The Hottest TV Daughters

A Seriously Random List XVI / Dustin Rowles

Seriously Random Lists | November 5, 2008 | Comments (61)

There has been one, and only one, reason that the death of the traditional, multi-camera sitcom has been unfortunate. This: Back in the day, when family-centered sitcoms seemed to dominate the airwaves, we were blessed with scores of hot, cute, or hot-cute sitcom daughters. They’re still out there, of course, mostly in different formats. But it’s not the same, really. When you’re 16, there was nothing better than that very special episode where the hot-cute TV daughter was trying decide whether to give it up or not. And they never did. And that made them even more endearing. But, the Carol Seavers, the D.J. Tanners, Barbara Coopers and the Jamie Powells of this world just don’t exist anymore. But Hot TV daughters do live on. They’re just not as chaste.

Here are the all-time greats:

10. Jamie Powell (Nicole Eggert) — “Charles in Charge”

9. Kim Bauer (Elisha Cuthbert) — “24”

8. Lynn Tanner (Andrea Elson) — “Alf”

7. Rori Gilmore (Alexis Bledel) — “Gilmore Girls”

6. Sarah Henrickson (Amanda Seyfried) — “Big Love”

5. Claire Fisher (Lauren Ambrose) — “Six Feet Under”

4. Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) — “Veronica Mars”

3. Denise Huxtable (Lisa Bonet) — “The Cosby Show”

2. Kelly Bundy (Christina Applegate) — “Married .. with Children”

1. Samantha Micelli (Alyssa Milano) — “Who’s the Boss?”

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And to think I was all ready to say "what about the girl from Alf???"

Spooky.

Hey, Rose Tyler's Jackie's daughter, right? So she can knock off Mars or Huxtable.

Posted by: Jay at November 5, 2008 4:54 PM

:channels B-Slim

This list is BULLSHIT!!! Where the fuck is Vicki the Robot??!!! Suck it Rowles!!!!!

/Kang 2012

Posted by: Julie at November 5, 2008 4:54 PM

The eldest Daughter on Reba was hot (i swear to god I didn't watch it. I just know that)

Posted by: rorny at November 5, 2008 5:17 PM

Ahem,

One Day At A Time? Ann Romano (Mom, played by Bonnie Franklin), daughters Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli). Any or all, in any combination.

And the entire cast of Sisters but especially Sela Ward. Made it worthwhile to turn off the sound and watch the pretty people.

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at November 5, 2008 5:17 PM

Nikki Cox before she shot her face with a collagen shotgun.

Honorable mention goes out to Judy Jetson.

Posted by: branded at November 5, 2008 5:17 PM

I'm kinda bummed that DJ Tanner isn't actually on that list. Candace Cameron was my first crush ever, back when I was about five years old. I was obsessed with Full House just because she was on it.

Posted by: TeenieBopper at November 5, 2008 5:18 PM

No Nikki Cox from Unhappily Ever After? She may look like a duck now...but COME ON.

Boooooooooooo

Posted by: Rubble44 at November 5, 2008 5:20 PM

Echo the Billie Piper love.

Elisha Cuthbert is the other slutty blond (sort of) starlet that people say I look like all the freaking time(the first being Tara Reid). At least she's cute but couldn't they compare me to someone cool. Once a weird dishwasher at the restaurant I worked said I looked like Charlize Theron, but he had seriously questionable eyesight. It doesn't change the fact that I bought him a Christmas present that year.

Posted by: becks at November 5, 2008 5:20 PM

Sela Ward is the fucking greatest. How the hell did Judy Jetson not make this list?

Posted by: becks at November 5, 2008 5:22 PM

Tina Yothers from "Family Ties" of course. Pure boner fuel.

Wash, out.

Posted by: wash at November 5, 2008 5:23 PM

UGH. Elisha Cuthbert may be "hot" but she tops the list for the most fucking annoying daughters of all time.

I always thought Tracey Gold from Growing Pains was kinda pretty, in a plain way I guess.

Posted by: citizen_cris at November 5, 2008 5:26 PM

Wash....step into my office....cause you're FUCKING FIRED!!!!!!

LOL.

Posted by: Rubble44 at November 5, 2008 5:29 PM

Where's Justine Bateman?

Posted by: cmoody at November 5, 2008 5:30 PM

I liked Mallory too cmoody. She didn't age all that well though. Tina Yothers, hahaha.

Posted by: becks at November 5, 2008 5:35 PM

How old am I that I don't recognize anyone on this list? I always thought Marcia Brady was hot, and Laurie Partridge.

