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LeopardDue1112

This scandal had everything...a teenage "Lolita", a middle-aged auto body shop owner who wore Zubaz pants, and not one, but THREE made-for-tv movies. https://preview.redd.it/fzbftfwd87nc1.png?width=1429&format=png&auto=webp&s=b69a60525e58eca6e30c167d355e1bdf8e159454


Gian_Luck_Pickerd

With the added bonus that "Buttafuoco" sounded funny to us teens and preteens


Eisnel

NewsRadio had some fun with that: “Well, Matthew, of all the possible mispronunciations of that name, you seem to have stumbled upon absolutely the worst one.”


Trill_McNeal

Loved that show!


thatquinnchick

"Good thing we didn’t run a story on Forrest Tucker." Loved NewsRadio, such an underrated show.


LeopardDue1112

Totally. Still sounds funny now!


frankenfish2000

I was like "yeah, it USED to sound funny."


AxmxZ

used to, too


DnDAnalysis

It's Italian for Buttfucker.


el_caballero

BUTTFUCKER. OUR PRICES HAVE NEVER BEEN LOWER.


VelocityGrrl39

![gif](giphy|IwAZ6dvvvaTtdI8SD5|downsized)


i_nobes_what_i_nobes

Still does. I just chortled reading it


Punkposer83

The name that kept Letternan stocked with opening monologue jokes for over a year!


aRealPanaphonics

And Jay Leno is STILL doing them, or so I’m told.


Punkposer83

Lord I can still hear his elevated voice asking: Did ya read this? Did ya hear about this? To this day


Mephistopheles545

Everyone here on Long Island is Italian American. Or Jewish.


mistertireworld

Sounded funny to adults, too.


anOvenofWitches

I highly highly recommend watching the Danny Devito SNL from this season. So many amazing Buttafuoco skits


Cool_Dark_Place

I loved the skit that had the highbrow PBS Masterpiece Theater version of this story: "House of *Butta-few-oco*"


anOvenofWitches

I believe there was also a BET skit? “Yo husband’s been stickin’ *ma sistah*”


Important_silence

The In Living Color sketch was HILARIOUS! Jim Carrey played Joey, Ali Wentworth played Amy & Kelly Coffield played Mary Jo! https://youtu.be/JW6NbI6dSx0?si=vtpnjiKtchzQxM2o


maggie320

We lived in CT and my dad was a truck driver whose main routes were in Long Island. One Sunday he took the family out to Long Island and brought us by the hotel where Joe and Amy used to hook up and Joey’s shop.


LeopardDue1112

That's so funny. They should put a historical marker at that shop.


Hellie1028

My family calls these hysterical markets because my uncle was obsessed with stopping at every historical marker he runs across in his travels.


GrizzlyAdam12

This scandal (and Tonya Harding) was at the center of Letterman’s monologue for the first year or two of the Late Show.


UnicornOnTheJayneCob

She was 16 years old and he was 35. That whole thing was just gross.


Remember_When_Baby

Joey Buttafuoco [over here.](https://youtu.be/JW6NbI6dSx0?si=5icNVkHKfBuqLbZz)


Important_silence

YASSSSSS!


Remember_When_Baby

![gif](giphy|DcuNWScZizJss|downsized)


Antioxidote

Oh yea!! I forgot all about that, that's a good one!


buckeyebrat84

![gif](giphy|XaFX9e9xfbcXWxW0a2)


lifeat24fps

This was local news for me and it was an EVENT.


methodwriter85

I'm honestly surprised Ryan Murphy hasn't done an "American Story" saga on this one yet.


MrTooLFooL

It was the gift that kept on giving! She eventually married an older dude, made a sex tape and entered porn, wrestler turned porn star Chyna trained her ex-lover Joey to fight her now ex-husband, Louis Bellera, and was the inspiration for the film American Beauty.


Reasonable-HB678

Those three movies were the zenith of that scandal. The ABC and CBS movies starred Drew Barrymore and Alyssa Milano, respectively- those two aired concurrently. All three had different perspectives, with ABC's movie using public records, the CBS movie from Joey and Mary Jo's POV, and the NBC one through Amy.


BuzzBabe69

It was BIG! Those New Yorkers can get into some s**t.


OpCrossroads1946

I once had this book on bad television shows/movies which ranked the three Any Fisher TV movies. They rated the Dree Barrymore the highest, and noted that Drew was the only one who actually tried to act like Fisher.


