# Teri Garr RIP **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [October 29, 2024, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414 "2024-10-29T17:55:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 1:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/61 "2024-10-31T13:00:03Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > And then there’s her turn in [The Absent-Minded Waiter](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RRMfXlJMmPU)… Never saw that before. As a kid, I was a HUGE fan of Steve Martin. But now I see something like that and ask, what is funny about it? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2024, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/62 "2024-10-31T16:59:05Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats2](#): > > Unless I missed it, I’m surprised there’s been no mention of “Oh God” yet. And _Mr. Mom_, one of my personal favorites. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/63 "2024-11-02T03:04:05Z")
_Fresh Air_ tonight had a rebroadcast of an interview with Garr from 2005. She sounded quite awesome. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/64 "2024-11-02T03:13:57Z")
Teri was one of my very first crushes. I always adored her, and she excelled at playing funny, slightly exasperated characters. When _Friends_ first premiered, I thought to myself, “Lisa Kudrow reminds me more than a little of Teri Garr”…and when they cast Teri as Phoebe’s biological mother, later in the series, it was perfect. Rest well, dear Teri. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/65 "2024-11-02T03:59:37Z")
I remember 20-odd years ago I came across a promo for the spin-off series from “Assignment Earth,” her episode of _ **Star Trek** _, but I was never able to determine if it was legit. The series, if it ever got to the pre-production stage, would have been called _ **The Lincoln Logs** _, after her character Roberta Lincoln. Anybody else see this, or was it a work of pure fiction? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/66 "2024-11-02T04:49:33Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Anybody else see this, or was it a work of pure fiction? I’ve never heard of it, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. That said, “The Lincoln Logs” sounds a bit too cutesy and punny for one of Rodenberry’s titles. FWIW, “Lincoln Enterprises” was a company that Roddenberry was involved in, which sold Trek memorabilia and merchandise, as far back as 1967. The name apparently came from Roddenberry’s admiration of Abraham Lincoln (Garr’s character might have had that surname for the same reason). ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/67 "2024-11-02T05:15:48Z")
She had a supporting role as Alex’s widowed mother in _The Black Stallion_. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/68 "2024-11-02T12:37:16Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve never heard of it, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t exist. That said, “The Lincoln Logs” sounds a bit too cutesy and punny for one of Rodenberry’s titles. Yeah, I had always heard (or perhaps just assumed) that if the spin-off had been made, it would have been called “Assignment: Earth.” ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414/69 "2024-11-02T14:25:29Z")
In a nice confluence of events, we were doing our weekly watching of old episodes of _Dr. Kildare_ last night and at the start of the first part Kildare is checking two patients. The first is Teri Garr in an uncredited role and not seen in the rest of the episode. It’s from 1965. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teri-garr-rip/1009414.md?page=3)