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PZelda · 08-21-2003, 09:46 PM

(I am copying my exact post from the Expage board that I made earlier today for those of you who visit the one over there, also...Just disregard this. For the others who only come here, go on ahead and read this, I think you will find this really interesting!)

I haven't watched my "Mama's Family" tape for three days, so I was sitting down to catch up on the six episodes I missed.

I was watching the episode, "Mama Fights Back" where Mama tries to return a defunct blender and then gets her own radio show....

Anyway, the blooper takes place at the beginning of the episode. Mama and Iola both come home and Mama is POed because they wouldn't take back her blender. Notice that she has her purple overcoat on. She slams her paper bag down on the table and takes out the blender and starts b****ing about how they wouldn't take her blender back. She puts her blender down, then unbuttons that one button on the top of her overcoat, then she sits down at the table and the camera goes over to Iola for a moment when Iola starts talking. Then the camera switches back to Mama, and that one button on her overcoat is buttoned up again! She unbuttons it AGAIN and puts the overcoat on her chair!

It was on recently (Tuesday, I believe) so if you guys have that on tape, check it out - it's there. About two minutes into "Mama Fights Back".

ConservativeBalla · 08-22-2003, 09:38 PM

Heh, bloopers rule.

bb25 · 08-23-2003, 03:06 AM

I just watched that one and got a kick out of it, though I never noticed the "blooper". I guess I just don't pay that close attention, I generally just listen to the lines and try to keep track of what's going on...

BTW, PZelda, just out of curiosity, what kind of tape have you been using to record this? I have also been religously taping it everyday all summer, enjoying every minute. I've used a Sony High Grade 6 hr, Maxell Standard Grade 8 hr, and the rest are TDK Revue 6 or 8 (using the 8 hour currently). I originally intended to just use one tape, watch them once, and repeatedly re-use the tape (the exclusive purpose of TDK's "Revue" line), but just can't bring myself to do that. While I've taped over quite a few of the more "sleeper" episodes, I've got about 3 or 4 tapes so far full of good ones...anyway, sorry to go so far off subject, but I'm just curious...

Who else has been taping it? They're in the last season now and it's about to turn over to the beginning, the NBC years...yay...

PZelda · 08-23-2003, 04:21 AM

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Originally posted by bb25
I just watched that one and got a kick out of it, though I never noticed the "blooper". I guess I just don't pay that close attention, I generally just listen to the lines and try to keep track of what's going on...

BTW, PZelda, just out of curiosity, what kind of tape have you been using to record this? I have also been religously taping it everyday all summer, enjoying every minute. I've used a Sony High Grade 6 hr, Maxell Standard Grade 8 hr, and the rest are TDK Revue 6 or 8 (using the 8 hour currently). I originally intended to just use one tape, watch them once, and repeatedly re-use the tape (the exclusive purpose of TDK's "Revue" line), but just can't bring myself to do that. While I've taped over quite a few of the more "sleeper" episodes, I've got about 3 or 4 tapes so far full of good ones...anyway, sorry to go so far off subject, but I'm just curious...

Who else has been taping it? They're in the last season now and it's about to turn over to the beginning, the NBC years...yay...

LOL, the funny thing is I have seen that episode many times before too, but never noticed it til I sat down to catch up two days ago.

My tapes? Let me see.... I have 15 tapes at the moment. I brought a 5-pack and a 10-pack. THe 5-pack is Maxell High Grade 6 hour (red boxes) and the 10-pack is the RCA Hi-Fi Stereo 6-hour (multi-colored). I have found both to be very good to me - I still have RCA tapes lying around from a couple of years ago that have held up pretty well in SLP format, but I am going to have to move my eps to DVD's if I ever get a DVD recorder.

I've been taping it all summer, too. TBS makes the change from the last season to the first on Tuesday morning (the 26th) at 5:30 in the morning (CST). They'll show "Bye, Bye -- Baby!" at 5 and then the first episode from 1983 at 5:30.

