You Might Remember Him From Such Films As...

The Seven-Year Old Bitch

Sorry, Wrong Closet

Suddenly Last Supper

They Came to Burgle Carnegie Hall

Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die

The Verdict Was Mail Fraud

The Wackiest Covered Wagon in the West

Jagged Attraction

Look Who's Still Oinking

Rest in Peace, Carol Ann Susi

Character actress Carol Ann Susi has died at the age of 62. Ms. Susi had guest starring roles in numerous television shows like Married With Children, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Cheers and so many more. One of her most well known roles was as a hapless woman who is setup with George Costanza on a blind date by her mother, an unemployment benefits counselor. 

Most recently she provided the voice of Mrs. Wolowitz, the mother of Howard on The Big Bang Theory. Her hilarious performance put her in TV's "Heard But Not Seen" Hall of Fame.

Nancy Walker: TV Director

Known for her roles as the Bounty pitchwoman Rosie and Rhoda Morgenstern's mother, Nancy Walker was quite a versatile actress. She put her years of Hollywood experience to work when she directed episodes of Mary Tyler Moore, Rhoda and Alice. In 1980, she turned her attention to feature films. Unfortunately, the project she chose was the disastrous Can't Stop the Music. She never directed another feature film.

The Real Golden Girls House

Millions of people vacationing in Florida's Walt Disney World who took Disney-MGM Studios' "Backlot Tour" in the 1990's thought they were looking at the actual house used in the Golden Girls credit sequence. But the house (like much of Disney's Florida property) was a fake.

The real house actually exists in Brentwood, California where it still stands to this day. Much like how the company tried to export Walt Disney's real Magic Kingdom to Florida, it built a fake house to make its studio guests believe they were in a real studio. While the real house in California remains standing, the fake Florida house was torn down in 2003.

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"When you have a dream, you've got to grab it and never let go."

-Carol Burnett

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"Well, she was gonna smell like a beer sooner or later." 

-MST3K

Mister T: The Cartoon Show

One of the worst and most bizarre Saturday Morning cartoons was Mister T. The gruff vigilante traveled the world with his teenage gymnastics team, bizarrely solving mysteries along the way.

Bad Words on TV

Everyone knows George Carlin’s famous “Words you can’t say on TV” routine, but did you know that at least two of the words on his infamous list have actually been spoken on American broadcast television? Even more surprising, their appearance in scripted shows happened more than twenty years ago on a network not known for edginess- CBS!

 At a time when granny approved programming like Murder, She Wrote was still gracing American TVs, Sharon Gless was tearing down barriers. Believe it or not, she was the very first person to purposely use the word “tits” in a scripted show- the pilot of her short-lived drama The Trials of Rosie O’Neill. 

 Sharon Gless has always been known as someone who enjoys edgier, barrier breaking roles, so it’s no shock that she would willingly embrace the opportunity to fly in the face of convention. However, nobody would say the same of Mark Harmon. ‘Dependable’ & ‘Safe’ would describe his project choices. Who would have guessed that he’d be the first actor to say ‘shit’ on network television? He did- on his CBS show Chicago Hope. A daring choice for a network popular with the blue hairs.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Frances Bavier

Eagle-eyed viewers of Alfred Hitchcock Presents might recognize a familiar face playing a nosy neighbor- it is Andy Griffith's Aunt Bea herself, Frances Bavier!

In Revenge, Ms. Bavier lives next to a deranged woman who convinces her husband that she was attacked by a strange man. This being an Alfred Hitchcock story, the man realizes- too late- that his wife was lying and he has killed an innocent man. Perhaps he should have listened to Ms. Bavier's snooping character...

Twilight Zone Classics: Twenty Two

Twenty Two, a classic episode of The Twilight Zone, featured a young lady who was hospitalized due to "nerves". Each night, she has a vivid dream in which she wanders down to the hospital basement, where a creepy nurse  tells her that there's room for one more- in the morgue.

After checking herself out of the hospital, the young lady happens upon a familiar looking stewardess who has a frightening statement to make, leading to a shocking finale.

"Room for one more, honey. Room for one more!"

The Three Mr. Freezes

The 1966 Batman television series had a frantic shooting schedule. Its second season ran an amazing 60 episodes, which drained many actors. As a result, a few of the characters were played by multiple actors, including Mr. Freeze, who was played by George Sanders:

Eli Wallach:

And amazingly, even legendary director Otto Preminger:

Though Mr. Preminger did direct the film Skidoo a few years later, so perhaps he wasn't of sound mind at the time.

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“I mean it’s one banana Michael. What could it cost, $10?”

-Lucille Bluth

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"I do NOT vo-dee-oh-doh-doh!"

-Shirley Feeney