# Nice Beaver, Brandy! (Stuff they try to get away with) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2005, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751 "2005-05-27T13:33:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/41 "2005-05-28T00:03:52Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Speaking of which, I’ve always thought that certain lines from “Late in the Evening” should have been different: > > …went outside and smoked myself a jay > …then I went back in and blew that [place?] away. > > I don’t remember what term he uses for “bar”, but it should really be “joint”, for the double entendre. I wonder if that possibility occured to him, or if he thought it would be censored? I think it was “…then I went back in and blew that _room_ away.” But I like your version better. I have also remembered an episode of _Cheers_ were Fraiser buys Lillith a horrible painting of abstract art(which we never see). Everyone gives him a hard time say it looks like dogs mating (paraphrase). Frasier deceides to ask Woody for an honest opinion. Woody says “Well, I dunno Dr. Crane, it kinda looks like to dogs gettin’ real familiar” At the same time he says “familiar” he makes the American Sign Language gesture for **F\*ck**. I stood straight up out of my seat, asking if anyone else saw that. I was, unfortunatly, the only one in the room that knew how to sign. Next time that episode comes on TV, watch Woody’s hands and watch for the two hands, each in a “peace sign” coming together at the palms. Till now, I don’t think half-a-dozen people knew about this one. Truly classic! ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/42 "2005-05-28T00:19:05Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > It’s hard to accuse them of trying to “get away” with anything in this, but that SNL “Delicious Dish” skit with Alec Baldwin simply _has_ to be the most blatant act of censor baiting I’ve ever seen on the show. > > “There’s just no beating my balls.” > “Put my balls in your mouth.” > “No one can resist my Shweddy Balls.” I don’t know. Remember the one where they said “Penis” 28 times? ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/43 "2005-05-28T00:19:22Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > Did she ever say anything like “Oh, I love my little Beaver!” I dunno, but one time Eddie Haskel came into the kitchen with “Morning Mrs. Cleaver. How’s the Beaver?” I also like Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy saying “Spock! Are you out of your Vulkan mind?” ---
**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:** [May 28, 2005, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/44 "2005-05-28T00:21:54Z")
“Where’s your father?” “[He’s out chasing Beaver.](http://www.audiosparx.com/sa/display/sounds.cfm/sound_group_iid.709/requesttimeout.480)” ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/45 "2005-05-28T00:27:45Z")
On an early episode of M_A_S\*H, Hawkeye walks in on Hot Liips and Frank. Hot Lips is massaging Frank’s neck with a vibrating machine. Hawkeye says, “Just like I always say. Behind every great man is a woman with a vibrator.” This was in 1972. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/46 "2005-05-28T00:35:32Z")
> [@Nicodemus2004](#): > > I dunno, but one time Eddie Haskel came into the kitchen with “Morning Mrs. Cleaver. How’s the Beaver?” That one line made my entire evening (stuck at work as I am). Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/47 "2005-05-28T02:09:18Z")
This possibly apocryphal story about Soupy Sales, related by a certain [Master](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_024.html). > [@Cecil Adams](#): > > One yarn has it that Soupy Sales was trying to teach the alphabet to White Fang the dog. Soupy would point at an x, say, and ask, “OK, Fang, what letter is this?” Fang would grunt something, and Soupy would say, “Very good. And what letter is this?” This continued until they got to f. When Fang grunted his answer, Soupy said, “No, no, it’s not k, it’s f.” They went on to some other letters, and then came back to f. Fang again grunted an answer, and Soupy said in an exasperated tone, “No, Fang, I told you, it’s not k. What gives? Every time I show you an f, you see k!” ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/48 "2005-05-28T02:59:10Z")
Not suprisingly, [Snopes weighed in on the above tale](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/soupy2.htm). ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/49 "2005-05-28T03:20:03Z")
Soupy’s denials might be more credible if it weren’t for the fact that one of the most outrageous tales, the naked woman story, is not only true, but [documented.](http://www.tvparty.com/soupy.html). (Scroll down to “A widely distributed clip.”) Also, he might have known he was safe in making his $1,000 offer if (as I suspect) most of his early local shows were broadcast live with no videotapes or kinescopes recorded. I’m not saying that’s the case, or that the “F you see K” story is true (it’s probably not), but in live local TV before everyone had a VCR, a mischievous comedian could have gotten away with a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/50 "2005-05-28T03:24:38Z")