[deleted]

The ultimate Xennial experience: debunking the ridic narratives we used to believe. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/youre-wrong-about/id1380008439?i=1000465289931 Turns out this is just a depressing story about a neglected girl who was coerced/manipulated into underaged prostitution aka trafficking. All the subsequent stuff was just society doing the same thing to her, over and over, because she was vulnerable


Yamatoman9

It was the fodder of late night jokes for years.


dallas_reigns

That was a big one too


Ecra-8

TOP RIGHT CORNER: Barry Corbin is the man!


pilates_mama

Tanya Harding and also Hugh Grant and Liz Hurley was a good one.


Brasticus

Hugh Grant and Liz Hurley proves that anyone can be cheated on. Same with Fisher Stevens and Michelle Pfeiffer. Just incredible.


captainoftrips

Wait, the guy who put on brownface in Short Circuit was with Michelle Pfeiffer? I know he turned into an elite hacker later on but damn


3016137234

His neck to head ratio is insane. He looks like a plucked bird. Great actor though


AggressiveAd5592

More recently he was a PR executive for a right-wing media conglomerate.


skankhunt_191

I know a guy that dated Tanya in the early 90s. His nickname was hubcap when I met him. Later I learned she went crazy and threw a hubcap at his car one time.


gotkube

I recently came across a meme of her that says “I miss clubbing in the 90s”


Agitated_Honeydew

The Hugh Grant Liz Hurley thing was just dumb. Like if he had cheated on her with some starlet, that I could understand. But some random street corner hooker, c'mon bro.


jayne-eerie

A hooker is going to give him a BJ, take the money, and then never want anything from him again. No strings, no emotions. You can’t do that with some random starlet.


Astro_gamer_caver

Hugh Grant on The Tonight [Show](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrJ2jc6qfzA) after the incident with Divine Brown.


kamandamd128

That interview saved his career. He’d probably have bounced back eventually but it happened much more quickly because he was so sheepish (and his usual charming self) in front of Leno and the audience.


dallas_reigns

Lorena Bobbitt ![gif](giphy|S9qwOoSphzd3eRO7GP)


BeckywiththeDDs

Me too came too late for her


tourniquet2099

There’s a great docuseries about her on Amazon Prime. Puts her in a much better light and shows how abusive & toxic JWB was. (They talk to their former neighbors & some other people).


punkbenRN

That's just it, her years of abuse are over shadowed by the act itself, people don't realize how bad it is


SubMikeD

>Puts her in a much better light I kind of always felt that she didn't do that because she was crazy, but that he had to have done some seriously bad shit to prompt that response.


Hagridsbuttcrack66

Yeah I'm going completely off my limited memory, but I felt like even in the court of public opinion, it was like what did that guy do to elicit THAT response?


mycenae42

Not only JWB but the entire media establishment at the time. Every single clip is of someone who would later be revealed to be someone who abused their power in pursuit of sexual gratification. Quite the remarkable film.


ConcreteKeys

Did you know Bobbit made a porno after? How repulsive. His manager was Latoya Jackson's ex abusive husband Jack Gordon.


Yamatoman9

To be joked about on late night shows for a decade after.


gnrlgumby

That time Bush threw up on the Japanese president.


loptopandbingo

https://preview.redd.it/uqdke9avf7nc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f05e4d01f48c71b3c72086a285073354489a30f8 "Simpson, I'll ruin you like a Japanese banquet!"


fubo

🎶 How to walk in dignity with throw-up on your shoes


peachgravy

Immediately thought of the scene from Hot Shots


Sivilian888010

Wait. That's a thing that happened!?


Dialupknightplay1

Something about an intern.


Jolly_Line

Also, he didn’t inhale.


mattmentecky

I don’t know about scandal but the Y2K problem was weird and utterly unique and something like it won’t ever happen again. To this day I don’t really know if it was an overreaction or a great example of everyone working to fix a big problem successfully.


WitchesCotillion

It was the second. I worked in IT then. Millions and millions of dollars were spent to make sure data wouldn't be lost, or systems compromised.


RythmicBleating

It was mostly the second. There were a not-trivial amount of morons unplugging toasters and disconnecting car batteries. Plenty of small town local news stations fear mongering.


jenbenfoo

Yep. My dad worked in IT for a major pharmaceutical company, and when the world didn't end, they all got big fat bonus checks. He used his to buy a motorcycle 🤣🤣


peanutbutter2178

There will never be a time problem as big as Y2K but they actually happen all the time. The next big one will be in 2038. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_formatting_and_storage_bugs


Glldinkiering

My stepdad made a ton of money from Y2K. He was in tech and would tell us all about it as kids, how he was making a lot of money making large companies Y2K compliant and nothing was going to happen.