Posted by: BWeaves at November 5, 2008 5:43 PM

ms.kitty?......john mccain needs some of that today..

Posted by: pasadenamike at November 5, 2008 5:52 PM

No love for Mallory from Family Ties?

Posted by: megan at November 5, 2008 5:56 PM

Blair Warner from Facts of Life. She had to be somebody's daughter, right?

Kelly Bundy's the only one on that list who rates more than a, "meh". Of course, for more than a few of the others I would be entering pedophile territory these days...thanks, but no.

And how can you mention Barbara Cooper in the lead and then omit her from the list? She's the archetype, DR...

Posted by: Che Grovera at November 5, 2008 6:04 PM

Sarah Chalke on Roseanne was pretty cute.

Posted by: will at November 5, 2008 6:04 PM

DJ never did it for me. And she started getting fat near the end. For some reason I always thought Stephanie Tanner was hotter.

Posted by: Alex at November 5, 2008 6:05 PM

Stephanie Tanner. For real?

That dark haired bully that was always fighting with Stephanie and then Stephanie blew up her report card and put it on the wall and she cried, that girl was hot.

Posted by: becks at November 5, 2008 6:07 PM

Love Kelly Bundy and Samantha Micelli.

But WHERE IS MALLORY? Come on, guys!--Mallory from Family Ties should most definitely be on this list.

Posted by: Canada at November 5, 2008 6:12 PM

What the f*ck is up with these lists having adolescent(READ: Under 18) year old girls?

Posted by: FourKings at November 5, 2008 6:19 PM

Natalie Buchanan (Melissa Archer), Vickie's girl: "One Life to Live." Amazing rack.

Posted by: bucdaddy at November 5, 2008 6:27 PM

Oh wait, we're only talking about sitcoms? Not what the hedline says.

Posted by: bucdaddy at November 5, 2008 6:29 PM

All Kim Bauer ever does is get herself into dangerous situations so that her boyfriend/dad has to come rescue her. How can that not equal not-hot?

Posted by: Raych at November 5, 2008 6:32 PM

Kelly Cuoco from 10 simple rules for raising your teenage daughter gets an honorable mention in my book.

Posted by: Pete at November 5, 2008 6:43 PM

Kristin Bell and Amanda Seyfried were both on Veronica Mars, so that show had a double whammy.

Posted by: gelis at November 5, 2008 6:45 PM

Apparently someone never watched an episode of Too Close for Comfort and salivated over Deborah Van Valkenburgh and Lydia Cornell.

Or maybe you're just that scared of Judge Smails

Posted by: Steve at November 5, 2008 6:50 PM

Srsly... if you include Kelly Bundy, you must include Tiffany Malloy (Nikki Cox).

The eldest Daughter on Reba was hot

Oh, Hellz Yeah! Cheyenne (Joanna Garcia) takes the fuckin' cake.

Posted by: Rykker at November 5, 2008 7:02 PM

You might have crossed a line here. But it's my line and I move it around a lot so I don't blame you. I blame the adult that the young Miss Milano trusted at the time that allowed that picture to be released. That picture of Alyssa Milano is a bit, umm... sophisticated for her age.

Posted by: Dan at November 5, 2008 7:39 PM

Kelly Cuoco from 10 simple rules for raising your teenage daughter gets an honorable mention in my book.

Posted by: Pete at November 5, 2008 6:43 PM

She's MUCH hotter on The Big Bang Theory.

My vote? Alicia Witt on Cybill. And hellz yeah on Rose Tyler.
~

Posted by: Meander at November 5, 2008 7:47 PM

Dana Plano? Maybe?

Posted by: richmac at November 5, 2008 7:59 PM

The eldest Daughter on Reba was hot (i swear to god I didn't watch it. I just know that)

Posted by: rorny at November 5, 2008 5:17 PM

Naw, don't lie. You watch the re-runs in syndication just like I do.

Posted by: greer at November 5, 2008 8:10 PM

Kim Bauer's stupidity is just way too great for her to be on this list.

What of The redhead from Reba? Kyra /Scarlett Pomers

Posted by: Kyo at November 5, 2008 8:20 PM

AUDREY HORNE.

definitely worth breaking my vow of lurkage for.

