At the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday, Sept. 15, the award show paid homage to TV characters we know and love. From TV doctors, represented by Mindy Kaling, Zach Braff and Mekhi Phifer, to TV cops, including Jimmy Smits, Don Johnson and Niecy Nash Betts, we saw so many of our favorite actors take the stage.
At one point in the show, iconic TV show moms Meredith Baxter, Connie Britton and Susan Kelechi Watson took the stage to present the award for Best Writing in a Comedy Series and delivered quite a powerful speech while they were at it.
“We have come a long way from when we were lucky enough to even leave the kitchen,” Baxter, who famously played Elyse Keaton on Family Ties for seven seasons, said in the beginning.
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“TV moms can do it all,” Britton, who’s played many mom roles including Tammi Taylor on Friday Night Lights, continued. “We can be a country music star [or] the head of a haunted household,” she said, nodding to her other more non-conventional mom roles in Nashville and American Horror Story.
Watson, who played Beth Pearson on This Is Us, agreed, adding that female characters on screen no longer only fit their one-word descriptors. “[We] are no longer one dimensional,” the actress said.
“We have choices,” she continued. “Choices that remind us that our dreams aren’t deferred. It’s okay to soul search. It’s okay to ask for as much money as a TV dad.”
As the crowd cheered to her advocacy for equal pay, Watson poked fun at TV dads, which were represented earlier in the show by George Lopez‘s very own George Lopez, My Wife and Kids star Damon Wayans and Modern Family‘s Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
Baxter, Britton and Watson then went on to announce the Writing Emmy to Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky for Hacks. Talk about an iconic presenting moment!
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