100 Ways to Remember and Celebrate Betty White’s Life

Watch it: Betty White’s Off Their Rockers on Google Play, YouTube

Catch her Emmy-winning guest appearance on The John Larroquette Show, in which she starred as a fictionalized version of herself, who’s writing a (terrible) musical adaptation of The Golden Girls. Through a weird set of mishaps, Larroquette ends up playing Dorothy! ​

Watch it: YouTube

Celebrate Betty White’s decades-long career by watching her win the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild Awards. ​

Watch it: YouTube ​​​

… and the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2015 Daytime Emmys. ​

Watch it: YouTube​​​

… and then be celebrated at the 2018 Primetime Emmys! ​

Watch it: YouTube

Take sides in her ongoing (fake) feud with Ryan Reynolds. Our money’s on Betty! ​

Watch it: YouTube

Squeal at the creativity of Betty’s F-bombs in Lake Placid, a 1999 horror comedy about a 30-foot-long saltwater crocodile terrorizing a small town in Maine. White plays a foulmouthed widow who, in one of the film’s wildest scenes, feeds a dairy cow to the giant croc. ​

Watch it: Lake Placid on Amazon Prime

Test your knowledge of the fierce foursome with the Golden Girls edition of Trivial Pursuit. ​

Buy it: NBC Studios Shop

Hang a little Betty White on your Christmas tree with this jolly ornament. ​

Buy it: Paper Source

​​Drop into your local zoo. White has been a member of the board of trustees at the Los Angeles Zoo since 1974, and when asked what job she would take if she couldn’t be an actress, she told the Guinness Book of World Records, “Hands down, a zookeeper.”​

Visit: Los Angeles Zoo

​​Chart her remarkable life on Instagram (@BettyMWhite).​

Follow her: Instagram

Laugh along to her side-splitting bloopers from TV Land’s Hot in Cleveland. ​

Watch it: YouTube ​​​

Check out her 2014 appearance on the wrestling show WWE Raw, which was nominated for a Slammy Award — yes, that’s really a thing!​

Watch it: YouTube ​​​

Add a miniature Funko Pop version of Rose to your toy collection.​

Buy it: Funko Pop collectible on Amazon Prime

Make a pilgrimage to one of America’s national forests. In 2010, the U.S. Forest Service made Betty an honorary ranger, a dream of hers since childhood, back when the job wasn’t open to little girls. “In my heart I’ve been a forest ranger all my life,” she said, “but now I’m official.”

​Visit: Forest Service

Pick up some good advice from her top 10 list, “Betty White Tips for Living a Long and Happy Life,” from The Late Show with David Letterman. Number 10: “Get at least 8 hours of beauty sleep, 9 if you’re ugly.”​

Watch it: YouTube

Put together a 500-piece Golden Girls jigsaw puzzle, which features the gals’ illustrated faces and important objects from the show’s history — including, of course, cheesecake. ​

Buy it: Amazon Prime

Grow Betty’s signature curly coif with your very own Rose Nylund Chia Pet. ​

Buy it: Amazon

Gather your family to watch the sweet Hallmark movie Annie’s Point, which stars White as a recent widow who takes her free-spirited granddaughter on a 2,000-mile road trip to scatter her late husband’s ashes in California. ​

Watch it: Annie’s Point on Sling TV

Pay homage to her life along with Betty’s 1.5 million other Twitter followers at @BettyMWhite.​

Follow her: Twitter​

Eavesdrop on a conversation between two comedy legends during Betty’s appearance on Alan Alda’s podcast Clear+Vivid. If the episode title (“Betty White and Alan Alda Fall Desperately in Love”) is any indication, they have great chemistry. ​

Listen to it: Clear+Vivid on Spotify

Watch White’s Emmy-nominated appearance on the magazine-set sitcom Suddenly Susan, on which she guest stars as a seemingly sweet older woman who sues the publication for age discrimination after she’s fired, in the 1996 episode “Golden Girl Friday.” ​

Watch it: “Golden Girl Friday” on Amazon Prime​

Get a Betty White tattoo — or at least watch her meet other fans who have taken the ink plunge on this hilarious segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live!​

Watch it: Jimmy Kimmel Live! on YouTube

Order the Rose Nylund cocktail (which is made with Shine Spirits Northwesty Vodka, Portland Syrups Rose Cordial and hop water) at Shine Distillery & Grill in Portland, Oregon. On Jan. 15, the distillery will honor her legacy with a queer dance party called Keep It Tight, Betty White!​

Visit: Shine Distillery & Grill

Glean wisdom from the new book How to Be Golden: Lessons We Can Learn from Betty White. ​

