# TV pranks gone bad **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2006, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811 "2006-06-23T01:54:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811/21 "2006-06-24T01:08:49Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > It’s not a TV prank, but [this one](http://www.snopes.com/love/betrayal/radio.htm) certainly backfired for one couple… Strange how they bleep “bitch,” but not “ass” or “dick.” And yeah, that shit IS rough. Youch. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811/22 "2006-06-24T02:26:41Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > There was a [lawsuit](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/karablanc1.html) a couple of years back regarding _Scare Tactics_. If I understand the circumstances there correctly, the producers are extremely lucky they didn’t pick someone who carries a gun. I mean, you put someone’s life on the line, and expect them just to take it? At least Kutcher doesn’t go near that far, and always makes sure that the victim is the only one who is uninformed. That way, if they want to get violent, all their friends are there to talk them down. They don’t get support for the idea. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811/23 "2006-06-24T06:53:20Z")
> [@ouryL](#): > > Of course there was that show where they pretend to accidentally strip naked a man but in reality they pulled too hard and also remove his boxer shorts in the process. :eek: How about that football game halftime show a couple years ago when this young guy singer was supposed to pretend to pull off this older hot lady singer’s top off & ended up showing her boob! Wonder whatever happened about that…? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811/24 "2006-06-24T07:35:29Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > How about that football game halftime show a couple years ago when this young guy singer was supposed to pretend to pull off this older hot lady singer’s top off & ended up showing her boob! > > Wonder whatever happened about that…? I remember that. Jordan Knight has never really come back from that incident and Rosemary Clooney has since died. ---
**Author:** ![ianzin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ed655f/32.png) [@ianzin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ianzin)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811/25 "2006-06-24T08:07:12Z")
Then there’s the prank show that [killed a member of the public](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late%2C_Late_Breakfast_Show). The host of that show, a British presenter called Noel Edmonds, is currently enjoying something of a renaissance in his career. After several years off screen, he somehow landed the job of hosting the Brit version of Deal Or No Deal (which, in a move of unaccountably poor taste, does _not_ have gorgeous supermodels with the boxes, but instead has each box opened by the lumpen proletariat, and very ‘lumpen’ they are too). Based on this twilight resurgence of interest in him and his career, Edmonds has been doing the rounds of the chat shows and sleb mag interviews. In some of them, he has been espousing some weirdo New Age bovine waste about asking the cosmos for what you want and getting it (conveniently overlooking to mention the factt hat he’s a mulit-millionnaire, and so can get pretty much whatever he wants anyway). It would be interesting to see if this worked for the family of Michael Lush, the man killed on his old TV show. If they want their daddy back, will the cosmos bring him back? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Logan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Don\_Logan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Logan)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811/26 "2006-06-24T14:41:20Z")
IIRC some years back Stuttering John once approached Mr. Rogers at a booksinging asking the usual inane questions, and again, ol’ Fred was as polite as can be, never got angry, never raised his voice. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-pranks-gone-bad/361811.md?page=1)