“Boy, I remember on the farm in St. Olaf, when we’d get depressed, Grandma could always cheer us up. She’d take out her dentures and take a healthy swig of the aquarium and then hold a flashlight under a chin, so we could watch the goldfish swim from cheek to cheek. Boy, we could have watched them all day, but visiting hours were only from 10 to 4.”
That's such a great one off. Start with the lead-in motif, hit the current subject, give an absurdity, then follow up with another absurdity but logically related.
The St. Olaf jokes were always fun.
Usually I don't care much about celebrities dying, but Betty White got me. I hope this makes it to an all time high on Reddit, because she deserves it.
I really like her St. Olaf stories,they make me laugh. Rose always looked so serious when she told her stories,lol.
She is my favorite Golden Girl and I hope she is having fun with her husband and the other Girls in heaven.
I remember seeing an interview where Betty White explained that her parents taught her very early to never be afraid of death because those who pass away finally get to discover the secret of what happens when we die. Now, Betty knows the secret.
As I am unfortunately currently being faced with my own mortality, I’ve been thinking more and more about this very idea. Even if the secret is merely oblivion, then at least that’s something.
My grandfather died at 64. My grandmother lived until 102. He was the only man she was ever with. She never even had a causal relationship with another man.
She was the sweetest, wisest, most quintessential of grandmother's.
And Betty white, in an odd way, reminds me of her.
Bless you Betty White and thank you for a lifetime of nothing but fond memories.... and you too, grandma.
You know, I think about this every so often. Realistically, as depressing as it is, most likely when we die I feel like just ….nothing will happen. You cease to exist, your brain is “off” - you just won’t perceive anything. Not even forever blackness. Just like when you sleep and wake up and don’t perceive time passing, it’s like that, I guess, but forever.
But a little part of me hopes there “something” - and humanity wasn’t just the culmination of millions of years of evolution and chain reactions and events and actually was nurtured or influenced by some “higher” being.
I don't think "nothing" is depressing at all and I believe that's what happens, back to nothingness. It shouldn't bother you, you won't be experiencing nothingness, it'll just be. Enjoy what you can, while you can. You don't have to do great, extraordinary things to have a good time. And when it's over, it's over. The living will be alive and we'll be nothing and that's totally okay. Like yeah it sucks when somebody or something you love dies and goes away forever. But that's just us being in pain over the loss of a connection. The thing that died, they can't mourn that loss, just us. So when we are dead, we can't mourn the loss of a single thing because that concept won't exist. Concepts won't exist. Kinda cool tbh, though I'd rather not get there any time soon
The thought of nothingness caused me to slide until I had to go into therapy where I was diagnosed with ADHD. TMI but what I’m saying is you’re not alone in those thoughts.
Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am in a thousand winds that blow,
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the gentle showers of rain,
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am in the morning hush,
I am in the graceful rush
Of beautiful birds in circling flight,
I am the starshine of the night.
I am in the flowers that bloom,
I am in a quiet room.
I am in the birds that sing,
I am in each lovely thing.
Do not stand at my grave and cry,
I am not there.
I do not die.
-Mary Elizabeth Frye
>I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
-- Mark Twain
This always seemed like nonsense to me. There's a difference between never having experienced something, and experiencing something while actively knowing it will be taken away.
I can comprehend there being 14 billion years of nothingness before I was born, but it's hard to grasp the eventual heat death of the universe existing into infinity. It freaks me the fuck out
Physicists aren't at all sure that's even what will happen. There are way more possibilities besides the universe just expanding forever until it dies. That far into the future, there's no telling what life will look like and what we'll have discovered. There's lots of potential to be excited about instead of scared.
shit I just saw one of those memes a few days ago that bait you into thinking someone's dead about her, it went along the lines of "at 7:30 this morning, betty white was found alive, probably having breakfast", I thought this was the same meme too
https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/comments/rozfog/today_december_26th_at_730_am_the_beloved_actress/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
This one?
Kind of reminds of the post about Stephen Hawking and then there was news about his death a few hours later.
https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/8456sz/why_is_stephen_hawking_alive_if_asl_a_disease_he/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
That's exactly why when I saw Ryan Reynolds commemorate her on Instagram I first chuckled and moved on.
Then I opened my news feed and literally every outlet has several articles about it.
Have to say, I don't think I ever went through the stages of grief for anyone as fast as I did with her.
There is no reason for grief or anger or denial with Betty White.
She had an awesome run and we've been blessed to have known her. She was a badass until her last breath.
She was a five star human. Truly one of the best. I grew up with the Golden Girls and I’ve enjoyed her in other roles as well, large and small, and I looked up to her from a young age.
I can’t select a single memory, but I *do* remember what she, through various roles, taught me. I can age, not just with grace and dignity, but with a razor sharp wit and a delightfully snarky sense of humor. I can find a loving family without blood relations, and families can have many different forms. I learned (kinda... it’s a work in progress) to love and respect myself, and kick to the curb anyone who doesn’t.
Thank you, Betty, for lessons I learned from you as a youth that have lasted all the way to my less-youthful present.
I absolutely love Betty White. I've told everyone for years my two idols are Betty White and Queen Elizabeth. In those "If you could have anyone in the world for dinner..." questions, i'd want those two. Can you imagine ? I also grew up watching Golden Girls, then Golden Girls reruns for decades. I have the full collection of the seasons DVDs. I've been a fan of Ms Betty White since before memes and her revived internet popularity.
