Corrected entry: In this episode, Vint is asked to marry an alien woman to help her get her green card. By this point in the season, he is already married to Naomi. Is it legal for a man to be married to two women at once?
Correction: "Mama's Family" episodes were aired out of order. "Alien Marriage" was the second episode produced (production code 7002) while the "The Wedding" episodes were the 6th and 7th episodes produced (production code 7006/7007). Therefore, in the context of the show as written and produced, Vint isn't married. When watching in order as the episodes aired, this would be a flashback episode.
Corrected entry: In 'Mama Gets a Job', she is at the Raytown Travel Agency answering phones. The first time she picks up the phone, it kept ringing because she didn't hit a button. She is taught how to answer and then Buzz calls which she hits the button for. Right after that Vint calls. She does not hit any buttons but she is able to talk to him. (00:14:50)
Correction: The phones in that time frame of show would have been push button that lock on one line and you can answer that line the next time it rings or hit another button to answer another line.
Corrected entry: In this episode when talking to Fran, Mama states, "I used to iron with my right hand, mash potatoes with my left, with four screaming kids under me." However, Mama only had three kids on the show: Vint, Unice, and Ellen. Where did the fourth kid come from?
Correction: It's an exaggeration implying that she worked herself to the bone taking care of them as kids. (Research "Uphill Both Ways In The Snow To School" for a classic example).
It could have been Iola because she hung out at their house when she was a little girl.
The mistake isn't about her exaggerating, it's about her not knowing how many kids she had. She only had 3 kids and there's nothing to indicate she was raising someone else's kid, and the show never mentions some unnamed son out west.
She has Phillip as well? Just never in the dream sequences, which is odd to me.
Correction: She had another child, a son out west.
I don't ever remember this being said.
Correction: Vinton is not married to Naomi in this episode. This may be episode 11 in sequence, but the events are out of sequence. Naomi visits Mama in the backyard, and she still has her house. She is not engage to Vinton. It is a continuity error.
Vent married Naomi in episode 3 season 1. The Alien Marriage was season 1 episode 11.