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May 2, 2008, 1:25 PM
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Mom's the word: Marge Simpson named TV's #5 mother
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Marge Simpson took fifth place in a list of TV's top moms commissioned by TiVo and released Monday.
Spanning half a century of entertainment, the survey asked TV lovers to rank their favorite five TV moms from a list of 20 past and present small-screen stars. The survey, conducted by eRewards Market Research, polled a representative sample of 1,507 adults with a margin of error of +/- 2.52%.
The mother from long-running Fox series The Simpsons was named among the top five TV moms of all time by 33% of respondents. Of the top 20, only Marge had a chance to time shift, taking advantage of the TiVo service in Episode 408 of The Simpsons.
In sixth place was prehistoric Wilma Flintstone (of The Flintstones fame) with 29%.
Lois Griffin of Family Guy came in 12th with 21%.
Viewers who are mothers themselves are not necessarily watching programming in hopes of picking up parenting tips. In the survey, TiVo found that only 15% of those polled admitted to emulating the parenting style of a TV mom, while the other 85% said that they do not.
The winning TV mom was Clair Huxtable from The Cosby Show, with an impressive 58% of the votes, easily outpacing Marion Cunningham from Happy Days, who joined Carol Brady (Brady Bunch) in a distant tie -- 37% -- for second place.
Others among "TiVo's Top TV Moms":
4. June Cleaver (Leave it to Beaver): 34%
7. Vivian Banks (Fresh Prince of Bel Air): 27%
8. Caroline Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie): 27%
9. Maggie Seaver (Growing Pains): 25%
10. Marie Barone (Everybody Loves Raymond): 24%
11. Peggy Bundy (Married With Children): 23%
13. Mrs. Partridge (The Partridge Family): 22%
14. Lorelai Gilmore (The Gilmore Girls): 20%
15. Roseanne (Roseanne): 20%
16. Carmella Soprano (The Sopranos): 14%
17. Bree Van de Kamp (Desperate Housewives): 14%
18. Norma Arnold (The Wonder Years): 13%
19. Estelle Costanza (Seinfeld): 13%
20. Lucille Bluth (Arrested Development): 6%
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"Oh boy." -- Allan Sherman
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