Carol Burnett - The Family: "Mickey's Apartment" (Unedited)
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- Eunice, Ed, and Mama go to Mickey Hart's apartment for dinner. Unedited as it originally aired on November 6, 1976.
The Family sketches from The Carol Burnett Show are iconic comedic segments that revolve around the tumultuous and humorous interactions of a dysfunctional family. Central to the sketches are:
Eunice (played by Carol Burnett): The frustrated and often melodramatic daughter who struggles with her family dynamics.
Mama (played by Vicki Lawrence): The controlling and manipulative matriarch, known for her sharp tongue and ability to stir up chaos.
Ed (played by Harvey Korman): Eunice's well-meaning but inept husband, who often tries to mediate the drama but usually finds himself overwhelmed.
Mickey Hart (played by Tim Conway): Ed's dimwitted, but kind-hearted assistant at the hardware store.
The sketches typically feature relatable family scenarios-such as birthdays, holidays, or moving days-that quickly devolve into absurdity. The humor arises from Mama’s outrageous antics and exaggerated reactions, Eunice’s desperate attempts to assert herself, and Ed’s comical struggles to maintain peace.
Physical comedy, witty banter, and emotional undertones are key elements, showcasing both the humor and heart of family life. The sketches highlight themes of love, frustration, and the complexities of familial relationships, making them a memorable and beloved part of the show. The chemistry among the cast members and their ability to blend comedy with genuine emotion resonate with audiences, securing The Family sketches a lasting legacy in television history.
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I love how Mickey is the one with the hearing aid, but always speaks up for "Mother Harper". 😅😅❤️
I always thought it was a radio😅
@@joyceronsley237😅😅
That's cz he thinks Mama is hard of hearing 😂😂😂😂
This month Carol Burnett will turn 89 years old. Happy Birthday to one of our living legends!!
Happy Happy birthday Carol. I’ve always loved your shows…. Happily I’ve been able to download most of your skits…they never get old!! I’ll soon be 84 and I count on them to brighten my days. Much love being sent your way…. Diane Brooks
@@dianebrooks4724 her birthday is in April
@@Former_Pastor wrong!! S/b October…
@@Former_Pastor wrong
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROL! MY WIFE AND I LOVED WATCHING YOUR SHOWS ALL THE YEARS! AND NOW RRWATCHING
Micky is so happy and content living his life.
Then there is everyone else.
so true
@NegromancyHe's dismissive because he's on the spectrum.
He is.
This proves they were good actors not just good comedians
Name one comedian who can't act and I'll name you 20 actors who can't tell a joke.
@@pmbbmp He stinks and I don't like him.
Carol’s body language is absolutely genius and hilarious 😂
She's got so much energy
So true 😆🤣
Mickey just genuinely loves all of them and Eunice and Mamma treat him so badly. Poor fella.
They treat each other terribly and they're mother and daughter. In one sketch Ed calls them two dragons and that's exactly what they were.
Coz he’s peculiar and Ed takes food money from Eunice to give it to Mickey. Any mother with a family can see just how wrong that it. I would have dumped that piece of shit Ed long ago. Heck I wouldn’t have married such a loser in the first place. And that horrible mother of hers, no wonder her sister wants nothing to do with them. Poor Eunice is the long suffering one here. She is constantly being abused by these two. Sad part is, there are families in this world just as bad and much much worse than them. I’m glad not in my family. Well….not that l know of…,,
We can all identify with these people. That's why it is so popular.
Its funny. Laugh.
Because most of us know idiots like him.
There's always an undercurrent of sadness in these Family sketches. The actors don't play the material just for laughs, but dig down deeper to show how each character is broken in some way, especially Eunice.
These sketches were based on Carol's homelife as a child. It's amazing that she was able to find humor in what must been so sad.
At times their acts or statements feel uncomfortably desperate.
Just laugh.
They once sad they were actually hard to do due to the pain
@@Nigelsmom2136 They were? Are you sure? I thought her grandma brought her up.
Mickey was the purest being in this series.
My mom used to dress me like Micky.. baseball hat Short sleeve shirt with sweater vest
I grew up on these shows. I wish tv was still this funny.
