In the latest episode of “Hot Ones,” Jason Bateman shared that the older cast members of the 1970s drama played a prank on him backstage. At the time, the actor was only 11 years old.
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Host Sean Evans asked what kind of prank they had pulled on him.
“What they did was hold me down on the ground, pin my shoulders with their knees, and give me noogies—whatever you call them—on my chest,” Jason Bateman said while eating spicy chicken wings.
Noogies are when someone greets another person by rubbing their knuckles on their head or body.
“So there was some kind of hazing ritual?” Evans asked, surprised. “Yes,” confirmed the actor. “They pounded on my chest as if it were a front door,” he revealed.
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However, Jason Bateman said that in the end, he managed to turn the situation around.
“I went to the makeup artist and said: ‘Make a big purple mark.’ And then I went to their parents and said: ‘Look what your kids did to me.’ And it was great. I got them in trouble,” he joked.
The series is based on the book series of the same name by Laura Ingalls Wilder, which tells the story of the Ingalls family—Charles and Caroline, and their daughters Mary, Laura, and Carrie—on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, at the end of the 19th century.
Jason Bateman joined the series, which ran for nine seasons and ended in 1983, in the 7th season and appeared through the penultimate one.
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