Eubanks is demonstrably unreliable. It remains possible that his producers might yet find the episode that so many of us have seen.
Lib, I’ve only read pages 1 and 5 of this thread. Did you ever generate a discussion about your original questions, or did the thread continue in the above vein for pages 2-4?
Same old same old pretty much throughout. I recall, though, that Phil Dennison, always a gentleman and scholar, offered helpful tips for tracking down an answer. But I knew what I saw, and really didn’t have the time, the resources, or the inclination to bother over it very much. And Snopes is not as buggy as it used to be; it hasn’t crashed me lately.
Libertarian, The clip I saw had a white woman answering the question and the phrase she used was “…in the ass.”
You saw a similar incident, but it was a black man, and he said something like, “that’d be in the butt, Bob.”
Is that correct?
From a friend of mine:
The interesting thing to me is that reading some of the vehement denials in this thread I began to wonder if my own memory of the event was false. Luckily someone found the clip, because without that clip I would be forced to deny my own memory based on the evidence.
Ahem. I’m sure he meant gameshownetwork.com.
Lib,
You are absolutely correct. It DID happen and I saw it as recently as three months ago. I had read that it was an urban legend and was therefore quite surprised to see it myself. It was in the afternoon and my roommate came home a couple of hours later. I told him all about it. I didn’t dream it and I wasn’t on any drugs. It happened, period. Anyone who says otherwise has absolutely no proof to back up their assertion. Speculate however you want on why it couldn’t have happened, you are still wrong. It was the original show, not a remake. I catch the show every once in a while because I watched it as a kid, having even gone to see it taped live before. I know what I saw.
Lib,
Nice to see you vindicated. I saw the damn thing less than three months ago and was pulling my hair out in frustration over all of the people saying it never happened. Really glad there is clip available of it now. Eubanks is an idiot.
Sorry to break the chain of discussion with a MPSIMS but has anyone ever seen the SNL skit based on this very story. It’s the Dating Game and Leon Phelps [aka Tim Meadows] is interviewing two skanks and Florence Henderson! Finally Leon asks where the strangest place is they ever did the deed. Contestant #1 says “That would be in the as–pen colorado ski lodge”. Contestant #2 says “In the butt–ler’s quarter’s of the Playboy Mansion.” When they get to Florence Henderson the audience already knows she is going to say something funny and out-of-character. “Down the ole Hershey Highway!” she says with a naughty glint in her eye. The SNL audience roars with laughter. "You know, " she continues, “in Hershey, Pennsylvania.”
That show never stops being funny. 
Oh, well now I feel compelled to add something worthwhile to the discussion.
You know it is true that the Newlywed Game has always been rather “filthy”. I remember seeing one of their earlier episodes where the MC asks what is the most unique characteristic of your wife. One man, to the shagrin of his wife, says “She has a loose caboose.” The MC kind of looks at him incredulously. "Well, you know, " he says, “I like to play with it sometimes.” Gross.
That was my 2cents worth. Now please continue the discussion where you left off.
I just hope somebody got the alleged ten grand, since Eubanks denied categorically that “any such thing” ever happened. And yes, Heresiarch, the discovered clip is not the one that my friend and I saw.