I missed a few eps this summer (either because I goofed up or my VCR messed up or whatever) and am glad they're finally almost done with all the seasons - only 3 more eps to go

bb25 · 08-23-2003, 04:19 PM

Cool! I am also using Maxell High Grade to tape another favorite show of mine, "3rd Rock From the Sun" (love Jane Curtin!), and I like them. I don't usually like Maxell tapes but they seem to be getting better in quality lately...yeah, I can't wait to see them turn it over either. I never really watched the first few seasons that much. I love the syndicated eps, so whenever they would end, I'd just wait until they came back to 1986

(back when they ran this at a decent time)...I was also just curious, what type of VCR do you have? I'm kind of in a dilemma with them right now. We own 2 "family" VCRs (I tape Mama on our RCA - love that VCR, unfortunately they only make RCA's in silver now), and for my birthday earlier this summer I finally got my own (and my own TV!). It was a Sharp 4-head Hi-Fi. I really liked it. It had great picture & sound quality, but it had no front panel LED clock/display, which I just thought made it look cheap and inconvenient. So, I took that one back and got a Sony which was on sale at a different store. Well, the picture & sound quality are OK, the recordings are actually very nice in EP mode thanks to "19 Micron", it has the front panel LED, but I just don't really like it. When I turn it on and off it's very loud, with these clicks and whirrs and it just sounds like it's chewing my tapes all the time...which is why I'm curious if you or anyone else here owns a Sony, and can vouch that it just has a loud mechanism and that I didn't get a bad one. It's the SLV-N500 model. It's been well over a month now and I'm probably stuck with it, and if I'm still unhappy with it I may just sell it and get a new Panasonic or Emerson or something...anyway I'm rambling so I'll stop now...

PZelda · 08-23-2003, 05:51 PM

Let me check - it's been quite a while since I last looked... I have had my VCR since 1998 and it still works like new.

The manufacture date on my VCR is March 23, 1998. I can't seem to find the brand on it - but it has the General Electronics (GE) logo on it, so it's a wonderful quality VCR. It's Model VG4043 and is black. I very much like the display on mine - when not in use, it tells me the time. If I turn on my VCR, the display says "HI" (WAY cool) and if I turn it off, "BYE". It just kills me the way my VCR's display says that to me. LMAO

It's black and VERY easy to program. It has a WAY nifty programming feature I REALLY like - You can program it to record on WEEKDAYS only (as in 5 days a week - not daily as in 7 days a week). It makes it REALLY easy for me, because "Mama's Family" is only on during the weekdays. If I have a real movie in and not one of my blank tapes and I have the VCR set to record, and if the VCR turns itself off (it does that to save energy), it automatically ejects the movie so I can put in my tape. WAY COOL. I LOVE my VCR. It's been almost five and a half years since I've had it, and it still works like new. It hasn't eaten any of my tapes yet and is really nice and quiet when it rewinds (medium-fast speed) or when I am ejecting or inserting in a tape.

I know what you mean about the RCA's - my mom has a RCA VCR now (she wore out her other one) and it's silver too.

I hate her VCR because it takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to rewind a tape and when you're programming or setting something in the VCR settings menu, it's confusing as heck! But not as confusing as my dad's VCR at his house - I have ABSOLUTELY no clue (okay, a bit) how to work it.

I don't remember the brand but it is VERY confusing! It has a bazillion stuff on the LED display.

Anyway, I'm done now.

bb25 · 08-24-2003, 01:15 AM

Yeah, if it has the GE logo, that means it's a General Electric. We had a GE VCR once. We bought it in early 2000, by early 2001 a tape had gotten stuck and it was shot - later we found out, having purhcased it from a discount store, that it was actually factory refurbished, not something you want to see in a VCR...which is when we bought the RCA. I'm telling you, that thing barely has a day off, and it's still perfect. Except for it acting up a little due to being overheated from a DVD player set on top, it's still like new and has all the features you described. Weekday-only timer, says Hi & Bye, and also has a feature that I think is very important - auto head cleaner. It ensures that the heads always stay clean and clear to ensure good picture quality. My new Sony also has that - it's one of the most important features to me. If the VCR has auto head cleaner, I can go without the fancy bells and whistles which I never seem to use anyway...our RCA is pretty quick at rewinding though...I can rewind a days worth of Mama's Family in about 20 seconds, so it's pretty fast. My Sony has the TurboRewind feature - LOL! that thing is so loud it sounds like a semi-truck running when your in the other room, but it rewinds a 6-hour tape in less than a minute, which is awesome...

