September-15th-2006, 03:32 PM
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Next year....
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TV Moms
One of my Advanced Speech students is doing a speech about the evolution of the TV Mom....maybe you can help us.
Name the TV Moms you remember from your past or those from today's televison shows.
Animation is OK.
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September-15th-2006, 04:34 PM
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Columnated ruins domino
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Mrs. Brady
Mrs. Partridge
Mrs. Cunningham (Happy Days)
Sada Thompson on Family
Meredith Baxter-Birney (yum) on Family Ties
Esther Rolle on Good Times
The immortal Edith Bunker
Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble
Jane Jetson
Last edited by Gentle Giant; September-15th-2006 at 04:35 PM.
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September-15th-2006, 04:43 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Blondie
Grandma Hillbilly
Olivia Walton
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September-15th-2006, 04:44 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Lucy
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September-15th-2006, 04:49 PM
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Cybil Sheppard. Don't remember what the character's name was, though. It was Cybil also, wasn't it?
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September-15th-2006, 04:49 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Lily Munster
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September-15th-2006, 04:50 PM
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tippy, maybe I'm just reading your last post wrong, but did you just ask if you could be my mommy?
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September-15th-2006, 04:50 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Remington Steele
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September-15th-2006, 04:55 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Originally Posted by Larry Nagel
tippy, maybe I'm just reading your last post wrong, but did you just ask if you could be my mommy?
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Not for free. 
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September-15th-2006, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by tippy
Not for free. |
Payment options are?
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September-15th-2006, 06:42 PM
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End The War
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Marge Simpson
Mrs. Cleaver
The more I think about this the more I remember family sitcoms that were sans mom. My Three Sons, The Courtship of Eddie's Father and a bunch of others.
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September-15th-2006, 06:54 PM
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colors outside the lines
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Originally Posted by Larry Nagel
Payment options are?
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I don't know something really crazy like a year's supply of Twizzlers. Something like that. Except I don't like Twizzlers.
I was thinking of My Three Sons too.
Last edited by tippy; September-15th-2006 at 06:54 PM.
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September-15th-2006, 07:00 PM
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colors outside the lines
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good one!
One Day at a Time mom.
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September-15th-2006, 07:17 PM
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September-15th-2006, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by tippy
good one!
One Day at a Time mom.
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Bonnie Franklin.
Marcia Strassman as Mrs. Kotter
Jean Stapleton as Edith Bunker
Joanna Kerns as Maggie Seaver on 'Growing Pains'
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September-15th-2006, 09:00 PM
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Donna Reed
Bonnie Franklin
Maude
....there was another single mother who worked as a waitress in a diner
All the Mom's on Seinfeld......George and Jerry's folks were a hoot!
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September-15th-2006, 09:21 PM
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dirty antipodal jackalope
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Reba
Jeanie
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Kenny no longer on the radio. Seeking radio station that isn't so pigeonhole-bound that it can't handle an approach that takes in Louis Armstrong, Sun Ra, the Grateful Dead and Bob Wills.
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September-15th-2006, 09:21 PM
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Unflappable
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Originally Posted by Borat Pri Hagafen
Marcia Strassman
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Bingo, baby.
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September-15th-2006, 09:34 PM
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Granny on the Beverly Hillbillys
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September-15th-2006, 09:45 PM
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Be Afraid
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Let's see, if we're talking evolution, then you have to go with something like:
June Cleaver, Leave It To Beaver
Edith Bunker, All in the Family
Clair Hanks Huxtable, The Cosby Show
Roseanne Conner, Roseanne
Marge Simpson, The Simpsons
Lois Griffin, Family Guy
People who watch tv more than I do can fill in the blanks. But those six right there show a lot of change in how mothers have been portrayed on television.
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September-15th-2006, 09:50 PM
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Gloria Ungar
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September-15th-2006, 09:59 PM
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No one's mentioned Elizabeth Montgomery? Or is she disqualified because she was the main character?
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September-15th-2006, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by Vince Kargatis
No one's mentioned Elizabeth Montgomery? Or is she disqualified because she was the main character?
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See Stone's post in 14 Vince
Margaret Anderson (Father Knows Best)
Mrs Thomas (Mama) (What's Happining)
Laura Pettrei (Dick Van Dyck Show) My personal favorite TV mom.
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September-15th-2006, 10:25 PM
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Harriet of Ozzie & Harriet
Alice Cramden on the Honeymooners and Trixie, Art Carney's wife on the same show though 'TV wives' and not moms.
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September-15th-2006, 11:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Donut Plee Hagafallen
Marcia Strassman as Mrs. Kotter
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One of the most underrated hotties of all time!
Would it be inappropriate to turn this into a "tv moms I had sexual fantasies about" kind of thread?
If so, I will digress.
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September-15th-2006, 11:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Vince Kargatis
No one's mentioned Elizabeth Montgomery? Or is she disqualified because she was the main character?
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Pay attention, Vince:
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Originally Posted by StonerM
Mrs. Darren Stevens
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September-16th-2006, 03:37 AM
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carole brady, shirley partridge,marion cunninham, june cleaver. mrs.________
is not enough. 
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September-16th-2006, 05:21 AM
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Elsie Tanner
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Kenny no longer on the radio. Seeking radio station that isn't so pigeonhole-bound that it can't handle an approach that takes in Louis Armstrong, Sun Ra, the Grateful Dead and Bob Wills.
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September-16th-2006, 09:45 AM
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Well, that covers that.
Let's hear the speech.
"Back in the golden days of television in the 50s and early 60s, almost all of the TV Moms were white and middle to upper middle class.
In the late 60s, as our society began to change, some non-white Moms began to appear, such as Diahann Carroll on "Julia". Other Moms became single parent Moms with no husbands or long gone husbands.
Women's Lib exerted it's power and the tv Moms began to become aggressive and somewhat obnoxious, like the overbearing Maude and the somewhat skanky Linda Lavin who worked in a greasy spoon slinging hash to fat assed truckers who would try to grab her ass.
In our modern world, there are many types of Moms on TV. Since they are on TV now, I won't bother to name them.
Next season will feature a series about unwed teenage moms who work at strip clubs.
In closing, the TV Mom has evolved a lot over the years - from respectable and stylish like Margaret Anderson of "Father Knows Best", to gross and crude like Roseanne, to bumping and grinding like 15 y/o Misty-Ann on "Unwed Moms Who Strip".
Thank you.
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September-16th-2006, 02:46 PM
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the only mom that i really loved for her kindness to mankind was Edith bunker. Jean Stapleton.
she wasn't a raving beauty, or had a great shape like most of the moms mentioned. she had a loving heart to her husband, daughter, son-in-law and grandson. yet she was called dingbat.
even through all the obstacles of being married to Archie,
when he always made a ass of himself she defended him to the world.
that's all.
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