# Will you help me remember this skit before I get home?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [March 18, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-help-me-remember-this-skit-before-i-get-home/653296 "2013-03-18T20:44:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-help-me-remember-this-skit-before-i-get-home/653296/1 "2013-03-18T20:44:27Z")

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Remember variety shows? Yeah, me too neither. Except for I do remember some. This has been tickling my fore-brain for two days. The only part I remember about the skit was The Pointer Sisters singing: Save the bones for Henry Jones cuz Henry don’t eat no meat! And then seque into a funny of some sort.

Tell me my brain isn’t making this up!

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**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-help-me-remember-this-skit-before-i-get-home/653296/2 "2013-03-18T21:07:09Z")

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The only thing I find googling “save the bones for henry jones variety” was an episode of the Jacksons’ variety show, where the [Jackson sisters sang it](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxjpQbKnA1E).

The episode guest starred Ed McMahon.

It’s not clear if the song segues into something funny at the end.

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**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-help-me-remember-this-skit-before-i-get-home/653296/3 "2013-03-18T22:10:45Z")

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The video isn’t loading for me, so I have no idea if this is the performance you remember, but [here are the Pointer Sisters](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooR8kq518xs) doing the tune.

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**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-help-me-remember-this-skit-before-i-get-home/653296/4 "2013-03-18T22:24:34Z")

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The Pointer Sisters sang that song on _The Carol Burnett Show_ (Show #914, Original Air Date: November 29, 1975) [This page](http://whysoblu.com/the-carol-burnett-show-this-time-together-dvd-review/) seems to indicate that the following skit was “The Noisy Speech” with Harvey Korman and Tim Conway

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**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2013, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-you-help-me-remember-this-skit-before-i-get-home/653296/5 "2013-03-18T22:38:37Z")

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Ah, so it was a stand alone song. I wonder if they ever did it on the Sonny and Cher show. Because in my head I see The Pointer Sisters dressed outlandishly with Cher in big can curlers in her hair.

I wish I could say it was the drugs but as far as I know metoprolol doesn’t make you dream in color.