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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 417086" data-attributes="member: 27">There was one early episode of MF that focused on Mama's birthday that sticks out in my mind because they made an effort to show Eunice and her mother could (eventually) come to a truce.  This was something they NEVER would have done in the Carol Burnett Show sketches.  There was the usual arguing and resulting trouble (Mama and Eunice ended up in a holding cell) but after they got bailed out, Thelma and Eunice had a real (that is, no shouting) conversation and apologized to one another like...well, like adults.  Some would say they'd turned a page, but many would likely say it's the worst thing that those two could have done because those two should have always been at one another's throats.  I often wonder how CB felt about playing that scene.</blockquote>