Perfectly adorable

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

I have fond memories of this show at age 6 1/2 to almost 7 1/2. Loved the theme song and I thought Van Dyke was perfect for the role. There are many cute episodes with known character actors of the time. Granted, there were some lame episodes. I did not find thia show any "stupider" than many of the shows of that era of witches, genies, monsters, talking horses, Martians, lame Space shows, etc. Loved the late model, Model T and Ann Sothern was great with her distinct voice. I own the DVD and watch it periodically. It was light and I found many higher rated shows with the poorest of acting. No names mentioned. So I'm good with this show and the fond memories it has brought to me of my childhood in the 60's.

You have to wonder at times why people would sign on to appear in a show like My Mother The Car. What could possibly have attracted someone like Ann Sothern to have in her resume the role of the voice of an antique car?This TV show which actually ran for a full season has Sothern recently dying and coming back to earth as the voice of a 1928 Porter which her Jerry Van Dyke owns. The family name was Crabtree and not only did the car with his mother's voice speak to Van Dyke, but it spoke to no one else. I guess we didn't want word to get out that the Crabtree Family owned a talking car.Someone knew something was fishy with this car. The villain of the show was Avery Schreiber who was hatching schemes every episode to get the Porter. But he was as effective as Mr. Bluster on the old Howdy Doody Show. Who wouldn't want a talking car?In fact the show was 10 years ahead of its time. When Knight Rider premiered we had a talking car with William Daniels's voice. But it was a state of the art futuristic new car which housed a computer which could do all.So the concept was bought with different packaging.Did anyone EVER ask Ann Sothern how she got into this show.

I was about 10 when this show was on, and I watched as many episodes as I could.That said, I ROTFL in a "Get Smart" rerun I saw a while back. The bad guy is dying and:Max (reassuringly): "Help is on the way." Bad guy (in great pain): "I'll never make it, but do one thing for me." Max (compassionately): "What?"Bad guy: "Tell me 'My Mother the Car' is coming back on TV." Max (with a puzzled look): "Why?" Bad guy: "Then I won't mind going so much."That pretty much summed up the opinions from the rest of my family when I tried to watch this show.

Nothing bad said about this show is true. One of the shortest running TV shows? Nope. Many, many have been canceled after 13 weeks (a usual trial run), and many fine shows after six. There have even been a few after just one or two episodes! "My Mother The Car" ran for a full season...30 episodes to be exact, which is more than most shows give us in a year now days. One of the strangest concepts for a TV show? Nope. Do you remember these scenarios? A flying nun befriends a casino playboy, a sexy female genie lives with her astronaut "master," a sexy female witch lives with her ad executive husband, a family of vampires, werewolves, and their Frankenstein's monster of a father live in a middle class neighborhood, three gorgeous supermodels are detectives working for a playboy millionaire named Charlie...these are strange concepts! Not to mention talking horses, talking chimps, talking dogs, robotic cops, and comedies about dead people (from "Topper" to "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir," and my personal favorite, "Jennifer Slept Here" with Ann Jillian). Those are strange concepts! Do you remember "Pink Lady and Jeff?" "The Howard Cosell Variety Hour?" Now THOSE were strange concepts! One of the worst TV shows ever? Nope. Turn on your TV now and turn the channels. Point made. Jerry Van Dyke is funny, always has been, always will be. He hasn't changed his style of comedy at all. Ann Sothern was perfect as the voice of "mother" and I don't think her talent needs defending. What guy didn't have a relationship with his car in the sixties? It's called satire! It's just that not a lot of people watched. That's all. So goes programming, advertising, and the whim of the people. Now if Nick at Nite or TV Land will only have a "My Mother the Car/Jennifer Slept Here" hour I will die a happy person...and come back to life in a TV sitcom as a supermodel's bicycle seat...now that's a concept!