Episode
Mama's Family: Mama's Medicine Show
Overview
After reading about how much it costs to raise a child, Vint and Naomi decide to start a business selling bottles of Mama's mother-in-law's "miracle tonic."
Details
- Series
- Mama's Family
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 1989-09-23
- Runtime
- 25 min
Episode context
Mama's Medicine Show is Episode 1 in Season 6 of Mama's Family. It aired on 1989-09-23. The runtime is 25 min.
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Episode 4: Now Hear This
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Episode 5: Tri-State's Most Wanted
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Episode 6: Mama Fights Back
Mama verbally attacks a radio show's unhelpful consumer advocate, and the station manager offers her his job, with Mama broadcasting from her living room.
Episode 7: A Blast From the Past
Mama is invited to her junior high school's 50th reunion, but she is reluctant to go because of a false rumor that was spread about her years ago that earned her the nickname "Hotpants"
Episode 8: Psychic Pheno-Mama
Vinton and Naomi persuade Mama to have a psychic called "Madame Rita" give everyone readings. At first, Mama is surprised by the psychic's ability, but later sets out to expose the phony medium.
Episode 9: Take My Mama, Please!
After heckling a stand-up comedian at the Bigger Jigger, Mama accepts a challenge to do a routine of her own.
Episode 10: Bubba's House Band
Bubba books a band called The Bonecrushers for homecoming, and tells the family that the band will be staying with them. They turn out to be an all-female heavy metal band, and Mama must rein them in.
Episode 11: Mama Takes Stock
Vinton learns that he is about to lose his job because Kwik Keys is being shut down by the new owners, a corporation called Bernice. When Bubba discovers that an old stock certificate Mama owns is now ten shares of Bernice, she sets out to save Vinton's job.
Episode 12: War of the Roses
Mama and Iola are preparing for the Crystal Thorn flower contest, and Iola is angry to find that Mama's flowers have cross-pollinated with one of hers, producing a pink-and-white hybrid. At first neither of them wants it, but when floral expert Mayjune Beasley tells Mama that it could win the award, both Iola and Mama claim ownership.