was there not a segment where stack used the term "poo pooed"?

yes, there was.

What??? LOL, I wish I saw that episode.

yes, there was.

OMG! I have to see that episode! :lol: :lol:

what segment was it?

I tell ya, some of the thing Stack said at times was damn funny. He said the Ghost Lights were rumored to be Jack Rabbits with glow worms attached to their tails. And I can recall a story about a murder were some guys gun was used yet the guy claims his gun remained in his closet at whole time. Stack said something to the effect "obviously guns don't get up a dissappear by themselves" :)

Man, Robert Stack was the bomb!! D'You think he adlibbed his remarks, or they were written for him, and his deadpan delivery was what made it funny?

was there not a segment where stack used the term "poo pooed"?

LOL...that's hilarious. We need to find out which segment it was and get a clip online.

LOL...that's hilarious. We need to find out which segment it was and get a clip online.

It was a story about ghosts. I have it in my collection.

Ghosts that poo poo? So that's where ghost turds come from?

Ghosts that poo poo? So that's where ghost turds come from?
:lol: :lol: :lol:

LOL! I haven't seen it either but now, I HAVE to so I can laugh.

Man, Robert Stack was the bomb!! D'You think he adlibbed his remarks, or they were written for him, and his deadpan delivery was what made it funny?

I'm unsure. However, I've seen him smirk a few times while saying a certain phrase or a certain word.

It was a story about ghosts. I have it in my collection.

What context did he use "poo-pooed" in? Was it like "the boy was so scared, he poo-pooed in his pants?"

what story was it?

The "fact" that Robert Stack said, "poo-pooed," in an episode is becoming an unsolved mystery.

The "fact" that Robert Stack said, "poo-pooed," in an episode is becoming an unsolved mystery.

Oh geeze. Yes, he said it. I really didn't think it was that interesting of a topic so I wasn't going to respond further. The episode aired some time in 1994. I think that context was something like "they initially poo-pooed the idea that the house was haunted" or something along those lines. It has been awhile since I saw the episode, but I can confirm that he did say it. It's been discussed here before. Do a search.

That was the "Isabella Kramer" hauntings of the Mann family in Florida. He definitely said "poo-pooed", and right at the beginning of the segment too.

That episode also had another memorable quote from Stack, about "several snails being sacrificed" when the Manns poured salt around the house.

To jog your memory, here's a hilarious synopsis of this segment from the Jump the Shark website.

Ok, officially, this show never jumped--though I'll admit the Keely Shaye-Smith was a strange addition. But, reading the above postings reminded me of the hideously unattractive family that lived in the haunted house. You know it's bad when the actors portraying them aren't easy on the eyes, but, when they actually show the real life people being interviewed--lets just say don't have a heavy meal. Reading one of the posts above reminded me about how that Jabba the Hut son was supposed to be "seduced" by the ghost...he comes in from work to take a nap (tough day at Pet World) and the voice wakes him up seductively? I guess we all have a little different definition of Hell now for cursed souls. And, the scene where the ghost actually "possesses" his cockeyed hick wife and she jumps on him giggling and grinding all over him. Oh, yeah...that's going to freak that guy out. It's probably the greatest moment of his sexual life. I can see where he might find it abnormal, but, I hardly think he's going to resist. Then, his wife talks about how she screamed at the ghost and angered her into blowing up a lamp--complete with flames and all. She sits there smirking and cocky (not pretty--trust me) saying, "She made me mad--so I let her have it." Easy killer. But, the kicker is when the scientists come to the house for an investigation and the whole family is there. I remember a close up of one of the scientists with a sort of--for lack of a better way of putting it--"who farted" look on his face and the voice over saying something to the effect of, "there was an overwhelming, rancid stench that was very uncomfortable to smell...almost sickening." Hello! Did you get a load of who lives there? My sister and I at that point burst out laughing. C'mon--what were you expecting? Lavender and lilac? Through it all, the family stayed in this haunted house with a ghost that had an unhealthy obsession with Jabba, fought with his junkyard dog of a wife, and made the whole place smell like a backed up sewer. Things must not have been that out of the ordinary. I remember this particular story took up the entire hour--and it was VERY entertaining.

Stack would on the rare occassion throw in a mildly sarcastic barb, and it was amusing when it happened.

