I saw this when I was a kid, and it was funny. However, as an adult seeing it, I realize how deeply sad this character is. She always talked about becoming a star in many other episodes, but it was here that she was really going for her dreams, on the saddest platform- The Gong Show- and she seemed to pin all her hope of escaping her sad life on it. And then she gets gonged- the worst possible fate, that never happens to “class acts”. Amazing writing and performance here!
@@amyfisher6380 Did you ever see the episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" where Mary attempted to do a song for Lou Grant? She was pitiful, and she did some really awkward choreography. Of course, anyone who has watched "The Dick Van Dyke Show" knows Mary Tyler Moore was a very talented singer and dancer.
She got chops for sure. Her and Diahann Carol's medley is iconic. Carol was another person whose singing has been highly underrated; but they all come from a time when TALENT was required so most celebrities could do at least TWO things well back then.
In the 1970s I was being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home (parents had split up, mother had custody of us kids. She was a mentally ill, abusive monster). As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery. The Carol Burnett show was one of many tv shows I watched regularly in daily syndicated reruns. It really helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed happiness, laughter and joy in an otherwise joyless existence. The Carol Burnett show was the one and only tv show whose sketches had me and my sister literally rolling on the floor, clutching our sides with laughter (especially if the sketch had Tim Conway in it. He was the best). EXCEPT for these "The Family" sketches. When Eunice yelled and/or scrunched up her face in anger, she was the exact spitting image of our mother. It was just too painful. My sister and I would sit completely stone faced through these "Family" sketches. I don't recall them eliciting a single laugh from either one of us (not even the presence of Tim Conway helped).
I am sorry for your childhood traumatic experience. I hope your ur and your siblings are doing well today. I love watching this show as a very young girl, my parents were wonderful but my siblings were horrid. This show was a sense of peace and tranquility for me as well
A lot of things are a matter of perspective. If you'd been in a concentration camp, you probably wouldn't be able to appreciate jokes about how ridiculous Nazis are. Nevertheless, Nazis are EXTREMELY ridiculous, all the damage they did helped make them more ridiculous rather than less, and there may be some comfort to knowing that other people are in a position to laugh at them, even if you aren't. The same principle applies here. Bickerson-type characters aren't in the same league with Nazis, but they are still absurd. It may be that sketches like this even discourage people from becoming that way. Even if the people you can bully don't dare laugh at you, someone else is.
If your mother provided food and entertainment, she was probably decent. Perhaps you were too sensitive. Let’s try to keep things a bit more lighthearted in the future as far as your comments go. It is a comedy after all.
@hrpufnstuff1924 Too decent, too sensitive, yeah right. Yeah, she provided food (we were on welfare). She was required to by law. Not out of decency. On more than one occasion she told me to my face, "I wish you were never born" I cant recall my exact age when this happened. Maybe around 6-8 years old. My younger (over a year younger) sister and i were in the living room, watching tv. My sister was sitting on the floor and i was sitting on the couch. Out of the blue our mother walks into the room carrying two heaping plates of spinach. Nothing else. Just spinach. She lays the plates in front of us. Sister complained that she didnt want any spinach. Thats all it took to trigger my mothers inner psychotic. At that, she pounced on sister. Grabbed a fistful of sisters hair at the back of her head, pulled her head back, and with the other hand started scooping up the spinach with her fingers and slamming the spinach into sisters mouth while screaming at the top of her lungs, "EAT IIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!! EAT IIIIIIIIIT!!!!! EAT IIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!! I MADE IT NOW YOURE GOING TO EAT IIIIIIT!!!!! My poor sister. One minute shes watching tv, peacefully minding her own business. The next minute shes got this screaming, raving lunatic directly on top of her, physically assaulting her. Literally trying to shove spinach down her throat. I'm too sensitive?
I always remember that sad ending when the lights go off. Her dreams are crushed. In comedy you sometimes have to humanize the character and that involves sad things.
