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Originally Posted by cartoonjoe2004
Good question...lemme see...
I almost forgot...there was a skit on The Carol Burnett Show where Carol, playing a bashful chorus girl, has her robe yanked off onstage, revealing a really,REALLY nice, trim body underneath...
*SPLORT*
...oh, dear...*Blush*
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Carol Burnett seemed to wind up getting her clothes torn off on the variety show a lot - I remember a couple sketches that had her doing TV commercial parodies that ended with her getting stripped down to a slip. If I can find the (crappy old VHS) tapes I recorded them on I'll do caps and post them. There was also a sketch I don't remember that well where Carol and Harvey are playing their ham actor characters (Funt and Mundane) and keep trying to sabotage each other, eventually tearing each other's clothes apart. I've seen clips from this but never the full sketch. I have 2 caps from the end of the sketch here.
I remember a sketch like the one you described from one of the last season or 2 of the series. There was a movie parody of the old 1936 Clark Gable/Jeanette McDonald movie
San Francisco where Dick Van Dyke rips of one side of Carol's modest 1900's dress so she's wearing a black basque and garter stockings on one side and normal turn-of the century clothes on the other side.
Apparently there was a sketch in one of the early seasons that had Carol in a Mexican movie parody getting her clothes torn off by a dancer with a whip like in the DEVO video. I've never seen the sketch but there's 2 stills from in a book shown here.
There are a few more like this I've seen but only once. I remember a show that began with her doing a parody of a Wagnerian opera singer that sings an aria while a huge special effects storm blows and knocks down the set and tears most of her costume off.
There was an introduction segment for one of the late season shows where Carol got into some kind of verbal catfight with Penny Marshall that ended with her "pulling a loose thread" on Penny's gown and taking the entire top off.
(I also remember a sketch from the
Redd Foxx Comedy Hour - everybody had their own crappy variety show in the 1970's - where Penny Marshall had her dress blown off by a kind of powerful fan Redd had invented. All from before VHS, so I'll probably never see these again.)