Carol Burnett deals with harsh realities (and toilet paper) in exclusive clip

Burnett plays a housewife dealing with harsh realities caused by her choice of toilet paper: Her children, husband, neighbors, and canned-vegetable spokesman (the Green Giant) express their displeasure with the bathroom tissue’s sandpaper-like qualities. It’s an effective send-up of a bygone era of advertising that hawked household products as a kind of guarantee for domestic bliss. As she bemoans her increasingly empty home, you half expect an announcer’s voice to pipe in and tell her she can win them all back with a roll of two-ply.

Clips like this and more are available on Time Life’s The Carol Burnett Show: The Lost Episodes DVD collection, as well as the show’s YouTube channel.

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