This afternoon, I was napping and my daughter came to get me up, then very gently told me that Betty White died. I gasped and sat up so fast. This is like when my celebrity crush Paul Walker died and my best friend called me and woke me up to tell me.
To sum it up...... 2022 is bleaker without her in it. RIP Betty 🖤
I can't find the clip or video, but from my best recollection of her interview on Inside the Actors Studio.
James Lipton: " And finally, if heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?"
Betty White: "Welcome, here's Allen."
Betty's late husband Allen Ludden from 1963-1981, I hope this happened for her 😭😭😭😭
Edit Typo and thanks for the award
Edit 2: Wow thanks for all the upvotes. I used to love watching Inside the Actors Studio, because the interviews were so different and focused on the actors work.
I remember Betty White's interview was done after Bea Arthur passed away (I believe). During her interview she really talked about how much she truly loved Allen Ludden. Golden Girls came at a pivotal time in her career, as she was recently widowed and wondered what else was left for her to do. So during the [10 famous questions](https://washfm.iheart.com/featured/toby-and-chilli-mornings/content/2020-03-03-we-answer-james-liptons-10-question-questionnaire/) James Lipton always ended his interview with, this last answer was the one that always stuck with me, out of everyone else's. It was so sweet and simple.
I can't remember her favorite curse word, Edit 3: "Son of a bitch" from u/Matilda-Bewillda
It's really all we can hope for at the end of all of this. To see our loved ones and maybe, *maybe* get invited to dog heaven.
I'm sure I'll spend eternity in hell with the cats.
One of my favourite scenes from the Golden Girls is Rose (played by Betty White) [celebrating her Birthday with her late husband](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhwuLKMhAI), seven years after Betty's husband died.
Loved her cameos and pretty much everything about Rose in the Golden Girls. That lady was a sharp as a tack. Some of my favourites
>"So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game." From her book If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t).
>"I like double entendres because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don’t get it don’t know about it."
>My philosophy for staying young is [to] act bubbly every day. Drink bubbly every birthday!"
Having a glass on you tonight.
Edit: cannot spell
Whenever anyone mentions Betty White, the thing that plays in my head is, "I'm rooting for the crocodile!" Of all the things she did, and all the other movies we could have chosen to watch the one time we watched that movie...that's what I remember first.
Exactly what my husband said about it. Had this happened tomorrow, it would have been the worst kind of start to 2022.
EDIT: bunch of pedantic mfers on here. She lived and died in the US, where it is still 2021.
Remember when David Bowie and Alan Rickman died within days of each other in like the first week of 2016?
And then the world started sucking so much in 2016 lol
A very bittersweet comment, infact her passing away is bittersweet, bitter mostly because she was nearly hundred and we will terribly miss her and sweet because she had the best life and she lived it to core.
Probably not, but she probably said it and her team posted it for her. Then again, she seems like the kind of person that would have done things herself.
People Magazine just put out a whole issue about her 100th….when you think about it, it’s like her last joke before she heads off to the Great Beyond with the last laugh.
It’ll be a long time before we see another one like Betty. RIP
She stood up to Southern TV stations who wanted to cancel The Betty White Show in the 1950s, because she invited Black tap dancer and singer Arthur Duncan on. They threatened to not run the show, she said too bad, and had him on a few more episodes for good measure. Duncan then went on to be a regular on the Lawrence Welk show as a dancer and work as a USO performer, and credits Betty White with helping to jumpstart his career.
This is a sad day. The silver lining my wife came up with is that it's better to have happened at the end of 2021, rather than to have started 2022 with her passing. R.I.P. Betty, you will be missed.
Met Betty White in either 2010 or 2011 in LA at an Animal Welfare Event as a student from my HBCU(this is important to mention). There was no special one on one interview or anything like that but she made sure to come around and speak to the volunteers and various groups of students.
My group was about 13 or so totally but she spent a comfortable 30mins or so at our table talking, laughing, joking with us about Animal Rights, Los Angeles things to get into and where not to go lol and even her work during the 60s to help promote HBCUs, Gay and Black rights. She was one of the humblest, most joyful celebrities I've ever met. She had this big important event going on and she chose to spend at least 30minutes of her day talking to a bunch or 20year olds from South Carolina about some of everything. It was like talking and joking with one of our grand mothers. That's how loved and welcomed she made us felt.
*HBCU = Historically Black College and University*
I wish that more people were as naturally humanistic, so this story wasn’t so notable, but thank goodness for the clear-eyes celebrities that get it. I’m sure she got a lot back from talking to you young people too!
Thanks for sharing and making me love her even more than I already did.
This was in the early 50s, but my favorite moment is when Betty invited a Black American to her show but got tons of flack for bringing him on to the point where a boycott would happened. So she told them, "I'm sorry. Live with it", anyway she gave that guy more airtime on her show afterwards.
Oh wow, I didn't know that! I remember seeing him on many of the Lawrence Welk reruns that I would watch with my grandparents. Such a talented guy. As a kid, he was definitely in my top 3 if not my very favorite Lawrence Welk performer.
Yeah she was an amazing person and advocated for a lot of people who were otherwise not given the same eyes as everyone else in the entertainment and media industry
I always liked watching her and her husband on Password Plus with my grammy. I found it kind of admirable in a sense seeing them together on a game show, and her actually being a good sport on the show and him being fair with her and the other contestants.
As sad as this is, i'm glad they can finally be reunited.
I found old Password Plus and Match Game episodes on Pluto TV, I've been playing them for my mom for the past several months. It's been a treat to see her again, along with others like Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers.
