# RIP Bea Arthur
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [April 25, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343 "2009-04-25T20:13:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/1 "2009-04-25T20:13:50Z")
I just heard, on CNN, that Bea Arthur has died at the age of 86. Can’t find a link anywhere.
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### Author:  [@Myrrajh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrrajh)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/2 "2009-04-25T20:21:19Z")
Here’s a link.
> **[News](https://www.etonline.com/news/2009/04/73212)**
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> Entertainment Tonight (ET) is the authoritative source on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access to Hollywood's biggest stars, upcoming movies, and TV shows.
Loved her as Maude…“God will get you for that, Walter.”
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### Author:  [@descamisado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/descamisado)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/3 "2009-04-25T20:22:42Z")
Hope Ma is waiting for her Pussycat in Heaven with a good Sicily story.
R.I.P. Bea.
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### Author:  [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/4 "2009-04-25T20:31:02Z")
\*Maude \*really stands up a well written, timely, relevant show. It’s surprisingly hard hitting on the issues it covers–it pulls no punches on abortion or single motherhood or drugs–and is pretty dang funny at the same time. Worth seeking out if you haven’t seen it.
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### Author:  [@Race\_Harley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Race_Harley)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/5 "2009-04-25T20:44:22Z")
R.I.P. Ms Arthur
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### Author:  [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/6 "2009-04-25T21:28:10Z")
Ugh! This bums me out. I grew up watching The Golden Girls and still love it, and I discovered Maude when it was on Nick @ Nite back in the 90’s or something and liked that, too. Bea was hilarious in both roles. ☹
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### Author:  [@Green\_Cymbeline](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Cymbeline)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/7 "2009-04-25T21:31:13Z")
I was just watching Golden Girls last night. It’s on Nick and Night and I often watch it while going to sleep. It’s a wonderful show, and Bea Arthur was great in it.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/8 "2009-04-25T21:35:06Z")
i enjoyed her work, and loved her voice.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/9 "2009-04-25T21:39:06Z")
I’m so sorry to hear this…the Golden Girls are down to two now.
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### Author:  [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/10 "2009-04-25T21:39:38Z")
I was privileged to see her on Broadway in the '60s . . . in the original cast of “Fiddler on the Roof” and especially in “Mame.”
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### Author:  [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/11 "2009-04-25T21:41:58Z")
Bea Arthur was fabulous in everything I ever saw her in, from Maude on _All in the Family_ as well as her own show to _Golden Girls_. I didn’t really like GG much, but the few times I watched it, Bea was always terrific.
Since everyone will be talking about Maude and Dorothy, I’m gonna give a shout out to her hilarious line readings as a guest star in an entirely different show – _Futurama_, where she played a robot disguising herself as a computer:
> [@Amazon Women in the Mood](#):
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> Bender: You’re no Femputer, you’re a Fembot!
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> Fembot: (ashamed) It’s true. I disguised myself as a Femputer so I could rule the Amazonians.
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> Bender: But why?
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> Fembot: Why? _Why?_ I came here from a faraway planet. A planet ruled by a chauvinistic Manputer that was really a Manbot. Have you any idea how it feels to be a Fembot living in a Manbot’s Manputer’s world?
She was awesome.
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### Author:  [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/12 "2009-04-25T22:00:32Z")
I love Bea, she’s long been a favorite of mine. _Maude_ was one of my must watch shows and I still love it today, but Arthur’s Broadway career was aces too.
I’m not as sad as I was when Natasha Richardson died, because Bea had a long, very full life. She’ll still be missed.
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### Author:  [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/13 "2009-04-25T22:04:59Z")
My inner Golden Girl is no more. ☹
RIP Bea Arthur.
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/14 "2009-04-25T22:07:51Z")
Bea’s actually the oldest Golden Girl, right? I know Estelle was younger than her. If I were a Golden Girl I’d be a combination of Dorothy and Blanche.
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### Author:  [@randwill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randwill)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/15 "2009-04-25T22:12:19Z")
He’ll be missed.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/16 "2009-04-25T22:25:13Z")
Gah. In my youth, I wanted to dress like Maude in those FAB 1970’s dusters. 🙂
She will be missed, indeed.
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### Author:  [@Ruby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruby)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/17 "2009-04-25T22:26:13Z")
> [@randwill](#):
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> He’ll be missed.
Do you know something I don’t know? :dubious:
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### Author:  [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/18 "2009-04-25T22:53:52Z")
The only good thing to come out of the Star Wars Holiday Special is no more
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/19 "2009-04-25T22:54:46Z")
This made me very sad. She will be greatly missed.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-bea-arthur/494343/20 "2009-04-25T23:54:51Z")
She was a truly handsome woman with a great sense of comedic timing. She made being older sexy, alone with Betty and Rue.
RIP, Bea. You did tremendous work.
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