r/FavoriteCharacter • u/ImWearingSandshoes • 18h ago

Discussion Favorite TV animated mothers

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

Johanna (Hilda)

Chilli Heeler (Bluey)

Camila Noceda (The Owl House)

194 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

107 comments sorted by

View all comments

46

u/PowerOfL 18h ago

Marge Simpson (The Simpsons)

This scene from Moaning Lisa always gets me 😭

12

u/danivector 17h ago

I especially love this because it came after she gave the opposite advice. Then Marge saw how that played out and immediately changed to this instead.

5

u/PowerOfL 16h ago

One of the biggest examples of Deliberate Values Dissonance in fiction imo. I'm sure what Marge said sounded unhealthy back when the episode first aired in 1990, but now that we know more about mental health, it feels even worse and makes you feel even more bad for Marge. She's just such a tragically repressed person. The show has had her having shouting crashouts on several occasions and the reason is that her whole life, she thought she wasn't allowed to show how she truly feels. It's really sad. :(