OK...so we have met the 5 gals of Wysteria Lane:

Edie Britt, Susan Mayer, Lynette Scavo, Bree Van DeCamp, & Gabrielle Solis

Which of these gals can you relate to most and why?

Don't be shy, if you're an Edie claim your title! LOL...No judgements here.

ETA: I am fairly new here..is it OK to start this thread? I thought it might be a good topic.

I'm about as far away from Gabrielle as you can get, but we have the same mailbox which made me laugh.

I don't see myself in any of the DH particularly, but Bree is SO my mother its scary. Down to the flawless house and cooking meals that are really fancy but no one actually enjoys. And the control freakishness. Actually, if you never see another post from me, it means my mother found this and I had to flee the country.

Gender aside, I probably am most like Susan - artistically inclined, shy, possibly a little boring. Then again, I also sometimes have expensive tastes (Gabrielle), and I know how to cook (Bree).

And perhaps I'm like Edie too, since I'm a raging slut. Just kidding...maybe.

I'm Susan-esque. It's hard for a guy in college to relate to single mom, but I share a similar experience with her. When I started at UMSL a year ago, there was one girl that I met who I planned on asking out until a raging man-whore came into the picture and made it much more difficult. Watching the Mike-Susan-Edie story is like watching a gender-reversed movie about that experience.

- I'm a perfectionist like Bree
- I'm quirky like Susan
- I love expensive things and sexy men like Gabrielle


but I'm definitely most like Lynette.

I don't guess it would be very funny to say I'm like Mary Alice, huh.

I'm actually like Mrs. Huber, staying in the background and occasionally digging up some dirt.

Are you speaking to us from beyond the grave? Your user name fits, at any rate, if you are a Mary Alice-type.

I'm not sure who I relate to...Mike Delfino and Kravitz 2.0, probably, since I used to work as a PI, and like Eegah am more likely to just sit back and take notes for future use.

Once upon a time, I was Susan...single mom with a cool kid. Kind of boring and hated my ex's new wife.

Now...If Lynette when back to work...she and I would be the same person. I have 3 active kids (14 yrs, 7 yrs, 7 months) and a husband who is away a lot. My hair stands on end most days. I am covered in baby food. I would like to leave the kids on a corner somewhere (I don't because I am afriad I won't go back to get them).

But if I had to choose...I would stay as Lynette. Frazzled hair and strained peaches are out-weighed by the hugs, kisses, and sweetness.

I also am definitely Lynette, which is why I enjoy her character so much. I have never left my children on the corner (yet) but that yelling and threatening in the car just to have them ignore you? Yeah, been there, done that. A lot. Oh, and that thing about having a lot of great recipes but no time to cook? Totally me.

I'm praying that I will never have to fish my boys out of a swimming pool at a wake.

I am Lynette in training. I only have one, and he's not old enough yet to cause the kind of havoc her brood does, but he's plotting, I can tell.

I went through a Lynette phase when my kids were younger, but thank doG (a) they got older and (b) I got meaner. Oh, and I only have two. And only one is a boy.

I guess right now I identify most with Susan. I'm not divorced, but I do dress younger than I should (except I wear a bra, yo) and my daughter is only 6 but awfully damn precocious and wordly (thanks, Nickelodeon!). Susan is the one I'd most like to shop and/or party with.

Bree is totally the anti-me.

I wish I was more like Edie (except, you know, without the bad plastic surgery), but I fear that I am a little too like Bree. I think I need serious help with my OCD-like tendencies.

And there you have it, Penguinette9, you have just described me.

Being a single girl in university, it's rather hard for me to really see myself as any single one of the housewives. Actually, I wouldn't want to see myself as any of them. I love 'em all but they're all pretty dysfunctional. Well, maybe Susan isn't as dysfunctional the rest of them but yeah, I definitely wouldn't wanna see myself as one of them. But I definitely do see myself as a combination of attributes from the each of them.

