Thelma Harper, the Glossary
Thelma Harper, better known as Mama, is a fictional character played by American actress Vicki Lawrence.[1]
Table of Contents
47 relations: Apron, Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show), Artificial plants, Betty White, Broadcast syndication, Carol Burnett, Carol Burnett & Company, Dick Clair, Drawl, Dysfunctional family, Eunice (film), Eunice Harper Higgins, Fashion accessory, Footwear, Headpiece, Hollywood Squares, Housewife, Jeopardy!, Larry the Cable Guy, Las Vegas Valley, Literacy, Lower middle class, Mama's Family, Marge Redmond, MeTV, Missouri, NBC, Old age, Password Plus and Super Password, Pearl, Plot hole, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 1, Southern American English, Southern United States, Television film, Tennessee Senate, The Carol Burnett Show, The Family (sketch), The New York Times, The Queen Latifah Show, The Talk (talk show), TimesDaily, United Press International, United States dollar, Unseen character, Vicki Lawrence, YouTube.
- Mama's Family characters
- Television characters introduced in 1974
- The Carol Burnett Show
Apron
An apron is a garment that is worn over other clothing to cover the front of the body.
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? (American game show)
Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader? is an American quiz game show.
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Artificial plants
Artificial plants are imitations of natural plants used for commercial or residential decoration.
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Betty White
Betty Marion Ludden (White; January 17, 1922December 31, 2021) was an American actress and comedian.
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Broadcast syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.
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Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American comedian, actress, and singer.
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Carol Burnett & Company
Carol Burnett & Company is an American four-episode summer variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Tim Conway, Vicki Lawrence, Kenneth Mars and Craig Richard Nelson.
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Dick Clair
Dick Clair (November 12, 1931 – December 12, 1988) was an American television producer, actor and television and film writer, best known for the television sitcoms It's a Living, The Facts of Life, and Mama's Family.
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Drawl
A drawl is a perceived feature of some varieties of spoken English and generally indicates slower, longer vowel sounds and diphthongs.
Dysfunctional family
A dysfunctional family is a family in which conflict, misbehavior and often child neglect or abuse on the part of individual parents occur continuously and regularly.
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Eunice (film)
Eunice is a 1982 American made-for-television comedy-drama film starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Ken Berry and Betty White which is based on characters of a recurring series of comedy sketches called "The Family" featured on The Carol Burnett Show (1974–78) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979). Thelma Harper and Eunice (film) are the Carol Burnett Show.
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Eunice Harper Higgins
Eunice Higgins (née Harper) is the main character in "The Family" comedy sketches played by Carol Burnett and featured on The Carol Burnett Show (1974–78) and Carol Burnett & Company (1979). Thelma Harper and Eunice Harper Higgins are comedy television characters, Female characters in television, Mama's Family characters and television characters introduced in 1974.
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Fashion accessory
In fashion, an accessory is an item used to contribute, in a secondary manner, to an individual's outfit.
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Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment such as wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature.
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Headpiece
A headpiece is an object worn on the head for decoration or protection.
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Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares (originally The Hollywood Squares) is an American game show in which two contestants compete in a game of tic-tac-toe to win cash and prizes.
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Housewife
A housewife (also known as a homemaker or a stay-at-home mother/mom/mum) is a woman whose role is running or managing her family's home—housekeeping, which may include caring for her children; cleaning and maintaining the home; making, buying and/or mending clothes for the family; buying, cooking, and storing food for the family; buying goods that the family needs for everyday life; partially or solely managing the family budget—and who is not employed outside the home (e.g., a career woman).
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Jeopardy!
Jeopardy! is an American television game show created by Merv Griffin.
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Larry the Cable Guy
Daniel Lawrence Whitney (born February 17, 1963), known professionally as Larry the Cable Guy, is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and former radio personality.
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Las Vegas Valley
The Las Vegas Valley is a major metropolitan area in the southern part of the U.S. state of Nevada, and the second largest in the Southwestern United States.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
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Lower middle class
In developed nations around the world, the lower middle class is a subdivision of the greater middle class.
