buzz had a hot ass too.

Damn Bubba is STILL hot!!

did you all love sonja?

I liked the episode where Mama says, "Well I bet the neighbors are just loving this"

R39 has issues, see a psychiatrist, please. PLEASE.

R48 That always reminds me of a dear, long deceased (AIDS) gay friend who loved to use that saying. We actually connected on one of those old BBS systems through our mutual love of "Mama's Family".

it was a clean show you could watch with the whole family compared to today's raunchy shows.

Remember when Beverly Archer actually posted on DL? She wanted help in clearing up the death hoax about her.

I liked the episode where Momma went to her junior high reunion (is there really such a thing?) and told everyone off.

The OP is right, that's disgusting.

Well, I'll bet the neighbors are just lovin' this!