Of course, the naked woman wasn’t Soupy’s idea and never made it to air (until Dick Clark started those Blooper shows). ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/51 "2005-05-28T03:30:01Z")
No, but obviously, this was a fun bunch of guys. I remember watching Soupy as a kid, and loving the silly and anarchic feel of the show. You definitely got the feeling that they’d try almost anything. A part of me wants all these stories to be true. ---
**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/52 "2005-05-28T07:23:40Z")
> [@Larry Mudd](#): > > There’s no _way_ the writers didn’t know how “Beaver Cleaver” sounded, since, at the time, “split beaver” was already used as a general term for explicit pornography. > > The writers knew it, the censors knew it, and the only way they could get away with it was by feigning surprise that anyone might think such a thing. (“I’m shocked! You dirty-minded little man!”) Incredibly, the _Leave it to Beaver_ writers had an antagonistic relationship with the censors from the start about what they could get away with in the show. Well, that’d explain why June Cleaver was [always wearing a _pearl necklace_](http://www.tvacres.com/jewelry_june_cleaver.htm) on the show. :eek: 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/53 "2005-05-28T07:44:31Z")
> [@Loopydude](#): > > It’s hard to accuse them of trying to “get away” with anything in this, but that SNL “Delicious Dish” skit with Alec Baldwin simply _has_ to be the most blatant act of censor baiting I’ve ever seen on the show. > > “There’s just no beating my balls.” > “Put my balls in your mouth.” > “No one can resist my Shweddy Balls.” “There’s nothing like the look on a child’s face the first time he gets ahold of his own Shweddy weiner.” ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/54 "2005-05-28T08:58:23Z")
There have got to be tons of these kinds of things in kids films… the kind of jokes only an adult would get. The only one I can think of offhand would be from “The Last Unicorn” where someone calls Shmendrick “The runeless wonder.” I laughed so hard at that one. (for those who don’t get it, runes=stones=balls, hence Shmendrick the ballless wonder) ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/55 "2005-05-28T14:01:02Z")
> [@rjung](#): > > Well, that’d explain why June Cleaver was [always wearing a _pearl necklace_](http://www.tvacres.com/jewelry_june_cleaver.htm) on the show. :eek: 😉 OUCH!! I can’t believe that one! And surprised I never thought of that one myself. ---
**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:** [May 28, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/56 "2005-05-28T14:17:20Z")
On SNL, Chevy Chase once gave a commercial for “Pussy Whip”–the first dessert topping for cats. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2005, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/57 "2005-05-28T16:13:49Z")
Chris: Dad, what’s the blow-hole for? Peter: I’ll tell you what it’s not for, son. And when I do, you’ll understand why I can never go back to Sea World. ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/58 "2005-05-29T04:41:04Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > I’m sure someone will be on here with a slew of **Family Guy** jokes, so I’ll start us all off with the image of Gepetto bending over in front of Pinnochio and trying to get the doll to tell a lie. Jeepers. **Man** : Wow, Lois Griffin, Hey, I love your act! Nice mellons. **Peter** : Now listen pal! **Lois** : Peter, I’m holding mellons. **Peter** : Oh **Man** : And her hooters aint bad either. **Peter** : Now hold on just a second. ::She hold up owls, one pearched on each hand.:: **Lois** : Peter! I’m holding hooters! **Peter** : Oh, sorry. **Man** : No problem . (beat) **Man** : Your wife’s hot. **Peter** : Alright, that’s it! ---
**Author:** ![mamboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecb155/32.png) [@mamboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mamboman)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/59 "2005-05-29T05:31:18Z")
One of Australia’s most beloved entertainers, Graham Kennedy, passed away recently. Kennedy spent a few years in the TV wilderness after running a sketch one his late night show about a copule of seemingly innocuous crows, whose call was Faaaaaaaaaaaaaark! Faaaaaaaaaaaaaark! That, I believe, was 1974. mm ---
**Author:** ![Agonist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@Agonist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agonist)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2005, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751/60 "2005-05-29T08:20:53Z")
The web site [Comics I Don’t Understand](http://www.comicsidontunderstand.com/) has the Arlo Award, “for Cartoonists Who Slip One By the Syndicate’s Censors”. I don’t know how to link halfway down a page, but here’s the page: [http://www.crimeweek.com/cidu/arlo.html](http://www.crimeweek.com/cidu/arlo.html). Scroll about halfway down. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nice-beaver-brandy-stuff-they-try-to-get-away-with/305751.md?page=4)