Mama's Family: Pomp and Circumstance

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Pomp and Circumstance ranks 148,972 out of all 118,840 episodes (of all shows) on TV.com.

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Air Date

Saturday March 26, 1988

Production Code

419

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  9.4 Superb

  A serious but yet fine example of parents who abandon and
  mistreat their children in the modern world today. hide show

  This is probably one of the most depressing but yet most serious episodes of Mamas Family of the entire series because it brings out the modern world today of how some
  parents don\'t care about their kids. All Bubba wanted was
  to have his parents Ed and Eunice pay attention and be proud
  of him. But they never did, First when Bubba is in Juvenille
  Hall his parents move to Florida and stick Bubba with Mama and now in this episode Bubba and Mama are graduating night
  school together and Bubba wants Ed and Eunice to attend his graduation and to go to collage down in Florida where Ed and Eunice live and Eunice phones mama and says that she and
  Ed can\'t make it to his graduation and that they don\'t want
  Bubba down in Florida with them so mama has to break the news to Bubba which breaks his heart. What is sad about the
  whole situation is that there are alot of parents out there
  just like Ed and Eunice who never have cared about their children and never wanted them and in my opinion this episode also brings out that mama through all her crankiness and sarchasm truly cared about Bubba and tried to love him. I encourage anyone especially a parent who has seen this episode to think twice about how they raise and treat their children.

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• Guest Cast

  • Joseph Campanella Allan Hanson
  • Phyllis Franklin voice of Eunice

• Stars

  • Vicki Lawrence Mrs. Thelma "Mama" Crowley-Harper
  • Allan Kayser Bubba Higgins (episodes 36-130)
  • Beverly Archer Iola Boylen (1986-1990)
  • Karin Argoud Sonja Harper (episodes 1-35)
  • Dorothy Lyman Naomi Oates Harper
  • Ken Berry Vinton Harper

• Directors

  • Dave Powers Director

• Writers

  • Rick Hawkins Writer
Episode Cast and Crew Details »

• When Mr. Hanson first started teaching and Mama wanted to impress him, she said that one of the things she could lose was her B average. But it this episode she has gotten straight A's. Did Mama somehow do extra work to get that all up, or does dating your teacher pay off? [edit]
• If Mama was valdictorian, nobody in Bubba's class was able to maintain a straight A average? It seems a bit unlikely that not one student could keep their grades so high. [edit]

• This is the last time we see the character of Allan Hanson, even though his previous two appearances indicated that he and Thelma might have been forming a possible relationship. [edit]

• Eunice: All we got is a one room studio with a broken hotplate and a bed that comes out of the wall.
  Mama: Move up in the world, have you? [edit]
• Bubba: I heard from Florida State.
  Naomi: Oh Bubba, don’t tell me they rejected you.
  Bubba: Oh, they said I should consider a school less academically demanding, like bartender school. [edit]
• Mama: Lord, how in the world could I have raised such a hateful, unloving mother?
  Vint: Hey Mama.
  Mama: What the hell do you want? [edit]

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