Best TV Moms
Tell us your pick for best moms found on the ol’ boob tube.
In honor of our Mother’s Day Guide, we thought it’d be appropriate to sprinkle our op/ed section with a few YOUR MOM-related posts here and there leading up to the big day.
So, to get things started, tell us your picks for best TV moms. We’ll leave the connotation of “best” up to you – it could mean funniest, nicest, hottest, craziest, what have you.
I’ll start. My personal fave is Lynette from Desperate Housewives, mostly because of that time she pulled over her minivan and kicked her kids out of the car for fighting. Although you can apparently get arrested for doing that these days, I admired the move.
Your turn…
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Valerie Catrow
Valerie Catrow is editor of RVAFamily, mother to a mop-topped first grader, and always really excited to go to bed.
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Elyse Keaton, Family Ties
soffia from the golden girls
Jean Weir from Freaks and Geeks.
Harriet Winslow from Family Matters.
Miss Garrett
I completely forgot about Jean Weir. Man, she was awesome. So jolly.
I agree with Jason, Elyse Keaton, Family Ties
Kate Gosselin!
Heh heh heh, joking…
Kitty Forman from That 70’s Show
Jane Kaczmarek from Malcolm in the Middle… definitely, she did so well in that role… the mom everyone was afraid of, and yet at the same time, could do anything, haha… reminds me of my mom
Morticia Adams FTW! (and by that I mean Angelica Huston…not Carolyn Jones, although she was good too!)
Spock’s mother on Star Trek. She was only on one episode, but still. Also Boomhauer’s mother on King of the Hill was incredible.
Claire Huxtable……wheeeew SO FINNE!!!
Cosby’s
i am going to be hated for this.. but (eek.) lauren graham, gilmore girls? ….