Definitely Susan - minus the teenage daughter. She's the most relatable and human, to me anyway, and I am also shy around good looking men and scared of big dogs! But unlike her, I am a good cook!

I also see a little of myself in several different Housewives. However, my sister-in-law? Is totally Lynette. She's only got two kids but they're both boys, they're close in age and anytime I'm around them, I want to give myself a home hysterectomy.

Bwah!! kariyaki, I just spit burnt (yet undercooked) mac-n-cheese on my keyboard! We must have the same sister-in-law.

Can I just go slightly OT for a second to say that I love how this show seems to appeal to a cross-section of people, regardless of gender, age, whether or not they have kids etc.? I guess there's something about the humor and the characterization and, well, the desperation that most of us can empathize with or at least enjoy from afar!

OK, topic....I definitely most resemble Susan. Not, unfortunately, in physical appearance. I just have her same nervous goofiness when it comes to men, I'm a little more shy and creative, etc. Plus, she seemed most genuinely sad and emotional over her friend's death, and I'm inevitably the most emotional one out of almost any group!

Once I have kids, though, I have a feeling I'll become very Lynnette-esque. My poor, as-yet-unconceived kids should already be fuilly prepared to be dumped on the side of the road!

Okay. So am I the only one who came in here ready to type "Ellis Burks" or "Frank Thomas"? Yes? Okay, thought so.

"DH" will always mean the dreaded "Designated Hitter" to me.

on topic I guess I relate the most to Susan since I'm frequently perplexed and skidoodled around men I find attractive. Also, she means well. I can totally sympathize with the clutzy-do-gooder.

Most definitely Lynnette. I have 2 boys--2 and 4 and they are wild and crazy together, especially in the car. I had to yank them out of the pool (we were all fully dressed) while at my MIL's last Sunday because they thought it would be fun to splash around. We were on our way someplace, but we just had to go home since I didn't bring extra clothes. I also have a husband who won't leave me alone--but I'm not having any more kids! He does leave me alone with the boys to go to work though.

I totally thought Lynnette needed to go back to work while watching last night's episode. Then I realized that I needed to go back to work too and put my kids in preschool. It's the only way we can regain our lives.

If I had my druthers, I'd want to be Gabrielle. I'd make my own excitement too.

I'm most like... Susan's daughter.

I'd like to be Gabrielle. I'd probably ditch Carlos, though.

ACK! Is my sister-in-law here? I am Lynnette. Two boys almost 3 and 5. I have given that same speech on she did on the walk before the wake through clenched teeth. It would not surprise me at all to fish them out of a pool. I find myself watching to see how she'll deal with them. My husband travels as well.

I'm most like Susan. Because they're real... and they're spectacular.

Ooops, wrong show. Actually, I guess I am most like Susan, although, with a little boy of my own, I wish I were more like Lynette. She is the type of kickass mom I would like to be (but with a little more help from the hubby).

At this point in my life, I'm probably (shudder) an Edie.

However, I can tell that after I get married and have children, I will attempt to be perfect like Bree, but end up crazed and chaotic like Lynette, though I'd most like to be Gabrielle with a rich husband and hot gardener.

I am a very effective mix of Lynette and Bree - a kick-ass-cool mom of 2 boys (with only slightly pretentious names) who loves them fiercely despite their essential boyness, and not half-bad in the perfectionist control freak department, as well. No actual sewing kit in my purse, but it's in my car and I could go get it in just a second if you need it.

also, To me, it's the dreaded "Dear Husband" - I had to work to not identify myself with Mr. Mary Alice for this topic.

I'm single with no children, so I don't relate to any of the women on those levels. I do relate to Susan and her penchant for bizarre events happening to her (dog-gravy plan backfiring, bra-flinging backfiring). Also, when she got caught by Mike at her mailbox with her robe on and no makeup? That would be me, too. (I never run into the cute guy when I'm perfectly dressed with flawless make-up on a good hairday. Ever.)

I really related to Bree when she was at the therapist's office and tuned out everything except a minute detail such as the hanging button. I would have been doing that too.

