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Ent_FiveTop_060511.appFooter = "&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;By Linda Holmes";
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Ent_FiveTop_060511[i-1].body = "<img src=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060510/5Top_No1.small.jpg align=right hspace=4 border=1><b>Marion Cunningham, \"Happy Days\":</b> When it comes to old-school TV moms, there are your Carol Brady partisans, and there are your Mrs. C (Marion Ross) partisans. Why does Mrs. Cunningham make the cut? For one thing, her kids are more fun. Come on -- who would you rather go out with: Richie or Greg? Richie would never let a frog jump onto your pizza at the movies. Furthermore, Carol would never have let Fonzie live over the garage, while Marion practically adopted him. She loved her own kids with a fretting, furious enthusiasm, and she once put on a leather jacket just to foil the evil Officer Kirk. Class of the field.";

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Ent_FiveTop_060511[i-1].body = "<img src=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060510/5Top_No2.small.jpg align=right hspace=4 border=1><b>Lorelai Gilmore, \"Gilmore Girls\":</b> Not everyone likes Lorelai's (Lauren Graham) brand of parenting. She can be flighty, yes. She's made some bad choices in her own love life, so as a romantic role model to daughter Rory, her qualifications are open to question. She also dances on the line between mother and friend in a way that wouldn't work for everyone. But as a mother, Lorelai has an unmatched fierceness. She is determined not to allow her relationship with her daughter to break as her relationship with her own mother did, and they've survived multiple rifts without becoming permanently estranged.";

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Ent_FiveTop_060511[i-1].body = "<img src=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/2006/May/060510/5Top_No6.small.jpg align=right hspace=4 border=1><b>Helen Girardi, \"Joan of Arcadia\":</b> Gone too soon from the CBS schedule, \"Joan of Arcadia\" featured one of the most uniformly likeable, loving TV families of recent years, and Helen (Mary Steenburgen) was its keystone. Life threw her several curveballs: an accident left her older son in a wheelchair, and her daughter started getting a little odd in high school, which Helen didn't know was the result of conversations with God. Not only did she remain a great mom through it all, but she continued to exist as an independent person, pursuing spiritual and artistic interests with the kind of genuine curiosity that makes anyone an interesting person and a good parent.";

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Ent_FiveTop_060511[i-1].body = "<img src=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060510/5Top_No4.small.jpg align=right hspace=4 border=1><b>Jill Taylor, \"Home Improvement\":</b> If you question this choice, ask yourself this: Could you have lived with Tim Allen? No. No, you could not. Jill (Patricia Richardson), on the other hand, had endless patience and good humor, and she showed it with her three sons as much as with her husband. It would have been easy for the only woman in that house to come off as a shrill, angry harpy. She never did. Jill was authoritative without losing her ability to laugh with her husband or play along with her kids. She made everyone -- yes, even Tim Allen -- look good as a result.";

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Ent_FiveTop_060511[i-1].body = "<img src=http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060510/5Top_No5.small.jpg align=right hspace=4 border=1><b>Ma Ingalls, \"Little House On The Prairie\":</b> Nobody can compete with a mother so strong that she once considered amputating her own leg to save her life. Caroline Ingalls (Karen Grassle) was not to be trifled with. She raised not only her biological children but several late-coming additions, and she did it in long, burdensome dresses. No sneakers and jeans for Ma when she had to bake a pie or walk to the store. Like many good TV moms, Caroline encouraged her kids to be independent, and she tried to get them to figure out how to do the right thing without telling them what it was.";

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