Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#1Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 12:42pm
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
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#2Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 1:33pmOh no.
#2Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 2:19pm
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
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#3Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 2:31pm
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.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#4Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 2:52pm
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.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#5Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 2:53pmNot to mention a kick-ass Match Game panelist.
hairspraydude1962
Leading Actor Joined: 7/20/09
#6Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 7:07pmShe was such a talented, funny, and sweet woman. RIP.
#7Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:30pmSadness.
#8Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:33pm
So incredibly sad.
I have a feeling that whatever Bart writes on the chalkboard in the season premiere is going to make me cry.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#9Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:37pmIt premiered a few weeks ago.
#10Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:40pmWHAT?!?! I need to beat the SH*T out of my DVR!!
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#11Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:44pmThere were one or two episodes and a Treehouse of Horror.
#12Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:48pmThe Treehouse of Horror featured "Macabre Marcia Wallace".
#13Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:49pmWell I'm sure they'll do a really nice tribute to her.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#14Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:53pmHope so. Poor Ned.
#15Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:57pm
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
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#16Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/26/13 at 11:38pmI'm sure her passing makes it difficult for The Simpsons because they had already announced they were going to kill off another character.
#17Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 1:10amshe 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?
eatlasagna
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#18Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 1:29am
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! =)
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#19Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 1:36am
"I want something crazy like yours."
"Mine's not a wig."
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#20Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 7:44amRest in Peace, Carol. (Such a wonderful ensemble.)
beautywickedlover
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/07
#21Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 11:20am
"but did mrs k and flanders get married?"
Yes
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#22Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 8:39pm
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.
FindingNamo
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/03
#23Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/27/13 at 8:43pm
Wow. I can't imagine never seeing one single episode of one of TV's greatest shows ever.
Roscoe
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#24Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.
Posted: 10/28/13 at 12:20pmRIP Marcia Wallace. The world is a smaller and sadder place now.
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