After years of denying it happened, Bob Eubanks was proven mistaken when the famous 'In the butt, Bob" clip was shown on a game show blooper show recently. What other fresh flubs have been proven true? Two oldies that come to my mind (this is fof memory talking, since I’ve never actually seen these):
On You Bet Your Life, a women explained her many, many children with “My husband loves me” to which Groucho replied, “I love my cigar too, but I take it out of my mouth every once in a while.”
The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, a sexy starlette (Gina Lolabrigida? Ava Gabor?) brings her pet to the show and asks Johnny if he’d like to put her pussy, to which Johnny replied, “Move the cat and I will.”
True? Any clips of these if they are? Any other fresh flubs you can think of?
Not that I’m disbelieving Snopes but a big part of their debunking rests on the participants denying the event ever happened. Much like Bob Eubanks did until the clip actually showed up.
Just saying, is all.
I have noticed this as well. They have the UL of the guy hiring a hooker and it turns out to be his daughter, as false. How can they be sure in all of history this has never happened? Minor nitpick for such a great site, I know.
Isn’t the point that while these events may have happened, they never went out on the air?
You can swear up and down and sideways that you heard “up the butt” when it first aired, but you’re lying. It never appeared on the program.
Same with the Groucho gag. You never saw it because a) if it happened, it was on the radio show before the tv show started, and b) they cut it from the program.
The Eubanks incident episode aired. The words were bleeped. But the episode, with Hank Perez and his wife Olga, aired, so I think “you’re lying” is kind of strong language, especially since the bleeping was such as to allow the listener to easily infer the words (which were actually “…in the ass.”)
The point there is made that something happened, but it happened in a very different way from the legend. People rewrite history to make it funny, or snappier, or more concise, or more conforming to expectations. Nobody ever heard “in the butt, Bob.” And for that matter, nobody actually heard “in the ass” either. Do we really want to expand flubs to every instance of something getting bleeped out? Studio audiences get to hear - and see - a zillion things that don’t make out onto the air. Maybe those are funny, and are worth repeating. But flubs? Not to me.