# Commonly Accepted TV Legends That Are BS

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonly-accepted-tv-legends-that-are-bs/278070>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 4, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonly-accepted-tv-legends-that-are-bs/278070 "2004-12-04T16:30:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonly-accepted-tv-legends-that-are-bs/278070/81 "2004-12-08T08:44:39Z")

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> [@Sampiro](#):
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> I’ve heard several reports about Lucille Ball receiving underground radio broadcasts from a Communist spy ring during the McCarthy era but I’ve never read confirmation.

I saw a clip of her repeating this story on a talk show. Of course, that doesn’t prove the validity of it or anything, but I do remember hearing her talk about it. She told it convincingly, seemed earnest, but I guess that’s what she was paid for anyhow.

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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonly-accepted-tv-legends-that-are-bs/278070/82 "2004-12-08T08:45:42Z")

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> [@Garfield226](#):
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> I saw a clip of her repeating this story on a talk show. Of course, that doesn’t prove the validity of it or anything, but I do remember hearing her talk about it. She told it convincingly, seemed earnest, but I guess that’s what she was paid for anyhow.

Come to think of it, it might have been on the Mythbusters episode where they tried to replicate the effect (they couldn’t).

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**Author:** ![roger\_thornhill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@roger\_thornhill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/roger_thornhill)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2004, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonly-accepted-tv-legends-that-are-bs/278070/83 "2004-12-08T09:01:35Z")

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> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> “In the butt, Bob.”

This one cracks me up.

> [@](#):
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> HOST: Where did your wife say you had your most unusual “whoopee session”?
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> HUSBAND: In the sink.
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> HOST: I’m sorry; your wife said ‘in the butt.’
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> HUSBAND: **Damn, I almost said that**.

Surreal!

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**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2004, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commonly-accepted-tv-legends-that-are-bs/278070/84 "2004-12-09T12:35:42Z")

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> [@Garfield226](#):
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> I saw a clip of her repeating this story on a talk show. Of course, that doesn’t prove the validity of it or anything, but I do remember hearing her talk about it.

Yes, she told it on the Dick Cavett show in the 1970s. But her story wasn’t about Communist spies during the Cold War, it was about Japanese spies during World War II.

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