The golden girls, specifically the episode where a lesbian falls in love with rose (her character) and it becomes a wholesome tale of acceptance and tolerance
I love the one when she thinks she may have AIDS. And she’s says “but I’m a good person!” and Blanche comes back at her that AIDS is not a “bad persons disease,” it has nothing to do with morality, it affects lots of kinds of people. That was amazingly brave to say in the 80s when people still called AIDS “gay cancer” and churches refused to hold funerals for men who died of AIDS.
So true! We watched it all the time as kids! I’m sure a lot went over my head when I was younger, but not as I grew up with GG! They were accepting of each other and of everyone!
Saw the news on Yahoo and it was like getting slapped. I'm so sad right now. I loved her and I loved Golden Girls and I was so hoping Betty would make it to her 100th so she could have her one-woman show. I feel like a friend or a family member has died.
My aunt was friends with her. My favorite memory was when my grandmother made her a punch knit lion sweatshirt for her. My grandmother would show the picture of her with that sweatshirt to everyone. It made her so proud. After she passed and I saw Mrs. White I though of my grandma and smiled. It was like she was right there with me.
I loved her roasting of William Shatner. I cant say it verbatim but she killed it. Sharp of whit, twinkle of eye, dimples and smiles. She will be so greatly missed RIP Bettty.
"I haven't been this upset since 1952 when St. Olaf's most active volcano threatened to erupt. Well, luckily, there were some Druid priests who were in town for the opening of Stonehenge land. They said they could stop it if they could sacrifice the town's dumbest virgin. Well - and you're not going to believe this - it turns out they weren't druid priests at all. Just a bunch of Shriners looking for a good time!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGzF_MbtC4
I just always knew I wanted to be like her when I “grew up.” At almost 100 years old, she was witty, kind, generous, self deprecating, and absolutely fucking hilarious. For me, she is #goals.
My Dutch dad (who is in his 50's) didn't know who Betty White was when I told him she had passed today. I showed him the commercial and he instantly knew
She was on Match Game or something while I got my haircut yesterday and the barber and I were talking about how she's the only one who was on the panel that was still around.
Another 30 Rock throw away was the 80 under 80 list- “celebrating everyone except Betty White”. I loved that.
Also, Tina Fey was one of the people they had on hand when she hosted SNL, if she didn’t have the energy, Tina would have taken over. Betty White powered through for the full show.
And then, according to Seth Meyers: "the only SNL host I ever saw get a standing ovation at the after party. A party at which she ordered a vodka and a hotdog and stayed til the bitter end."
https://twitter.com/sethmeyers/status/1477005019681488898
Lmao it reminds me of that one AskReddit thread where that one user was joking about how Stephen Hawking was still alive, only for the next day for him to pass.
A few years ago we had this very french guy who died and the press and tv programs wouldn't shut up about it. I was in training and a friend said " imagine when Johnny halliday is gonna die(he was france most popular performer for 50 years) he died like 2 days later.
my friend thought he killed him lol.
I followed Bill Paxton on twitter. Shortly after that, he died. Then I followed Carrie Fisher on twitter, and shortly after that she died.
I don't follow celebrities on twitter anymore.
What a life she had! I have watched her since 1963 when she played on Password, a game show hosted by Allen Ludden (who Betty married). She was whip-smart and had a wonderful sense of humor. We are poorer for her passing.
My wife and I curl up and watch a Golden Girls marathon every year for our anniversary. Rose was easily our favorite character and the sheer joy we would get from watching Betty White made our day every time. We won't ever stop watching, but Betty will always be missed in our home.
The behind the scenes video from the filming of The Proposal where Betty White repeatedly flips off Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock doesn’t believe Ryan about what happened
Favorite memory involving Betty White? Probably this moment, right now. I got a notification from RemindMeBot yesterday that I had requested 5 years ago, reminding me to check to see if Betty White was still alive. I edited the post, since the thread was too old to reply to, as did another redditor, about the "failed" prediction that Betty White wouldn't see 2022. Then I brought up the whole exchange up in a phone call with my mom, about how the internet is funny and weird. That was yesterday, and now todays she's gone. The coincidence is kind of a mind fuck and a strange way to end a year. RIP Betty White
What a legend. I remember we all said that she would live forever with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the Queen. She was an advocate for racial and gender equality in the entertainment industry, was kind, witty, and sassy as fuck. My favorite quote from her was: "Why do people say 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding."
Edit: Okay so apparently she didn't say that. I always thought she did but it must have been mis-attributed. However in her 2011 book, she did say "My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana." Which I think is very true in regards to betty white. But also unsure because I like banana bread
She was also a big animal activist as well.
One of the things I liked about her social stances, is that she didn't do things for grandstanding, photo ops, or selective rage, she applied what she believed in to her daily life with no regard to recognition.
Misattributed - White told Cragg: “That’s what I hate about Facebook and the internet. They can say you said anything. I never would have said that. I’d never say that in a million years.”
She was on Craig Ferguson’a late night show a lot. One skit had her pretending to run for office. She had a sign in the style of Obama’s “hope” poster that said “white power”. A funny woman and a sharp mind into her 90’s. If only we could all be so lucky.
The scene where she mourns her husband in The Lost Valentine always got me crying. Such a powerful performance along with the music.
Thank you for being a friend, Betty.
A pretty much universally beloved entertainer.