The solemn ending is why I refer to this sketch as not a comedy sketch but a tragic sketch. Very few sketches on ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ end as such. But after Eunice making a spectacle of herself and giving us a few laughs leaves the restaurant the live audience couldn’t laugh or clap and isn’t that what comedy is, leave them laughing in the end
I saw it as a teen--at noon, when it was shown in syndication and I wasn't in school. I was really surprised--and disturbed--by how dark the ending to this scene was. It's easy to laugh at some of it, but it isn't funny, not when you think about it. The characters are tragic, Eunice's dreams are shattered over and over and over, and family life is so toxic for everyone. (And it's scary to think that the characters are based on Carol Burnett's own family. Carol even loved playing Eunice because Eunice was based on her unhappy mother.) Re this scene, the way the light go out at the end, and we see her real despair as the scene ends...it's heartbreaking...and, yes, scary when you worry about making your own dreams come true.
They were unrealistic dreams. She obviously was a terrible singer and actress. She was delusional in thinking she could become a star. Her family tried to warn her. Eunice brought most of the hurt and disappointment in her life on herself.
@@Steve-wf3vv The sad thing is: there is so much a peson can contribute to a field like entertainment without being the center of attention. If she had thought about that, perhaps part of her dream could still have come true. Or if she'd simply danced and sung for her own satisfaction and not for the adulation of others, it wouldn't have mattered whether she was objectively "good" or not.
Back then, the song “Feelings” was almost on every Gong Show episode. There were probably more horrid performances of that song than any other. It eventually made the song a parody for bad acts.
Poor "Euni" spent approx. $500.00 This episode aired in 1977 Adjusting for inflation, $1.00 then = $4.60 now Thus, $2,300.00 wasted on yet one more vaporized dream
How do they remember all those lines and execute them so flawlessly and naturally? That by itself is impressive, not to mention the chemistry, the writing, and all the laughs
@@stephenpenrice1230 ... I never would have guessed that, my uncle ( grandma's older brother ) was in the show biz world back for almost 40 years front and back of the camera.
Actually, if I were on the "Gong Show" panel, I'd wait until the very end to gong Eunice. A total catastrophe like Eunice doesn't come along every day, and, like a fine wine, should be savored as long as possible.
God this was a fantastic show! So many amazing memories watching this in the 70s with my grandma on her farm… we always stopped chores for 3pm to watch. We loved mamas family too… especially when they went on Family Feud. 🤣🤣
But she is tone deaf and untalented actress. In real life Carol Burnett is an excellent actress and singer. Eunice is a terrible singer and rude and mean women like her mother and got exactly what she deserve.
Harvey himself said that Ed was the only sketch character he never felt comfortable playing. Oddly enough, it’s his visible discomfort that makes that character so believable!
I remember watching this episode as a child when it first aired and I just about laughed my head off. Of course now as an adult I am more sympathetic to the characters. I can also see how this was an inspiration for shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and the Australian show Kath & Kim.
Ask a wannabe actor I always sympathize with Eunice know how the gong purposely chooses acts to gong I knew eunice didn't stand a chance...I don believe it's better to try and fail than never try and regret it
I think we are supposed to feel sorry for her. But I agree. We spend time laughing at them, then we're shown that tragedy oft lies beneath the surface. We can laugh at the show, but not real life facsimiles, which we do. Great show!
Watching The Family as opposed to Mama's Family, you can't help but feel sorry for Eunice. As a child she was always made to feel inadequate to Ellen because Ellen was the pretty one, Then went on to marry a rich man. Her brother Phil left home, went to New York and became a successful writer. She got knocked up and forced into marrying Ed who ends up running off with another woman leaving her to be a single mother. Ellen and Phil rarely came to visit leaving Eunice to take care of Mama and deal with the constant criticism of how she was nothing but a failure in life and love and listening to Mama sing the praises of the children who does nothing for her.
@@jonnaking3054 Yep. She thought just acquiring pretty things and looking elegant would elevate her and make her special. But a little prodding was all it took to make the mask come off: she was as petty, vicious, greedy, hypocritical, and self-important as her supposedly lower-class parents.