Me too, shows like Sanford and Son are fortunately still shown on TV
Yep. Comedy was golden and we had 3 whole channels. No remote. You actually had to get up and walk across the room to turn the channel and adjust the volume.
I love how mama tries to hold back her laughter a couple of times!
Vicki always had the incredible ability to choke on her laughter and hold it together. Not many actors can do that (for example, her co-stars on this show) consistently. Even when we do notice her starting to break, she hides it well and recovers quickly. Tim was probably as good as her in regards to this, though. He's a rock in almost every sketch, even when Harvey has already lost all control right next to him, lol. Harvey and Carol were pretty much done once they got going, which is why Tim made it his mission to break them in every sketch, lol.
I saw that, too 😊
I love the look on Ed's face when Mickey tells his childhood story. He looks like he's about to cry.
Poor Micky wants so much to be part of a family he chooses the most dysfunctional one ...
It’s real hard for Ed to sit there and listen to his man relive his childhood.
I felt sorry for Mickey.
i was about to cry.
Eunice is so nasty in this sketch. Usually one can feel empathy towards her, but not here.
The Carol Burnette Show is a national treasure.
so true
I agree
Mickey is such a sweet souled character - so desperate for a family he even loves Mama's family. He & Ed were more or less outsiders just dealing with them too. Mickey's appreciation for what he has on his own is wonderful to see as well. 💟
I never get tired of watching these shows over and over again. There just as funny as they were 40 years ago 🤣
Me too
I just wish there were more of them.
“I’m tryin’ to hang onto my poise with every fiber of my being” 😂
Eunice was such a drama queen
I said this saying today no know I was said on here I was like oh wow
😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Honestly Carol Vicki Harvey and Tim made the comedic dream team
I sure am glad that someone came along that cares about these sketches so much. Love IT!
"I'm just folks"!
I’m having the time of my life looking and really laughing. Wonderful, keep them coming pleas3.
I crack myself up saying “I’m just folks” and no one knows the reference 😂
Vicky Lawrence laughing in chair when Tim tells her he's going to dump her out of it😂
Yes! I saw vicki's little grin!!
Yes I caught that too!! Vicki is said to be the one cast member who never lost it and laughed, so that was extra funny!
😆 my favorite part. She usually bit the inside of her cheek so she wouldn't break character but Tim got her again !
I hated those butterfly chairs my college buddies bought them because the were so cheap
Tim Conway made everybody crack up on-set, especially Harvey, who pissed himself live during a taping at least once! Resistance was futile .
It’s not much of an apartment, but it’s all his and its clean and private. That’s all we want when we are young and just starting out. I had such a place way back when i was 19, it was only $75 a week and i was so proud of having my very own place. Especially in NYC where it’s so expensive to live
That's sweet to share.
I miss these years. Great shows. Great laughs, no judgement. Just fun
It is actually big compared to my first place. Although my kitchen was just as big.
Remember my first place. I am the middle child and a go getter. I had started buying my stuff up and storing it in my bedroom. By the time I moved my loser older brother and the rest of them had gone through my stuff and took out what they wanted including my monthly tokens. I was always the one who left, never returning and made the best of surviving with no family support in NYC.
I paid $300 a month for my one bedroom in San Francisco in the 1980S. It wasn't big, the neighborhood was dicey, but it was the best pace I ever lived.
I had something called an "efficiency" (meaning a 13 by 13 room) with a bathroom and something you glorified if called it a kitchenette. But it was mine that a paid for myself, and if was what I could afford, well, so be it. My mother called it a "dump" and I asked her what the apartment she had right after she was married was like.
Always felt so sorry for poor Ed, but at least he was able to stand up to Eunice this time. 😊
Let's be honest, we'd all do the same.
This beats what's on TV anytime. A wonderful time back to when comedy was classic.
This and Mama's birthday are the two I can watch over and over.
I wish "The Anniversary" was still up. Betty White is incredible as the sister you love to hate.
Mama's Birthday is my favorite, followed closely by Mama's Accident.
Mine is the one with Eunice’s high school, Midge Gibson. Played by Joanne Woodward.
