Grandma Barksdale: Difference between revisions

Of her three daughters, she is closest to Rita and appears to favor her over Helen and Amy. This spawned a long-running feud between the three sisters that is finally (one hopes) resolved in "[[Aunt Nauseam]]". Before then, Helen occasionally ranted about the unfair treatment Rita and Erin get, said rants being remarkably similar to her husband [[Jake Morgendorffer]]'s rants against his father. Rita once attacked Helen and Amy for never calling their mother themselves, and said that they were partially to blame for the bad relationship; Amy gave a bitter response (with Helen's agreement) of "Why should we when she's never offered us the slightest bit of encouragement or appreciation?". While Helen and Amy concur that Rita was the favourite daughter, ''Rita'' and Amy have concurred that their mother wanted them to work as hard as Helen did, which left Rita bitter that her sister made her look "lazy." Notably, "Aunt Nauseam" also features a phone conversation between Helen and her mother; while we only hear one side of it, it's clear that Grandma Barksdale is praising Helen, which makes Helen reluctantly agree to help the situation with Rita.