@@sha11235 I think it was because where I lived it was so overplayed. And since I had old fashioned radio, you were stuck listening to it. And I recall someone (on The Gong Show, no less!) singing Feelings in pig Latin. That was it for me!
Heartbreaking. She always had an overinflated ego with a huge insecurity complex. Talentless, Eunice never accepted her lot in life and refused to pursue realistic dreams.
People who are successful never got there by being REALISTIC. It's like the saying, Even if you fall flat on your face, at least you're going in the right direction"
@@jonnaking3054 Have ever heard the expression, "A man's got to know his limitations"? It's absolutely true. If you KNOW you can't sing for sh*t, you won't embarrass yourself on A.I. But, maybe you are a talented song writer or musician. Don't waste your time trying to do something you're lousy at. Talent PLUS hard work/practice make you a success. Remove one of these factors, you're done.
Eunice was over the top camp! Her certainties and absolutes!! Today she'd be a Karen in that she has to be right. But in the 70s, she's tragic when you get past the polyester and patented leather.
This was an exceptionally dark skit for "The Family". Eunice admittedly was making an a$$ out of herself but you could tell it was coming from 100% insecurity on her part. Her family knew she had no talent and didn't want the embarrassment for not only her but for themselves on national television.
Eunice Higgins was in her own mind, high society well refined a woman of class to be admired respected and adored. But her real life (Eunice’s) consisted of just marginal above the dregs of society and unbelievable to her every interactions with people constantly showed her she was not the high princesses of society but it never dawned on her she was just plain old Eunice with a husband and a mother who constantly disappointed and set her off.
Have you ever seen the old British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances" with Hyacinth Bucket? It's a similar type of character without all the abuse. She thinks she's high-society and over-compensates, but in reality, is just a step above her roots, which is blue-collar working class folks without much money.
@lowbridge7070.... Reading ur comment about u nd ur sisters childhood really touched my heart! I remember this show because I was always on punishment so I spent a lot of time in the house but I can't imagine Not being able to laugh really hard during "Mamas Family"!.... God bless u both and I pray that u both can laugh today, it's soo releasing 😮😊
Of course, Carol's TV program has been highly praised, but Carol wasn't praised, at first in the 1950s she was on a TV show with Buddy Hackett called "Stanley", which didn't do well at all and is very much forgotten ( she had to start on TV somewhere, before Garry Moore).
With great shows like this still available, who gives a crap that the pathetic Hollywood writers guild is on strike? All 11,000 of them combined couldn’t produce anything this good. That’s sad. I feel embarrassed for them.
My least favorite Eunice sketch, a terrible idea. It's so obvious she's going to be gonged. What I'd love to have seen her do is fight it, though: once she saw it was going to happen, suddenly reach out and grab the gonger away while continuing to perform her number, fending them all off as they try to retrieve the gonger; once she finishes the number, she gongs herself and walks off with her head high: take that, Chuck Barris! If Eunice has to lose, at least let her lose once on her own terms.
I saw this when I was a kid, and it was funny. However, as an adult seeing it, I realize how deeply sad this character is. She always talked about becoming a star in many other episodes, but it was here that she was really going for her dreams, on the saddest platform- The Gong Show- and she seemed to pin all her hope of escaping her sad life on it. And then she gets gonged- the worst possible fate, that never happens to “class acts”. Amazing writing and performance here!
Broken people. Broken dreams. Broken lives. Those sketches were brilliant for that time period.
I still love watching the carol B show. I was born in 1991 and it’s still really good tv 📺 Even for the current times .
Excellent acting :)
I always attributed it to the influence of Tennesee Williams. Especially because of the Southern accents.
It still applies now. People are still broken and need guidance.
That time period? Ha!
even as a little boy i knew how heartbreaking that was for Eunice. i was the only one not laughing in our living room that night.
Carol Burnett actually had a beautiful voice, she was so talented. I loved watching her show with my grandparents.
