Do housekeepers the world over

[short bus president]

pause and share a covert insiders' chuckle at 4:09?

[bif]

1. I'd love to "do" housekeepers the world over

[short bus president]

2. Hrm...

OK, let's do this in chronological order...

I think Mrs. Garrett probably comes first:



Followed (on Diff'rent Strokes, anyway) by "Pearl:"



But I think Benson was probably actively housekeeping on Soap at the time Mrs. Garrett was working for the Drummonds, so throw him in there, too:



And if you make it through all that, your reward would be the inimitable Gretchen Krause, who kept Governor Gatling's house in order after Benson moved on to become TV's first successful housekeeper-to-secretary-of-state transplant...



I was always amazed how they managed to make poor Inga Swenson look unhot on Benson...

[Misunderestimator]

3. Yikes.... what a thought...

will make me look at my housekeeper a bit differently from now on...