Buy it: How to Be Golden: Lessons We Can Learn from Betty White on Amazon

Warm up with a pair of Rose Nylund socks. ​

Buy it: Amazon

Suss out who ate the last piece of cheesecake by playing the Golden Girls edition of Clue.​

Buy it: NBC Studios Shop

​​Take a walk down memory lane with Conan O’Brien and White, as she recalls the time she almost got bleeped on Jack Paar’s show. ​

Watch it: Late Night with Conan O’Brien on YouTube

Sing along to the 10 greatest musical moments from The Golden Girls, including the Rose-penned ditty “Miami, Miami, You’ve Got Style.”​

Watch it: YouTube​​​​​​​​​

​​​Shed a few tears at the Hallmark Hall of Fame movie The Lost Valentine, in which Betty stars as a woman who’s waited 60 years for her pilot husband to return from World War II. ​

Watch it: The Lost Valentine on Amazon Prime

Snack on a hot dog, French fries and Red Whips — White’s lunch of choice, according to a 2014 interview with Bon Appétit.​

Read it: Bon Appétit​​​

Share in her love of wildlife with the documentary Betty White: Champion for Animals. ​

Watch it: Betty White: Champion for Animals on IMDbTV

Buy your grandkid — or, let’s be honest, yourself — the Golden Girls Fisher-Price Little People Collector set. ​

Buy it: Fisher-Price Little People Collector set

Relive moments from Betty’s first six decades in Hollywood with her lighthearted 2010 memoir Here We Go Again: My Life in Television. ​

Buy it: Here We Go Again: My Life in Television on Bookshop.org

Sip a fruity cocktail (maybe one made with lingonberries to honor Rose?) out of a Geeki Tikis Golden Girls tiki-style cup.​

Buy it: Geeki Tikis mugs on Amazon

Listen to her appearance on the PBS podcast American Masters, on which she sings the praises of her friend Carol Burnett.

​Listen: American Masters on PBS.org

Travel back in time with the 1950s sitcom Life With Elizabeth, which earned White her first Primetime Emmy nomination. ​

Watch it: Life With Elizabeth on Amazon Prime

Play a round of “Is Betty White Older Than?” with Reggie Watts and Amar’e Stoudemire on The Late Late Show with James Corden. (Hint: She’s been around longer than sliced bread!)

​Watch it: YouTube ​​​

Tune into the Yes, Dear episode “Kim’s New Nanny” to see White play an exceptionally bad caretaker — and earn an Emmy nomination in the process. ​

Watch it: “Kim’s New Nanny” on Dailymotion​​

Eat a Snickers in honor of her hilarious 2010 Super Bowl commercial.

​Watch it: YouTube ​​​

Dance around a fire to honor her character, Grandma Annie, from the Sandra Bullock rom-com The Proposal.​

Watch it: The Proposal on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube

See Betty White and Steve Harvey play a round of The Match Game on his show to find out what she’d rename The Real Housewives. (It left Steve speechless.) ​

Watch it: Steve on YouTube​​​​​

Laugh until you cry at the risqué zingers she doled out at The Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner.​

Watch it: The Comedy Central Roast of William Shatner on Paramount+

And watch her guest star opposite Shatner on Boston Legal, in which she played the troublemaking former assistant Catherine Piper ... ​

Watch it: Boston Legal on Apple TV, Hulu

​​​​… a role she first originated on The Practice, which earned White her 15th Emmy nomination, in 2004. ​

Watch it: The Practice on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Hulu​​​​

Cheer along to all the special guests (Ed Asner! Valerie Harper! Jack Paar!) on her 1987 episode of This Is Your Life. ​

Watch it: This Is Your Life on YouTube

Dive deep into Betty White’s pioneering role as a producer, writer and star of her own show in Jennifer Keishin Armstrong’s gripping new book, When Women Invented Television ... ​

Buy it: When Women Invented Television on Bookshop.org​​​

… and then devour the author’s 2013 book Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted: And All the Brilliant Minds Who Made the Mary Tyler Moore Show a Classic. ​

Buy it: Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted on Bookshop.org​​​

Donate to one of Betty White’s favorite charities, the Morris Animal Foundation, a nonprofit established in 1948 to advance veterinary medicine and fund research. ​

Discover: Morris Animal Foundation

​​​Find yourself saying “I didn’t know she had such a good voice!” as you watch this supercut of Betty White singing on her various television shows in the 1950s. ​

Watch it: YouTube

Let out a celebratory ape man yell as you watch Betty White and Johnny Carson play Tarzan and Jane in a 1981 sketch from The Tonight Show ... ​

