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Some Moms have got it going on

From June Cleaver to Roseanne Connor television has depicted an entire spectrum of the maternal image.

I personally like Lois from "Family Guy". She's loving, a little naive about unimportant things, is wise about things that matter and is a tiny bit flawed (she has a shoplifting problem). She is, however, the one that holds the family together.

Who is your favorite TV mom?

Tags: Edith, June, Laura, Lilly, Shirley

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Permalink Reply by CWO3ROBBIE on May 12, 2012 at 10:52am

Mine was the Mother in the TV series "One Day At A Time". My addled brain will not recall her name.

Permalink Reply by Slim on May 12, 2012 at 4:38pm

Bonnie Franklin played Ann Romano. They all got together recently.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/27/one-day-at-a-time-reunion_...

Permalink Reply by Baia on May 12, 2012 at 4:31pm

The first one I can think of whom I actually admired was Ishka, Mother of Quark and Rom on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

She really had it going on:

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Episode: DS9 518 - Ferengi Love Songs

Zek and Ishka

Perhaps the most pivotal female in Ferengi history — not because she is Quark and Rom's widowed mother, but because of her impact on feminist reforms on Ferenginar via Grand Nagus Zek, her lover since 2373. Whether earning profit or wearing clothes, her push for gender equality came out in the open with a charge of illegal profit-making by the FCA in 2371, later waived with confession (and a secret stash still earning income). Her son Quark had been cited for improper supervision, since she'd built a fortune in investments from his monthly three-bar stipend of gold-pressed latinum.

She and Zek first met when she helped him recover his game at the Global Tongo Championships, and it set the tone for her secret support of his lagging financial acumen that helped ignite the modern Ferengi financial boom. She was briefly kidnapped by the Dominion in 2374 while returning from a lobelift on Vulcan and then freed in a prisoner exchange engineered by her sons. Later that year she received an artificial replacement heart from Dr. Bashir on DS9, following her coronary collapse during Zek's brief removal as nagus by the FCA over the feminist reforms she had finally seen enacted.

The daughter of Adred, Ishka was always closer to her younger son Rom, who called her "Moogie." She was estranged from Quark for years after the death of her husband and their father, Keldar, due to Quark's perception that her behavior put him in the grave too soon and held him back. But she loved Keldar despite outclassing him in business, and the FCA encounter allowed her and Quark to reach an understanding.

Permalink Reply by Slim on May 12, 2012 at 4:47pm

I never saw any of this show, but had friends who really enjoyed it. Sounds like Ishka was a well layered character. I may have to see if anyone I know has the DVD's.

Permalink Reply by Jaylee53 on May 16, 2012 at 4:13pm