Stop, My Mom Is Shot

Or
Picture it, Los Angeles, 2008

Or
Lifetime, Television for Dead Women

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Stop, or My Mom Will Croak
(Props to Mark)

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I Wouldn't Bury Her With Bea Arthur's Shovel
(An epitaphany shared by Mark and Phil)

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Golden Harp Girl
(Kudos to Monty)

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Syndicated to Death
(More Merit for Monty)

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Gone to the Shady Pines Garden of Memories
(Accolades for Phil, displaying disturbingly deep Golden Girls cred)

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Stop or My Mom Will Shoot - Mom?, Mom.......?
(Additional accolades for Phil)
Estelle Getty, star of Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot, has died at age 84 of complications from any one of the half dozen dementia related illnesses ascribed to her over the last decade. Getty had bounced around stages for decades before Brandon Tartikoff came upon the idea of promoting the funny side of strokes and greenlit The Golden Girls, a show that took all those hilarious unfiltered things that kids say because they don’t know any better and transferred them to a feisty octogenarian who had suffered a stroke and lost that social filter that tells people they can’t just say anything they want. For 7 years, Getty, as Sophia Petrillo, scored Emmy nominations for mocking dim-witted Rose, creepily horny Blanche and hermaphroditic Dorothy. When Blanche, the original cougar, declared her life was an open book, Sophia countered, “Your life is an open blouse.” The less said about sequels Golden Palace, Golden Showers and the Cinemax offshoot Golden Girls Gone Wild, the better. Other roles included Harvey Fierstein’s mother in Torch Song Trilogy, Cher’s mother in Mask, and the matronly owner of the Philly department store where Andrew McCarthy makes his love connection with Kim Cattrall in Mannequin.