Who is your favorite Television "Mother"

[WI_DEM]

Poll question: Who is your favorite Television "Mother"

Poll result (66 votes)
Carol Brady ("The Brady Bunch")	(1 votes, 2%)	Vote
Claire Huxable ("The Cosby Show")	(10 votes, 15%)	Vote
Donna Stone ("The Donna Reed Show")	(4 votes, 6%)	Vote
Endora ("Bewitched")	(6 votes, 9%)	Vote
Estelle Costanza ("Seinfeld")	(3 votes, 5%)	Vote
June Cleaver ("Leave It to Beaver")	(2 votes, 3%)	Vote
Marge Simpson ("The Simpsons")	(7 votes, 11%)	Vote
Olivia Walton ("The Waltons")	(6 votes, 9%)	Vote
Rosanne Connor ("Rosanne")	(8 votes, 12%)	Vote
Other (please specify)	(19 votes, 29%)	Vote

[acmavm]

1. Morticia Adams

.

[maveric]

15. Damn! I was hot for her and her cleavage!

She was a beautiful woman to boot!

[edbermac]

30. Lily Munster over Morticia by a mile...

[LiberallyInclined]

54. No Way- The Adaams Family was far superior to The Munsters-

in every way.

[Deja Q]

2. 'Mother' on 'The Avengers'.

Am I joking? Maybeeeeeeeee...

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Donna Reed

She's the only one that I've seen a naked picture of on the Internets.

[WI_DEM]

5. your kidding?

there is a naked picture of Donna Reed on the internet?

[givemebackmycountry]

8. You bet! n/t

[skygazer]

4. Peg Bundy

[Huckebein the Raven]

6. Claire Huxtable

[last_texas_dem]

7. Norma Arnold on "The Wonder Years"

Just always thought she was a really good TV mom.

Laura Petrie on "Dick Van Dyke" gets my nomination for hottest TV mom, though. Maybe that's just me... haha

[amber dog democrat]

9. My mother, the car

a 1928 Porter.... anyone remember that series ?

Also Morticia from the Adams Family.

[Dervill Crow]

10. Yep, she's a car. She's my favorite shining star.

Morticia Adams, also. I wanted to BE Morticia when I grew up.

[CO Liberal]

34. A 1928 Porter - That's My Mother Dear

She helps me throught everything I do
And I'm so glad she's here.

[GCP]

11. Jane Kazmarak, Malcolm in thr Middle

[Tikki]

12. Edith Bunker, Marion Cunningham and Dorothy Zbornak.....n/t

[miss_kitty]

13. Lois Griffin

"Lois Griffin is a modern-day housewife who finds time to cook, clean, run errands, teach piano and avoid daily attempts on her life by her baby son, Stewie."

[CanuckAmok]

27. She's hot, too, but she's "done" Kiss, so I voted for Donna Reed.

And don't say that Donna Reed has done Kiss, because you know it's not true.

[JohnKleeb]

51. Ha yeah man

[name not needed]

33. Damn you, damn the broccoli, and damn the Wright Brothers!

[Hans Delbrook]

14. Marie Barone

'cause she's so much like the one I already got.

[borlis]

16. Me too!

My sisters and I argue with our cousins about "whose mom is more like Marie."

[Hans Delbrook]

19. It was actually my best friend who finally said it out loud

After I gave my Mom some of my red sauce (her specialty, natch.) She originally said how good it was and how I could make it as good as her yadda yadda yadda. But the next day I asked if she really liked it and she said (wait for it)

"Well, it was after I doctored it up a little."

I laughed, what ya' gonna do?
But my best friend (who has known us both for 20 years) said, "Wow, she really is Marie Barone!"

[Radio_Lady]

21. Me, three! I'm going to miss "Raymond" when it goes off 05/05!

Marie Barone is a caricature -- but I love her anyway! I particularly like it that she is has "real curves" -- somewhat overweight, but who cares?

This week's re-run was a scream. Marie joins an amateur sculpture class and creates an "abstract" piece that looks like -- well, you decide -- but it's hilarious. Anyone else see it?

[ucmike]

17. Peg Bundy

[Longhorn]

18. Tyne Daly

(Maxine Gray) on Judging Amy.

She's not old enough to be MY mother but she's my kind of mother.

[Radio_Lady]

23. Yes, Tyne Daly is a terrific actress. We saw her on stage, too.

Are you old enough to remember "Cagney and Lacey" where she and Sharon Gless paid cops?

[China_cat]

32. More than old enough.

It was interesting when Gless had a guest role on 'Amy'.

[Longhorn]

42. I sure am!

I think she's always played good mother role models, except for her smoking on Judging Amy. And I think she has a natural "Earth Mother" beauty, both inside and out.

[Radio_Lady]

49. Oh, what a handsome Longhorn!

I can't read what county in Texas you've posted on the photo, but we were in the hill country around San Antonio last year at this time -- riding Western on the white rocks! I always pretended I was a cowgirl, even when I was a youngster living in Miami, Florida, where I took care of a mare and a stallion while a teenager (before I discovered boys!)...

