# Radar shows his naked butt on "M\*A\*S\*H"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-shows-his-naked-butt-on-m-a-s-h/347886>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 10, 2006, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-shows-his-naked-butt-on-m-a-s-h/347886 "2006-03-10T22:44:36Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-shows-his-naked-butt-on-m-a-s-h/347886/21 "2006-03-12T07:40:03Z")

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> [@Lute Skywatcher](#):
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> Prune juice is often used as a gag when someone is feeling old. Maybe that’s what was going on?

He wasn’t old. It started on TNG when Guinan told him to try it, and he immediately dubbed it “a warrior’s drink.” I wasn’t sure if it was about defecation, or that a fruit juice might be a child’s drink as opposed to blood-wine or something else more manly.

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**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2006, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-shows-his-naked-butt-on-m-a-s-h/347886/22 "2006-03-12T08:11:48Z")

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> [@jackelope](#):
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> This aired in 1973; are/were there other instances of nudity on prime-time TV back then? It certainly seems like an anomaly to me. Was it maybe so quick that the network censors just didn’t see it?

There was a news item a while back when a woman watching Nick at Nite called to complain because there was a scene in which one of John Ritter’s testicles briefly fell out of his shorts on “Three’s Company.”

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**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:** [March 12, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/radar-shows-his-naked-butt-on-m-a-s-h/347886/23 "2006-03-12T22:45:20Z")

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> [@Rodgers01](#):
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> There was a news item a while back when a woman watching Nick at Nite called to complain because there was a scene in which one of John Ritter’s testicles briefly fell out of his shorts on “Three’s Company.”

[Snopes isn’t sure about that](http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/ritter.asp), even with vidcaps.

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