What about Florence from The Jeffersons?

Breadbowl

@Huge Tracts of Land: Agreed! Joan Collins? Phylicia Rashad? You guys need more heterosexual men working there.

+1 on Tina Fey, tho. The ultimate woman.

StevieQ

JOAN COLLINS? THAT SOUR FACED BINT JENNIFER ANISTON?
Thank God Tina Fey is alive, to keep our planet from spinning into unspeakable madness.

Huge Tracts of Land

Molls is only one starring sitcom role from headlining this list.

Losin_it

Who doesn't want to be with Mary Ricahrds?

fanofshortcircuitremake

What about Mama from Mama's Family?

NoWireHangers

Meh. Time to say hello to my Helen Mirren screensaver.

Tiger_Tanaka

@tmp00:

Losin_it

on point.

hydeordie

Mrs. Huxtable is the SWOONiest.

TillieHarper

Straight men read Defamer?

tmp00

Might as well throw Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke in there, to prove that there needs to be better roles for women in television.

kookla

Veronica Mars?

fricchi

What, no Golden Girls???!!

gadge

Hello? Emily Hartley????

solipsister

@NoWireHangers: amen. the feisty jewel of raytown! the best episode is when she saves naomi from her sexual-harassing, pig-of-a-manager at food circus.

Nomi Malone

why did you have to add "who men want to be with?" why not just coolest female tv characters, period?

land surveyor k

No Bionic Woman (70s version) or Wonder Woman?!

sassysmurf

Absolutely, positively not to the Rachel selection. Although if you're referring to a man who plays for the other team, then maybe its not such a bad selection after all.

Jeff from LA

C'mon, everyone hates Rachel. Please. Otherwise, awesome list.

meredithkb

@Lizawithazee: Agreed. Rachel from Friends. She is sooo annoying and she's whiny and materialistic and blah. How can she be on a list with Claire Huxtable, Buffy and Liz Lemon? Ugh.

marykick

The Rachel? No, no, no, no, no. Also, wrong Charlie's Angel.

Lizawithazee

VERONICA MARS. Massive oversight.

scrumtrulescent

I'd say Veronica Mars, but no one really watched that show.

Miss Smith Drank Your Vodka

Rachel Green? Oh hellz no. Catherine from CSI? Oh yess!

Pterodactyl

Kara Thrace all the way!!

(Though, like Veronica Mars, apparently no one really watches that show either.)

zora

Wow, there really does need to be more diverstiy on TV. One black woman and the rest white doesn't cut it.

Ack

Christie Love! and i agree with Lizawithazee: totally wrong angel

el smrtmnky

Rachel??? Sha-no-no. That seems more like a man's idea of what a girl might want to be like than what any real live (self-respecting) girl would ever choose. Barely functional adult best known for her hair and ability to shop? Come on. I actually feel kind of offended.

mbot

Yay for Agent Scully!

No Martha Jones fron Doctor Who? She's a babe. And tough and brilliant, too.

paxetaurora

I am so bored of Jennifer Aniston and everyone thinking she is a great actress. Sorry babe, you play all roles the same.

Ummmmmmmmmm, where is Pam Grier? Kathryn Erbe? And why didn't anyone go to Univision for the superb Latin American soap opera chicas??

MissFiFi

Scully. The be all and end all! That is all! Yayyy!

Calraigh

@mbot: A-fucking-men. Which, incidentally is probably the majority demographic that chose this list. Rachel Green. Yup, that just about says it all! Sigh.

Calraigh

@Calraigh: And I should add, she should be number 1. Claire Huxtable also rocks though. Buffy? Gimme a breaaaaakkkk!!!

Calraigh

Kara Thrace, Lorelai Gilmore, Juliet Burke? Hmm...

spikespeigel

Here's a "short" list...

Sabrina Duncan- Charlie's Angels
Denise Huxtable- The Cosby Show
Julia Salinger- Party of Five
Janet Wood- Three's Company
Magda Ramirez- The Division
Hilary Banks- The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Colleen McMurphy- China Beach

jasonelias

I'm not even going to watch the video, because I know Chloe from 24 isn't on there. Total gay-crush. And TELL me there is a straight guy who wouldn't do Starbuck.

Transuranic

If I would have known men were such scum bags, I would have chosen "female" when presented with that option at the moment of my conception.

Losin_it

Where oh where is Olivia Benson from Law & Order SVU? I'd rather be her than Rachel Green, Buffy, or Jennifer Garner from Alias (even though she's pretty cool). Plus, I also want to bring up Clarrisa Explains It All. I've always wanted to be her.

CashMoneyHoney

First of all, I would have spelled Mary Richards correctly in the video. That said, where the eff is Laura Petrie? Jill Monroe? Are you on crack? It's Kelly Garrett for jiggle sake. Ann Marie from That Girl? O.G. hottie Betty Rubble? Samantha Stevens? Do I have to think of everything around here?

Imnotatnbc

Another big vote for Lorelai Gilmore here.

No Robin from HIMYM?

No Sarah Chalke from HIMYM or Scrubs?!?!

If you're into Mad Men, why Joan when you could have Betty?

cinerama

Erm, yeah no Rachel, especially in that clip. I've never wanted to be completely self-unaware.

