Corrected entry: In this episode when talking to Fran, Mama states, "I used to iron with my right hand, mash potatoes with my left, with four screaming kids under me." However, Mama only had three kids on the show: Vint, Unice, and Ellen. Where did the fourth kid come from?
Bishop73
5th Oct 2006
Mama's Family (1983)
Correction: She had another child, a son out west.
I don't ever remember this being said.
Her other son was never mentioned on the show (Mama's Family), but there was a skit on the Carol Burnett Show that included him.
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Correction: It's an exaggeration implying that she worked herself to the bone taking care of them as kids. (Research "Uphill Both Ways In The Snow To School" for a classic example).
Jazetopher
It could have been Iola because she hung out at their house when she was a little girl.
The mistake isn't about her exaggerating, it's about her not knowing how many kids she had. She only had 3 kids and there's nothing to indicate she was raising someone else's kid, and the show never mentions some unnamed son out west.
Bishop73
She has Phillip as well? Just never in the dream sequences, which is odd to me.