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* {{Expy}}: Claxton appears and behaves similarly to Miss Gulch from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''[[IWishedYouWereDead drop dead]]''!
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat people like humans beings like humans, beings, well, then, I'm sure as Hell not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If say, and if you don't like that, it, just ''[[IWishedYouWereDead drop dead]]''!
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--> '''Mr. Pfeiffer''': "I'm sorry, I forgot. Series/TheCosbyShow."
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--> '''Mr. Pfeiffer''': Puh-feiffer''': "I'm sorry, I forgot. Series/TheCosbyShow."
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* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose, respectively).
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* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] Dorothy that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose, respectively).
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* ShoutOut: When Mr. Pfeiffer suggests holding the funeral on Thursday night, the girls all react with outrage--"Are you ''crazy''?", "Hell, ''no''!", etc.
--> '''Mr. Pfeiffer''': "I'm sorry, I forgot. Series/TheCosbyShow."
--> '''Mr. Pfeiffer''': "I'm sorry, I forgot. Series/TheCosbyShow."
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-->'''Mr. Puh-feifer''': We should have never hired a high school student.
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-->'''Mr. Puh-feifer''': Puh-feiffer''': We should have never hired a high school student.
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-->'''Funeral home owner''': We should have never hired a high school student.
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* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Overlapping with FakingTheDead, Blanche mentions that she arranged to do this when she was ''sixteen''. When she revealed she was alive, her father got so angry that he shipped her off to a religious school for girls.
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* ShaggyDogStory: The girls hold a funeral for Frieda Claxton with the intent to have her dead body buried in a coffin, but a mix-up at the funeral home results in her body being cremated by mistake.[[note]] That being said, Rose later on secures a KarmicJackpot by spreading her ashes around the 200-year-old oak tree, so it works out in the end.[[/note]]
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* ShaggyDogStory: The girls hold a funeral for Frieda Claxton with the intent to have her dead body buried in a coffin, but a mix-up at the funeral home results in her body being cremated by mistake.[[note]] That [[note]]That being said, Rose later on secures a KarmicJackpot by spreading her ashes around the 200-year-old oak tree, so it works out in the end.[[/note]]
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* AssholeVictim: Frieda Claxton was a miserable old crone when she was alive, and apparently took pictures of Blanch when she was sleeping with men.
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* AssholeVictim: Frieda Claxton was a miserable old crone when she was alive, and apparently took pictures of Blanch Blanche when she was sleeping with men.
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-->'''Funeral home owner''': We should have never hired a high school student.
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-->'''Funeral home owner''': We should have never hired a high school student.student.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although the fate of the ''tree'' is accounted for in the final scene, we never learn what becomes of Mrs. Claxton's ''house'', which would have to be disposed (along with the rest of her estate). As the girls are responsible for Mrs. Claxton's remains and her funeral arrangements, this implies that they are serving as executors of her estate and therefore would ''also'' be in control of the fate of her house, pending its sale or transfer to the designated beneficiary. See PlotHole, above.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Although the fate of the ''tree'' is accounted for in the final scene, we never learn what becomes of Mrs. Claxton's ''house'', which would have to be disposed (along with the rest of her estate). As the girls are responsible for Mrs. Claxton's remains and her funeral arrangements, this implies that they are serving as executors of her estate and therefore would ''also'' be in control of the fate of her house, pending its sale or transfer to the designated beneficiary. See PlotHole, above.
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* PlotHole: There is no logical reason for the girls to have possession of Freida Claxton's remains or for them to be able to make funeral arrangements for her. Mrs. Claxton presumably left her last will and testament, and even if we accept that she had no friends or relatives who would have executed said will, she could have had her lawyer do it (which most lawyers are very happy to do as it entitles them to an executor's fee). If she died intestate (that is, without a will), the State of Florida would have appointed someone to manage her estate and it's hard to see the state handing over control to four random neighbors, one of whom Mrs. Claxton vocally expressed her hatred of in her dying words.
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* HatedByAll: Blanche flat out says to the funeral director that everyone in their neighborhood despised Frieda
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* HatedByAll: Blanche flat out says to the funeral director that everyone in their neighborhood despised FriedaFrieda.
