[1] Plots revolve around Spell Binder causing trouble by changing the letter of a word so means something completely different, then Letterman restoring it.
In each episode, Joan Rivers narrates the introduction: Faster than a rolling "O" (running past a big red "O") Stronger than silent "E" (removing the "e" at the end of "tube") Able to leap capital "T" in a single bound!
For example, in one episode a group of people who are enjoying custard have it suddenly become mustard, causing them to turn red and feel burning in their mouths.
In the lone segment, the Spoil Binder changes a woman sitting on a park bench ("sitter") into a pile of garbage ("litter").
Jack Shaheen, Professor Emeritus of Mass Communication at Southern Illinois University, criticized the Spell Binder as a negative racial stereotype "who resembles those turbaned Arabs in the escapist Arabian Nights films of the fifties and sixties.