Well, I tried posting this under general questions because I really didn’t want to revive this thread, but the moderator closed the thread so I’ll have to try asking my question here.
I am trying to find out, as Paul Harvey would say, “the rest of the story.” What did the husband say when he got back to the game? Did he get the question right? If not, what did he say? Who won the washer and dryer? I’ve heard this story from lots of people who swore that it was true, but no one has ever been able to tell me what happened. Anyone know?
I sympathize with Lib here, although I think in this case the memory was probably manufactured from a retelling.
I was looking through a list of urban legends and came across the “urban legend” that “Japanese soldiers surrendered decades after WWII”. I had CLEAR memories of having seen TV interviews, etc., of a Japanese soldier surrendering in Guam during my stay there (1969-1972). I was outraged!
Fortunately it is fairly easy to find references to this one (for example, the Guam government home page has stories and pictures in its historical section).
Now I would have a harder time proving that I actually saw something (one of the books? alt.urban.folklore? I only recall how annoyed I was that a source intended to clear up misconceptions was promulgating one…) that relegated the incident to folklore than proving the initial incident.
Are you saying that there were no Japanese that surrendered years after WWII?
There was at least one soldier who was out until at least sometime in the 60’s (maybe 70’s). I just read an article about this guy in the last couple of months. There were pictures of him in in his “uniform” all sewed up and patched with random things.
I’m off to see if I can find a link to it.
BTW…
What did happen in the NewlyWed game after the “Up the Butt” segment? This lack of info seems to shed a little more doubt on the validity of the story.
Simple. After the husband said, “That’d be the butt, Bob,” his wife held up a card that said “In the butt”, and they were so excited that they’d gotten the right answer that they had anal sex right then and there on camera. Then Eubanks joined in to make it a threesome, and he was so embarrassed about the whole event afterward that he suppressed all public knowledge of the incident and ordered the video tape burned. A few copies of the tape escaped this act of censorship, though, and from time to time they make their way into the regular Game Show Network rotation of the Newlywed Game, where people swear they saw it just recently. :rolleyes:
This is my WAG. I have NOT seen the episode in question. Here’s what I THINK happened:
The husbands are backstage having a smoke ‘n’ Coke while their wives answer Bob’s question: “Where is the strangest place you and your hubby made whoopee?” (And it was a common question. Bob asked it in many different episodes.)
One wife says, “In the butt, Bob.” “Butt” is bleeped. Eubanks gets embarrassed and laughs out loud. Regaining his composure, he says, “You’ll have to change your answer.”
Why? They had to write the answers on a big card and show it later. They wouldn’t let them write a word in five-inch-high letters that can’t be spoken aloud, right?
The show is aired. Folks who can read lips realize what the wife said. They repeat what they saw. The legend begins. And Bob is right because the offending word never aired, but it was spoken.
Quite the opposite, Freedom. I knew from (indirect) PERSONAL EXPERIENCE that Japanese had surrendered as late as the 1970’s, and found that cited as an urban legend.
The specific case I remembered took place in 1972 (his cave contained the bones of two of his old buddies who did not survive as long), and it was only the last ON US TERRITORY. As late as 1974, one surrendered in the Philippines.
My contribution here is just that I know how it feels to have personal recollection questioned by somebody who puts it into an Urban Legends collection. I would have felt just as outraged if I had been wrong.
Ok, this is terrible, i should ressurect this thread but I just gotta say something. Now, someone might have mentioned this before but i read the first page and i read the last page and i dont think anyone mentioned it in between.
Lib - Jeff Foxworthy talked about this in one of his early stand up tapes. This is where i first heard about it and after i forgot where i heard it i started “remembering” that i had actually seen it on the game show. Awhile back i read about it as being an urban legend and i was outraged just like you are. Then by some twist of fate i heard the Foxworthy tape again and realized THATS where i heard it from.
And to your Fiance - Saturday Night HAS done at least a couple remakes of this NOT TO MENTION sometimes they have “gameshow” nights (or gameshow days if you’re watching it on comedy central) where all they do is show a potpouri of gameshow skits of the past. This is probably where your wife saw it recently.
I think we should have an announcement at the top of the forum: “Don’t bother clicking on Last Page of Lib’s Up the Butt, Bob thread and waiting 10 minutes for the thread to load to see who in the WORLD bumped this and why, 'cause it ain’t worth it…”
I was pretty excited to see this thread, because I thought I had some really important information to share.
But after reading the whole five pages it turns out that I don’t have much to add beyond “me too.” <sigh>
Anyway, I saw the clip and here’s how I remember it:
It was at least a year ago. I wasn’t watching the gameshow - I was watching a sketch comedy show on comedy central. When they came back from a commercial break, they played that clip. As I recall, it was a white woman answering the question. Her husband had already provided the answer that he predicted his wife would give.
She hesitated, she was giggling and embarassed. It seemed to me that she had the answer in mind, but she didn’t want to say it. She said something to her husband that I didn’t catch. Then she answered, kind of hesitantly, “In the butt…?”
So I checked the updated Snopes link. Turns out that she actually used the word “ass.” My memory must have been corrupted because I had heard the urban legend before. It might have been bleeped when I saw it, giving me the chance to mentally supply the phrase the way I remembered it from the UL.
The first thing I thought was, “has Eubanks been lying all this time or did he honestly not remember that happening?” I like Snopes’ answer that the UL differed from the real event enough that he honestly didn’t make the connection.
But rather than rate this as “Sort of” I would call it “True - but with some details incorrect.”