You can hear her real voice breaking through 😊
It took a lot of acting skill for someone who could actually sing to have to sing that badly for her TV show. But she pulled it off.
@@amyfisher6380 Did you ever see the episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" where Mary attempted to do a song for Lou Grant? She was pitiful, and she did some really awkward choreography. Of course, anyone who has watched "The Dick Van Dyke Show" knows Mary Tyler Moore was a very talented singer and dancer.
@@citizenken7069 Mister Graeunnnnt. That made me diamonds.
She got chops for sure. Her and Diahann Carol's medley is iconic. Carol was another person whose singing has been highly underrated; but they all come from a time when TALENT was required so most celebrities could do at least TWO things well back then.
In the 1970s I was being raised in an abusive, dysfunctional home (parents had split up, mother had custody of us kids. She was a mentally ill, abusive monster). As a result, I turned towards watching LOTS of tv as a way to provide myself with escape and comfort from my misery.
The Carol Burnett show was one of many tv shows I watched regularly in daily syndicated reruns. It really helped me to preserve what few shreds of sanity I had as well as provided me with much needed happiness, laughter and joy in an otherwise joyless existence.
The Carol Burnett show was the one and only tv show whose sketches had me and my sister literally rolling on the floor, clutching our sides with laughter (especially if the sketch had Tim Conway in it. He was the best).
EXCEPT for these "The Family" sketches. When Eunice yelled and/or scrunched up her face in anger, she was the exact spitting image of our mother. It was just too painful. My sister and I would sit completely stone faced through these "Family" sketches. I don't recall them eliciting a single laugh from either one of us (not even the presence of Tim Conway helped).
I understand, also add lots of alcohol. I understand.
I am sorry for your childhood traumatic experience. I hope your ur and your siblings are doing well today. I love watching this show as a very young girl, my parents were wonderful but my siblings were horrid. This show was a sense of peace and tranquility for me as well
A lot of things are a matter of perspective. If you'd been in a concentration camp, you probably wouldn't be able to appreciate jokes about how ridiculous Nazis are. Nevertheless, Nazis are EXTREMELY ridiculous, all the damage they did helped make them more ridiculous rather than less, and there may be some comfort to knowing that other people are in a position to laugh at them, even if you aren't. The same principle applies here. Bickerson-type characters aren't in the same league with Nazis, but they are still absurd.
It may be that sketches like this even discourage people from becoming that way. Even if the people you can bully don't dare laugh at you, someone else is.
If your mother provided food and entertainment, she was probably decent. Perhaps you were too sensitive. Let’s try to keep things a bit more lighthearted in the future as far as your comments go. It is a comedy after all.
@hrpufnstuff1924
Too decent, too sensitive, yeah right. Yeah, she provided food (we were on welfare). She was required to by law. Not out of decency. On more than one occasion she told me to my face, "I wish you were never born"
I cant recall my exact age when this happened. Maybe around 6-8 years old. My younger (over a year younger) sister and i were in the living room, watching tv. My sister was sitting on the floor and i was sitting on the couch. Out of the blue our mother walks into the room carrying two heaping plates of spinach. Nothing else. Just spinach. She lays the plates in front of us. Sister complained that she didnt want any spinach. Thats all it took to trigger my mothers inner psychotic.
At that, she pounced on sister. Grabbed a fistful of sisters hair at the back of her head, pulled her head back, and with the other hand started scooping up the spinach with her fingers and slamming the spinach into sisters mouth while screaming at the top of her lungs, "EAT IIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!!! EAT IIIIIIIIIT!!!!! EAT IIIIIIIIIIIIT!!!!!! I MADE IT NOW YOURE GOING TO EAT IIIIIIT!!!!!
My poor sister. One minute shes watching tv, peacefully minding her own business. The next minute shes got this screaming, raving lunatic directly on top of her, physically assaulting her. Literally trying to shove spinach down her throat.
I'm too sensitive?
One of the best chapters of the Family saga. Poor Eunice. Crushed by life.
