Posted on 04/03/2022 2:16:24 AM PDT by Gamecock
Estelle Harris, who hollered her way into TV history as George Costanza’s short-fused mother on “Seinfeld” and voiced Mrs. Potato Head in the “Toy Story” franchise, has died. She was 93.
As middle-class matron Estelle Costanza, Harris put a memorable stamp on her recurring role in the smash 1990s sitcom. With her high-pitched voice and humorously overbearing attitude, she was an archetype of maternal indignation.
Trading insults and absurdities with her on-screen husband, played by Jerry Stiller, Harris helped create a parental pair that would leave even a psychiatrist helpless to do anything but hope they’d move to Florida — as their son, played by Jason Alexander, fruitlessly encouraged them to do.
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Frank Costanza: We’ll go out for dinner tonight.
Estelle Costanza: I can’t tonight, I’m busy.
Frank Costanza: What do you mean, busy?
Estelle Costanza: I’m having dinner with someone.
Frank Costanza: With whom?
Estelle Costanza: Sid Farkus.
Frank Costanza: Sid Farkus?! You’re not having dinner with a bra salesman.
Estelle Costanza: Hey, he only sells them. He doesn’t wear them!
"Gold Jerry, that's gold!"
One of my favorite episodes. RIP funny lady.
I go out for a quart of milk, I come home and find my son treating his body like an amusement park
“George likes the bananas!”
“So let him have bananas on the SIDE!”
Estelle: I HAVE NO EYE FOR FASHION???!!!!!
I’m re-watching all of the Seinfeld episodes to escape the darkness and stupidity that’s engulfing our country.
ESTELLE: I knew it. I knew it.. I always knew you always had beautiful hands. I used to tell people. Frank, didn’t I use to talk about his hands?
FRANK: (Looking up from his paper) Who the hell did’ya ever mention his hands to?
ESTELLE: (Getting annoyed) I mentioned his hands to plenty of people!
FRANK: You never mentioned them to me!
GEORGE: (Snaps, then points to the coffee table) Hand me an Emory board.
(Estelle hands an Emory board to George. He takes it, then goes back to his manicure)
ESTELLE: I always talk about your hands - how they’re so soft and milky white..
FRANK: No! You never said milky white!
ESTELLE: (Getting angry) I said milky white!
Marking....
Estelle Costanza: [on the phone] Let me talk to her.
George: She wants to talk to you. [hands phone to Susan]
Susan Ross: Uh, hello?
Estelle Costanza: Congratulations!
Susan Ross: I just want you to know that I love your son very much.
Estelle Costanza: You do?
Susan Ross: Yes.
Estelle Costanza: Really?
Susan Ross: Yes.
Estelle Costanza: May I ask why?
Yup,
Good Call.
Georie, I’m hungry.
Hold on Ma, hold on........
Did a great job on “Seinfeld.” RIP.
George: Look at that. They got lobster on the menu. Who would order a lobster here. I mean, do they bring a lobster in everyday hoping *todays* the day.
Estelle: So what if they have a lobster. Suddenly you’re a shell-fish connoisseur.
George: You know, I think we really need to be in front of a television set. You take T.V. out of this relationship, it is *just* torture.
Estelle: So, I’m getting an eye job.
RIP Estelle. Don’t make my cry.
93 is a good run… She was funny as hell. Her and Jerry Stiller were comic genius together one Seinfeld.
RIP Estelle… thank you for the laughs…
She was also great as an over the hill prostitute on “Night Court.”
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