Much to my delight, Mark Cohen writes of an episode of Uncle Artie where two kids told what was, in those days, a dirty joke!

I too saw that episode. It was actually two kids who seemed a little older than the others. The Batman jokes were in vogue. These two boys had real wise-ass attitudes. When asked their names, they were saying things like 'John John- son', 'William Williamson', 'Robert Robertson', stuff like that. My mom was watching and said 'Those kids are going to get in trouble'. You could see Uncle Artie was getting ticked. Finally, they tell the joke. Artie shakes his head... I remember his quote... 'We don’t tell jokes like that on Uncle Artie.'

Cut to commercial… when they come back, both kids were GONE! But it was ME who got cuffed in the back of the head! My Mom actually nailed ME in the head with a “That’s what you’ll get if YOU EVER ACT LIKE THAT ON A SHOW!”