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OKCRay 12-04-2006, 03:53 AM There are so many great ones, but my favorite regular skit was the soap opera spoof "As The Stomach Turns". The best one of these was the one they did as a takeoff of the movie SHAMPOO, with Tim Conway playing hairdresser Warren Pretty, also Cher as Pocahontas Pirelli and perhaps the most outrageous appearance EVER of Harvey Korman's Mother Marcus character. I challenge ANYONE not to roll on the floor laughing their you-know-what off while watching this sketch! :lol: :lol: :lol:
Redhead 12-05-2006, 08:14 PM I love those skits. My favorite ATSTs skit was when Tim climbed into a painting and got kicked in the nose by a tiny horse. That was genius!
snl 70s show fan 12-05-2006, 08:31 PM there was this skit with carol and steve lawerence where steve play a really bad comic and carol as the wife watches him for a few minutes and finally says to him you stink well steve thinks his wife is just kidding around and she cant convince him that she means it and then when it finally dawns on him that she means it they argue for the rest of the skit it dosent sound funny here but if you see the skit on tv its really funny. i also like all the mama skits
"mary mary quite contrary, mary mary quite contrary"
the spoof of "mary hartman, mary hartman".
All of the mama & Eunice skits were good. And we can't forget her Scarlett
O' Hara skit. And any episode were Tim Conway would make them laugh was
always good.
T-Greg 02-05-2007, 03:43 PM All of the mama & Eunice skits were good. And we can't forget her Scarlett
O' Hara skit. And any episode were Tim Conway would make them laugh was
always good.
Any skit with Tim Conway was great! He could always crack up Harvey Korman, when he was supposed to be serious..and it made for something much funnier when he did. Tim and Carol had this contest that not many people knew at the time. One would always try to crack the other up first. Once (back stage, I believe), Carol came out topless when they were rehearsing for a skit, and that got Tim real good!
Scoobiedoo30 02-05-2007, 05:19 PM Mama's Family Skit
Dr. Thong 02-05-2007, 07:43 PM One of Tim Conway's recurring characters was the white-haired old man who moved as slow as molasses. He would usually be running a hot dog stand during lunch hour when Harvey Korman was pressed for time and would be driven crazy by his slowness.
The "family" skits with Eunice were good until Harvey Korman left - then they were more dramatic and kind of sad, because Korman was very strong in those bits. What was even worse was when they did the Mama's Family spinoff show with no Burnett or Korman. Watching that show, I always felt like something was missing.
Okay, getting back to the show...there was a great skit where I think (if memory serves) that Carol was a housewife and everytime she'd say something, a commercial would start. There was a chorus barging through her kitchen singing "Gum, Gum, Gum!" I loved those silly sketches.
dandelion wine 02-07-2007, 05:57 PM As The Stomach Turns
Went With the Wind (Where she played Scarlett)
Mama's Family
Anything with Tim Conway :lol:
OKCRay 02-12-2007, 03:10 AM Okay, getting back to the show...there was a great skit where I think (if memory serves) that Carol was a housewife and everytime she'd say something, a commercial would start. There was a chorus barging through her kitchen singing "Gum, Gum, Gum!" I loved those silly sketches.
Yep, that was hysterical! Among others we got to see the "Soft and Dry" ladies in her medicine cabinet ("It does and it doesn't!"), the Ty-D-Bol man, Harvey Korman as Peter Pan, Tim Conway as Euell Gibbons, a whole flock of Doublemint Twins (the gum commerical you referenced), and it ended with the Schlitz Malt Liquor bull crashing through her kitchen wall. If you have the Columbia House DVD series, it's on Volume 9.
OKCRay 02-12-2007, 03:18 AM I also loved the tributes they did for that year's hit TV programs. My favorites from these were from the 1974-75 TV season, where they did sendups on Police Woman ("Police Lady"), Chico and the Man ("Chiquita and the Man"), Rhoda ("Rhonda") and my favorite: Tony Orlando and Dawn ("Tony Tallahassee and Dusk")... Harvey Korman did a wonderful spoof of Orlando, and Vicki and Carol did great as "Dusk", only to have the real Tony Orlando and Dawn take the stage. These were then followed by the full-length skit "The Walnuts" (their takeoff on The Waltons).
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