― estela (estela), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:35 (twenty years ago) link
― Innocent Dreamer (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 6 July 2003 07:52 (twenty years ago) link
Also Bea is quoted as saying of her co-stars "X was fabulous, Y was divine and Z was a complete fucking cunt".
Z was Betty.
I love Bea.
― j0e (j0e), Sunday, 6 July 2003 10:24 (twenty years ago) link
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[EVERYTHING IS DRAWN IN A SCRATCHY WHITE-ON-BLACK STYLE. BETTY WHITE IS COOKING POTATOES, AND IS A GIANT ANTHROPOMORPHIC HEN. BETTY TAKES ONE POTATO AND CRACKS IT OPEN LIKE AN EGG. CLOSE UP OF WEEPING FACES SLIDING OUT OF IT INTO A FRYING PAN. CUT TO BEA ARTHUR COMING THROUGH THE KITCHEN DOOR. SHE IS BALD AND HOLDS A SMALL COCKROACH-MAN IN HER HANDS, WHICH IS GAGGED AND IS TRYING TO BREATHE]
BEA: Oh my hen wife, will you ever buy me creamed rice?BETTY: Creamed rice is a tool of Western propaganda. Shut up and eat your boiled potato.BEA: Gahhhhhhhhhhh!
[CUT TO BEA'S HEAD ROLLING OFF HER NECK AND THUMPING ON THE FLOOR. BETTY SCREAMS. JUMP CUT TO BETTY IDLY CLUCKING A HAPPY SONG AS SHE WASHES PLATES. BEA HAS HER HEAD BACK ON, AND IS SQUEEZING THE COCKRAOCH-MAN. FADE OUT, AND BACK INTO SUBTITLE: "WHY MUST WE ALL DIE?"]
(© 1972 StateFilm Animation Studio)
But anyway. I remember a spoof of the show on Naked Video back in around about 1989 which amused me at the time - Helen Lederer was the cranky grandmother one, some bloke playted Bea Arthur. The fact that it was a bloke playing Bea was the whole point of the sketch, and everyone tried to get him to own up to the fact he was a man. Eventually after they'd all given up, Helen Lederer casually goes "So, how high can you pee against a wall?" "Oh, about 6 foot on a good day... SHIT!"
― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:44 (twenty years ago) link
Yeah, Kenan, but Betty is HAWT.
― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 6 July 2003 13:45 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 16:34 (twenty years ago) link
― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 6 July 2003 21:50 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 22:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:00 (twenty years ago) link
You may have been confusing Betty with one of the names in Brecht & Weill's 'Mack The Knife':
Pearly White.
― Fred Nerk (Fred Nerk), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Nicole (Nicole), Sunday, 6 July 2003 23:14 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 7 July 2003 01:25 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:25 (twenty years ago) link
― rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:41 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 03:57 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:06 (twenty years ago) link
― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 7 July 2003 20:50 (twenty years ago) link
It's a fine and good thing, it is.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 7 July 2003 21:23 (twenty years ago) link
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link
Betty White had a cameo in The Simpsons not so long ago that was amusing ("if you're watching this channel without donating you're nothing but thieves")
― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 08:32 (twenty years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_BRW4gNHvrkk/SvHhspYeQUI/AAAAAAAAI0Y/1LuTnJskC_A/s1600-h/Because.jpg
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
shit....
― Your Favorite Saturday Night Thing (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link
See, Betty White wouldn't think it is at all funny that you don't have a clitoris and you shit when you come. Bea Arthur would appreciate it, though.
Dear lord what does this mean?
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
A friend of mine made me watch "Lake Placid" last week because, in it, Betty White feeds cattle to a giant CGI alligator. This is about 0.4% of the film time.
― we are normal and we want our freedom (Abbott), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 05:33 (fourteen years ago) link
I kind of get what K meant, which I think worries me.
― hulk would smash (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 November 2009 09:10 (fourteen years ago) link
http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2010/04/the-early-betty-white.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 4 April 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3170/2929260387_72d71d5e6b.jpg
― Derelict, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:12 (fourteen years ago) link
FWIW, Bea Arthur nude 'shops outnumber Betty 'shops by about 5:1.
http://laist.com/attachments/tony/ggundies.jpg
― Derelict, Sunday, 4 April 2010 19:21 (fourteen years ago) link
Betty White gets a PBS special.
― Police, Academy (cryptosicko), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Man, is that feud still happening? When will they let it go?
― Things To Do For Dinner When You're Dad (Old Lunch), Thursday, 2 August 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
97 today!from wikipedia: After the war, White made rounds to movie studios looking for work, but was always turned down because she was "unphotogenic".
wtf???
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link