In the Joe Owens case. "The neighbors thought it an odd place for a patio but Joe's projects have never been exactly typical."

I don't know if it was the norm for Stack's earliest episodes, but his tone during the Jack Quinn segment was odd. His almost sing-song way of stating how much money he stole was weird to listen to.

Yes! The whitetrash haunted house -- a classic! Jabba and his underage wife!

That post on 'Jump the Shark' is HILARIOUS! BWAHAHA! :lol:

I just watched the segment. I couldn't help it after this thread.

It was full of gems from Stack!

"He told his mother that he thought he saw a ghost. His mother told him that she thought he was crazy!"

"When we return, Alan's mother has to eat her words"

(right after they returned from commercial was when "poo-poohed" was uttered. I don't know how Stack was able to do it with a straight face)

They then HAD to advertise that Alan's wife was 16 when she married him. Did anyone realize how much that opened them for ridicule? I bet the producers did and that's why it was said.

I actually thought the kicker was "....and then there were..... THE VOICES!" (Stack's voice drops an octave with the last two words and his tone is so horribly cliched)

This had to be the most unintentionally funny UM segment in the show's 15-year history.

ahahha yeah that episode is funny as. I think you can tell Stack himself thought the whole story was an absolute joke!

*sorry for bringing up an old post*

.. but I just watched the Fertility Statues and cracked up when Stack said "making babies; usually all it takes is a man and a woman.. and a few cozy nights" :lol:

.. but I just watched the Fertility Statues and cracked up when Stack said "making babies; usually all it takes is a man and a woman.. and a few cozy nights" :lol:

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! :lol:

That segment is so lame, but I love when he says that!!

*sorry for bringing up an old post*

.. but I just watched the Fertility Statues and cracked up when Stack said "making babies; usually all it takes is a man and a woman.. and a few cozy nights" :lol:

I'm glad you breathed some life into this thread, as I thought of one myself. I can't remember the exact episode, but I do vaguely recall an opening in which Stack said something along the lines of "intrigue, deception, and murder....prime ingredients for an unsolved mystery".

I remember thinking "why is Stack talking like he's on a f***in' cooking show?"

When exactly for sure during the Mann Family Ghost Story does he quote that? I've seen that segment a few times and never noticed it, I just checked the DVD also and still can't catch it. I'm curious to hear it :D

I'm glad you breathed some life into this thread, as I thought of one myself. I can't remember the exact episode, but I do vaguely recall an opening in which Stack said something along the lines of "intrigue, deception, and murder....prime ingredients for an unsolved mystery".

I remember thinking "why is Stack talking like he's on a f***in' cooking show?"

I'm thinking that's the Brooke Baker case? When I read your post I could just picture her mother. :eek4:

In any case I'll post more classic Stack moments when I come accross them :)

Something about Stack saying "gigantic monkey" when he was talking about Nazca lines in today's show just made me smile. :D

*sorry for bringing up an old post*

.. but I just watched the Fertility Statues and cracked up when Stack said "making babies; usually all it takes is a man and a woman.. and a few cozy nights" :lol:

LOL!!! :lol: :D :clap

He said it! I just heard him say poo poo'ed! What a joke of a segment this is!

The smells the voices the bells the noises. Worst quote in the history of Unsolved Mysteries.

..Another classic Stack line "even a grandmother that bakes goodies could be out to take your money and run" :lol:

"When we visit a haunted house, we scream, we laugh, then we go home"

i always liked when he used the word "baffled."

...and the so and so case has left police BAFFLED.

I just thought I'd pop this thread back up to the top so you can all read it and cry for the good old days when RS was hosting the show and the segments were full length.

Just look at the Alan Mann haunted house segment than ran today, and how we missed RS saying "poo pooed" and "a few snails were sacrificed" when the family encircled the house with lines of salt.

Seriously, I don't know if I can survive these hacked up reruns. I need originals. The originals are vital to the survival of 21st century mankind. I'm sure of it.

I just thought I'd pop this thread back up to the top so you can all read it and cry for the good old days when RS was hosting the show and the segments were full length.

Just look at the Alan Mann haunted house segment than ran today, and how we missed RS saying "poo pooed" and "a few snails were sacrificed" when the family encircled the house with lines of salt.

