# Dirty jokes on old TV shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 17, 2005, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570 "2005-11-17T23:16:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/41 "2005-11-29T16:35:59Z")
Don’t forget Soupy Sales with “Every time I show you F, you see K.” And finding the naked woman at the door to his “funhouse.” ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/42 "2005-11-29T16:42:24Z")
> [@](#): > > Don’t forget Soupy Sales with “Every time I show you F, you see K.” > > And finding the naked woman at the door to his “funhouse.” The former has been, IIRC, debunked – although the story is widespread, it didn’t happen. The latter did (I have a tape of it), but not on the aired version. An actual nude woman was out of sight of the show’s cameras, although another private camera recorded her. Aside from the infamous joke about having kids send in the “pictures of presidents” that IIRC, really did happen, none of the awful things reported of Sales (or most other Kiddy Show hosts) actually did occur. Check Snopes for details. I have to point out that, since at least the days of Bob Clampett’s _puppet_ version of “Time for Beany” in the early 1950s, “kid’s shows” had a sizeable adult following, too. And the hosts knew it. A lot of the jokes were put in for watching adults, and might have shirted the line, even back then. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/43 "2005-11-29T20:05:45Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Are You Being Served was filled with double entendres. There was a whole episode where the staff filmed an ad for a supper club they started, but when it was shown without sound the audience mistook it for an ad for a sexclub. I don’t think British television really counts, though – since British TV has never been as sanitized as American TV. Compare, for example, _Steptoe & Son_ with its American cousin. In the sixties, British TV showed an episode where Harold brought home an old coin-op porn movie viewer – and is stunned when he realizes that the young man having it off in the loop is his father. This scenario serves as a starting point for punny jokes like: > [@](#): > > HAROLD: How could you _do_ something like that? > ALFRED: You don’t understand – we were very poor! Everything was in pawn! > HAROLD: So were you. It’s hard to imagine _Sanford & Son_, even late in the '70s, basing an episode around the premise of Lamont discovering that Fred had made a porn film in his youth, innit? What a great episode, though. “Ergh-- why’d you leave your shoes on, you dirty man?” “It was _cold!_” Heh heh heh. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/44 "2005-11-29T20:18:51Z")
OK, somebody needs to translate that one for me…I think I know what _in pawn_ means, but what’s the dirty bit there? Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/45 "2005-11-29T20:28:08Z")
In an interview from several years ago, an actress from the show **Petticoat Junction** remarked that she never got a rather subtle in-joke on the show until years afterward: The show centered around three or four comely young ladies and was set in a town called “Hooterville”! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/46 "2005-11-29T20:28:12Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > OK, somebody needs to translate that one for me…I think I know what _in pawn_ means, but what’s the dirty bit there? > > Thanks! Pawn as in belongings in Pawn shop. Pawn sounds like Porn if you say it right. Jim ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/47 "2005-11-29T20:30:31Z")
> [@An Arky](#): > > OK, somebody needs to translate that one for me…I think I know what _in pawn_ means, but what’s the dirty bit there? > > Thanks! Try saying “in porn” with an English accent. ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/48 "2005-11-29T20:46:18Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > It’s hard to imagine _Sanford & Son_, even late in the '70s, basing an episode around the premise of Lamont discovering that Fred had made a porn film in his youth, innit? Well, there was an episode in which Lamont and a buddy of his almost got cast in what they called an “adult film”. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/49 "2005-11-29T20:50:20Z")
I just thought of another one. On **Bewitched** : dunno the episode, but the Stephenses (Darren’s parents) & Endora drop in for a visit at the same time. Mrs. Stephens offers Endora a brownie which she baked herself. I’m a bit fuzzy on the precise dialogue, but Endora asks whether or not she followed the “Alice B. Toklas” recipe, coyly implying that that was her favorite recipe. Pretty daring for that era of television. ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/50 "2005-11-29T21:54:07Z")
> [@Rilchiam](#): > > Well, there was an episode in which Lamont and a buddy of his almost got cast in what they called an “adult film”. Well yeah but that’s very American…they “almost” got cast. They get to talk about porn…or drugs or homosexuality or whathaveyou. But the real characters never get really involved. Because of course real people never really do any of those things. I have to say I’m pretty impressed with Steptoe and Soe :D. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2005, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/51 "2005-11-29T22:43:52Z")
:smack: Ahhhhh! “In Porn!” OK! Which, coincidently, is a good lead-in for reading fortune cookies… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/52 "2005-12-01T14:18:40Z")
Not really intention, but once on The Big Valley, the madam of a “gentlemen’s house” had the unforgetable name of “Amy Carter.” Seeing the rerun during the Carter presidency had us laughing our asses off. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2005, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570/53 "2005-12-01T14:39:18Z")
Vague _Dick Van Dyke Show_ recollection: Rob once found himself in an upscale restaurant where a fashion show was going on (I think he may have accompanied a buddy who was in the business). The thoroughly-whipped Rob was being his usual nervous self around all these attractive women without his wife present. He observed that the male customers would commonly ask the models, “How much?”, and be told the price of the dress they were modeling. Trying to fit in, Rob subsequently asked “How much?” of an attractive woman who turned out not to be a model, and was met with the expected outrage. Pretty risque for that era and show. (At least, I am pretty sure this was the first _DVDS_. The early-70s one was much racier, so I may be confusing them). _The Hollywood Squares_ was great: _Peter_: Charley, you’ve decided to grow strawberries. Will you get any the first year? _Charley_: Why, of course not Peter, I’ll be too busy growing strawberries. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dirty-jokes-on-old-tv-shows/331570.md?page=2)