“I’ll stick my foot so far up your behind, you’ll taste leather.”
That line became one of Sanford and Son’s most iconic burns—and it wasn’t in the script.
Redd Foxx improvised it during a Season 3 taping, leaving LaWanda Page speechless and the audience in hysterics. The producers demanded a reshoot. The network threatened to censor it.
But Foxx refused.
“I’m not saying it again,” he said. “You want real laughs? Keep it.”
They did. And that moment became a legendary part of sitcom history.
Foxx’s ad-libs weren’t just funny—they were fearless. And sometimes, they were too real for TV execs to handle.
But audiences loved them. Because Fred Sanford didn’t hold back—and neither did Redd.
