Estelle Getty, lead spitfire of the Golden Girls, dead at the age of 84. The dirty little secret of "Golden Girls" - aside from Rue McClanahan's lengthy, nasty heroin habit - was that although Getty played Dorothy's mother, and the other two stars were supposed to be of Dorothy's generation, Estelle was younger than both Bea Arthur and Betty White. Being of a petite build, she fit more naturally into the elderly lady role - Getty was a pixieish four-foot-ten-and-a-half while Bea Arthur was six-foot-six, 300 pounds.
Getty was also known for her triumphant turn as Sylvester Stallone's mother in the 1992 comedy classic Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot. When I was in Austria in 1992, this film was playing in Innsbruck, where it was billed as Stop! Oder Mein Mammi Scheisst, which means that just seeing the poster had the benefit of doubling the number of words in my German vocabulary. Getty supposedly agreed to do the film as long as there were no actual guns in it, which makes you wonder what they told her the movie was called.
I's just kidding about Rue McClanahan.
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I've snorted quite enough H with Rue McClanahan to know when you're kidding and when you're not kidding, thanks very much.
Good day, sir!
(You realize I'm gonna keep posting that line until you do what you need to do so that I can cap the joke, right?)
And good day to you!
(Is that it?)
Have you never seen "Willy Wonka"? The lines that became wildly overused by comedians everywhere (but very well used by Phil Hartman on "NewsRadio") have Wonka saying, "Good day sir." Then Jack Albertson begins to protest -- it can be any old verbiage the way this joke works -- then Wonka shouts, "I said good day!"
Are you even American?
Is Willy Wonka even American?
We can't know that.
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