Happy 91st Birthday, Betty White!

[joeybee12]

[louis-t]

1. Holy Crap!

It seems like a couple of weeks ago that I was watching the 90th tribute.

[brewens]

2. I just got to the part where Sue Ann Nivens becomes a prominent character

on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. The way I remembered that show, that was when it got really good. So far, I think I was right. It was okay before her and Georgette came along, but I liked it better after Rhoda and Phyllis were gone. Part of that may have been my age. I was just reaching the age where I was able to get some of the sexual innuendo. In the first years of that show, it probably went right over my head.

It seems like Sue Ann just fell out of the sky. Unless I wasn't paying attention when they made a big deal of signing her one episode. It seems like they just threw her in there as if there had always been a cooking and household hints show at that station. She is just great in that role!

[joeybee12]

3. They wrote the character as "someone like Betty White"

and in the script they kept referring to her as someone like Betty White until they said, hey, why not get the real Betty White???

[Fearless]

4. Proof positive

That there are genuinely good people in the world. If I could, I'd wish her another 91 years, and that wouldn't be a day too much.