The sixth episode of season 2 ("Rashomama"), which aired on November 3, 1983, was Burnett's final portrayal of Eunice.

Tanya Fenmore played Eunice as a child in the nineteenth episode of season 2 ("Mama's Birthday).

The character's final appearance was in the fourteenth episode of season 4 ("The Sins of the Mother"), portrayed as a teenager by Heather Kerr.

Always clad in a fluttery green dress and wearing her hair in a 1940s-era perm, Eunice is a working-class homemaker married to Ed Higgins.

[7] According to the original Carol Burnett Show, Eunice had three brothers: Phillip (Roddy McDowall); Larry (Alan Alda); Jack (Tom Smothers); and one sister, Ellen (Betty White).

Writers Dick Clair and Jenna McMahon created the Eunice character as part of a sketch the two would perform on TV variety shows in the 1960s.

In contrast to being Midwestern as Clair and McMahon had created, Burnett based the characterization on her own mother, who also had a Texas accent.

Eunice and Ed had two sons, Bubba (who later moved in with Thelma during the run of Mama's Family) and Billy Joe.

Eunice is generally very unhappy and bitter, distraught and broken down by her mother, and very emotionally unstable and going on many destructive fits.

The psychiatrist eventually helps her realize she does not have to let her abusive mother affect her, and he leads her on the road to recovery.