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question on wkrp in cincinnati episode.

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i watched the episodes where johnny fever gets a job in LA again and where he came back.

on the dvd the word he said that got him fired in LA again was bleeped out.

i don`t know if it was faulty memory or if i recalled right but i don`t remember the word bleaped out.i can`t help feeling it was another silly word like booger making the joke funnier.

does anyone remember?
 
flashback said:
i watched the episodes where johnny fever gets a job in LA again and where he came back.

on the dvd the word he said that got him fired in LA again was bleeped out.

i don`t know if it was faulty memory or if i recalled right but i don`t remember the word bleaped out.i can`t help feeling it was another silly word like booger making the joke funnier.

does anyone remember?
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IIRC, it was also bleeped out in the original, or at least in the syndicated run that did have the original music.
 
I saw the episode the first time, it was bleeped and no doubt intended that way for effect. Hesseman may have said an obscenity or a nonsense word
 
thanks for the answer.i asked because i was not sure if i remembered correctly.

i slept some since then.
 
I don't have the book handy but I wonder if Hugh Wilson's accounted for it in Mike Kassel's book "America's Favorite Radio Station: WKRP in Cincinati"
 
According to IMDB:

In the pilot episode, it was explained that Johnny fell from grace as a DJ, after he used the word "booger" on-air. (Andy gave his blessing for Johnny to use the word, when he changed WKRP's format.) In this episode, Johnny returns to WKRP after being fired for using another word ("jive-ass") on-air. (Hesseman said "jive-ass" during the taping, but it was edited out for broadcast.)
 
A real story about boogers & radio. Many years ago I got hired at a radio station over the phone. The P. D. liked my tape.
While driving to the station my first day on the job I am listening to the station. I had never heard the station before. The record being played started to skip. It stop and the jock on the air opened the mic and actually said "there was a booger on the record" and proceeded to scrap it off on the air. Man, I thought, what have I gotten myself into?! It was worse than I thought when I got there. This person was all voice and ego. No sense of humor. Very little talent and no brains from what I could tell. Just a super star in their own mind. In a later conversion I brought up the booger incident. The jock had never heard of WKRP! What a moron! I only stayed at the station a few months updated my aircheck and moved up to much greater things.
 
I was listening to WKMZ 97.5 out of Martinsburg, WVA about 20 years ago, and the DJ had a skip like that. He came on and said: "Looks like a booger on the CD. We'll fix that!" He just cued up another and played on.
 
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