What a surprise I had watching a re-run of Match Game on Game Show Network the other night. The "question" was "Big Bertha was so big we used to play <blank> under her dress." Most of the answers were along the lines of football or soccer. However, one person said doctor and when Gene Rayburn (host) was talking with Phyllis Diller, she mentioned something about playing doctor under a dress. Then Gene asks if her husband plays doctor with her, and her response was - yes, but he's not very good at it, he only makes it as high as my feet. To which Gene replied, maybe he has a toe fetish. VERY unusual for the late 1970s.
MoMan
Posted by A&F_FootDude_05 (Member # 2999) on :
Wow, that is shocking to me....wonder if it is to anybody else?? It would be nice to track down that clip someday
Posted by Below_the_Ankles (Member # 33795) on :
Oh wow, that surprises me too. Thanks for sharing.
Posted by Toetapper (Member # 6473) on :
Being from that era, it really isn't that shocking. You should go back and watch some of the Johnny Carson bits - they were truly bawdy.
The Censors were given a set of rules to judge what was indecent but they were not sufficiently well informed about society to recognize when someone like Carson or Rayburn were getting over on them.
Those were truly great days in TV history - subtlety ruled.
Go to Youtube and watch some Rodney Dangerfield when he was chatting with Johnny Carson (though his stand-up was classic, too). Dangerfield would say something that would alarm the Censor (of whom Carson would make fun on other occasions) and end the joke very cleanly. He would follow it up with a very calm set of lines that were, sometimes, a very dirty joke, completely slipping past an edit.
Those guys were brilliant. Check out some Dean Martin things, too.
Posted by dougiezerts (Member # 6829) on :
I remember a neat little incident on THAT GIRL: Ann Marie is walking around her apartment barefooted in her pajamas, much to her father's disapproval. Don Hollenger responds to this by saying, "I'll close my eyes, in case I'm aroused by her bare feet!"