# "In the butt, Bob" - TRUE **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 3, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413 "2000-07-03T02:26:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/61 "2014-10-06T17:55:22Z")
[Here’s a link](http://youtu.be/A9srPr4Lc6k) to two shows that clip has appeared on. It was bleeped in both, but no doubt as to what was said. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/62 "2014-10-06T18:38:38Z")
Yep. she sure said it. And it was said on the Newlywed Game set in the 1970’s. Did that particular episode make it to broadcast? The reason I ask is that a _lot_ of people have claimed to have seen the original (and other incorrect variations) prior to that blooper special being aired, and I’m wondering if censors were in the habit of letting things like that slip through on taped shows. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2014, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/63 "2014-10-07T00:55:47Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Yep. she sure said it. And it was said on the Newlywed Game set in the 1970’s. > Did that particular episode make it to broadcast? The reason I ask is that a _lot_ of people have claimed to have seen the original (and other incorrect variations) prior to that blooper special being aired, and I’m wondering if censors were in the habit of letting things like that slip through on taped shows. Why, no they weren’t. People who said they saw and **HEARD** it on tv in the 1980s are absolutely wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/64 "2018-01-23T14:45:14Z")
Bumped. I’m listening to an audiobook of the first volume of David Sedaris’s diaries, _Theft by Finding_, and in his Dec. 28, 1984 entry he mentions seeing the “Up the butt” incident on _The Dating Game_. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/65 "2018-01-23T14:55:05Z")
Were those actual diaries, written on each day about the events of that day, or is that a literary device he’s using for a set of memoirs written long after the fact? ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/66 "2018-01-23T15:00:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Were those actual diaries, written on each day about the events of that day, or is that a literary device he’s using for a set of memoirs written long after the fact? He says the former, but it wouldn’t surprise me if in editing them he’s made some changes. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/67 "2018-01-23T18:43:22Z")
And the thing is, the “up the butt” follows the UL version story of “up the butt, Bob.” The answer in the clip was clearly “in the ass,” missing the poetic alliteration and some of the humor of “up the butt, Bob.” ETA: That is assuming he wrote it as “up the butt.” I now realize the post doesn’t necessarily quote Sedaris. What did he write? ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/68 "2018-01-23T19:51:04Z")
> [@OpalCat](#): > > I just saw the clip in question on Comedy Central. What she actually says is “Probably in the ass” and it was a couple that looked sort of arabic. [Bob Eubanks on the topic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPalEjphoA) ---
**Author:** ![Arizona\_Mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Arizona\_Mike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arizona_Mike)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/69 "2018-01-23T20:59:38Z")
I’ll just mention that there was another episode I saw that I vividly remember and wish I could find a clip. The wife was asked “What animal will your husband say your mother most reminds him of?” The wife said she was a very shy, quiet kind of woman, so he would probably say a fawn. The husband was brought out, and he responded with an enormous grin, “ **Ghidrah, the Three-Headed Monster**!” This precipitated a huge, marriage-ending blowup. I don’t know why I found it so funny, except for the naming of a Japanese monster movie character as an animal and the unexpected specificity of his answer. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/70 "2018-01-23T21:04:55Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > [Bob Eubanks on the topic.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gPalEjphoA) Yep-The woman specifically said “In the ass”, not “Up the butt, Bob”…and they bleeped it out. No one heard it watching the show, ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2018, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/71 "2018-01-23T21:44:43Z")
Just for fun, since the last time I posted on it in 2014, an [uncensored version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbblsFdc7WI) has been posted. (Apparently, the uncensored version was posted a month before my last post, but I didn’t find it on Youtube back then.) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/72 "2018-01-24T03:21:22Z")
The thing about the clip “confirming” the legend is that the legend predates the episode by at least two years. The episode with Olga aired in 1977. I first heard the story in the fall of 1975, only the punchline was the **husband** saying “That’d be the butt, Bob”. I can pinpoint the date because it was the beginning of my sophomore year, and also when the infamous “man on page 602” Sears catalog was published. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/73 "2018-01-24T05:45:38Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > …I now realize the post doesn’t necessarily quote Sedaris. What did he write? “In the butt,” IIRC, with the name of the show’s host not mentioned. ---
**Author:** ![Soylent\_Juicy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@Soylent\_Juicy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soylent_Juicy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/74 "2018-01-24T20:21:54Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > I can pinpoint the date because it was the beginning of my sophomore year, and also when the infamous “man on page 602” Sears catalog was published. …what was that one? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2018, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/75 "2018-01-24T20:30:16Z")
> [@Soylent\_Juicy](#): > > …what was that one? A picture of a male underwear model had what looked like the tip of his penis exposed. > **[The Man on Page 602](https://hoaxes.org/weblog/comments/the_man_on_page_602)** > > Was a male model's genitalia really visible in the 1975 Sears Fall/Winter catalog? We add some new evidence to this old debate. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/76 "2018-07-26T01:45:14Z")
Bumped. I’m now reading Elmore Leonard’s 1980 crime novel _City Primeval_, in which a character mention having seen a _Newlywed Game_ episode in which a woman replied “In the ass,” with the last word bleeped out but obvious from her lip movements. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/77 "2018-07-26T02:12:30Z")
Uncle Pennybags was so shocked, he dropped his monocle. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/78 "2018-07-26T04:17:19Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Bumped. > > I’m now reading Elmore Leonard’s 1980 crime novel _City Primeval_, in which a character mention having seen a _Newlywed Game_ episode in which a woman replied “In the ass,” with the last word bleeped out but obvious from her lip movements. Oh. That’s a good cite. Here’s what I can find: > [@](#): > > “One time,” Sandy said, with a little more life in her now, “Bob Eubanks asked them what was the most unusual place they ever made whoopee? And this girl goes-it’s bleeped out, but you can read her lips. She goes, ‘In the ass.’ And Bob Eubanks goes, ‘No! I mean a place like a location.’ I thought he was gonna die.” [Cite](http://you-books.com/book/E-Leonard/City-Primeval). That’s actually pretty much spot-on to what actually happened. [Here’s the link again to the actual moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XM5hbS7GlU). I don’t know anything about that novel referenced but if it’s truly from 1980, that’s a dead-on recount of that clip. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/79 "2018-07-26T13:10:58Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Uncle Pennybags was so shocked, he dropped his monocle. 😛 This made me laugh out loud. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413/80 "2018-07-26T13:28:48Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > …if it’s truly from 1980… Yes. Yes, it is: [City Primeval - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_Primeval) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-the-butt-bob-true/24413.md?page=5)