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Was Ann Romano a good mother?

She gets a lot of shit for being selfish and self-absorbed, but she raised two decent, well-adjusted girls. Both found stable men to marry.

She also took Alex in when his mother was too busy to take care of him.

She was no Alice and Tawmy. But she had her moments.

by Anonymousreply 39May 30, 2025 1:25 PM

Ann Ramano?

by Anonymousreply 1May 28, 2025 2:14 AM

OP, she was just trying to take it one day at a time.

by Anonymousreply 2May 28, 2025 2:36 AM

"two decent, well-adjusted girls"

Um, did you watch the same show the rest of us watched?

by Anonymousreply 3May 28, 2025 2:43 AM

She was slap-happy.

by Anonymousreply 4May 28, 2025 2:44 AM

Her daughters both outlived her. So no.

by Anonymousreply 5May 28, 2025 2:46 AM

That's right R4. One day when I have oodles of time on my hands I'll cut together all the scenes where Ann punches or slaps someone in the nine-season run and it will be as long as a standalone episode.

Did she ever hit Shelley Fabares, Nannette Fabray, or Michael Lembeck or Boyd Gaynes?

by Anonymousreply 6May 28, 2025 2:59 AM

Dammit OP!

by Anonymousreply 7May 28, 2025 3:01 AM

No better than Alice Hyatt.

by Anonymousreply 8May 28, 2025 3:05 AM

She was a good mother; a positive mother.

by Anonymousreply 9May 28, 2025 12:59 PM

She raised her kids to only settle for hot boyfriends.

by Anonymousreply 10May 28, 2025 1:56 PM

No decent mother would wear those hideous sweaters and go without a bra

by Anonymousreply 11May 28, 2025 2:57 PM

Damnit, OP!!

by Anonymousreply 12May 28, 2025 3:38 PM

A vicious flat chested ginger dwarf who screamed and slapped the dogshit out of her daughters to keep them from acting like whores and off smack.

She was unsuccessful, so then she brought a precocious baby homosexual into her shitty apartment. She screamed and smacked the dogshit out of him to keep him from being a dirty cocksucker. She was unsuccessful again.

So no, she was not a good mother.

by Anonymousreply 13May 28, 2025 3:44 PM

Ann attended the Joan Crawford School for Single Mothers. Disciplining high spirited children was heavily emphasized in the curriculum.

by Anonymousreply 14May 28, 2025 4:03 PM

Ann did not seem maternal or warm, unlike Alice Hyatt.

by Anonymousreply 15May 28, 2025 4:51 PM

Ann's profound and searching self-analysis prompted by her 36th birthday revealed that she was ultimately not only a good mother, but also a good philosopher.

by Anonymousreply 16May 28, 2025 5:19 PM

She failed to teach those sluts tap or softshoe.

Julie could have made them money dancing on a speedball if she had tap training. Barbara would have had a smaller ass.

by Anonymousreply 17May 28, 2025 5:21 PM

Julie inherited Ann's fried egg titties. Barbara had big old jugs, though. Are we sure she wasn't adopted?

by Anonymousreply 18May 28, 2025 5:27 PM

I typed “Ann Romano” earlier, and it autocorrected to “Ann Aroma.”

by Anonymousreply 19May 29, 2025 3:40 AM

What the fuck, Datalounge? This is an ANN ROMANO THREAD, it should be closing in on 600 posts by now.

Have we (finally, thankfully) run out of things to say about this cunt?

by Anonymousreply 20May 29, 2025 4:42 AM

^ We're exhausted from the death of Linda Lavin.

by Anonymousreply 21May 29, 2025 4:56 AM

^And from having to pretend that we liked Linda all along.

by Anonymousreply 22May 29, 2025 5:50 AM

If I were a struggling single mom and had those 2 kids I would slap the shit out of them too.

by Anonymousreply 23May 29, 2025 5:55 AM

She took a huge fit afterwards but she did absolutely nothing to prevent it.

by Anonymousreply 24May 29, 2025 6:03 AM
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by Anonymousreply 25May 29, 2025 6:35 AM

Do you think Schneider ever ate her out?

by Anonymousreply 26May 29, 2025 11:20 PM

She would have been a lot more pleasant if he did r26

by Anonymousreply 27May 29, 2025 11:33 PM

She was manic, short-tempered, passive-aggressive and self-centered. So no.

by Anonymousreply 28May 30, 2025 1:17 AM

[quote]r9 I typed “Ann Romano” earlier, and it autocorrected to “Ann Aroma.”

Now I'm imagining a downmarket fragrance sold at drug stores.

The box would be in shades of peach and white.

by Anonymousreply 29May 30, 2025 4:36 AM

Slappy Romano a good mom?

Nah.

by Anonymousreply 30May 30, 2025 4:40 AM

Le Pull Col Bénitier en Polyester Vert.

A New Fragrance, from Bonnie Franklin.

When you need more than just a slap to get a man's attention...

by Anonymousreply 31May 30, 2025 4:49 AM

Good mother??? She's not even a good cheese.

by Anonymousreply 32May 30, 2025 4:56 AM

I'll tell you one thing. We all breathed a huge sigh of relief when she loaded up that shitty station wagon and left our little burg for the bright lights of Indianapolis.

by Anonymousreply 33May 30, 2025 5:02 AM
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by Anonymousreply 34May 30, 2025 12:28 PM
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by Anonymousreply 35May 30, 2025 12:30 PM

Such rare talent.

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by Anonymousreply 36May 30, 2025 12:43 PM

Good mothers don’t smell like dirty pantyhose.

by Anonymousreply 37May 30, 2025 12:59 PM

Why did every 80s sitcom start with an opener sing-song culminating in a car being driven down a road? Non-stop, one after another a so-called “protagonist” driving on a flippin’ highway? Well whoopie! Sometimes they all just copied each other’s ideas.

by Anonymousreply 38May 30, 2025 1:08 PM

Blame Maude, she started it.

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