Homer Simpson, looking for the breakfast drink of astronauts: “Get me President Clinton on the phone! He’ll know where to find some Tang!”
Ah, thanks. (When the hell did Snopes become the pop-up capital of the world?!)
On Bob the Builder, Bob was wallpapering and fell face down onto a pasted section of wallpaper. His muffled complaints as he is staggering about trying to get unstuck certainly sound like “Oh, fuckin’ 'ell!” to me. :eek:
On Redd Fox’s last show, “The Royal Family”, when he got upset he’d say “Mother father” but the way he said it sounded very close to mother f*cker.
Watching a “Get Smart” episode the other day when Maxwell Smart is at an airport, the public address -pages “Buck Henry” who co-created the show.
Some episodes of “Combat!” have Lt. Gil Hanley being scared of airplanes. Actor Rick Jason was in the Army Air Corps in World War II.
One I mentioned in a recent 30 Rock thread was Liz Lemon’s ringtone on her iPhone. It’s a only few seconds long before she answers it, but for those who know the song it was hilarious, and fits her character perfectly. It was the song Fuck The Pain Away by Peaches. (Link obviously NSFW)
“Beep Beep!”
“Sponge Bob! I said ‘assertive’ not ‘insertive’!”
On Newhart, Johanna wanted to go to couples counselling with Dick. Dick said that he didn’t believe in that psychology crap.
Later in the episode, at the psychologist’s office, an abusive man leaves the office. He was played by Jack Riley. The psychologist says “You’ll have to forgive him. It’s taken years to undue the damage done to him by some quack in Chicago.”
And of course there’s the final episode.
This is at best a tangent to the OP, for two reasons: 1) it’s a song not a TV show, and 2) I assume it’s completely unintentional on the part of the writer.
So apologies up front. But where else am I going to share this?
Does everyone know what the slang finger wave means? Good.
Now, in the song “Moonlight in Vermont”, there is a reference to “icy finger waves”. Every time I hear that, a chill runs up my spine - starting way down at the bottom.
Roddy
Newsradio: I can’t be arsed to go look up the episode, but it went something like this:
Dave and Lisa were fighting because they’d had an argument and he’d called her a bitch (“the B-word” in the episode). When things come to a head, Lisa asks Dave if he’s planning to call her the B-word again, and Dave smirks and says, “No, I think we’re just a little bit beyond that.”
I still say some censor was asleep at the switch. (And I love Dave’s shit-eating grin when he says it.)
Three words: Rocko’s Modern Life.
Yes “Laugh-In” was a hot bed of jokes. I recall in an interview with JoAnne Worley that the writers would try to think of risque things and then they’d back track into it so they could insert a joke past the censors.
Like Worley said, they’d have her take some cantelopes and hold them by her chest and say “Mellons.”
“The George Burns and Gracie Allen” radio show was full of these. Though it was usually done with getting in swear words via fast talking.
Here’s the episode in question:
It happens at about 8:45 or 8:50.
[hijack]
My grandmother, a cosmetologist and proud member of Cosmetologists Opposed to Madatory Education (COME)*, sometimes rants that the new girls don’t know how to do a finger wave. Now I will have and even harder time not laughing during her rant about this.
She has a large homemade sign on the back window of her car*:
Cosmetolgists
Opposed to
Mandatory
Education
**I think of it as the COMEmobile.
[/hijack]
The final episode of Not the Nine O’Clock News got a famous piece of smut past the censors. :eek: 
You may find this weird, but Newhart isn’t known worldwide. I couldn’t even tell you if it was a comedy, drama or what. So there is no “of course”.
I think the “of course” is because the final episode of Newhart invariably gets mentioned in these “great TV moments” threads, so often that it’s almost a cliche to bring it up.
Jack Riley was a patient on The Bob Newhart Show (not Newhart). I had to look it up since it’s been off the air since 1978. The final episode of Newhart had his previous TV wife from The Bob Newhart Show in it.
That was hilarious, thanks.