This is the final episode of Ellen, and pretty much final episode that links the old series with the newer reformatted one. In this episode Ellen visits Mama and the family with shocking news. She needs to have surgery and will be placed in the hospital. This upsets Thelma who feels that she has never had a good relationship with her daughter Ellen, and Thelma decides she must do whatever she can to make her daughter feel loved. Mama feels nervous that her daughter is seriously ill. She takes the family to see Ellen in the hospital, and of course the dumb family does nothing to soothe Ellen's nerves. Eventually Ellen tells her mother why she is in the hospital, she is having plastic surgery, Mama is upset as she thought Ellen was having a serious illness. She realizes Ellen has always been vain and that the surgery is just one more example.
This episode is an average episode, with some funny moments. However, it is nice that they bring back an older character. It is also a bit more serious as it deals with the turbulence of mother-daughter relationships.