The 5 Worst Mothers on Television Today
Like a pregnancy test or gas station sushi, Mother's Day can go one of two ways: pleasantly surprising or life-changingly traumatic. With that holiday quickly approaching, Movieline has compiled five matriarchs on television today that will make your mother's judgmental sniping almost palpable. So order an edible arrangement for the woman who birthed you and thank JC you didn't have to grow up with one of these ladies.
5. Celia Rhodes, Gossip Girl
Portrayed By: Caroline Lagerfelt
Both Lily's mother and Serena's grandmother, Celia is manipulative, cold and the person responsible for breaking Rufus and Lily up decades ago by making her daughter choose between her beau and her inheritance. She later lied to Lily and Serena about having a terminal illness to garner sympathy and also tried to break up Serena and Dan.
4. Colleen Donaghy, 30 Rock
Portrayed By: Elaine Stritch
Highly critical, affection-averse, overbearing.
Born into an Irish Catholic family that her son Jack calls "a bunch of mud farmers and sheep rapists," Colleen Donaghy harassed her son from a very early age -- blaming him for John F. Kennedy's death, trying to send him to Vietnam when he was 12 to "make a man out of him," and embarrassing him by forcing him to play the flute in front of his hockey team.
3. Celia Hodes, Weeds
Portrayed By: Elizabeth Perkins
Even though Celia got into the drug trade later than Nancy Botwin, she is the far worse parent. She sent her eldest daughter (who later kidnapped her) to boarding school in Mexico, taunted her youngest daughter about her weight (calling her "Isabelly") and once replaced her daughter's chocolate stash with laxatives.
2. Kate Gosselin, Jon & Kate Plus 8
Portrayed By: Kate Gosselin
America's most famous reality mom has been exploiting her eight children since their birth, allegedly even faking Christmases to get an honest reaction from her offspring before revealing to them that it is not actually the holiday. Additionally, Kate has whored out her children's memories in a series of books and has left her family for weeks at a time to compete in Dancing with the Stars and complete book tours.
1. Evelyn Harper, Two and a Half Men
Portrayed By: Holland Taylor
A self-absorbed woman, Charlie and Alan's mother Evelyn taunted Charlie growing up, telling him that since a penis never showed on his sonogram, she assumed he would be a girl. Charlie and Alan refer to their mother, who has a very active sex life and has been married three times, as the "devil." Charlie has her number in his cell phone saved as speed dial 666. While Evelyn planned on having her first son, Charlie, she told her younger son that he was "two pitchers of margaritas and a gas station condom."
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These people who never stop sticking up for Kate are just as aware of all of the horrible things that she has said and done over the years on her show - yet overlook it all as if she were a saint. Even trying to say that she treats people with any respect at all is a complete joke. You can't get through a show of hers without hearing her belittle someone in her family, while her need to be the only star on her show has left even her young children scratching their heads. The camera footage doesn't lie, so these brainwashed supporters have no legs to stand on when trying to convince any normal person that Kate is decent at all.
LOL! Sam Treesh, you need help ASAP. It's hilarious that u assume that an individual who writes negative comment about Kate Gosslin is automatically Black and unattractive. Not only are you a racist but you're pretty stupid. If you want play that game that's fine by me. From what I can tell from you outstanding samples of writing on this board, I would guess u suffer from some sort of severe learnings disability, but I really do not want to insult the learning impaired. After all they're IQ is far more superior than yours..... wait a minute, oh I'm sorry too many big words right? I'll keep it simple for ya, Get your inbred ass back on the short bus and go back to school you're embarrassing yourself and fellow Americans. By the way I'm a proud Latin, Italian-American. Oh my god! I'm MIXED... tragic right? I wish my parents were siblings like yours so I can obtain your level of intelligence and ignorance. One last thing, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD learn how to write and how to properly use a comma (,) please! I'm actually more offended by that than F**ked beliefs. My baby brother is far more advance than you and he's in the 3rd grade.
The only reason people care so much about her kids is because they're young, little, and cute, which is why I feel people's concern for them is not that sincere. If they were older .. say 10 or 12 ... or 15 (still considered minors, mind you) no one would care so much that Kate was "exploiting her kids".
Fantastic piece, thanks. Can you clarify the second paragraph in more detail please?
I think there should be ONE warning. If it happens again, call the parent to remove the child. Sorry, but I don't think other kids should be victimized by a 4 year old who is old enough to understand. If he can't even behave over the course of a couple of hours, the parent clearly has problems that you can't solve.
lissa you must have a lot of hate saved up i bet you wish you were a real white person,,,,,,, why do you think that a racist is not good? look around you , do you see who is in charge? LOL at you
dee what is wrong with a nice racist?and liizia oh oh. lissa mixed? how did your mom or mammy get it mixed ? stired with a stix ?thank you best laugh i had all day and still laughing. at you
Lissa ,,,, i dont think you are a very nice black girl, some of the words you use arent very nice. i hope you get better . sweetsam
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