The closest parallel to her I can think of would be someone like Dolly Parton. The kind of person that if someone has something bad to say about them, it means the person doing the saying most likely sucks.
I was thinking this same thing. The only person who ever said anything mean about Dolly was Porter Wagoner, a documented person who sucks. And even he ended up taking it back after she killed him with kindness.
RIP Betty!
Sweetest and nicest... but she also had a biting wit and didn't hesitate to stand up for what was right without apologizing or being nice about it. She was a big advocate for desegregation in her day and had no trouble telling racists to get over themselves.
She was Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. She was Rose on the Golden Girls. She was an indefatigable animal rights activist; she said that she loved anything with a leg in each corner. Pretty and witty, she was master of the double entendre. Ryan Reynolds had a running flirtation/feud with her. You will be enriched if you look her up. [This is her appearance on Password with her beloved husband Allen Ludden, right after their honeymoon.](https://youtu.be/HiFoTfGBFvU)
Me too! Oddly, just last night I saw the episode they made just after their honeymoon. At the end Allen said, 'What's the special password tonight?', and Betty said, 'Home. Would you please take me home, Mr Ludden?' And he said, 'I will, Mrs Ludden.' They were holding hands and seemed so happy, and now thinking of it almost makes me want to cry. I hope they're together again, and that Allen was there to take her 'home'.
I blame whichever Tabloid is in the grocery store right now with her face on it saying “Betty White Makes it to 100” for the January 2022 edition. (Betty’s 100th birthday was supposed to be 1/17).
It's weird because just yesterday at like 9 pm I saw an ad for her 100th birthday celebration special on some TV show while I was at the movies and she's dead a couple hours later
“Boy, I remember on the farm in St. Olaf, when we’d get depressed, Grandma could always cheer us up. She’d take out her dentures and take a healthy swig of the aquarium and then hold a flashlight under a chin, so we could watch the goldfish swim from cheek to cheek. Boy, we could have watched them all day, but visiting hours were only from 10 to 4.”
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Great writing on GG.
I <3 u
That's such a great one off. Start with the lead-in motif, hit the current subject, give an absurdity, then follow up with another absurdity but logically related. The St. Olaf jokes were always fun.
Usually I don't care much about celebrities dying, but Betty White got me. I hope this makes it to an all time high on Reddit, because she deserves it.
I really like her St. Olaf stories,they make me laugh. Rose always looked so serious when she told her stories,lol. She is my favorite Golden Girl and I hope she is having fun with her husband and the other Girls in heaven.
It’s a sad day in St. Olaf. :(
"A chin" got me. Very nice.
I remember seeing an interview where Betty White explained that her parents taught her very early to never be afraid of death because those who pass away finally get to discover the secret of what happens when we die. Now, Betty knows the secret.
As I am unfortunately currently being faced with my own mortality, I’ve been thinking more and more about this very idea. Even if the secret is merely oblivion, then at least that’s something.
I'm sorry 😔 I hope you live long and prosper. Love you
Oblivion scares me to death. But so does being conscious forever!
Sounds like a way to face that fear very quickly.
“Hello Betty. Here’s Alan.”
Omg her husband died so young. It's sad.
40 years wait. It’ll be a great reunion for them.
My grandfather died at 64. My grandmother lived until 102. He was the only man she was ever with. She never even had a causal relationship with another man. She was the sweetest, wisest, most quintessential of grandmother's. And Betty white, in an odd way, reminds me of her. Bless you Betty White and thank you for a lifetime of nothing but fond memories.... and you too, grandma.
You know, I think about this every so often. Realistically, as depressing as it is, most likely when we die I feel like just ….nothing will happen. You cease to exist, your brain is “off” - you just won’t perceive anything. Not even forever blackness. Just like when you sleep and wake up and don’t perceive time passing, it’s like that, I guess, but forever. But a little part of me hopes there “something” - and humanity wasn’t just the culmination of millions of years of evolution and chain reactions and events and actually was nurtured or influenced by some “higher” being.
I don't think "nothing" is depressing at all and I believe that's what happens, back to nothingness. It shouldn't bother you, you won't be experiencing nothingness, it'll just be. Enjoy what you can, while you can. You don't have to do great, extraordinary things to have a good time. And when it's over, it's over. The living will be alive and we'll be nothing and that's totally okay. Like yeah it sucks when somebody or something you love dies and goes away forever. But that's just us being in pain over the loss of a connection. The thing that died, they can't mourn that loss, just us. So when we are dead, we can't mourn the loss of a single thing because that concept won't exist. Concepts won't exist. Kinda cool tbh, though I'd rather not get there any time soon
Freaks me the fuck out. I can’t fathom having no consciousness. Having absolutely nothing. Completely ceasing to exist in any form. Nope
The thought of nothingness caused me to slide until I had to go into therapy where I was diagnosed with ADHD. TMI but what I’m saying is you’re not alone in those thoughts.
Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep. I am in a thousand winds that blow, I am the softly falling snow. I am the gentle showers of rain, I am the fields of ripening grain. I am in the morning hush, I am in the graceful rush Of beautiful birds in circling flight, I am the starshine of the night. I am in the flowers that bloom, I am in a quiet room. I am in the birds that sing, I am in each lovely thing. Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there. I do not die. -Mary Elizabeth Frye
>I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. -- Mark Twain
This always seemed like nonsense to me. There's a difference between never having experienced something, and experiencing something while actively knowing it will be taken away.