Lol...agreed. Probably because Mama is so ultra crabby in those skits...lol. I also love the one when they go to visit Phillip in Hollywood. Unfortunately, it's not on youtube right now...well, a highly edited version of it is. That's one that is missing.
One of the best of the "Family" sketches. Brilliant combination of characters in a dysfunctional family, sadness, pathos and comedy. Like a little Tennessee Williams play.
How does Ed manage to deal with Eunice and Thelma. His relationship with his employee Micky makes it easier to tolerate them.
@@alfredamac3614 lol. Nobody in this family comes off well. Mickey is certainly the most kind-hearted but even he's a huge blabbermouth.
What a weird thing to say
@@Dogcatlover2432 ??? What a weird thing for you to say. Apparently, 90 "weird" people gave my comment a thumbs-up.
@@movierun I'm good with being a weirdo. :D
My gosh they don’t have shows and acting like this anymore...love it
TV that is a reminder of a stage play.
SNL ……..lol
@@JC-xc8rx yeah, they’re pretty hot and mis since this time😜
Mama: I drink in moderation
Eunice: Startin’ at ten in the mornin’
Mickey: "You can call me anything you want!"
Mama: "You can count on that!" - Another hilarious line I fell off the sofa hearing for the first time! ;)
Jaymes Guy Hahaha 😂 same here!
My grand had an old roommate who did that same and claim he was a moderate drinker. We always joked, a moderate amount at 10, a moderate amount at 11....
Sal Paradise 😆
8 am here hahahah
Its' absolutely hilarious when they dump "Mother Harper" out of that chair onto the floor, along with the "thud" sound effect. Not to mention Tim Conway went off script, and if you look close, when he yells at Mama as she is sitting in that chair and he says "We're gonna dump you on the floor..." Vicky Lawrence starts to smile and holds back laughter.
Still hysterical in 2023❤
And 2024
This makes you laugh..and cry. Look at all the trouble Mickey went to just to try and please those nasty gals. And he prayed before eating 🥲
Eunice is so jeolous of Ed and Micky's friendship.
@@ericrivera8410 just like real life ...wives being jealous of the husband guy friends..
@@ginaspurlding8590 wow.
@@ginaspurlding8590 yeah coz very often the husbands guy friends are their gay lovers. Happens all the time. If a man can’t marry a woman who is his lover, best friend and everything he could want then you shouldn’t get married. Stick with your friends and leave the good women for the good men. Why do u think divorce is so high. Ppl are selfish, greedy and sinful.
@@ChildofGodforevr Is your reply for real or a joke?
"You just shut up, you sawed-off little weirdo!" What a vicious peasant Thelma was! THAT was the Mama that I fell in love with and missed all too often on the "Mama's Family" show, although when they did summon THAT Thelma, it was hilariously funny. I love how on this show, the actors never pulled back from showing their characters as sometimes very objectionable people. That took guts.
That's the main reason I couldn't watch Mama's Family. I tried, and after forcing myself to watch a few of the first episodes on the first season, I was like, this isn't at all the Mama we saw on The Carol Burnett Show. She was too nice and some of the other characters were just too unimportant. I found out decades later that Harvey Korman, who was involved with show, tamed Mama down because he felt that her being so vile and mean every week wouldn't go over very well. He was wrong.
Jaymes Guy right. Mamas family was often unwatchable especially in syndication
@@pocodfe Yup. Mama was too softened on that sitcom and much of the large cast was superfluous.
I think the 1982 "Eunice" tv special was the last appearance of the carol Burnett family. As for the tv show that seems to be an alternate timeline where Eunice moved on with her life and where the intelligent and successful Philip never existed instead giving us Vinton.
@@namemcnamerton4249 Phillip was husbando
Growing up, I'm 59, I loved these comedy shows! This was true comedy. Today's shows can't make audiences laugh without putting something sexual into the skits!
Yes I grew up in the 50
Mickey Hart’s obliviousness is priceless. It’s th3 little things…like when Eunice grabs his shoulder at the end as she’s tearing into him, and oblivious Mickey pats her hand.
*During the tour of Mickey’s Home*
“I can go from my kitchen to my library, without ever taking a step” 🤣🤣
And Mama’s “WELL” after that...
