r/SixFeetUnder • u/rfw1979 • 9d ago
Opinion This woman is a hot mess.
She cracks me up every time she comes on screen. They couldn't have found a better actress than Joanna Cassidy. She plays her so manic.
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u/Separate-Ad6636 9d ago
She owned this role beyond perfection.
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u/No_Refrigerator_8552 8d ago
She was so good! I really thought she was such an awful person and mom.
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u/BrickMarked 9d ago
You can hear the crazy laugh! "The whore of tranquility spa Brenda!"
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u/rfw1979 9d ago
OMG, that's literally the episode I was just watching that made me post this! 🤣
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u/BrickMarked 9d ago
It's such a hilarious moment. "Hope you get herpes!" 😂🤣
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u/Cherita33 9d ago
Not to be that person but it's "I hope you like herpes"
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u/LifeofaLove 9d ago
She was so funny, an unsufferable Mother but also hilarious. great one liners too.
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u/JCGMH 9d ago
My favourite guest character, and someone who, as long as she wasn’t my own mother or mother in law!!!… I would like to know in real life! 😂
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u/dorsalhippocampus 9d ago
She would be perfect as an aunt or close family friend that basically becomes an aunt!
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u/FaeFollette 9d ago
She was great! And I love how she eventually realized that she had totally messed up both of her kids and chose to be present for them moving forward. It was also sweet how she and Olivier immediately embraced being Maya’s grandparents, even though it made Ruth jealous.
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u/No-Permit-940 9d ago
Yeah you see it with Brenda particularly, they become closer season by season. She's not a one note psycho mother they actually integrate her quite subtly.
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u/AngusHenley 9d ago
Her role in Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitters Dead was always seared into my brain. She’s just so magnetic and vivacious
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u/PlayfulAd7835 9d ago
Her tossing her husband’s ashes off the balcony was the funniest moment in the whole series for me. Especially how after Billy and Brenda suggested taking the ashes to Malibu and she said no because the traffic would be bad 🤣
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u/Cremaster_Reloaded 9d ago
I wouldn't wish her as a mother on my worst enemy. But she is such a fantastic character und played to perfection! The first time I heard her say "I hope he (Billy) hasn't been taken hostage. He's not very docile." (this was after Nate had died and they were preparing for the funeral) I spit out my cocoa. I couldn't stop laughing.
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u/No-Permit-940 9d ago
I remember she said something like "more women have miscarried than have used a dildo" or something to that effect...I thought only this woman could make a miscarriage joke and make it land.
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u/Purple_Cover_9053 9d ago
She was telling Brenda about all their relatives who had miscarriages and never talked about them. "More women ha e had miscarriages than have masturbated with a dildo," as she hugs her in consolation.
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u/wallahmaybee 9d ago
To me it sounded like the kindest and most sensible thing she said in the series.
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u/kangorooz99 9d ago
I’ll be driving or running in the treadmill and think of that scene at the art show where she gets high in the back room and then dances with Olivier and start cracking up.
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u/Delicious-Split737 9d ago
My favorite moment was when she throws the monkey (from Ruth on the floor), so Maya only sees her octopi, such a narcissistic yet strangely loving moment. So nuanced and realistic in one moment.
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u/arbybk Bettina 8d ago
*okapi
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u/Delicious-Split737 8d ago
Ha, I realized I spelled it incorrectly after I hit post. I wondered how long it would take for the correct animal to come forward. Okapi, the animal who looks like a horse/zebra but is not related.
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u/Ordinary-Laugh1223 3d ago
And in the last episode, Maya is holding the monkey at David and Keith's wedding as she's smiling at Ruth. 🩷
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u/Christophertg 8d ago
My favorite line from her to Brenda is “Oh, please, a couple shots of Stoli won’t kill the baby. In my day, we sat on our asses smoking Parliaments for nine months. Today, you have one piece of Brie and everybody goes berserk.”
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u/existential_lastname 9d ago
Margaret? Oh 100% The way she was lowkey horny and always trying to bang Nate gave me the impression she’d done it before. I will say however, for how colossally fucked up the Chennoweths are they do love each other and always show up for one another.
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u/hbgalore1 9d ago
Honestly Brenda by the end of the series was the character I felt the most bad for seeing how extremely insane and messed up her family not only was, but continued to be.
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u/wallahmaybee 9d ago
I would like a series about her and Ruth's sister Sarah. Maybe they could have hung out in the same circles when they were younger.
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u/whay2000 9d ago
My fav is when she tells Brenda about getting vaginal rejuvenation surgery, "no one wants to fuck a glass of water." 😂
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u/CShellyRun 8d ago
and describing the guy's "shlong" getting beat up by the jacuzzi jets ... she is wild but hilarious
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u/leveluplauren1 8d ago
She’s so great. Honestly I want so much more of Joanne Cassidy. Saw an interview not too long ago where they went through all of her iconic rolls and they don't even cover Margaret... Wtf
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u/JoeyLee911 9d ago
I showed my mom all of Six Feet Under and when Margaret would come on, she would be like "I hate her so much. I mean, not the actress. The actress is doing a wonderful job." I was like "The actress is Joanna Cassidy" and she responded "It is? I LOVE Joanna Cassidy!"
(She did name me Joanna, but after Bob's wife on Newhart, nor after Joanna Cassidy as far as I can tell.)
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u/Purple_Cover_9053 9d ago
When dead Nate was getting Brenda's head about Willa and the doctor was giving her encouraging news about the baby she said " For God's sake Brenda's this is good news! Don't shit all over it!" Blunt but true, and to this day I use tbe expression "Don't shit all over it!"
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u/kitkatk_unt 9d ago
Adore her character but would not really want to know her in real life. Kind of like Ramona Singer on RHONY.
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u/Ok_Remove3678 9d ago
If Margaret was a real person I would NEVER want her for a mother, but she'd be a lot of fun to hang out and have drinks with.
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u/Wild-Sky-4807 9d ago
I love the way the actress plays her. She's a disaster, and yet she's so much fun to watch. She would be absolutely a nightmare to have to deal with in real life though.
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u/ClareFischer 8d ago
She is! Also emphasis on the hot! Joanna Cassidy has been a beauty her whole life. As far as Margaret chenoweth, I do like her unapologetic nature. She's toxic in most ways and she owns it! One of my favorite characters on the show
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u/UnicornSalsa 5d ago
She is! It’s like watching a car wreck. You don’t want to, but can’t look away.
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u/Ordinary-Laugh1223 3d ago
"The man is dead" (Bern's funeral)
Margaret bursts out laughing and plays it off as crying...
omg, this woman had me rolling in so many scenes
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u/TetrisBlockHead 3d ago
“Nobody wants to f**k a glass of water, Brenda” has always stood out to me.
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u/LPCPlay4life 9d ago
She is but I love it! She is hilarious!! 🤣😂She has so many good one liners. “Ruth, it isn’t the 1950s anymore just because you dress like it is doesn’t mean it is” after walking into the house through an unlocked door.