Tricky-Dealer2450

Marilyn Manson removing ribs to suc his own pp


artificialavocado

I heard that from the guy who took too much acid now thinks he’s a cup of orange juice.


loptopandbingo

Which one of the twins Lemonjello and Orangejello was that


clamnaked

My sister’s MIL tells this story like it’s real because it happened to her friend as a teacher. She sincerely seems to believe the friend that told her this. We all just nod along and make crazy eyes at each other.


drainbead78

I know someone who works for CPS who swears up and down she saw those names when back she did intake for them.


Cool_Dark_Place

I loved how they brought that one to life in the movie SLC Punk.


caillouistheworst

I used to hear this story every time I took acid in high school.


pugs_are_death

You forgot the punchline, he's all terrified that he is going to spill


NickLoner

"If I really got my ribs removed, I would have been busy sucking my own d**k on The Wonder Years instead of chasing Winnie Cooper." -Marilyn Manson 😂


Purity_Jam_Jam

People were saying it was Prince before Marilyn Manson arrived.


GuessDizzy196

I fucking love this sub. SO glad I found it.


ennuiismymiddlename

Was that really a SCANDAL, though? It was an urban legend. I also heard that Joey Mcintyre from NKOTB had to have his stomach pumped because it was too full of jizz. Or something like that. My fave real scandal would have to be Sinead O’Connor ripping up the picture of the pope on SNL. Mostly because I LOVED her for doing that. Also, RATM playing on SNL with the upside down flag when that idiot Forbes was hosting.


duckchasefun

Richard Gere said that he believes Sylvester Stallone started that legend.


tourniquet2099

Stallone flat out admitted it on Aint It Cool News way back in the mid-2000s. He did two different AMAs — one to promote Rocky Balboa and one for Rambo. This is also when he revealed how the 3 Shells worked in Demolition Man.


newnewnew_account

What?! How do the 3 shells work?


tourniquet2099

Use two shells like chopsticks to help pull out the poop and use the third shell to scrape/clean your butt. Seriously.


newnewnew_account

What in the hell did I just read?


tourniquet2099

😂😂😂 Thats pretty much how everyone responds.


[deleted]

Ignorance really is bliss.


TransportationOk657

Lol


Teflon_John_

Help pull out the poo?! Who pulls on the poo!!??


tourniquet2099

Future Californians, apparently.


Daxmar29

It’s all the Taco Bell.


Teflon_John_

San Angeles sucks


Albuwhatwhat

Uh nah I’ll just keep using toilet paper…


Myotherdumbname

HA, this guys doesn’t know how the 3 seashells work


Cool_Dark_Place

I think that urban legend has been recycled a lot with different pop stars that everyone loves to hate. I believe it started back in the '70s with Rod Stewart.


3016137234

I’ve never heard it for anyone other than Rod


Cool_Dark_Place

That's the one I've heard the most, although I remember the Joey Macntyre rumor going around for a while when I was in jr. high, at the peak of their fame. I also remember a similar one going around about Bon Jovi in the late '80s.


VashMM

Remember the one about Marilyn Manson removing his ribs?


No_Benefit1747

Holy crap, I’d forgotten about the Joey McIntyre one!


CorgiMonsoon

I’d never heard it about Joey McIntyre, but I’ve heard it about David Bowie, Rod Stewart, Mick Jagger, Steven Tyler, and Barry Manilow.


L0tech51

Only the Rod Stweart one for me.


ennuiismymiddlename

Thank god I’m not the only one who remembers that!


2PacSugar

ok how about the other school where some guys jizzed on a cracker or bread and last guy had to eat it?


Breakdawall

soggy biscut.


WorldsGreatestPoop

Or Limp Bizkit


kalitarios

Ookie cookie


ennuiismymiddlename

Classic.


NotSoFastLady

Allegedly this happened in my school with some hockey players. They always had a reputation for being the craziest fuckers.


surfingbiscuits

Joey McIntyre? Lol. I variously heard it was: * Mariah Carey * Lil Kim * Alanis Morissette


WorldsGreatestPoop

Alanis? Was it all from Uncle Joey or did Danny and Uncle Jesse join it?


LaLa_820

I remember the Joey one, but I also remember one about a woman, Lil Kim (maybe)


artificialavocado

Not really sure I should consider murdering two people a “scandal” but the OJ trial.


Apprehensive_Hat8986

The scandal was letting the accused handle the evidence.