PZelda · 08-24-2003, 01:52 AM

I got my VCR from Sears in 1998, so obviously it wasn't factory refurbished.

My VCR almost never has a day off (except for the times I go to visit my dad) and it still acts new. If your VCR EVER dies, go to Sears (or any other actual electronics store) and get a GE VCR instead. No discount stores.

OMG, you stack your DVD player on the top? So do I! Mine'a a silver Memorex DVD player - I don't have many DVD's (roughly 15 or so), so I don't use mine that often, and so my VCR doesn't get overheated at all from using the DVD player because it's almost always off.

Dang, I wish mine rewinded as fast as yours does! But that's fine, my VCR can rewind 6 days' worth of MF in roughly 2 to 2½ minutes, so I"m not complaining.

bb25 · 08-24-2003, 02:01 AM

Well, I don't have it stacked on top anymore. Like I said the VCR was acting up. Tapes would refuse to come out, it chewed tapes, just seemed broken. I just had the weird thought that the DVD player might be getting hot and messing something in the VCR up, so I switched them around, and it almost instantly remedied the problem, and she's back to normal now

I would recommend you putting the DVD player on the bottom of the VCR. Not only will it keep them both in good shape, it usually looks better since DVD players are wider and flatter than VCRs...

Also, my local Sears doesn't carry GE VCRs....last time I looked I believe all I saw was Sansui, Panasonic and maybe one other brand...VCRs are getting kind of scant

bb25 · 08-24-2003, 02:05 AM

BTW, our DVD player is just a standard black Panasonic model. It's really nice, but like you, we don't have many DVDs (all of mine are of The Lucy Show), so we don't use it very much. Plays music CDs really nice and clear though...

TALLguyinKY · 08-29-2003, 04:45 AM

WOW Pzelda, how awesome!! I've seen every episode multiple times, and never noticed that!

I'll have to look for the button/unbutton this weekend!

Penny Lane · 08-29-2003, 07:59 PM

This is not a blooper but a slight of hand that I caught. Remember the episode where Iola accuses Bubba of stealing her pearl necklace? At the end they find it stuck to a throw pillow . But watch........ in the beginning Mama is looking at the necklace then she hands it back to Iola who slips it in her pocket.

It is very subtle and that's how the necklace disappeared off-camera!

Penny Lane · 08-29-2003, 08:02 PM

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Originally posted by TALLguyinKY
WOW Pzelda, how awesome!! I've seen every episode multiple times, and never noticed that!

I'll have to look for the button/unbutton this weekend!

I have too and never noticed!

I'm getting out my Mama videos also!

