Jennifer Aniston's idea for a Friends reunion is a casual work of genius and should be the only option considered going forward.

Today at the age of 76, Rue McClanahan passed away, leaving Betty White as the last surviving Golden Girl. To honor our favorite role of Rue's, here's a montage of the best "Blanche moments." Thank you for being a friend.

Actress Rue McClanahan died early this morning of a massive stroke. She was 76. A veteran television actress, she was best known for the bawdy retiree Blanche Devereaux she played on '80 sitcom The Golden Girls.

With her upcoming appearance hosting SNL, Betty White will assume her rightful crown to reign supreme as comedy's queen for the night. Here, we take a look back at the highlights of her six triumphant decades onscreen.

The slutty Golden Girl takes time out of her busy schedule to hang out in a house full of felines, narrowly escaping a full-on Cat Woman transformation. Rue is the cat's over-sized bedazzled padded-shoulder pajamas!

Golden Girls star Bea Arthur, née Bernice Frankel, died at home in Los Angeles at the age of 86 today. She passed away surrounded by family members. She will be loudly mourned by the gays.

Are we sick of Sarah Palin jokes yet? Yes—yes we do believe we are, yet not since Brokeback Mountain has a single cultural phenomenon offered comedy writers (and ankle-shackled galley bloggers) such a bounty of low-hanging fruit.And—much like the gay-cowboy motif into its third month of YouTube mashups—just when you think you've snorted out your last nose-chuckle at the congenial flautist's antics, along comes one more to tickle your funny places. We offer as evidence the recent (OK, fine, it ran a week ago, but we're having trouble staying up past 9 p.m. lately) appearance of Betty White on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, in which she affected the guise of a speech writer for superannuated candidate John McCain. The money shot, of course, is her succinct assessment of his running mate—"That is one crazy bitch!"—before segueing into a lip-smacking meditation on the Democratic challenger that almost makes us wonder if the former Golden Girl hasn't been lingering in the far corners of Craigslist lately.

The popular lunch spot Joan's On Third appeared to be the scene for a serious heart-to-heart for Gossip Girl star Michelle Trachtenberg and an unidentified friend. Trachtenberg was not only all ears for her friend, but she also picked up the tab. Her friend told her that she's felt a bit out of it ever since they've lost one of the Golden Girls and it just made her think about their own group (also called the Golden Girls). Trachtenberg said that there would be no need to worry about their golden group just yet, seeing as how they're as solid as the mountains at Yosemite. Trachtenberg then thanked her being a friend and, finally, asked if the friend if she would be interested in holding hands as they left the restaurant, noting that she's sure to get a mention in Life & Style if she jumps on the Lesbian Chic bandwagon.

The Sex and the City/Golden Girls mash-up you joked about four years ago has finally been made real. I think I guffawed once! [Funny or Die]

Knowing that no matter how many times we watched Bea Arthur scold those kids on Friday, our renewed lust for all things Golden Girls-related could not possibly be sated by just a single video clip, we dispatched Defamer Partywatcher Ann and photographer Amy Rodrigue to the World of Wonder gallery in Hollywood to the Saturday night opening of "Golden Gals Gone Wild," the "first art exhibition devoted to erotic depictions" of Blanche, Dorothy, Rose, and perhaps most distressingly, Sophia. (Don't fret if you didn't make the launch—the show is running for four weeks, giving you plenty of time to ogle their gilded goodies.) Our photo gallery of the event is here, and a brief report follows after the jump:

We still feel terrible about the cheap shot we took at Bea Arthur yesterday, a legendary actress who, for all we know, deserves placement on the controversial list in question no more than Golden Girls castmate Rue McClanahan.