Esther Anderson

Sanford and Son died of a heart attack while filming a TV show.

And, you know, obviously one of his big routines, if you ever watched Sanford and Son, was he had this character called Aunt Esther, who was ugly as sin.

And Fred Sanford, Redd Foxx, would always... have like a fake heart attack and scream to his wife, Elizabeth, this is the big one.

I'm coming to join you, Elizabeth.

[laughs] Yeah.

Happy birthday to LaWanda Page, Aunt Esther.

Happy birthday to Juanita More, Imitation of Life.

We got a great show lined up for you.

Born day today.

She was Aunt Esther in Sanford and Son.

That show where hilarity ensued every turn with Red Fox, etc., So happy born day, Luanda Page.

Shane and Dylan with you here on a Monday.

But they look nothing like the comedic actor.

And the voice is Aunt Esther.

So you see, we're getting all of these things.

I'm coming to.

A young girl enters her family's crypt during her mother's funeral and becomes possessed by an ancestral demon.

Co-starring Lawanda Page, who you older listeners might remember as Aunt Esther on Sanford and Son.

Mausoleum might make a good double feature with the 1980 film Funeral Home, about a girl who comes to stay at her grandma's B&B, which used to be a funeral parlor.

Nothing strange about that, right? Next up, from 1994, H.P.

... come from.

I think the first one I saw was one with Fred Sanford and Aunt Esther, and I was like, "Now who, who thought to put Fred Sanford and Aunt Esther on the orange background?"

Yeah.

It is just so, like, bizarre to me and feels like a, like, okay, this is somebody with too much time on their hands.

... like, "Oh, I'm just playing around." But again, to our earlier conversation on the podcast around, like, the impact of AI usage and, like, the casual usage related to water streams and-

Mm-hmm

... noise pollution and all of these things, like, being able to use it for something so frivolous as putting Aunt Esther and Fred Sanford in it, like, why? Why are we-

Yeah

Nobody's just handing you a ballot.

You go give it to Aunt Esther or whatever, and they take it down somewhere or somebody who flew in from Wisconsin and says, oh, can I get your ballot for you, which I literally watched happen.

which you're not supposed to do, didn't know the person, took them in big stacks, put them in those drop boxes.

No wonder Trump lost.

And they went to jail.

Aunt Esther got them out of jail.

And Rallo was too.

Fred Sanford.