Try And Match 100% Of These TV Moms To Their Shows!
- by Eric
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Whoa momma! Ok, now that that's out of the way, how many of these moms did we want to be our own mothers? Sure we all love our moms, but for the most part, TV moms are just so darn saccharine in the best way possible. They offer lots of hugs, lots of loves, lots of advice, a whole heap of understanding and warmth. And all within a 22-48 minute time span.
TV moms can do it all - explain the birds and the bees, provide guidance, and shoulder to cry on, even foster dragons from time to time. Moms in all their forms have a sweetness to them that is seldom seen in the real world, even in the most harrowing of dramas. That's because for the most part, that's a slice of real life, how your own moms, or moms you know behave. No matter the era or the genre, there are plenty of memorable mommas across the TV landscape and TV history. How many of these mothers do you remember? How many moms from the past, present, and future can you name and match up with their families. Take our quiz and find out - match these moms to their TV show!
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Anyone who remembers Married...With Children and has seen this show will know that her role here is seriously unlike her earlier one. She plays a mother, yes, but she isn't exactly mom of the year, if you follow what we're saying. This show follows the lives of the members of a motorcycle gang. We go through the ups and downs of their dealings and as expected, there are a lot of downs. What's the name of this show?
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Coming from New England royalty, Lois Pewterschmidt chose to marry a dimwit instead of inherit the family fortune. While she is your typical housewife that you'd see on any other sitcom, Lois is a completely crazy woman. A recovering addict, a clepto, a gambler; she's even cheated on her husband on more than one occasion and at least one of her kids is not Peter’s. On any other show, this is high drama waiting to explode. But this is one of the zaniest sitcoms to have ever graced the small screen.
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Claire Dunphy is your typical hovering helicopter mom. Buts that more or less because she was a wild child who made a slew of mistakes and doesn't want her kids to repeat the same mistakes that she made. While all three of her kids have their own unique way of exasperating her - Hayley’s irresponsibleness; Alex’s manipulative side; or Luke’s complete and utter lack of common sense, it really doesn't help that her husband Phil is the biggest kid she has.
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While plenty of us all wish to live the good life, when you're born into it - perhaps the way to rebel is try and get out of it. Lorelai did that, and when she got pregnant at 16, she decided she was too young to get married, but she was going to keep the baby. When she went into labor, she left note for her folks, gave birth, and ran away with Rory to live and work nearby at the Independence Inn. Thanks to the age difference, Lorelai and Rory are very close, and Lorelai is everything anyone would want in a mom - caring, heartwarming, encouraging, and full of pop culture references.
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Raising two kids is a rough job. But being a working. Other is even tougher. Kitty was a nurse along with being a mother and thanks the Forman’s open door policy, she also wound up being a mother and nurse to her son, and all his friends who hung around the basement. But as loopy as all of her kids could (and would) get, when it was time to let loose, Kitty wasn't about having a drink or two…or five.
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The relationship between a boy and his mother is a fierce connection - just ask Norman Bates. Generally, once you get married, that connection is more or less regulated to phone calls and holiday visits. But when Ray’s mom lives next door, it leaves his wife, Debra more than a little flummoxed from time to time. Imagine living next to your in-laws. It might pretty taxing when you're the woman of the house and the supposed queen, but your king’s first love - his mommy is always around.
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It's a generally understood fact that a mother will go to the ends of the Earth to keep her kids from harm and even farther lengths to save them from danger. Joyce Byers is living proof. When every authority figure in Hawkins tried to convince that her son, Will was gone, she persisted and did all she could to find him, even uncovering an alternate dimension and a conspiracy throughout the entire neighborhood in the process. Her strategy worked, and Will was saved from the Upside Down.
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She might be the most famous mom on this list. Or at the very least, has the tallest hair and patience to match. Other than Lisa, who even herself at times can be a handful, Marge has to put up with a lazy husband whose absurd schemes lands him unemployed or worse just about every week. But it's Bart that is the rotten apple of her eye, but like any great mother, she encourages him to do the right thing, but loves her special little guy no matter what.
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In the new millennium, TV moms have been far more reflective of what society norms are and less than what we want them to be. Case in point, single mom and recovering addict Christy Plunkett. Her own mother is also in recovery and although she tries to break the chain, Christy’s daughter get knocked up, making Christy a grandmother in her mid-thirties. While it is an exaggerated take, we all know far more Christy Plunketts than we do Donna Reeds.
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When you're only heard about for seemingly forever, the first time we (and Ted) lays eyes upon you, better be one of the biggest if not the biggest moments in the series. When fans saw a woman board a train, yellow umbrella and bass in hand, it was the emotional moment the show had been building up for so long. By the time Ted finally met Tracy, we had already seen so many glimpses of an amazing woman and mother, and the very definition of what some might call a manic-pixie-dream-girl.