Seriously, I don't know if I can survive these hacked up reruns. I need originals. The originals are vital to the survival of 21st century mankind. I'm sure of it.

Did Farina say "poo pooed"?

I don't think Farina said it. Nothing about snails either. I am very sad about the whole situation. :crying: I didn't even realize that I was missing all the good stuff until I read through the older threads. I don't even think they showed the sex craving ghost. All they said was that his wife had an evil laugh and they showed them in bed, she turned out the light, and started laughing weird. That was it.

I like in the Jeremy B story where he referred to the 2 teens that may have shot him as a couple of "tuffs".

"Incredibly" is a classic RS word, as is "bludgeoned" (far more so than the simplistic "beaten" or some other term).

My favorite Stack monolouge of all time: "Our best hope is that he has been incarcerated for some other crime. Our worst fear is that he is on the loose, killing at random." (Long pause, deep look into camera)

Thanks, Bob. :(

If you notice both Stack's linguistic and body language evolved over the years. For example, he used many hand gestures on specials 4-7 and season 1 and than used expressive body language only on seldom occassions. I think the language was much more simplified as the seasons progressed. He also was unusual as he would approach foreign words with their precise native pronunciation, as Stack spoke both italian and french before he understood english, and he seem to pronounce spanish words very well also.

There was also a change of attire from the specials and the future seasons. Stack use to wear some very tacky red blazers and eventually went to the trench coats and darker colors. I wonder who was his fashion consultant in those early specials? ;)

Its stated on another thread, but I get filled with a warm giddiness when I recall RS saying (paraphrasing):


“He and his mother spent an afternoon full of homespun whimsy”


I like to think the writer had different words written in the script but the Stackmeister General was just feeling it that day and started freestylin’.




I heard a really corny one this morning. On the Crystal Spencer segment, he ends it with this lameness:

“The answers to the questions surrounding her death have become as elusive as the stardom she sought after in life”

BOOOOOO!!

Its stated on another thread, but I get filled with a warm giddiness when I recall RS saying (paraphrasing):


“He and his mother spent an afternoon full of homespun whimsy”


I like to think the writer had different words written in the script but the Stackmeister General was just feeling it that day and started freestylin’.


And another beverage lost to a spit take. This is too funny.

In the Devin Williams segment, I kind of laugh when Robert Stack says "no one expected to see a fully-loaded rig to be thundering through the woods" or something to that effect.

In the Devin Williams segment, I kind of laugh when Robert Stack says "no one expected to see a fully-loaded rig to be thundering through the woods" or something to that effect.

As tragic as the Devin Williams segment is, I can't help but laugh at the absurdity of that re-enactment. Wasn't there a family there having a picnic or something?

The beginning of the Matthew Chase segment always, ALWAYS sounds like RS is actually in a commercial for some financial institution: "Everyday thousands of Americans use an automated teller machine to do their banking..."

I like in the Jeremy B story where he referred to the 2 teens that may have shot him as a couple of "tuffs".

I liked that too. I think he said it again during the Robert Hamrick segment referring to the motorcycle gang as a "band(?) of street toughs". :lol:

I dunno, it really sounds like something my grandpa might say.

Stack on Kenneth Engie "unless alcohol had completely impaired his judgement"

Just his inflections said he thought that Engie died a drunken idiot.

These are all incredibly hilarious! But if anyone else other than Stack said most of them, they wouldn't be funny. That is the mystique of Stack.

These are all incredibly hilarious! But if anyone else other than Stack said most of them, they wouldn't be funny. That is the mystique of Stack.

Exactly!

I took my username from my own favorite Stackism. Lately, I've been combining it with my second favorite to form the nonsensical "Who KILLLLLED gelatinous goooooo....and WHYYYYY?". :)

Its stated on another thread, but I get filled with a warm giddiness when I recall RS saying (paraphrasing):


“He and his mother spent an afternoon full of homespun whimsy”


I like to think the writer had different words written in the script but the Stackmeister General was just feeling it that day and started freestylin’.

I agree with this. I wonder if RS ever improvised some lines like that - especially as the show went on, the producers probably gave him more leeway (I've heard AMW did the same thing with John Walsh in the 90s).

fertility statues - "Making babies. Usually all it takes is a man, a woman and a few cozy nights." lol. ;)

Alan and the haunted house segment - Just hearing him say "poo pooed" is priceless, it's not something you'd expect from a guy like him.

