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Mama's Family :: Positive Thinking (01x12)

Episode Information

Title:

Positive Thinking

Episode #:

01x12

Production Number:

7009

Original Airdate:

Saturday April 30th, 1983

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Episode Crew
Director:	Roger Beatty Harvey Korman
Writer:	Dick Clair Jenna McMahon (1)

Episode Summary

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Eunice is complaining about how her life is turning out causing everyone around her to start to feel the same way. But when Eunice gets a hold of one of Buzz's positive thinking tapes, it skyrockets her life to new happiness and she soon lands a small but important part in a play, that is until she quits at Mama's suggestion.

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Guest Stars

Guest Stars
•Carol Burnett	played	Eunice Higgins	Recurring (4th appearance)
•Harvey Korman	played	Ed Higgins	Recurring (third appearance)
•Gloria DeHaven	played	Sally Nash
•Hugh Douglas	played	Arthur Brewster
•Robin Bach	played	Bob the Director

Episode Notes

Shown as the 9th episode in syndication.

Episode Quotes

Eunice: Well, why don't you just take a couple of bucks and go out to dinner at the Taco Quickie?
Ed: I don't want no Quickies.

Arthur Brewster: (voice recording) Hello, my name is Arthur Brewster.
Mama: Well, who the hell ask ya?!
Arthur Brewster: Do you want love?
Mama: No, I want a beer.
Arthur Brewster: Do you want fame?
Eunice: Do you want a punch in the nose?
Arthur Brewster: Then repeat after me. "I can do anything."
Mama: Yeah? How about trying to live with these Looney Tunes, you dipstick!

Eunice: Oh where, oh where did I go wrong?! When did anything good ever happen to me in my life?! All I ever do is cook and clean!
Mama: Well hell you can't even do that.
Eunice: You're skating on thin ice, old lady!

Mama: Well maybe I just better take a bus to the doctor, cause the bus driver wouldn't talk to me like that.
Eunice: He would if he knew ya.

(Naomi says she is going to work and gives Vint a big kiss)
Mama: Are you two through sucking face?