Kiddie-Show Bloopers; or, "F*** off, clown!"

In My Humble Opinion
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Many of us have seen local kiddie shows a la Krusty The Clown and so forth; unfortunately, I’m largely out of this group. I generally hear good memories recollected from older friends and associates along the lines of “Yeah, I saw one kid win at Bozo Buckets; he won quite a jackpot, and you shoulda seen the look on Bozo’s face!”, etc.

However, I’m interested in hearing recollections of funny accidents, bloopers, and other generally harmless incidents that happened on live broadcasts that all you Dopers may have seen. For instance, I’ve heard before (I also saw where Snopes put a yellow bullet beside it) that a kid (on a local broadcast of the Bozo Show), at losing at Bozo Buckets, told Bozo to “F*** off, (clown)”. Has anyone else seen a similar thing happen, or other things along this bend?

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There was some South American kiddie show which was hosted by a very attractive lady. In one episode, one of her boobs was hanging out of her top. You should’ve seen the look of the audience :eek:

I got a clip of it off Kazaa. Priceless :smiley:

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a very UK/Ireland incident

Martine McCutcheon had just quit the hugely popular soap “Eastenders” to start a singing career. She appeared on a kids TV show and was answering questions from a panel of kids.

One of the kids asked her “Where do you think you’ll be in 5 years?”

One kid was heard to remark “UK Gold”.

Cracked me up when I saw it on “It’ll be alright on the night”.

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Here’s an old thread about something that supposedly was said on a number of programs:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=131061

Hey, Incubus, was that Xuxa by any chance?

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That would be my guess, Earl. Picture of Xuxa in case Incubus needs one.

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I love that clip. Quality.

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Back in the 1960’s the CBS station in Madison, WI had a kids show on after school featuring Howie Olson (the ventriloquist) and Cowboy Eddie (the dummy). I remember one show where a kid sitting right next to them decided to show them his vast array of animal noises. He’d say “Cowboy Eddie, I know how a pig sounds”, then follow it with “oink oink”. He did them all, cows, cats, dogs, ducks etc. The show was done live so they couldn’t edit him out. Howie was looking pretty exasperated by the end of that show.

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A high school chum claimed to have been on the Bozo show in question.

Evidently, a youngster who had missed all his chances at the bean-bag toss then exclaimed, “F**k it!”

Bozo scurried over and said, “Now, that’s a Bozo no-no!”

To which the kid gave him the one-finger salute and retorted, “Cram it, clown!”

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Two shows with puppets.

Aggro’s Cartoon Connection was hosted by Aggro - a puppet who looked like a cross between the Muppets’ Animal and a bathmat (and who has a successful career in Brisbane breakfast radio - don’t ask, they’re just like that in Brisbane). His co-host was one of a succession of nigh-anonymous busty blonde bimbettes who had the role.

One day one of the co-hosts brought her pet terrier to work with her. The terrier scurried around the studio for five minutes then started attacking Aggro, stripping off his jacket, then shirt, then pants, then going after the puppeteer who was hiding behind the scenery.

The other was on Channel 10’s Early Bird Show, hosted by two “humans” and Marty the Monster - a full-sized monster suit looking vaguely like an extremely low-rent Sweetums with no neck. Apparently this suit was pretty well padded.

The show was paying a visit to a wildlife park, and the ranger waltzed in with a 2m tall red kangaroo named Rags. While the ranger was talking he fed Rags. Then Human A had a go of feeding Rags. Then Human B fed Rags. Then Marty walked over.

Rags didn’t like Marty much.

The kangaroo grabbed the monster, using its front paws to secure the shoulders of the person inside the suit, rocked back on its tail and started trying to disembowel poor old Marty with its hind legs. This is usually a fairly successful technique, but apparently the padding held up while the guy wearing the suit started yelling for his life.

The ranger dragged Rags off Marty. Humans A and B got Marty back out of the roo’s range. I can’t imagine that I was the only 10-year-old desperately chanting for Rags to get on with the job and finish him off.

The interview continued, punctuated by the ranger being continually required to haul the roo back after it made lunge after lunge at Marty. Marty wasn’t bright enough to get out of the way of the cranky marsupial.

Eventually the interview ended up. Now we find out why Marty hadn’t left. He had to deliver the linking segment to camera.

Marty strode forward towards the camera, arms swinging jauntily at his sides.

Into quite possibly the best right hook a macropod has ever delivered.

Marty crashed to the floor, semi-conscious. One of the humans, realising the show must go on, delivered Marty’s piece to camera as the other one stood over him, delivering the ten count.

I still wonder what happened to Rags…

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If your Marty is anything close to our Barney, I want Rags awarded an Order of the Garter.

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The bit with Rags is frequently on blooper reels here in the States.

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Simul-post!

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Here is the Snopes link. It almost for sure never happened.

Haj

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Saw this on a Bloopers show. Back when Captain Kangaroo was live and in B&W, the Captain and Mr. Moose were talking about something. Mr. Moose, had forgotten his line, and thinking that they were still in rehearsal and not on the air live says, “I was gonna say… I was gonna say… What the hell was I gonna say?” Amazingly, the Captain managed to retain his composure and get the point across.

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Yeah, every high school had at least one kid who claimed to be in the audience at that show.

Here in St. Louis, there are three specific incidents that are claimed to have occurred on local kiddee shows (including 'Cram it Clown." A long-time kiddee show host here says that only one of the events actually occurred, and it happened on a different show.

He also pointed out that during the years that many of us Baby Boomers claimed to have seen the incidents, the shows were actually videotaped and there was no way the obscene bloopers would have ever been allowed to air.

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kunilou, I’ll dispute one part of your claim. In the era (I almost said “age!”) of Bozo, Captain Kangaroo and Cowboy Bob, videotape and the supporting equipment were extremely expensive to own and operate. I seem to recall a lot of these lower budget children’s shows being live broadcasts.

Anyone got the Straight Dope on this?

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From here:

(bolding mine)

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I agree and can remember my next door neighbor being live on Romper Room. But I was talking specifically about the late-60s and early 70s here in St. Louis where a show (“Corky”) was taped during the week and broadcast on weekends. The actor who played Corky pointed out that those of us who claimed to see the “F*** off!” sequence during that time couldn’t possibly have.

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I heard that a seven year old boy pointed at his crotch and said “Oh yeah, Bozo? Well I got your f—in’ grand prize RIGHT HERE!”

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He’s 17 now and still saying it!