Many years ago my sister-in-law actually went on The Gong Show. And, yes, she was gonged. Gotta smile at that memory.
She just gets so beat down! Carol plays the part so well, I miss shows like this.:)
I love this show. Classic comedy.
“The Family” skits had a lot of serious undertones to them many times….
That was my family.😏🥲😁
@@victoriajohnson5461 I'm so sorry. They are brutal to each other.
Makes for a great performance. Comedy mixed with drama, suspense. Etc.....
🤔 Yes. My favorite out of all her characters.
Yep. Broken people. Broken dreams. Broken lives.
I always remember that sad ending when the lights go off. Her dreams are crushed. In comedy you sometimes have to humanize the character and that involves sad things.
I have never forgetten this ending. It was so haunting.
The solemn ending is why I refer to this sketch as not a comedy sketch but a tragic sketch. Very few sketches on ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ end as such. But after Eunice making a spectacle of herself and giving us a few laughs leaves the restaurant the live audience couldn’t laugh or clap and isn’t that what comedy is, leave them laughing in the end
I watched that as a kid and that ending always stuck with me. It about scared me to death the first time.
I saw it as a teen--at noon, when it was shown in syndication and I wasn't in school. I was really surprised--and disturbed--by how dark the ending to this scene was. It's easy to laugh at some of it, but it isn't funny, not when you think about it. The characters are tragic, Eunice's dreams are shattered over and over and over, and family life is so toxic for everyone. (And it's scary to think that the characters are based on Carol Burnett's own family. Carol even loved playing Eunice because Eunice was based on her unhappy mother.) Re this scene, the way the light go out at the end, and we see her real despair as the scene ends...it's heartbreaking...and, yes, scary when you worry about making your own dreams come true.
That ending has tripped me out since I was a child. It's the perfect expression of what humiliation feels like.
She never gave up on her dreams!!
Better to try and fail than never trying and die regretting it.
They were unrealistic dreams. She obviously was a terrible singer and actress. She was delusional in thinking she could become a star. Her family tried to warn her. Eunice brought most of the hurt and disappointment in her life on herself.
@@Steve-wf3vv That is so true she was delusional and lived her life in it.
@@Steve-wf3vv The sad thing is: there is so much a peson can contribute to a field like entertainment without being the center of attention. If she had thought about that, perhaps part of her dream could still have come true. Or if she'd simply danced and sung for her own satisfaction and not for the adulation of others, it wouldn't have mattered whether she was objectively "good" or not.
Back then, the song “Feelings” was almost on every Gong Show episode. There were probably more horrid performances of that song than any other. It eventually made the song a parody for bad acts.
It's terrible all right. But there were other hits as bad or worse, both before and after it. :/
@@AmyLSacks Alone Again Naturally.
@@victoriajohnson5461 "True," by Spandau Ballet.
''Grandma Got Ran Over By A Reindeer.";,Eunice' would turn it into.a ballad and do parts as , spoken words.😭🤣😭
@@AmyLSacks Why y
Poor "Euni" spent approx. $500.00
This episode aired in 1977
Adjusting for inflation, $1.00 then = $4.60 now
Thus, $2,300.00 wasted on yet one more vaporized dream
How do they remember all those lines and execute them so flawlessly and naturally? That by itself is impressive, not to mention the chemistry, the writing, and all the laughs
It's called acting. Anyone can remember lines! 🙄 It is not difficult!
it's something called rehersing.
Wow terrible attitude @@dannydougin3925
@@vulcan2882 Also they would tape two shows then edit the best performances together and broadcast that.
@@stephenpenrice1230 ... I never would have guessed that, my uncle ( grandma's older brother ) was in the show biz world back for almost 40 years front and back of the camera.
When it showed, my mom died laughing at the "nickel a day."
Housewives everywhere watching this we're calculating their worth
Sorry for your loss. Sarcasm intended
What a classic. I'm still enjoying these clips in 2022.
