Lynette Scavo
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| Lynette Scavo | |
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 Felicity Huffman as Lynette Scavo |
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| First appearance | Pilot (episode 1.01) |
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| Aliases | Lynette Lindquist (maiden name) Lynette Scavo (married name) |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 43 |
| Occupation | Pizzeria co owner and manager former Vice President, Accounts, Parcher & Murphy Advertising former housewife |
| Relationships | Tom Scavo (husband) |
| Children | Preston and Porter Scavo (twin sons) Parker Scavo (son) Penny Scavo (daughter) Kayla Huntington (step-daughter) |
| Relatives | Rodney Scavo (father-in-law) Allison Scavo (mother-in-law) |
| Portrayed by | Felicity Huffman |
| Created by | Marc Cherry |
Lynette Scavo (née Lindquist) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. The character is played by actress Felicity Huffman.
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[edit] History
| “ | "She used to see herself as a career woman, and a hugely successful one at that. She was known for her power lunches, her eye-catching presentations, and her ruthlessness in wiping out the competition. But unfortunately for Lynette, this new label frequently fell short of what was advertised." | ” |
[edit] Season 1
Lynette used to be a high-powered advertising executive but now her husband Tom travels almost all the time and her ADHD afflicted boys and infant daughter are driving her crazy. It is as though she took a new job she thought she would love, and now she desperately misses her old one but she is so driven that she tries to apply the same go-getter methods she used at work to being a mom. And it doesn't always work. Worse, Tom seems to have no idea how harried she is. He's oblivious to her plight, and his cluelessness only fuels her frustration. Lynette is fearless and able to say it like it is. When the worlds scariest stay-at-home mother, Maisy Gibbons, insists on a politically correct version of Little Red Riding Hood the impressionable Lynette gives Maisy a talking to, even offering to "throw down" outside. But Lynette, although a toughie, is also an intense overachiever, and in her frenzied attempt to get the costumes made on time, she winds up getting hooked on her sons' ADD medication. The career woman who once had it all begins to unravel, realizing she's not cut out for the life she leads.
Strung out and exhausted, she hallucinates that Mary Alice is offering her a revolver. When she finally calms down, she admits to Bree and Susan, that she thinks she's a terrible mother. This admission itself only becomes more painful to Lynette when her friends confess that they too found motherhood challenging. For the first time Lynette realizes that no one has an easy time of motherhood, and she sobs to the girls, "We should tell each other this stuff."
Seeking a solution to their problems, Tom and Lynette hire a nanny, but she turns out to be a little bit too attractive to keep around. Then, when Tom is offered a lucrative promotion that entails him traveling for work even more, Lynette finds a way to ensure that the offer is retracted. Nostalgic for her old days on the career path, she is ambivalent and frustrated with the challenges of what is supposed to be a placid, ideal life.
[edit] Seasons 2 and 3
As she begins to see what's right for her family might not be right for her, Lynette displays mettle we haven't seen before. When Tom quits his job and decides to be a stay-at-home dad, Lynette is torn by her desire to return to work and anxiety about leaving her kids. In the ending of season two, Lynette thinks that Tom is having an affair with a woman living far away. She follows Tom and sees them hug and kiss. Lynette then leaves Tom and takes the kids with her. Tom finds her after their son broke his arm from jumping off of a balcony and proves that he did not cheat, but instead he has a daughter that he never knew about. Her name is Kayla and she is 11. He had a one night stand with a woman named Nora Huntington and Nora got pregnant. Since then, Nora has moved into the same neighborhood and gets on Lynette's nerves day-after-day as Lynette desperately tries to find a way to get rid of her.
Lynette forbade Nora from talking to Tom after catching her trying to move in on him. In response, Nora stopped by their house to tell them that she was moving to Mexico and was taking Kayla with her. Lynette and Tom then decided on taking Nora to court to get legal custody over Kayla. Later in the day, however, plans changed when both Nora and Lynette found themselves on the wrong end of a hostage situation in a supermarket. During this situation, both Lynette and Nora got into an argument that caught the attention of Carolyn, the woman who was holding them hostage after trying to kill her own husband for having an affair. This resulted in Nora telling Carolyn that Lynette was trying to steal her child and Lynette countering in response telling her that Nora tried to steal her husband. This remark sent Carolyn over the edge, shooting Nora. Whilst Nora was drawing her last few breaths, she told Lynette to take good care of her daughter, Kayla. Nora's death sent Lynette into a rage, leading her to tell Carolyn that maybe she deserved to be cheated on. Carolyn drew her gun, aiming at Lynette to shoot her. Lynette's new neighbor Art Shephard threw a can at Carolyn's head while she was shooting, causing her to only shoot Lynette in the arm instead of the chest. Carolyn was shot by another one of the hostages. In all, leaving two dead (Carolyn and Nora) and two injured (Lynette and a supermarket employee). Afterwards, Lynette was hospitalized for her injuries.
She is now struggling to get Kayla to feel at home although she overheard the latter saying she would never love her and this saddens her she also gets upset when she gives Kayla her old doll which her Gran gave her but Kayla wrecks the doll and chucks it in the trash. Recently, Lynette decided to quit her job and work with Tom at their pizzeria and helps celebrate with everyone when Ian and Susan announce they're getting married on the Pizzeria launch night.
[edit] Quotes
- "Each of them is a blessing, really. But I think I just can't take any more blessings."
- "Tom, our last version of 'normal' had me popping pills. 'Normal' is a bad, bad plan."
- "Tom, it's okay. She's attractive. Men by nature are drawn to fertile young women with whom they can plant their seed. It's the basic flaw of your gender."
- "You know, our mothers were smart. They didn't get nannies or put us in day care because they knew if they did, we'd find out there are other women out there who are better mothers than they were."
- "Pat, can't you see here I am holding a baby hostage? I'll call back!"
- " Tom- (On the idea of adopting Kayla)But I thought you didnt want any more kids!
Lynette- "I didn't want the first four either but they're starting to grow on me."
[edit] Trivia
- Lynette's four children were originally planned to be called Peter, Paul, Preston and Patsy instead of Porter, Preston, Parker and Penny. Whether the "P" thing is an hommage to the other female-led series Charmed is unknown. Also on Episode 2 of Desperate Housewives, Penny's name is written as Daisy on Mike's whiteboard.
- While Bree's family is based on Marc Cherry's teen years, Lynette's is based on his childhood life.
- Lynette mentioned in season 1, that she and her sisters were hit by her mother, this possibly indicates that she was abused as a child.
| Desperate Housewives | ||
| Episode list | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Official site | ||
| Production | Marc Cherry | Characters | Actors | Awards | Broadcasting | DVD releases | Music | The Game | |
| Main characters |
Susan Mayer | Lynette Scavo | Bree Hodge | Gabrielle Solis | Edie Britt | Mary Alice Young Carlos Solis | Tom Scavo | Julie Mayer | Orson Hodge | Mike Delfino Andrew Van De Kamp | Danielle Van De Kamp | Preston and Porter Scavo | Parker Scavo | Ian Hainsworth |
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| Former main characters |
Betty Applewhite | Rex Van De Kamp | Paul Young | John Rowland | Zach Young | Karl Mayer |
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| Minor characters |
Carolyn Bigsby | Sophie Flickman | Maisy Gibbons | Ida Greenberg | Alma Hodge | Gloria Hodge |
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| Locations | Wisteria Lane | Eagle State | |