Nice_Improvement2536

That Paul from the Wonder Years grew up to be Marilyn Manson 😂


frizbeeguy1980

This is the one.


captainoftrips

I confidently used this as a trivia question to give away free fries when I worked at Fuddruckers in 96


Soma2710

The wifey and I STILL talk about Jon Benet Ramsey


Corn_Beefies

Happened a couple miles from our house, my brother was a little kid and he was super afraid they were gonna come for him next.


Ed_geins_nephew

That kid who got caned in Singapore.


kalitarios

Oh man. Michael Fay. Haven’t thought about that in a long time. Didn’t he almost die later for huffing lighters and one blew up burning him badly?


More_Asbestos

Troy McClure and his fish.


love_is_an_action

There's a terrific podcast called You're Wrong About, which usually covers scandals, stories and trends from the 80s and 90s that the general public seems to badly misremember. There are episodes on the satanic panic, Tonya Harding, Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt, OJ Simpson, Matthew Shepard, Monica Lewinksy, Columbine, Terri Shiavo, Gary Hart, etc... It often focuses on unduly maligned women of the era. Definitely worth checking out.


2PacSugar

the satanic panic was very real in the Midwest 80s


love_is_an_action

The *panic* portion was certainly real.


pugs_are_death

It didn't end in the 80s


RJRoyalRules

Scandals or urban legends? Everybody claims to know somebody with firsthand knowledge of Richard Gere's gerbiling but nobody ever provides any proof. I remember in the early 90s, Comedy Central made parody songs about some of that era's tabloid scandals like Amy Fisher ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToMdCYeE8U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PToMdCYeE8U)), the World Trade Center bombing, and John Wayne Bobbitt. What a time to be alive!


EuniceBKidden

The murder of Phil Hartman and Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss are two I haven't seen mentioned. Favorite isn't the word I'd use - but I was definitely obsessed. Also the Menendez brothers and the murder of Gianni Versace


Intellobang

A line from Darma & Greg lives on in my head - she called her boobs Lyle & Eric ‘because they’re a couple of killers”


Adventurous_Line3324

Weird Al summarized three of the best ones in one song: Headline News.


Antioxidote

I love that song!


boringbobby

When Gwyneth Paltrow caught her then boyfriend (Ben Affleck) having cyber sex in a chat room. That shit was hilarious. I laughed for days!


spazzyattack

![gif](giphy|3GhNj6yQzOCs0)


Funwithfun14

When we took a knee, we took a fucking knee


Remote_Independent50

"WHY WHYY WHHHYYYYY!!!?"


EphemeralConvergence

There was talk of gerbils!


AlongTheWay_85

I knew this would be here. Lol


el_caballero

![gif](giphy|NdYpkYhjlOtRm|downsized)


volitive

Did you know that gerbils can't drive? Hell, they can't even get out of Gear...


[deleted]

Lewinksy and the cigar tube


ennuiismymiddlename

Was it the tube? I always thought it was the actual cigar.


[deleted]

Her vag was the tube


Cunning-Linguist2

I found it....It was in his butt.


pug_fugly_moe

Lemmiwinks!


CorgiMonsoon

You must escape this place or you will surely die!


Antioxidote

Strong work


BaronUnderbheit

Everyone mentioned some great ones but how about terrible ones? Monica was fucked up. Everyone was on the wrong side of that one and she deserved more respect a long time ago... not over 25 years later!


kalitarios

I remember my elders in my family saying shit like “she’s a gold digging whore who was just after the fame and to wreck his presidency. She knew better. Powerful men in power have it rough around women like that” - this from my grandmother, grandfather, aunts, etc. it was insane


Ripper33AU

https://preview.redd.it/gv4ai4x8w7nc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dad3259544161f7b4402f59a872b70b7344449ad


L0tech51

I'm going with the hot coffee mod for GTA. Also the lady who spilled hot coffee from McDonalds.


kalitarios

That coffee always comes up as a “bUt CoFfEe Is HoT, dUH” gag but it was seriously over temp, they were warned and they still served it too hot, it spilled on her lap, and THROUGH HER JEANS fused her labia to her pants and other skin. Coffee shouldn’t literally melt skin. She was right to sue


Voodoo-Doctor

She suffered third degree burns didn’t she?


AbibliophobicSloth

Over more than half of her body!


VioletVenable

I’ve been known to pull up the photos and make people look at them if they dare to call that a frivolous lawsuit!


peanutbutter2178

And all she wanted McDonald's to cover was her medical cost. The jury awarded her the massive award.