Lol
They don't make Good shows like this anymore I Just Love Thelma and Mamma's Family
Uui o f ioofo t fituioououuuiuutitfoituououffu
ok.. now, you know this ISN'T from Mama's Family, right? This is a skit from the original Carol Burnett show. ..
Don’t like mamas family. Those characters were irritating
Good show?
Although I do like other parts of Carol Burnett show, it’s this “comedy” I can’t stand. In this skit they even have some racist jab for goodness sake.
They need to put all The Family sketches on DVD.
A grad student could do a whole thesis on the dysfunction of this family. These episodes were scripted so well, and the actors made the most out of their roles (even if from time to time they felt the need to break character and laugh). I have actually "seen" these personalities in real life, on an airplane, no less, AND, I giggled to myself the entire trip. Even the "Mama" was wearing Thelma's wig. I will NEVER forget that plane ride.
So true. Those people on the plane sound interesting!
@@chaswr We have to remember, that the Mama's Family characters are drawn from real life people. I was just fortunate to see the "real thing."
Lol, I've got one of those butterfly chairs. I can relate.
This is my family of origin
We have all felt like this from time with our families LOL LOL LOL
“I already laid in a couple bottles of Ripple” 😂 Cheapest wine of the time.
The two-buck-Chuck of it’s day!
Twenty bucks for Chinese food that feeds four people is cheap
Fred Sanford would approve! 🤣
EXACTLY! Good old Fred Sanford!
These episodes will forever be classics. Pure talent ..can't stop laughing.
Only Tim Conway at times could make Vicki Lawrence crack up occasionally. The chair part almost had her break up laughing.
Carol actually made her laugh in the servant sketch, Carol and Sis and a few others. Conway is not the only one that made any of them laugh. Why do people keep posting this nonsense? Carol has broken up more over Harvey and Vicki than anything Conway.
@@BrunetteOnTheCouchsomebody needs a nap.
I love how Mickey yells into Mother Harper's ear! I love that! I once tried doing the same thing to my own mother, she punched me in the arm and said, " You dont have to yell! I can hear you!".
Did you call her "Mother Harper"?
😂😂😂
Whoever wrote this script were some hell of a writers!
Sometimes I just come back after a day or two to watch a few again because I missed them and wanna hear them talking especially Carol and the other characters of The Family! 😅
I’m 55 I still watch this to this day I don’t get tired they still make me laugh just like honeymooners it’s my favorite also here Lucy the Lucy show and Abbott and costlo another of my favorite and til this day at 55 still as funny as A 7 year in front of the black and white tv I love the monster and Dracula mummy werewolf movies with abott and Costello I love the old movies of them the sitcoms too
Hil no
@@lizr990 😊 That sure was lovely. And thank you for sharing it. I can hear how much you liked and enjoyed those times. They were bitter-sweet. 👋🏻
I was raised in the South and my mom looked just like Eunice. She had a personality of "mama". The shows reminded me of the family wars, mostly between the religions. These shows are like therapy I can relate to.
I can completely relate
I have to watch this every morning just to brighten my day up.🤣
When a telemarketer calls me & knows my name, I tell them they have the wrong number, my name is Micky Hart & work at a hardware store.
Ha ha.. going to use that one.. Donald duck is getting old
I like Mickey so much. He's such a sweetheart.
“…so drive carefully.” Excellent!
I think Ed and Mickey really cared about each other. Ed gave Mickey the family he didn’t have and Mickey gave Ed the love and respect that Eunice and mama didn’t give him. I think they met a need that they both had. Eunice had every right to be upset about the raise Ed gave Mickey because he took money from their family to give Mickey the raise.
Stephanie Eunice should have handled it at home. She shouldn’t have ruined Mickey’s evening.
@@corrine7127 And Mickey should've had enough sense to not bring the raise up in the first place. None of them had much self-control, which is what makes the sketch so funny.
Everyone deserves a living wage.
You hit it spot on! I was trying to figure out the dynamics between Mickey and Ed beside their working relationship.
Fuck Eunice. That woman is poison. I bet her family is well taken care of even without the $5 food allowance. She just chooses to be spiteful.
Happy Birthday Carol Burnett!! Thank you for the all the amazing laughs, sharing your love and laughter with us!
