Unbelievable closed captioning error during TV broadcast (coincidence?).

[CosmicCaprice]

Gomer Pyle was the first movie about The 40-Year-Old Virgin. Jesus loves him though.

[shooster11]

LOL!!

"HE LOD LITTLE CHILDREN AND ANALS AND OLD PEOPLE..."

DANG!!! Gomer Pyle was a sicko!!!

LOL!!

[NedNickerson2010]

I used to work the National Captioning Institute. This is a transmission error - when tv reception is bad, the captions will sometimes come across garbled. Letters are always dropped in pairs - either two letters, side-by-side, or a letter and a space, side-by-side. What's left is sometimes a combination of two words, or in this case, a new word made by deleting two characters from the orginal word. ANIMALS - take away two letters IM, leaves ANALS

[lancetop]

In the Old Testament there was a harlot named Gomer. No kidding! and god treated her like total shit.

[Mufaso1000]

This is Jim Nabors...it was no error.

[parkman35]

Good job...kind of creative..

[halfdoc2]

Haw Haw Haw...That's hilarious!

[superbu1]

I work in closed captioning (not for Vitac). This is a simple encoding error. Once the caption file leaves the captioning company, it gets encoded by the network for broadcast. If anything goes wrong during that step, this is exactly what you get -- many words with letters transposed, partial words, etc. Another thing captioning companies always get blamed for is audio changed in post-production AFTER the show has been captioned. Bad captioning isn't always the fault of the caption editor. :)

[rem2267]

Wow, and I thought *I* was a shitty typist! Wow!

[shengchenfan]

LOL

[kwnphoto]

Gomer should sue Forrest Gump.

[pardyhardly]

Back when dumb people were cool. 

[radioman970]

I was always under the impression that bad reception could cause those kinds of errors...

Love this episode. Gomer was a hoot! (hootie hooo!)

[gymer15]

Got it..he loved anals

[geekxcorexjennakins]

I honestly think they were just trying to play up the diction and dialect of the characters... Since they're deep Southerners... Still makes it stupid, but I would assume that would be it.

[MsTimetowaste]

Nah...just look at how the rest of the dialogue was captioned. Whomever was doing the job that night, well, let's just say English was definitely NOT their native tongue.

[RichYan33]

You'd think being able to spell would be a prerequisite to do the closed captioning.

[desktorp]

So how'd the episode end?

[CrameronDiaz]

@desktorp just type 'the feuding pyles' in the search box to see the entire episode. I'll just add that no one was murdered and the "don't ask, don't tell" policy may have been pioneered via this episode : )

[desktorp]

@CrameronDiaz lol alright now I have to watch it.

[thecolaratlady]

lol anals lol

[rocketvon]

Stupid.

[crookhunter]

Jim Neighbors wrote Stairway to Heaven.. later stolen by Led Zeppelin

[dadoctah]

I've seen lots of captions where words and parts of words get left out. I've seen others where the caption stutters, so while the character's saying "Let's get out of here" the caption reads "Let''s gouttttt f rerererererere".

Funniest one ever was on Xena when they discovered a beauty contestant was actually a man. Caption had the contestant pleading "I'm not ready to go pubic with this".

[miniskunk]

Often times fouled up captions on Cable TV is due to signal corruption. You will see a lot of incomplete words, missing lines, and garbled text.

[taffy2003]

@kzfive Just wow. For sure, that is the best comment I ever read on youtube.

[Boccanella]

ANALS! Gomer loved anals? Now wonder he was such good friend with Rock Hudson!

[ItchyGoomie]

I liked the Gary Coleman pic in pic you added. I had to rewind it.. went by quick but funny

[MrRedneckcracker]

GOHLEEEE , I sure do reckon I'd like one of them there penises in my butt

[Wellch]

Even those who do the closed caption do not know the difference between lose and loose, you're and your, and it's and its.

[richfincm]

@Wellch And 'then' and 'than' - I notice those get mixed up a lot, too <---< ;)

[ohhellnoyoudidnt]

he likes children and anal

[toma419]

looks like ebonics! hahahaha

[728Duke]

Closed captioning is still so poorly done.

[sedona74]

damn gov conspiracies ;) <3

[DoctorBohr]

Captioning tv shows would be a dastardly boring job. Im not surprised that people would deliberately screw up the scripts just for a laugh.

[BASHMAN9t5]

XD lil children and anals

[anotherhunkydory]

Hey this isn't nothing i had a tv that would mess up the captions all the time and read them weird maybe it was just the tv i had one that would do this with any show, you couldn't read it right.

[Mysterwright]

=)) Anals. That's horrible.

[chumshot1]

loved anals LOLOLOL That was wierd!!!!! i remember they did a public service announcement on The Office, and it was during a crying scene, so it looked CREEPY xD

[DavidDietzII]

press 3 repeatedly and gomer gives you his opinion of sgt carters mom.

[emshicks321]

Press 1 for Texting

Press 2 for Satanic

Press 3 for Mo' Bitch

Press 4 for Where We put it?

Press 5 for ess'e

Press 6 for Very Nimber

Press 7 for Noah

Press 8 for My Lotto

Press 9 for Granola

[foxxyloxx]

He loved little children & anals. What a great man.

Gary Coleman in the corner of the screen at "What you talkin' about" FTMFW.

[eyeh8nbc]

This happens often on analog sources when the signal isn't perfect- letters get dropped, resulting in stuff like that. Don't know how it works with digital TV- annoying MeTV logo there BTW- they should just put the captions directly on the picture while they're at it.

[mevfd17]

LMAO did that just say Anals?

[RonnieLepkowitz]

LOL,wow...XD

[myobfool]

Huh