# RIP Betty White **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 31, 2021, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000 "2021-12-31T19:22:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/21 "2021-12-31T19:55:48Z")
Shame. What a lady, what a life. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/22 "2021-12-31T19:56:32Z")
Damn, I’d hoped she’d enjoy a few more healthy happy years ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/23 "2021-12-31T20:03:56Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > You can almost hear her thinking, “Screw this. I’m outta here!” I think it’d be more like this: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRK9Gzju6w](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRK9Gzju6w) ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/24 "2021-12-31T20:06:22Z")
> [@ekedolphin](#): > > They say celebrity deaths come in threes. Fours: Sondheim. RIP, beloved Betty. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/25 "2021-12-31T20:07:40Z")
What a wonderfully funny, bawdy and lively person she was! I’ve had a crush on her since as long as I can remember. She certainly lived life on her own terms and entertained us all. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/26 "2021-12-31T20:10:51Z")
She had a very good run. R.I.P., golden girl. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/27 "2021-12-31T20:31:22Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > The people of St. Olaf sure knew how to take care of their old people. > > They revered them. Honored them. Put them on a pedestal. > > 'Course that’s how they got to be the broken hip capital of the Midwest… I totally read this with Rose Nyland’s voice in my head. And it put a big smile on my face. Thanks for that. I’ve seen it said that Betty White had so much longevity that she was in a show that was about old people that went off the air 3 decades ago! And she was even older than sliced bread! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/28 "2021-12-31T20:31:52Z")
the episode The Lars Affair (Season 4, episode 1) of thr Mary Tyler Moore Show is one of the funniest things ever on American TV. White and Leachman are amazing I. Their scenes together. ---
**Author:** ![caligulathegod](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/caligulathegod/32/9685_2.png) [@caligulathegod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caligulathegod)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/29 "2021-12-31T20:34:30Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > Olivia de Havilland would like a word. Litigious and bitter? No, that’s two words. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/30 "2021-12-31T20:36:12Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > Damn, I’d hoped she’d enjoy a few more healthy happy years Me, too - I was really hoping she’d have some time in the triple digits. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/31 "2021-12-31T20:44:46Z")
She was a an amazing woman. RIP Betty. ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/32 "2021-12-31T21:11:50Z")
😭 I will miss her. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/33 "2021-12-31T21:14:06Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > I think it’d be more like this: LOL, you’re right. She was fabulous! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/34 "2021-12-31T21:15:50Z")
I’m glad she went quickly and at home. I was concerned she’d get sick and linger in a Nursing Home. Betty voiced a character in Toy Story 4 in 2019. She had a very successful and long career. I watched a lot of her work in various sitcoms. Mary Tyler Moore and Golden Girls were my favorites. Her dramatic work in Boston Legal was quite impressive. RIP Betty and thank you for the many years of entertainment. A few scenes of Betty’s work… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/m_nR8GcBsE4/hqdefault.jpg "Betty White as Catherine Piper on Boston Legal.") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_nR8GcBsE4) ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/35 "2021-12-31T21:16:52Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Allen is waiting for you. This. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/36 "2021-12-31T21:18:55Z")
I love to think about the lives of people who live to be 100 or very close. She was 23 when WW2 was ending. She was 41 when John Kennedy died. She was 59 when Reagan was shot. And she still had 40(almost) years left to live! What a lady! ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/37 "2021-12-31T21:25:49Z")
I just read this book. > **[When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who...](https://www.amazon.com/When-Women-Invented-Television-Powerhouses/dp/0062973304)** > > When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today \[Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the... It’s a terrible title that doesn’t convey the contents at all, but _Women in Early Television Who Got Chewed Up and Spit Out Just Like Men When They Lost Ratings_ wouldn’t sell. Anyway, there’s a huge amount of Betty’s early television days in Los Angeles from the very beginning though her days as a local star and then a national star. And a lot on how she decided to focus on her career instead of marriage because her career was more important to her. Almost all that early work is lost or only in specialty collections, but the author seems to have viewed everything that still exists. The excitement of inventing a new medium comes through, though I’d only recommend it to confirmed tv buffs. ---
**Author:** ![sciurophobic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cab0a1/32.png) [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/38 "2021-12-31T21:34:23Z")
With the passing of Ed Asner, Gavin McLeod, and Cloris Leachman earlier this year we’ve lost everybody from _The Mary Tyler Moore Show_. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/39 "2021-12-31T22:45:32Z")
A person who can bring together so many people from so many diverse walks of life in Universal sorrow at her passing had to be a quality human being. Rest in peace Betty White. You were one in a million ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2021, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000/40 "2021-12-31T23:06:05Z")
She was the oldest of the Golden Girls cast (a few months older than Bea Arthur), and, IIRC, second only to Ed Asner on Mary Tyler Moore, and she was the last to go from both. That’s impressive. RIP, Betty. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-betty-white/957000.md?page=3)