08-21-2003, 09:46 PM	#1
PZelda Two Valeries! <3 Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 15, 2002 Location: I'm STILL missing NYC. :( Posts: 78,223	Blooper found! (I am copying my exact post from the Expage board that I made earlier today for those of you who visit the one over there, also...Just disregard this. For the others who only come here, go on ahead and read this, I think you will find this really interesting!) I haven't watched my "Mama's Family" tape for three days, so I was sitting down to catch up on the six episodes I missed. I was watching the episode, "Mama Fights Back" where Mama tries to return a defunct blender and then gets her own radio show.... Anyway, the blooper takes place at the beginning of the episode. Mama and Iola both come home and Mama is POed because they wouldn't take back her blender. Notice that she has her purple overcoat on. She slams her paper bag down on the table and takes out the blender and starts b****ing about how they wouldn't take her blender back. She puts her blender down, then unbuttons that one button on the top of her overcoat, then she sits down at the table and the camera goes over to Iola for a moment when Iola starts talking. Then the camera switches back to Mama, and that one button on her overcoat is buttoned up again! She unbuttons it AGAIN and puts the overcoat on her chair! It was on recently (Tuesday, I believe) so if you guys have that on tape, check it out - it's there. About two minutes into "Mama Fights Back".
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08-22-2003, 09:38 PM	#2
ConservativeBalla R.I.P., Mr. Reagan. Senior Member Join Date: Jun 14, 2003 Location: 704 Hauser Street, Queens, New York; having an eating contest with Meathead eating Edith's beef stew. Posts: 1,822	Heh, bloopers rule.
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08-29-2003, 07:59 PM	#12
Penny Lane Butter Pie Forum Icon Join Date: Jul 03, 2001 Location: Beneath the blue suburban skies Posts: 51,139	This is not a blooper but a slight of hand that I caught. Remember the episode where Iola accuses Bubba of stealing her pearl necklace? At the end they find it stuck to a throw pillow . But watch........ in the beginning Mama is looking at the necklace then she hands it back to Iola who slips it in her pocket. It is very subtle and that's how the necklace disappeared off-camera!
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08-23-2003, 03:06 AM	#3
bb25 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 784	I just watched that one and got a kick out of it, though I never noticed the "blooper". I guess I just don't pay that close attention, I generally just listen to the lines and try to keep track of what's going on... BTW, PZelda, just out of curiosity, what kind of tape have you been using to record this? I have also been religously taping it everyday all summer, enjoying every minute. I've used a Sony High Grade 6 hr, Maxell Standard Grade 8 hr, and the rest are TDK Revue 6 or 8 (using the 8 hour currently). I originally intended to just use one tape, watch them once, and repeatedly re-use the tape (the exclusive purpose of TDK's "Revue" line), but just can't bring myself to do that. While I've taped over quite a few of the more "sleeper" episodes, I've got about 3 or 4 tapes so far full of good ones...anyway, sorry to go so far off subject, but I'm just curious... Who else has been taping it? They're in the last season now and it's about to turn over to the beginning, the NBC years...yay...

08-23-2003, 04:19 PM	#5
bb25 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 784	Cool! I am also using Maxell High Grade to tape another favorite show of mine, "3rd Rock From the Sun" (love Jane Curtin!), and I like them. I don't usually like Maxell tapes but they seem to be getting better in quality lately...yeah, I can't wait to see them turn it over either. I never really watched the first few seasons that much. I love the syndicated eps, so whenever they would end, I'd just wait until they came back to 1986 (back when they ran this at a decent time)...I was also just curious, what type of VCR do you have? I'm kind of in a dilemma with them right now. We own 2 "family" VCRs (I tape Mama on our RCA - love that VCR, unfortunately they only make RCA's in silver now), and for my birthday earlier this summer I finally got my own (and my own TV!). It was a Sharp 4-head Hi-Fi. I really liked it. It had great picture & sound quality, but it had no front panel LED clock/display, which I just thought made it look cheap and inconvenient. So, I took that one back and got a Sony which was on sale at a different store. Well, the picture & sound quality are OK, the recordings are actually very nice in EP mode thanks to "19 Micron", it has the front panel LED, but I just don't really like it. When I turn it on and off it's very loud, with these clicks and whirrs and it just sounds like it's chewing my tapes all the time...which is why I'm curious if you or anyone else here owns a Sony, and can vouch that it just has a loud mechanism and that I didn't get a bad one. It's the SLV-N500 model. It's been well over a month now and I'm probably stuck with it, and if I'm still unhappy with it I may just sell it and get a new Panasonic or Emerson or something...anyway I'm rambling so I'll stop now...

08-23-2003, 05:51 PM	#6
PZelda Two Valeries! <3 Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 15, 2002 Location: I'm STILL missing NYC. :( Posts: 78,223	Let me check - it's been quite a while since I last looked... I have had my VCR since 1998 and it still works like new. The manufacture date on my VCR is March 23, 1998. I can't seem to find the brand on it - but it has the General Electronics (GE) logo on it, so it's a wonderful quality VCR. It's Model VG4043 and is black. I very much like the display on mine - when not in use, it tells me the time. If I turn on my VCR, the display says "HI" (WAY cool) and if I turn it off, "BYE". It just kills me the way my VCR's display says that to me. LMAO It's black and VERY easy to program. It has a WAY nifty programming feature I REALLY like - You can program it to record on WEEKDAYS only (as in 5 days a week - not daily as in 7 days a week). It makes it REALLY easy for me, because "Mama's Family" is only on during the weekdays. If I have a real movie in and not one of my blank tapes and I have the VCR set to record, and if the VCR turns itself off (it does that to save energy), it automatically ejects the movie so I can put in my tape. WAY COOL. I LOVE my VCR. It's been almost five and a half years since I've had it, and it still works like new. It hasn't eaten any of my tapes yet and is really nice and quiet when it rewinds (medium-fast speed) or when I am ejecting or inserting in a tape. I know what you mean about the RCA's - my mom has a RCA VCR now (she wore out her other one) and it's silver too. I hate her VCR because it takes F-O-R-E-V-E-R to rewind a tape and when you're programming or setting something in the VCR settings menu, it's confusing as heck! But not as confusing as my dad's VCR at his house - I have ABSOLUTELY no clue (okay, a bit) how to work it. I don't remember the brand but it is VERY confusing! It has a bazillion stuff on the LED display. Anyway, I'm done now.

