I wish she guested on more episodes!

yep

Loved her on Little House on the Prairie and as Tim's mom on Home Improvement.

she is a great actress. I remember her as Mark Green’s mom on ER.

I first saw her on this episode and to find out years later she also played in the movie Shiloh and she was Lila Bolander on Boy Meets World. And now I know her also from St. Elsewhere where she played Ellen Craig. Her husband William Daniels played Mark Craig also on St. Elsewhere. She made me hate her character in this episode but yet I love everything else I've seen her in.

Her dimwittedness is what makes her lovable

How can you not love Betty White!!!

@@hadbetterdays8118 Gracie Allen was no dimwit - but she sure did leave a blueprint for such characters as Rose, and Jessica Tate on ''Soap''.......

@@meeklyopinionated she'll be *98* on the 17th of this month...

her husband, William Daniels, is 92. They've been married for 68 years!

She was also in Little House

She's on Boy Meets World along with her husband. She's also in the movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito as their long lost mother.

She's still going strong like Betty White

Omg lol I feel like I am going to keep coming back to this comment thread to check on her and make sure she’s still going strong!!! 😝💕

@Clark Drew some info....

@Clark Drew And let's not forget he played Dustin Hoffman's father in 1967's The Graduate.

Barbara: a man came up from behind me, placed something in my hand and said "this is what you need". Blanche: That happened to me once in the produce section at the A&P!

Bartlett's longtime husband is William Daniels, who is perhaps best known as 'Mark Craig' in *St. Elsewhere,* 'Mr. Feeny' in *Boy Meets World,* and the voice of 'K.I.T.T' in *Knight Rider.*

My aunt has a 'best friend from high school' who acts as this person(I belive that the female person peeked in high school

I felt the same way about Rose when she attended Miles' party that was all college professors. I would find Rose to be an absolute relief among the stuffy profs that were represented on the show. I wish I had been a character in the show that would have gone with Rose to make her feel more comfortable. The first thing I would have said would have been to the woman that said to Rose, "we were just hypothesizing if you could have anyone to dinner, living or dead, who would you invite?" Rose's reply is her roommates and Jesus. The two professors look at her with haughty derision. I would have come to her defense with, "hypothesizing? You were giving an educated guess about who you'd invite to dinner? Do you think maybe you'd like to pick another, grammatically appropriate word instead of trying to sound smart? I'll give you one. Confabulating. That gives you another whole syllable! And it actually MEANS what you're trying to convey! Peace out, you not very smart or nice person! Let's go get some drinks, Rose." I WAY overthink these things, lol.

Ha, good point about her choice of words! That scene bothered me too. Having Jesus over would be a lot more interesting/impressive than Browning with or without his wife. Even if someone said something odd why exchange disgusted glances and turn your back on them? Imagine having those two as your teachers, they likely act like that in their classes too. I would have probably just been like "Wow this party is too hardcore for me, excuse me" or "if they're dead do they come back as a zombie??" Buncha snobs!

You're so right! I had a professor like that in college. She went to Harvard and loved to make sure EVERYONE knew it. In class, if someone took a couple seconds too long to raise their hand to answer a question, or if someone had to stop and think about an answer, she would loudly humpf and say, "this would be OBVIOUS if you went to Harvard." It was always so inspiring and dignifying! She called on me once for a question I didn't know the answer to, so I just said it for her. "I don't know, but it would be obvious if I went to Harvard." She was not amused.

First of all, I had no idea that Miami even HAD a literary intelligentsia. A restaurant that featured courses named after books and authors would be ridiculed in places like New York. Barbara was full of herself, and enjoyed being a big fish in a very small pond.

Would be a coveted restaurant in the cartoon series "Arthur" but those kids have more intellectualism and creativity in their pinky fingers than Barbara Thorndyke

MsRain123 rose is not as dumb as everyone thinks! She is what they call an idiot savant. I love her. ❤️

Whatismyname Thisismyname, there were times where Rose was smart about somebody and Dorothy wasn't. Besides Barbara Thornedyke she was right about Blanche's fiance, in the 1st episode, and Dr. Elliott Clayton. She was also smart enough to get her bear back and make the others work when they were trapped on the island. Betty White said that Rose was clinically naive.

Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.

She's more of naive, not stupid

I disagree with you on one central thing: Rose is not dumb, she's genuinely naive which makes her "slower", but she sure knows people!

unfortunately, that is the truth. and that is why I like to enjoy solitude and activities that I can do on my own. And I like to spend time with dogs, birds, rabbits, deer, horses, etc... because animals give u unconditional love and expect nothing in return. humans can be greedy, selfish, egotistical, etc...

You are correct. It's why I am a loner.

