Al Carrell: How many times have you seen Tim, the Toolman Taylor, try to drive a nail in and do this? 'Course there are other ways to punch holes in drywall. One is you can put your fist through there. And the other thing is you can open a door that doesn't have a door stop and the door knob will make a hole like this.
There are lots of tricky ways that you can go about patching a hole. For example, you need some sort of backing in here, if you want to, you can get a piece of screen wire about this big, put a string in the middle of it, push it back through there and then pull it up tight and then you got some backing to put your spackling compound in.
But I think the easy way is the best way. There's a new type of patch and all you have to do, it's peel-and-stick, so all you have to do is peel the paper off and then stick it in place. Now, what you're going to need to do is to get some spackling compound and just take a knife and put spackling compound over that and once you get it all smoothed all over there and get it completely covered and you want to smooth it out real good, then you can come back and texture and paint and nobody will ever know that you punched a hole in the wall. And incidentally, if you punch once with your head, or some bigger object, they have larger sizes. It's an easy way for you to take care of the boo-boos around your house, maybe almost as easy as getting a door stop for the that door.
Episode 013 1995 - 96 Season
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