I am so proud that Ed stood up for Mickey.
Yeah but he need to take care of he's family first it my opinion lol because Eunice had no good silver ware everything he buy her it cheap and he also bought her pillow cover for her sofas he cheap but take care of Mickey also took Mickey to a vacation so I'm I'm in Eunice side lol
@@lizr990 Ed not only disliked Eunice, he also disliked his sons and spent most of his time complaining about how hard he worked and how badly he wanted to get away from them. :(
Of course he would stand up for his man, his husband, his boyfriend, his private lover, etc. LOL.
@@solomonpayne7179 that’s what you do with your boyfriend?
@@jessebacon817 You?
This whole scene makes more sense when you remember that Thelma had a shotgun marriage to Eunice's father, and that Eunice had a shotgun marriage to Ed due to a fight with her mother and desperation to get away from her. :(
That's right. The sketch in Mama's house in which she says "I know that, Eunice. Welcome to the club."
I thought Ellen was older than Eunice, wasn't Eunice the middle child?
@@jay1hi547 Technically yes depending on the continuity. In the Mama's Family continuity (when Carol Burnett was not in charge and barely in it), she was the forgotten middle child. In "The Family" continuity (during the Carol Burnett show run) it's a little more up in the air, possibly the jealous older sister vibe, but she does say she got Ellen's hand-me-downs. Either way, they definitely made it canon that Thelma/Mama had a shotgun marriage. However, even if Eunice wasn't the "oops" child, it still has the same impact, because Eunice realized in that scene she grew up to be just like her mother.
"NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL DARN GOOD DIYUPPPPPP!!!!!"
Lol and you know it probably was crap! 😆
Good dip is hard t
Find
@@shandaabsar7739 It's a lost art.
😂😂😂
@@ToscanaFirenze Eunice's face when she tries it... Priceless!
Four of the most brilliant comedians EVER !!!!
So sad but hysterically funny. The apartment tour was priceless.
Happy birthday Carol, you have brought great joy and alot of laughter to the world!!!! Thanks for the memories as BOB would say
What does BOB stand for?
I feel so lucky to get to enjoy all of these episodes and skits, I just adore these talented amazing people ❤️
I bloody can’t enough of this show!! I love their southern accents! 💖
Mickey: "We're gonna dump ya, Mother Harper!!" 😂😂😂❤️
Thank you for sharing this. Great thumbnail, as usual.
I think Tim ad-libbed "She's too big to get out of there" at 4:39 because Vicki seems like she's stifling a laugh after that.
You are correct! She holds back a laugh a few seconds earlier as well. He had a knack of making them break character and bust out laughing.
Vicki Lawrence said she had a Russian manicurist who told her, "That crazy family of yours - my family back in Russia is just like that."
Vickie Lawrence cracked up when Tim Conway said "We're gonna dump you Mother Harper!"
This stuff is a classic joy to watch ...
Can’t get enough of these
Like a well-played symphony, it comes off so smoothly.
Thanks; once of my favorite "Eunice" skits.🌞
These shows are real gems. They just don’t make them like that any more. I’ve been watching them since the 1970s and they never get old!
im so impressed on how these people can know what to say think about it
I wish Eunice had been a regular on Mamas Family!
I think the funniest of these sketches is Mamas birthday when Ellen gave her a mink jacket and Eunice got her a fly swatter. Mama said thanks to her thoughtful daughters she can go to parties in her beautiful mink and keep the flies away too😂
“Bubba was ripping open Rice-A-Roni boxes!”
It grips because it's acting -- it's drama, and it's an exaggeration of the real. It's so brilliant, the comedy is really secondary.
Tim Conway’s funny laugh at Mother Harpers criticism is priceless. “Haarley Harley Harley!” Just as hilarious 😂 the whole scene in January 2022!!
"Why don't I just call you Thelma. You can call me anything you want."
"Well you can count on that!"
Such amazing actors. They make it so real on stage..
Carol Burnett’s expressions! That arched eyebrow & narrowed eyes. . If looks could kill. . ❤️
@@rebeccalara6574 lol
@@rebeccalara6574 yeah she looks scary. But cool. 💕
Thank you so much for having these sketches published.
