Talk:The Garry Moore Show

Classic wardrobe malfunction warrants a mention

During one of his live-broadcast shows, a sketch required Moore to wear very short pants. He found that his boxer underwear was about as long as the pants and peeked out of the legs of the latter, so he quickly re-dressed without the boxers and went on "commando". But in his haste he neglected to zip up the fly. In the course of doing some vigorous legwork during an ensuing routine, guess what popped out of hiding and lolled around for all to see? The control room cut to a different camera after a very few seconds, but it took Moore considerably longer to realize what had happened. All on live television and presumably witnessed by countless housewives (it was a daytime show, IIRC) across America. I saw a memorable kinescope clip of the incident screened at the Pacific Film Archive back in the '70s so I am quite certain it is not an urban myth. It needs a cit, of course, but there must be some mention of it in print, and because it is almost certainly the only appearance of that part of a performer on television in the black-and-white era it would seem to be more notable than the usual sort of yawn-inducing trivia. 66.249.175.238 (talk) 08:51, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

As I should have guessed, the evidence is currently available on YouTube. Doing a Google search for "Garry Moore blooper" turns up at least two copies. I can't say if either is uncut (no pun intended) — I am on a quaint old-fashioned dial-up connection so I don't do YouTube — as they may derive from a censored version included in a TV blooper special that aired sometime in the 1980s. Moore's initial cluelessness and eventual red-faced breakdown are priceless either way. 66.81.242.184 (talk) 21:38, 18 November 2014 (UTC)