Don't feel bad about this, BrytEydBelle:


Me too. With the healthy sexual appetite but without the scheming (most of the time). I also have more than a touch of Bree perfectionism. Okay a lot - but no Botox and my hair moves! Strangely, the combination is both attractive and repellant to men. Which makes me think I'll end up like Edie after all with several ex-husbands to add to my collection.

Oh, well if that's the criteria... yeah, I'm most like Susan.

That sort of thing is definitely true for me as well. I'm a gay guy, but give me a show with an otherwise intelligent, likable female character with horrid luck with men (like Julia on Santa Barbara or Faith on Ryan's Hope), and that's who I'm going to relate to, because that's the closest to my own experience. So for here, it's definitely Susan. Not that my luck's ever been that bad, but that's the fun of it--seeing someone whose luck is ten times worse!

I am so much like Lynette, it's scary. I could see myself doing all those crazy things she did. I did once confront a crazy lady who thought we beat my daughter after a movie (she was sad it was over and had a fit - she was 2 at the time). I caught her writing down my car license plate nos. I jump out of my car so fast I think I scared her, then I proceeded to yell at her (so unlike me, but I will be a lioness when I need to be). And I can't tell you how many times I've carried her kicking and screaming out of stores she was not behaving in.

Another Lynnette here, although I've only got one kid and have continued my career. I don't really fit any of them.

Count me in as Lynette. I have three girls, ages 6, 4 and 2 and I'm in the first trimester expecting our fouth. I must be having a boy because I have turned into the Spawn of Hell with the moodswings lately (never had those before).
I watch this show for Lynette...she gives me hope.

The reason I'm in my current situation is because my husband wanted to "just take a risk"...DAMN HIM!!!! I should have punched him in the face like Lynette did, but truth is, I was half asleep at the time, and it was over before I realized what was going on.

Watching Lynette these past two weeks, I have seen myself so much. I've even left one of my children behind when she wouldn't leave the McDonald's play area when it was time to go. It lasted about 5 minutes and I walked back and she was still playing happily, so that didn't really do anything.

People who don't know me well, think I'm like Bree, but it's just an act that I perpetrate very well. I'm always baking and cooking but my house is a MESS. Good thing I have a husband who likes to clean, or else we'd be sunk.

I'd have to say I'm closest to Susan (minus the kid and cooking deficiency). I'm really artistic...always painting or drawing something for someone, and the second a hot guy comes my way, I manage to trip over myself or stutter or do something equally embarassing. No bra, but I don't need one (Yay for A's!) The closest thing I have to Julie is my younger sister who thinks that my romantic life is her business.

My mother's Lynette, without question, but my grandmother is hands-down Bree Van DeKamp. She cooks gourmet meals for my grandfather every day, lunch and dinner, makes all her own clothes, has a massive 1-acre space for gardening, and has re-upholstered her entire home three times. By herself. Yes. Three times. She wakes up an hour before my grandfather sets his alarm so that she can have breakfast ready, and can have her makeup and hair done when he wakes up. She scares me.

Another gender-aside comparison here... I'm most like Susan, with touches of Bree's perfectionism and Julie's curiosity/snooping.

Although... I'd prefer to add Mike's ability to maintain mystery, with shades of Lynette's improving sense of directness.

Being unmarried and childless, I don't fit any of the women in terms of situation. I also don't look like any of them, sadly for me (ok, fine, I maybe resemble Mrs. Kravitz, just a tiny, tiny bit, but I'm really very nice....really!), but I would consider myself like:

Susan for the artistic side, emotional caring, and general klutziness AND inability to run into the cute guys a) while looking my best or b) and continue a coherent conversation
Bree for the OCD (though I never come anywhere near the perfection part of the equation)
and
Mary Alice for the feeling a bit separate from things

If I had kids, I'd probably feel as frazzled as Lynette, but I don't seem to resemble Gabby at all, either physically or emotionally. Also sadly for me, I only have Edie's voracious self-confidence (or Susan's perky breasts) in my dreams!

