posted by Lara

Wow! How ’bout that Carol Brady, huh?

Don’t despair. The Mother’s Day fun continues with this Bea Arthur as Maude Mother’s Day Card.

on Etsy.

You know Maude, right? Bea Arthur before The Golden Girls? The show was a little before our time here at Fortune Colby Crafts– it aired from ’72 to ’78 – but I caught some reruns when I was a kid and was totally flummoxed by the way the theme song ended: “Right on, Maude,” Donny Hathaway sings. (I love Wikipedia). I wasn’t familiar with the slang expression “right on” (I’m pushing my glasses up my nose here), so I remember asking my mom what that meant.

Me: Do they mean, like, ‘it all happens on Maude’, like she’s a street?
My mom: No.

The moral of the story: Maude is way cooler than I was or can ever hope to be. Here are some mother f**king fun facts about Maude:

1. She’s Edith Bunker’s cousin!
2. She had three husbands with the best dog names ever: Barney, Albert and Chester!
3. Maude’s first maid was Florida Evans from Good Times!
4. Maude took tranquilizers and drank every night after dinner! (Finally something in common.)
5. Seriously though, the television show addressed some very topical issues and themes: abortion (Maude had one just before Roe V. Wade), feminism (Maude and her daughter Carol were!), domestic abuse (Walter hit Maude once and had a nervous breakdown about it), and WEED, of course! (It was the seventies.)

So anyway– what a cool show, first—and second, isn’t Maude the most perfect harbinger of Mother’s Day ever? Don’t you feel liberated just thinking about giving this card to your mom?  If not, just watch this. Be inspired. Right on, Maude! And right on, you, for reading this entire blog post!