* KarmicJackpot: After hosting a [[LonelyFuneral funeral]] for Claxton and taking her ashes that the funeral home owner refuses to keep, Rose decides to spread her ashes to the 200-year-old oak tree and requests the local council members not to cut down the tree so as to not disturb her final resting place. The request is granted, so the girls do get what they want in the end.
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''[[IWishedYouWereDead drop dead]]''!
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''[[IWishedYouWereDead drop dead]]''!dead]]''!
* ShaggyDogStory: The girls hold a funeral for Frieda Claxton with the intent to have her dead body buried in a coffin, but a mix-up at the funeral home results in her body being cremated by mistake.[[note]] That being said, Rose later on secures a KarmicJackpot by spreading her ashes around the 200-year-old oak tree, so it works out in the end.[[/note]]
-->'''Funeral home owner''': We should have never hired a high school student.
* ShaggyDogStory: The girls hold a funeral for Frieda Claxton with the intent to have her dead body buried in a coffin, but a mix-up at the funeral home results in her body being cremated by mistake.[[note]] That being said, Rose later on secures a KarmicJackpot by spreading her ashes around the 200-year-old oak tree, so it works out in the end.[[/note]]
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* AssholeVictim: Frieda Claxton was a miserable old crone when she was alive, and apparently took pictures of Blanch when she was sleeping with men.
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* HatedByAll: Blanche flat out says to the funeral director that everyone in their neighborhood despised Frieda
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* GotMeDoingIt: After getting used to [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY the "proper" way of pronouncing the funeral home owner's surname]], Dorothy, at one point, says "funeral" but unnecessarily adds the "P" in front of it, prompting her to a VerbalBackspace to correct herself before proceeding.
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* GotMeDoingIt: After getting used to [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY [[PretentiousPronunciation the "proper" way of pronouncing the funeral home owner's surname]], Dorothy, at one point, says "funeral" but unnecessarily adds the "P" in front of it, prompting her to a VerbalBackspace to correct herself before proceeding.
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* PretentiousPronunciation: The funeral home owner insists that the "P" in his surname, "Pfeiffer", is not silent, so his surname is to be pronounced "p-fai-fer".
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The girls are busy trying to save a 200-year-old oak tree from its potential removal in their neighborhood, but they're met with resistance from Frieda Claxton, a grouchy old woman whose property line includes said oak tree in question and who wants it removed. The girls try to persuade her to avail, and the tension reaches the boiling point at a local council meeting, where Rose, whom Claxton manages to enrage, reacts by yelling at her. Rose is then left feeling guilty when Claxton dies in a fatal heart attack after Rose yells at her, and the girls proceed to arrange a funeral on her behalf.
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The girls are busy trying to save a 200-year-old oak tree from its potential removal in their neighborhood, but they're met with resistance from Frieda Claxton, a grouchy old woman whose property line includes said oak tree in question and who wants it removed. The girls try to persuade her to no avail, and the tension reaches the boiling point at a local council meeting, where Rose, whom Claxton manages to enrage, reacts by yelling at her. Rose is then left feeling guilty when Claxton dies in a fatal heart attack after Rose yells at her, and the girls proceed to arrange a funeral on her behalf.
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The girls are busy trying to save a 200-year-old oak tree from its potential removal in their neighborhood, but they're met with resistance from Frieda Claxton, a grouchy old woman whose property line includes said oak tree in question and who wants it removed. The girls try to persuade her to avail, and the tension reaches the boiling point at a local council meeting, where Rose, whom Claxton manages to enrage, reacts by yelling at her. Rose is then left feeling guilty when the Claxton dies in a fatal heart attack after Rose yells at her, and the girls proceed to arrange a funeral on her behalf.
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The girls are busy trying to save a 200-year-old oak tree from its potential removal in their neighborhood, but they're met with resistance from Frieda Claxton, a grouchy old woman whose property line includes said oak tree in question and who wants it removed. The girls try to persuade her to avail, and the tension reaches the boiling point at a local council meeting, where Rose, whom Claxton manages to enrage, reacts by yelling at her. Rose is then left feeling guilty when the Claxton dies in a fatal heart attack after Rose yells at her, and the girls proceed to arrange a funeral on her behalf.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[IWishYouWereDead Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in her moment of anger]], right before the latter literally "drops dead" due to suffering a fatal heart failure. Granted, Claxton is a {{Jerkass}} who returns Rose's pleas with insult, but it doesn't lessen Rose's guilty feeling once Claxton dies.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[IWishYouWereDead [[IWishedYouWereDead Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in her moment of anger]], right before the latter literally "drops dead" due to suffering a fatal heart failure. Granted, Claxton is a {{Jerkass}} who returns Rose's pleas with insult, but it doesn't lessen Rose's guilty feeling once Claxton dies.
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* IWishYouWereDead: IWishedYouWereDead: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in a moment of anger, right before Claxton dies from fatal heart failure, which leaves Rose guilt-ridden as the result.]]
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''[[IWishYouWereDead drop dead]]''!
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''[[IWishYouWereDead ''[[IWishedYouWereDead drop dead]]''!
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in her moment of anger, right before the latter literally "drops dead" due to suffering a fatal heart failure. Granted, Claxton is a {{Jerkass}} who returns Rose's pleas with insult, but it doesn't lessen Rose's guilty feeling once Claxton dies.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[IWishYouWereDead Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in her moment of anger, anger]], right before the latter literally "drops dead" due to suffering a fatal heart failure. Granted, Claxton is a {{Jerkass}} who returns Rose's pleas with insult, but it doesn't lessen Rose's guilty feeling once Claxton dies.
* IWishYouWereDead: [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in a moment of anger, right before Claxton dies from fatal heart failure, which leaves Rose guilt-ridden as the result.]]
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!
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-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!''[[IWishYouWereDead drop dead]]''!
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* LastDisrespects: After a woman who shows up late for [[LonelyFuneral Claxton's funeral]] turns out to have been in the wrong funeral all along before being corrected about where the right one is, she double-checks by asking the girls whether the funeral is for the same Frieda Claxton as the one whose property includes an old oak tree. Upon her question being verified, she gives one hearty kick to the coffin before leaving in a huff for the one she intended to attend in the first place.
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* LastDisrespects: After a woman who shows up late for [[LonelyFuneral Claxton's funeral]] turns out to have been in the wrong funeral all along before being corrected about where the right one is, she double-checks by asking the girls whether the funeral is for the same Frieda Claxton as the one whose property includes who "owns an old oak tree. Upon her question being verified, house on Richmond Street". Once the girls confirm with "yes", she gives one hearty kick to the coffin before leaving in a huff for the one she intended to attend in the first place.
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* LastDisrespects: After a woman who shows up late for [[LonelyFuneral Claxton's funeral]] turns out to have been in the wrong funeral all along before being corrected about where the right one is, she double-checks by asking the girls whether the funeral is for the same Frieda Claxton as the one whose property includes an old oak tree. Upon her question being verified, she gives one hearty kick to the coffin before leaving in a huff for the one she intended to attend in the first place.
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* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: When Rose wonders why no one but them are even present for [[LonelyFuneral Claxton's funeral]] despite the local newspaper announcing her death, Dorothy responds that other people who are informed of her death are too busy celebrating to bother showing up.
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* GotMeDoingIt: InUniverse. After getting used to [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY the "proper" way of pronouncing the funeral home owner's surname]], Dorothy, at one point, says "funeral" but unnecessarily adds the "P" in front of it, prompting her to a VerbalBackspace to correct herself before proceeding.
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* GotMeDoingIt: InUniverse. After getting used to [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY the "proper" way of pronouncing the funeral home owner's surname]], Dorothy, at one point, says "funeral" but unnecessarily adds the "P" in front of it, prompting her to a VerbalBackspace to correct herself before proceeding.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Frieda Claxton. Despite Rose's initial belief that Claxton is a JerkWithAHeartOfGold, she turns out to prove Rose wrong. For starters: She agrees to Rose's plea about saving the 200-year-old oak tree, only to renege on her agreement right before the local council meeting is about to begin -- she claims that she agreed only for the danish Rose brought to her.
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* AskAStupidQuestion:
-->'''Rose''': Why do people die, Dorothy?
-->'''Dorothy''': Oh, please, Rose! I don't even know why fools fall in love!
-->'''Rose''': Why do people die, Dorothy?
-->'''Dorothy''': Oh, please, Rose! I don't even know why fools fall in love!
