Produced as a response to NBC's TV's Bloopers & Practical Jokes, this series similarly focused on outtakes from popular television programs and movies.
The series also included a Candid Camera-like segment showing people caught in amusing situations by hidden cameras.
(During the 1980s, ABC dabbled with the same format with a similar series of specials hosted separately by John Ritter and Steve Allen, titled Life's Most Embarrassing Moments.)
The series debuted on January 10, 1984 as a mid-season replacement series for Just Our Luck, and returned at the start of the 1984-85 season, however after October 1984 the show ceased to be a weekly offering on ABC and instead aired at various times as filler for the next few months before resuming weekly broadcast in the spring, after which it was cancelled.
Fearful of offending their audience with condescending humor, ABC had the producers reshoot sections for the first episode without Rickles.