Also, I would have liked a scene of Buffy kicking some ass rather than explaining she'd like to have fun in HS.

Clare Danes as Angela Chase should have made that list if getting to make out with a pre-Chapter 27 Jared Leto is included.

maryn

Alright, I'm on board with Scully, Claire Huxtable and maybe Rachel... but the rest... meh.

Werrick

You call out Buffy as #1 and then don't show her kicking ass? For shame!

But I totes agree with Scully and with Buffy, and some of the others too. I kinda think Scully shoulda been higher on the list...

stoprobbers

I agree I would much rather be Veronica Mars or Kara Thrace than Rachel. Hell I want to be like Kara Thrace so much that I got off my lazy ass, got a bike and started working out so Boxing lessons wouldn't kill me.

Gouda

Watching that clip I am happily surprised that Claire Huxtable must have played a bigger role in my life choices than I realized. Go Angry Lawyer Girls everywhere!

@maryn: totally agree on Angela Chase.

I propose at least one of the Brady sisters.

AnnieKOSU

I too, demand Olivia Benson! And actually, all the Law & Order women.

treecut...will cut a beech

Zoe from Firefly is way sexier than most of that list too, although she is a bit too stoic for me to emulate. I would even rank Kaylee (after the Simon hook up) in my top 10.

Gouda

What...no Maude?

JuiceNewton

@JuiceNewton: Girls wanted to be Bea Arthur?

Losin_it

@Losin_it: Just the ones who liked to wear knee-length kaftans...

gwendolyn

@cinerama: Yes! Lorelei Gilmore - why did I not think of that.

And Suzanne Pleschette on The Bob Newhart Show. RIP.

chijen

@MissFiFi: bingo. Friends was funny, she was good as Rachel but I wouldn't call her Top 10.

And what about Rhoda, the wiseass friend? Or Phyllis and her backhanded compliments? Cloris Leachman is awesome.

LOVE Joan Holloway - that role is genius.

chijen

@gwendolyn: ha ha.

Losin_it

Okay, perhaps this is a little old, but Diana Rigg as Miss Emma Peel is the sexiest, most awesome woman to ever appear on TV.

m_faustus

Obviously, they used a limited timeline on television.

The Buffy clip was, I believe, from the never televised pilot. Buffy and Willow are my usual choice for desktops, even at work. On the show, Buffy went from being a sometimes vapid cheerleader to a woman. Her mother died, her boyfriend tried to kill her, she made some good choices and some really poor ones. She was real. That was the beauty of the show: watching teens grow into adults, make choices and live with the consequences. And the actors were all really hot.

Yea! for Dana Scully. Also, the clip is from one of my all-time favorites episodes, Bad Blood.

Thank all things good they included Liz Lemon. We have the episode saved on our DVR where she slaps Alec Baldwin, then yells at the writers, "Suck it, monkeys. I'm going corporate." We can't bring ourselves to delete it.

Definitely should have chosen Veronica Mars over Rachel Green. Hate Rachel.

dudelette

Growing up women wanted to be just like Miss Jane Hathaway - right?!!

NoGrumpys

yay for claire huxtable! i agree that you should've dropped the "and men want to be with". that would've given you a better group to choose from. am i the only one thinking morticia addams?? probably...

flexanimous

@Wrapitup: For the uninitiated, those two SuperChicks are from The Wire. First the Emmys spurn the Best Show on TV and now you guys.

No wonder the US is going down the tubes. If people can't recognize a fucking awesome TV show and give it props and people won't recognize the awesome babes on said show and give them props, then the culture is fucked.

Wrapitup

Fuck, even Sue Ann Nivens. She was ballsy.

lizzybennet

And Phyllis, for that matter.

lizzybennet

And once again, inexplicably, you guys leave out Kima Greggs. Oh also Rhonda Pearlman. Are you telling me that not one woman here wants to be a smokin hot ass-kicking black cop or a smokin hot ass-kicking blonde attorney? And not one guy here wants to be with these two? Preferably together?

Who are you people?

Wrapitup

And to be frank--Mary Richards was cool, I guess, but I always liked Rhoda Morgenstern better.

lizzybennet

Nos Nos BIG Nos to #s 2 and 3.

lizzybennet

Joe March anyone?? Who wouldn't want to be her? I think we can all agree Rachel from friends is a bad idea, I mean, Pheobe would've been better, at least she's always having fun.

MathGirl

@zora: Ok, I love BSG - really I do - possibly my favorite show ever, but really? I do NOT want to be like Kara - way to much drama and mental instability.

MathGirl

Good grief this list is bad...first off, you said Jill Monroe on the screen and then had Kris Monroe in the video.

Second, no Donna Moss? Susan Dey from L.A. Law? Dana Whittaker (ahem) from Sports Night?

BLASPHEMY!

danrydell

Thank you for mentioning ALIA[S]. It's been my favorite show for nearly seven years now. I'm a massive fan (and by massive I mean collected all the books and most merch I could find).

kylo4

Rachel Green? Seriously?

and yes, where is Veronica Mars?! She's the perfect blend of smart, sassy, intelligent, interesting - shes one of those characters ALL women would love. (watch the show if you already haven't, you're missing out!)

blueplath