Nice TV mums just annoy me.

There are TV mums you can’t help but love. They are pretty and loving and helpful and clever.

Yep, pretty damn annoying, right?

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Then, there are TV mums who are a bit bad-ass. They aren’t always pretty, they aren’t always loving, they aren’t always helpful and they could really use a parenting course. Or two.

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Here are the TV mums we secretly love, flaws and all. CLICK THROUGH the gallery.

Betty Draper from Mad Men

Cersei Lannister from Game of Thrones

Emily Gilmore fighting with Lorelai

Fran Fine from The Nanny

Geraldine Proudman from Offspring

Gloria Delgado-Pritchett from Modern Family

Joan P. Holloway from Mad Men

Lady Catelyn Tully (Stark) from Game of Thrones

Lily Aldrin from How I Met Your Mother

Marge Simpson from The Simpsons

Meredith Grey from Grey's Anatomy

Morticia Adams from the Adam's Family

Nancy Botwin from Weeds

Peg Bundy from Married With Children

Roseanne Connor from Roseanne

Sophia Petrillo from The Golden Girls