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Mama's Family
Mama's Family is an American sitcom television series starring Vicki Lawrence as Mama (Thelma Harper). Thelma Harper and Mama's Family are the Carol Burnett Show.
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Marge Redmond
Marjorie Redmond (December 14, 1924 – February 10, 2020) was an American actress and singer.
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MeTV
MeTV, an acronym for Memorable Entertainment Television, is an American broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting.
Missouri
Missouri is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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NBC
The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the NBC Entertainment division of NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.
Old age
Old age is the range of ages for people nearing and surpassing life expectancy.
Password Plus and Super Password
Password Plus and Super Password are American TV game shows that aired separately between 1979 and 1989.
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Pearl
A pearl is a hard, glistening object produced within the soft tissue (specifically the mantle) of a living shelled mollusk or another animal, such as fossil conulariids.
Plot hole
In fiction, a plot hole, plothole, or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot.
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RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars season 1
The first season of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars premiered on the Logo network on October 22, 2012.
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Southern American English
Southern American English or Southern U.S. English is a regional dialect or collection of dialects of American English spoken throughout the Southern United States, though concentrated increasingly in more rural areas, and spoken primarily by White Southerners.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Television film
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie, telefilm, telemovie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for initial showing in movie theaters, and direct-to-video films made for initial release on home video formats.
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Tennessee Senate
The Tennessee Senate is the upper house of the U.S. state of Tennessee's state legislature, which is known formally as the Tennessee General Assembly.
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The Carol Burnett Show
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show that originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 279 episodes, and again with nine episodes in fall 1991.
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The Family (sketch)
"The Family" is a series of comedy sketches featured on The Carol Burnett Show, with one final installment airing on Carol Burnett & Company. Thelma Harper and The Family (sketch) are the Carol Burnett Show.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The Queen Latifah Show
The Queen Latifah Show is an American television talk show hosted by Queen Latifah.
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The Talk (talk show)
The Talk is an American talk show that debuted on October 18, 2010, as part of CBS' daytime programming block.
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TimesDaily
The TimesDaily is the daily newspaper for Florence, Alabama.
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United Press International
United Press International (UPI) is an American international news agency whose newswires, photo, news film, and audio services provided news material to thousands of newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations for most of the 20th century until its eventual decline beginning in the early 1980s.
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United States dollar
The United States dollar (symbol: $; currency code: USD; also abbreviated US$ to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official currency of the United States and several other countries.
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Unseen character
An unseen character in theatre, comics, film, or television, or silent character in radio or literature, is a character that is mentioned but not directly known to the audience, but who advances the action of the plot in a significant way, and whose absence enhances their effect on the plot.
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Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence (born March 26, 1949), sometimes credited as Vicki Lawrence Schultz, is an American actress, comedian, and singer.
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YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
See also
Mama's Family characters
- Eunice Harper Higgins
- Thelma Harper
Television characters introduced in 1974
- Barney Miller
- Blanche Hunt
- Eddie Yeats
- Eunice Harper Higgins
- Fonzie
- Fourth Doctor
- Gail Platt
- Harry Sullivan (Doctor Who)
- Hope Williams Brady
- Jim Rockford
- Joe Gerard
- List of Coronation Street characters (1974)
- List of Emmerdale Farm characters (1974)
- List of Space Battleship Yamato characters
- List of The Young and the Restless characters (1970s)
- List of Ultraman Leo characters
- Miss Piggy
- Neil Curtis
- Norman Stanley Fletcher
- Phil Fish (character)
- Ralph Malph
- Robert April
- Samurai (Super Friends)
- Susumu Kodai
- Thelma Harper
- Vera Duckworth
The Carol Burnett Show
- A Special Evening with Carol Burnett
- As the Stomach Turns
- Cinderella Gets It On!
- Don Crichton
- Eunice (film)
- List of The Carol Burnett Show characters and sketches
- Mama's Family
- Mrs. Wiggins
- The Carol Burnett Show
- The Family (sketch)
- The Oldest Man (character)
- Thelma Harper
- Went with the Wind!