I watched this show on Saturday nights as a kid. It was brilliant then it's brilliant now!😊
Actually, if I were on the "Gong Show" panel, I'd wait until the very end to gong Eunice. A total catastrophe like Eunice doesn't come along every day, and, like a fine wine, should be savored as long as possible.
She choose the right song to get gonged...I hate that song.
lol. The judges heard more than their share of Eunices every week, I'm sure.
I agree!
Yes?
He he he🤣🤣🤣🤣
God this was a fantastic show! So many amazing memories watching this in the 70s with my grandma on her farm… we always stopped chores for 3pm to watch. We loved mamas family too… especially when they went on Family Feud. 🤣🤣
10:10
“I haven’t gone on yet you moron! Now put that ole witch back on the phone!” 😂😂😂 Carol went crazy and made the facial expressions
Her little riff was great 🤣
She's right - she's had the same dress for years 😂😂😂
When she got gonged…. That pretty much summed up her entire life..
Yes!😅
Always loved the carol Burnette show, I still laugh to this day watching it.😂😅,❤
Eunice was so funny love watching the family. Carol Burnett had a great singing voice .
Harvey is so good in this episode! As a kid l rushed home from school to watch the ' Gong Show'.
Unless you attended Night School, that doesn't seem possible.
Phenomenal performances. I could watch these forever ❤
Classic comedy 🤣 Disfunctional, Hilarious family. Love this show.
I would LOVE to hear Eunice sing "Up Where We Belong" !
But she is tone deaf and untalented actress. In real life Carol Burnett is an excellent actress and singer. Eunice is a terrible singer and rude and mean women like her mother and got exactly what she deserve.
@@chavalabobbyful She is Lucy's heir apparent as the Queen of comedy.
Eunice has no self-awareness at all, and tone deaf to her own voice.
"From A Distance," please. :D
I would love to hear her sing,. " l love the Night life!
Love Jamie Farr's reaction!
I love watching Mama and Eunice sketches:) and this sketch is one of my favorites
Her "Woah woah woah" literally sounds like a howling dog.
Wish we had shows like these again
Eunice appearing on the show was a great idea. Unfortunately, we all knew the ending before we saw it happen.
Harvey Korman was a versatile actor, people talk about Tim, but Harvey could do the comedic and serious roles.
Harvey himself said that Ed was the only sketch character he never felt comfortable playing. Oddly enough, it’s his visible discomfort that makes that character so believable!
I love watching the Carol Burnet show and I all so love Mama's family thanks Mama and daddy for introducing me to these shows Rip mom and dad
It wasn’t too long after this Ed was headed to Mexico with his affair
Brilliant! ❤I saw Carol in preson once. I tripped over my own feet. I am blessed.
I remember watching this episode as a child when it first aired and I just about laughed my head off. Of course now as an adult I am more sympathetic to the characters. I can also see how this was an inspiration for shows like Everybody Loves Raymond and the Australian show Kath & Kim.
Poor Eunice...She can't win for losing. She's her worst enemy..Smh
As I recall Carol Burnette was on CBS, and I think the Gong Show was on NBC. It's weird that they would promote a show from a rival network.
The nighttime version was syndicated.
For how mean Mama is, both she and Ed did try to tell Eunice to keep the song short, so they were trying to help her with some honest criticism.
Poor Eunice. Another one of her dreams crashed and burned.
My grandmother's twin sister was named Eulah Mae!
I know it’s supposed to be funny but I can’t help but feel sorry for Eunice
Same here.
Especially knowing advance they choose bad acts to gong
Me too.. I think I relate to her in some ways. I'm Eunice now and my momma really does live with me. 🤣😂❤️❤️❤️
Ask a wannabe actor I always sympathize with Eunice know how the gong purposely chooses acts to gong I knew eunice didn't stand a chance...I don believe it's better to try and fail than never try and regret it
I think we are supposed to feel sorry for her. But I agree. We spend time laughing at them, then we're shown that tragedy oft lies beneath the surface. We can laugh at the show, but not real life facsimiles, which we do. Great show!
