I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

It's not great by any means, but it's a pretty good movie that didn't leave me filled with regret for investing time in it.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

This show is OK. It's not that funny. I'd watch it if there was absolutely nothing better on. I'll tell you why. I've seen most episodes of this show. None of them are that good. A few are mediocre. It's a mediocre show at best.Mama's Family started out as a little sketch on Carol Burnett and Friends. It was funny, I'll give it that. It was fun to peer inside the lives of a dysfunctional family and see how they behaved. The sketches essentially started out like this: They'd be put in some situation, and they'd try to behave nonchalant, and loving to one another, but then the dam bursts, and they go nuts and start breaking down and pointing out little flaws about each other and so on. You know, the usual dysfunctional family stuff. They break down playing Sorry, they break down in front of Roddy McDowall, and so on. This was funny up to a point. It was NOT meant to turn into a hundred-episode separate sitcom.Carol Burnett and Friends is funny, Mama's Family is not funny. Why? Well, for one, Carol Burnett has variety. They do a thousand different things on there, from the sketch where Carol plays the queen of England to the one where she's Houdini's niece or something, and they always have big guest stars. It's funny. Mama's Family is not funny. It's the same formulaic plot structure used over and over again. In fact, they don't even usually use the plot how it's supposed to be- sometimes they don't even break down, they just act nonchalant. And, in order to stop the audience from falling asleep, they keep coming up with new plots- but it doesn't work, it just doesn't have the same charm that Carol Burnett and Friends had.Another thing I hate is that Mama's family doesn't even have Carol Burnett OR Harvey Korman, who were crucial to the original sketches. they're both funny. Carol shows up in the pilot episode or something, then she vanishes and she's never seen again, and Harvey Korman's character, Ed, is even less heard from. The original sketches were also funny because Tim Conway played Ed's stupid sidekick. No more Tim Conway. Or Carol Burnett. Or Harvey Korman. they don't keep a single one. Just Vicki Lawrence. Don't get me wrong, she's pretty funny, but not as funny as Carol. Once Carol is gone, all the charisma gets sucked out of it. It's not funny anymore. To replace Carol, we have Iola, a weirdo who's stuck with her elderly mother. She's not funny, just sort of pitiful and depressing. To replace Harvey Korman's boisterous Ed, we have Ken Berry as Venton- who's not as funny as Harvey Korman because he's a mentally unstable sissy with relationship problems. To top it all off, we add Naomi, the sexy lady, Venton's wife- who annoys everyone with how snobby she is. The family is still dysfunctional, but not in a funny way. Vicki Lawrence isn't a very good old lady- she wasn't old when the show was made, so it seems insane- like she's pretending to be old or something- she just screams in a little nasally voice and does silly things and bugs everyone. She's not that funny. Betty White is in the first few episodes, and you think the reboot might turn out successful, but then she leaves, too.They try to revive the show many, many times- through an episode where Thelma dreams she's a detective and one wheere she does dirty dancing and one where she goes to a yoga place or something- but it's not funny. The plots become bizarre. Then, in the last season, they have a baby, just to tweak the hearts of the viewers a bit- but it doesn't work. This rotten tomato is cancelled soon after, and the dysfunctional family fades away into obscurity. Honestly, I just don't know why those five minute long sketches on Carol Burnett were turned into a sitcom. it was a bad idea. To be honest, a Carol Burnett spinoff didn't have to be bad- it could have been pulled off well. maybe there could have been a sitcom about those sketches where Carol and Harvey play a modern married couple and Vicki plays Carol's younger sister. maybe there could have been a real life adaptation of As The Stomach Turns, the show's soap opera parody. Maybe we could have seen Tim Conway swallow that hand grenade. Maybe there could have been a Dorf/Carol Burnett crossover. the possibilities are endless, really. They just made the wrong choice. Mama's Family is not absurd or funny in any way- it's an undead thing trying to reclaim its glory days, and it just goes on for too long. I don't care about watching Southern hicks fight it out. That's not funny. This show is dull and lifeless and I don't know why it was even a thing, or why the guys behind the Carol Burnett show saw relevance in the character of Thelma Harper. everything about it is wrong. I'm giving it a three, though, because the theme song is OK.

One of the worse sitcoms ever made. Very poor acting, very stupid content that insults one's intelligence. The aging makeup work done on Vicky Lawrence looks like a failed attempt at making a younger woman look old. Ken Berry is about one of the lousiest comedy actors ever, and is really lousy in this particular show. The only one in the cast that can even halfway act is Vicky Lawrence, but any merit in her acting here is canceled out by the poor material. And like Gomer Pyle and JJ Evans (of Good Times fame), her character is way overdone, to the point of being offensively so. This show could have been better written and cast, with Carol Burnette and Tim Conway instead of Vicky Lawrence and Ken Berry.

Wow I absolutely love this show. Its the laugh out loud till it hurts type of funny.I've never missed a rerun of this show and have stayed up all hours of the night just to see it. Like many of you I have also signed those damned petitions for years to get it on DVD.It Came out on my birthday Sept. 26 and I went to all the discount stores and even FYE and Sam Goodies and still couldn't find it and finally had to order it. It sucks such a great show took so much time and such before it came out. It also sucks that it came out and the average Joe may not even know its out. If season one was released to retail and could be bought those fools at warner brothers would see it will make money and then maybe they'd get on the ball about getting season two out. Cause if you're like me, you're probably thinking it'll be another 5 years before we get season 2 - lets hope not.I love this show though, I mean the cast is funny as can be and Mama is wonderful. Shes lovable, but mostly grouchy and would rather belittle you and pick you apart than anything, because thats her weird ass way of saying she loves you. This might be a comedy but its as dramatic and real as just about any TV show out there. These people are so much like my family its scary.I love Betty White but she wasn't much in these shows. Vickie Lawrence in a room with no one else could have you laughing out loud with just the little facial expressions she makes. Vint is hilarious and grows as the seasons come. Carol Burnett and Harvey Korman were great in what few episodes we saw them in, but we owe so much more because Carols show was the place where Mama was born. Korman was the director of many of the episodes and did a perfect job with his simplicity.Buzz was perfect and I think he is a great middle man for them to use for many of the jokes. Sonja is worthless and never really had a point. Aunt Fran is great and I wish we could've kept her on all the seasons.Season 1 has only 13 episodes and a couple of them were out of order which is a bit odd because the latter shows featured a single Vint and we all know he was married since the first few episodes, still its too good to be mad at.The episodes got better and Vinton and Naomi seem to get dumber as the show gained age and we lost Buzz, Sonja, Ellen and aunt Fran, but we gained Bubba and Iola and I think its a much better and funnier episode when they are on it.Go buy this season and lets help show Warner Bros. that its a beloved show and were pleased to have it in our DVD shelf so we can watch it over and over, and that we are wanting season 2 in a timely fashion.

I have been watching Mama's Family for years now! It plays on TBS cable channel every weekday morning at 6:00am and I am up to watch it! I feel like something is missing in my day whenever I am not able to watch it! It just puts you in a good mood! My 10 year old nephew loves it too! It helps him to wake up! He hears the opening song playing and he's wide awake! I cannot wait to but the DVD! I was recently hospitalized and I had the whole nurses staff watching it in the morning as well! It's just a contagious show. Mama is so homey and makes you feel like you know the entire family. I think that they should have a Raytown reunion someday and let everyone know what happened to everyone- like Buz and Sonya must have either gone to college or went and lived with their mother. And if Bubba ever confronted Eunice and Ed. I think it would be a good update to the show. I'm just thankful that I get to watch it everyday!