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This ‘Batman’ Star Says He Was Given Pills to Shrink His Bulge
Ward says concerns over how he looked in Robin’s tight costume led to a doctor’s visit and pills intended to make him appear smaller on TV.
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60 Years Ago, the Star of ‘Rawhide’ Died While Filming a Forgotten ‘Wizard of Oz’ Show
Eric Fleming was just 41 years old when he was unexpectedly killed during a location shoot in Peru
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25 Years Ago, the ‘South Park’ Creators Made a Live-Action George W. Bush Sitcom Nobody Remembers
‘That’s My Bush!’ lasted just eight episodes after a bizarre script controversy and production costs of roughly $1 million per show
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The TV Host Who Openly Mocked His Own Sponsors Decades Before It Was Cool
Alfred Hitchcock regularly mocked commercial breaks on his anthology series, and some of those old jokes have aged in awkward ways
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Fox 21 Years Ago, This Reality Show Was So Controversial It Was Canceled After One Episode
Fox was met with intense backlash by adoption advocates after airing just one episode of ‘Who’s Your Daddy?’
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MTV How The ‘Hills’ Finale Pulled Back the Curtain on Reality TV’s Fakest Era
The Hills was one of MTV’s most-watched reality programs. But when fans began questioning what was real and fake, they went meta.
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The Dark ‘American Idol’ Audition Paula Abdul Said Should Never Have Happened
American Idol was once the biggest reality competition show in the U.S., even attracting Paula Abdul’s stalker.
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Johnny Carson Once Humiliated a Phony Psychic on ‘The Tonight Show’
Illusionist Uri Geller struggled for 20 minutes to back up his claims of possessing psychic and psychokinetic powers after Carson secretly safeguarded the props he would be using
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That Time Hulk Hogan Choked Out a Comedian on Live Television
Richard Belzer was injured during a 1985 talk show stunt and later sued Hogan, Mr. T, Vince McMahon, and the WWF
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The Controversial ‘SNL’ Joke That Mike Myers Apologized For
A 1992 ‘Wayne’s World’ sketch featured a gag about Chelsea Clinton that hasn’t been seen since it originally aired
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15 Years Ago, a ‘Game of Thrones’ Episode Featured the Decapitated Head of a Former U.S. President
HBO later issued an apology for the scene and had it removed from future home video releases
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‘Family Guy’ Planned on Responding to ‘South Park’s Attacks, but the Joke Never Aired
Seth MacFarlane ultimately decided to cut the vulgar gag because he said it was too much of a low blow
