# Which TV Wife/Husband would you like as a mate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 5, 2001, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864 "2001-09-05T15:16:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Badtz\_Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e36b37/32.png) [@Badtz\_Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Badtz_Maru)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/41 "2001-09-06T06:21:11Z")
The mother on ‘Grounded for Life’. Smart, funny, down-to-earth, and very cute. ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/42 "2001-09-06T07:03:12Z")
I wouldn’t mind getting a chance at a young Margaret Bouvier. Ooh, and I make sure she’s a cop, woman in uniform, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ---
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/43 "2001-09-06T13:52:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by AbbySthrnAccent \* > \*\*I know **jarbabyj** already picked Doug from King of Queens, but umm she picked more than one, so I get Doug. \*\* I suppose we could wrestle for him… pudding at dawn? jarbaby ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/44 "2001-09-06T15:18:50Z")
I’d have to pick Rebecca Donaldson (Lori Loughlin) from “Full House”. Not that I was ever a big fan of the show, but she was just HOT! Smart, sensible, attractive, and a redhead to boot. Mmmm. She’s yummy! ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/45 "2001-09-06T15:47:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by jarbabyj \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by AbbySthrnAccent \* > > \*\*I know **jarbabyj** already picked Doug from King of Queens, but umm she picked more than one, so I get Doug. \*\* > > I suppose we could wrestle for him… > > pudding at dawn? > > jarbaby \*\* If you insist. Although (planting seeds of doubt) do you really think Doug can satisify your desires and fantasies of domination? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Sugar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Daniel\_Sugar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daniel_Sugar)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/46 "2001-09-06T16:07:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Dragwyr \* > \*\*I’d have to pick Rebecca Donaldson (Lori Loughlin) from “Full House”. Not that I was ever a big fan of the show, but she was just HOT! Smart, sensible, attractive, and a redhead to boot. Mmmm. She’s yummy! \*\* Oh, yeah, Lori Loughlin is the first choice!! 1. Jamie Buchman 2. Paul Buchman’s lesbian sister-in-law (does that count?) 3. Ross’(Friends) ex-wife’s lover (i’m seeing a pattern) ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/47 "2001-09-06T16:16:35Z")
Oooh… thought of my second: Erin, from Titus. Damn… what the hell’s she doing with THAT loser, when she could be with ME? ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/48 "2001-09-06T17:01:04Z")
Rosalind Chao has pretty much made her career out of playing the wives of major characters on TV shows. First she was Soon-Yi, the Korean girl who married Klinger on the last episode of M_A_S\*H. Then she was the wife of the black bailiff guy on Night Court. But I want her as Keiko O’Brien, spouse to hapless Everyguy Chief Miles O’Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Beautiful, devoted, Asian, a scientist: what’s not to love? Either her, or Donna Stone from The Donna Reed Show. I want to see her in those pearls she wears to do housework. Just the pearls. ---
**Author:** ![BlueMoonofKentucky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8dc957/32.png) [@BlueMoonofKentucky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueMoonofKentucky)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/49 "2001-09-06T17:36:34Z")
The Redhead from **That 70’s Show** Damn, she gives me a ‘special feeling’. ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/50 "2001-09-06T17:43:19Z")
Gotta be Peg Bundy. Quite a libido on that gal… ---
**Author:** ![Why\_A\_Duck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/13edae/32.png) [@Why\_A\_Duck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Why_A_Duck)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/51 "2001-09-06T17:54:00Z")
I’m gonna have to be another one in the Dharma camp. I noticed a lot of people are choosing Helen Hunt. Ya know, she just doesn’t do it for me. Too much forehead I think. ---
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/52 "2001-09-06T18:35:44Z")
Eden. Sweet, devoted, GORGEOUS, magic. Quadruple threat. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2001, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/53 "2001-09-06T22:01:02Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by Creaky \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Cool! Now let’s just get Ritchie off to school, and we’ll get this little party started. > > Who says they don’t have fun in New Rochelle?! \*\* I gotta ask, though- you DO own some capris pants, right? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![EVO95](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/df705f/32.png) [@EVO95](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EVO95)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/54 "2001-09-07T00:30:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pcubed \* > \*\*I’m gonna have to be another one in the Dharma camp. > > I noticed a lot of people are choosing Helen Hunt. Ya know, she just doesn’t do it for me. Too much forehead I think. \*\* I believe the correct term is “fivehead”…and a whiny one at that. _bang_ _zoom_ ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/55 "2001-09-07T08:23:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Fiver \* > \*\*Rosalind Chao has pretty much made her career out of playing the wives of major characters on TV shows. > > First she was Soon-Yi, the Korean girl who married Klinger on the last episode of M_A_S\*H. > > Then she was the wife of the black bailiff guy on Night Court. > > But I want her as Keiko O’Brien, spouse to hapless Everyguy Chief Miles O’Brien on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. > > Beautiful, devoted, Asian, a scientist: what’s not to love? > > \*\* Chao wasn’t the wife on Night Court. Chao would have been too old for the role. Quon Lee was played by Denise Kumagai. You may be confused because Kumagai played a girl Klinger tries to help in an earlier episode, whose mother thinks Klinger is trying to buy her to be his wife. My choice: Topanga Lawrence on Boy Meets World. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/56 "2001-09-07T14:04:30Z")
Berg from \*\* 2 Guys and a Girl.\*\* Funny, sarcastic, deeply caring/loyal and just the right kind of arrogance (I can’t be the only one who thinks this is an attractive characteristic. So much better than the low-self esteem variety) and of course, drop dead gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2001, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/57 "2001-09-07T17:55:15Z")
Jeannie Laura Petrie Agent 99 from _Get Smart_ and another vote for Helen Hunt ---
**Author:** ![Kaitlyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/73ab20/32.png) [@Kaitlyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaitlyn)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2001, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/58 "2001-09-08T06:31:12Z")
I want to change mine to Emma Peel. Topanga can be second choice. ---
**Author:** ![Fiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e274bd/32.png) [@Fiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiver)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/59 "2001-09-10T05:32:19Z")
**Number Six** , thanks for the correction re: Night Court. What tripped me up was not what you surmised but rather trusting my stepmother’s memory. Still, I repeat my vote for Keiko O’Brien, a hottie in every way I find important. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7feea3/32.png) [@PatrickM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickM)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2001, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864/60 "2001-09-10T22:52:13Z")
Another vote for Emily Hartley played by Suzanne Pleshette. My rankings are: 1. Emily Hartley 2. Claire Huxtable - smart, with a good job, and judging by the number of Dr. Cliff Hutxtable’s kids running around, she liked sex. 3. Beth Davenport from Hill Street Blues. 4. Jamie Buchman/Helen Hunt 5. Debra Barone/Patricia Heaton. Dharma doesn’t do a thing for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-tv-wife-husband-would-you-like-as-a-mate/79864.md?page=4)