Surely, there is a Night Court fanatic amongst the SDopers! In the older episodes, there was an older lady who was kinda crabby and usually ridiculing Bull, IIRC. I want to say it was Nancy Walker, but this name does not appear in the “Full Cast” listing on IMDB.com. Well, she’s a lot like Nancy Walker!
So, who was this old lady? 
Surely, someone remembers! (Just recently, I saw her on CHiPs as a helpless old lady changing a flat tire…if some CHiPs fans may recognize her!)
Selma Diamond?
ETA Florence Halop was also on CHiPs
Chain-smoking Selma Diamond! She was awesome. One of my favorite lines of hers was an exchange between her and (I think) Bull where she mentions that she bought herself an exercise bike. Bull asks how far she rides every day and she says “I don’t know, I took off the speedometer to make room for the ashtray.” 
Selma Diamond was one of the few women writers on early TV comedy/variety shows. The Rose Marie character on The Dick van Dyke Show was partially based on her.
I know without looking it up that Selma Diamond fits your description. She was only on for the first season or so, and died of lung cancer. She was replaced by the relatively similar Florence Halop, who only lasted about a season herself. Subsequently Marcia Wallace joined the cast, but she wasn’t quite the same sort of character.
Correction: Marsha Warfield. She may not have been the same type of character, but it was when she arrived where the cast really seemed to jell.
Kinda crabby? That’s like saying the sun is kinda warm.
She was one of my favorites from the first season cast.
Or to put it another way: Marcia Warfield was as different a character from Diamond and from everybody else on the show as was possible to invent without hiring an alien.
Markie Post had some nice jell. 
One of my favorite bittersweet sequences from TV is the episode that ends with Harry sitting on the curb, telling a dog, “It’s my birthday.” (Anyone know which episode that is?)
:smack: Thanks, yes. That’s what I get for relying on memory.
“The Birthday Visitor” (season 2) and “Melvin and Harold” (season 7) both take place on Harry’s birthday, if that narrows it down a little…
Didn’t know you were a hair man.
Selma Diamond died after season 2 wrapped. Florence Halop after season three. Marsha Warfield was no doubt given a thorough medical exam before being hired.
Totally missed the diabetes.
She was, however, at least 30 years younger than either of her predecessors.
The episode where she “died” (already being dead) and Bull losing it was a classic. And after meeting Flo, his “Can I keep her?” Terrific writing and television.
“I’m here about the job.”
“What job?”
“Does this look like a wetsuit?”
“I’m gonna need a raise.”
I’m loving that MeTV is running repeats of Night Court about 4 times a night. Keeps my DVR busy, it does.
