On "Tanked,"

[Ben Zimmer]

On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 8:33 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
>
> a prime-time Animal Planet program, a woman laughingly says,
>
> "Leave it to *my* brother to _fart_ and depart!"
>
> Farting is a kind of hobby for Peter Griffin, The Family Guy of
> animated-cartoon fame, but this is the ftrst time that I've *noticed*
> anyone saying "fart" for real. Until I read that thread the other day,
> I didn't know that it was of interest, if someone said "fart" on the
> tube.

On last week's "30 Rock," a sketch in the show-within-a-show was
called "Prince William and Prince: Time Traveling Fart Detectives."

First time I recall hearing the word on TV was when Howard Stern
showed up at MTV's VMA Awards in 1992 as "Fartman."

--bgz

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