IF THELMA AND LOUISE had been born in the late 1950s or early 1960s, they would have been Lucy and Ethel. And just think: without grape-stomping-winemaking, Vitameatavegamin-selling, chocolate-candy-wrapping-assembly-line-working mayhem you would never have met WJM’s Mary Richards and her bestie, Rhoda Morgenstern. Lucy and Ethel taught women how to get what they need and get men to listen a little harder without ever betraying each other. They also broke ethnic barriers without telling anyone—look America! A mixed-race marriage! English as a second language! And to this day, did we ever really know how old any of them were?