Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders

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Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders is the title of a comedy series that aired on ABC for two short seasons in the mid-1980s. The series was hosted by Steve Lawrence and Don Rickles.

Produced as a response to NBC's popular TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, this series similarly focused on outtakes from popular television programs and movies. The series also included a Candid Camera-like segment showing people caught in amusing situations by hidden cameras. The word blooper was not allowed to be uttered, with the term "foul-up" substituted where applicable. (ABC had earlier dabbled with the same format, with a series of specials hosted by John Ritter and titled Life's Most Embarrassing Moments.)

The series debuted on January 10, 1984 as a mid-season replacement series, and returned at the start of the 1984-85 season, however after October 1984 the show ceased to be a weekly offering on ABC and instead aired at various times as filler for the next few months before resuming weekly broadcast in the spring, after which it was cancelled.

The most notable episode of Foul-Ups, Bleeps & Blunders featured guest star William Shatner introducing a set of bloopers taken from the original Star Trek. Shatner, in his introduction, stated that this was the first time these outtakes had ever been shown on network television ("I've got chills," Rickles replied, sarcastically.). Another notable is after the closing credits, the production company that produced the show had two men that were about ready to strike a gong, with the man on the right (holding the gong mallet) striking the man on the left in the groin region and leaving him in agony (this was followed by a gong sound). Although risque in the conservative mid-1980s, such outtakes would become common on a later TV show, America's Funniest Home Videos hosted by Bob Saget and later Tom Bergeron.