[Longhorn]

56. He lives in Lampassas County, northwest of Austin.

I do family calendars every year -- personalized with a computer program and my photos. Last year, the theme was Central Texas nature shots and I got some of the photos on our way home from Dallas going the "back way" down U.S. 281.

Sounds like a fun trip, by the way. Seems like I only go horseback riding when we go to Colorado!

[sundog]

20. roseanne

[alwynsw]

22. June Cleaver and her nasty mouth.

"Ward, weren't you a little hard on the Beaver last night?"

[donheld]

24. My very favorite

[dback]

25. Marion Ross ("Mrs. C") on "Happy Days"

She had a sexiness about her that couldn't be hidden; the outtakes and "secret" clips on the "Happy Days" reunion show a month or two ago only proved it. (She and Henry Winkler were flirting like teenagers.) Anyone else remember the episode when Marion got tipsy and was dancing with Fonzie in the living room? Very few other sitcom moms would've done that.

[PartyPooper]

26. Jane Wyatt on "Father Knows Best"!

[Hardrada]

28. Janie's mom on thirtysomething

[jdots]

29. Harriet Nelson

she was really the mom.Ozzie was the dad and Ricky & David were real people who grew up on t.v. what a wierd concept .

[Deja Q]

31. In all seriousness, Florence Henderson:

Don'cha know, she got Robert Reed to turn hetero for a while!

[Rockholm]

35. Maude.

[Misunderestimator]

36. You JUST beat me to it!

And then there's MAUDE!!

[Rockholm]

38. Lady Godiva was a freedom rider!

[ProfessorGAC]

37. I Know I'll Get Hammered For This

But, my fave is Jill Taylor from Home Improvement. I really don't understand all the "hatin'" on that show.

Enlightened, educated parents who give their kids plenty of rope. Smart next door neighbor that allows them to drop in all kinds of nuggets of literary greatness who also can act as Greek chorus as all chaos breaks around him. The whole show within the show.

It's a nice, uplifting show and she's the smartest, most accepting, yet strong mom ever, IMO.

My wife and i love that show, and have since we first watched it. I'd watch it any time over current tripe like Bernie Mac's borefest.
The Professor

[ScreamingMeemie]

39. No hammer here. She's a great actress, isn't she?

[MissMillie]

40. Peggy Hill (?)

Is her first name Peggy?

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Elyse Keaton on "Family Ties" A free spirit but also good at teaching

responsibility for one's own actions.

My favorite episodes are when Alex snuck down to drink on his 18th Birthday and she followed him and when Tom Hanks played her brother on the lam from the FBI.

[LiberallyInclined]

53. Meredith Baxter-Birney...Yum-yum-yummy!

she gets my vote too.

[1gobluedem]

43. Norma Arnold from The Wonder Years

I loved her.

[jswordy]

44. Edith Bunker. Nuff said.

[bigwillq]

45. Roseanne RULES!

[UdoKier]

46. Ma Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie.

By a long shot.

[Fleshdancer]

47. The mom on Malcolm In the Middle

she's hilarous. Can't remember the character's name though.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

48. Peggy Cass as the mother Elinore Hathaway on "The Hathaways"

When I was a little kid in 1960 I absolutely LOVED that show. It was about a real estate agent (comedian Jack Weston) and his wife (Peggy Cass) who adopt a family of three performing chimpanzees and raise them like regular children. To me it was an absolute laugh riot, but another real weird show like "My Mother The Car". I never got over the fact they cancelled that show. Now, it also makes me think of Barbara Bush.

[gauguin57]

50. Dharma's mom ("Abby") on Dharma and Greg ...

... played by Mimi Kennedy.

I had a wonderful, "traditional" Mom and Dad. Really the salt of the Earth ... I wouldn't have traded them for anyone else.

However, when I was a teen-ager, I used to wish I was a red-diaper baby -- that my parents were hippies or Socialists or had a salon full of dangerous intellectuals at the house every night or took me to civil rights marches and stuff.

So, in tribute to that little pipe dream from my adolescence, I like Dharma's mom.

Maude might be a close second (but she'd have sucked all the air out of the room).

[imaginary girl]

52. Debra of Everybody Loves Raymond ...

[MrSlayer]

55. Cartman's Mom

[Bombero1956]

58. I'd have to agree

with Marion Ross on Happy Days or Shirley Jones in the Partridge Family.

[ignatzmouse]

57. Shirley Jones

Yeah, but not because of the Partridge Family. I rented "Elmer Gantry" where I believe she won an Oscar for playing Lulu Bains. The scene in her slip and stockings where she tempts Burt Lancaster has a sexual tension rarely achieved. My God, she was hot.

[Dogmudgeon]

59. Gladys Crabtree

--p!

[WI_DEM]

60. She made an awfully nice car, too.

[Mixxster]

61. WTF!!!!!

You put Endora in the poll but not Samantha?

[jeffrey_X]

62. Claire Huxtable - I had a crush on her growing up...