Who are your 5 favorite female sitcom characters of all time?

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Please limit your input to just five female sitcom characters.

If it may be considered semi-obscure, please include the name of the show.

Live action only, no animated characters (sorry, Wilma).

Still working on my five. Possible poll in the future.

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  • Laura Petrie
  • Gracie Allen
  • Eleanor Shelstrop (The Good Place)
  • Agent 99
  • Nugie (The Gale Storm Show)
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Alice Kramden

Lucy Ricardo

Gracie Allen

Laura Petrie

Elaine Bennis

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Admitting that I find it pretty hard to summon up strong feelings about or even remember characters from shows I haven’t watched in decades, so my response suffers from recency bias.

Moira Rose (Schitt’s Creek)
Alexis Rose (Schitt’s Creek)
Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Dorothy Zbornak (Golden Girls)
Blanche Devereaux (Golden Girls)

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Edith Bunker
Endora (Bewitched)
Margaret Houlihan
Lovey Howell
Daphne Moon

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  1. Liz Lemon
  2. Leslie Knope
  3. Edith Bunker
  4. Darlene Conner (Roseanne)
  5. Selena Meyer (Veep)

Honorable mention to Claire Huxtable

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In random order:

Maude - All in the Family & Maude

Irene Lorenzo – All in the Family

Edith Bunker - All in the family

Estelle Costanza - Seinfeld

Lucy Ricardo - I love Lucy/the Lucy show

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Christy Plunkett (Mom)
Lisa Douglas (Green Acres)
Kitty Forman (That '70s Show)
Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
Louise Belcher (Bob’s Burgers)

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Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales, Fawlty Towers)

Liz Lemon (Tina Fey, 30 Rock)

Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Seinfeld)

Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman, Cheers)

Lois (Jane Kaczmarek, Malcolm in the Middle)

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Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty)-- Golden Girls

Christine Sullivan (Markie Post)- Night Court

Samantha Micelli (Alyssa Milano)-- Who’s The Boss?

Punky Brewster (Soleil Moon Frye) – Punky Brewster

I haven’t watched that many live action sitcoms since I was a kid in the 80s.

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Queenie (Blackadder II)

Sophie Chapman (Peep Show) - not a likeable character but very well done

Pauline (The League of Gentlemen)

Margaret Meldrew (One Foot in the Grave) - deserves it just for putting up with Victor for so long

Mary Cooper (Young Sheldon)

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Given that this is limited to sit-coms, I went with the wittiest, and not based on looks.

Peg Bundy

Karen Walker – Will and Grace

Selina Meyer – Veep

Laura Petrie

Lucille Bluth

Wilma, I’m pretty sure you meant Louise Belcher.

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Oops. That part of it whooshed right past me. Sorry. Amended list, replacing Louise:

Christy Plunkett (Mom)
Lisa Douglas (Green Acres)
Kitty Forman (That '70s Show)
Morticia Addams (The Addams Family)
Lois (Malcolm in the Middle)

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Selina Meyer (Veep)
Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99)
Edith Bunker (All in the Family)
Gloria Delgado-Pritchett (Modern Family)

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Rosa Diaz (Brooklyn 99)
Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place)
Tahani Al-Jamil (The Good Place)
Robin Scherbatsky (How I Met Your Mother)
Daisy Steiner (Spaced)

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Some based on performance, some on appearance

Edith Bunker

Samantha Stevens (Bewitched)

Marcia Brady

Maya Gallo (Just Shoot Me)

Kelly Bundy

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Some great choices listed already, but I think I’ll be the first to say:

Midge Maisel

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In no order…

  • Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter, Arrested Development)
  • Karen Walker (Megan Mullally, Will & Grace)
  • Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales, Fawlty Towers)
  • Carla Tortelli (Rhea Perlman, Cheers)
  • Rose Nylund (Betty White, The Golden Girls but really pretty much everything White ever did)

ETA: Amazed Betty wasn’t mentioned already. For fun here is Betty White being awesome:

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  • Laura Petrie (DVD)
    (and the next four together equal the comedic chops of MTM)

  • Elaine Benes (sp?) (Seinfeld)

  • Eleanor Shelstrop (The Good Place)

  • April Ludgate (Parks & Rec)

And an obscure one:

  • Annie Spadaro (Caroline in the City)
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Oooh…good pick!