Marie Barone or Endora: Which mother-in-law was worse?

[Sal]

My choice is Marie Barone, no question about it!

Marie may be a nice, sweet, gentle old lady on the outside but on the inside, she is evil personified. Just ask her husband Frank!

On the contrary, Endora is the complete opposite: evil on the surface, gentle and loving underneath.

Endora's dislike for Darrin stems from the simple fact that he is a mortal and no mortal could ever be good enough for her daughter (except me, of course! ) . So she sets out to test him using her powers and he ends up passing her tests every time. Only when she realizes how much Darrin truly loves Samantha does she let up.

Marie, on the other hand, never lets up! She may seem very nice and gracious and always willing to help out her grandchildren and daughters-in-law, but her husband and sons always see right through her act for what she really is: a heavily (literally and figuratively) protective mother who remains unwilling to cut the apron strings and let her sons live their normal lives without any shred of maternal interference, which happens in nearly every episode. Her favorite trick is to create competition and foster guilt among her sons and daughters, which only leads to further problems, not that she ever takes the blame for them. It's no coincidence that she just happens to live next door.


No doubt about it, Marie is worse!