08-24-2003, 01:15 AM	#7
bb25 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 784	Yeah, if it has the GE logo, that means it's a General Electric. We had a GE VCR once. We bought it in early 2000, by early 2001 a tape had gotten stuck and it was shot - later we found out, having purhcased it from a discount store, that it was actually factory refurbished, not something you want to see in a VCR...which is when we bought the RCA. I'm telling you, that thing barely has a day off, and it's still perfect. Except for it acting up a little due to being overheated from a DVD player set on top, it's still like new and has all the features you described. Weekday-only timer, says Hi & Bye, and also has a feature that I think is very important - auto head cleaner. It ensures that the heads always stay clean and clear to ensure good picture quality. My new Sony also has that - it's one of the most important features to me. If the VCR has auto head cleaner, I can go without the fancy bells and whistles which I never seem to use anyway...our RCA is pretty quick at rewinding though...I can rewind a days worth of Mama's Family in about 20 seconds, so it's pretty fast. My Sony has the TurboRewind feature - LOL! that thing is so loud it sounds like a semi-truck running when your in the other room, but it rewinds a 6-hour tape in less than a minute, which is awesome...

08-24-2003, 01:52 AM	#8
PZelda Two Valeries! <3 Forum Addict Join Date: Jul 15, 2002 Location: I'm STILL missing NYC. :( Posts: 78,223	I got my VCR from Sears in 1998, so obviously it wasn't factory refurbished. My VCR almost never has a day off (except for the times I go to visit my dad) and it still acts new. If your VCR EVER dies, go to Sears (or any other actual electronics store) and get a GE VCR instead. No discount stores. OMG, you stack your DVD player on the top? So do I! Mine'a a silver Memorex DVD player - I don't have many DVD's (roughly 15 or so), so I don't use mine that often, and so my VCR doesn't get overheated at all from using the DVD player because it's almost always off. Dang, I wish mine rewinded as fast as yours does! But that's fine, my VCR can rewind 6 days' worth of MF in roughly 2 to 2½ minutes, so I"m not complaining.

08-24-2003, 02:01 AM	#9
bb25 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 784	Well, I don't have it stacked on top anymore. Like I said the VCR was acting up. Tapes would refuse to come out, it chewed tapes, just seemed broken. I just had the weird thought that the DVD player might be getting hot and messing something in the VCR up, so I switched them around, and it almost instantly remedied the problem, and she's back to normal now I would recommend you putting the DVD player on the bottom of the VCR. Not only will it keep them both in good shape, it usually looks better since DVD players are wider and flatter than VCRs... Also, my local Sears doesn't carry GE VCRs....last time I looked I believe all I saw was Sansui, Panasonic and maybe one other brand...VCRs are getting kind of scant

08-24-2003, 02:05 AM	#10
bb25 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 22, 2002 Posts: 784	BTW, our DVD player is just a standard black Panasonic model. It's really nice, but like you, we don't have many DVDs (all of mine are of The Lucy Show), so we don't use it very much. Plays music CDs really nice and clear though...

08-29-2003, 04:45 AM	#11
TALLguyinKY Member Senior Member Join Date: Mar 18, 2002 Posts: 1,439	WOW Pzelda, how awesome!! I've seen every episode multiple times, and never noticed that! I'll have to look for the button/unbutton this weekend!