bippy

Its speed alone — too fast for the censors to catch the jokes, it seemed — was groundbreaking, and its go-go dancers, young stars, and bawdy lines like “Bet your sweet bippy” helped make it a defining program of the Vietnam War era, so popular that then-candidate Richard M. Nixon made a guest appearance in 1968 to deliver the catchphrase “Sock it to me.”

Additionally, you can bet your sweet bippy that the Dolby Atmos soundtrack infused with Queen’s memorable music requires turning up a home theater sound system to 11 to absorb these great songs.

You bet your sweet bippy it did.

And then there was the flurry of catch phrases: “Here comes the judge,” “You bet your sweet bippy,” ”Sock it to me!” and — punctuated by a bratty raspberry— “And that’s the truth.”

With a mixed presentation of comedy not limited to short skits, slapstick, running gags, traditional jokes, wacky sound effects, one-liners written on bikini-clad dancers, dialogue bubbles, scrolling text and musical numbers, actors and writers developed characters and catchphrases — such as “you can bet your sweet bippy” — that are ingrained in pop-culture history.