# Who are your 5 favorite female sitcom characters of all time? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted\ **Created:** [March 9, 2026, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321 "2026-03-09T18:35:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [March 10, 2026, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/61 "2026-03-10T16:01:31Z")
I will stop and construct a poll when we have 50 nominees with more than one submission, the max size for a poll. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/62 "2026-03-10T16:13:02Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > You’re clearly not shallow-minded like I can be. Let’s not be hasty, I can be as shallow-minded as the next guy if called for. I just took a different tact here. Now, start a thread for for sexy cartoon characters and I’m all over it! ---
**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:** [March 10, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/63 "2026-03-10T16:26:01Z")
So many female characters, so little time…. 😔 ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/64 "2026-03-10T16:26:45Z")
1. Nancy Botwin (_Weeds_) I’ll think of some others, but had to put Nancy in there. ---
**Author:** ![2\_More\_Bits](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2_more_bits/32/4148_2.png) [@2\_More\_Bits](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2_More_Bits)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/65 "2026-03-10T16:34:27Z")
Lucille Bluth (Jessica Walter - Arrested Development) Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman- Mary Tyler Moore) Martha Brooks (Martha Kelly- Baskets) Maria Bamford (Maria Bamford- Lady Dynamite) Helen Tudor-Fisk (Kitty Flanagan- Fisk) ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/66 "2026-03-10T16:40:14Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Now, start a thread for for sexy cartoon characters and I’m all over it! Yeah, but Wilma Flintstone? You’re fooling yourself. She’ll never leave Fred and you know it. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2026, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/67 "2026-03-10T16:47:17Z")
Velma Dinkley, hands down! 🥰 [![](https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.iWLWwRi-wklAocLZFpDs3AAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3) ](https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.iWLWwRi-wklAocLZFpDs3AAAAA?rs=1&pid=ImgDetMain&o=7&rm=3) ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/68 "2026-03-10T16:50:46Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Yeah, but Wilma Flintstone? You’re fooling yourself. [Off set, they are very different people.](https://www.facebook.com/RoadkillCustoms/posts/fred-and-wilma-lowbrow-by-george-webber-wwwrockabillylifelowbrow-flintstones-art/10157314751470828/) ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/69 "2026-03-10T16:54:37Z")
> [@colinfred](#): > > Barbara Good (The Good Life) The only one I was interested in listing. ---
**Author:** ![Author\_Balk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Author\_Balk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Author_Balk)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/70 "2026-03-10T17:05:07Z")
Will we get more top 5’s? I’m interested to see what the top 5 pets would be. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/71 "2026-03-10T17:29:44Z")
Morticia Adams Lily Munster Eleanor Shelstrop Elaine Benes Lucille Bluth ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/72 "2026-03-10T17:36:44Z")
Ooh, forgot about Lilly! ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/73 "2026-03-10T17:43:01Z")
> [@digs](#): > > Elaine Benes (sp?) Benes (pronounced Benesh, because an S with a diacritical mark called a hachek, š, is “sh”), is a very common Czech name, and I always assumed that’s what her name was. There are a lot of letters Czech shares with English orthography, but pronounces differently, and some that are pronounced different ways depending on diacritical marks. Immigrants often try to get people to use their original pronunciation, but their kids either capitulate to the way it looks, or change the way they spell it. You have cousins, one named Benes, and another named Benesh. ---
**Author:** ![Baal\_Houtham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baal_houtham/32/13604_2.png) [@Baal\_Houtham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baal_Houtham)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/74 "2026-03-10T18:03:43Z")
Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development) Elaine Benes (Seinfeld) April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation) Lilith Sternin (Cheers) Phoebe Buffay (Friends) ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/75 "2026-03-10T18:12:34Z")
My teen nerd crush growing up (kinda still today). To be fair I had more than one but she was in the mix. ---
**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:** [March 10, 2026, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/76 "2026-03-10T18:15:53Z")
What teenaged boy could resist her? [![](https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.KTriyCvoZLFU9GXvLTUG5AAAAA?pid=ImgDet&w=167&h=302&c=7&dpr=1.2&o=7&rm=3) ](https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th/id/OIP.KTriyCvoZLFU9GXvLTUG5AAAAA?pid=ImgDet&w=167&h=302&c=7&dpr=1.2&o=7&rm=3) ---
**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:** [March 10, 2026, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/77 "2026-03-10T18:20:54Z")
The President of Czechoslovakia during the Sudeten Crisis was named Beneš: [Edvard Beneš - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edvard_Bene%C5%A1) ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/78 "2026-03-10T18:33:49Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Now, start a thread for for sexy cartoon characters and I’m all over it! Betty Rubble. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/79 "2026-03-10T18:41:40Z")
Maw Maw (Raising Hope) Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development) Bailey Quarters (WKRP) Sue Sue Heck (The Middle) Lisa Douglas (Green Acres) ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2026, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-your-5-favorite-female-sitcom-characters-of-all-time/1028321/80 "2026-03-10T18:45:16Z")
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