Honey, I Shit the Bed

Marcia Strassman, enabler in the most inappropriate teacher-student relationship this side of Mary Kay Letourneau, has died after a lengthy battle with breast cancer at the age of 66. After a few modest successes with hippie music on the West Coast and replacing Liza Minnelli in an off-Broadway play, Strassman scored the recurring role of Margie Cutler, foil for Hawkeye’s amorous advances before he became sanctimonious. That job led to her best known role, Julie, the only of Gabe Kaplan’s myriad relatives that we actually see on Welcome Back, Kotter. After a decade of living off her residuals, she resumed her career as a harried wife, this time as that of inventor Wayne Szalinski in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid.