The Critic (TV Series)

The Pilot (1994)

Judith Ivey: Eleanor Sherman

Quotes 

• [first lines of the series] 

  Jay Sherman : [answering the phone]  Hello?

  Eleanor Sherman : Jay, this is your mother. Your father and I are taking you out of our will. We feel you already have enough money. Oh, yes, and happy birthday.

• Eleanor : Can't one dinner go by where we don't talk about your rotting corpse?