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

Cafe Society
81

I thought she was Spanish. Should we be talking about this? I really don’t think we should be talking about this.

82

Nora Batty (Last of the Summer Wine)
Alice Tinker (Vicar of Dibley)
Bob (Blackadder)

83

I guess I should include Shirley and Laurie Partridge as a matched pair. (Tracey will have to wait a few years.)

84

Jeannie (Barbara Eden, I Dream of Jeannie)
Bailey Quarters (Jan Smithers, WKRP in Cincinnati)
Rose Nylund (Betty White, The Golden Girls)
Selma Hacker (Selma Diamond, Night Court)
Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell, The Good Place)

I would have named Olive Snook (Kristin Chenoweth, Pushing Daisies), but that was an hour-long show, and thus disqualified by the OP.

85

Oh man how could I forget Selma? The woman who had an ashtray installed on her exercise bike.

86

I’ll see your Selma Hacker and raise you June Wheeler!

87

Hmm.

  1. Mary Tyler Moore
  2. Murphy Brown
  3. Princess Carolyn
  4. Edith Bunker
  5. Elaine Benes

Agent 99 and Emma Peel too… depending on the elasticity of sitcoms…

88

Helen Fisk (Fisk) Kitty Flanagan
Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
Margo Leadbetter (Penelope Keith – The Good Life/ Good Neighbors in US)
Lucille Bluth
Sue Heck

I may end up replacing Lucille Bluth with someone else.

I’m not considering female sitcom characters who are mostly the one-note normie straight guy, even though they’re very likeable. So not Laura Petrie or Mary Richards (except for crying, “Oh Rob!” or “Oh, Mr. Grant!”), or Barbara Good, Mary Ann, or the like.

89

Daphne Blake

90

Which 2 of the 5 you’ve already selected are you replacing with these?

mmm

91

Ok, now you’ve named a total of 10 (not including the animated Velma). Please stop.

As it says in the OP, you are limited to 5 submissions. I will use your first 5.

mmm

92

Rose Nylund - Betty White on Golden Girls
Sue Ann Nivens - Betty White (again) on the MTM Show
Lucy Ricardo - Lucile Ball on I Love Lucy for her innovative physical comedy for women
Laura Petri - MTM on Dick Van Dyke - she set the bar for female comedians.
Elaine Benes - Julia Louis-Dreyfus

93

Please list just 5.

Also, Princess Carolyn is animated, so not eligible.

mmm

94
  1. Liz Lemon (30 Rock)
  2. Kimmy Schmidt (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt)
  3. April Ludgate (Parks and Recreation)
  4. Leslie Knope (Parks and Recreation)
  5. Roz Doyle (Frasier)
95

Revised list:

Margaret Houlihan
Lucy Ricardo
99
Lily Munster
Bailey Quarters

96

Lucy Ricardo
Laura Petrie
Margaret Houlihan
Elaine Benes
Kimmy Schmidt

97

What did you think of the last episode?

I thought of one.

Carolyn Knapp-Shappey

98

Glad someone else thought of Fisk. Not sure if she is top 5, but definitely an honorable mention.

Brian

99

I forgot about Aunt Esther! I was older for Sanford and Son and understood more of the humor, so Aunt Esther wins out over Endora.

revised list:

Edith Bunker
Aunt Esther
Margaret Houlihan
Lovey Howell
Daphne Moon