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Marcia Wallace, ‘Simpsons’ Voice Actor, Dies at 70

REUTERS - October 26, 2013 at 4:30 PM ET

(Reuters) - Actress Marcia Wallace, the voice of Edna Krabappel on the Fox show "The Simpsons" and earlier Carol Kester, the receptionist on the 1970s sitcom "The Bob Newhart Show," has died at 70.

"I was tremendously saddened to learn this morning of the passing of the brilliant and gracious Marcia Wallace," said executive producer, Al Jean. "She was beloved by all at The Simpsons and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character."

Wallace, who had survived breast cancer, died at home, according to a Fox publicist, Antonia Coffman.

A fellow cast member and voice of Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, wrote a farewell to Wallace on Twitter Saturday morning.

"Cheers to the hilarious, kind, fab Marcia Wallace, who has taken her leave of us. Heaven is now a much funnier place b/c of you, Marcia," Smith tweeted.

Wallace won an Emmy for outstanding voice actress in 1992. Her long-running "Simpsons" character Edna Krabappel was Bart Simpson's jaded, crabby fourth-grade teacher.

Earlier, Wallace played the chatty receptionist on "The Bob Newhart Show." She also appeared on "The Merv Griffin Show" and game shows such as "Hollywood Squares" and "The $25,000 Pyramid."

Executive producer Jean had previously hinted about killing off one of the show's characters.

"Earlier we had discussed a potential storyline in which a character passed away," Jean said in a statement. "This was not Marcia's Edna Krabappel. Marcia's passing is unrelated and again, a terrible loss for all who had the pleasure of knowing her."

Wallace published an autobiography "Don't Look Back, We're Not Going that Way," in 2004. Her husband, hotelier Dennis Hawley, died in 1992. She had a son, Michael Hawley.

(Reporting By Noreen O'Donnell; editing by Gunna Dickson)
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I watched her on the Bob Newhart Show when I was a kid, too. RIP to a very funny lady.
 
I watched the Simpsons so much at one point that I adopted her "ha!" laugh. Mrs Krabappel was one of the best characters thanks to her voice work.
 
I will say that I noticed her voice sounding "older" in the more recent episodes I've watched (though I haven't watched it properly for years.)

She was very good as Edna. Especially with that purple monkey dishwasher remark.
 
She must have been a trooper to keep recording those voices all the way up to her death.

Regarding the show, this is pretty huge, not just in terms of Ned, but Bart will need a new teacher.

Maybe Ned will marry Maudes ghost after all.

And on top of all this, they are still planning on killing someone else off.
 
I don't think it's shit. I think people expect too much. For a show that has cranked out 500 episodes over a quarter-century, overall it's still diong pretty well. Yes, it's doubtful that there will be another episode in the future that people will regard as highly as anything from the first decade. But...aw I dunno, whatever. It's not committing a crime by still existing, like SNL is. There are still laughs to be found around the edges.
 
In theory, The Simpsons could become great again, if all the talent that went to Futurama went back to The Simpsons. Of course, this is unlikely at best, but hey, one can hope, right?
 
There are writers in the world who have finished university who weren't born when the Simpsons started, maybe some of them could breath some new life into it.

I still enjoy it, and will be genuinely sad when it does end.
 
I didn't know Ned had ended up with Mrs Krabappel. If they do keep it going then developments like that might be for the good. The main problem I always have with recent episodes is that nothing ever has a consequence. Bart could get hit by a car and be running around in the next scene, or Homer could lose his job and its not mentioned again. The kind of lazy writing the show used to make fun of. Maybe a more serialised format would help.
 
The Futurama writers were off the mark as much as they hit the bullseye with the last 2 seasons.

I think everyone who has been there longer than a decade is tired. It's unusual for writers to stick with a TV show that long, it just doesn't happen that often. This is why both shows fell into the trap pf becoming overly & too specifially topical, which dates the episodes in ways that they used to be able to avoid. This was particularly bad for Futurama, since it takes place a thousand uyears in the future.
 
Nice.

'Simpsons' plans tribute to Marcia Wallace this Sunday

By James Hibberd on Oct 31, 2013 at 1:51PM @james_hibberd

Fox and The Simpsons producers are making some changes to Sunday’s programming to pay tribute to the passing of longtime Simpsons actress Marcia Wallace.

First, the network is replacing a repeat of American Dad with a classic Simpsons episode that focused on Wallace’s beloved character Edna Krabappel.

The network will re-air the 16th episode of the show’s third season, “Bart the Lover,” which offered a sympathetic take on Bart’s cynical, lonely teacher. In the episode, Bart discovers Krabappel has posted a personal ad, so he begins writing her bogus love letters. After setting her up on a fake date, he spies her sitting by herself in the restaurant. When she’s still there hours later, he’s no longer amused by his prank and sets about trying to make things right. The episode won Wallace an Emmy Award in 1992.

“Bart the Lover” will air as the 7:30 p.m. lead-in to an all-new Simpsons, titled “4 Regrettings and a Funeral.” The new episode will then conclude with a tribute card from the producers honoring Wallace. Also, the episode opens with an epic-length couch-gag spoof of The Hobbit (video here).

Wallace died at age 70. “I was tremendously saddened to learn this morning of the passing of the brilliant and gracious Marcia Wallace,” producer Al Jean said in a statement earlier this week. “She was beloved by all at The Simpsons and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character.”
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Yeah, Sky showed that episode, along with three other Edna centric episodes the day after she died.

While I was watching the newer episodes I never noticed how old she was sounding, but now Wacky mentioned it, its all I notice.
 
Hmph. The listings still say that the 1992 episode was supposed to air at 7:30, but they did a switcheroo and ran the more recent episode where Ned & Edna first hook up instead. Maybe they just didn't want to show a non-HD ep...
 
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