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Lori Loughlin must have gotten a heap of hate mail from some ladies during the early nineties. She did marry the hunkiest hunk on television, after all. Becky had already endeared herself to both Jessie and his family when she married the w the most e since their mom passed on. Then she became a mom herself when she gave birth to twins, Nicky and Alex. Now needing some help, they moved back in with rest of their family, and continued the time honored TV tradition of eight million people living in one house.
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As a wife, a surgeon, and a mother Meredith never wanted to settle to be ordinary. She didn't want to be like either of her own parents. But balancing your life between trying to be an expertly perfect surgeon and an expertly amazing mother to both adopted kids and biological ones, who has been tragically widowed leaves little to no margin for error. She does all of this while constantly playing mother hen to all sorts of lost souls who she lets stay with her.
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It's pretty jarring to see Betty Draper huffing down Lucky’s while being preggers. But then you remember you're watching a show set during the late fifties and early sixties, there was no science to tell us how horrible this was. In fact, her husband Don was responsible for selling the cigarette ads. As a mom, she does her best to give her kids the good life that she had growing up, no matter how much they rebel, which despite Sally's contempt, she still needs her mother.
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This show happens to be based on a popular comic book series for kids. Molly Ringwald plays the mother of none other than our favorite redhead, Archie. While the comics were light-hearted and colorful, this show is anything but. It's filled with mystery, teen drama, and gloomy undertones highlighting how even small towns can see darkness. Who knows which show brought Molly Ringwald back on TV for us?
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Kleenex must be sponsoring this show. How Andy else would every week be so heart wrenching and tragic? It's the story of the Pittsburgh Pearsons and their matriarch, Rebecca. On her husband’s birthday, Rebecca gave birth to triplets, but one sadly died due to complications with childbirth. Believing she was meant to have three, and at the behest of Jack, they adopted another baby who happened to be born on the same day. Life is not an easy and being happy doesn't always come easy either, Rebecca is willing to fight for that happiness every single moment of her life.
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As the mother of not one but one but two girls, Tami Taylor had do a great job of keeping it all together herself. Throw in the fact that she worked in the schools of Dillon, and that she was the coach’s wife, she became the de facto mother for the entire neighborhood. She offered up advice whenever and wherever it was needed, up to and including how the kids should talk with their own parents about serious issues. She also had to be Coach Taylor’s rock and help him with his own difficult decisions.
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After Michael Bluth's father ended up in jail, he wound up needing to run the family business. They deal in real estate and as boring as that might sound, the things this family goes through make for great entertainment. We get to sit back and laugh as Michael tries to keep the business afloat all while raising his son and dealing with his wildly eccentric (and hilarious) family. If this description wasn't enough, we don't know what is. Let's see who recognizes which show this mom is from.
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TV dramas are meant to put characters through the ringer - that's why they're called dramas. The ringer was invented for character arcs like Kristina Braverman’s. Seemingly coming from a broken home, she does all she can to be a rock of love and support for her family. She's a little high strung, perhaps from raising a kid on the Autism Spectrum. While her husband didn't cheat on her, he still wouldn't fire the woman that kissed him. All of this, and a cancer diagnosis to boot. She does get a little bit of a happy ending, getting to open a chain of schools dedicated to children who have learning disabilities.
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An anthropologist and forensics scientist by trade and lifestyle, it must have seemed vary ironic when Temperance Brennan gave birth to her baby inside a manger. Brennan might not seem like the warmest or fuzziest of TV moms put there, but then again baby Christine has a whole lot of fun show and tell items that she can snag from mommy’s job at the Jeffersonian. It also has to be pretty cool to know that her super smart mommy and macho man daddy catch bad guys every week.
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As a California socialite, Kirsten Cohen grew up dealing with all the haughty-taughty types throughout Beverly Hills and Orange County. But even as she battled alcoholism, she kept a level head for her, her husband Sandy and their son, awkward teen Seth. She kept everything under control when she agreed to taking in troubled Chino kid, Ryan and doing her best to raise him right. Even though she has initial reservations about Ryan, she still immediately refers to him as her son.
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When Joyce Summers passed away from brain aneurysm, her daughters and the rest of the Scooby gang all felt powerless as the pangs of loss. Fans of the show did as well. Everyone adored Joyce. She was able to always see the best in just about everyone, even when others couldn't. She was proud of her daughter and how headstrong she was, despite the principal thinking she was a troublemaker. Joyce herself was brave too, once smashing Spike with an axe demanding he stay away from her daughter.
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As the theme song goes, “Well then there must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls / Cause all I see is a tower of dreams / Real love burstin’ out of every seam…” for just about every family on TV, it's mom’s job to make these lines come to life. Heck, in the real world too. Harriette Winslow was able to do that for her entire family, as well as the annoying neighbor-boy, who was seemingly abandoned by his never seen folks.
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When single mom Carol met single dad of three, Frank on a cruise and decided to get married. Since none of their six kids got to have word of an opinion on the matter, none of them were none too keen on each other. But that never stopped Carol from doing her best to make things work. Literally from day one - when Frank thought his daughter Al was faking illness to get out of school, Carol was the one who took to the hospital, just in time to have her appendix removed.
