Thursday, January 17, 2008 - Happy Birthday, Betty White! (second post)

Since I finished my reports, I decided to do a puffery piece for ya guys.

Happy Birthday, Betty White!

Dearest Betty,

No one has ever played a lovable ditz better than you. We loved you in Mary Tyler Moore (well, not IN her, but in her show), and you became an ICON in The Golden Girls. When I started looking for pictures and quotes for this blog entry, I was dismayed to find that The Official Betty White Fanclub had folded, and to add insult to injury, the proprieter left this message on the website:

I regret to inform you that Betty White Online will no longer be updated. My Rue McClanahan site, The Rue Crew, requires a great deal of upkeep and I have found that I simply do not have the time to maintain two sites. What's here now will remain here, but it will not be updated.

To think that someone would dedicate their time to that hussy, Rue McClanahan, who hasn't been able to muster up much of a career outside of the occasional appearance in Nunsense since the end of Golden Girls, while you have had a prolific career in movies like Bringing Down the House, Lake Placid, and Dennis The Menace Strikes Again!; and appearances on television shows as varied as Malcolm in the Middle, Boston Legal, and most recently Ugly Betty. Rue couldn't even handle the difficult work of "Woman in Window during Batclimb sequence" for the transcendent piece of television history that is Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt. No, Betty, you deserve better, and I am going to dedicate some of my blog space to the commemoration of your legacy.

With love,
FitnessNerd

Quotes:

Ugly Betty: Betty White, on her legions of dedicated fans: ''Well, I adore 'em. Except for the few sickos who write lesbian fan fiction about me and Bea Arthur.''

Boston Legal: As Catherine Piper: "Most people aren’t able to see that beneath your slick and sensitive exterior, deep down you really are douche bag. I get that, Alan. You’d have no misunderstanding with me."

Boston Legal: As Catherine Piper: I just… Is it possible to request the Robert Blake jury?

The rest will be from Golden Girls:

Blanche: I don't look right in American clothes. I have a more European physique.
Rose: In Europe do they all have big butts, too?

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Rose: How about Miami is nice, so i'll say it thrice!
Dorothy: Who the hell says thrice?!
Rose: It's a word!!
Dorothy: So is interuterine. It does not belong in a song.
Rose: (singing) Miami, you're cuter than an interuterine...

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Rose: My cousin Ingmar was different. He used to do bird imitations.
Blanche: What's wrong with that?
Rose: Well, let's just say, you didn't want to park your car under their oak tree.

~

Rose: Back in St. Olaf we all have the same family tree. You can trace each of us back to the same brother and sister.

Happy Birthday, Betty!