Penny for your Trough

or
Blondie Bums-dead

Or
Jane Jets-done
(Props to Michelle)

Or
Penny's for Heaven
(An epitaphany for Monty and Michelle)
Penny Singleton, best known for playing Blondie Bumstead in 28 unique and highly sophisticated comedies in the 1930s, '40s and '50s, died after suffering a stroke at the age of 95. Somehow, Singleton never let the problem at the office/problem at home/wacky misunderstanding plots grow tired or stale or repetitive or redundant or trite or cliched or corny.... Although her contributions to cinematic legend are limited, Singleton was no dumb Blondie, as she is credited with creating the concept and even the term residuals, where performers are paid for repeat broadcasts, and had this clause added to her contracts for the Blondie series. After being typecast as Blondie, screen roles dried up, but Singleton became the voice of Jane Jetson, swinging '60s space mom, and reprised the role when the cartoon was resurrected in the 1980s and in several films. Prior to her Blond-nanza, Singleton had shared the stage with Jack Benny and Milton Berle, and received Humphrey Bogart's first on-screen kiss. After The Jetsons was canceled, Singleton turned her attention to labor matters, leading a strike by the Rockettes in 1966 to gain better working conditions, and becoming president of the American Guild of Variety Artists in 1969, the first woman to lead an AFL-CIO union. She also led the first strike against Disneyland, which had been using college students as cheap labor.