# The 14 Best TV Moms of All Time

> Sitcom saints, cartoon matriarchs and one or two mothers you would never want to cross, all fighting for the same apron.

*By YPB Team · Published October 9, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-14-best-tv-moms-of-all-time*

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1. **Marge Simpson** — score 1000/1000
   The blue-haired, endlessly patient mother of Bart, Lisa and Maggie on The Simpsons since 1989.
2. **Joyce Byers** — score 514/1000
   Winona Ryder's relentless mother searching for her son on Stranger Things.
3. **Lois Griffin** — score 466/1000
   Peter's sharp-tongued, piano-teaching wife and mother of three on Family Guy since 1999.
4. **Marie Barone** — score 411/1000
   Doris Roberts' meddling, food-wielding mother on Everybody Loves Raymond.
5. **Rainbow Johnson** — score 411/1000
   Tracee Ellis Ross's doctor and mother of five on Black-ish.
6. **Clair Huxtable** — score 348/1000
   Phylicia Rashad's lawyer mom who ran the Huxtable house on The Cosby Show.
7. **Kitty Forman** — score 348/1000
   Debra Jo Rupp's cheerful, laugh-snorting mom on That '70s Show.
8. **Beth Pearson** — score 348/1000
   Susan Kelechi Watson's steady, funny mother of three on This Is Us.
9. **Lois Wilkerson** — score 348/1000
   Jane Kaczmarek's ferocious mother of five boys on Malcolm in the Middle.
10. **Claire Dunphy** — score 348/1000
   Julie Bowen's control-loving mom of three on Modern Family.
11. **Lucille Bluth** — score 274/1000
   Jessica Walter's icy matriarch of Arrested Development.
12. **Lorelai Gilmore** — score 187/1000
   Lauren Graham's fast-talking, coffee-fuelled single mom on Gilmore Girls.
13. **Peggy Bundy** — score 0/1000
   Katey Sagal's bonbon-loving housewife on Married... with Children.
14. **Moira Rose** — score 0/1000
   Catherine O'Hara's wig-collecting former soap star on Schitt's Creek.

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