Candid Camera
February 5, 1999
Transcript by Angie

Host 1: Out special guest tonight is Olympic gold medal winner Tara Lipinski. She joins us in Dallas where she's touring with Stars On Ice. Tara, hi.

Tara: Hi. How are you?

Host 1: How are you?

Tara: I'm good

Host 1: I understand you like practical jokes.

Tara: Oh, I guess so. (laughs)

Host 2: Actually, I got a call from Scott Hamiltion who suggested that we catch Tara on Candid Camera. So I took out crew to Lake Placid, New York where the skater were traning.

Host 1: Tara, you use baloons in your act?

Tara: Oh Yes. And I was really afraid of them. They scared me. (laughs)

Host 2: Let's roll the tape Lenn. Because Tara thought she was posing for a publicity photo. She had no idea Candid Camera was there

Camera Guy: Look at me. Good, look at me. Yea, right there.

(2 balloons pop)

Camera Guy: Oops. Maybe there was too much air in them. Ok Don, see the red balloon down there? Behind the white one? See if you can move it back a little bit. Yea. No keep it down. Bring it down hon. There ya go.

(balloon pops)

Tara: (lets go of balloons. they float up to the celing)

Camera Guy: Oops. Wow. Wow. That probably won't happen again. Here we go. Come on.

(balloon pops)

Tara: Oh my gosh!

Camera Guy: We're gonna be out of balloons here soon. One more time.

Tara: Oh no

Guy 1: Can we get this picture here? What's going on? Let's get these balloons down, Dick. We don't have all day.

Camera Guy: Smile Tara.

(balloon pops)

Tara: (screams)

Guy 1: Whats going on? Are you alergic to balloons or what?

Tara: I don't know

Guy 1: (laughs) Tara do you know me?

Tara: mmm

Guy 1: I'm Peter Funt with the Candid Camera show. We popped all these balloons just to see how'd you react. And you're as sweet with balloons as you are on the ice.

(balloon pops)

Tara: ohhh

Guy 1: Wow

(balloon pops)

Tara: (screams)

Guy 1: Wow. There we go. (laughs) I've got a great idea. Would you like to be a statue...

Tara: uhh

Guy 1: ...in a store?

Tara: A statue in a store?

Guy 1: Yea. Well have the Tara statue. You're fans will come in and think it's made out of plaster or something. And all of the sudden, poof. You come to life and 'em. What do ya think?

Tara: (moans)

Guy 1: Can you do that?

Tara: uh huh

Guy 1: I took Tara to a sporting goods store, painted her face white, and had her pose as a statue. Let's see how customers react.

Customer 1: Hi

Clerk: Hi. See our new statue?

Customer 1: Ohhh. Hey. It's Tara. (laughs). Isn't that nice?

Clerk: Did you see our new statue? We just got it.

Customer 2: (laughs)

Customer 3: It looks so real.
Clerk: It's a statue.

Customer 3: Wow.

Customer 3: Isn't that gorgous? Oh that is... oh... that is... to begin with... that is... a live person. (laughs) uh huh. But the amazing thing is is that... (laughs)

Tara: I'm Tara

Customer 3: (laughs) Can I give you a hug, honey?

Tara: You're on Candid Camera

Customer 3: Oh really?

Guy 1: You don't fund anything unusual about the fact that she is up here on a pedistool in a sporting goods store?

Customer 3: (laughs) Well she was supposed to have been a manican and she wasn't. (laughs)

Guy 1: You're absolutly right.

Host 1: Tara. You were cute as a statue. What did you think when those balloons started popping?

Tara: I had no idea what was going on and by like the third time it popped I was like, 'Ok, maybe we should use the balloons for this photo shoot.'

Host 2: I have to ask Tara about skating. Tara, how much practice does it take to be a professional skater?

Tara: Well it depends. Like when you're traning for the Olympics it takes 4 to 5 hours a day of intense training and ballet and off ice traning. But as a pro now it's alot eaiser. I'm touring and I'm having a great time.

Host 2: Well listen Tara, we hid our camera at the Wallmen skating rink in New York Central Park. And I have a hunch that some of those skaters didn't practice quite as much as you did at the Olympic level. Let's watch.

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