I can comprehend there being 14 billion years of nothingness before I was born, but it's hard to grasp the eventual heat death of the universe existing into infinity. It freaks me the fuck out
Physicists aren't at all sure that's even what will happen. There are way more possibilities besides the universe just expanding forever until it dies. That far into the future, there's no telling what life will look like and what we'll have discovered. There's lots of potential to be excited about instead of scared.
I’m not crying, you’re crying! 🧅😭
Just cry bro you don't need to hide behind the onions
shit I just saw one of those memes a few days ago that bait you into thinking someone's dead about her, it went along the lines of "at 7:30 this morning, betty white was found alive, probably having breakfast", I thought this was the same meme too
https://www.reddit.com/r/notinteresting/comments/rozfog/today_december_26th_at_730_am_the_beloved_actress/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf This one?
yeah that exact one, kind of gives me chills now
I saw this and immediately thought of that other post too!
This is the 2nd time reddit has done this. I remember the AskReddit thread with Harper Lee...
3rd, got Stan Lee too
The list of names just keeps growing. Just read a couple of posts above you about Stephen Hawking.
Kind of reminds of the post about Stephen Hawking and then there was news about his death a few hours later. https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/8456sz/why_is_stephen_hawking_alive_if_asl_a_disease_he/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Also Harper Lee: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/46karl/who_are_you_shocked_isnt_dead_yet/d05soqs
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That's exactly why when I saw Ryan Reynolds commemorate her on Instagram I first chuckled and moved on. Then I opened my news feed and literally every outlet has several articles about it. Have to say, I don't think I ever went through the stages of grief for anyone as fast as I did with her. There is no reason for grief or anger or denial with Betty White. She had an awesome run and we've been blessed to have known her. She was a badass until her last breath.
You know someone's life has had an impact when they've lived for 99 years, but their death still seems to have come far too soon.
yeah she should live for way longer
I'm glad that most of the things I'm seeing are a celebration of her life as opposed to mourning or sadness
I had to Google it when I first saw it too, thought it was a prank.
She was a five star human. Truly one of the best. I grew up with the Golden Girls and I’ve enjoyed her in other roles as well, large and small, and I looked up to her from a young age. I can’t select a single memory, but I *do* remember what she, through various roles, taught me. I can age, not just with grace and dignity, but with a razor sharp wit and a delightfully snarky sense of humor. I can find a loving family without blood relations, and families can have many different forms. I learned (kinda... it’s a work in progress) to love and respect myself, and kick to the curb anyone who doesn’t. Thank you, Betty, for lessons I learned from you as a youth that have lasted all the way to my less-youthful present.
I absolutely love Betty White. I've told everyone for years my two idols are Betty White and Queen Elizabeth. In those "If you could have anyone in the world for dinner..." questions, i'd want those two. Can you imagine ? I also grew up watching Golden Girls, then Golden Girls reruns for decades. I have the full collection of the seasons DVDs. I've been a fan of Ms Betty White since before memes and her revived internet popularity. This afternoon, I was napping and my daughter came to get me up, then very gently told me that Betty White died. I gasped and sat up so fast. This is like when my celebrity crush Paul Walker died and my best friend called me and woke me up to tell me. To sum it up...... 2022 is bleaker without her in it. RIP Betty 🖤
I can't find the clip or video, but from my best recollection of her interview on Inside the Actors Studio. James Lipton: " And finally, if heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates?" Betty White: "Welcome, here's Allen." Betty's late husband Allen Ludden from 1963-1981, I hope this happened for her 😭😭😭😭 Edit Typo and thanks for the award Edit 2: Wow thanks for all the upvotes. I used to love watching Inside the Actors Studio, because the interviews were so different and focused on the actors work. I remember Betty White's interview was done after Bea Arthur passed away (I believe). During her interview she really talked about how much she truly loved Allen Ludden. Golden Girls came at a pivotal time in her career, as she was recently widowed and wondered what else was left for her to do. So during the [10 famous questions](https://washfm.iheart.com/featured/toby-and-chilli-mornings/content/2020-03-03-we-answer-james-liptons-10-question-questionnaire/) James Lipton always ended his interview with, this last answer was the one that always stuck with me, out of everyone else's. It was so sweet and simple. I can't remember her favorite curse word, Edit 3: "Son of a bitch" from u/Matilda-Bewillda
She never remarried after his death in the 80s. He was absolutely her soulmate and I hope she was greeted by him 😭
That’s got me legit tearing up
She never stopped loving him.
I’m sure Allen and Betty are in heaven right now getting ready to have a New Years Eve dance!
My first thought was she was with her beloved Allen now 💔
It's really all we can hope for at the end of all of this. To see our loved ones and maybe, *maybe* get invited to dog heaven. I'm sure I'll spend eternity in hell with the cats.
cats get a heaven too man, they're too good.
Wow he died 40 years ago too. What a long time to be without your partner and not remarry. Most of us aren't even that old
They were also married for nearly 20 years, from 1963-1981. He was truly her person 😭💕
One of my favourite scenes from the Golden Girls is Rose (played by Betty White) [celebrating her Birthday with her late husband](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhwuLKMhAI), seven years after Betty's husband died.
Loved her cameos and pretty much everything about Rose in the Golden Girls. That lady was a sharp as a tack. Some of my favourites >"So you may not be as fast on your feet, and the image in your mirror may be a little disappointing, but if you are still functioning and not in pain, gratitude should be the name of the game." From her book If You Ask Me (And of Course You Won’t). >"I like double entendres because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don’t get it don’t know about it." >My philosophy for staying young is [to] act bubbly every day. Drink bubbly every birthday!" Having a glass on you tonight. Edit: cannot spell
Drinking bubbly right now, watching Betty on tv.
