Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

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Marcia 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

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 1:33pm

Oh no.

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Marcia 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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Marcia 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.

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Updated On: 10/26/13 at 02:31 PM

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Marcia 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.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 2:53pm

Not to mention a kick-ass Match Game panelist.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 7:07pm

She was such a talented, funny, and sweet woman. RIP.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:30pm

Sadness.

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Marcia 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.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:37pm

It premiered a few weeks ago.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:40pm

WHAT?!?! I need to beat the SH*T out of my DVR!!

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:44pm

There were one or two episodes and a Treehouse of Horror.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:48pm

The Treehouse of Horror featured "Macabre Marcia Wallace".

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:49pm

Well I'm sure they'll do a really nice tribute to her.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:53pm

Hope so. Poor Ned.

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Marcia 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

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/26/13 at 11:38pm

I'm sure her passing makes it difficult for The Simpsons because they had already announced they were going to kill off another character.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/27/13 at 1:10am

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?

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Marcia 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! =)

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Marcia 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."

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/27/13 at 7:44am

Rest in Peace, Carol. (Such a wonderful ensemble.)

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/27/13 at 11:20am

"but did mrs k and flanders get married?"

Yes

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Marcia 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.

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Marcia 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.

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Marcia Wallace dead at 70. R.I.P.

Posted: 10/28/13 at 12:20pm

RIP Marcia Wallace. The world is a smaller and sadder place now.

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