While the acts on British talent shows might sometimes border on the strange, they pale in comparison to this effort from US TV.

It comes to us courtesy of 1970s hit The Gong Show, as two girls performing under the name Have You Got A Nickel show off their popsicle-eating skills.

All of which doesn’t sound like a particular draw for a talent show – except their efforts are – how shall we put this – a little explicit. Borderline NSFW in fact:

And this is one of the tamer moments…(Picture: YouTube)

The performance in question didn’t go down too well with the judging panel (which doesn’t have a Simon Cowell or Mel B in sight) but it did attract some notoriety when it was first aired in 1978.




So much so, in fact that US network NBC – swiftly realising the naughty nature of the act – promptly snipped it out of the instalment after it had aired on the East Coast of the US, meaning it was absent from the show as it aired in different time zones.

Host Chuck Barris also went on to reveal that the two girls – later dubbed ‘the Popsicle Twins’ – were just 17 at the time, making it even more controversial.

The clip has been doing the rounds on YouTube since 2010 but has been brought to our attention once again.

Although chances are you may have already seen it without realising, given that the series was aired on Channel 4 in the mid-80s – with a pilot for a British version also filmed in 1985.

It also featured heavily in the 2002 movie Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind, directed by George Clooney – which shed light on Barris’s claim that away from his game show persona he led a double life as a CIA assassin.