Mental Floss

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Jerry Springer tapes an episode of his show in December 1998.

From Wendy Williams’s “Dula Peep” coinage to a guest’s death on ‘The Dick Cavett Show,’ here are the talk show incidents we’ll never stop talking about.

Ellen Gutoskey












deberarr/iStock via Getty Images (Background); kata716/iStock via Getty Images (Monkey). Photo collage courtesy of Ken Ossea, Jr.

Kids thought they were buying an adorable little pet when they ordered a monkey from their favorite comic book. What they got was a wild animal that pooped everywhere and attacked their mothers' bridge clubs.

Jake Rossen