Hee. If being Gabby means I get the jewlery, cars, and HotGardener!Miguel, then yeah, I'd love to be her. (And yeah, I'd probably ditch Carlos too.)

I think I'm mostly Lynette, although my career is not high powered (I'm an executive secretary) and I don't stay home with the kids (ages 6, 3 and 19 months.) Although my husband does not travel for work, he is gone a lot on evenings and weekends with other things (some work related, some not) so I end up doing the semi-single mom thing after being at work all day/week. My kids know how to push my buttons when I am at my wits end, and I could have punched my husband for being so callous when we found out that I was pregnant with #3 (I was in tears, he said "Well, I always kind of wanted three kids anyway.") I also love to cook but have no time to.

I have elements of Bree in that I am always prepared (sewing kit, tissues and dental floss on hand at a moments' notice) but I am not nearly so outwardly calm- I explode the way Lynette does.

I'm definitely mostly Lynette, although I still work. I had three pregnancies in four years, though! And I almost slugged my husband a couple of weeks ago when he said that he "was thinking about a fourth."

Okay, my day today settled it. I'm Susan. Cute guy comes into work and not only do I babble like an idiot but I also happened to be hungover as shit and looked like death warmed over.

I am Bree, right down to obsessively scrubbing the toilet in the pilot. To a less extreme angle, I like to cook and study philosophy. I claim every bit of that relative obsessive-compulsiveness too.

I am most like Susan. I’m a single mom. I have an adolescent child. Heck, it’s even my name. But I’d rather be Gabrielle. Jewelry, car, gardener. Sounds good to me. (I’ll keep the kid though.)

I can see a little of myself in everybody (even though I am a dude). I think I am most like Lynette though. I get flustered and that can lead me to do some impuslive things. People also know how to push my buttons, and to an extent I let them. My ambition is somewhat similar to hers (never completely happy with the current situation and always think of what might of been).

I am like Lynette, but for different reasons than posted before. I was a sales manager in my past life and I was a tough business person. When I had my 2nd child, I quit to raise my kids. Both children (5 +2) are very good for the most part, but there are times when I am all by myself reading the business section and wondering what I am doing in this Ozzie & Harriet life. (Of course the kids are usually pelting each other with Nutri-Grain bars at the time.)
The best part was last night when Lynette's husband asked if she forgot what it's like to work for 60 hours a week while she's folding his laundry. And the line "They're just kids. It's not brain surgery." Both things happened in my house too!

I want to be Susan, but I think I'm actually Lynette.

(Actually, I'd like to be Gabriela, if Hot Gardner is part of the package.)

Hi All,
Newbie here :)
I think I can relate to Susan the most b/c I've grown up with a single mom so I can understand what she's going through.

I'm completely Susan. I try my best to cook and it comes out okay...sometimes. I don't have any kids but I'm from a single parent household. When it comes to guys, Susan and I have a lot in common.

I think I'm becoming a bit Bree-ish. It's weird because I was never like this before but Mr. Spy and I just moved (bought our first house) and I keep finding myself getting all strangely self conscious and overly self and house aware. It's creeping me out! And, worryingly, creeping Mr. Spy out. Last nights ep was hard to watch with him, especially since it came on right after I had a major laundry based freak out after planting 50 crocuses in the drizzling dusk.

I'm a Lynette, I have four kids and yes I have actually hoisted them out of the van when they were misbehaving. I sat them on the curb (in our subdivision) and told them they were not getting back into the van until they stopped fighting. So, I didn't drive away and leave them, but I think I made my point. They were mostly well-behaved in the van after that.

Now I drive an SUV with a DVD player, why couldn't I have had one of those when my older kids were little?????

Susan, but another gay male.

1) Babbling idiot around the hotness.
2) Creative, but pragmatic.
3) Better relationship with my ex's blond partner than my ex.

Plus, those pretty consistent moments of "Oh, God, I've done that!"