List of The Carol Burnett Show characters and sketches

A soap opera parody taking place in the fictional town of Canoga Falls with Burnett as the main character Marian Clayton.

The skit frequently parodied shows like The Bionic Woman and movies such as The Godfather, Shampoo, and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Later on, other children of Mama's were introduced, including Betty White as Ellen, Alan Alda as Larry and Tommy Smothers as Jack.

The premise was to parody a "perfect" First Family speaking to the American people, and also included their maid, usually Minerva played by Isabel Sanford.

[3] The sketch was inspired by the roles of Montgomery Clift and Shelley Winters in A Place in the Sun[4] Lawrence has occasionally played Zelda's mother.

[6] She was usually featured in "As the Stomach Turns", but has also been in other sketches such as the grandmother in "La Caperucita Roja", the Mexican version of "Little Red Riding Hood", the fairy godmother in "Cinderella Gets It On!

Later on she appeared with Korman as her consort, Lawrence turning up various times as both her sister and her daughter, and mostly with Conway as Private Arthur Newberry, a soldier who is completely hollow due to having swallowed a live hand grenade.

The premise with Private Newberry was his ridiculous requests, such as asking for animal-flavored ice cream or calling a ship dedicated to him as "HMS Stinky".

Burnett and Korman as Stella and Harry, an unemployed and very scruffy married couple, with Waggoner as their 15-year-old biker son Brewster and Lawrence as their overdeveloped 12-year-old daughter Dulcie.

In the early seasons, the movie take-off would begin as a "Metro Golden Mouth" production with Burnett doing her Tarzan yell as a parody of the MGM Lion.

The outfit, designed by Bob Mackie, is now in the Kennedy Center Honors collection of the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.