The BEST episodes of Mama's Family season 6
Every episode of Mama's Family season 6, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Mama's Family season 6!
Mama's Family mined humor from a squabbling family in the Midwestern blue collar suburb of Raytown. The noisy clan was headed by "Mama" Thelma, a buxom, gray-haired widow with sharp opinions and a sharper tongue who shared her small house with her high-strung sister Fran, a journalist for a local paper. Mama's lazy, dimwitted son, Vint, a locksmith by trade, moved in at the start of the series with his troublesome teenage children, Buzz and Sonja, after his wife run off to become a Las Vegas show-girl. Much to Mama's disgust, Vint soon took up with the flirtatious neighbor Naomi. The two where married in early 1983, and Naomi moved in too. Further uproar was caused by the periodic visits from Mama's two married daughter's, the foul mouthed Eunice and the snobbish Ellen. Ed was Eunice's Dolt of a husband. In the Fall of 86 Mama's Family returned to TV in first-run syndication. Fran had recently passed (Rue McClanahan was now starring in The Golden Girls) and Ed and Eunice had moved to Florida, leaving behind their son Bubba as he finishes his time in Juvenile Hall and forcing him to move in. Meanwhile, neighbor Iola Boylen makes the house's acquaintance and becomes a regular visitor with her unique charm.
#1 - Look Who's Breathing
Season 6 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/10/1990
Naomi and Vinton are taking a childbirth class. When Vint is called in to work, Mama has to go to class with Naomi instead of going to the Bingo Bonanza with Iola, so an impatient Mama creates chaos by trying to speed things along and offering her own perspective on the "miracle of birth".
#2 - Take My Mama, Please!
Season 6 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1989
After heckling a stand-up comedian at the Bigger Jigger, Mama accepts a challenge to do a routine of her own.
#3 - The Big Nap
Season 6 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/20/1990
After watching detective movies on TV for a week, and hearing that Iola's mother is missing, Mama dreams that she is a film noir-style detective hired to find her client's mother.
#4 - Guess Who's Going to Dinner
Season 6 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/3/1990
Vint wins a Mother's Day dinner for two at a North African (Moroccan) restaurant called Abdul's Garden of Eating. As a result, Mama and Naomi fight over which of them Vinton should take.
#5 - Psycho Pheno-Mama
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1989
Vinton and Naomi persuade Mama to have a psychic called "Madame Rita" give everyone readings. At first, Mama is surprised by the psychic's ability, but later sets out to expose the phony medium.
#6 - War of the Roses
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/9/1989
Mama and Iola are preparing for the Crystal Thorn flower contest, and Iola is angry to find that Mama's flowers have cross-pollinated with one of hers, producing a pink-and-white hybrid. At first neither of them wants it, but when floral expert Mayjune Beasley tells Mama that it could win the award, both Iola and Mama claim ownership.
#7 - Mama Takes Stock
Season 6 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/2/1989
Vinton learns that he is about to lose his job because Kwik Keys is being shut down by the new owners, a corporation called Bernice. When Bubba discovers that an old stock certificate Mama owns is now ten shares of Bernice, she sets out to save Vinton's job.
#8 - Now Hear This
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1989
The Harpers install an intercom so that Naomi will be able to monitor her baby, but Mama uses it to eavesdrop on the family, and vice versa.
#9 - Bubba's House Band
Season 6 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/25/1989
Bubba books a band called The Bonecrushers for homecoming, and tells the family that the band will be staying with them. They turn out to be an all-female heavy metal band, and Mama must rein them in.
#10 - Pinup Mama
Season 6 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/27/1990
While working on a photography project, Bubba makes a picture of a young bikini-clad woman with Mama's head, as a joke. However, this picture is accidentally added to a flyer that is handed out to get elderly men to attend a church dance.
#11 - Mama Fights Back
Season 6 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1989
Mama verbally attacks a radio show's unhelpful consumer advocate, and the station manager offers her his job, with Mama broadcasting from her living room.
#12 - Mama Gets Goosed
Season 6 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/23/1989
Mama's cousin sends her a live goose for her family's Christmas dinner, and everyone except Mama is against the idea of killing and cooking the bird..
#13 - Mama's Medicine Show
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/1989
After reading about how much it costs to raise a child, Vint and Naomi decide to start a business selling bottles of Mama's mother-in-law's "miracle tonic."
#14 - Mama Takes a Dive
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1989
When Mama slips on a roll of pennies in the bank, the family suggests that she sue the bank. To this end, she hires a sleazy lawyer Settlement Sam and fakes serious injuries.
#15 - Tri-State's Most Wanted
Season 6 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/21/1989
Mama is attracted to actor Leslie Lemoyne, until she sees him on "Tri-State's Most Wanted" (the local version of America's Most Wanted), and believes that he is the infamous "widow waster".
#16 - Mr. Wrong
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1989
Mama encourages Iola to find herself a man, but the man she finds turns out to be a domineering blowhard.
#17 - A Blast From the Past
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1989
Mama is invited to her junior high school's 50th reunion, but she is reluctant to go because of a false rumor that was spread about her years ago that earned her the nickname "Hotpants"
#18 - An Affair to Forget
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/1989
Mama suspects that Vint is having an affair with his new trainee Heather, so she and Iola go to his workplace to investigate.
#19 - Bye-Bye -- Baby!
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/24/1990
When Naomi is upset about her baby being late, Mama tries to calm her down with a false story about Carl. Mama tells Iola what really happened (both the false and true versions are seen in flashback, with Carl played by Ken Berry). Later that day, Naomi goes into labor and Mama ends up delivering her baby girl, Tiffany Thelma Harper.
#20 - There Is Nothing Like the Dames
Season 6 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/17/1990
Vinton and Naomi buy an RV and plan to move to a trailer park; however, they are unable to start the vehicle once it is in the driveway. Meanwhile, Mama is planning to host a fancy backyard luncheon for an snooty society group called the Dames.