Accidental Humor
Yogi Berra was the catcher for the New York Yankees baseball team. He said: “I want to win 100 or 105 games this year—whichever comes first.” “It’s déjà vu all over again.” “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” Yogi Berra was the inspiration for the cartoon character on television named “Yogi Bear.”
In All in the Family, Archie Bunker’s mistakes showed that he was a xenophobic biggot: Milton Berlin, Morgan David wine, Blackberry Finn, pushy imported ricans, and a regular Marco Polish showed he was racist. Englebum Humperdunk and welfare incipients showed he was uneducated. The immaculate connection, Dunn and Broadstreet, and groinocologistshowed he was sexist.
Sigmund Freud said that slips of the tongue often are evidence of people’s subconscious desires, as when the President of the Lower House of Parliament opened a meeting by saying: “Gentlemen, I take notice that a full quorum of members is present and herewith declare the meeting closed.”
Samuel Goldwin of Metro Goldwin Meyer said: A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is named William. For your information, I would like to ask a question. Now, gentlemen, listen slowly.
British clergyman William A. Spooner was a professor at Oxford University who is reported to have said: “Three cheers for our queer old dean” (referring to Queen Victoria), “Is it kistomary to cuss the bride?” “Stop hissing all my mystery lectures.”
Casey Stengel, the manager of the New York Yankees baseball team, said: “I guess I’ll have to start from scraps.” “Everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.”
Errors, bloopers, and Freudian Slips often occur in television and in real life. What do these bloopers tell us about the human brain?
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