It was an "oops" moment that went pretty much unnoticed in syndication until one eagle-eyed viewer caught the episode titled "The Charming Stranger" on Nick at Night in 2001. In one scene, John Ritter as Jack Tripper plops down on his bed wearing a pair of blue boxers, which apparently were a little too loose fitting in the crotch area. The viewer froze the frame on his recorder to make sure he wasn't seeing things, then notified Nickelodeon, whose representative was quoted as saying "Yes, his scrotum falls out of his shorts."
The late John Ritter had the last laugh. When asked by the New York Observer what he thought of the controversy he simply said, "I've requested that Nickelodeon air both versions, edited and unedited, because sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don't."
I'm thankful that it was Ritter flashing the camera and not Don Knotts.