I also thought it was mildly humorous in the 1992 live telecenter episode, how he'd periodically turn to his assistants and say "Diane, Judy. What have you got for us?" and almost seemed to break character a bit. Same as when they cut back to him and he said "Thank you Diane".

I also think there were alot of situations where he was indirectly giving his opinion or telling someone off, just without being obvious. Like the update on Jerry Strickland with the "circlestantial evidence" where Bob said "He'll have his day in court."

I agree with this. I wonder if RS ever improvised some lines like that - especially as the show went on, the producers probably gave him more leeway (I've heard AMW did the same thing with John Walsh in the 90s).

Given Stacks age during the later years..I hope it wasn;t simply that Stack couldn;t remember his lines anymore. :(

Lol.

The more UM episodes you watch and listen to Stack narrate, the more it feels like "wow, Stack actually knew these people or was actually there"

Lol as if

I think the language was much more simplified as the seasons progressed. He also was unusual as he would approach foreign words with their precise native pronunciation, as Stack spoke both italian and french before he understood english, and he seem to pronounce spanish words very well also.

Personally I preferred the language, precise legal and medical terms used in the earlier episodes. Now though they'd consider such to be much too "antiquated". Not all changes are for the better though.

I also thought it was mildly humorous in the 1992 live telecenter episode, how he'd periodically turn to his assistants and say "Diane, Judy. What have you got for us?" and almost seemed to break character a bit. Same as when they cut back to him and he said "Thank you Diane".

Lol so true, also notice though that each time the telecenter went to the break, Stack always turned away from the camera to the telephone operators as if something new was about to happen

^ Oh yeah, I noticed that too! I wonder if it was for dramatic effect or if he really was listening in to see if new leads were coming in. I've noticed on the early years he seemed more personally involved and you could tell his heart was in it, as far as catching fugitives or reuniting people.


Something else I found unintentionally funny, was when circa '96/97 the web address started coming up on the screen, and he said "Doub-a-ya doub a ya doub a ya" all drawn out. :)

It's amazing because I've seen not one, but two true crime hosts this week use the good-ole Stack standby "Or so it seems..." this week. He may be gone, but his influence lives on.

Stack seemed to use the word "sinister" quite frequently.

One of my personal favorites was "No explanation a tall. "

'Hair say-lon.'

Any word beginning with the letter "W".

Any word beginning with the letter "W".
Dubaya, Dubaya, Dubaya dot unsolved.com ;)

Dubaya, Dubaya, Dubaya dot unsolved.com ;)
Haha...someone mentioned it recently on another thread..are they poltergeists?

He named dropped Norman Rockwell a couple of times.

"The perpetrator or perpetrators."

I know it was from the circleville writer(allegedly) but "el sickos will pay" has to be up there in stacks most memorable lines.

I've mentioned it in another thread, but one that always stuck out to me was RS's intro to the KROQ Update. His delivery always seem to me like he took their deception personally, and practically spits out the words "publicity stunt."

Given the comment that Cosgrove made in one of the commentaries (I think it was for the 150th Solve special) about how delighted RS was about hitting a milestone, it makes me feel like RS really poured his heart into the series vs. just showing up to work. I'd venture to say carried through and is a big part of why the members of this board feel the way they do about him.

I've mentioned it in another thread, but one that always stuck out to me was RS's intro to the KROQ Update. His delivery always seem to me like he took their deception personally, and practically spits out the words "publicity stunt."

"GENE BAXTER AND KEVIN RYDER WERE LYING." (Unwavering death stare)

"GENE BAXTER AND KEVIN RYDER WERE LYING." (Unwavering death stare)

Probably my favorite Robert Stack moment. :)

I hate to repeat the same things that you have already posted but I will to increase the post count... "haunting self portrait" is one of my favorite stack lines.

"The perpetrator or perpetrators."Chills.

I think that might be the one that I think of the most in regards to Mr. Stack.

Thought of one where RS's delivery cracked me up.

"Elizabeth told him about a co-worker's son who had 'Bulked Up' by drinking Amino Acid Milkshakes"

Tragic case though. :(

Another golden RS line from the Lake Wales segment:

"And then there were...[big dramatic pause]...THE VOICES."