# Which TV husband or wife would you most want as your spouse? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2011, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816 "2011-10-26T03:15:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/101 "2011-10-26T20:25:06Z")
> [@Tangent](#): > > Holy cow! I just realized that _The Curious Case of Benjamin Button_ is a ripoff of _Mork & Mindy_! 😉 You’d be suprised to learn how many movies are a rip off of _Mork and Mindy_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/53a042/32.png) [@Lare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lare)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/102 "2011-10-26T20:28:34Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > You’d have to sleep with the critters. And Jethrene would visit now and then. Still better off than the in-laws that the guys who end up with Samantha Stevens have to put up with. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/103 "2011-10-26T20:30:50Z")
> [@BrotherCadfael](#): > > Guys, have you seen her [lately](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EM65pDPlwdc/TlPhSWTbb5I/AAAAAAAAVBk/ZWcmANBFLYs/s400/600full-mary-tyler-moore.jpg)?? > > you might want to rethink… A) She’s 75 years old, B) I’m taking circa 1962 Laura as my beloved, not 2011 MTM, and C) have you seen _me_ lately?? > [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > Are you suggesting that your girl is red hot, but his girl ain’t doodly squat? Well, she ain’t got money, but man she really got a lot. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/104 "2011-10-26T20:32:57Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > I would suggest that anyone not familiar with Laura should Youtube “Laura Petrie dancing” - especially the one with Bob Crane (Hogan’s Heroes) on bongos and Rob doing percussion on wood. [Here ya go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANvMAyXuQpI) mmm ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/105 "2011-10-26T20:33:22Z")
Y’know, I never even watched the Dick van Dyke Show, and Laura Petrie was _still_ my first thought. But only my first. I’d be much happier, I think, with either Jeannie or Morticia. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/106 "2011-10-26T20:33:22Z")
- Julianna Margulies from “The Good Wife” - Patricia Heaton from “Everybody Loves Raymond” - Eva Longoria and Marcia Cross from “Desperate Housewives” - Leah Remini from “The King of Queens” ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/107 "2011-10-26T20:36:58Z")
Gil Grissom from \*CSI \*(he’s nerdy, very smart, kind, has a wicked sense of humor, and is fascinated by offbeat stuff) I would have also suggested Niles Crane from _Frasier_, but he likes to go out to a lot of fancy high society things and I hate dressing up, so that would never work out. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/108 "2011-10-26T20:39:22Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > - Patricia Heaton from “Everybody Loves Raymond” What? Along with Grace Adler from _Will and Grace_ and Jill Taylor from _Home Improvement_, Debra Barone is one of the least appealing female characters on television. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/109 "2011-10-26T20:47:22Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > I hope the ladies who chose Gomez Addams know that they would have to learn French. You really only need a few words. I’d be willing to memorize a few French phrases for a man who loved me like that. _Eh, mon ami_? ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/110 "2011-10-26T20:53:17Z")
> [@Acsenray](#): > > What? Along with Grace Adler from _Will and Grace_ and Jill Taylor from _Home Improvement_, Debra Barone is one of the least appealing female characters on television. Trust me - if she was my wife, there’s no way we’d be living across the street from my invasive parents and my neurotic brother. We’d be long gone and I’d make sure that sexy lil’ redhead was well taken care of. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/111 "2011-10-26T20:56:56Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > Trust me - if she was my wife, there’s no way we’d be living across the street from my invasive parents and my neurotic brother. We’d be long gone and I’d make sure that sexy lil’ redhead was well taken care of. > 😃 You know that house was Debra’s decision, not Raymond’s. When they were house hunting Raymond had a map indicating minimum safe distance from his parents. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/112 "2011-10-26T20:59:31Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > You know that house was Debra’s decision, not Raymond’s. When they were house hunting Raymond had a map indicating minimum safe distance from his parents. Yes I did indeed see that episode. Once she realized the error of her ways, we’d move. Like to another state. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ll be getting back on topic. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/113 "2011-10-26T21:02:37Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > You know that house was Debra’s decision, not Raymond’s. When they were house hunting Raymond had a map indicating minimum safe distance from his parents. You know something? It was still Ray’s fault. He jokes so much that Debra thought he was kidding when he described his parents. He should have arranged many, many more meetings between them before then. ---
**Author:** ![Schuyler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/54ee81/32.png) [@Schuyler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schuyler)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/114 "2011-10-26T21:52:01Z")
Am I really the first to suggest Julie Kotter, from “Welcome Back, Kotter”. She’s smart, funny, and listens to endless uncle jokes - what’s not to like? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/115 "2011-10-26T22:03:16Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > [Here ya go.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANvMAyXuQpI) > mmm Ah, yes, that’s it! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/116 "2011-10-26T22:05:54Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Just bear in mind that (Charles Ingalls was ) quite possibly the worst farmer ever. No, that position goes to “Green Acres” Oliver Wendall Douglas. 😃 Speaking of which, his wife Lisa was ditzy but cute. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/117 "2011-10-26T22:10:30Z")
> [@Schuyler](#): > > Am I really the first to suggest Julie Kotter, from “Welcome Back, Kotter”. She’s smart, funny, and listens to endless uncle jokes - what’s not to like? The next best thing to Bailey Quarters. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/118 "2011-10-26T22:21:00Z")
> [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > A) She’s 75 years old, B) I’m taking circa 1962 Laura as my beloved, not 2011 MTM, and C) have you seen _me_ lately?? It’s not the 75 years, it’s the bad plastic surgery… ---
**Author:** ![pudytat72](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/119 "2011-10-26T22:25:56Z")
Don’t know if he was married on his show, but Dr. Paul Hunter on The Bold Ones: The New Doctors. My heartthrob from high school: smart, handsome, caring/attentive. David Hartman. [![](https://www.nndb.com/people/849/000023780/david-hartman-3-sized.jpg) ](https://www.nndb.com/people/849/000023780/david-hartman-3-sized.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2011, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816/120 "2011-10-26T22:29:49Z")
> [@SykoSkotty](#): > > \ > > - Leah Remini from “The King of Queens” No question Leah was/is quite the babe, but I really can’t judge her character because I could never stand to watch the show. Courtney Thorne-Smith from “According to Jim” is another babe who falls into that category, of being a beautiful wife from an unwatchable show. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-husband-or-wife-would-you-most-want-as-your-spouse/600816.md?page=7)