While most might know her from All in the Family or Nine to Five, I love Sally Struthers for her role on Gilmore girls. Portrayed as the crazy neighbor lady and town gossip, Sally Struthers plays Babette Dell on Gilmore Girls. A lot of her best moments were small moments, thrown in there for some color but were always hysterical nonetheless. Enjoy some of my favorite moments from her. Whether giving advice about men, tormenting her poor husband, or being the crazy neighbor next door, Babette is the best!
1. Eastside Tilly; I kind of liked how they always referred to her as one of the top town gossips, but we never actually saw her. Their descriptions of her were really all you needed.
4. Then there was the time that she hung Morey from homemade gallows to scare the kids on Halloween. The things we do for love.
5. And then made him drink 30 bottles of coke so she could use the bottles. Poor guy didn't stand a chance.
6. But let's not forget the time she wanted to make him a jungle....
7. She always had great advice on love. Never afraid to tell it like it is.
8. It probably came from all of her own weird experiences...like being in a cult.
9. The time she truly set the bar for nightmares of boyfriends in the past. Only she could have this story in her past...
10. Then finally, the time she described Spring perfectly. "Pow-color coming out of your yin yang!"
11. Her love for her gnomes is about as standard as it gets for a crazy neighbor lady. Pierpont was the one with the pipe, remember?
12. Without Morey, she easily would have been the cat lady. But it's nice of her to keep Kirk in such high regard.
13. And we can't forget the time that she deemed squash 'sexy' in a town meeting.
14. The time she admitted she has a thing for weather men. Never would have crossed my mind to compare them with fortune tellers, but that's priceless.
15. And finally, the time she conveniently neglected to mention that she was describing a game of Twister.
She may have been a side character, but she had some hysterically creative moments thanks to Amy Sherman Palladino. All that to say, Stars Hollow wouldn't have been the same without the colorful Babette Dell.