Maybe I'm wrong but isn't Fran grandmother named Yetta? Why is she calling her by her first name?
shareYour not wrong, her name is Yetta and it is weird to think that, but it makes you wonder why nobody ever called her out on that. And as far as I am aware of she has never called her parents by their first names.
shareNo she never said Sylvia or Morty it was ma or dad (I forgot what she called Morty I believe it was daddy).
shareDidn't she usually call her "Grandma Yetta," though?
shareI think I also remember her calling her Grandma Yetta, but still it is hard to believe that nobody ever called her out on it.
shareShe did from time to time, but most of the time it was always "Yetta".
shareDidn't she usually call her "Grandma Yetta," though?
That's an interesting point, blaque. I think I used to even assume that "Yetta" was some kind of Yiddish slang for "Grandma," but then they say in a few episodes that her name is actually Yetta Rosenberg.
I call my aunts and uncles by their first names, but not my grandparents or parents. Not sure why it works that way in my family, as I know many people who refer to their aunts/uncles as "Aunt so-and-so". But I've never heard of anyone calling their grandma by her first name, unless maybe they have a terrible relationship and do it disdainfully in her absence.
I have a theory about this!
I like to think that Yetta was so far gone mentally that she wouldn't remember that Fran was her grandchild. As such, she wouldn't answer to "grandma" anymore. So Fran, Sylvia, and everyone else on the show started calling her by her first name to avoid confusion due to dementia.
Your guess is as good as mine or anybody else if it is still weird to refer to somebody that is either your parent or grandparent by their first name. And do you have a theory on why she never answered "yeah and who are you"?
shareIt's definitely weird to refer to your grandma by her first name. That was just a little head cannon theory that I came up with because I used to wonder myself when I was younger.
I'm not sure if she ever said "who are you" to Fran but I'm pretty sure that she forgot who several people are... Mostly Maxwells kids, but maybe that's because she got to know them after her dimentia kicked in? Who knows? Maybe Sylvia and Fran's voices were just engrained in her memory but she didn't remember who they were to her, so they called her by her first name.
Now that I think on it, what did Sylvia call Yetta? Ma? Mom? Or Yetta?
I really only remember Fran calling Yetta grandma in the episode where her father's mother was there too and she kept calling them "grandmas". She mostly calls her Yetta, or Yetti which is a nickname for the name Yetta. I always thought it was weird but Sylvia also calls her Yetta, although she also calls her ma.
shareYeah it really doesn't seem right, and yet Yetti is so forgetful as to say "don't call me Yetta" to either her own daughter or granddaughter. Fran would call her at times like pointed out Grandma Yetta but it strange that nobody ever called either Sylvia or Fran out on calling her Yetta.
shareIt seems weird to me, but maybe when families are close and people become very old you start to treat them more like children, hence dropping the title 'Grandma'.
In any case, Yetta is based on Fran's actual grandmother, so I imagine that's what they called her in real life.
Who cares? Yetta is senile; she thinks Brighton is called "Schmuuuuey"!!
"If Yoda didn't talk in riddles, the clone wars never would've started"
When people have dementia, they lose their recent memories first, then gradually work backward till all they remember is their childhood. When my mother no longer remembered having a daughter, I stopped calling her "Mom," simply to avoid confusing her. I mostly called her "Honey" after that, but I don't think it would have been wrong to use her first name.