Early wrestling shows too. I remember a schoolyard fight where one kid was on the ground and the other one jumped down on him with his full weight on his knee right into his stomach. I think they called it a drop-kick on the tv shows. The kid on the ground could barely move after that.
I know fake pro wresting was. I saw a couple of what was probably life long injuries when I was around 8-9yo. I saw a kid do a pile driver on another kid and the driven kid just laid there paralyzed. Probably crushed a cervical disk. It was bad.
I have no hard evidence, but my mom and uncles were wicked big into the stooge back in the day and I definitely recall hearing anecdotes from them about kids getting hurt playing Three Stooges in the 60s/70s. They talked about it like it was a known phenomenon.
My father’s name was Larry. In 1981, I was grounded for an indeterminate amount of time because I thought he’d KNOW to put his hand up to block if I tried to poke him in both eyes.
Here in the U.K. we had an ad campaign for Tango, an Orange fizzy drink, and it had this Orange painted Turkish wrestler type guy giving people a shock/surprise and the slogan was “You know when you’ve been Tango’d”.
One of them had him slap a guy on his ears. The ad was banned when it led to burst eardrums from kids copying it.
I seem to remember reading that they added the “honk!” sound effect to the eye pokes to make it seem more cartoonish and hopefully stop kids from doing it for real.
When I was a kid, I saw the Three Stooges (with Curley Joe, I think) do a pre-show routine at the RKO Keith’s in Flushing, NY.
The main point of the show was Moe telling the kids, “Don’t do this!” and then the Stooges maiming and braining each other. Naturally all the kids tried the gags on each other as soon as possible.
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Early wrestling shows too. I remember a schoolyard fight where one kid was on the ground and the other one jumped down on him with his full weight on his knee right into his stomach. I think they called it a drop-kick on the tv shows. The kid on the ground could barely move after that.
I know fake pro wresting was. I saw a couple of what was probably life long injuries when I was around 8-9yo. I saw a kid do a pile driver on another kid and the driven kid just laid there paralyzed. Probably crushed a cervical disk. It was bad.
My dad (born in 1950) was a kid playing Three Stooges with his brothers and he broke his collar bone. So you’re absolutely right.
I have no hard evidence, but my mom and uncles were wicked big into the stooge back in the day and I definitely recall hearing anecdotes from them about kids getting hurt playing Three Stooges in the 60s/70s. They talked about it like it was a known phenomenon.
In the words of the fairly odd parents “Wow! That’s imatatable!”
Somewhere, a first aid kit is still whispering their names in fear.
A kid I once knew intentionally got his arm bittern by spiders. Too bad he didn’t get any spider powers but he got unbearable pain and swelling.
Trying to time up one of those blocked eye pokes? For sure
They were. My father used to talk about this being a very real thing when he was a kid.
My father’s name was Larry. In 1981, I was grounded for an indeterminate amount of time because I thought he’d KNOW to put his hand up to block if I tried to poke him in both eyes.
Totally unfair.
Here in the U.K. we had an ad campaign for Tango, an Orange fizzy drink, and it had this Orange painted Turkish wrestler type guy giving people a shock/surprise and the slogan was “You know when you’ve been Tango’d”.
One of them had him slap a guy on his ears. The ad was banned when it led to burst eardrums from kids copying it.
Our parents would not let us what them when we were little. We were nuts.
This is the original “kid got hurt doing a TikTok”.
I seem to remember reading that they added the “honk!” sound effect to the eye pokes to make it seem more cartoonish and hopefully stop kids from doing it for real.
The Stooges taught kids two things: slapstick and lawsuits.
I can just imagine the school nurse rolling her eyes every time a kid came in with a black eye and said, I was just trying to do the Curly shuffle.
When I was a kid, I saw the Three Stooges (with Curley Joe, I think) do a pre-show routine at the RKO Keith’s in Flushing, NY.
The main point of the show was Moe telling the kids, “Don’t do this!” and then the Stooges maiming and braining each other. Naturally all the kids tried the gags on each other as soon as possible.
They were. That’s why they had talk shows where they showed how they accomplished their tricks to help stop injuries