RIP, Cloris Leachman

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My wife, who had never seen Young Frankenstein, didn’t crack a smile until she howled with laughter at the scene where Frau Blucher reveals her romantic entanglement. I love her for making my wife laugh. https://youtu.be/Ec8h_DojbMQ?t=75

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Wow, what a long life.

I knew her best from the last years of The Facts of Life.

RIP

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Two great roles from when I was a kid. She had range.

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Frau Blücher! Absolutely classic.

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The coincidental timing was interesting with American Gods Season 3 Episode 2 airing recently.

Spoiler Alert

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Also a nice memory

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Oh, you’re so strict!

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With very weird timing, they just aired the funeral for her character on American Gods.

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I’ve had the song from High Anxiety stuck in my head ever since I heard the news. What a great and talented actress.

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This quote gets regular rotation in my household.

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OMG, I totally forgot she was in the FoL in later seasons!!!

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Not all of us have seen it yet…

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She was also the great-grandma in Raising Hope. She got her last Emmy nomination from it

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He vas my boyfriend!

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She was wonderfully crass in Malcom in the Middle, too.

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Meh, adapting a 19 year old novel and such.

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It’s got lots of stuff that’s not in the book, though.

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I really loved her role in Sky High. She had great comic timing.

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