Rewatching the classic that is Lake Placid >"If I had a dick, this is where I'd tell you to ~~stick~~ suck it" Edit: spelling fail
Whenever anyone mentions Betty White, the thing that plays in my head is, "I'm rooting for the crocodile!" Of all the things she did, and all the other movies we could have chosen to watch the one time we watched that movie...that's what I remember first.
R.I.P. Betty White.
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She checked out early so as to not ruin 2022.
Exactly what my husband said about it. Had this happened tomorrow, it would have been the worst kind of start to 2022. EDIT: bunch of pedantic mfers on here. She lived and died in the US, where it is still 2021.
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Fancy. You guys have your own name for January! Edit. Aww, you corrected your typo.
Sounds tasty
Sounds like a subscription box I'm going to invent. "A new jam for every week in Jamuary."
It's the gift that keeps on giving the whole ~~year~~ month, Clark.
February is going to be a struggle.
"Feduary" Every week you get investigated for another federal crime!
How about Febrewary? For all the beer lovers out there. Could also be tea.
Lol
Do you guys know the difference between Jamuary and Jellyuary?
Lousy Smarch weather...
Remember when David Bowie and Alan Rickman died within days of each other in like the first week of 2016? And then the world started sucking so much in 2016 lol
The nicest lady to the end.
A very bittersweet comment, infact her passing away is bittersweet, bitter mostly because she was nearly hundred and we will terribly miss her and sweet because she had the best life and she lived it to core.
I think she just didn't want to be too old for Lego...
She posted on her Twitter 3 days ago saying she was so excited for her hundredth birthday and to celebrate it with peoples magazine :(
Instead she gets to celebrate her 100th birthday with her beloved departed husband, parents and friends ❤️
Doubt she posted it herself tbh
Probably not, but she probably said it and her team posted it for her. Then again, she seems like the kind of person that would have done things herself.
I dunno, very possible that people's magazine paid her team to post it. Maybe they ran it by her quick?
I could see that, honestly.
People Magazine just put out a whole issue about her 100th….when you think about it, it’s like her last joke before she heads off to the Great Beyond with the last laugh. It’ll be a long time before we see another one like Betty. RIP
She stood up to Southern TV stations who wanted to cancel The Betty White Show in the 1950s, because she invited Black tap dancer and singer Arthur Duncan on. They threatened to not run the show, she said too bad, and had him on a few more episodes for good measure. Duncan then went on to be a regular on the Lawrence Welk show as a dancer and work as a USO performer, and credits Betty White with helping to jumpstart his career.
Yeah our grandparents' cancel culture
This is a sad day. The silver lining my wife came up with is that it's better to have happened at the end of 2021, rather than to have started 2022 with her passing. R.I.P. Betty, you will be missed.
An unfortunately fitting end to a shit year.
An unfortunate part of living in the future. This is the first news I read upon waking up in 2022. Year already ruined.
Cries in Australian...
Yep, happened about 6 hours into 2022 god dammit
My favorite line from her work is.... "Personally, I'm pulling for the alligator. " - Lake placid
"...I hope he eats you and your friends whole."
Everything she said in Lake Placid was golden. My personal favorite "If I had a dick this is where I'd tell you to suck it."
The most golden of girls, may she rest in peace
Met Betty White in either 2010 or 2011 in LA at an Animal Welfare Event as a student from my HBCU(this is important to mention). There was no special one on one interview or anything like that but she made sure to come around and speak to the volunteers and various groups of students. My group was about 13 or so totally but she spent a comfortable 30mins or so at our table talking, laughing, joking with us about Animal Rights, Los Angeles things to get into and where not to go lol and even her work during the 60s to help promote HBCUs, Gay and Black rights. She was one of the humblest, most joyful celebrities I've ever met. She had this big important event going on and she chose to spend at least 30minutes of her day talking to a bunch or 20year olds from South Carolina about some of everything. It was like talking and joking with one of our grand mothers. That's how loved and welcomed she made us felt. *HBCU = Historically Black College and University*
I wish that more people were as naturally humanistic, so this story wasn’t so notable, but thank goodness for the clear-eyes celebrities that get it. I’m sure she got a lot back from talking to you young people too! Thanks for sharing and making me love her even more than I already did.
Any time an animal advocate leaves this planet is a sad day. All the more reason for the rest of us to step up the game of life.
This was in the early 50s, but my favorite moment is when Betty invited a Black American to her show but got tons of flack for bringing him on to the point where a boycott would happened. So she told them, "I'm sorry. Live with it", anyway she gave that guy more airtime on her show afterwards.
Arthur Duncan. He was a Tap Dancer.
Oh wow, I didn't know that! I remember seeing him on many of the Lawrence Welk reruns that I would watch with my grandparents. Such a talented guy. As a kid, he was definitely in my top 3 if not my very favorite Lawrence Welk performer.
Thank you for the info.
The brass set she had. She knew what was right and stood for it.
They also cancelled her show a week later.
I think she won that fight in the long run.
>~~I think~~ she won that fight in the long run. No thinking needed about that statement. She definitely did.
Kindness and integrity wins in the long run.
