On the evening on November 18, 1999 the fourth installment of the fox hidden camera series “Busted on the Job” aired, and at the very end of that hour long episode a very familiar voice [1] and silhouette appeared on the screen, and even though the voice had been muffled it was unmistakable none other than Bill Margold himself! And just what had this Margold in disguise gotten himself in to? Pinata fucking of course.
Still with me? Yeah, you read that right. This final segment of “Busted on the Job IV” was about a night watchmen in a pinata factory, and that night watchman was, without a doubt, Bill Margold. So does this mean Margold had taken a night job (literally) in a pinata factory? Nope. It was a setup.
One of the people behind the “Busted on the Job” series was Bobby Logan, writer/director of among other films UP YOUR ALLEY, REPOSSESSED, and MEATBALLS 4, and scriptwriter for several TV shows. He was also a good friend of Bill Margold’s. And when the first “Busted on the Job” installment was a big hit Fox ordered three more, and the production team had used ALL the “real” footage for the first one, they did what any self-respecting reality show would do: they made the rest up. Well, I think some of the segments in BotJ 2-4 was probably real, but watching through them (so you don’t have to) it’s evident a good deal was made up.
And Bobby Logan admitted this at Bill Margold’s memorial service in 2017 [2]. And it’s there that he told the story of how one night while trying to think up new gags for the show he thought “wouldn’t it be great to have a guy fucking a pinata at a pinata factory?!…So, I called Bill. He said ‘Sure, and you know I won’t even be specific on what type of pinata it has to be.’ He didn’t care!“
It turns out Bobby wasn’t the only one who thought that was a good idea, that was the most popular segment for all four installments!
But wait, there’s more!
Bobby continues:
“Bill calls me up and says ‘I want to tour with it.’ And I said ‘How do you tour, what are you gonna do with it? Go to KMarts and bang a pinata in the parking lot for people?’ He didn’t know what, but we started to get on radio interviews locally and this that and whatever…And the last thing you should know about the story is this: when we offered him some money he wouldn’t take it. He said ‘Give me a teddy bear.’ So we got him a six foot tall, the biggest we could find, and had it delivered to his house. I saw him years later in his apartment and he still had it there.”
And so here it is, the Pinata Factory Security Guard segment, staring Pinata Pete, aka William Margold.
- A familiar voice to those of use who know our vintage porn that is[↑]
- You can see the entire memorial service at the Jizz Talking YT page, this link is keyed up to Bobby Logan’s part, but you can go back to the beginning, it’s well worth it.
https://youtu.be/2RxKzKdgynU?si=0YNn9pEFm7UwlK6x&t=2520 [↑]
