• February 13, 2012
  • OH NOES ESTELLE GETTY DIED: Yeah, no “hot DC gossip” angle on this one unless you want to make yet another dumb John McCain/old people joke. Farewell, Sophia Petrillo! [Estelle Getty's web page]

{ 29 comments }

barcarbilly July 22, 2008 at 3:15 pm

New test coming soon: Which dead Golden Girl are you?

gurukalehuru July 22, 2008 at 3:15 pm

She will be fondly remembered.

jagorev July 22, 2008 at 3:15 pm

I have never heard of this person before.

Did she have anything to do with DC, even?

Sara K. Smith July 22, 2008 at 3:17 pm

[re=41407]jagorev[/re]: Oh my God you are YOUNG.

WhatTheHeck July 22, 2008 at 3:18 pm

But did McCain get her endorsement before the end came?

Gopherit v2.0 July 22, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Brimley’s next. I can feel it in my bones.

El Bombastico July 22, 2008 at 3:22 pm

I do look forward to fond remembrances of her groundbreaking work in “Stop, or My Mom Will Shoot.” She played Mom.

graceless July 22, 2008 at 3:24 pm

She was 84? That means all of the other actresses who were her age are also 84. Except of course, the ones who are already dead.

RIP.

[re=41414]Gopherit v2.0[/re]:

I doubt it, he does that diabetic testing everyday.

jagorev July 22, 2008 at 3:25 pm

[re=41409]Sara K. Smith[/re]: All that her Wikipedia page says is that she was on some show called “The Golden Girls”, which I have never seen. Did she at least sleep with Alan Greenspan in the ’70s? Everyone else did.

Darehead July 22, 2008 at 3:26 pm

Was she the one engaged to Mr. Big?

(see, so far, no old McCain snarks!)

NotUrEvryDayWEzl July 22, 2008 at 3:28 pm

[re=41409]Sara K. Smith[/re]: Young and clearly not gay.

I’m sad now. Thanks Sara.

tunamelt July 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm

[re=41428]NotUrEvryDayWEzl[/re]: I’m a young girl, so I know who she is. This is sad.

graceless July 22, 2008 at 3:31 pm

[re=41423]Darehead[/re]: She was older than John McCain. Happy now?

Uncle Al July 22, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Not sure, but I think Estelle Getty is one of McCain’s grandchildren. One of the brown ones.

mookworthjwilson July 22, 2008 at 3:35 pm

[re=41417]El Bombastico[/re]: Don’t worry…the sequel “Stop!…or my mom will do nothing but just lie there…lifeless…” comes out next month

sanantonerose July 22, 2008 at 3:39 pm

Well, dammit it all to hell.

For you, Sara K. Smith, a writer:

Blanche: I have writer’s block. It’s the worst feeling in the world.
Sophia: Try ten days without a bowel movement sometime.

And one for me, sanantonerose, a blond:

Miles Webber: Rose, I’ve never met anyone quite like you.
Sophia: Check the corn field on Hee-Haw.

mookworthjwilson July 22, 2008 at 3:40 pm

[re=41443]mookworthjwilson[/re]: Reading that back, I am a horrible person. :(

El Bombastico July 22, 2008 at 3:41 pm

[re=41443]mookworthjwilson[/re]: TOO SOON!

loquaciousmusic July 22, 2008 at 3:42 pm

She was hysterical. She will be missed.

sanantonerose July 22, 2008 at 3:51 pm

McCain? Please. Pay no attention to him. The man spent 90 days on the high seas drinking grain alchohol from a goat bladder.

/Sophia

sanantonerose July 22, 2008 at 3:54 pm

For the young uns:

Abhorred

shortsshortsshorts July 22, 2008 at 4:16 pm

I’m sorry but she liked teh geyz. And she was such an advocate for AIDS research when in truth, there is a cure for aids:
LOTS AND LOTS OF MONEY.

queeraselvis v 2.0 July 22, 2008 at 4:43 pm

Boo. But I’d wager good money she’s up in heaven getting ready to take a swig of GoLightly(R), drop her granny panties, and shit all over Jesse Helms’s grave.

JSDC007 July 22, 2008 at 5:27 pm

I’m sorry, but anyone who doesn’t know of the wisdom and mighty wit of one Sophia Petrillo, aka, Estelle Gettty, should not be allowed on wonkette. Shame, shame.

Estelle, you were Yoda, the Buddha, the Wise One. And the Real Funny Girl.

Gopherit v2.0 July 22, 2008 at 6:22 pm

[re=41474]sanantonerose[/re]: In McCain’s case, can we assume that it was a dead goat?

sanantonerose July 22, 2008 at 8:17 pm

[re=41676]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Maybe, but perhaps not.

chocokinoko July 22, 2008 at 8:18 pm

I always thought it was interesting that she was actually younger than her daughter on the Golden Girls

wonk_the_heck July 22, 2008 at 9:09 pm

Hey, Sophia, you will never have to go back to Shady Pines again.

masterdebater July 22, 2008 at 9:09 pm

She would still make a better president than McCranky.

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