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Puns Generated from Super Bowl Controversy

Aired February 10, 2004 - 05:57   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Never has a single breast been the object of so many puns. It's been more than a week since we first began talking about Janet Jackson's right mammary. What better time to look back at all the battered puns left in its wake?
And no better person to do it than our own Jeanne Moos.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Finally, we're moving on. Beyonce is praised for keeping her clothes on at the Grammies, where the ghost of Janet Jackson hovered above the d'colletage.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA: I don't want to have the same thing happen that Janet had done.

MOOS: Time to look back on a story that was no pun unintended. "Duo Caught In A Booby Trap," "CBS Jugheads." NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was dubbed Taglia-Boob. CNN contributed "Shock & Bra" and "Tempest in a C cup." The boob tube more than lived up to its name.

JAY LENO: CBS said they may bar Janet Jackson from the Grammies. You know, that's just a case of tit for tat. That's all it is.

MOOS: There were even high brow puns like "The Daily Show's" play on the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive. Janet's breast armature gave rise to WMD, weapon of mammary destruction. Super Bowl became Super Boob.

MO ROCCA, "THE DAILY SHOW" CORRESPONDENT: Somebody said Super Bowl 38D.

MOOS (on camera): Super Bowl 38D.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow!

MOOS (voice-over): We did our own informal poll.

(on camera): But which one should get the bobby prize, is the question?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, that's cute.

MOOS (voice-over): But booby prize won't win a Pulitzer Prize. A viewer sick of the coverage said the media would milk it for all it's worth. Another suggested that since we played the Dean scream and the breast incident so often, maybe we should combine them -- scream, pull; scream, pull.

But the icing on the cake was the Janet Jackson breast cupcake. Using a Hershey's kiss and some icing, an Atlanta law student recreated Janet's sunburst nipple jewelry. We can't show you that, so you'll have to settle for this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are my hands positioned right?

MOOS: Adam Roberts put the cupcakes on his Web site and went from 40 hits a week to 10,000 a day. What would he say to Janet?

ADAM ROBERTS, CUPCAKE CREATOR: Please don't hit me in the face.

MOOS: With so many pun malfunctions, it makes you want to eat your words.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired February 10, 2004 - 05:57   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Never has a single breast been the object of so many puns. It's been more than a week since we first began talking about Janet Jackson's right mammary. What better time to look back at all the battered puns left in its wake?
And no better person to do it than our own Jeanne Moos.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Finally, we're moving on. Beyonce is praised for keeping her clothes on at the Grammies, where the ghost of Janet Jackson hovered above the d'colletage.

CHRISTINA AGUILERA: I don't want to have the same thing happen that Janet had done.

MOOS: Time to look back on a story that was no pun unintended. "Duo Caught In A Booby Trap," "CBS Jugheads." NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was dubbed Taglia-Boob. CNN contributed "Shock & Bra" and "Tempest in a C cup." The boob tube more than lived up to its name.

JAY LENO: CBS said they may bar Janet Jackson from the Grammies. You know, that's just a case of tit for tat. That's all it is.

MOOS: There were even high brow puns like "The Daily Show's" play on the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive. Janet's breast armature gave rise to WMD, weapon of mammary destruction. Super Bowl became Super Boob.

MO ROCCA, "THE DAILY SHOW" CORRESPONDENT: Somebody said Super Bowl 38D.

MOOS (on camera): Super Bowl 38D.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow!

MOOS (voice-over): We did our own informal poll.

(on camera): But which one should get the bobby prize, is the question?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, that's cute.

MOOS (voice-over): But booby prize won't win a Pulitzer Prize. A viewer sick of the coverage said the media would milk it for all it's worth. Another suggested that since we played the Dean scream and the breast incident so often, maybe we should combine them -- scream, pull; scream, pull.

But the icing on the cake was the Janet Jackson breast cupcake. Using a Hershey's kiss and some icing, an Atlanta law student recreated Janet's sunburst nipple jewelry. We can't show you that, so you'll have to settle for this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are my hands positioned right?

MOOS: Adam Roberts put the cupcakes on his Web site and went from 40 hits a week to 10,000 a day. What would he say to Janet?

ADAM ROBERTS, CUPCAKE CREATOR: Please don't hit me in the face.

MOOS: With so many pun malfunctions, it makes you want to eat your words.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com