Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
Actress, Marcia Wallace, has died at 70 years of age. She played Edna Krabappel on 'The Simpsons' for 24 years and Carol Kester, the lovelorn, wisecracking secretary on 'The Bob Newhart Show'. She had been a survivor of breast cancer for many years. R.I.P.
ETA: It will be really hard to imagine 'The Simpsons' without Mrs. Krabappel.
Marcia Wallace, actress from 'The Simpsons' and 'The Bob Newhart Show', dies at 70
Updated On: 1/8/15 at 12:42 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
Oh no.
Makes me very sad. I always enjoyed her work, and I grew up watching her on Bob Newhart. She made millions of people laugh for many decades.
RIP
The EW artcle says that Edna Krabappel was her defining role--and who am I to argue with Entertainment Weekly???--but to this day, I think of Edna Krabappel as being played by "Marcia Wallace, from 'The Bob Newhart show'".
Perhaps that bias is simply a symptom of my age, but I've been watching 'The Simpsons' since the beginning, and it never managed to erase my memories of Carol Kester.
Still--what matters is that she gave me years and years of laughter.
RIP.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
How sad. A wonderful comedienne.
And Addison, I agree. I've watched The Simpsons from the beginning and I always thought of her as the wisecracking receptionist on Bob Newhart.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
Not to mention a kick-ass Match Game panelist.
Leading Actor Joined: 7/20/09
She was such a talented, funny, and sweet woman. RIP.
Sadness.
So incredibly sad.
I have a feeling that whatever Bart writes on the chalkboard in the season premiere is going to make me cry.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
It premiered a few weeks ago.
WHAT?!?! I need to beat the SH*T out of my DVR!!
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
There were one or two episodes and a Treehouse of Horror.
The Treehouse of Horror featured "Macabre Marcia Wallace".
Well I'm sure they'll do a really nice tribute to her.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
Hope so. Poor Ned.
If I were writing it, I'd just have Bart standing in front of a blank chalkboard with his head down.
Updated On: 10/26/13 at 10:57 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
I'm sure her passing makes it difficult for The Simpsons because they had already announced they were going to kill off another character.
she was also excellent on the short lived "that's my bush" on comedy central. and i've not been watching the simpsons the past few years but did mrs k and flanders get married?
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
how sad... she will be very sorely missed!
also.. as much as I loved her on the Simpsons and grew up on the show... to me she will always be the woman who sold Jan her wig on the Brady Bunch! =)
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
"I want something crazy like yours."
"Mine's not a wig."
Rest in Peace, Carol. (Such a wonderful ensemble.)
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
"but did mrs k and flanders get married?"
Yes
Remember her from Newhart show as I have never seen an episode of The Simpsons
Newhart may be the only one left from the cast
R.I.P.
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
Wow. I can't imagine never seeing one single episode of one of TV's greatest shows ever.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
RIP Marcia Wallace. The world is a smaller and sadder place now.
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