When Bubba has failed an English, Mama has arranged him to take it at night school. Mama is steaming mad because she herself never finished high school. With some encouragement, she goes back to night school with an English teacher played wonderfully by John Ingle who was also an acting teacher but retired and became a professional actor himself. In this episode, Mama confronts some of the bad memories that forced her to drop out. Mama has to read "The Scarlet Letter" and is having trouble with it at first until Iola reminds her that she's read books twice the size. It's the same book that chased her away from school to begin with. Well Mama has read the book while her classmates have read Ray Notes sort of like Cliff Notes. If they can get away with their answers, you just have to watch and see.
2 Reviews
A one woman show.
vitoscotti13 January 2023
The episode is mostly Mama Harper (Vicki Lawrence) dong her thing. Which is pretty funny. But, not a lot of room for the rest of the cast to contribute. Iola (Beverly Archer) didn't have many opportunities to be funny. Vinton Harper (Ken Berry) got in a couple humorous lines about how Mama now will be smart like the rest of the high school educated Harper clan. Naomi Harper (Dorothy Lyman) making her international stew seems like it's been done before. Teacher Mr Tucker ()John Ingle) looked familiar. Doing some research he was Edward Quartermaine on "General Hospital" which rang a bell. Decent episode. Nothing spectacular.
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