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* GotMeDoingIt: InUniverse. After getting used to [[ItsPronouncedTroPAY the "proper" way of pronouncing the funeral home owner's surname]], Dorothy, at one point, says "funeral" but unnecessarily adds the "P" in front of it, prompting her to a VerbalBackspace to correct herself before proceeding.
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* ItsPronouncedTroPAY: The funeral home owner insists that the "P" in his surname, "Pfeiffer", is not silent, so his surname is to be pronounced "p-fai-fer".
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Claxton insults Rose, Rose proves that [[BewareTheNiceOne even she has her limits]] and reacts by unloading one of these on Claxton.
-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Ms. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!
-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Ms. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Claxton insults Rose, Rose proves that [[BewareTheNiceOne [[BewareTheNiceOnes even she has her limits]] and reacts by unloading one of these on Claxton.
-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it,Ms.Mrs. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!
-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it,
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* BewareTheNiceOne: While Blanche and Dorothy react to Claxton's mockery with barely-contained rage as they're about to lunge at her before being stopped, Rose lets loose a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after Claxton insults her.
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* LonelyFuneral: The funeral the girls arrange for Claxton only has the girls for attendants.[[note]] The woman who appears there later on doesn't count since she turns out to be at the wrong one.[[/note]]
* LonelyFuneral: The funeral the girls arrange for Claxton only has the girls for attendants.[[note]] The woman who appears there later on doesn't count since she turns out to be at the wrong one.[[/note]]
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* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose, respectively).
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* BewareTheNiceOne: While Blanche and Dorothy react to Claxton's mockery with barely-contained rage as they're about to lunge at her before being stopped, Rose lets loose a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech after Claxton insults her.
* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose,respectively).respectively).
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Claxton insults Rose, Rose proves that [[BewareTheNiceOne even she has her limits]] and reacts by unloading one of these on Claxton.
-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Ms. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!
* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose,
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: After Claxton insults Rose, Rose proves that [[BewareTheNiceOne even she has her limits]] and reacts by unloading one of these on Claxton.
-->That's it! I have had all I'm gonna take from you! Now if you don't have the common decency to treat humans beings like humans, well, then, I'm sure not gonna waste my time kissing your fanny! Now, if you don't like it, Ms. Claxton, you just sit there and shut up while we have our say. If you don't like that, just ''drop dead''!
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"It's A Miserable Life" is an episode in the second season of ''Series/TheGoldenGirls''.
The girls are busy trying to save a 200-year-old oak tree from its potential removal in their neighborhood, but they're met with resistance from Frieda Claxton, a grouchy old woman whose property line includes said oak tree in question and who wants it removed. The girls try to persuade her to avail, and the tension reaches the boiling point at a local council meeting, where Rose, whom Claxton manages to enrage, reacts by yelling at her. Rose is then left feeling guilty when the Claxton dies in a fatal heart attack after Rose yells at her, and the girls proceed to arrange a funeral on her behalf.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in her moment of anger, right before the latter literally "drops dead" due to suffering a fatal heart failure. Granted, Claxton is a {{Jerkass}} who returns Rose's pleas with insult, but it doesn't lessen Rose's guilty feeling once Claxton dies.
* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose, respectively).
The girls are busy trying to save a 200-year-old oak tree from its potential removal in their neighborhood, but they're met with resistance from Frieda Claxton, a grouchy old woman whose property line includes said oak tree in question and who wants it removed. The girls try to persuade her to avail, and the tension reaches the boiling point at a local council meeting, where Rose, whom Claxton manages to enrage, reacts by yelling at her. Rose is then left feeling guilty when the Claxton dies in a fatal heart attack after Rose yells at her, and the girls proceed to arrange a funeral on her behalf.
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* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Rose tells Claxton to "drop dead" in her moment of anger, right before the latter literally "drops dead" due to suffering a fatal heart failure. Granted, Claxton is a {{Jerkass}} who returns Rose's pleas with insult, but it doesn't lessen Rose's guilty feeling once Claxton dies.
* RageBreakingPoint: Blanche, Dorothy, and Rose take turn getting to this after Claxton insults each of them (Claxton telling Blanche that she has witnessed scenes of Blanche with men in her bedroom and that she looks forward to finding something incriminating against her, telling [[HollywoodDateless Dorothy]] that she's the one with ''nothing'' going on in her room, and telling Rose that she hates Rose, respectively).
