Meinhardt Raabe Is Not Only Merely Dead, but is Really Most Sincerely Dead

Or
Choppin’ Broccoli
(Kudos to Dearly Departed Don)
Meinhardt Raabe, star of CSI: Oz, has died of a heart attack at the age of 94. The munchkin coroner who declared the Wicked Witch of the East dead from an acute allergic reaction to the mold underneath the Kansas farmhouse that fell on her, was one of the last remaining munchkins, and the last actor to have a line in The Wizard of Oz, even if his actual line reading was dubbed by a speeded-up version of a full-size actor. Raabe was already a part of the pop culture lexicon as the first Little Oscar, mascot for Oscar Mayer, driving around the country in the first Weinermobile in 1936.