This was just precious 😊
I remember watching this show with my mom back in the 70s I was a teenager at that time so I didn't understand the whole concept of the show but sure do today I love this show it brings back great memories of my mom....
🙏🏼
So dramatic! Funny and thought provoking! Hope Mama and Eunice made it home alright!🤣
I am so glad someone gave the explanation of the thing in Mickey's ear..... looks like a wired ear bud. Bless my heart.
AM RADIO W AN EARPLUG
Ed and Mickey are precious.
@@browncatwithblurredbackgro2461 oh stop. Two kinda nerdy guys who are friends
I ship it.
Ed had feelings for Mickey.
I love The Family 😂❤
Can ONLY imagine the fun they had doing this, itsa kinda like living out EVERYTHING you REALLY wanna say! LOL Thank you Jesus for this kinda humor total AMERICANA at its finest!
Ed: "Mickey's got nothin' to be ashamed of, either!"
Eunice: "Hm, I wouldn't be too sure about that. After all, the man never DID get married, Lord knows what he does at night!" This skit's writers should have their names inscribed in the Hall of Fame, it was so brilliantly funny, and devastating, at the same time.
Pure genius
Watching these skits have definitely contributed to my fear of marriage. LOL..
Mickey Hart went on to a successful career playing drums for the Grateful Dead.
I got to say Mickey's apartment is a hell a lot better than the apartment I have to live in.
His apartment looks like mine except I have a bed and a smart tv
For those wondering. In 2022 that $20 dollar meal would be $101.06
$200 in 2023!!
Is that with or without bidenflation?
My mother is a even more "intense" version of Eunice.....when these aired in my childhood my mother absolutely HATED these sketches lol....they are funny,
well portrayed characters with great dialogue...i havent spoken with my mother for a loñg time..if i ever get the urge to look her up i just get a "dose" of her watching these clips...safer this way lol.
i believe that a lot of people can relate to these "Family" sketches. I love my family but I know enough to keep my distance.....yes, you're right... it is, indeed "safer."
@Don Strassburg i understand sometimes it's easier to stay away from toxic family members, but if your mother was truly worse than Eunice she must have been mightily abused growing up.
Sorry to hear that Don 😞. I hope she has changed or realized her behavior and is sorry.
Same. My mother is just as toxic. I have a right to protect myself.
My aunt was the same way..I spent one summer with her and her two sons...playing Scrabble with her was terrifying.
Happy Birthday Carol Burnett 92 yrs old🎉❤🎉❤🎉
Mickey's the only one with his shit together.
“...so driiiiiive care-full-y.” 😂
In the 1970s I was being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home (parents had split up, mother had custody of us kids. She was a mentally ill, abusive monster). As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery.
The Carol Burnett show was one of many tv shows I watched regularly in daily syndicated reruns. It really helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed happiness, laughter and joy in an otherwise joyless existence.
The Carol Burnett show was the one and only tv show whose sketches had me and my sister literally rolling on the floor, clutching our sides with laughter (especially if the sketch had Tim Conway in it. He was the best).
EXCEPT for these "The Family" sketches. When Eunice yelled and/or scrunched up her face in anger, she was the exact spitting image of our mother. It was just too painful. My sister and I would sit completely stone faced through these "Family" sketches. I don't recall them eliciting a single laugh from either one of us (not even the occasional presence of Tim Conway helped).
Childhood memories watching this with my family and laughing.
CAROL....THANK YOU FOR THE MEMORIES!
A beer and chips and dip sounds pretty good right now
love and grew up watching these amazing comediens, so many memories
I Love How Mama Break Out Laughing At 5:02
I think, as a kid, that I loved Carol Burnett. 💜
The women are yelling and the dudes are just eating away 😂😂😂😂
Ed liked Mickey more than Eunice. She knew it and that’s why she treated him like that.
I know he did 😉
I can understand why Ed likes him,he never complains like Eunice !
Eunice was so volatile, she didn't have to let mamma control her.
So true
@@samueltaylor9254 Their marriage might have been a little better if they could've gotten out of Mama's clutches.
Superb example of tragi-comedy. Great writing, acting and directing.
This is a great episode! I love all of them ❤️