Posted by: betamax at November 5, 2008 8:36 PM

Ellie Mae from "Beverly Hillbillies"-Jed Clampett's daughter

Daisy Duke-Uncle Jesse's daughter

Posted by: stripes at November 5, 2008 9:45 PM

What about Jessica Biel when she was on 7th heaven? Not that I ever enjoyed that show, but every time she was on screen I thought "what a pretty girl!!" Back when she was a waify straight haired brunette.
And I don't know if the characters all those girls played were hot. The actors maybe, but the characters...
Am I the only one in this world who actually wanted to punch Veronica Mars in the face half the time she was on screen? I love Kristin Bell and I loved the show, but when watching I thought the titular character herself a bit of a be-yotch.

Posted by: Lydia at November 5, 2008 10:33 PM

I'd nail Judy Jetson in a heartbeat.

Posted by: bucdaddy at November 5, 2008 11:35 PM

NO! V-mars is number one!

Posted by: Kevin Longrie at November 6, 2008 1:37 AM

glad to see some gilmore girls love, even if only for "beauty reason". plus rory gilmore followed the obama campaign right form the start and that automatically makes her hotter by default.

Posted by: rio at November 6, 2008 6:58 AM

Jamie Luner and Brooke Theiss from Just the 10 of Us. They were the ONLY reason I watched that show.

Posted by: TylerDFC at November 6, 2008 7:09 AM

Aw, yeah... I'd forgotten about Jamie Luner.

Lynsey Bartilson ("Lily Finnerty" on [i]Grounded for Life[/i]) was another little hottie.

Posted by: Rykker at November 6, 2008 7:48 AM

Does Danica Mckellar qualify as a daughter? Then chalk me in! So. Hot.

Posted by: Ari at November 6, 2008 8:04 AM

Buffy Summers? esp in seasons 1&2.

Posted by: Ed Newman at November 6, 2008 8:34 AM

And how about the girl from My Two Dads? She should be on the list twice!

Posted by: Ed Newman at November 6, 2008 8:37 AM

No Justine Bateman from Family Ties? I remember that as a kid, a bunch of guys in my class were in love with her.

Posted by: tt_marie at November 6, 2008 9:38 AM

Does it bother anybody else that the pic of Milano is from when she was like 14?

Posted by: DRE at November 6, 2008 9:54 AM

I don't think Veronica Mars should be on the list. She's hot as mess, hotter than anyone else on the list, but she's also the star of the show, and all the others are supporting characters.

Posted by: Lucas at November 6, 2008 9:58 AM

Jay, agreed. Though my "ginger fever" persuades me to say why not put Donna Noble instead of Ms. Huxtable on the list.

Posted by: Mike R. at November 6, 2008 10:21 AM

I am just enormously relieved that the Olsen twins didn't make it on here... And not only cuz they were fucking BABIES at the time.. but also, cuz they're gross now.

Posted by: Janey at November 6, 2008 11:29 AM

You seriously neglected the deep well of Just the 10 of Us??? There were 2 hot sluts on that show: Connie & Wendy (Joann Willette & Brooke Theiss).
Of the 2, I loved Wendy cause she was the tough bitch who turned into a cockroach in Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors.

Posted by: Amanda H. at November 6, 2008 11:36 AM

Weren't the Halliwell sisters all somebody's daughter?

Piper's Boobs / Phoebie's Boobs '12

Posted by: BierceAmbrose at November 6, 2008 4:09 PM

Back in the day for me it was the Pink Ranger's human counterpart, Amy Jo Johnson. She's somebody's daughter.

Posted by: Some Guy at November 7, 2008 12:12 AM

The brunette bully on Full House was Marla Sokoloff, and she was hotter than DJ or Stephanie.

Posted by: joe cool at November 7, 2008 1:41 AM

The brunette bully on Full House was Marla Sokoloff, and she was hotter than DJ or Stephanie.

Posted by: joe cool at November 7, 2008 1:43 AM

These lists are terrible

Posted by: Fuel at November 7, 2008 10:24 AM

How utterly absurd.

Kristen Bell is number one, obviously. Fools.

Posted by: John at November 25, 2008 6:12 PM

Topanga, I have no idea what her real name is.
And the original yellow ranger must have had parents.

Posted by: Huckleberry at November 29, 2008 1:56 PM

Mr. SneakyLawyer dated Topanga back in jr high. (Yeah, I don't know her real name either.) Every once in a while I catch him watching reruns of Boy Meets World, and I die a little inside.

Posted by: SneakyLawyer at December 2, 2008 7:34 PM

This list is utter crap, just like the male 80's hearthrob one. Get it together!

Posted by: tinmo at December 2, 2008 8:25 PM

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