The way Ed goes on about the food and the kitchen in the beginning is like my husband!
well, woman, why dont you do sumpun about it!?
@@garygray8226 lol Men can figure out how to get in and out of a grocery store. I've seen them do it. :P
The , 'Gong' knew Eunice was going 😅to get gonged!😂
Watching The Family as opposed to Mama's Family, you can't help but feel sorry for Eunice. As a child she was always made to feel inadequate to Ellen because Ellen was the pretty one, Then went on to marry a rich man. Her brother Phil left home, went to New York and became a successful writer. She got knocked up and forced into marrying Ed who ends up running off with another woman leaving her to be a single mother. Ellen and Phil rarely came to visit leaving Eunice to take care of Mama and deal with the constant criticism of how she was nothing but a failure in life and love and listening to Mama sing the praises of the children who does nothing for her.
Ellen's wealth was because she married rich, she never really did anything outstanding with her life either.
@@jonnaking3054 Yep. She thought just acquiring pretty things and looking elegant would elevate her and make her special. But a little prodding was all it took to make the mask come off: she was as petty, vicious, greedy, hypocritical, and self-important as her supposedly lower-class parents.
That is so true. Ellen and Phill were the smart ones, leaving home when they did was the smartest move they ever made.
I always loved it when they'd do mama's family on her show i couldn't stop laughing when they did the Duke Reeves episode
🤣🤣🤣🤣 feelings, whoa, whoa, whoa, feelings
Too funny!
Really hate that song. Yikes. 🤮
When she comes out to sing, she seems distracted, upset. I think the phone call from mama threw her off.
Good guess, Sherlock. Being a bit like Mama there, I know. I think so too.
I was in High School around this time. I hated "Feelings." Believe it or not, there was a "Gong Show- The Movie."
I loathed that song. So many schmaltzy sentimental songs around that time.
What's wrong with this song? Did you get attacked by someone singing it?
@@sha11235 I think it was because where I lived it was so overplayed. And since I had old fashioned radio, you were stuck listening to it. And I recall someone (on The Gong Show, no less!) singing Feelings in pig Latin. That was it for me!
@@sha11235 It's just too sappy.
This is my favorite episode!! Feelings Whoa Whoa Whoa Feelings
To act talentless takes a lot of talent!
Heartbreaking. She always had an overinflated ego with a huge insecurity complex. Talentless, Eunice never accepted her lot in life and refused to pursue realistic dreams.
I'm a lot like it
People who are successful never got there by being REALISTIC. It's like the saying, Even if you fall flat on your face, at least you're going in the right direction"
@@jonnaking3054 Have ever heard the expression, "A man's got to know his limitations"? It's absolutely true. If you KNOW you can't sing for sh*t, you won't embarrass yourself on A.I. But, maybe you are a talented song writer or musician. Don't waste your time trying to do something you're lousy at. Talent PLUS hard work/practice make you a success. Remove one of these factors, you're done.
Apparently, Eunice hasn't seen much of the Gong Show. She was brought on the show for the sole purpose of getting gonged BECAUSE she's a joke.
Exactly ..they choose bad acts on purpose
He he he!
Yeah, I would've mentioned that they probably pick everyone who applies for the show because then they'll have acts to gong.
Same applies to the audition phase of American Idol, etc.
Makes you question how did gene gene the dancing make the cut
Eunice was over the top camp! Her certainties and absolutes!! Today she'd be a Karen in that she has to be right. But in the 70s, she's tragic when you get past the polyester and patented leather.
This was an exceptionally dark skit for "The Family". Eunice admittedly was making an a$$ out of herself but you could tell it was coming from 100% insecurity on her part. Her family knew she had no talent and didn't want the embarrassment for not only her but for themselves on national television.
it would have been so much better if she had nailed the song perfectly
For her talent, she should have rode a Euni-cycle.
The next biggest epic fail on a game show episode is Cliff Clavin on Jeopardy in Cheers.
Poor Eunice.... ❤️
Poor Eunice 😢
Triple-gonged.... now that's a bad act.