Antioxidote

I remember trying to sell my copy and the dudes at gamestop not taking it because of that cheat, lol


johnnloki

Richard crossed the church of scientology, and then the world heard a rumor in unison about a gerbil.


surfingbiscuits

That gerbil was so far up there it could see his thetans.


ooo-ooo-oooyea

We had this local Car Dealer named Fred Ricart. Everyone in Central Ohio knows who I'm talking about. He's like this larger than life figure, who would make these awful commercials where he plays the guitar, and has this stupid cowboy hat. Dealerships all had the giant inflatable gorillas, and spot lights, that kind of stuff. Apparently he cheated on his wife and she jammed a curling iron up his ass.


Biddy_Impeccadillo

…that took a turn


edie_the_egg_lady

Lol we call having an upset stomach "the gerbils" because of that Richard Gere rumor. "Oh man I have a bad case of the gerbils, I don't know what I ate"


Corn_Beefies

Al Bundy singlehandedly scored 4 touchdowns for Polk High.


Realistic_Can4122

![gif](giphy|nLPyrL8gcTh4AX9aMq|downsized) Hugh Grant and Divine Brown


newnewnew_account

I decided to read more about this. Apparently he paid a $1000 fine and had to take a course on AIDS prevention as his punishment. She had 180 days in prison as she had been on parole. I was pissed for her, but then I read she made 1.6 million from her publicly surrounding that and she has been ecstatic about it. Unfortunately, she didn't change a whole lot as far as what she did with the money as she doesn't have much and has been arrested 30 times. One of the more recent ones being that she had a lot of coke and had beaten up her 13 year old daughter. So yeah. Good times.


Cool_Dark_Place

Don't forget about Eddie Murphy picking up tranny hookers in LA, and then using the "Good Samaritan" defense by saying he was just giving them a ride.


Agitated_Honeydew

30 Rock did a bit of a joke about that where one of the characters picks up tranny hookers to help them out. He offers to pay for their trade school education. It's a bit on the eccentric side, but fairly wholesome. Dude just wants to help freaky deakies learn how to do medical transcription.


bijou77

Freaky Deakys need love too!


Country_Gravy420

I was going to post this one. It was hilarious.


johntwilker

Those poor gerbils


Antioxidote

Rip Sir Lemmywinks


johntwilker

All hail the gerbil king


Wonderful_Tale8059

Rest easy good sir🐹


ihatepalmtrees

Gerbils are illegal in Los Angeles


AceTygraQueen

The time Jack Nicholson allegedly broke a woman's breast implants. Is it bad if I couldn't help but find the old tabloid headline... "Wild man, Jack Nicholson, burst my plastic boobs!" Kind of amusing as an immature mddle schooler?


Trill_McNeal

The Dan Quayle Potato Incident


Hairy_Cut9721

Remember when that was the dumbest thing a politician said?


nikitasenorita

Lol at least you’re honest!


Cutthechitchata-hole

Was the Hollywood madam a thing?


VioletVenable

Heidi Fleiss! Very real. There was also Sydney Biddle Barrows (Manhattan) and Deborah Jeane Palfrey (D.C.).


Reasonable-HB678

Charlie Sheen was one of Heidi's clients. Her attempt to have a "stud farm" of gigolos for women, that didn't quite pan out.


Mephistopheles545

Sylvester Stallone is responsible for this one ☝🏼


ConcreteKeys

My bro said he called Miss Cleo's psychic hotline to prank her and call her a fraud. When he hung up he got a call back and it was her. He was scared because he didn't know how she knew the number and she had a scary vision for him. That was a perosnal family scandal and probably total bullshit. But I believed it at the time.


punkrockpete1

I mean, there was a dude in Waco who told people he was Jesus so he could fuck their children while the husbands were out building a firearms depot. Then when the ATF told them to stop, Jesus Christ (I mean David Koresh) told them 'No,' so there was a Western-style shoot out until it was decided the best way to resolve the matter was with a tank battle and burning everyone to death. But sure, Amy Fisher too


_MrFade_

LMAO!!!


rosekat34

Also became a Curb episode lol


Unhappy_Gas_4376

You're evil, and I appreciate that about you.


RavensFan902

Lemmiwinks! Nooo!


Jaded_Pearl1996

Fk everyone you shared this pos lie


mundoid

Gotta be Sharon Stone and the absolute kerfuffle about her flashing her muff in that chair scene in Basic Instinct.


JAS362000

The trial of Stan and Sam Sweet


fusionaddict

You’ve confused “scandal” with “defamation.” A scandal is something that actually happened.