Soupy Sales stripper prank

[TMF Jeff]

During the days of live television (I know they sometimes still do that, but there was a time when all TV was broadcast live because nobody had figured out how to do it any other way yet) there was a show for kids called Soupy Sales. He had a gimmick on his show where surprise guests would appear behind a door, and on his birthday one year they had a topless dancer there.

There was another camera broadcasting a different view, but they had this footage on the monitor that Soupy could see, so it looked to him like it was going out live exactly like this.

https://vimeo.com/60914744

(The annoying stagehand with the balloon is there to give the audience an idea of what Soupy was seeing - all a TV viewer would see is Soupy's back and a balloon waving, with the dancer music)

 

[milagros317]

That would have been quite a scandal, a career-ending scandal, back then if it had gone out. 😱
Very amusing prank. 😀

 

[kopfhorer]

So, THAT'S what it means! 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r5rbHLbSv0

Seriously, I used to watch Soupy back in the day. At the time, I thought this event was just rumor!