Yep! Once as a teenager I joined a youth group at a different church bc my church didn't have any people my age . However the vast majority of the kids there were spoiled, ,snotty and cliquey and of the few ones that were nice were hardly ever there.Once when the group was together at a mission trip and huddled and I said excuse me multiple times and they didn't budge until a girl they knew came through and let her in and continued to ignore me. And in another incident I said hi to one of the girls and she said "Don't talk to me 😑". After sticking it out for a year I told my mom that I hated it and didn't want to go there anymore.

Not with plad. Unless large plad.

No we have lives Just kidding, I have no life

If you make somebody feel stupid this means you are not classy.

U men smart & sophisticated?

....please, Barbara! ;-)

R C leave us alone Barbara

If you need something, ask Carol Anne!

+Roger Sneed lol one of my favorite movies looove faye dunaway

Oh this is wonderful!, THIS IS WONDERFUL!!!!

She us one amazing actress!!!!!!!!! St eleswhere Goodness

Jessica Jean Omg, I laughed so hard I was crying when I changed the speed. It's like a 30s screwball movie!

Alexander Edward Pytko Calista Flockhart? Calista Gingrich maybe.

A very old Calista Flockhart!

@@ashleyworden1887 Reminds me of Lauren Lane

Ashley Worden We haven’t seen Calista in a while. This actress, at that time, is probably just 3 or 4 years older than Calista is now. Yeah, she may seem mature if you’re comparing her to how we remember Aly McBeal looking in 1998.

Yes, she does look like an older Callista, doesn't she?

Rose didn't get it because she's Rose, and Blanche was just responding to Rose. I'm not sure if Blanche didn't get it or if she was just distracted by Rose's comment. They don't make that very clear.

Who cares?? stop analyzing this and just enjoy for fuck sakes.

i think they did understand, they just didn't fawn over her in awe like she expected. she's the type of snob that wants to impress everyone and make them feel inferior to her.

I think Sophia used it to boost up her backside when she borrowed Rose's car. ;)

She probably used it for toilet paper, starting with the dedication page that Barbara autographed.

Sophia used it to sit on when she "borrowed" Rose's car.

Yep

I was wondering why I recognized her and couldn't place her

Nice catch. :) I dislike how pedantic she is and has such a superiority complex. In the episode, she's not TECHNICALLY anti-Semitic but tolerates the prejudices of others for the sake of a free parking. This proves too much for Dorothy as Barbara's tolerance will directly affect Sophia's date in a hurtful and disgusting way.

@@Moetaetae I think what really bothered Dorothy was how Barbara said she felt about Blanche and Rose.

Tiffini Steele I wonder if people like Barbara have clean toilets.

@@Moetaetae It reminds of a certain scene in Django Unchained. Calvin Candie, the racist slaveowner, fancies himself a Francophile and loves Three Musketeers. However, Schultz spells out to Candie that the author, Dumas, was black. Dumas specifically had Haitian ancestry. It shows you how idiotic racist people are.

Unlike the character portrayed by Mary Frann in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (who was definitely anti-Semitic), Barbara was simply a liberal elitist hypocrite who tolerated the restrictions of her club, but did not really share in its views.

I'm sure it was just a prop and Bea's natural gesture that production didn't notice.

Phuc You The thing that l always noticed was the layout of the house not matching the opening shots. For example the garage is at the front right of the house but the door to it is in the kitchen at the back left of the house. And if you pay attention out the windows sometimes it’s jungle type shrubbery, sometimes there’s a neighbors house, and sometimes there’s an ocean view.

Barbara never said *she* has a problem with Jew, she just loves going to a restaurant that happens to have a problem with Jew, “it’s their policy, not mine”.

@@benleung6331 But she tolerates it

@@thgduels4519 Because the parking is free :)

Yeah she didn’t mind working him

Chris Canale lbshsr mhrmgehffgd. V

Although this wasn't a particularly hilarious episode, it did what many episodes of this show did and shined a light on social issues that are not/were not easy to talk about.

Tiffini Steele Are you serious? This episode is a riot, just because it revolves around an obnoxious character doesn't make it any less funny. Notice how Rose felt so reassured when Blanche kept agreeing with her on how she felt about Barbara only to realize, after a long double take, Blanche was agreeing how dumb she is, brilliant writing I would say

That was the point of the episode. Some people are truly arrogant. This gives Dorothy a better image because as intelligent as she is, the line is clearly drawn defining what is being snobby and just being an introverted skeptic, not judging others for their backgrounds or current standing.

The actress made you hate her because her character was that convincing? Then the actress did her job really damn well. =)

Tony Caban She also played the mother in the movie Twins with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito.

I never would've guessed

S B She also played Tim Taylor’s mother on Home Improvement

So men like her?

Wrong video post dear...

Yikes.

Birds of a feather.........

You like Trump too I bet lol

Grow up, Tony.

Really? what do you like about her? I think she is quite toxic.

She is awful. She's a snob and much worse.