From Lorelai Gilmore to Marge Simpson, check out our favorite small-screen mothers.
Because who cares about a little humiliation when you’ve got thissweater-loving, foulmouthed weirdo for a mom?
Nobody messes with her schmoopies.
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And eat that much.
She opened her home to both Tim Riggins and Lyla Garrity.
We dare you to watch it without crying.
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We got to see new mom Temperance struggle with child care issues when she went back to work.
There’s so much more ahead.
And think about how cool young Christine’s show-and-tells will be thanks to all that stuff at the Jeffersonian.
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Her oldest son, Alex P. Keaton (Michael J.
Fox), is a Reagan-loving Young Republican who wears a tie every day.
Oldest daughter Mallory (Justine Bateman) is a ditzy, boy-crazy fashionista.
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But a mother’s love knows no bounds.
And she’s an architect to boot.
Was there anything this former flower child couldn’t do?
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What other TV mom can claim that?
But Nora’s greatest gift (besides her apparently hereditary wit) is her unconditional love.
And nobody loves the embezzler.
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Plus, she did so with a contagious smile and an impressively unmovable hairdo.
But seriously, her perfectionist, know-it-all manner is simply the gift wrapping on her maternal joy.
We’ll always love her for ruling with an iron fist, and representing good, hard-working mothers everywhere.
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Kirsten Cohen (Kelly Rowan)
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A beacon of level-headedness in a sea of cookie-cutter Orange County socialites,The O.C.
There was that whole alcoholism thing, but not to worry she worked it out.
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Or because she once hooked up with ‘‘Ripper.’’
But how can we not love her unabashed honesty, especially when it comes to poor Tobias?
Now ‘‘Zip me up, Buster!’’
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doesn’t seem quite so bad, huh?
For years she manipulated everyone who stood between her and her goal and she looked damn good doing it.
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