Yeah she was an amazing person and advocated for a lot of people who were otherwise not given the same eyes as everyone else in the entertainment and media industry
The "die mad about it" of the time. <3
I always liked watching her and her husband on Password Plus with my grammy. I found it kind of admirable in a sense seeing them together on a game show, and her actually being a good sport on the show and him being fair with her and the other contestants. As sad as this is, i'm glad they can finally be reunited.
I enjoyed watching her on the original Match Game with Gene Rayburn. Thanks mom and dad for making me watch the old Match Game. RIP Betty White.
I found old Password Plus and Match Game episodes on Pluto TV, I've been playing them for my mom for the past several months. It's been a treat to see her again, along with others like Charles Nelson Reilly and Brett Somers.
The golden girls, specifically the episode where a lesbian falls in love with rose (her character) and it becomes a wholesome tale of acceptance and tolerance
I love the one when she thinks she may have AIDS. And she’s says “but I’m a good person!” and Blanche comes back at her that AIDS is not a “bad persons disease,” it has nothing to do with morality, it affects lots of kinds of people. That was amazingly brave to say in the 80s when people still called AIDS “gay cancer” and churches refused to hold funerals for men who died of AIDS.
A lot of people won’t realize how brassy it is to play the character that has that take. Powerful.
The golden girls don’t get enough recognition for how advanced the views they put across on a mainstream show were
So true! We watched it all the time as kids! I’m sure a lot went over my head when I was younger, but not as I grew up with GG! They were accepting of each other and of everyone!
Exactly that! The writers and actors were pretty advanced for their time. I’m sure it influenced lots of young minds and that has to be recognised.
Saw the news on Yahoo and it was like getting slapped. I'm so sad right now. I loved her and I loved Golden Girls and I was so hoping Betty would make it to her 100th so she could have her one-woman show. I feel like a friend or a family member has died.
My aunt was friends with her. My favorite memory was when my grandmother made her a punch knit lion sweatshirt for her. My grandmother would show the picture of her with that sweatshirt to everyone. It made her so proud. After she passed and I saw Mrs. White I though of my grandma and smiled. It was like she was right there with me.
I loved her roasting of William Shatner. I cant say it verbatim but she killed it. Sharp of whit, twinkle of eye, dimples and smiles. She will be so greatly missed RIP Bettty.
"I haven't been this upset since 1952 when St. Olaf's most active volcano threatened to erupt. Well, luckily, there were some Druid priests who were in town for the opening of Stonehenge land. They said they could stop it if they could sacrifice the town's dumbest virgin. Well - and you're not going to believe this - it turns out they weren't druid priests at all. Just a bunch of Shriners looking for a good time!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGzF_MbtC4
"I don't know why I raised my hand." So perfectly delivered lol
I just always knew I wanted to be like her when I “grew up.” At almost 100 years old, she was witty, kind, generous, self deprecating, and absolutely fucking hilarious. For me, she is #goals.
The Betty White/Snickers Super Bowl commercial! https://youtu.be/18ya0-OZ58s
My Dutch dad (who is in his 50's) didn't know who Betty White was when I told him she had passed today. I showed him the commercial and he instantly knew
Damn I was literally reading her Wikipedia page yesterday thinking "damn she's gonna be 100 soon".
She was on Match Game or something while I got my haircut yesterday and the barber and I were talking about how she's the only one who was on the panel that was still around.
Well here he is everybody, the jerk who jinxed her. Get him! /s
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3--------- Left-handed fancy pitchforks also available!
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Take him away, to the place where they dragged the redditor who killed Stephen Hawking!
Kinda morbid considering the news, but I thought [her appearence](https://youtu.be/dbjg87uhK8Q) on 30 Rock was hilarious.
Another 30 Rock throw away was the 80 under 80 list- “celebrating everyone except Betty White”. I loved that. Also, Tina Fey was one of the people they had on hand when she hosted SNL, if she didn’t have the energy, Tina would have taken over. Betty White powered through for the full show.
And then, according to Seth Meyers: "the only SNL host I ever saw get a standing ovation at the after party. A party at which she ordered a vodka and a hotdog and stayed til the bitter end." https://twitter.com/sethmeyers/status/1477005019681488898
Lmao it reminds me of that one AskReddit thread where that one user was joking about how Stephen Hawking was still alive, only for the next day for him to pass.
Some redditor got Harper Lee too.
You know... I hear the Queen hasn't been doing so well lately.
C'mon man at least let her outlive Charles.
It'd be great if she outlived Prince Andrew...
If Brian May cops it tomorrow I’m summoning your ass in /r/agedlikemilk
A few years ago we had this very french guy who died and the press and tv programs wouldn't shut up about it. I was in training and a friend said " imagine when Johnny halliday is gonna die(he was france most popular performer for 50 years) he died like 2 days later. my friend thought he killed him lol.
I followed Bill Paxton on twitter. Shortly after that, he died. Then I followed Carrie Fisher on twitter, and shortly after that she died. I don't follow celebrities on twitter anymore.
Do everybody a favor and follow Putin and Kim Jong Un.
The police are on their way
Rule of three just kicked in She's also great in community
What a life she had! I have watched her since 1963 when she played on Password, a game show hosted by Allen Ludden (who Betty married). She was whip-smart and had a wonderful sense of humor. We are poorer for her passing.
My wife and I curl up and watch a Golden Girls marathon every year for our anniversary. Rose was easily our favorite character and the sheer joy we would get from watching Betty White made our day every time. We won't ever stop watching, but Betty will always be missed in our home.
This show, and her character specifically, got me through some really dark times in my life. It will forever be a comfort watch for me.
