Mother’s Day: Our Favorite TV Moms

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It still doesn’t quite feel like spring — and we’re spending a little more time in front of the television than we’d like to admit. But Mother’s Day is headed our way and while we’re looking for gift ideas we thought, since we’re watching TV anyway, we’d use it for a little Mother’s Day inspiration and pick our favorite TV moms.

June Cleaver (Leave It To Beaver) Who better to deal with the shenanigans of Wally and the Beav than June Cleaver? She embodies the quintessential 1950s stay-at-home-mom (back then, they were known as housewives). She was calm, cool and always reasonable and supportive — all things moms strive to be.

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Carol Brady (The Brady Bunch) Carol Brady made blended family life seem so simple! But simple doesn’t mean easy. Convincing six kids to love an entirely new family was a big challenge, and the even bigger challenge was dealing with them as teenagers. But whatever hair drama, girl trouble or miscommunication came up, Carol always had an answer.

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Marion Cunningham (Happy Days) Sweet Mrs. C kept the house clean, got meals on the table and was always full of cheer despite her gruff husband, the greaser who lived above the garage and the two teenagers she was raising. Always delightful with her subtle quips and the balance she brought to the Cunningham family, her assumed naivete thwarted by her profound brilliance was what made Mrs. C a mom worth watching every week.

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Elyse Keaton (Family Ties) Elyse was the hippy-dippy mom who was blessed with children that were her polar opposite. With boy-crazy Mallory, conservative Alex and spunky Jennifer, she had to stretch her parental skills to match three very different children. She did it all and managed to be a successful architect, to boot. She was a model working moms of the 80s appreciated.

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Peggy Bundy (Married With Children) This list isn’t about the best TV moms, just our favorite TV moms and Peggy Bundy, with all the hair, heels and humor is definitely one of our favorites. While she was no June Cleaver and parenting wasn’t her top priority, we could suspend our disbelief once a week to watch how not to be a mother.

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Roseanne Conner (Rosanne) Roseanne Conner was a refreshing change from the common upper-middle-class mom we typically get from Hollywood. She gave America a small glimpse at blue collar life that we rarely see on TV. Her no-nonsense parenting and unvarnished humor made her an unconventional and respected TV mom.

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Marie Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond) Just about everyone has a Marie Barone in their lives — she may not be your mother-in-law, but you know one just like her. She smothers her grown son and gets under her daughter-in-law’s skin, but her intentions are good.

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Carmela Soprano (The Sopranos) On the surface, Carmela Soprano has a pretty nice life — nice home, good kids, a husband who provides well for the family — but being married to a mob boss is a tough gig with no way out. But she was a tough cookie — not taking any guff from Tony Soprano and still raising respectable children is no small feat.

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