Which Murder She Wrote Episode Features Jessica Eating Popcorn

Ah, subtlety. Never Lansbury's strong suit.

Thank God Lucille Ball spared us her in MAME.

It's from Season 4, episode 3 - Witness for the Defense.

Jessica is forced to testify in the case against a dear old friend in Canada accused of murdering his unfaithful wife and torching their house. This meme is from the scene where she visits the rough-around-the-edges-yet-sexy former handyman to gather evidence to clear her friend. She puts on an amusing act of being a silly old gossip doing an article on the murder for her hometown paper. The handyman offers Jess a beer which she refuses. She casually says if it was her who found the dead body she'd have fainted!

The episode is also famous for the defense attorney cross=examining Jessica and digging up all the dirty secrets of her family on order to discredit her reputation and good judge of character!

Any other famous memes?

R3, check google images. There’s millions.

I did like when she would ham it up by going 'undercover' as a lush, a gossip, or senile. She really laid it on thick.

So did I, when she played a hillbilly shop lady with those star-shaped sunglasses. The funniest, for me, is the Season 2 opener where she plays a snooty society Lady in Martinique.

Her turbans were fabulous

How did this series last so long?

It's cosy, reliable and fun!

It would have lasted another few seasons if the now-utterly DISGRACED Les Moonves hadn't purposely killed it.

Les got rid of all the old broads.. He canceled that, Murphy Brown and Designing Women.

Remember this scene?

She needs a firm directorial hand.

We've all tried to forget this one.

^^She really needs a good, supportive bra^^

R12 That was her worst "pretending to be.... to catch the killer". It's from Season one - My Jonny lies over the ocean! Worth it though for the man dressed as Jessica throwing the burly killer over his/her shoulder! haha

I agree, Angie would have kept going for awhile had the execs not deliberately killed the show in the ratings. All for a cooler image. Hope they rot!

I'm far more interested in this:

[quote] the scene where she visits the rough-around-the-edges-yet-sex - y former handyman

The pix of the aforementioned handyman would be appreciated.

I love how easily she easily she managed to extract information from someone (usually an official) by pretending a harmless small-town frump.

The other person in the exchange would usually say 'now you didn't hear this from me'.

[quote]Her turbans were fabulous

ALL turbans are fabulous.

He doesn't have Jessie's big dirty pillows though!

I liked her hot Indian bellboy when she moved to NYC.

I think R14 is from Season 5's 'Weave A Tangled Web' though I'm not sure.

Her attempt at a Southern accent is quite bad in 'Who Killed JB Fletcher?'

Do you think Seth ever left himself riffle her knicker drawer when she was away from home and he was keeping an eye on her Cabot Cove estate?

R21 Yes that's the episode, a Cabot Cove based one no less! Imagine if it got around town she was going out like that! And wasn't she too famous in that little place to ever pull this off?

I still hesitate at calling her a *bad* actress, perhaps because I do enjoy her, but ultimately she was. I felt tired just watching some clips of her Mrs Lovett on YouTube.

She didn't even understand what subtlety was. Every role is played the in the same broadest way, as though she's acting for slow children. Everything -- confusion, disbelief, impersonation, sympathy, joviality -- was played to the hilt.