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More fans from the South/Midwest?

posted 9 years ago by RvaBread22
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I was just wondering. I'm from Virginia, and I totally "get" Mama's Family. Its a rural comedy. I live in the city, but I still get the underlying humor in a rural comedy which seems to go over the heads of big city folk. Its Southern. I wonder if more fans tend to be from the South or Midwest. Some people write it off as a low rent show. But many fans know better. I know plenty of Thelma Harpers in my neck of the woods, as well as plenty of "church ladies" and "Reverend Meechums". LOL.

[–] SarahKatherine247 9 years ago

I am a New Yorker but I was married to someone from a rural area in the Pacific Northwest, so I get it. Even when I was 9 or 10 while the show was on NBC, I liked it, even if some of the more risqué jokes went over my head at the time. For a while I couldn't see a supermarket scanner without thinking of the hilarious exchange between Thelma and Naomi at the Food Circus.

[–] RvaBread22 9 years ago

I think it does have universal humor that appeals to many! I have just noticed that most fans on the TV shows.com message boards were either from the South or Midwest.

[–] elaphe-1 9 years ago

I'm from the Midwest but from a metropolitan area of 400,000. I don't consider that rural, but like the OP the area surrounding us is rural.

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[–] RvaBread22 9 years ago

Okay, I a from there too.

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[–] MandrasAndPelagia 9 years ago

I am from Missouri and I totally get this show because it's set in Missouri. Aside from St. Louis, Columbia, and KC, Missouri is mainly filled with small country towns with blue-collar working class "rednecks." This is a good portrayal of rural Missouri life.

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