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Nancy was accustomed to living the good suburban life as a perennial housewife and mom. But her husband Judah had passed away, which didn't leave Nancy with a lot of options. She she decides to start dealing marijuana to her neighbors. Originally, Nancy was unassuming and did her best to keep her two kids far away from her business, but Silas wanted to be a part of it. Despite doing her best to keep her kids away from the business, her younger son, Shane is hit the hardest, and actually hits pretty hard too when his family is threatened.
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Your husband is a funeral director and has passed away. Your wild child oldest son returns home to help with all of the arrangements. Your pent-up middle child is dealing having to take over the whole family business, as well as his own sexuality. Your youngest daughter is going through her own sexual revolution and teen angst rebellion. When do you have the time to grieve? Unfortunately, Ruth Fisher doesn't, and her grief and worries often come out in the the funniest and heartbreaking ways.
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To be married to a mob boss, you have to be one tough woman. A tough woman and a patient woman, and a woman who winds up knowing where a lot of bodies are buried - hopefully only figuratively. Carmela put up with a whole lot over the years, up to and including a headstrong daughter, a son suffering from anxiety, and her husband’s philandering ways, which finally caught up to him in one of the most explosive season finales ever.
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Behind the scenes, she's the daughter of the supreme diva, Diana Ross. In front of the cameras, she's Dr. Rainbow Johnson, and now she's a woman raised by hippies, now a mother herself of four kids. She has been fiercely protective of her family, punching an intruder in the face during Halloween. Even though she tries to discipline Jack, in at least one instance she couldn't help but laugh at how cute his ploys were to get out of a spanking.
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Jill must have sometimes felt like an island to herself, until her would-be handyman husband decides to soup up that island a jet propulsion engine. As a mother of three unruly boys and wife of their equally unruly father must have been taxing. But like most sitcom moms, Jill handled it with all of the patience, caring, love, and occasional exasperation towards her family, which is when the family would be reined back in. All the while trying to better herself by heading back to school to be a psychologist.
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When your booze-hound, womanizing oldest son and your leech momma’s mom younger son both refer to you as the devil incarnate, you must be doing something right - in this twisted comedy. Evelyn Harper cares for both Charlie and Alan in her own twisted way and vice versa. She even began to care a little more for Alan once Charlie died, seeing as how he was her only son now. She has shown up carrying a scythe (cementing her devil status), and has forced her kids and grandson to dress up like flying monkeys to her Wicked Witch.
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As one of television’s first and funniest ladies - when she gave birth, it became one of the country's first shared viewing experiences and the first instance of someone's real life pregnancy being written into the show. But before and after little Ricky’s birth, Lucy was a very funny lady with still some of the craziest and funniest bits and antics trying to get on her husband’s show. With all of the news of empowerment nowadays, Lucy was doing it all way back in the fifties and sixties.
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We all know the song - “Here's the story / Of a lovely lady / Who was bringing up three very lovely girls / All of them had hair of gold / Like their mother / The youngest one in curls. Carol was a single parent and Mike was also a widow with three boys of his own. They didn't seem to care what their six kids combined would have to say about them co-habitat if and being a family, but it seemed to work out just fine for them.
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Growing up in the eighties meant having to push as having to struggle. Beverly struggles with being your typical overbearing helicopter mom, constantly thinking she's “failed as a mother. As an overprotective mom, she has a hard time letting go and frequently embarrasses her kids. In between her jazzercise, knitting, power walking, and dancing, she finds the time to baby her middle kid, Adam. While she does her best to be a kind mother, she's earned the nickname “smother” from her family.
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They say the relationship between a boy and his mother is something special. But then something like this happens - “I go out to get a quart of milk, I come home, and I find my son treating his body like an amusement park!” With just one line of dialogue, Estelle Costanza became an instant TV icon on a show that was rapidly becoming an iconic TV show. Between her “eye job,” the aforementioned line, and Estelle Harris’ delivery, it was easy to see how and why George was the little twerp that he was.
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Just because their lifestyle might not mean your cup of tea, we should all aspire to have a romance and a marriage like Gomez and Morticia. She is the true head of the family and fiercely loyal and loving to her children. Considering her ancestors hail from Salem, Massachusetts, you'd do well not to test her. Despite the macabre nature of her humor, Morticia became an icon in her own right, and will be voiced by Charlize Theron in a new adaptation in 2019.
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There is only one person awesome enough to somehow make calling one of the coolest kids ever by his real name. But sure enough, Mrs. C was the only person who ever called the Fonz by Arthur. But that wasn't all. Mrs. Cunningham was the mother that Fonzie needed, which is why they took him in as a tenant at the behest of their own son, Richie even when Howard Cunningham protested. Perhaps she just wanted to make up for her oldest son’s Chuck’s disappearance upstairs.