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BLOOPERS AND

ACCIDENTAL HUMOR

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ARCHIE BUNKER

• In All in the Family, Archie Bunker’s mistakes showed that he was a xenophobic biggot:
• Milton Berlin, Morgan David wine, Blackberry Finn, pushy imported ricans, and a regular Marco Polish showed he was racist.
• Englebum Humperdunk and welfare incipients showed he was uneducated.
• The immaculate connection, Dunn and Broadstreet, and groinocologist showed he was sexist.

CHILDREN’S BLOOPERS

• Children are often faced with language

that they are unfamiliar with.

• That’s why children may change

“chess” into “chest.”

• Or they may change the church hymn

“Gladly the Cross I’d Bear” into

“Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear.”

• Also From Richard Lederer’s

Anguished English:

• “It was an age of great inventions

and discoveries. Gutenberg invented the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Frances Drake circumsised the world with a 100-foot clipper.”

CHILDREN’S EXCUSES FOR

ABSENCE

• Mary could not come to school because she

has been bothered by very close veins.

• Please excuse Jimmy for being. It was his

father’s fault.

• Teacher, please excuse Mary for being

absent. She was sick and I had her shot.

SAMUEL GOLDWIN

• Samuel Goldwin of Metro Goldwin Meyer said:
• A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
• Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named William.
• For your information, I would like to ask a question.
• Now, gentlemen, listen slowly.

INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH

• Sign in a Norwegian cocktail lounge:

• “Ladies are requested not to have

children in the bar.”

• Sign in an Acapulco hotel:

• “The manager has personally

passed all the water served here.”

NEWSPAPER STORIES

• The United Press International reported

a story from Sheridan, California:

• “A farm goose flying along suddently

exploded in mid-air. The sheriff’s

deputy explained that the goose must

have swallowed a blasting cap, which

was somehow set off.”

• An unoccupied car, parked near the

Horseshoe Falls, turned its lights on.

• then the lenses shattered,
• the horn began to blow,
• the engine started,
• the car burst into flames, and
• the windshield exploded.
• Firemen blamed the car’s activity on

a short circuit.

NEWSPAPER HEADLINES

• Dr. Ruth Talks about Sex with Newspaper

Editors

• Red Tape Holds Up New Bridge
• Defendant’s Speech Ends in Long Sentence
• Blind Woman Gets New Kidney from Dad She

Hasn’t Seen in Years

PUBLIC SIGNS

• Sign on a ski slope in Northern Arizona:
• “Out of control skiers yield right-of-way.”
• Sign on a West Coast bridge during World War II:
• “In case of bombing attack, drive directly off the

bridge.”

CASEY STENGEL

• Casey Stengel, the manager of the New

York Yankees baseball team, said:

• “I guess I’ll have to start from scraps.”
• “Everybody line up alphabetically

according to your height.”

TELEVISION BLOOPERS

• On The World’s Funniest Videos you will find such things as:
• a baseball player who loses his pants when he catches a fly ball,
• a bridegroom in a wedding ceremony who sprays his mouth before kissing the bride
• a child who searches for Easter Eggs in the baskets of other children