# Most analyzed female tv character? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** actor-characters\ **Created:** [April 28, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881 "2024-04-28T21:07:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/1 "2024-04-28T21:07:40Z")
On YouTube I’ve hit a seam of Gilmore Girls shorts and apparently watching them has put me on the recommended list of analyses of Rory Gilmore - of which there seem to be a bazillion. Before this weekend, I’d have assumed SJP’s character in “Sex and the City” held the title, but Rory’s being passionately discussed and uploaded about much more than that show. The revival “Year in the Life” episode seemed to spark almost universal outrage at the character, the world, or (most often) both. Has another tv character been subject to this phenomenon more? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/2 "2024-04-28T21:43:14Z")
Murphy Brown. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/3 "2024-04-28T21:43:18Z")
Buffy Summers (i.e. Buffy The Vampire Slayer). ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/4 "2024-04-28T21:51:52Z")
There was a lot of discussion of Skyler White, at least during the run of _Breaking Bad_. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/5 "2024-04-28T21:54:05Z")
I’m going to have to go with Buffy Summers as well. There’s a whole Wikipedia page on Buffy Studies or [Buffyology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_studies) if you prefer. ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/6 "2024-04-28T22:01:47Z")
Mary Ann. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/7 "2024-04-28T22:35:02Z")
Ally McBeal. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/8 "2024-04-28T22:48:41Z")
Marge Simpson. Has anybody _not_ wondered why she’s still married to that oaf? ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/9 "2024-04-28T22:51:15Z")
Elaine on Seinfeld. Penny on TBBT. Uhura on TOS. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/10 "2024-04-28T22:58:58Z")
Agreed. There are many academic books and articles about Buffy. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/11 "2024-04-28T23:18:55Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Buffy Summers (i.e. Buffy The Vampire Slayer). First thought that came to me. Extensive analyzing of her and the show itself. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/12 "2024-04-28T23:32:50Z")
2nd place might be Xena [Signifying and Scripturalization in Xena: Warrior Princess – Pop Culture and Theology](https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2019/03/25/signifying-and-scripturalization-in-xena-warrior-princess/) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2024, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/13 "2024-04-28T23:43:56Z")
Carmella Soprano. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/14 "2024-04-29T00:08:20Z")
Daenerys Targaryen ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/15 "2024-04-29T00:24:35Z")
Lucy Ricardo. [https://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=scw](https://scholar.dominican.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1113&context=scw) [https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316654](https://www.jstor.org/stable/4316654) > **[How Lucille Ball Fought the Patriarchy, While Lucy Ricardo (Indirectly)...](https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2479/)** > > Author Stephanie Coontz argues that our most powerful visions of traditional families derive from images that are still delivered to our homes in countless reruns of 1950s television sitcoms. In actuality, the happy, homogenous families that we... ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/16 "2024-04-29T00:26:49Z")
Wonder Woman. Whole books have been written… ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/17 "2024-04-29T00:48:49Z")
> [@Wallaby](#): > > Mary Ann. Ginger! Buffy for the win IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/18 "2024-04-29T01:18:14Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > First thought that came to me. Extensive analyzing of her and the show itself. Let me add one more where this was my first thought. Still seeng articles about her and the show today. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/19 "2024-04-29T01:40:37Z")
In her time, Mary Richards In all time, Lucy Ricardo ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881/20 "2024-04-29T02:43:09Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > First thought that came to me. Extensive analyzing of her and the show itself. To be fair, Buffy essentially got two bites at the apple when it comes to being analyzed – all of the initial analysis about what the character had to say about feminism and female empowerment, and all of the frantic reexaminations that occurred when everything came out about Joss. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-analyzed-female-tv-character/1000881.md?page=2)