Watch it: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on YouTube​​​

… or thank heaven for their hilarious (and half-dressed) roles as Adam and Eve in 1979 ...​

Watch it: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on YouTube

​​​… or this somehow even less-dressed, locker-room-set sketch from 1978. (We didn’t realize how often Johnny Carson was shirtless!) ​

Watch it: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on YouTube​

Discover what a trailblazer Betty was by watching a 1954 episode of her eponymous variety show, in which she featured Black singer and tap dancer Arthur Duncan. The casting caused a bit of a ruckus at the time, but she was steadfast in her decision: “Evidently through the South at that point it was a very heavy [thing], and I said, ‘I’m sorry, but he stays. Live with it!’ ”

​Watch it: The Betty White Show on YouTube

​​​Get misty as White and Duncan later reunite on NBC’s Little Big Shots in 2017. ​

Watch it: Yahoo

Look for a wickedly fun little scene in the 2010 comedy You Again, in which Grandma Bunny Byer (White) trades barbs with an old rival, played by none other than Cloris Leachman.​

Watch it: You Again on Apple TV, Disney+, Google Play, YouTube

Snag tickets to That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody, which is continuing on its hilariously campy national tour through the spring.

Book it: That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody

Showcase your Golden Girls fandom with a dozen “red Roses” on your lawn — aka 2-foot-tall cardboard cutouts of Rose Nylund in a sharp crimson blazer. ​

Buy it: Prime Party

Gift yourself a Rose bobblehead doll from the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum. ​

Buy it: National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum

Keep the spirit of the holidays alive with the Disney+ short Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa, in which White voices Mrs. Claus. ​

Watch it: Prep & Landing: Operation Secret Santa on Disney+

Score a used copy of her 1987 book Betty White in Person.​

Buy it: Betty White in Person on Amazon

Join in the roaring standing ovation that greeted Betty’s win as favorite TV icon at the 2015 People’s Choice Awards.

​Watch it: YouTube

“Speak for the trees” by watching the environmentalism-focused animated film The Lorax, in which White voices the wise-cracking Grammy Norma. ​

Watch it: The Lorax on Netflix

Get inside the brain of Rose Nylund with Christine Kopaczewski’s boxed set of four Golden Girls “autobiographies,” including Rose’s entry, As They Say in St. Olaf. ​

Buy it: The Golden Girls: Forever Golden on Amazon

Tickle your funny bone with these Golden Girls outtakes and bloopers. ​

Watch it: YouTube

Turn up your nose at the little people in honor of the snobbish socialite Ellen Harper Jackson, White’s recurring character on Mama’s Family.​

Watch it: Mama’s Family on Apple TV, Google Play, YouTube

Bop along to her electro-pop duet with British singer Luciana, “I’m Still Hot.” In the music video, she sits on a golden throne, surrounded by shirtless beefcakes, and raps lyrics like “I always come out on top / I’m Betty from the block / I locked my Emmys in my beatbox, beatbox.” ​

Watch it: “I’m Still Hot” on YouTube

Cower in fear at Grizelda Weezmer, the misunderstood Crazy Witch Lady of Camden County, on My Name Is Earl, which earned Betty yet another guest actress Emmy nomination in 2009.​

Watch it: “Witch Lady” on Hulu

Watch her interview with Frank Bruni from The New York Times to find out which actress leaves handpicked yellow roses on her doorstep as a nice surprise. ​

Watch it: YouTube​ ​​​​

Cook up a batch of Betty White’s Chicken Wings Pacifica, a sticky-sweet-savory party recipe that has been attributed to the actress since the 1960s and can be found on food blogs across the internet. Commenters love them.​

Make it: Stargayzing.com

Crochet with your very own set of Golden Girls yarn, and learn how to make additional accessories like Rose’s teddy bear, cheesecake and their iconic couch ... ​

Buy it: Amazon

​… or cross stitch instead, if that’s more your style. ​

Buy it: Amazon ​​​​​

Decorate your house with a life-size cardboard cutout of the First Lady of Television. ​

Buy it: celebrity-cutouts.com

Enroll in “Anthropology 101,” an episode of the NBC sitcom Community, in which White plays the zany Professor June Bauer, an explorer and world traveler who knows her way around a blow dart!

Watch it: “Anthropology 101” on Google Play, Hulu, Netflix

Get creative — and work out some stress — with the Betty White adult coloring book.

​Buy it: Betty White: An Adult Coloring Book on Amazon Prime

​​Toast the beloved Betty White with her tipple of choice: a vodka martini!

Nicholas DeRenzo is a contributing writer who covers entertainment and travel. Previously he was executive editor of United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine and his work has appeared in the New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Travel & Leisure, Sunset and New York magazine.​