Subject: Malaprops (Page 27)

Making mistakes on our usually flawless show is disarming.

Busted tribia

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Beat your tambourines with the Hairy Knishes.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You could have knocked me down with the weather!

(1971 – ) American actress

To make the drawers work better, rub them with paraphernalia.

I got a run in my neon stockings.

Why don't you go take a short walk on a long pier?

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

I got something important here to read and sign and I gotta consecrate on that.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Wearing a Yamaha

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Smells like some kind if saniquarium.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

In a pig’s dye.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

What a terrible cat's after me!

In bed, I’m totally impudent… [later] I got the feeling my prudence is coming back.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Maybe I oughta get one of them priests in to exercise with her.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Up at the crank of dawn.

(1905 – 1974) radio comedian

I was beaming at the seams!

Ya don’t have to soft soap me.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

Let fightin' dogs lie.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

You made a certain referential remark there.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)

This is what I spent all those years learning my ABDs for?

(1971 – ) American actress

He’s still scravengin’ down here.

television character, All In the Family (Carroll O’Connor)