They use to call that a gang gong!😂
Tripled 🤣 gonged!
Couldn't they just let her have one win in life, poor Eunice.
I wonder how many unhappy women at the time identified closely with Eunice.
I think the song, “Some Of These Days” is better than “Feelings”. Just being honest.
The first 'America got talent"
If I had to pay for the air pay and hotel fee I wouldn't show up.
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The Gong Show rofl!!!
Eunice Higgins was in her own mind, high society well refined a woman of class to be admired respected and adored. But her real life (Eunice’s) consisted of just marginal above the dregs of society and unbelievable to her every interactions with people constantly showed her she was not the high princesses of society but it never dawned on her she was just plain old Eunice with a husband and a mother who constantly disappointed and set her off.
Have you ever seen the old British sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances" with Hyacinth Bucket? It's a similar type of character without all the abuse. She thinks she's high-society and over-compensates, but in reality, is just a step above her roots, which is blue-collar working class folks without much money.
She really just yearned to be respectably middle-class, like her sister and to have had opportunities (and talent).
But she actually behaves that way, and Eunice can never pull it off...@@indigothecat
A lot of stuff should be gonged today on tv … like about 97% of everything. Start with all those NCIS things, 911 crap, and keep going.
I can't stand those shows either!
What about those stupid reality shows.
@@shawnmichaelduncan5951 Them, too
If Eunice had not taken that call from Mama and Ed, she might not have gotten so upset and then performed better.
This is funny yes but incredibly sad.
J P Morgan & Carol r both same age= 91 yrs young!
aw....poor Eunice
Luv it!😂😊😂
@lowbridge7070.... Reading ur comment about u nd ur sisters childhood really touched my heart! I remember this show because I was always on punishment so I spent a lot of time in the house but I can't imagine Not being able to laugh really hard during "Mamas Family"!.... God bless u both and I pray that u both can laugh today, it's soo releasing 😮😊
This hilarious
This sketch is like a play by Tennessee Williams.
Of course, Carol's TV program has been highly praised, but
Carol wasn't praised, at first in the 1950s she was on a TV
show with Buddy Hackett called "Stanley", which didn't do well at all and is very much forgotten ( she had to start on TV
somewhere, before Garry Moore).
The odd thing of Eunice getting gonged was that we didn't hear massive audience jeering beforehand.
Poor Eunice, one dress, one pair of shoes...
Self delusion like that illustrates how we can all be terrible liars to ourselves.
Ahhh agony hearing Eunice song
wow. i never realized this is why bad acts are on shows. makes sense now!
****Thank**Carol****From,Maryann,**Gregory****
Eunice' thinks she is Lana Turner!
Does Eunice have a pitcher plant on her mantel?
With great shows like this still available, who gives a crap that the pathetic Hollywood writers guild is on strike? All 11,000 of them combined couldn’t produce anything this good. That’s sad. I feel embarrassed for them.
Shame on you. Without their talent we have nothing.
@@nonenoneonenonenone see comment ⬆️
Whether you like their work or not, it's still a job and they still have bills to pay like everyone else.
@@AmyLSacks Then they should have gone to work. They’re not concerned about their bills if they’re on strike.
@@matthewturner4719 lol
It would have been funnier if Eunice got gang-gonged right after the first word out of her mouth: "Feelings.... (GONG!!!)
That's why you're not a game-show producer.
I wonder if Burnett sitting on the bag of chips unintentional.
Season 10 Episode 19 2-12-77
Poor her.
Eunice' is delusional!
My least favorite Eunice sketch, a terrible idea. It's so obvious she's going to be gonged. What I'd love to have seen her do is fight it, though: once she saw it was going to happen, suddenly reach out and grab the gonger away while continuing to perform her number, fending them all off as they try to retrieve the gonger; once she finishes the number, she gongs herself and walks off with her head high: take that, Chuck Barris! If Eunice has to lose, at least let her lose once on her own terms.
Lol😂😂😂😂