What was your favorite role played by Betty White? Please vote above!

I voted for Sue Ann but I also liked her as Ellen Harper Jackson on Mama's Family.

Won’t be the top pick, but I’m going with Elka. Made being in your late eighties/ early nineties look cool and fun.

I voted for Sue Ann but I also liked her as Ellen Harper Jackson on Mama's Family.


I thought about including Ellen, but actually forgot (oops). Maybe next poll!

Won’t be the top pick, but I’m going with Elka. Made being in your late eighties/ early nineties look cool and fun.


Totally!! I voted Elka!! Betty was HILARIOUS on Hot in Cleveland ! :lol::D

But a "write in vote" for "Betty as herself" ! Meaning on game shows! She was so much fun on the game show circuit like Match game! I think I liked Betty as herself best ! :):D:heart:

Sue Ann Nivens! Betty White played several great characters, but Sue Ann was the most original. Never seen another quite like her. The Happy Homemaker/Homewrecker. White put delicious subtleties of expression in there that were true comic genius. It resulted in two well-earned Emmy awards.

A very close second was her appearance on Saturday Night Live. Season 35 Episode 20. The last sketch, the one with the census taker, practically had me rolling on the floor.

Eunice's evil sister Ellen is not getting her due (and she means to have it).

Definitely Rose Nylund! No other choice. She wasn't on Mama's Family that much but I loved her as Ellen Harper too!

My favorite Betty role is all of them including on the middle playing the librarian Mrs.Nevercaught BUT most of all my Favorite Betty role is Betty White as herself on game shows she had a fun personality and it looked like she was a lot of fun being around and very sweet towards the contestants.

Loved Betty in everything she did, naturally, but my heart will always belong to Rose Nylund and her wonderful "back in St. Olaf" stories!!!

I liked her as Sue Ann. She gave Murray a hard time and she was always trying to flirt with Mr. Grant. She was so good in that role.

I like Her as Rose on The Golden Girls and I also like as Sue Ann on The Mary Tyler Moore Show

The Golden Girls is my favorite.

Next would be Mama's Family.

Totally!! I voted Elka!! Betty was HILARIOUS on Hot in Cleveland ! :lol::D

But a "write in vote" for "Betty as herself" ! Meaning on game shows! She was so much fun on the game show circuit like Match game! I think I liked Betty as herself best ! :):D:heart:

I also voted for Elka from Hot in Cleveland myself. :) I'm also with you on Betty's numerous game show appearances as well.

A show of hers that was omitted: Ladies Man (1999-2001 on CBS). I didn't even realize Betty was in that until an ancient Ladies Man thread was bumped. :lol:

A show of hers that was omitted: Ladies Man (1999-2001 on CBS). I didn't even realize Betty was in that until an ancient Ladies Man thread was bumped. :lol:

Date With The Angels, Mama's Family and Maybe This Time were also left out.

Although I voted for Elka, I also loved her as Sue Ann

Totally!! I voted Elka!! Betty was HILARIOUS on Hot in Cleveland ! :lol::D

But a "write in vote" for "Betty as herself" ! Meaning on game shows! She was so much fun on the game show circuit like Match game! I think I liked Betty as herself best ! :):D:heart:

Here's 100 Minutes of Betty White's best game show moments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNkiniinrZU

A show of hers that was omitted: Ladies Man (1999-2001 on CBS). I didn't even realize Betty was in that until an ancient Ladies Man thread was bumped. :lol:

MAYBE THIS TIME (September 1995 – February 1996, ABC) (https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/01/26/short-lived-sitcom-potpourri-pop-out-maybe-this-time/)

Thoughts: This mediocre effort with a decent premise but substandard character work hails from Michael Jacobs and a team of writers most used to penning kid-dominated comedies (like Boy Meets World, which even has a brief crossover here) — it indulges many of those types of sitcoms’ weaknesses, with a broad sensibility that doesn’t transfer into bold depictions of the characters, just a general silliness, and clumsiness when switching thoughts — inside stories that are overly familiar (if not downright clichéd) and not enlivened by well-drawn leads who could support and sustain these notions. Marie Osmond is a so-so star — she’s something of a Mary Richards, with a perky naïveté amidst her newfound independence, but she lacks Mary Tyler Moore’s deftness with comedy (learned on Dick Van Dyke) and naturalness, which renders her more of a cartoony player (again, clumsy when trying to transition from a Funny Moment to an Emotional Moment). The kid — a veteran from the final years of the lame Growing Pains — is similarly written and played, with an overbearing falseness that’s painfully off-putting. It isn’t promising that their relationship is half the series’ emotional core, next to Marie’s bond with her own mother, portrayed by the late Betty White. Initially, White’s character starts off as a cross between Rose Nylund and Sue Ann Nivens — with the latter’s sass and flirtatiousness but the former’s maternal sincerity. Yet by the end, she has no personality whatsoever (aside from an episodic gag about her being a jinx with all her past husbands — an idea that also evokes her prior, better conceived series), and she’s not able to elevate the otherwise decent relationship-based premise of three single women inside of a workplace structure. Meanwhile, Amy Hill and Craig Ferguson are funny in supporting roles, but they’re not given much to do, especially when, a few episodes into the run, the show begins adding new characters in a desperate attempt to find something more amusing and story-yielding. The improvement never comes, making this one of Betty White’s worst sitcom endeavors, never providing anyone with good material.

Hmm, Marie Osmond isn't listed as a Ladies Man star, either on epguides.com or my primetime directory.

Hmm, Marie Osmond isn't listed as a Ladies Man star, either on epguides.com or my primetime directory.

I was referring to another post-Golden Girls/Golden Place/pre-Hot in Cleveland Betty White sitcom, Maybe This Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maybe_This_Time_(TV_series)).

MAYBE THIS TIME (September 1995 – February 1996, ABC) (https://jacksonupperco.com/2022/01/26/short-lived-sitcom-potpourri-pop-out-maybe-this-time/)

There was some free streaming service that had Maybe This Time around 2 or 3 years ago. I managed to watch most of the episodes before it got removed.

Totally!! I voted Elka!! Betty was HILARIOUS on Hot in Cleveland ! :lol::D

But a "write in vote" for "Betty as herself" ! Meaning on game shows! She was so much fun on the game show circuit like Match game! I think I liked Betty as herself best ! :):D:heart:

She also hosted a 1971 pet-related show called Betty White's Pet Set, which only lasted just that one year. It was released on DVD a while back, but I don't know if it's still in print or not.

All so wonderful. I chose Rose.