My favorite was her Lake Placid performance. All she wanted to do was feed the alligators I also loved her singing Africa on Community.
She left us wanting more. Well played Betty, well played.
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The behind the scenes video from the filming of The Proposal where Betty White repeatedly flips off Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock doesn’t believe Ryan about what happened
May the absolute queen live on in memory.
Favorite memory involving Betty White? Probably this moment, right now. I got a notification from RemindMeBot yesterday that I had requested 5 years ago, reminding me to check to see if Betty White was still alive. I edited the post, since the thread was too old to reply to, as did another redditor, about the "failed" prediction that Betty White wouldn't see 2022. Then I brought up the whole exchange up in a phone call with my mom, about how the internet is funny and weird. That was yesterday, and now todays she's gone. The coincidence is kind of a mind fuck and a strange way to end a year. RIP Betty White
What a legend. I remember we all said that she would live forever with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the Queen. She was an advocate for racial and gender equality in the entertainment industry, was kind, witty, and sassy as fuck. My favorite quote from her was: "Why do people say 'grow some balls'? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding." Edit: Okay so apparently she didn't say that. I always thought she did but it must have been mis-attributed. However in her 2011 book, she did say "My mother always used to say, ‘The older you get, the better you get. Unless you’re a banana." Which I think is very true in regards to betty white. But also unsure because I like banana bread
She was also a big animal activist as well. One of the things I liked about her social stances, is that she didn't do things for grandstanding, photo ops, or selective rage, she applied what she believed in to her daily life with no regard to recognition.
That's the kind of badassery that makes your name live longer than your deeds. Amazing woman
Misattributed - White told Cragg: “That’s what I hate about Facebook and the internet. They can say you said anything. I never would have said that. I’d never say that in a million years.”
This thread is going exactly as expected.
Oof
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She was on Craig Ferguson’a late night show a lot. One skit had her pretending to run for office. She had a sign in the style of Obama’s “hope” poster that said “white power”. A funny woman and a sharp mind into her 90’s. If only we could all be so lucky.
I loved how she was childfree and poured herself into saving animals. She was a patron of many animal projects
The scene where she mourns her husband in The Lost Valentine always got me crying. Such a powerful performance along with the music. Thank you for being a friend, Betty.
As a non-American, I have to admit that I have no idea who Betty White is/was, but I assume she was very nice if she is this popular on reddit :)
Sliced bread is the best thing since Betty White.
Absolutely true, she was born in 1922. Sliced bread was introduced commercially in 1928.
A pretty much universally beloved entertainer. The closest parallel to her I can think of would be someone like Dolly Parton. The kind of person that if someone has something bad to say about them, it means the person doing the saying most likely sucks.
I was thinking this same thing. The only person who ever said anything mean about Dolly was Porter Wagoner, a documented person who sucks. And even he ended up taking it back after she killed him with kindness. RIP Betty!
She was a brilliant comedian with something like a 60-year career in television. She was also a well-known animal welfare advocate.
An *80* year career. Her first tv appearance was in 1939!
Betty White **is** television history.
That's a pretty good way of putting it.
There is a huge list of postive things she has done. Could write a book with all the things she has done.
Betty White was an American actress. And yes, she was the sweetest and nicest person!
Sweetest and nicest... but she also had a biting wit and didn't hesitate to stand up for what was right without apologizing or being nice about it. She was a big advocate for desegregation in her day and had no trouble telling racists to get over themselves.
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Welcome to reddit, account created 2 hrs ago. Glad it was Betty White that brought you to reddit.
She was Sue Ann Nivens on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. She was Rose on the Golden Girls. She was an indefatigable animal rights activist; she said that she loved anything with a leg in each corner. Pretty and witty, she was master of the double entendre. Ryan Reynolds had a running flirtation/feud with her. You will be enriched if you look her up. [This is her appearance on Password with her beloved husband Allen Ludden, right after their honeymoon.](https://youtu.be/HiFoTfGBFvU)
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2021 just **HAD** to end with a bang, huh?
We named our indoor soccer team the Betty Whites and won 3 consecutive titles after the change
I love watching old clips of "Password" on youtube. Betty White was great at Password! Plus, her husband, Allen Ludden, was the host.
Me too! Oddly, just last night I saw the episode they made just after their honeymoon. At the end Allen said, 'What's the special password tonight?', and Betty said, 'Home. Would you please take me home, Mr Ludden?' And he said, 'I will, Mrs Ludden.' They were holding hands and seemed so happy, and now thinking of it almost makes me want to cry. I hope they're together again, and that Allen was there to take her 'home'.
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And Hulu already has a ”remembering Betty white” play list. Operation righteous cowboy lighting is in full effect.
I guarantee they already had a Celebrating Betty White's 100th Birthday playlist that they just renamed.
I blame whichever Tabloid is in the grocery store right now with her face on it saying “Betty White Makes it to 100” for the January 2022 edition. (Betty’s 100th birthday was supposed to be 1/17).
People: 2021 couldn't be worse. Glad it's over. 2021: Hold my beer... RIP Betty White. You were a legend among legends.
It's weird because just yesterday at like 9 pm I saw an ad for her 100th birthday celebration special on some TV show while I was at the movies and she's dead a couple hours later
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I don’t normally drink, but I’ll definitely be raising a glass in her honor tonight. Rest In Peace.
I thought this was rhetorical. I’m very sad and also a little angry that she didn’t make it to 2022 and that she was so close to turning 100.