Karri Peifer, co-editor

Joan Crawford
Okay, maybe she's not a TV mom, but the first time I saw "Mommy Dearest" it was on cable. Just try watching this movie and still be pissed at your own mom for taking away the telephone. It doesn't work.

Mrs. Keaton
Boy did I want my mom to be an ex-hippie.

My Two Dads
Or whichever one was the woman.

Lucille Bluth
From "Arrested Development." Sure, she was completely selfish, narcissistic and crazy, but she sure was funny.

The moms of "My Super Sweet 16"
Because, let's face, it takes some effort to raise children who are that self-absorbed and superficial. And moms should get a pat on the back for working hard.

Kent Jennings Brockwell, co-editor

Hannah Daniels from 'October Road'

Apparently, Laura Prepon plays a single mom on 'October Road.' I've never seen the show. I never will. I will however continue my ongoing really creepy Web searches for photoshopped images (you know what I mean) of my favorite TV redhead.

Margene Henrickson from 'Big Love'

Ginnifer Goodwin plays my favorite 'Big Love' wife/mom by far. Cute, young, dumb, Mormon, polygamist -- what's a boy not to love.

Nancy Botwin from 'Weeds'

If my mom had been a pot dealing widower when I was in college, I would have saved a lot of money. Sorry, Sallie Mae -- my tuition at community college wasn't really $45,000 per semester...but Hot Pockets and Yoo-Hoo 10 times each day adds up.

Lorelai Gilmore from 'Gilmore Girls'

Lauren Graham, another creepy Web search favorite of mine, is...yeah. Though her role in this show is sort of campy and ham-and-egger, I can't help but watch it every time I flip by it on TV. Then again the only thing running through my mind when she pops on the screen is -- Bad Santa. Hot tub. Bad Santa. Hot tub...

Carmela Soprano from 'The Sopranos'

She cooks, she cleans, she can get blood stains out of any shirt and she can dig a 6-by-6-by-3 hole in the desert in 35 minutes flat. Mother of the Year candidate?

Christie Newman, office manager

Mrs. Voorhees
Who doesn't love a mom who will kill every over-sexed camper within a five-mile radius?

Beverly R. Sutphin
Kathleen Turner not only makes obscene phone calls, but can do it while baking an apple pie.

Betty Crocker
You'll definitely be eatin' good in the neighborhood!

Joan Crawford
Just make sure you NEVER use wire hangers.

Shirley Jones
I would love to have grown up with David Cassidy in a Partridge covered bus! Oh wait! that would make him my brother … 

Casey Menninger, movie reviewer

Lucy Ricardo, "I Love Lucy"
The most famous redhead of all time pioneered the role of the doting mother and became the role model for millions of real-life fifties-era moms. It is no surprise that the classic episode of the birth of her son attracted more people to the tube than President Eisenhower's inauguration.