Seeing 26 year old Mariette Hartley get a pie in the face on an obscure TV show called "The Hero".

So I was at a sleep away camp when I was about 8 or 9 and they had us making pizzas by the woods. Well they have me and another kid go look for burning wood for the fire, and we go into the woods and after a few minutes we hear hooting and hollering and see the older campers 4 girls and 2 guys in the river bed covered head to toe in mud just having a blast. These girls were probably 14-16 and had started to gang up on the two guys. I remember distinctly one girl, a short haired brunette taking a face plant and sliding her head under the mud coming up and spitting out the mud. Now this is where they stop and slowly turn and notice me who is just standing there staring. I was too young to realize the implications of that moment on my future but I was transfixed on what I was seeing. The brunette looks to me and says "hey kids, you want to join us?" I laughed and said sorry we'll get in trouble. She smiled and said your loss kid.

Moral of the story is now at 35 I would probably have a stroke if I saw 4 women in the mud in person.

Watching early Laurel & Hardy Tit for Tat routines as a boy. Ruining each other step by step or getting other innocent victims mixed up in the process. There was of course the legendary cream pie fight in The Battle of the Century, which pushed my adolescent buttons. I felt very excited whenever a pie hit a male victim, the posher the better. I also remember a scene where a pompous guy wearing white tie and tails got a big plate of slimy spaghetti sploshed all over him. The way he sat on the floor, ruined, slowly trying to remove the thick spaghetti mess from his chest, staring into the camera, aghast, indignatedwas absolutely stunning to look at.

In America, there was a show called Beat the Clock. I remember as a preteen watching a show.
The stunt i saw was a husband climb up a ladder, he had to drop a balloon filled with cream on his wife's face. On her shower cap was a pin.

He dropped it dead on. Her face was covered in cream and started licking what she could.

Ah the good ole days.

Definitely mud wrestling, so, it was either a segment on 'PM Magazine' or 'Real People', or the 'Lobo' nightclub scene from the early 80's.
Vintage mud wrestling is the best - no 'shove and giggle' in muddy water like you see most of the time now.

Hi Licec
The video shop on the corner of our road had a really small 'adult' selection, next to the horror movies - a few Electric Blue vids etc. There was one called simply 'Mud Wrestling' and was in a cheap 80s sleeve. God, the palpitations I had trying to get the courage to get it out. Eventually did and it wasn't even that great i recall...but pre internet, waiting to have the house to myself and the thought of an 'adult' messy thing to watch blew my mind.

I'm obviously just a complete nerd, but I'm interested no-one's mentioned books. We didn't watch much TV at home, certainly not on Saturday mornings which is when it sounds as though most of the fun stuff was on! But it was a long time before I understood why my nine or ten year old self had read and reread the shipwreck scene in Swallowdale. And then went on to be fascinated by the muddy scenes in Secret Water. Just me? Maybe...

I'm going to pretty much echo your post but I'd like to add the mud wrestling scene from the film ...All the Marbles. I was pretty much hooked after that

I swear I haven't imagined this either...but I remember (maybe a very rare day off school sick) and seeing Playschool or Playdays where a lady (I remember it was a black woman, might have been Floella Benjamin) was sitting on a jelly,then inviting the kids in the segment to do the same. I was only tiny, like 7 maybe, and it just seemed insanely naughty to be doing such a thing. All tge crazy electricity was whizzing in my brain, but obviously this was before i recgnised it as any kind of 'arousal.'
It must have been a segment to do with the senses and stuff.

Floella Benjamin did get messy a few times, though I don't think any recordings have survived - which given they were all young kids shows is just as well. I remember one skit where the other adult presenters were "defending" a castelated wall where a ladder appeared and they poured all kinds of things down to try and repel the "attacker". Eventually Floella appeared at the top of the ladder, dressed in blue denim dungarees, soaking wet and drenched in mess, asking what on earth they thought they were doing, as she was just trying to wash the windows.

I remember the Lobo nightclub mud wrestling scene well. It was my first after school job at a Kmart. The show was on a TV in the electronics section while I was working and several other guys working at the store, including the department manager and an assistant manager (both around 40) were clustered around it as I approached. I joined the group, saw the scene on the TV and was instantly boned...as I think all the others were---the assistant manager even muttered "mud, mud" with a big smile on his face. Not one of moved an inch until the commercial. Over the course of the next 10 minutes we all took turns in the staff restroom. I was hooked from that point on.

For me it was Nickelodeon, but specifically Figure it Out. I was still in elementary school so I had never "liked a girl" yet, but for whatever reason I would get excited when the girls got slimed, and feel let down when the guys did.

Then in middle school I saw the Real Sex sploshing episode and let's just say the excitement that time was more than just mental.

"I will if you will."