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{{trope}}
You know this [[Always Female|lady]]. She's portly (or maybe just [[Hollywood Pudgy]]), [[Perpetual Smiler|perpetually smiling]] (or she could be a [[Servile Snarker]], it varies), and always ready to do what you need her to
Such ladies can be a [[Parental Substitute]] to the
Probably not an [[Old Retainer]], since she usually does not have a high regard for doing things the Proper Way.
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Contrast [[Creepy Housekeeper]]. Compare [[Mammy]].
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== Film ==
* Mrs. Potts in ''[[
* [[Composite Character]] Nanny (a stand-in for the novel ''[[The Hundred and One Dalmatians]]''' Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler) in Disney's ''[[
* The recent movie adaptation of ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' portrays Mrs. Fairfax this way.
* ''[[Mary Poppins]]'' had one.
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* Calpurnia from ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]''.
* Hannah Gruen in the ''[[Nancy Drew]]'' books.
* Jack from ''[[
* Ida Jungmann in Thomas Mann's ''[[
* Peggotty from ''[[David Copperfield (novel)|David Copperfield]]''.
* Mrs. Hudson in the [[Sherlock Holmes]] canon fits this trope. She was actually Holmes' landlady, and didn't really clean up after him too often, but she did prepare his meals and admit clients in to see him. She even assisted directly in one of his cases, for which he complimented her as being "indispensable."
== Live Action TV ==
* Mrs. Bridges is the Kindly Queen of Kitchen in ''[[Upstairs, Downstairs]]''. She does have something of a temper, but is a caring mother to the servant folks.
* Alice from ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' is portrayed this way.
* In the ''[[
* Mrs. Garrett, Edna, and Pearl from ''[[
* Carla, the Drapers' black "girl" on ''[[Mad Men]]'', who is widely criticized for being confined to this trope and [[Satellite Character]] status in a show that has plenty of time to examine the problems of comparatively much more privileged (read: white) people in [[The Sixties]]. The only time she broke out of the role at all was during the scene when she was [[Put
* Mrs Elsie Hughes of ''[[Downton Abbey]]''.
* As noted in the Literature section, Mrs. Hudson. The Granada television adaptation of the [[Sherlock Holmes]] canon puts her even more squarely into this trope than the novels themselves, as it illustrates the mother-son type of attachment she shares with her eccentric boarder. This is most clearly seen in the episode in which Holmes returns after being believed dead for three years - he ''hugs'' her.
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== Video Games ==
* The player character's mother in ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Mrs. Beakly from ''[[
* ''[[The Jetsons]]'' have Rosie as their kindly housekeeper.
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