Today on facebook, I posted this... (Disclaimer: Beware some language at the very end of the clip)
Anyone born before 1990 certainly has seen or heard of this infamous exchange. This episode was the stuff of legend when I was a child. I think I probably saw it live on our weekly Carol Burnett viewing.
Carol Burnett was a family friend that was always welcome in our living room. She is a comic genius that none can rival. I guess I just assumed my children would absorb this knowledge by osmosis or that it possibly traveled the placenta and settled in the comedic appreciation portion of their brains.
Not so, apparently.
It's sort of like the moment when you ask your six year old what time it is and she looks at a non-digital clock and says, "What's this and what do those sticks mean?" You realize in a flash that there has been a glaring omission in the education of your children. Oops.
This is how I felt when my newly seventeen year old daughter said, "What's that Carol Burnett thing you put up?"
What's that Carol Burnett thing? You mean you've never seen it?
No.
Noooo? How can you have never seen the infamous Tim Conway Elephant Story Outtake?
I dunno. Is it funny?
Is it funny. IS IT FUNNY?
Heavens to Betsy. I have failed as a mother. Off to spend the evening in front of YouTube educating my children on legendary comedy.
*tugs at ear with a wink*
1 comments:
If it is a sign of parental neglect, you are taking positive steps to correct the slight. :)
Make sure they see the clip of Nora Desmond slapping Tim Conway and him falling and rolling UP the flight of stairs...
And of Carol as Starlet O'hara coming down the stairs wearing that dress made of curtains...with the rod through the shoulders...
And the "Sorry!" outtakes....
<sigh> I loves me some Carol.
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